THE HOLY BIBLE

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DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND

OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES

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I Old Testament 1

1 Book of Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2 Book of Exodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

3 Book of Leviticus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

4 Book of Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

5 Book of Deuteronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

6 Book of Josue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

7 Book of Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

8 Book of Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

9 First Book of Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

10 Second Book of Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

11 Third Book of Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

12 Fourth Book of Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

13 First Book of Paralipomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

14 Second Book of Paralipomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

15 First Book of Esdras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

16 Book of Nehemias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

17 Book of Tobias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

18 Book of Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

19 Book of Esther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

20 Book of Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

21 Book of Psalms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

22 Book of Proverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

23 Ecclesiastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791

24 Book of Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806

25 Ecclesiasticus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826

26 Prophecy of Isaias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883

27 Prophecy of Jeremias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947

28 Lamentations of Jeremias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1018

29 Prophecy of Baruch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025ii CONTENTS

30 Prophecy of Ezechiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035

31 Prophecy of Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101

32 Prophecy of Osee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128

33 Prophecy of Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138

34 Prophecy of Amos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1142

35 Prophecy of Abdias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150

36 Prophecy of Jonas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152

37 Prophecy of Micheas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155

38 Prophecy of Nahum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161

39 Prophecy of Habacuc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164

40 Prophecy of Sophonias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167

41 Prophecy of Aggeus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170

42 Prophecy of Zacharias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

43 Prophecy of Malachias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184

44 First Book of Machabees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188

45 Second Book of Machabees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1229

II New Testament 1258

46 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260

47 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302

48 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329

49 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1374

50 The Acts of the Apostles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1408

51 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451

52 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469

53 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486

54 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1498

55 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1504

56 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1510

57 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1515

58 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1519

59 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523

60 The First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1526

61 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1531

62 The Epistle of St. Paul to Titus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535

63 The Epistle of St. Paul to Philemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1538

64 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1540

65 The Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1553

66 The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1558CONTENTS iii

67 The Second Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1563

68 The First Epistle of St. John the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1567

69 The Second Epistle of St. John the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1572

70 The Third Epistle of St. John the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573

71 The Catholic Epistle of St. Jude the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574

72 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576iv CONTENTSPart I

Old TestamentBook of Genesis

Chapter 1

In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

2And the earth was void and empty, and

darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the

spirit of God moved over the waters.

3And God said: Be light made. And light

was made.

4And God saw the light that it was good; and

he divided the light from the darkness.

5And he called the light Day, and the dark-

ness Night; and there was evening and morning

one day.

6And God said: Let there be a rmament

made amidst the waters: and let it divide the

waters from the waters.

7And god made a rmament, and divided

the waters that were under the rmament, from

those that were above the rmament, and it was

so.

8And God called the rmament, Heaven; and

the evening and morning were the second day.

9God also said; Let the waters that are under

the heaven, be gathered together into one place:

and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.

10And God called the dry land, Earth; and

the gathering together of the waters, he called

Seas. And God saw that it was good.

11And he said: let the earth bring forth green

herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree

yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed

in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.12And the earth brought forth the green

herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its

kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed

each one according to its kind. And God saw

that it was good.

13And the evening and the morning were the

third day.

14And God said: Let there be lights made

in the rmament of heaven, to divide the day

and the night, and let them be for signs, and for

seasons, and for days and years:

15To shine in the rmament of heaven, and

to give light upon the earth, and it was so done.

16And God made two great lights: a greater

light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule

the night: and The stars.

17And he set them in the rmament of heaven

to shine upon the earth.

18And to rule the day and the night, and to

divide the light and the darkness. And God saw

that it was good.

19And the evening and morning were the

fourth day.

20God also said: let the waters bring forth

the creeping creature having life, and the fowl

that may

y over the earth under the rmament

of heaven.

21And God created the great whales, and

every living and moving creature, which the

waaters brought forth, according to their kinds,

and every winged fowl according to its kind. And

God saw that it was good.4 Book of Genesis

22And he blessed them, saying: Increase and

multiply, and ll the waters of the sea: and let

the birds be multiplied upon the earth.

23And the evening and morning were the fth

day.

24And God said: Let the earth bring forth

the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping

things, and beasts of the earth, according to their

kinds. And it was so done.

25And God made the beasts of the earth

according to their kinds, and cattle, and every

thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

26And he said: Let us make man to our image

and likeness: and let him have dominion over the

shes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the

beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping

creature that moveth upon the earth.

27And God created man to his own image:

to the image of God he created him: male and

female he created them.

28And God blessed them, saying: Increase

and multiply, and ll the earth, and subdue it,

and rule over the shes of the sea, and the fowls

of the air, and all living creatures that move

upon the earth.

29And God said: Behold I have given you

every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all

trees that have in themselves seed of their own

kind, to be your meat:

30And to all beasts of the earth, and to every

fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the

earth, and wherein there is life, that they may

have to feed upon. And it was so done.

31And God saw all the things that he had

made, and they were very good. And the evening

and morning were the sixth day.Chapter 2

So the heavens and the earth were nished, and

all the furniture of them.

2And on the seventh day God ended his work

which he had made: and he rested on the seventh

day from all his work which he had done.

3And he blessed the seventh day, and sancti-

ed it: because in it he had rested from all his

work which God created and made.

4These are the generations of the heaven and

the earth, when they were created, in the day

that the Lord God made the heaven and the

earth:

5And every plant of the eld before it sprung

up in the earth, and every herb of the ground

before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained

upon the earth; and there was not a man to till

the earth.

6But a spring rose out of the earth, watering

all the surface of the earth.

7And the Lord God formed man of the slime

of the earth: and breathed into his face the

breath of life, and man became a living soul.

8And the Lord God had planted a paradise of

pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed

man whom he had formed.

9And the Lord God brought forth of the

ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and

pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the

midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of

good and evil.

10And a river went out of the place of plea-

sure to water paradise, which from thence is di-

vided into four heads.

11The name of the one is Phison: that is it

which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where

gold groweth.

12And the gold of that land is very good:

there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.Book of Genesis 5

13And the name of the second river is Gehon:

the same is it that compasseth all the land of

Ethiopia.

14And the name of the third river is Tigris:

the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And

the fourth river is Euphrates.

15And the Lord God took man, and put him

into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to

keep it.

16And he commanded him, saying: Of every

tree of paradise thou shalt eat:

17But of the tree of knowledge of good and

evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever

thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

18And the Lord God said: It is not good for

man to be alone: let us make him a help like

unto himself.

19And the Lord God having formed out of

the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all

the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see

what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam

called any living creature the same is its name.

20And Adam called all the beasts by their

names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the

cattle of the eld: but for Adam there was not

found a helper like himself.

21Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon

Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one

of his ribs, and lled up

esh for it.

22And the Lord God built the rib which he

took from Adam into a woman: and brought her

to Adam.

23And Adam said: This now is bone of my

bones, and

esh of my

esh; she shall be called

woman, because she was taken out of man.

24Wherefore a man shall leave father and

mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they

shall be two in one

esh.

25And they were both naked: to wit, Adam

and his wife: and were not ashamed.Chapter 3

Now the serpent was more subtle tha any of the

beasts of the earth which the Lord God had

made. And he said to the woman: Why hath

God commanded you, that you should not eat

of every tree of paradise?

2And the woman answered him, saying: Of

the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do

eat:

3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the

midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that

we should not eat; and that we should not touch

it, lest perhaps we die.

4And the serpent said to the woman: No, you

shall not die the death.

5For God doth know that in what day soever

you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened:

and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.

6And the woman saw that the tree was good

to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to

behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and

did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.

7And the eyes of them both were opened:

and when they perceived themselves to be naked,

they sewed together g leaves, and made them-

selves aprons.

8And when they heard the voice of the Lord

God walking in paradise at the afternoon air,

Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face

of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.

9And the Lord God called Adam, and said to

him: Where art thou?

10And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise;

and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid

myself.

11And he said to him: And who hath told

thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast

eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that

thou shouldst not eat?6 Book of Genesis

12And Adam said: The woman, whom thou

gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the

tree, and I did eat.

13And the Lord God said to the woman: Why

hast thou done this? And she answered: The

serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

14And the Lord God said to the serpent: Be-

cause thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed

among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon

thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou

eat all the days of thy life.

15I will put enmities between thee and the

woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall

cursh thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her

heel.

16To the woman also he said: I will multi-

ply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow

shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt

be under thy husband's power, and he shall have

dominion over thee.

17And to Adam he said: Because thou hast

hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten

of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou

shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work:

with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the

days of thy life.

18Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to

thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread

till thou return to the earth out of which thou

wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou

shalt return.

20And Adam called the name of his wife Eve:

because she was the mother of all the living.

21And the Lord God made for Adam and his

wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

22And he said: Behold Adam is become as

one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore

lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also

of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.23And the Lord God sent him out of the par-

adise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he

was taken.

24And he cast out Adam: and placed before

the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a

am-

ing sword, turning every way, to keep the way of

the tree of life.

Chapter 4

And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived

and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a

man through God.

2And again she brought forth his brother

Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a

husbandman.

3And it came to pass after many days, that

Cain oered, of the fruits of the earth, gifts to

the Lord.

4Abel also oered of the rstlings of his

ock,

and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to

Abel, and to his oerings.

5But to Cain and his oerings he had no re-

spect: and Cain was exceeding angry, and his

countenance fell.

6And the Lord said to him: Why art thou

angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?

7If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? but

if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the

door? but the lust thereof shall be under thee,

and thou shalt have dominion over it.

8And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go

forth abroad. And when they were in the eld,

Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew

him.

9And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy

brother Abel? And he answered: I know not:

am I my brother's keeper?

10And he said to him: What hast thou done?Book of Genesis 7

the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from

the earth.

11Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon

the earth, which hath opened her mouth and re-

cieved the blood of thy brother at thy hand.

12When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield

to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt

thou be upon the earth.

13And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is

greater than that I may deserve pardon.

14Behold thou dost cast me out this day from

the face of the earth, and from thy face I shall be

hid, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on

the earth: every one therefore that ndeth me,

shall kill me.

15And the Lord said to him: No, it shall

not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall

be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark

upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not

kill him.

16And Cain went out from the face of the

Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the

east side of Eden.

17And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived,

and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city,

and called the name thereof by the name of his

son Henoch.

18And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad be-

got Maviael, and Maviael begot Mathusael, and

Mathusael begot Lamech,

19Who took two wives: the name of the one

was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.

20And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the

father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.

21And his brother's name was Jubal: he was

the father of them that play upon the harp and

the organs.
22Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who

was a hammerer and articer in every work ofbrass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was

Noema.

23And Lamech said to his wives Ada and

Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hear-

ken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the

wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own

bruising.

24Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for

Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold.

25Adam also knew his wife again: and she

brought forth a son, and called his name Seth,

saying: God hath given me another seed for

Abel, whom Cain slew.

26But to Seth also was born a son, whom

he called Enos: this man began to call upon the

name of the Lord.

Chapter 5

This is the book of the generation of Adam. In

the day that God created man, he made him to

the likeness of God.

2He created them male and female; and

blessed them: and called their name Adam, in

the day when they were created.

3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years,

and begot a son to his own image and likeness,

and called his name Seth.

4And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth,

were eight hundred years: and he begot sons and

daughters.

5And all the time that Adam lived, came to

nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

6Seth also lived a hundred and ve years, and

begot Enos.

7And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight

hundred and seven years, and begot sons and

daughters.8 Book of Genesis

8And all the days of Seth were nine hundred

and twelve years, and he died.

9And Enos lived ninety years, and begot

Cainan.

10After whose birth he lived eight hundred

and fteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

11And all the days of Enos were nine hundred

and ve years, and he died.

12And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot

Malaleel.

13And Cainan lived after he begot Malaleel,

eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons

and daughters.

14And all the days of Cainan were nine hun-

dred and ten years, and he died.

15And Malaleel lived sixty-ve years and be-

got Jared.

16And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared,

eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons

and daughters.

17And all the days of Malaleel were eight

hundred and ninety-ve years, and he died.

18And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two

years, and begot Henoch.

19And Jared lived after he begot Henoch,

eight hundred years, and begot sons and daugh-

ters.

20And all the days of Jared were nine hun-

dred and sixty-two years, and he died.

21And Henoch lived sixty-ve years, and be-

got Mathusala.

22And Henoch walked with God: and lived

after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years,

and begot sons and daughters.

23And all the days of Henoch were three hun-

dred and sixty-ve years.

24And he walked with God, and was seen no

more: because God took him.

25And Mathusala lived a hundred and eighty-

seven years, and begot Lamech.26And Mathlusala lived after he begot

Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years,

and begot sons and daughters.

27And all the days of Mathusala were nine

hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

28And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty-

two years, and begot a son.

29And he called his name Noe, saying:

This same shall comfort us from the works and

labours of our hands on the earth, which the

Lord hath cursed.

30And Lamech lived after he begot Noe, ve

hundred and ninety-ve years, and begot sons

and daughters.

31And all the days of Lamech came to seven

hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

And Noe, when he was ve hundred years old,

begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

Chapter 6

And after that men began to be multiplied upon

the earth, and daughters were born to them,

2The sons of God seeing the daughters of

men, that they were fair, took to themselves

wives of all which they chose.

3And God said: My spirit shall not remain

in man for ever, because he is

esh, and his days

shall be a hundred and twenty years.

4Now giants were upon the earth in those

days. For after the sons of God went in to the

daughters of men, and they brought forth chil-

dren, these are the mighty men of old, men of

renown.

5And God seeing that the wickedness of men

was great on the earth, and that all the thought

of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

6It repented him that he had made man on

the earth. And being touched inwardly with sor-Book of Genesis 9

row of heart,

7He said: I will destroy man, whom I have

created, from the face of the earth, from man

even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to

the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I

have made them.

8But Noe found grace before the Lord.

9These are the generations of Noe: Noe was

a just and perfect man in his generations, he

walked with God.

10And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and

Japheth.

11And the earth was corrupted before God,

and was lled with iniquity.

12And when God had seen that the earth

was corrupted (for all

esh had corrupted its way

upon the earth),

13He said to Noe: The end of all

esh is

come before me, the earth is lled with iniquity

through them, and I will destroy them with the

earth.

14Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou

shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt

pitch it within and without.

15And thus shalt thou make it. The length

of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the

breadth of it fty cubits, and the height of it

thirty cubits.

16Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and

in a cubit shalt thou nish the top of it: and the

door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with

lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt

thou make it.

17Behold, I will bring the waters of a great

ood upon the earth, to destroy all

esh, wherein

is the breath of life under heaven. All things that

are in the earth shall be consumed.

18And I will establish my covenant with thee,

and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thysons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons

with thee.

19And of every living creature of all

esh,

thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that

they may live with thee: of the male sex, and

the female.

20Of fowls according to their kind, and of

beasts in their kind, and of every thing that

creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two

of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may

live.

21Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that

may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee:

and it shall be food for thee and them.

22And Noe did all things which God com-

manded him.

Chapter 7

And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all

thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just

before me in this generation.

2Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the

male and the female.

3But of the beasts that are unclean two and

two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also

of the air seven and seven, the male and the fe-
male: that seed may be saved upon the face of

the whole earth.

4For yet a while, and after seven days, I will

rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights:

and I will destroy every substance that I have

made, from the face of the earth.

5And Noe did all things which the Lord had

commanded him.

6And he was six hundred years old, when the

waters of the

ood over

owed the earth.

7And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and

the wives of his sons with him into the ark, be-10 Book of Genesis

cause of the waters of the

ood.

8And of beasts clean and unclean, and of

fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the

earth,

9Two and two went in to Noe into the ark,

male and female, as the Lord had commanded

Noe.

10And after the seven days were passed, the

waters of the

ood over

owed the earth.

11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe,

in the second month, in the seventeenth day of

the month, all the fountains of the great deep

were broken up, and the

oodgates of heaven

were opened:

12And the rain fell upon the earth forty days

and forty nights.

13In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and

Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the

three wives of his sons with them, went into the

ark.

14They and every beast according to its kind,

and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing

that moveth upon the earth, according to its

kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all

birds, and all that

y,

15Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two

of all

esh, wherein was the breath of life.

16And they that went in, went in male and

female of all

esh, as God had commanded him:

and the Lord shut him in on the outside.

17And the
ood was forty days upon the

earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up

the ark on high from the earth.

18For they over

owed exceedingly: and lled

all on the face of the earth: and the ark was

carried upon the waters.

19And the waters prevailed beyond measure

upon the earth: and all the high mountains un-

der the whole heaven were covered.20The water was fteen cubits higher than

the mountains which it covered.

21And all

esh was destroyed that moved

upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and

of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep

upon the earth: and all men.

22And all things wherein there is the breath

of life on the earth, died.

23And he destroyed all the substance that

was upon the earth, from man even to beast,

and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and

they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe

only remained, and they that were with him in

the ark.

24And the waters prevailed upon the earth a

hundred and fty days.

Chapter 8

And God remembered Noe, and all the living

creatures, and all the cattle which were with him

in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth,

and the waters were abated:

2The fountains also of the deep, and the

oodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain

from heaven was restrained.

3And the waters returned from o the earth

going and coming: and they began to be abated

after a hundred and fty days.

4And the ark rested in the seventh month,

the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon

the mountains of Armenia.

5And the waters were going and decreasing

until the tenth month: for in the tenth month,

the rst day of the month, the tops of the moun-

tains appeared.

6And after that forty days were passed, Noe

opening the window of the ark, which he had

made, sent forth a raven:Book of Genesis 11

7Which went forth and did not return, till the

waters were dried up upon the earth.

8He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if

the waters had now ceased upon the face of the

earth.

9But she not nding where her foot might

rest, returned to him into the ark: for the waters

were upon the whole earth: and he put forth his

hand, and caught her, and brought her into the

ark.

10And having waited yet seven other days,

he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11And she came to him in the evening carry-

ing a bough of an olive tree, with green leaves, in

her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the

waters were ceased upon the earth.

12And he stayed yet other seven days: and

he sent forth the dove, which returned not any

more unto him.

13Therefore in the six hundredth and rst

year, the rst month, the rst day of the month,

the waters were lessened upon the earth, and

Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and

saw that the face of the earth was dried.

14In the second month, the seven and twen-

tieth day of the month, the earth was dried.

15And God spoke to Noe, saying:

16Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy

sons and the wives of thy sons with thee.

17All living things that are with thee of all

esh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creep-

ing things that creep upon the earth, bring out

with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase

and multiply upon it.

18So Noe went out, he and his sons: his wife,

and the wives of his sons with him.

19And all living things, and cattle, and creep-

ing things that creep upon the earth, according

to their kinds went out of the ark.20And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and

taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean,

oered holocausts upon the altar.

21And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and

said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of

man: for the imagination and thought of man's

heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore

I will no more destroy every living soul as I have

done.

22All the days of the earth, seedtime and har-

vest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night

and day, shall not cease.

Chapter 9

And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he

said to them: Increase, and multiply, and ll the

earth.

2And let the fear and dread of you be upon

all the beasts of the earth, and upon all the fowls

of the air, and all that move upon the earth: all

the shes of the sea are delivered into your hand.

3And every thing that moveth, and liveth

shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs

have I delivered them all to you:

4Saving that

esh with blood you shall not

eat.

5For I will require the blood of your lives at

the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man,

at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will

I require the life of man.

6Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood

shall be shed: for man was made to the image of

God.

7But increase you and multiply, and go upon

the earth and ll it.

8Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons

with him:12 Book of Genesis

9Behold I will establish my covenant with

you, and with your seed after you:

10And with every living soul that is with you,

as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the

earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in

all the beasts of the earth.

11I will establish my covenant with you, and

all

esh shall be no more destroyed with the wa-

ters of a

ood, neither shall there be from hence-

forth a

ood to waste the earth.

12And God said: This is the sign of the

covenant which I give between me and you, and

to every living soul that is with you, for perpet-

ual generations.

13I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall

be the sign of a covenant between me and be-

tween the earth.

14And when I shall cover the sky with clouds,

my bow shall appear in the clouds:

15And I will remember my covenant with

you, and with every living soul that beareth

esh: and there shall no more be waters of a

ood to destroy all

esh.

16And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I

shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting

covenant, that was made between God and every

living soul of all

esh which is upon the earth.

17And God said to Noe: This shall be the

sign of the covenant, which I have established,

between me and all

esh upon the earth.

18And the sons of Noe, who came out of the

ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham

is the father of Chanaan.

19These three are the sons of Noe: and from

these was all mankind spread over the whole

earth.

20And Noe a husbandman began to till the

ground, and planted a vineyard.

21And drinking of the wine was made drunk,

and was uncovered in his tent.22Which when Cham the father of Chanaan

had seen, to wit, that his father's nakedness was

uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.

23But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon

their shoulders, and going backward, covered the

nakedness of their father: and their faces were

turned away, and they saw not their father's

nakedness.

24And Noe awaking from the wine, when he

had learned what his younger son had done to

him,
25He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of

servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26And he said: Blessed be the Lord God of

Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

27May God enlarge Japheth, and may he

dwell in the tents of Sem, and Chanaan be his

servant.

28And Noe lived after the

ood three hun-

dred and fty years.

29And all his days were in the whole nine

hundred and fty years: and he died.

Chapter 10

These are the generations of the sons of Noe:

Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons

were born after the

ood.

2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog,

and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal, and Mosoch,

and Thiras.

3And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez and

Riphath and Thogorma.

4And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis,

Cetthim and Dodanim.

5By these were divided the islands of the Gen-

tiles in their lands, every one according to his

tongue and their families in their nations.Book of Genesis 13

6And the Sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesram,

and Phuth, and Chanaan.

7And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila,

and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The

sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.

8Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be

mighty on the earth.

9And he was a stout hunter before the Lord.

Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the

stout hunter before the Lord.

10And the beginning of his kingdom was

Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne

in the land of Sennaar.

11Out of that land came forth Assur, and

built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and

Chale.

12Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this

is the great city.

13And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim

and Laabim, Nephthuim.

14And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom

came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim.

15And Chanaan begot Sidon his rstborn,

the Hethite,

16And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and

the Gergesite.

17The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,

18And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the

Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the

Chanaanites were spread abroad.

19And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon

as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou

enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and

Seboim even to Lesa.

20These are the children of Cham in their kin-

dreds and tongues, and generations, and lands,

and nations.

21Of Sem also the father of all the children of

Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were

born.22The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and

Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

23The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and

Gether; and Mes.

24But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom was

born Heber.

25And to Heber were born two sons: the

name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days

was the earth divided: and his brother's name

Jectan.

26Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph,

and Asarmoth, Jare,

27And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,

28And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,

29And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All

these were the sons of Jectan.

30And their dwelling was from Messa as we

go on as far as Sephar, a mountain in the east.

31These are the children of Sem according

to their kindreds and tongues, and countries in

their nations.

32These are the families of Noe, according

to their people and nations. By these were the

nations divided on the earth after the

ood.

Chapter 11

And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same

speech.

2And when they removed from the east, they

found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt

in it.

3And each one said to his neighbour: Come

let us make brick, and bake them with re. And

they had brick instead of stones, and slime in-

stead of mortar:

4And they said: Come, let us make a city and

a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven;14 Book of Genesis

and let us make our name famous before we be

scattered abroad into all lands.

5And the Lord came down to see the city

and the tower, which the children of Adam were

building.

6And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all

have one tongue: and they have begun to do this,

neither will they leave o from their designs, till

they accomplish them in deed.

7Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and

there confound their tongue, that they may not

understand one another's speech.

8And so the Lord scattered them from that

place into all lands, and they ceased to build the

city.

9And therefore the name thereof was called

Babel, because there the language of the whole

earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord

scattered them abroad upon the face of all coun-

tries.

10These are the generations of Sem: Sem was

a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad,

two years after the

ood.

11And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad,

ve hundred years, and begot sons and daugh-

ters.
12And Arphaxad lived thirty-ve years, and

begot Sale.

13And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale,

three hundred and three years, and begot sons

and daughters.

14Sale also lived thirty years, and begot

Heber.

15And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four

hundred and three years: and begot sons and

daughters.

16And Heber lived thirty-four years, and be-

got Phaleg.

17And Heber lived after he begot Phaleg, four

hundred and thirty years: and begot sons anddaughters.

18Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot

Reu.

19And Phaleg lived after he begot Reu, two

hundred and nine years, and begot sons and

daughters.

20And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot

Sarug.

21And Reu lived after he begot Sarug, two

hundred and seven years, and begot sons and

daughters.

22And Sarug lived thirty years, and begot

Nachor.
23And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two

hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

24And Nachor lived nine and twenty years,

and begot Thare.

25And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a

hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and

daughters.

26And Thare lived seventy years, and begot

Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.

27And these are the generations of Thare:

Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and Aran. And

Aran begot Lot.

28And Aran died before Thare his father, in

the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.

29And Abram and Nachor married wives: the

name of Abram's wife was Sarai: and the name

of Nachor's wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran,

father of Melcha and father of Jescha.

30And Sarai was barren, and had no children.

31And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot

the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his

daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and

brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go

into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far

as Haran, and dwelt there.

32And the days of Thare were two hundred

and ve years, and he died in Haran.Book of Genesis 15

Chapter 12

And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of

thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of

thy father's house, and come into the land which

I shall shew thee.

2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I

will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou

shalt be blessed.

3I will bless them that bless thee, and curse

them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the

kindreds of the earth be blessed.

4So Abram went out as the Lord had com-

manded him, and Lot went with him: Abram

was seventy-ve years old when he went forth

from Haran.

5And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his

brother's son, and all the substance which they

had gathered, and the souls which they had got-

ten in Haran: and they went out to go into the

land of Chanaan. And when they were come into

it,

6Abram passed through the country unto the

place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now

the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

7And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said

to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And

he built there an altar to the Lord, who had ap-

peared to him.

8And passing on from thence to a mountain,

that was on the east side of Bethel, he there

pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and

Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to

the Lord, and called upon his name.

9And Abram went forward, going and pro-

ceeding on to the south.

10And there came a famine in the country:

and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn

there: for the famine was very grievous in the

land.11And when he was near to enter into Egypt,

he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a

beautiful woman:

12And that when the Egyptians shall see

thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they

will kill me, and keep thee.

13Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art

my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and

that my soul may live for thy sake.

14And when Abram was come into Egypt,

the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very

beautiful.

15And the princes told Pharao, and praised

her before him: and the woman was taken into

the house of Pharao.

16And they used Abram well for her sake.

And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and

men servants, and maid servants, and she asses,

and camels.

17But the Lord scourged Pharao and his

house with most grievous stripes for Sarai,

Abram's wife.

18And Pharao called Abram, and said to him:

What is this that thou hast done to me? Why

didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

19For what cause didst thou say, she was thy

sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now

therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy

way.

20And Pharao gave his men orders concern-

ing Abram: and they led him away and his wife,

and all that he had.

Chapter 13

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his

wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him into

the south.16 Book of Genesis

2And he was very rich in possession of gold

and silver.

3And he returned by the way, that he came,

from the south to Bethel, to the place where be-

fore he had pitched his tent between Bethel and

Hai,

4In the place of the altar which he had made

before, and there he called upon the name of the

Lord.

5But Lot also, who was with Abram, had

ocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.

6Neither was the land able to bear them, that

they might dwell together: for their substance

was great, and they could not dwell together.

7Whereupon also there arose a strife between

the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that

time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled

in that country.

8Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be

no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee,

and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen:

for we are brethren.

9Behold the whole land is before thee: depart

from me, I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left

hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the

right hand, I will pass to the left.

10And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the

country about the Jordan, which was watered

throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom

and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and

like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

11And Lot chose to himself the country about

the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and

they were separated one brother from the other.

12Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and

Lot abode in the towns, that were about the Jor-

dan, and dwelt in Sodom.

13And the men of Sodom were very wicked,

and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond

measure.14And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot

was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and

look from the place wherein thou now art, to the

north and to the south, to the east and to the

west.

15All the land which thou seest, I will give to

thee, and to thy seed for ever.

16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the

earth: if any man be able to number the dust of

the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed

also.

17Arise and walk through the land in the

length, and the breadth thereof: for I will give it

to thee.

18So Abram removing his tent, came, and

dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron:

and he built there an altar to the Lord.

Chapter 14

And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel,

king of Sennaar, and Arioch, king of Pontus,

and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites, and

Thadal, king of nations,

2Made war against Bara, king of Sodom, and

against Bersa, king of Gomorrha, and against

Sennaab, king of Adama, and against Semeber,

king of Seboim, and against the king of Bala,

which is Segor.

3All these came together into the woodland

vale, which now is the salt sea.

4For they had served Chodorlahomor twelve

years, and in the thirteenth year they revolted

from him.

5And in the fourteenth year came Chodorla-

homor, and the kings that were with him: and

they smote the Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim,

and the Zuzim with them, and the Emim in Save

of Cariathaim.Book of Genesis 17

6And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir,

even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the

wilderness.

7And they returned, and came to the foun-

tain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they

smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the

Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.

8And the king of Sodom, and the king of Go-

morrha, and the king of Adama, and the king

of Seboim, and the king of Bala, which is Segor,

went out: and they set themselves against them

in battle array, in the woodland vale:

9To wit, against Chodorlahomor king of the

Elamites, and Thadal king of nations, and Am-

raphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pon-

tus: four kings against ve.

10Now the woodland vale had many pits of

slime. And the king of Sodom, and the king

of Gomorrha turned their backs, and were over-

thrown there: and they that remained,

ed to

the mountain.

11And they took all the substance of the

Sodomites, and Gomorrhites, and all their vict-

uals, and went their way:

12And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother,

who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.

13And behold one, that had escaped, told

Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the vale of

Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol,

and the brother of Aner: for these had made

a league with Abram.

14Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that

his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the

servants born in his house, three hundred and

eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to

Dan.

15And dividing his company, he rushed upon

them in the night, and defeated them: and pur-

sued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left

hand of Damascus.16And he brought back all the substance, and

Lot his brother, with his substance, the women

also, and the people.

17And the king of Sodom went out to meet

him, after he returned from the slaughter of

Chodorlahomor, and of the kings that were with

him in the vale of Save, which is the king's vale.

18But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bring-

ing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest

of the most high God,

19Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram

by the most high God, who created heaven and

earth.

20And blessed be the most high God, by

whose protection, the enemies are in thy hands.

And he gave him the tithes of all.

21And the king of Sodom said to Abram:

Give me the persons, and the rest take to thyself.

22And he answered him: I lift up my hand

to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of

heaven and earth,

23That from the very woofthread unto the

shoe latchet, I will not take of any things that

are thine, lest thou say: I have enriched Abram.

24Except such things as the young men have

eaten, and the shares of the men that came with

me, Aner, Escol, and Mambre: these shall take

their shares.

Chapter 15

Now when these things were done, the word of

the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying:

Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy

reward exceeding great.

2And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou

give me? I shall go without children: and the

son of the steward of my house is this Damascus

Eliezer.18 Book of Genesis

3And Abram added: But to me thou hast not

given seed: and lo my servant born in my house,

shall be my heir.

4And immediately the word of the Lord came

to him, saying : He shall not be thy heir: but

he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt

thou have for thy heir.

5And he brought him forth abroad, and said

to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars

if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy

seed be.

6Abram believed God, and it was reputed to

him unto justice.

7And he said to him: I am the Lord who

brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give

thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

8But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know

that I shall possess it?

9And the Lord answered, and said: Take me

a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three

years. and a ram of three years, a turtle also,

and a pigeon.

10And he took all these, and divided them

in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one

against the other: but the birds he divided not.

11And the fowls came down upon the car-

casses, and Abram drove them away.

12And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep

fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome hor-

ror seized upon him.

13And it was said unto him: Know thou be-

forehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a

land not their own, and they shall bring them

under bondage, and aict them four hundred

years.

14But I will judge the nation which they shall

serve, and after this they shall come out with

great substance.

15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace,

and be buried in a good old age.16But in the fourth generation they shall re-

turn hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amor-

rhites are not at the full until this present time.

17And when the sun was set, there arose a

dark mist, and there appeared a smoking fur-

nace, and a lamp of re passing between those

divisions.

18That day God made a covenant with

Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land,

from the river to Egypt even to the great river

Euphrates.

19The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Ced-

monites,

20And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the

Raphaim also,

21And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites,

and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.

Chapter 16
Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth

no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyp-

tian, named Agar,

2She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord

hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my

handmaid, it may be I may have children of her

at least. And when he agreed to her request,

3She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid,

ten years after they rst dwelt in the land of

Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.

4And he went in to her. But she perceiving

that she was with child, despised her mistress.

5And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost un-

justly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bo-

som, and she perceiving herself to be with child,

despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and

thee.

6And Abram made answer, and said to her:

Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, useBook of Genesis 19

her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai aicted

her, she ran away.

7And the angel of the Lord having found her,

by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which

is in the way to Sur in the desert,

8He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai,

whence comest thou? and whither goest thou?

And she answered: I

ee from the face of Sarai,

my mistress.

9And the angel of the Lord said to her: Re-

turn to thy mistress, and humble thyself under

her hand.

10And again he said: I will multiply thy seed

exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for

multitude.

11And again: Behold, said he, thou art with

child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou

shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath

heard thy aiction.

12He shall be a wild man: his hand will be

against all men, and all men's hands against him:

and he shall pitch his tents over against all his

brethren.

13And she called the name of the Lord that

spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen

me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the

hinder parts of him that seeth me.

14Therefore she called that well, the well of

him that liveth and seeth me. The same is be-

tween Cades and Barad.

15And Agar brought forth a son to Abram:

who called his name Ismael.

16Abram was four score and six years old

when Agar brought him forth Ismael.

Chapter 17

And after he began to be ninety and nine years

old, the Lord appeared to him: and said untohim: I am the Almighty God: walk before me,

and be perfect.

2And I will make my covenant between me

and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

3Abram fell

at on his face.

4And God said to him: I am, and my

covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a fa-

ther of many nations.

5Neither shall thy name be called any more

Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: be-

cause I have made thee a father of many nations.

6And I will make thee increase exceedingly,

and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall

come out of thee.

7And I will establish my covenant between

me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in

their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to

be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

8And I will give to thee, and to thy seed,

the land of thy sojournment, all the land of

Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will

be their God.

9Again God said to Abraham: And thou

therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed

after thee in their generations.

10This is my covenant which you shall ob-

serve between me and you, and thy seed after

thee: All the male kind of you shall be circum-

cised.

11And you shall circumcise the

esh of your

foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant

between me and you.

12An infant of eight days old shall be circum-

cised among you, every manchild in your genera-

tions: he that is born in the house, as well as the

bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whoso-

ever is not of your stock:

13And my covenant shall be in your

esh for

a perpetual covenant.20 Book of Genesis

14The male whose

esh of his foreskin shall

not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed

out of his people: because he hath broken my

covenant.

15God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife

thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

16And I will bless her, and of her I will give

thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall be-

come nations, and kings of people shall spring

from him.

17Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed,

saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou,

be born to him that is a hundred years old? and

shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

18And he said to God: O that Ismael may

live before thee.

19And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife

shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his

name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant

with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his

seed after him.

20And as for Ismael I have also heard thee.

Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multi-

ply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs,

and I will make him a great nation.

21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac,

whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time

in the next year.

22And when he had left o speaking with

him, God went up from Abraham.

23And Abraham took Ismael his son, and

all that were born in his house: and all whom

he had bought, every male among the men of

his house: and he circumcised the

esh of their

foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had

commanded him.

24Abraham was ninety and nine years old,

when he circumcised the

esh of his foreskin.

25And Ismael his son was full thirteen years

old at the time of his circumcision.26The selfsame day was Abraham circum-

cised and Ismael his son.

27And all the men of his house, as well they

that were born in his house, as the bought ser-

vants and strangers, were circumcised with him.

Chapter 18

And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of

Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent,

in the very heat of the day.

2And when he had lifted up his eyes, there

appeared to him three men standing near to him:

and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them

from the door of his tent, and adored down to

the ground.

3And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in

thy sight, pass not away from thy servant.

4But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye

your feet, and rest ye under the tree.

5And I will set a morsel of bread, and

strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall

pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your

servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.

6Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara,

and said to her: Make haste, temper together

three measures of

our, and make cakes upon

the hearth.

7And he himself ran to the herd, and took

from thence a calf, very tender and very good,

and gave it to a young man, who made haste and

boiled it.

8He took also butter and milk, and the calf

which he had boiled, and set before them: but

he stood by them under the tree.

9And when they had eaten, they said to him:

Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo she is

in the tent.

10And he said to him: I will return and comeBook of Genesis 21

to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara,

thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara

heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.

11Now they were both old, and far advanced

in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after

the manner of women.

12And she laughed secretly, saying: After I

am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall

I give myself to pleasure?

13And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did

Sara laugh, saying: Shall I, who am an old

woman, bear a child indeed?

14Is there any thing hard to God? According

to appointment I will return to thee at this same

time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a

son.

15Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for

she was afraid. But the Lord said: Nay; but thou

didst laugh.

16And when the men rose up from thence,

they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and

Abraham walked with them, bringing them on

the way.

17And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abra-

ham what I am about to do:

18Seeing he shall become a great and mighty

nation, and in him all the nations of the earth

shall be blessed?

19For I know that he will command his chil-

dren, and his household after him, to keep the

way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice:

that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to

eect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

20And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and

Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become

exceedingly grievous.

21I will go down and see whether they have

done according to the cry that is come to me; or

whether it be not so, that I may know.

22And they turned themselves from thence,and went their way to Sodom: but Abraham as

yet stood before the Lord.

23And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou de-

stroy the just with the wicked?

24If there be fty just men in the city, shall

they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that

place for the sake of the fty just, if they be

therein?

25Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to

slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to

be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseem-

ing thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not

make this judgment.

26And the Lord said to him: If I nd in

Sodom fty just within the city, I will spare the

whole place for their sake.

27And Abraham answered, and said: See-

ing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord,

whereas I am dust and ashes.

28What if there be ve less than fty just

persons? wilt thou for ve and forty destroy the

whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if

I nd ve and forty.

29And again he said to him: But if forty be

found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will

not destroy it for the sake of forty.

30Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee,

if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there?

He answered: I will not do it, if I nd thirty

there.

31Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will

speak to my Lord: What if twenty be found

there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake

of twenty.

32I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord,

if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be

found there? And he said: I will not destroy it

for the sake of ten.

33And the Lord departed, after he had left

speaking to Abraham: and Abraham returned22 Book of Genesis

to his place.

Chapter 19

And the two angels came to Sodom in the

evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the

city. And seeing them, he rose up and went

to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the

ground.

2And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in

to the house of your servant, and lodge there:

wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go

on your way. And they said: No, but we will

abide in the street.

3He pressed them very much to turn in unto

him: and when they were come into his house, he

made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread,

and they ate:

4But before they went to bed, the men of the

city beset the house, both young and old, all the

people together.

5And they called Lot, and said to him: Where

are the men that came in to thee at night? bring

them out hither, that we may know them:

6Lot went out to them, and shut the door

after him, and said:

7Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do

not commit this evil.

8I have two daughters who, as yet, have not

known man; I will bring them out to you, and

abuse you them as it shall please you, so that

you do no evil to these men, because they are

come in under the shadow of my roof.

9But they said: Get thee back thither. And

again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger,

was it to be a judge? therefore we will aict

thee more than them. And they pressed very

violently upon Lot: and they were even at the

point of breaking open the doors.10And behold the men put out their hand,

and drew in Lot unto them, and shut the door.

11And them, that were without, they struck

with blindness from the least to the greatest, so

that they could not nd the door.

12And they said to Lot: Hast thou here any

of thine? son in law, or sons, or daughters, all

that are thine bring them out of this city:

13For we will destroy this place, because their

cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent

us to destroy them.

14So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons

in law that were to have his daughters, and said:

Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord

will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to

speak as it were in jest.

15And when it was morning, the angels

pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and

the two daughters that thou hast: lest thou also

perish in the wickedness of the city.

16And as he lingered, they took his hand, and

the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters,

because the Lord spared him.

17And they brought him forth, and set him

without the city: and there they spoke to him,

saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay

thou in all the country about: but save thy self

in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

18And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my

Lord,

19Because thy servant hath found grace be-

fore thee, and thou hast magnied thy mercy,

which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life,

and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some

evil seize me, and I die.

20There is this city here at hand, to which I

may

ee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in

it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

21And he said to him: Behold also in this, I

have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the cityBook of Genesis 23

for which thou hast spoken.

22Make haste, and be saved there: because

I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither.

Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.

23The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot

entered into Segor.

24And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Go-

morrha brimstone and re from the Lord out of

heaven.

25And he destroyed these cities, and all the

country about, all the inhabitants of the cities,

and all things that spring from the earth.

26And his wife looking behind her, was

turned into a statue of salt.

27And Abraham got up early in the morning,

and in the place where he had stood before with

the Lord:

28He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha,

and the whole land of that country: and he saw

the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of

a furnace.

29Now when God destroyed the cities of that

country, remembering Abraham, he delivered

Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein

he had dwelt.

30And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode

in the mountain, and his two daughters with him

(for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he dwelt

in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

31And the elder said to the younger: Our

father is old, and there is no man left on the

earth, to come in unto us after the manner of

the whole earth.

32Come, let us make him drunk with wine,

and let us lie with him, that we may preserve

seed of our father.

33And they made their father drink wine that

night: and the elder went in, and lay with her

father: but he perceived not, neither when his

daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.34And the next day the elder said to the

younger: Behold I lay last night with my father,

let us make him drink wine also to night, and

thou shalt lie with him, that we may save seed

of our father.

35They made their father drink wine that

night also, and the younger daughter went in,

and lay with him: and neither then did he per-

ceive when she lay down, nor when she rose up.

36So the two daughters of Lot were with child

by their father.

37And the elder bore a son, and she called

his name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites

unto this day.

38The younger also bore a son, and she called

his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people:

he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.

Chapter 20

Abraham removed from thence to the south

country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and

sojourned in Gerara.

2And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister.

So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took

her.

3And God came to Abimelech in a dream by

night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for

the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a

husband.

4Now Abimelech had not touched her, and

he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is

ignorant and just?

5Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and

she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of

my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done

this.

6And God said to him: And I know that

thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore24 Book of Genesis

I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I

suered thee not to touch her.

7Now therefore restore the man his wife, for

he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and

thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her,

know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all

that are thine.

8And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the

night, called all his servants: and spoke all these

words in their hearing, and all the men were ex-

ceedingly afraid.

9And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and

said to him: What hast thou done to us? what

have we oended thee in, that thou hast brought

upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin?

thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not

to do.

10And again he expostulated with him, and

said: What sawest thou, that thou hast done

this?

11Abraham answered: I thought with myself,

saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in

this place: and they will kill me for the sake of

my wife:

12Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my

sister, the daughter of my father, and not the

daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

13And after God brought me out of my fa-

ther's house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me

this kindness: In every place, to which we shall

come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.

14And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and

servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham:

and restored to him Sara his wife,

15And said: The land is before you, dwell

wheresoever it shall please thee.

16And to Sara he said: Behold I have given

thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall

serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that

are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go:and remember thou wast taken.

17And when Abraham prayed, God healed

Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and

they bore children:

18For the Lord had closed up every womb

of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara,

Abraham's wife.

Chapter 21

And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised:

and fullled what he had spoken.

2And she conceived and bore a son in her old

age, at the time that God had foretold her.

3And Abraham called the name of his son,

whom Sara bore him, Isaac.

4And he circumcised him the eighth day, as

God had commanded him,

5When he was a hundred years old: for at

this age of his father, was Isaac born.

6And Sara said: God hath made a laughter

for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with

me.

7And again she said: Who would believe that

Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a

son, whom she bore to him in his old age?

8And the child grew, and was weaned: and

Abraham made a great feast on the day of his

weaning.

9And when Sara had seen the son of Agar,

the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she

said to Abraham:

10Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for

the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with

my son Isaac.

11Abraham took this grievously for his son.

12And God said to him: Let it not seem

grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bond-

woman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hear-Book of Genesis 25

ken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be

called.

13But I will make the son also of the bond-

woman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

14So Abraham rose up in the morning, and

taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon

her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her

away. And she departed, and wandered in the

wilderness of Bersabee.

15And when the water in the bottle was

spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees

that were there.

16And she went her way, and sat overagainst

him a great way o, as far as a bow can carry, for

she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting

overagainst, she lifted up her voice and wept.

17And God heard the voice of the boy: and

an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, say-

ing: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for

God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the

place wherein he is.

18Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by

the hand, for I will make him a great nation.

19And God opened her eyes: and she saw a

well of water, and went and lled the bottle, and

gave the boy to drink.

20And God was with him: and he grew, and

dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young

man, an archer.

21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan,

and his mother took a wife for him out of the

land of Egypt.

22At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol

the general of his army, said to Abraham: God

is with thee in all that thou dost.

23Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not

hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but ac-

cording to the kindness that I have done to thee,

thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein

thou hast lived a stranger.24And Abraham said: I will swear.

25And he reproved Abimelech for a well of

water, which his servants had taken away by

force.

26And Abimelech answered: I knew not who

did this thing: and thou didst not tell me, and I

heard not of it till today.

27Then Abraham took sheep and oxen, and

gave them to Abimelech: and both of them made

a league.

28And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of

the

ock.

29And Abimelech said to him: What mean

these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?

30But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewe-

lambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony

for me, that I dug this well.

31Therefore that place was called Bersabee;

because there both of them did swear.

32And they made a league for the well of

oath.

33And Abimelech and Phicol, the general

of his army, arose and returned to the land of

the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in

Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the

Lord God eternal.

34And he was a sojourner in the land of the

Palestines many days.

Chapter 22

After these things, God tempted Abraham, and

said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he an-

swered: Here I am.

2He said to him: Take thy only begotten son

Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land

of vision; and there thou shalt oer him for an

holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will

shew thee.26 Book of Genesis

3So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled

his ass, and took with him two young men, and

Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the

holocaust, he went his way to the place which

God had commanded him.

4And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he

saw the place afar o.

5And he said to his young men: Stay you here

with the ass; I and the boy will go with speed

as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped,

will return to you.

6And he took the wood for the holocaust, and

laid it upon Isaac his son; and he himself carried

in his hands re and a sword. And as they two

went on together,

7Isaac said to his father: My father. And he

answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith

he, re and wood: where is the victim for the

holocaust?

8And Abraham said: God will provide him-

self a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they

went on together.

9And they came to the place which God had

shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the

wood in order upon it; and when he had bound

Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the

pile of wood.

10And he put forth his hand, and took the

sword, to sacrice his son.

11And behold, an angel of the Lord from

heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abra-

ham. And he answered: Here I am.

12And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon

the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I

know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared

thy only begotten son for my sake.

13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind

his back a ram, amongst the briers, sticking fast

by the horns, which he took and oered for a

holocaust instead of his son.14And he called the name of that place, The

Lord seeth. Whereupon, even to this day, it is

said: In the mountain the Lord will see.

15And the angel of the Lord called to Abra-

ham a second time from heaven, saying:

16By my own self have I sworn, saith the

Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and

hast not spared thy only begotten son for my

sake:

17I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy

seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that

is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the

gates of their enemies.

18And in thy seed shall all the nations of the

earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my

voice.

19Abraham returned to his young men, and

they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt

there.

20After these things, it was told Abraham,

that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor

his brother.
21Hus, the rstborn, and Buz, his brother,

and Camuel the father of the Syrians,

22And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and

Jedlaph,

23And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca:

these eight did Melcha bear to Nachor, Abra-

ham's brother.

24And his concubine, named Roma, bore

Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.

Chapter 23

And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven

years.

2And she died in the city of Arbee which is

Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham

came to mourn and weep for her.Book of Genesis 27

3And after he rose up from the funeral obse-

quies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:

4I am a stranger and sojourner among you:

give me the right of a burying place with you,

that I may bury my dead.

5The children of Heth answered, saying:

6My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God

among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepul-

chres: and no man shall have power to hinder

thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.

7Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the

people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:

8And said to them: If it please your soul that

I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede

for me to Ephron the son of Seor.

9That he may give me the double cave, which

he hath in the end of his eld: For as much

money as it is worth he shall give it me before

you, for a possession of a burying place.

10Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the

children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to

Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at

the gate of the city, saying:

11Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou

rather hearken to what I say: The eld I de-

liver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the

presence of the children of my people, bury thy

dead.

12Abraham bowed down before the people of

the land.

13And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence

of the people: I beseech thee to hear me: I will

give money for the eld; take it, and so will I

bury my dead in it.

14And Ephron answered:

15My lord, hear me. The ground which thou

desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver:

this is the price between me and thee: but what

is this? bury thy dead.16And when Abraham had heard this, he

weighed out the money that Ephron had asked,

in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hun-

dred sicles of silver, of common current money.

17And the eld that before was Ephron's,

wherein was the double cave, looking towards

Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees

thereof, in all its limits round about,

18Was made sure to Abraham for a posses-

sion, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of

all that went in at the gate of his city.

19And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in

the double cave of the eld, that looked towards

Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.

20And the eld was made sure to Abraham,

and the cave that was in it, for a possession to

bury in, by the children of Heth.

Chapter 24

Now Abraham was old, and advanced in age; and

the Lord had blessed him in all things.

2And he said to the elder servant of his house,

who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand

under my thigh,

3That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the

God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a

wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaan-

ites, among whom I dwell:

4But that thou go to my own country and

kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son

Isaac.

5The servant answered: If the woman will not

come with me into this land, must I bring thy son

back again to the place from whence thou camest

out?

6And Abraham said: Beware thou never

bring my son back again thither.

7The Lord God of heaven, who took me out28 Book of Genesis

of my father's house, and out of my native coun-

try, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying:

To thy seed will I give this land: he will send

his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from

thence a wife for my son.

8But if the woman will not follow thee, thou

shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not

my son back thither again.

9The servant, therefore, put his hand under

the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and swore to him

upon his word.

10And he took ten camels of his master's

herd, and departed, carrying something of all his

goods with him, and he set forward and went on

to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.

11And when he had made the camels lie down

without the town, near a well of water, in the

evening, at the time when women are wont to

come out to draw water, he said:

12O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham,

meet me today, I beseech thee, and shew kind-

ness to my master, Abraham.

13Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water,

and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city

will come out to draw water:

14Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall

say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink:

and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy

camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou

hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this,

I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness

to my master.

15He had not yet ended these words within

himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the

daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Na-

chor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher

on her shoulder:

16An exceeding comely maid, and a most

beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she

went down to the spring, and lled her pitcher,and was coming back.
17And the servant ran to meet her, and said:

Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.

18And she answered: Drink, my lord. And

quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm,

and gave him drink.

19And when he had drunk, she said: I will

draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.

20And pouring out the pitcher into the

troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water;

and having drawn, she gave to all the camels.

21But he musing, beheld her with silence,

desirous to know whether the Lord had made

his journey prosperous or not.

22And after that the camels had drunk, the

man took out golden earrings, weighing two

sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles weight.

23And he said to her: Whose daughter art

thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father's

house to lodge?

24And she answered: I am the daughter of

Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to

Nachor.

25And she said, moreover, to him: We have

good store of both straw and hay, and a large

place to lodge in.

26The man bowed himself down, and adored

the Lord,

27Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my

master Abraham, who hath not taken away his

mercy and truth from my master, and hath

brought me the straight way into the house of

my master's brother.

28Then the maid ran, and told in her

mother's house all that she had heard.

29And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban,

who went out in haste to the man, to the well.

30And when he had seen the earrings and

bracelets in his sister's hands, and had heard all

that she related, saying, Thus and thus the manBook of Genesis 29

spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by

the camels, and near to the spring of water,

31And said to him: Come in, thou blessed

of the Lord; why standest thou without? I have

prepared the house, and a place for the camels.

32And he brought him into his lodging; and

he unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and

hay, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of

the men that were come with him.

33And bread was set before him. But he said:

I will not eat, till I tell my message. He answered

him: Speak.

34And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:

35And the Lord hath blessed my master won-

derfully, and he is become great: and he hath

given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men

servants and women servants, camels and asses.

36And Sara, my master's wife, hath borne my

master a son in her old age, and he hath given

him all that he had.

37And my master made me swear, saying:

Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the

Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:

38But thou shalt go to my father's house, and

shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:

39But I answered my master: What if the

woman will not come with me?

40The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk,

will send his angel with thee, and will direct thy

way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of

my own kindred, and of my father's house.

41But thou shalt be clear from my curse,

when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will

not give thee one.

42And I came today to the well of water,

and said: O Lord God of my master, Abraham,

if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now

walk,

43Behold, I stand by the well of water, and

the virgin, that shall come out to draw water,who shall hear me say: Give me a little water to

drink of thy pitcher:

44And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and

I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be

the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for

my master's son.

45And whilst I pondered these things secretly

with myself, Rebecca appeared, coming with a

pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and

she went down to the well and drew water. And

I said to her: Give me a little to drink.

46And she speedily let down the pitcher from

her shoulder, and said to me: Both drink thou,

and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank, and

she watered the camels.

47And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter

art thou? And she answered: I am the daugh-

ter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha

bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn

her face, and I put bracelets on her hands.

48And falling down, I adored the Lord, bless-

ing the Lord God of my master, Abraham, who

hath brought me the straight way to take the

daughter of my master's brother for his son.

49Wherefore, if you do according to mercy

and truth with my master, tell me: but if it

please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I

may go to the right hand, or to the left.

50And Laban and Bathuel answered: The

word hath proceeded from the Lord: we cannot

speak any other thing to thee but his pleasure.

51Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her

and go thy way, and let her be the wife of thy

master's son, as the Lord hath spoken.

52Which when Abraham's servant heard,

falling down to the ground, he adored the Lord.

53And bringing forth vessels of silver and

gold, and garments, he gave them to Rebecca,

for a present. He oered gifts also to her broth-

ers, and to her mother.30 Book of Genesis

54And a banquet was made, and they ate

and drank together, and lodged there. And in

the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let

me depart, that I may go to my master.

55And her brother and mother answered: Let

the maid stay, at least, ten days with us, and

afterwards she shall depart.

56Stay me not, said he, because the Lord

hath prospered my way: send me away, that I

may go to my master.

57And they said: Let us call the maid, and

ask her will.

58And they called her, and when she was

come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man?

She said: I will go.

59So they sent her away, and her nurse, and

Abraham's servant, and his company.

60Wishing prosperity to their sister, and say-

ing: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to

thousands of thousands; and may thy seed pos-

sess the gates of their enemies.

61So Rebecca and her maids, being set upon

camels, followed the man: who with speed re-

turned to his master.

62At the same time, Isaac was walking along

the way to the well which is called Of the living

and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country:

63And he was gone forth to meditate in the

eld, the day being now well spent: and when

he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming

afar o.

64Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted

o the camel,

65And said to the servant: Who is that man

who cometh towards us along the eld? And he

said to her: That man is my master. But she

quickly took her cloak, and covered herself.

66And the servant told Isaac all that he had

done.67Who brought her into the tent of Sara his

mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her

so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was

occasioned by his mother's death.

Chapter 25

And Abraham married another wife named Ce-

tura:

2Who bore him Zamram, and Jecsan, and

Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue.

3Jecsan also begot Saba, and Dadan. The

children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim,

and Loomim.

4But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher,

and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: all these

were the children of Cetura.

5And Abraham gave all his possessions to

Isaac:

6And to the children of the concubines he

gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his

son, while he yet lived, to the east country.

7And the days of Abraham's life were a hun-

dred and seventy-ve years.

8And decaying he died in a good old age, and

having lived a long time, and being full of days:

and was gathered to his people.

9And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him

in the double cave, which was situated in the

eld of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over

against Mambre,

10Which he had bought of the children of

Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife.

11And after his death, God blessed Isaac his

son, who dwelt by the well named Of the living

and seeing.

12These are the generations of Ismael the son

of Abraham, whom Agar the Egyptian, Sara's

servant, bore unto him:Book of Genesis 31

13And these are the names of his children

according to their calling and generations. The

rstborn of Ismael was Nabajoth, then Cedar,

and Adbeel, and Mabsam,

14And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,

15Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and

Naphis, and Cedma.

16These are the sons of Ismael: and these are

their names by their castles and towns, twelve

princes of their tribes.

17And the years of Ismael's life were a hun-

dred and thirty-seven, and decaying he died, and

was gathered unto his people.

18And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur,

which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go

towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence

of all his brethren.

19These also are the generations of Isaac the

son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:

20Who when he was forty years old, took to

wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian

of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

21And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife,

because she was barren: and he heard him, and

made Rebecca to conceive.

22But the children struggled in her womb,

and she said: If it were to be so with me, what

need was there to conceive? And she went to

consult the Lord.

23And he answering, said: Two nations are

in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided

out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome

the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

24And when her time was come to be deliv-

ered, behold twins were found in her womb.

25He that came forth rst was red, and hairy

like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Imme-

diately the other coming forth, held his brother's

foot in his hand: and therefore he was called Ja-

cob.26Isaac was threescore years old when the

children were born unto him.

27And when they were grown up, Esau be-

came a skilful hunter, and a husbandman: but

Jacob, a plain man, dwelt in tents.

28Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his

hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.

29And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau,

coming faint out of the eld,

30Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am

exceeding faint. For which reason his name was

called Edom.

31And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy rst

birthright.

32He answered: Lo I die, what will the rst

birthright avail me?

33Jacob said: Swear therefore to me. Esau

swore to him, and sold his rst birthright.

34And so taking bread and the pottage of

lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way;

making little account of having sold his rst

birthright.

Chapter 26

And when a famine came in the land, after that

barrenness which had happened in the days of

Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the

Palestines, to Gerara.

2And the Lord appeared to him, and said:

Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land

that I shall tell thee.

3And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee,

and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed

I will give all these countries, to full the oath

which I swore to Abraham thy father.

4And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of

heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these

countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations32 Book of Genesis

of the earth be blessed.

5Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and

kept my precepts and commandments, and ob-

served my ceremonies and laws.

6So Isaac abode in Gerara.

7And when he was asked by the men of that

place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is

my sister: for he was afraid to confess that she

was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would

kill him because of her beauty.

8And when very many days were passed,

and he abode there, Abimelech, king of the

Palestines, looking out through a window, saw

him playing with Rebecca, his wife.

9And calling for him, he said: It is evident

she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be

thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should

die for her sake.

10And Abimelech said: Why hast thou de-

ceived us? Some man of the people might have

lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon

us a great sin. And he commanded all the peo-

ple, saying:

11He that shall touch this man's wife, shall

surely be put to death.

12And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found

that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord

blessed him.

13And the man was enriched, and he went

on prospering and increasing, till he became ex-

ceeding great.

14And he had possessions of sheep and of

herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the

Palestines envying him,

15Stopped up at that time all the wells, that

the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged,

lling them up with earth:

16Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to

Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much

mightier than we.17So he departed, and came to the torrent of

Gerara, to dwell there:

18And he digged again other wells, which the

servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, and

which, after his death, the Philistines had of old

stopped up: and he called them by the same

names, by which his father before had called

them.

19And they digged in the torrent, and found

living water:

20But there also the herdsmen of Gerara

strove against the herdsmen of Isaac, saying: It is

our water. Wherefore he called the name of the

well, on occasion of that which had happened,

Calumny.

21And they digged also another; and for that

they quarrelled likewise, and he called the name

of it, Enmity.

22Going forward from thence, he digged an-

other well, for which they contended not; there-

fore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying:

Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us

to increase upon the earth.

23And he went up from that place to

Bersabee,

24Where the Lord appeared to him that same

night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy

father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will

bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant

Abraham's sake.
25And he built there an altar: and called

upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent;

and commanded his servants to dig a well.

26To which place when Abimelech, and

Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of

his soldiers, came from Gerara,

27Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to

me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out

from you?

28And they answered: We saw that the LordBook of Genesis 33

is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be

an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

29That thou do us no harm, as we on our part

have touched nothing of thine, nor have done any

thing to hurt thee; but with peace have sent thee

away, increased with the blessing of the Lord.

30And he made them a feast, and after they

had eaten and drunk:

31Arising in the morning, they swore one to

another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to

their own home.

32And behold, the same day the servants of

Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had

digged, and saying: We have found water.

33Whereupon he called it Abundance: and

the name of the city was called Bersabee, even

to this day.

34And Esau being forty years old, married

wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite,

and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same

place.

35And they both oended the mind of Isaac

and Rebecca.

Chapter 27

Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and

he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder

son, and said to him: My son? And he answered:

Here I am.

2And his father said to him, Thou seest that

I am old, and know not the day of my death.

3Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow, and go

abroad; and when thou hast taken something by

hunting,

4Make me a savoury meat thereof, as thou

knowest I like, and bring it that I may eat: and

my soul may bless thee, before I die.

5And when Rebecca had heard this, and hewas gone into the eld to full his father's com-

mandment,

6She said to her son Jacob: I heard thy father

talking with Esau, thy brother, and saying to

him:

7Bring me of thy hunting, and make me meats

that I may eat, and bless thee in the sight of the

Lord, before I die.

8Now therefore, my son, follow my counsel:

9And go thy way to the

ock, bring me two

kids of the best, that I may make of them meat

for thy father, such as he gladly eateth.

10Which when thou hast brought in, and he

hath eaten, he may bless thee before he die.

11And he answered her: Thou knowest that

Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am

smooth:

12If my father should feel me, and perceive

it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked

him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead

of a blessing.

13And his mother said to him: Upon me be

this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and

go, fetch me the things which I have said.

14He went, and brought, and gave them to

his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew

his father liked.

15And she put on him very good garments of

Esau, which she had at home with her:

16And the little skins of the kids she put

about his hands, and covered the bare of his

neck.

17And she gave him the savoury meat, and

delivered him bread that she had baked.

18Which when he had carried in, he said: My

father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou,

my son?

19And Jacob said: I am Esau, thy rstborn:

I have done as thou didst command me: arise, sit34 Book of Genesis

and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless

me.

20And Isaac said to his son: How couldst

thou nd it so quickly, my son? He answered:

It was the will of God, that what I sought came

quickly in my way:

21And Isaac said: Come hither, that I may

feel thee, my son, and may prove whether thou

be my son Esau, or no.

22He came near to his father, and when he

had felt him, Isaac said: The voice indeed is the

voice of Jacob; but the hands, are the hands of

Esau.

23And he knew him not, because his hairy

hands made him like to the elder. Then blessing

him,

24He said: Art thou my son Esau? He an-

swered: I am.
25Then he said: Bring me the meats of thy

hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee.

And when they were brought, and he had eaten,

he oered him wine also, which after he had

drunk,

26He said to him: Come near me, and give

me a kiss, my son.

27He came near, and kissed him. And im-

mediately as he smelled the fragrant smell of

his garments, blessing him, he said: Behold, the

smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful eld,

which the Lord hath blessed.

28God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of

the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and

wine.

29And let peoples serve thee, and tribes wor-

ship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and

let thy mother's children bow down before thee.

Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that

blesseth thee be lled with blessings.

30Isaac had scarce ended his words, when,

Jacob being now gone out abroad, Esau came,31And brought in to his father meats, made

of what he had taken in hunting, saying: Arise,

my father, and eat of thy son's venison; that thy

soul may bless me.

32And Isaac said to him: Why! who art

thou? He answered: I am thy rstborn son,

Esau.

33Isaac was struck with fear, and astonished

exceedingly; and wondering beyond what can be

believed, said: Who is he then that even now

brought me venison that he had taken, and I ate

of all before thou camest? and I have blessed

him, and he shall be blessed.

34Esau having heard his father's words,

roared out with a great cry; and, being in a con-

sternation, said: Bless me also, my father.

35And he said: Thy brother came deceitfully

and got thy blessing.

36But he said again: Rightly is his name

called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this

second time: My birthright he took away before,

and now this second time he hath stolen away

my blessing. And again he said to his father:

Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing?

37Isaac answered: I have appointed him thy

lord, and have made all his brethren his servants:

I have established him with corn and wine, and

after this, what shall I do more for thee, my son?

38And Esau said to him: Hast thou only one

blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also.

And when he wept with a loud cry,

39Isaac being moved, said to him: In the

fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from

above,

40Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt live by

the sword, and shalt serve thy brother: and the

time shall come, when thou shalt shake o and

loose his yoke from thy neck.

41Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the

blessing wherewith his father had blessed him;Book of Genesis 35

and he said in his heart: The days will come of

the mourning for my father, and I will kill my

brother Jacob.

42These things were told to Rebecca: and

she sent and called Jacob, her son, and said to

him: Behold Esau, thy brother, threateneth to

kill thee.

43Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, arise

and

ee to Laban, my brother, to Haran:

44And thou shalt dwell with him a few days,

till the wrath of thy brother be assuaged,

45And his indignation cease, and he forget

the things thou hast done to him: afterwards

I will send, and bring thee from thence hither.

Why shall I be deprived of both my sons in one

day?
46And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary

of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if

Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I

choose not to live.

Chapter 28

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and

charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock

of Chanaan:

2But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia

of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's

father, and take thee a wife thence of the daugh-

ters of Laban, thy uncle.

3And God almighty bless thee, and make thee

to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst

be a multitude of people.

4And give the blessings of Araham to thee,

and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst

possess the land of thy sojournment, which he

promised to thy grandfather.

5And when Isaac had sent him away, he took

his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria,to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother

to Rebecca, his mother.

6And Esau seeing that his father had blessed

Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of

Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the

blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt

not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan:

7And that Jacob obeying his parents, was

gone into Syria:

8Experiencing also, that his father was not

well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan:

9He went to Ismael, and took to wife, besides

them he had before, Maheleth, the daughter of

Ismael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nabajoth.

10But Jacob being departed from Bersabee,

went on to Haran.

11And when he was come to a certain place,

and would rest in it after sunset, he took of

the stones that lay there, and putting under his

head, slept in the same place.

12And he saw in his sleep a ladder stand-

ing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching

heaven: the angels also of God ascending and

descending by it.

13And the Lord leaning upon the ladder say-

ing to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy

father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein

thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.

14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the

earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and

to the east, and to the north, and to the south:

and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the

earth SHALL BE BLESSED.

15And I will be thy keeper whithersoever

thou goest, and will bring thee back into this

land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have

accomplished all that I have said.

16And when Jacob awaked out of sleep, he

said: Indeed the Lord is in this place, and I knew

it not.36 Book of Genesis

17And trembling, he said: How terrible is this

place? this is no other but the house of God, and

the gate of heaven.

18And Jacob arising in the morning, took the

stone which he had laid under his head, and set

it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.

19And he called the name of the city Bethel,

which before was called Luza.

20And he made a vow, saying: If God shall

be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by

which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat,

and raiment to put on,

21And I shall return prosperously to my fa-

ther's house: the Lord shall be my God:

22And this stone, which I have set up for a

title, shall be called the house of God: and of

all things that thou shalt give to me, I will oer

tithes to thee.
Chapter 29

Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came

into the east country.

2And he saw a well in the eld, and three

ocks of sheep lying by it: for the beasts were

watered out of it, and the mouth thereof was

closed with a great stone.

3And the custom was, when all the sheep

were gathered together, to roll away the stone,

and after the sheep were watered, to put it on

the mouth of the well again.

4And he said to the shepherds: Brethren,

whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.

5And he asked them, saying: Know you La-

ban, the son of Nachor? They said: We know

him.

6He said: Is he in health? He is in health, say

they: and behold, Rachel, his daughter, cometh

with his

ock.7And Jacob said: There is yet much day re-

maining, neither is it time to bring the

ocks into

the folds again: rst give the sheep drink, and

so lead them back to feed.

8They answered: We cannot, till all the cattle

be gathered together, and we remove the stone

from the well's mouth, that we may water the

ocks.

9They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel

came with her father's sheep; for she fed the

ock.

10And when Jacob saw her, and knew her

to be his cousin german, and that they were the

sheep of Laban, his uncle: he removed the stone

wherewith the well was closed.

11And having watered the

ock, he kissed

her: and lifting up his voice wept.

12And he told her that he was her father's

brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went

in haste and told her father.

13Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister's

son was come, ran forth to meet him: and em-

bracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought

him into his house. And when he had heard the

causes of his journey,

14He answered: Thou art my bone and my

esh. And after the days of one month were

expired,

15He said to him: Because thou art my

brother, shalt thou serve me without wages? Tell

me what wages thou wilt have.

16Now he had two daughters, the name of

the elder was Lia; and the younger was called

Rachel.

17But Lia was blear eyed: Rachel was well

favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.

18And Jacob being in love with her, said:

I will serve thee seven years for Rachel, thy

younger daughter.Book of Genesis 37

19Laban answered: It is better that I give her

to thee than to another man; stay with me.

20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel:

and they seemed but a few days, because of the

greatness of his love.

21And he said to Laban: Give me my wife;

for now the time is fullled, that I may go in

unto her.

22And he, having invited a great number of

his friends to the feast, made the marriage.

23And at night he brought in Lia, his daugh-

ter, to him,

24Giving his daughter a handmaid, named

Zelpha. Now when Jacob had gone in to her

according to custom, when morning was come

he saw it was Lia.

25And he said to his father in law: What is

it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve

thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me?

26Laban answered: It is not the custom in

this place, to give the younger in marriage rst.

27Make up the week of days of this match:

and I will give thee her also, for the service that

thou shalt render me other seven years.

28He yielded to his pleasure: and after the

week was past, he married Rachel:

29To whom her father gave Bala, for her ser-

vant.

30And having at length obtained the mar-

riage he wished for, he preferred the love of the

latter before the former, and served with him

other seven years.

31And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia,

opened her womb, but her sister remained bar-

ren.

32And she conceived and bore a son, and

called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw

my aiction: now my husband will love me.

33And again she conceived and bore a son,

and said: Because the Lord heard that I wasdespised, he hath given this also to me: and she
called his name Simeon.

34And she conceived the third time, and bore

another son, and said: Now also my husband will

be joined to me, because I have borne him three

sons: and therefore she called his name Levi.

35The fourth time she conceived and bore a

son, and said: Now will I praise the Lord: and for

this she called him Juda. And she left bearing.

Chapter 30

And Rachel seeing herself without children, en-

vied her sister, and said to her husband: Give

me children, otherwise I shall die.

2And Jacob being angry with her, answered:

Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit

of thy womb?

3But she said: I have here my servant Bala:

go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees,

and I may have children by her.

4And she gave him Bala in marriage: who,

5When her husband had gone in unto her,

conceived and bore a son.

6And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for

me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son;

and therefore she called his name Dan.

7And again Bala conceived, and bore another,

8For whom Rachel said: God hath compared

me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she

called him Nephthali.

9Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing,

gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband.

10And when she had conceived, and brought

forth a son,

11She said: Happily. And therefore called his

name Gad.

12Zelpha also bore another.38 Book of Genesis

13And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for

women will call me blessed. Therefore she called

him Aser.

14And Ruben going out in the time of the

wheat harvest into the eld, found mandrakes:

which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel

said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.

15She answered: Dost thou think it a small

matter, that thou hast taken my husband from

me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes?

Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night,

for thy son's mandrakes.

16And when Jacob returned at even from the

eld, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou

shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee

for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her

that night.
17And God heard her prayers; and she con-

ceived: and bore a fth son:

18And said: God hath given me a reward,

because I gave my handmaid to my husband.

And she called his name Issachar.

19And Lia conceived again, and bore the

sixth son,

20And said: God hath endowed me with a

good dowry; this turn also my husband will be

with me, because I have borne him six sons: and

therefore she called his name Zabulon.

21After whom she bore a daughter, named

Dina.

22The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard

her, and opened her womb.

23And she conceived, and bore a son, saying:

God hath taken away my reproach.

24And she called his name Joseph: saying:

The Lord give me also another son.

25And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to

his father in law: Send me away, that I may

return into my country, and to my land.26Give me my wives, and my children, for

whom I have served thee, that I may depart:

thou knowest the service that I have rendered

thee.

27Laban said to him: Let me nd favour in

thy sight: I have learned, by experience, that

God hath blessed me for thy sake.

28Appoint thy wages which I shall give thee.

29But he answered: Thou knowest how I have

served thee, and how great thy possession hath

been in my hands.

30Thou hadst but little before I came to thee,

and now thou art become rich: and the Lord

hath blessed thee at my coming. It is reasonable,

therefore, that I should now provide also for my

own house.

31And Laban said: What shall I give thee?

But he said: I require nothing; but if thou wilt

do what I demand, I will feed and keep thy sheep

again.

32Go round through all thy

ocks, and sepa-

rate all the sheep of divers colours, and speckled;

and all that is brown and spotted, and of divers

colours, as well among the sheep as among the

goats, shall be my wages.

33And my justice shall answer for me tomor-

row before thee, when the time of the bargain

shall come; and all that is not of divers colours,

and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep

as among the goats, shall accurse me of theft.

34And Laban said: I like well what thou de-

mandest.

35And he separated the same day the she

goats, and the sheep, and the he goats, and the

rams of divers colours, and spotted; and all the

ock of one colour, that is, of white and black

eece, he deliverdd into the hands of his sons.

36And he set the space of three days journey

betwixt himself and his son in law, who fed the

rest of his

ock.Book of Genesis 39

37And Jacob took green rods of poplar, and

of almond, and of plane trees, and pilled them

in part: so when the bark was taken o, in the

parts that were pilled, there appeared whiteness:

but the parts that were whole, remained green:

and by this means the colour was divers.

38And he put them in the troughs, where

the water was poured out; that when the

ocks

should come to drink, they might have the rods

before their eyes, and in the sight of them might

conceive.

39And it came to pass, that in the very

heat of coition, the sheep beheld the rods, and

brought forth spotted, and of divers colours, and

speckled.

40And Jacob separated the

ock, and put the

rods in the troughs before the eyes of the rams;

and all the white and the black were Laban's,

and the rest were Jacob's, when the

ocks were

separated one from the other.

41So when the ewes went rst to ram, Ja-

cob put the rods in the troughs of water before

the eyes of the rams, and of the ewes, that they

might conceive while they were looking upon

them.

42But when the later coming was, and the

last conceiving, he did not put them. And those

that were lateward, became Laban's; and they

of the rst time, Jacob's.

43And the man was enriched exceedingly, and

he had many

ocks, maidservants and menser-

vants, camels and asses.

Chapter 31

But after that he had heard the words of the

sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away

all that was our father's, and being enriched by

his substance is become great.2And perceiving also, that Laban's counte-

nance was not towards him as yesterday and the

other day.

3Especially the Lord saying to him: Return

into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred,

and I will be with thee.

4He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the

eld, where he fed the

ocks,

5And said to them: I see your father's coun-

tenance is not towards me as yesterday and the

other day: but the God of my father hath been

with me.

6And you know that I have served your father

to the uttermost of my power.

7Yea your father hath also overreached me,

and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet

God hath not suered him to hurt me.

8If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be

thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled:

but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt

take all the white one for thy wages: all the

ocks

brought forth white ones.

9And God hath taken your father's sub-

stance, and given it to me.

10For after the time came of the ewes conceiv-

ing, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep, that

the males which leaped upon the females were of

divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

11And the angel of God said to me in my

sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am.

12And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that

all the males leaping upon the females, are of

divers colours, spotted and speckled. For I have

seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

13I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst

anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now

therefore arise, and go out of this land, and re-

turn into thy native country.

14And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we

any thing left among the goods and inheritance40 Book of Genesis

of our father's house?

15Hath he not counted us as strangers, and

sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

16But God hath taken our father's riches, and

delivered them to us, and to our children: where-

fore, do all that God hath commanded thee.

17Then Jacob rose up, and having set his

children and wives upon camels, went his way.

18And he took all his substance, and

ocks,

and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia,

and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land

of Chanaan.

19At that time Laban was gone to shear his

sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

20And Jacob would not confess to his father

in law that he was

ying away.

21And when he was gone, together with all

that belonged to him, and having passed the

river, was going on towards mount Galaad,

22It was told Laban on the third day, that

Jacob

ed.

23And he took his brethren with him, and

pursued after him seven days; and overtook him

in the mount of Galaad.

24And he saw in a dream God, saying to

him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly

against Jacob.

25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the

mountain: and when he, with his brethren, had

overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same

mount of Galaad.

26And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done

thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my

daughters as captives taken with the sword?

27Why wouldst thou run away privately, and

not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee

on the way with joy, and with songs, and with

timbrels, and with harps?

28Thou hast not suered me to kiss my sons

and daughters; thou hast done foolishly; and nowindeed,

29It is in my power to return thee evil; but the

God of your father said to me yesterday: Take

heed thou speak not any thing harshly against

Jacob.

30Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy

friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's

house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?

31Jacob answered: That I departed unknown

to thee, it was for fear lest thou wouldst take

away thy daughters by force.

32But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft:

with whomsoever thou shalt nd thy gods, let

him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if

thou nd any of thy things with me, take them

away. Now when he said this, he knew not that

Rachel had stolen the idols.

33So Laban went into the tent of Jacob,

and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and

found them not. And when he was entered into

Rachel's tent,

34She, in haste, hid the idols under the

camel's furniture, and sat upon them: and when

he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,

35She said: Let not my lord be angry that

I cannot rise up before thee, because it has

now happened to me according to the custom

of women. So his careful search was in vain.

36And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding

manner: For what fault of mine, and for what

oence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued

me,

37And searched all my household stu?

What hast thou found of all the substance of thy

house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy

brethren, and let them judge between me and

thee.

38Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty

years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the

rams of thy

ocks I did not eat:Book of Genesis 41

39Neither did I shew thee that which the

beast had torn; I made good all the damage:

whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it

of me:
40Day and night was I parched with heat, and

with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.

41And in this manner have I served thee in

thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daugh-

ters, and six for thy

ocks: thou hast changed

also my wages ten times.

42Unless the God of my father, Abraham,

and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradven-

ture now thou hadst sent me away naked: God

beheld my aiction and the labour of my hands,

and rebuked thee yesterday.

43Laban answered him: The daughters are

mine, and the children, and thy

ocks, and all

things that thou seest are mine: what can I do

to my children, and grandchildren?

44Come, therefore, let us enter into a league;

that it may be for a testimony between me and

thee.

45And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for

a title.

46And he said to his brethren: Bring hither

stones. And they, gathering stones together,

made a heap, and they ate upon it.

47And Laban called it, The witness heap; and

Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them

according to the propriety of his language.

48And Laban said: This heap shall be a wit-

ness between me and thee this day, and therefore

the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The

witness heap.

49The Lord behold and judge between us,

when we shall be gone one from the other.

50If thou aict my daughters, and if thou

bring in other wives over them: none is witness

of our speech but God, who is present and be-

holdeth.51And he said again to Jacob: Behold this

heap, and the stone which I have set up between

me and thee,

52Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and

the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I

shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou

shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.

53The God of Abraham, and the God of Na-

chor, the God of their father, judge betweeen us.

And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac:

54And after he had oered sacrices in the

mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread.

And when they had eaten, they lodged there:

55But Laban arose in the night, and kissed

his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and

returned to his place.

Chapter 32

Jacob also went on the journey he had begun:

and the angels of God met him.

2And when he saw them, he said: These are

the camps of God, and he called the name of

that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.

3And he sent messengers before him to Esau,

his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of

Edom:

4And he commanded them, saying: Thus

shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy

brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and

have been with him until this day:

5I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and

menservants, and womenservants: and now I

send a message to my lord, that I may nd favour

in thy sight.

6And the messengers returned to Jacob, say-

ing: We came to Esau, thy brother, and behold

he cometh with speed to meet thee with four

hundred men.42 Book of Genesis

7Then Jacob was greatly afraid; and in his

fear divided the people that was with him, and

the

ocks, and the sheep, and the oxen, and the

camels, into two companies,

8Saying: If Esau come to one company, and

destroy it, the other company that is left, shall

escape.

9And Jacob said: O God of my fahter Abra-

ham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who

saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place

of thy birth, and I will do well for thee.

10I am not worthy of the least of all thy mer-

cies, and of thy truth which thou hast fullled

to thy servant. With my sta I passed over this

Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

11Deliver me from the hand of my brother

Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps

he come, and kill the mother with the children.

12Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well

by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the

sea, which connot be numbered for multitude.

13And when he had slept there that night, he

set apart, of the things which he had, presents

for his brother Esau,

14Two hundred she goats, twenty he goats,

two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

15Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty

kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she asses, and ten

of their foals.
16And he sent them by the hands of his ser-

vants, every drove by itself, and he said to his

servants: Go before me, and let there be a space

between drove and drove.

17And he commanded the rst, saying: If

thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee:

Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or

whose are these before thee?

18Thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's:

he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau;

and he cometh after us.19In like manner he commanded the second,

and the third, and all that followed the droves,

saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when

ye nd him.

20And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob him-

self also followeth after us; for he said: I will

appease him with the presents that go before,

and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be

gracious to me.

21So the presents went before him, but him-

self lodged that night in the camp.

22And rising early, he took his two wives and

his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and

passed over the ford of Jaboc.

23And when all things were brought over that

belonged to him,
24He remained alone; and behold, a man

wrestled with him till morning.

25And when he saw that he could not over-

come him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and

forthwith it shrank.

26And he said to him: Let me go, for it is

break of day. He answered: I will not let thee

go, except thou bless me.

27And he said: What is thy name? He an-

swered: Jacob.

28But he said: Thy name shall not be called

Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong

against God, how much more shalt thou prevail

against men?

29Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name

art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou

ask my name? And he blessed him in the same

place.

30And Jacob called the name of the place

Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face,

and my soul has been saved.

31And immediately the sun rose upon him,

after he was past Phanuel; but he halted on his

foot.Book of Genesis 43

32Therefore the children of Israel, unto this

day, eat not the sinew, that shrank in Jacob's

thigh: because he touched the sinew of his thigh

and it shrank.

Chapter 33

And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming,

and with him four hundred men: and he divided

the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two

handmaids.

2And he put both the handmaids and their

children foremost: and Lia and her children in

the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.

3And he went forward and bowed down with

his face to the ground seven times, until his

brother came near.

4Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and em-

braced him: and clasping him fast about the

neck, and kissing him, wept.

5And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women

and their children, and said: What mean these?

And do they belong to thee? He answered: They

are the children which God hath given to me, thy

servant.

6Then the handmaids and their children came

near and bowed themselves.

7Lia also, with her children, came near and

bowed down in like manner; and last of all,

Joseph and Rachel bowed down.

8And Esau said: What are the droves that

I met? He answered: That I might nd favour

before my lord.

9But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep

what is thine for thyself.

10And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee,

but if I have found favour in thy eyes, receive a

little present at my hands: for I have seen thy

face, as if I should have seen the countenance ofGod: be gracious to me,

11And take the blessing which I have brought

thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth

all things. He took it with much ado at his

brother's earnest pressing him,

12And said: Let us go on together, and I will

accompany thee in thy journey.

13And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest

that I have with me tender children, and sheep,

and kine with young: which if I should cause to

be overdriven, in one day all the

ocks will die.

14May it please my lord to go before his ser-

vant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall

see my children to be able, until I come to my

lord in Seir.

15Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some

of the people, at least, who are with me, may

stay to accompany thee in the way. And he said:

There is no necessity: I want nothing else but

only to nd favour, my lord, in thy sight.

16So Esau returned that day, the way that

he came, to Seir.

17And Jacob came to Socoth: where having

built a house, and pitched tents, he called the

name of the place Socoth, that is, Tents.

18And he passed over to Salem, a city of the

Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, af-

ter he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and

he dwelt by the town.

19And he bought that part of the eld, in

which he pitched his tents, of the children of

Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred

lambs.

20And raising an altar there, he invoked upon

it the most mighty God of Israel.44 Book of Genesis

Chapter 34

And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see

the women of that country.

2And when Sichem the son of Hemor the

Hevite, the prince of that land, saw her, he was

in love with her: and took her away, and lay with

her, ravishing the virgin.

3And his soul was fast knit unto her; and

whereas she was sad, he comforted her with

sweet words.

4And going to Hemor his father, he said: Get

me this damsel to wife.

5But when Jacob had heard this, his sons

being absent, and employed in feeding the cattle,

he held his peace till they came back.

6And when Hemor the father of Sichem was

come out to speak to Jacob,

7Behold his sons came from the eld: and

hearing what had passed, they were exceeding

angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel,

and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Ja-

cob's daughter.

8And Hemor spoke to them: The soul of my

son Sichem has a longing for your daughter: give

her him to wife:

9And let us contract marriages one with an-

other: give us your daughters, and take you our

daughters.

10And dwell with us: the land is at your

command, till, trade, and possess it.

11Sichem also said to her father and to her

brethren: Let me nd favour in your sight, and

whatsoever you shall appoint I will give:

12Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will

gladly give what you shall demand: only give me

this damsel to wife.

13The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his

father deceitfully, being enraged at the de

ower-

ing of their sister:14We cannot do what you demand, nor give

our sister to one that is uncircumcised; which

with us is unlawful and abominable.

15But in this we may be allied with you, if

you will be like us, and all the male sex among

you be circumcised:

16Then will we mutually give and take your

daughters, and ours; and we will dwell with you,

and will be one people:

17But if you will not be circumcised, we will

take our daughter and depart.

18Their oer pleased Hemor, and Sichem, his

son:

19And the young man made no delay, but

forthwith fullled what was required: for he

loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the

greatest man in all his father's house.

20And going into the gate of the city, they

spoke to the people:

21These men are peaceable, and are willing

to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and

till it, which being large and wide wanteth men

to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives,

and we will give them ours.

22One thing there is for which so great a

good is deferred: We must circumcise every male

among us, following the manner of the nation.

23And their substance, and cattle, and all

that they possess, shall be ours; only in this let us

condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall

make one people.

24And they all agreed, and circumcised all

the males.

25And behold the third day, when the pain

of the wound was greatest: two of the sons of

Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina,

taking their swords, entered boldly into the city

and slew all the men.

26And they killed also Hemor and Sichem,

and took away their sister Dina out of Sichem'sBook of Genesis 45

house.

27And when they were gone out, the other

sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plun-

dered the city in revenge of the rape.

28And they took their sheep, and their herds,

and their asses, wasting all they had in their

houses and in their elds.

29And their children and wives they took

captive.

30And when they had boldly perpetrated

these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You

have troubled me, and made me hateful to the

Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of

this land. We are few: they will gather them-

selves together and kill me; and both I, and my

house shall be destroyed.

31They answered: Should they abuse our sis-

ter as a strumpet?

Chapter 35

In the mean time God said to Jacob: Arise and

go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there

an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou

didst

ee from Esau, thy brother.

2And Jacob having called together all his

household, said: Cast away the strange gods that

are among you, and be cleansed, and change your

garments.

3Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we

may make there an altar to God; who heard me

in the day of my aiction, and accompained me

in my journey.

4So they gave him all the strange gods they

had, and the earrings which were in their ears:

and he buried them under the turpentine tree,

that is behind the city of Sichem.

5And when they were departed, the terror

of God fell upon all the cities round about, andthey durst not pursue after them as they went

away.

6And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the

land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all

the people that were with him.

7And he built there an altar, and called the

name of that place, The house of God: for there

God appeared to him when he

ed from his

brother.

8At the same time Debora, the nurse of Re-

becca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel,

under an oak, and the name of that place was

called, The oak of weeping.

9And God appeared again to Jacob, after

he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he

blessed him,

10Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more

Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he

called him Israel.

11And said to him: I am God almighty, in-

crease thou and be multiplied. Nations and peo-

ples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall

come out of thy loins.

12And the land which I gave to Abraham and

Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after

thee.

13And he departed from him.

14But he set up a monument of stone, in the

place where God had spoken to him: pouring

drink erings upon it, and pouring oil thereon:

15And calling the name of that place Bethel.

16And going forth from thence, he came in

the spring time to the land which leadeth to

Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,

17By reason of her hard labour, she began to

be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear

not, for thou shalt have this son also.

18And when her soul was departing for pain,

and death was now at hand, she called the name

of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain:46 Book of Genesis

but his father called him Benjamin, that is, the

son of the right hand.

19So Rachel died, and was buried in the high-

way that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem.

20And Jacob erected a pillar over her sepul-

chre: this is the pillar of Rachel's monument, to

this day.
21Departing thence, he pitched his tent be-

yond the Flock tower.

22And when he dwelt in that country, Ruben

went, and slept with Bala the concubine of his

father: which he was not ignorant of. Now the

sons of Jacob were twelve.

23The sons of Lia: Ruben the rst born, and

Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and

Zabulon.

24The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

25The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan

and Nephthali.

26The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid: Gad

and Aser: these are the sons of Jacob, that were

born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

27And he came to Isaac his father in Mam-

bre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein

Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

28And the days of Isaac were a hundred and

eighty years.

29And being spent with age he died, and was

gathered to his people, being old and full of days:

and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Chapter 36

And these are the generations of Esau, the same

is Edom.
2Esau took wives of the daughters of

Chanaan: Ada the daughter of Elon the Hethite,

and Oolibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter

of Sebeon the Hevite:3And Basemath, the daughter of Ismael, sis-

ter of Nabajoth.

4And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore

Rahuel.

5Oolibama bore Jehus, and Ihelon, and Core.

These are the sons of Esau, that were born to

him in the land of Chanaan.

6And Esau took his wives, and his sons and

daughters, and every soul of his house, and his

substance, and cattle, and all that he was able

to acquire in the land of Chanaan: and went into

another country, and departed from his brother

Jacob.

7For they were exceeding rich, and could not

dwell together: neither was the land in which

they sojourned able to bear them, for the multi-

tude of their

ocks.

8And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.

9And these are the generations of Esau, the

father of Edom, in mount Seir.

10And these the names of his sons: Eliphaz

the son of Ada, the wife of Esau: and Rahuel,

the son of Basemath, his wife.

11And Eliphaz had sons: Theman, Omar,

Sepho, and Gatham and Cenez.

12And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz,

the son of Esau: and she bore him Amalech.

These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.

13And the sons of Rahuel were Nahath and

Zara, Samma and Meza. These were the sons of

Basemath, the wife of Esau.

14And these were the sons of Oolibama, the

daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon, the

wife of Esau, whom she bore to him, Jehus, and

Ihelon, and Core.

15These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the

sons of Eliphaz, the rstborn of Esau: duke The-

man, duke Omar, duke Sepho, duke Cenez,

16Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Amalech:

these are the sons of Eliphaz, in the land ofBook of Genesis 47

Edom, and these the sons of Ada.

17And these were the sons of Rahuel, the son

of Esau: duke Nahath, duke Zara, duke Samma,

duke Meza. And these are the dukes of Rahuel,

in the land of Edom: these the sons of Basemath,

the wife of Esau.

18And these the sons of Oolibama, the wife

of Esau: duke Jehus, duke Ihelon, duke Core.

These are the dukes of Oolibama, the daughter

of Ana, and wife of Esau.

19These are the sons of Esau, and these the

dukes of them: the same is Edom.

20These are the sons of Seir, the Horrite, the

inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Sobal, and

Sebeon, and Ana,

21And Dison, and Eser, and Disan. These

are dukes of the Horrites, the sons of Seir, in the

land of Edom.

22And Lotan had sons: Hori and Heman.

And the sister of Lotan was Thamna.

23And these the sons of Sobal: Alvan, and

Manahat, and Ebal, and Sepho, and Onam.

24And these the sons of Sebeon: Aia and

Ana. This is Ana that found the hot waters in

the wilderness, when he fed the asses of Sebeon,

his father:

25And he had a son Dison, and a daughter

Oolibama.

26And these were the sons of Dison: Hamdan,

and Eseban, and Jethram, and Charan.

27These also were the sons of Eser: Balaan,

and Zavan, and Acan.

28And Dison had sons: Hus and Aram.

29These were dukes of the Horrites: duke

Lotan, duke Sobal, duke Sebeon, duke Ana,

30Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these

were dukes of the Horrites that ruled in the land

of Seir.

31And the kings that ruled in the land of

Edom, before the children of Israel had a king,were these:

32Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his

city Denaba.

33And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zara,

of Bosra, reigned in his stead.

34And when Jobab was dead, Husam, of the

land of the Themanites, reigned in his stead.

35And after his death, Adad, the son of

Badad, reigned in his stead, who defeated the

Madianites in the country of Boab; and the name

of his city was Avith.

36And when Adad was dead, there reigned

in his stead, Semla, of Masreca.

37And he being dead, Saul, of the river Ro-

hoboth, reigned in his stead.

38And when he also was dead, Balanan, the

son of Achobor, succeeded to the kingdom.

39This man also being dead, Adar reigned in

his place; and the name of his city was Phau:

and his wife was called Meetabel, the daughter

of Matred, daughter of Mezaab.

40And these are the names of the dukes of

Esau in their kindreds, and places, and callings:

duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,

41Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,

42Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,

43Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the

dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their gov-

ernment; the same is Esau, the father of the

Edomites.

Chapter 37

And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan,

wherein his father sojourned.

2And these are his generations: Joseph, when

he was sixteen years old, was feeding the

ock

with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was

with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's48 Book of Genesis

wives: and he accused his brethren to his father

of a most wicked crime.

3Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons,

because he had him in his old age: and he made

him a coat of divers colours.

4And his brethren seeing that he was loved

by his father, more than all his sons, hated hem,

and could not speak peaceably to him.

5Now it fell out also that he told his brethren

a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned

them to hate him the more.

6And he said to them: Hear my dream which

I dreamed.

7I thought we were binding sheaves in the

eld: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood,

and your sheaves standing about bowed down

before my sheaf.

8His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our

king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion?

Therefore this matter of his dreams and words

ministered nourishment to their envy and ha-

tred.

9He dreamed also another dream, which he

told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as

it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars

worshipping me.

10And when he had told this to his fa-

ther, and brethren, his father rebuked him and

said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast

dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy

brethren worship thee upon the earth?

11His brethren therefore envied him: but his

father considered the thing with himself.

12And when his brethren abode in Sechem,

feeding their father's

ocks,

13Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the

sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them.

And when he answered:

14I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see

if all things be well with thy brethren, and thecattle: and bring me word again what is doing.

So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came

to Sichem:

15And a man found him there wandering in

the eld, and asked what he sought.

16But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell

me where they feed the

ocks.

17And the man said to him: They are de-

parted from this place: for I heard them say:

Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward

after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.

18And when they saw him afar o, before he

came nigh them, they thought to kill him:

19And said one to another: Behold the

dreamer cometh.

20Come, let us kill him, and cast him into

some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast

hath devoured him: and then it shall appear

what his dreams avail him:

21And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to

deliver him out of their hands, and said:

22Do not take away his life, nor shed his

blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the

wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now

he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of

their hands and to restore him to his father.

23And as soon as he came to his brethren,

they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that

was of divers colours:

24And cast him into an old pit where there

was not water.

25And sitting down to eat bread, they

saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from

Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and

balm, and myrrh to Egypt.

26And Juda said to his brethren: What will

it prot us to kill our brother, and conceal his

blood?

27It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites,

and that our hands be not deled: for he is ourBook of Genesis 49

brother and our

esh. His brethren agreed to his

words.

28And when the Madianite merchants passed

by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him

to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and

they led him into Egypt.

29And Ruben returning to the pit, found not

the boy:

30And rending his garments he went to his

brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear,

and whither shall I go?

31And they took his coat, and dipped it in

the blood of a kid, which they had killed:

32Sending some to carry it to their father,

and to say: This we have found: see whether it

be thy son's coat, or not.

33And the father acknowledging it, said: It

is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten

him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.

34And tearing his garments, he put on sack-

cloth, mourning for his son a long time.

35And all his children being gathered to-

gether to comfort their father in his sorrow, he

would not receive comfort, but said: I will go

down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst

he continued weeping,

36The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to

Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the

soldiers.

Chapter 38

At that time Juda went down from his brethren,

and turned in to a certain Odollamite, named

Hiras.

2And he saw there the daughter of a man of

Chanaan, called Sue: and taking her to wife, he

went in unto her.3And she conceived, and bore a son, and

called his name Her.

4And conceiving again, she bore a son, and

called him Onan.

5She bore also a third: whom she called Sela.

After whose birth, she ceased to bear any more.

6And Juda took a wife for Her, his rst born,

whose name was Thamar.

7And Her, the rst born of Juda, was wicked

in the sight of the Lord: and was slain by him.

8Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in

to thy brother's wife and marry her, that thou

mayst raise seed to thy brother.

9He knowing that the children should not be

his, when he went in to his brother's wife, he

spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children

should be born in his brother's name.

10And therefore the Lord slew him, because

he did a detestable thing:

11Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his

daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's

house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid

lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She

went her way, and dwelt in her father's house.

12And after many days were past: the daugh-

ter of Sue the wife of Juda died: and when he

had taken comfort after his mourning, he went

up to Thamnas, to the shearers of his sheep, he

and Hiras the Odollamite, the shepherd of his

ock.

13And it was told Thamar that her father-in-

law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.

14And she put o the garments of her widow-

hood, and took a veil: and changing her dress,

sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas:

because Sela was grown up, and she had not been

married to him.

15When Juda saw her, he thought she was

a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she

should be known.50 Book of Genesis

16And going to her, he said: Suer me to

lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his

daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt

thou give me to enjoy my company?

17He said: I will send thee a kid out of the

ock. And when she said again: I will suer

what thou wilt, if thou give me a pledge, till

thou send what thou promisest.

18Juda said: What wilt thou have for a

pledge? She answered: Thy ring and bracelet,

and the sta which thou holdest in thy hand.

The woman therefore at one copulation con-

ceived.

19And she arose and went her way: and

putting o the apparel which she had taken, put

on the garments of her widowhood.

20And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd, the

Odollamite, that he might receive the pledge

again, which he had given to the woman: but

he, not nding her,

21Asked the men of that place: Where is the

woman that sat in the cross way? And when

they all made answer: There was no harlot in

this place,

22He returned to Juda, and said to him: I

have not found her; moreover, the men of that

place said to me, that there never sat a harlot

there.

23Juda said: Let her take it to herself, surely

she cannot charge us with a lie, I sent the kid

which I promised: and thou didst not nd her.

24And behold, after three months, they told

Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter-in-law,

hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to

have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out

that she may be burnt.

25But when she was led to execution, she

sent to her father in law, saying: By the man, to

whom these things belong, I am with child. See

whose ring, and bracelet, and sta this is.26But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She

is juster than I: because I did not give her to

Sela, my son. However he knew her no more.

27And when she was ready to be brought to

bed, there appeared twins in her womb: and in

the very delivery of the infants, one put forth a

hand, whereon the midwife tied a scarlet thread,

saying:

28This shall come forth the rst.

29But he drawing back his hand, the other

came forth: and the woman said: Why is the

partition divided for thee? and therefore called

his name Phares.

30Afterwards his brother came out, on whose

hand was the scarlet thread: and she called his

name Zara.

Chapter 39

And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and

Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of

the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Is-

maelites, by whom he was brought.

2And the Lord was with him, and he was a

prosperous man in all things: and he dwelt in

his master's house:

3Who knew very well that the Lord was with

him, and made all that he did to prosper in his

hand.

4And Joseph found favour in the sight of his

master, and ministered to him: and being set

over all by him, he governed the house commit-

ted to him, and all things that were delivered to

him:

5And the Lord blessed the house of the Egyp-

tian for Joseph's sake, and multiplied all his sub-

stance, both at home and in the elds.

6Neither knew he any other thing, but the

bread which he ate. And Joseph was of a beau-Book of Genesis 51

tiful countenance, and comely to behold.

7And after many days, his mistress cast her

eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.

8But he in no wise consenting to that wicked

act said to her: Behold, my master hath deliv-

ered all things to me, and knoweth not what he

hath in his own house:

9Neither is there any thing which is not in

my power, or that he hath not delivered to me,

but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do

this wicked thing, and sin against my God?

10With such words as these day by day, both

the woman was importunate with the young

man, and he refused the adultery.

11Now it happened on a certain day, that

Joseph went into the house, and was doing some

business, without any man with him:

12And she catching the skirt of his garment,

said: Lie with me. But he leaving the garment

in her hand,

ed, and went out.

13And when the woman saw the garment in

her hands, and herself disregarded,

14She called to her the men of her house, and

said to them: See, he hath brought in a Hebrew,

to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with me;

and when I cried out,

15And he heard my voice, he left the garment

that I held, and got him out.

16For a proof therefore of her delity, she

kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband

when he returned home:

17And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou

hast brought, came to me to abuse me.

18And when he heard me cry, he left the gar-

ment which I held, and

ed out.

19His master hearing these things, and giving

too much credit to his wife's words, was very

angry,

20And cast Joseph into the prison, where the

king's prisoners were kept, and he was there shutup.

21But the Lord was with Joseph, and having

mercy upon him gave him favour in the sight of

the chief keeper of the prison:

22Who delivered into his hand all the prison-

ers that were kept in custody: and whatsoever

was done, was under him.

23Neither did he himself know any thing, hav-

ing committed all things to him: for the Lord

was with him, and made all that he did to pros-

per.

Chapter 40

After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs,

the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt,

oended their lord.

2And Pharao being angry with them, (now

the one was chief butler, the other chief baker,)

3He sent them to the prison of the commander

of the soldiers, in which Joseph also was prisoner.

4But the keeper of the prison delivered them

to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time

passed, and they were kept in custody.

5And they both dreamed a dream the same

night, according to the interpretation agreeing

to themselves:

6And when Joseph was come into them in the

morning, and saw them sad,

7He asked them, saying: Why is your coun-

tenance sadder today than usual?

8They answered: We have dreamed a dream,

and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And

Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation

belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:

9The chief butler rst told his dream: I saw

before me a vine,

10On which were three branches, which by

little and little sent out buds, and after the blos-52 Book of Genesis

soms brought forth ripe grapes:

11And the cup of Pharao was in my hand:

and I took the grapes, and pressed them into the

cup which I held, and I gave the cup to Pharao.

12Joseph answered: This is the interpretation

of the dream: The three branches, are yet three

days:

13After which Pharao will remember thy ser-

vice, and will restore thee to thy former place:

and thou shalt present him the cup according to

thy oce, as before thou was wont to do.

14Only remember me when it shall be well

with thee, and do me this kindness: to put

Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:

15For I was stolen away out of the land of the

Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast

into the dungeon.

16The chief baker seeing that he had wisely

interpreted the dream, said: I also dreamed a

dream, That I had three baskets of meal upon

my head:

17And that in one basket which was upper-

most, I carried all meats that are made by the

art of baking, and that the birds ate out of it.

18Joseph answered: This is the interpretation

of the dream: The three baskets, are yet three

days:

19After which Pharao will take thy head from

thee, and hang thee on a cross, and the birds

shall tear thy

esh.

20The third day after this was the birthday

of Pharao: and he made a great feast for his

servants, and at the banquet remembered the

chief butler, and the chief baker.

21And he restored the one to his place, to

present him the cup:

22The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the

truth of the interpreter might be shewn.

23But the chief butler, when things prospered

with him, forgot his interpreter.Chapter 41

After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought

he stood by the river,

2Out of which came up seven kine, very beau-

tiful and fat: and they fed in marshy places.

3Other seven also came up out of the river, ill

favoured, and lean

eshed: and they fed on the

very bank of the river, in green places:

4And they devoured them, whose bodies were

very beautiful and well conditioned. So Pharao

awoke.

5He slept again, and dreamed another dream:

Seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk full

and fair:

6Then seven other ears sprung up thin and

blasted,

7And devoured all the beauty of the former.

Pharao awaked after his rest:

8And when morning was come, being struck

with fear, he sent to all the interpreters of Egypt,

and to all the wise men: and they being called

for, he told them his dream, and there was not

any one that could interpret it.

9Then at length the chief butler remember-

ing, said: I confess my sin:

10The king being angry with his servants,

commanded me and the chief baker to be cast

into the prison of the captain of the soldiers.

11Where in one night both of us dreamed a

dream forboding things to come.

12There was there a young man a Hebrew,

servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to

whom we told our dreams,

13And we heard what afterwards the event

of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored

to my oce: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.

14Forthwith at the king's command Joseph

was brought out of the prison, and they shavedBook of Genesis 53

him: and changing his apparel brought him in

to him.

15And he said to him: I have dreamed

dreams, and there is no one that can expound

them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise

at interpreting them:

16Joseph answered: Without me, God shall

give Pharao a prosperous answer.

17So Pharao told what he had dreamed:

Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,

18And seven kine came up out of the river,

exceeding beautiful and full of

esh: and they

grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.

19And behold, there followed these, other

seven kine, so very ill favoured and lean, that

I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:

20And they devoured and consumed the for-

mer,

21And yet gave no mark of their being full:

but were as lean and ill favoured as before. I

awoke, and then fell asleep again,

22And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn

grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair.

23Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung

of the stalk:

24And they devoured the beauty of the for-

mer: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and

there is no man that can expound it.

25Joseph answered: The king's dream is one:

God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to

do.

26The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full

ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain

the same meaning of the dream.

27And the seven lean and thin kine that came

up after them, and the seven thin ears that were

blasted with the burning wind, are seven years

of famine to come:

28Which shall be fullled in this order.29Behold, there shall come seven years of

great plenty in the whole land of Egypt:

30After which shall follow other seven years

of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before

shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume

all the land,

31And the greatness of the scarcity shall de-

stroy the greatness of the plenty.

32And for that thou didst see the second time

a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a

token of the certainty, and that the word of God

cometh to pass, and is fullled speedily.

33Now therefore let the king provide a wise

and industrious man, and make him ruler over

the land of Egypt:

34That he may appoint overseers over all the

countries: and gather into barns the fth part of

the fruits, during the seven fruitful years,

35That shall now presently ensue: and let all

the corn be laid up, under Pharao's hands, and

be reserved in the cities.

36And let it be in readiness, against the

famine of seven years to come, which shall op-

press Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed

with scarcity.

37The counsel pleased Pharao, and all his

servants.

38And he said to them: Can we nd such

another man, that is full of the spirit of God?

39He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God

hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I

nd one wiser and one like unto thee?

40Thou shalt be over my house, and at the

commandment of thy mouth all the people shall

obey: only in the kingly throne will I be above

thee.

41And again Pharao said to Joseph: Behold,

I have appointed thee over the whole land of

Egypt.54 Book of Genesis

42And he took his ring from his own hand,

and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him

a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his

neck.

43And he made him go up into his second

chariot, the crier proclaiming that all should bow

their knee before him, and that they should know

he was made governor over the whole land of

Egypt.

44And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao:

without thy commandment no man shall move

hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

45And he turned his name, and called him

in the Egyptian tongue the saviour of the world.

And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter

of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph

went out to the land of Egypt.

46(Now he was thirty years old when he stood

before king Pharao), and he went round all the

countries of Egypt.

47And the fruitfulness of the seven years

came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves,

was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.

48And all the abundance of grain was laid up

in every city.

49And there was so great abundance of

wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea,

and the plenty exceeded measure.

50And before the famine came, Joseph had

two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of

Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.

51And he called the name of the rstborn

Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget

all my labours, and my father's house.

52And he named the second Ephraim, saying:

God hath made me to grow in the land of my

poverty.

53Now when the seven years of plenty that

had been in Egypt were passed:

54The seven years of scarcity, which Josephhad foretold, began to come: and the famine

prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread

in all the land of Egypt.

55And when there also they began to be fam-

ished, the people cried to Pharao, for food. And

he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that

he shall say to you.

56And the famine increased daily in all the

land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold

to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed

them also.

57And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy

food, and to seek some relief of their want.

Chapter 42

And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt,

said to his sons: Why are ye careless?

2I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt:

Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we

may live, and not be consumed with want.

3So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to

buy corn in Egypt:

4Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Ja-

cob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he

take any harm in the journey.

5And they entered into the land of Egypt with

others that went to buy. For the famine was in

the land of Chanaan.

6And Joseph was governor in the land of

Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the

people. And when his brethren had bowed down

to him,

7And he knew them, he spoke as it were

to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them:

Whence came you? They answered: From the

land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.

8And though he knew his brethren, he was

not known by them.Book of Genesis 55

9And remembering the dreams, which for-

merly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are

spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of

the land.

10But they said: It is not so, my lord; but

thy servants are come to buy food.

11We are all the sons of one man: we are

come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants

go about any evil.

12And he answered them: It is otherwise:

you are come to consider the unfenced parts of

this land.

13But they said: We thy servants are twelve

brethren, the sons of one man in the land of

Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the

other is not living.

14He saith, This is it that I said: You are

spies.

15I shall now presently try what you are: by

the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence,

until your youngest brother come.

16Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall

be in prison, till what you have said be proved,

whether it be true or false: or else by the health

of Pharao you are spies.

17So he put them in prison three days.

18And the third day he brought them out of

prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall

live: for I fear God.

19If you be peaceable men, let one of your

brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your

ways, and carry the corn that you have bought,

unto your houses.

20And bring your youngest brother to me,

that I may nd your words to be true, and you

may not die. They did as he had said.

21And they talked one to another: We de-

serve to suer these things, because we have

sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish

of his soul, when he besought us, and we wouldnot hear: therefore is this aiction come upon

us.

22And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I

say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you

would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.

23And they knew not that Joseph under-

stood, because he spoke to them by an inter-

preter.

24And he turned himself away a little while,

and wept: and returning, he spoke to them.

25And taking Simeon, and binding him in

their presence, he commanded his servants to ll

their sacks with wheat, and to put every man's

money again in their sacks, and to give them

besides provisions for the way: and they did so.

26But they having loaded their asses with the

corn went their way.

27And one of them opening his sack, to give

his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in

the sack's mouth,

28And said to his brethren: My money is

given me again; behold it is in the sack. And

they were astonished, and troubled, and said to

one another: What is this that God hath done

unto us?

29And they came to Jacob their father in the

land of Chanaan, and they told him all things

that had befallen them, saying:

30The lord of the land spoke roughly to us,

and took us to be spies of the country.

31And we answered him: We are peaceable

men, and we mean no plot.

32We are twelve brethren born of one father:

one is not living, the youngest is with our father

in the land of Chanaan.

33And he said to us: Hereby shall I know

that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your

brethren with me, and take ye necessary provi-

sion for your houses, and go your ways,56 Book of Genesis

34And bring your youngest brother to me,

that I may know you are not spies: and you may

receive this man again, that is kept in prison:

and afterwards may have leave to buy what you

will.

35When they had told this, they poured out

their corn, and every man found his money tied

in the mouth of his sack: and all being aston-

ished together,
36Their father Jacob said: You have made

me to be without children: Joseph is not living,

Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will

take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

37And Ruben answered him: Kill my two

sons, if I bring him not again to thee: deliver

him into my hand, and I will restore him to thee.

38But he said: My son shall not go down with

you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone:

if any mischief befall him in the land to which

you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with

sorrow to hell.

Chapter 43

In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all

the land.

2And when they had eaten up all the corn,

which they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said

to his sons: Go again, and buy us a little food.

3Juda answered: The man declared unto us

with the attestation of an oath, saying: You shall

not see my face, unless you bring your youngest

brother with you.

4If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we

will set out together, and will buy necessaries for

thee.

5But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the

man, as we have often said, declared unto us,

saying: You shall not see my face without youryoungest brother.

6Israel said to them: You have done this for

my misery, in that you told him you had also

another brother.

7But they answered: The man asked us in or-

der concerning our kindred: if our father lived:

if we had a brother: and we answered him reg-

ularly, according to what he demanded: could

we know that he would say: Bring hither your

brother with you?

8And Juda said to his father: Send the boy

with me, that we may set forward, and may live:

lest both we and our children perish.

9I take the boy upon me, require him at my

hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him

to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for

ever.

10If delay had not been made, we had been

here again the second time.

11Then Israel said to them: If it must needs

be so, do what you will: take of the best fruits of

the land in your vessels, and carry down presents

to the man, a little balm, and honey, and storax,

myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.

12And take with you double money, and carry

back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps

it was done by mistake.

13And take also your brother, and go to the

man.

14And may my almighty God make him

favourable to you: and send back with you your

brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin:

and as for me I shall be desolate without chil-

dren.

15So the men took the presents, and dou-

ble money, and Benjamin: and went down into

Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

16And when he had seen them, and Benjamin

with them, he commanded the steward of his

house, saying: Bring in the men into the house,Book of Genesis 57

and kill victims, and prepare a feast: because

they shall eat with me at noon.

17He did as he was commanded, and brought

the men into the house.

18And they being much afraid, said there

one to another: Because of the money, which

we carried back the rst time in our sacks, we

are brought in: that he may bring upon us a

false accusation, and by violence make slaves of

us and our asses.

19Wherefore, going up to the steward of the

house, at the door,

20They said: Sir, we desire thee to hear us.

We came down once before to buy food:

21And when we had bought, and were come

to the inn, we opened our sacks, and found our

money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have

now brought again in the same weight.

22And we have brought other money besides,

to buy what we want: we cannot tell who put it

in our bags.

23But he answered: Peace be with you, fear

not: your God, and the God of your father, hath

given you treasure in your sacks. For the money,

which you gave me, I have for good. And he

brought Simeon out to them.

24And having brought them into the house,

he fetched water, and they washed their feet, and

he gave provender to their asses.

25But they made ready the presents, against

Joseph came at noon: for they had heard that

they should eat bread there.

26Then Joseph came in to his house, and they

oered him the presents, holding them in their

hands; and they bowed down with their face to

the ground.

27But he courteously saluting them again,

asked them, saying: Is the old man your father

in health, of whom you told me? Is he yet living?28And they answered: Thy servant our fa-

ther, is in health; he is yet living. And bowing

themselves, they made obeisance to him.

29And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Ben-

jamin, his brother by the same mother, and said:

Is this your young brother, of whom you told me?

And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.

30And he made haste, because his heart was

moved upon his brother, and tears gushed out:

and going into his chamber, he wept.

31And when he had washed his face, coming

out again, he refrained himself, and said: Set

bread on the table.

32And when it was set on, for Joseph apart,

and for his brethren apart, for the Egyptians also

that ate with him apart, (for it is unlawful for

the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they

think such a feast profane):

33They sat before him, the rstborn accord-

ing to his birthright, and the youngest according

to his age. And they wondered very much;

34Taking the messes which they received of

him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so

that it exceeded by ve parts. And they drank,

and were merry with him.

Chapter 44

And Joseph commanded the steward of his

house, saying: Fill their sacks with corn, as much

as they can hold: and put the money of every one

in the top of his sack.

2And in the mouth of the younger's sack put

my silver cup, and the price which he gave for

the wheat. And it was so done.

3And when the morning arose, they were sent

away with their asses.

4And when they were now departed out of the

city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph58 Book of Genesis

sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise,

and pursue after the men: and when thou hast

overtaken them, say to them: Why have you re-

turned evil for good?

5The cup which you have stolen, is that in

which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont

to divine: you have done a very evil thing.

6He did as he had commanded him. And

having overtaken them, he spoke to them the

same words.

7And they answered: Why doth our lord

speak so, as though thy servants had commit-

ted so heinous a fact?

8The money, that we found in the top of our

sacks, we brought back to thee from the land of

Chanaan: how then should it be that we should

steal out of thy lord's house, gold or silver?

9With whomsoever of thy servants shall be

found that which thou seekest, let him die, and

we will be the bondmen of my lord.

10And he said to them: Let it be according

to your sentence: with whomsoever it shall be

found, let him be my servant, and you shall be

blameless.

11Then they speedily took down their sacks

to the ground, and every man opened his sack.

12Which when he had searched, beginning at

the eldest, and ending at the youngest, he found

the cup in Benjamin's sack.

13Then they rent their garments, and loading

their asses again, returned into the town.

14And Juda at the head of his brethren went

in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the

place) and they all together fell down before him

on the ground.

15And he said to them: Why would you do

so? know you not that there is no one like me in

the science of divining.

16And Juda said to him: What shall we an-

swer my lord? or what shall we say, or be ablejustly to allege? God hath found out the iniq-
uity of thy servants: behold, we are all bondmen

to my lord, both we, and he with whom the cup

was found.

17Joseph answered: God forbid that I should

do so: he that stole the cup, he shall be my

bondman: and go you away free to your father.

18Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I

beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a

word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy ser-

vant: for after Pharao thou art.

19My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the

rst time: Have you a father or a brother.

20And we answered thee, my lord: We have

a father an old man, and a young boy, that was

born in his old age; whose brother by the mother

is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and

his father loveth him tenderly.

21And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him

hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.

22We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot

leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.

23And thou saidst to thy servants: Except

your youngest brother come with you, you shall

see my face no more.

24Therefore when we were gone up to thy

servant our father, we told him all that my lord

had said.

25And our father said: Go again, and buy us

a little wheat.

26And we said to him: We cannot go: if our

youngest brother go down with us, we will set

out together: otherwise, without him we dare

not see the man's face.

27Whereunto he answered: You know that

my wife bore me two.

28One went out, and you said: A beast de-

voured him; and hitherto he appeareth not.

29If you take this also, and any thing befall

him in the way, you will bring down my greyBook of Genesis 59

hairs with sorrow unto hell.

30Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our

father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life

dependeth upon the life of him,)

31And he shall see that he is not with us, he

will die, and thy servants shall bring down his

grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

32Let me be thy proper servant, who took

him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I

bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against

my father for ever.

33Therefore I, thy servant, will stay instead

of the boy in the service of my lord, and let the

boy go up with his brethren.

34For I cannot return to my father without

the boy, lest I be a witness of the calamity that

will oppress my father.

Chapter 45

Joseph could no longer refrain himself before

many that stood by: whereupon he commanded

that all should go out, and no stranger be present

at their knowing one another.

2And he lifted up his voice with weeping,

which the Egyptians, and all the house of Pharao

heard.

3And he said to his brethren: I am Joseph:

Is my father yet living? His brethren could not

answer him, being struck with exceeding great

fear.

4And he said mildly to them: Come nearer

to me. And when they were come near him, he

said: I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold

into Egypt.

5Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a

hard case that you sold me into these countries:

for God sent me before you into Egypt for your

preservation.6For it is two years since the famine began to

be upon the land, and ve years more remain,

wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reap-

ing.

7And God sent me before, that you may be

preserved upon the earth, and may have food to

live.

8Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but

by the will of God: who hath made me as it were

a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house,

and governor in all the land of Egypt.

9Make haste, and go ye up to my father, and

say to him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath

made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come

down to me, linger not.

10And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gessen:

and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons,

and thy sons' sons, thy sheep, and thy herds, and

all things that thou hast.

11And there I will feed thee, (for there are

yet ve years of famine remaining) lest both thou

perish, and thy house, and all things that thou

hast.

12Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of my

brother Benjamin, see that it is my mouth that

speaketh to you.

13You shall tell my father of all my glory, and

all things that you have seen in Egypt: make

haste and bring him to me.

14And falling upon the neck of his brother

Benjamin, he embraced him and wept: and Ben-

jamin in like manner wept also on his neck.

15And Joseph kissed all his brethren, and

wept upon every one of them: after which they

were emboldened to speak to him.

16And it was heard, and the fame was spread

abroad in the king's court: The brethren of

Joseph are come; and Pharao with all his family

was glad.

17And he spoke to Joseph that he should give60 Book of Genesis

orders to his brethren, saying: Load your beasts,

and go into the land of Chanaan,

18And bring away from thence your father

and kindred, and come to me; and I will give

you all the good things of Egypt, that you may

eat the marrow of the land.

19Give orders also that they take wagons out

of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their

children and their wives; and say: Take up your

father, and make haste to come with all speed:

20And leave nothing of your household stu;

for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours.

21And the sons of Israel did as they were

bid. And Joseph gave them wagons according to

Pharao's commandment: and provisions for the

way.

22He ordered also to be brought out for every

one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave

three hundred pieces of silver, with ve robes of

the best:

23Sending to his father as much money and

raiment; adding besides, ten he asses, to carry o

all the riches of Egypt, and as many she asses,

carrying wheat and bread for the journey.

24So he sent away his brethren, and at their

departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.

25And they went up out of Egypt, and came

into the land of Chanaan, to their father Jacob.

26And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy

son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of

Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as

it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe

them.

27They, on the other side, told the whole

order of the thing. And when he saw the wagons,

and all that he had sent, his spirit revived,

28And he said: It is enough for me if Joseph,

my son, be yet living: I will go and see him before

I die.Chapter 46

And Israel taking his journey, with all that he

had, came to the well of the oath, and killing

victims there to the God of his father Isaac,

2He heard him, by a vision in the night, call-

ing him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And

he answered him: Lo, here I am.

3God said to him: I am the most mighty God

of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for

I will make a great nation of thee there.

4I will go down with thee thither, and will

bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also

shall put his hands upon thy eyes.

5And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath:

and his sons took him up, with their children and

wives in the wagons, which Pharao had sent to

carry the old man,

6And all that he had in the land of Chanaan:

and he came into Egypt with all his seed;

7His sons, and grandsons, daughters, and all

his ospring together.

8And these are the names of the children of

Israel, that entered into Egypt, he and his chil-

dren. His rstborn Ruben,

9The sons of Ruben: Henoch and Phallu, and

Hesron and Charmi.

10The sons of Simeon: Jamuel and Jamin

and Ahod, and Jachin and Sohar, and Saul, the

son of a woman of Chanaan.

11The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and

Merari.

12The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela,

and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died

in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to

Phares: Hesron and Hamul.

13The sons of Issachar: Thola and Phua, and

Job and Semron.

14The sons of Zabulon: Sared, and Elon, and

Jahelel.Book of Genesis 61

15These are the sons of Lia, whom she bore in

Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina, his daughter.

All the souls of her sons and daughters, thirty-

three.

16The sons of Gad: Sephion and Haggi, and

Suni and Esebon, and Heri and Arodi, and Areli.

17The sons of Aser: Jamne and Jesua, and

Jessuri and Beria, and Sara their sister. The

sons of Beria: Heber and Melchiel.

18These are the sons of Zelpha, whom Laban

gave to Lia, his daughter. And these she bore to

Jacob, sixteen souls.

19The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph

and Benjamin.

20And sons were born to Joseph, in the

land of Egypt, whom Aseneth, the daughter of

Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore him: Man-

asses and Ephraim.

21The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Bechor,

and Asbel and Gera, and Naaman and Echi, and

Ross and Mophim, and Ophim and Ared.

22These are the sons of Rachel, whom she

bore to Jacob: all the souls, fourteen.

23The sons of Dan: Husim.

24The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni,

and Jeser and Sallem.

25These are the sons of Bala, whom Laban

gave to Rachel, his daughter: and these she bore

to Jacob: all the souls, seven.

26All the souls that went with Jacob into

Egypt, and that came out of his thigh, besides

his sons' wives, sixty-six.

27And the sons of Joseph, that were born to

him in the land of Egypt, two souls. All the souls

of the house of Jacob, that entered into Egypt,

were seventy.

28And he sent Juda before him to Joseph, to

tell him; and that he should meet him in Gessen.

29And when he was come thither, Joseph

made ready his chariot, and went up to meethis father in the same place: and seeing him, he

fell upon his neck, and embracing him, wept.

30And the father said to Joseph: Now shall

I die with joy, becuase I have seen thy face, and

leave thee alive.

31And Joseph said to his brethren, and to

all his father's house: I will go up, and will

tell Pharao, and will say to him: My brethren,

and my father's house, that were in the land of

Chanaan, are come to me:

32And the men are shepherds, and their oc-

cupation is to feed cattle; their

ocks, and herds,

and all they have, they have brought with them.

33And when he shall call you, and shall say:

What is your occupation?

34You shall answer: We, thy servants, are

shepherds, from our infancy until now, both we

and our fathers. And this you shall say, that

you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the

Egyptians have all shepherds in abomination.

Chapter 47

Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying:

My father and brethren, their sheep and their

herds, and all that they possess, are come out of

the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in

the land of Gessen.

2Five men also, the last of his brethren, he

presented before the king:

3And he asked them: What is your occu-

pation? They answered: We, thy servants, are

shepherds, both we and our fathers.

4We are come to sojourn in thy land, because

there is no grass for the

ocks of thy servants,

the famine being very grievous in the land of

Chanaan: and we pray thee to give orders that

we thy servants may be in the land of Gessen.62 Book of Genesis

5The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy fa-

ther and thy brethren are come to thee.

6The land of Egypt is before thee: and make

them dwell in the best place, and give them the

land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there

are industrious men among them, make them

rulers over my cattle.

7After this Joseph brought in his father to

the king, and presented him before him: and he

blessed him.

8And being asked by him: How many are the

days of the years of thy life?

9He answered: The days of my pilgrimage

are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil,

and they are not come up to the days of the

pilgrimage of my fathers.

10And blessing the king, he went out.

11But Joseph gave a possession to his fa-

ther and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place

of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had com-

manded.

12And he nourished them, and all his father's

house, allowing food to every one.

13For in the whole world there was want

of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land,

more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;

14Out of which he gathered up all the money

for the corn which they bought, and brought it

in to the king's treasure.

15And when the buyers wanted money, all

Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread:

why should we die in thy presence, having now

no money?

16And he answered them: Bring me your cat-

tle, and for them I will give you food, if you have

no money.

17And when they had brought them, he gave

them food in exchange for their horses, and

sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained

them that year for the exchange of their cattle.18And they came the second year, and said

to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that

our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone:

neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing

now left but our bodies and our lands.

19Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes?

we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy

us to be the king's servants, and give us seed,

lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a

wilderness.

20So Joesph bought all the land of Egypt,

every man selling his possessions, because of the

greatness of the famine. And he brought it into

Pharao's hands:

21And all its people from one end of the bor-

ders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,

22Except the land of the priests, which had

been given them by the king: to whom also a

certain allowance of food was given out of the

public stores, and therefore they were not forced

to sell their possessions.

23Then Joseph said to the people: Behold,

as you see, both you and your lands belong to

Pharao; take seed and sow the elds,

24That you may have corn. The fth part

you shall give to the king; the other four you

shall have for seed, and for food for your families

and children.

25And they answered: our life is in thy hand;

only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we

will gladly serve the king.

26From that time unto this day, in the whole

land of Egypt, the fth part is paid to the kings,

and it is become as a law, except the land of the

priests, which was free from this covenant.

27So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the

land of Gessen, and possessed it; and grew, and

was multiplied exceedingly.

28And he lived in it seventeen years: and all

the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-Book of Genesis 63

seven years.

29And when he saw that the day of his death

drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said

to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put

thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew

me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in

Egypt.

30But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou

shalt take me away out of this land, and bury

me in the burying place of my ancestors. And

Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast

commanded.

31And he said: Swear then to me. And as he

was swearing, Israel adored God, turning to the

bed's head.

Chapter 48
After these things, it was told Joseph that his

father was sick; and he set out to go to him,

taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.

2And it was told the old man: Behold thy son

Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened,

he sat on his bed.

3And when Joseph was come in to him, he

said: God almighty apppeared to me at Luza,

which is in the land of Chanaan, and he blessed

me,

4And said: I will cause thee to increase and

multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of

people: and I will give this land to thee, and to

thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

5So thy two sons, who were born to thee in

the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee,

shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be

reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.

6But the rest whom thou shalt have after

them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the

name of their brethren in their possessions.7For, when I came out of Mesopotamia,

Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in

the very journey, and it was spring time: and I

was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the

way of Ephrata, which by another name is called

Bethlehem.
8Then seeing his sons, he said to him: Who

are these?

9He answered: They are my sons, whom God

hath given me in this place. And he said: Bring

them to me, that I may bless them.

10For Israel's eyes were dim by reason of his

great age, and he could not see clearly. And

when they were brought to him, he kissed and

embraced them,

11And said to his son: I am not deprived of

seeing thee; moreover God hath shewn me thy

seed.

12And when Joseph had taken them from his

father's lap, he bowed down with his face to the

ground.

13And he set Ephraim on his right hand, that

is, towards the left hand of Israel; but Manasses

on his left hand, to wit, towards his father's right

hand, and brought them near to him.

14But he, stretching forth his right hand,

put it upon the head of Ephraim, the younger

brother; and the left upon the head of Manasses,

who was the elder, changing his hands.

15And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and

said: God, in whose sight my fathers Abraham

and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my

youth until this day:

16The angel that delivereth me from all evils,

bless these boys: and let my name be called upon

them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and

Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon

the earth.

17And Joseph seeing that his father had put

his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, was64 Book of Genesis

much displeased: and taking his father's hand,

he tried to lift it from Ephraim's head, and to

remove it to the head of Manasses.

18And he said to his father: It should not be

so, my father; for this is the rstborn, put thy

right hand upon his head.

19But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I

know: and this also shall become a people, and

shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall

be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into

nations.

20And he blessed them at that time, saying:

In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be

said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to

Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.

21And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I

die, and God will be with you, and will bring

you back into the land of your fathers.

22I give thee a portion above thy brethren,

which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite

with my sword and bow.

Chapter 49

And Jacob called his sons, and said to them:

Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you

the things that shall befall you in the last days.

2Gather yourselves together, and hear, O ye

sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel, your father:

3Ruben, my rstborn, thou art my strength,

and the beginning of my sorrow; excelling in

gifts, greater in command.

4Thou art poured out as water, grow thou

not; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed,

and didst dele his couch.

5Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniq-

uity waging war.

6Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor

my glory be in their assembly: because in theirfury they slew a man, and in their selfwill they

undermined a wall.

7Cursed be their fury, because it was stub-

born: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I

will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them

in Israel.

8Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy

hand shall be on the necks of thy enemies; the

sons of thy father shall bow down to thee.

9Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son,

thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as

a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?

10The sceptre shall not be taken away from

Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that

is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of

nations.

11Tying his foal to the vineyard, and his ass,

O my son, to the vine. He shall wash his robe in

wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.

12His eyes are more beautiful than wine, and

his teeth whiter than milk.

13Zabulon shall dwell on the seashore, and in

the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.

14Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down

between the borders.

15He saw rest that it was good: and the land

that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder

to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

16Dan shall judge his people like another

tribe in Israel.

17Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent

in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that

his rider may fall backward.

18I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

19Gad, being girded, shall ght before him:

and he himself shall be girded backward.

20Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall

yield dainties to kings.

21Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving

words of beauty.Book of Genesis 65

22Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and

comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro

upon the wall;

23But they that held darts, provoked him,

and quarrelled with him, and envied him.

24His bow rested upon the strong, and the

bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by

the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he

came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

25The God of thy father shall be thy helper,

and the Almighty shall bless thee with the bless-

ings of heaven above, with the blessings of the

deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the

breasts and of the womb.

26The blessings of thy father are strength-

ened with the blessings of his fathers: until the

desire of the everlasting hills should come: may

they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the

crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

27Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the morning

shall eat the prey, and in the evening shall divide

the spoil.

28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel:

these things their father spoke to them, and he

blessed every one with their proper blessings.

29And he charged them, saying: I am now

going to be gathered to my people: bury me with

my fathers in the double cave, which is in the

eld of Ephron the Hethite,

30Over against Mambre, in the land of

Chanaan, which Abraham bought together with

the eld, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession

to bury in.

31There they buried him, and Sara his wife:

there was Isaac buried with Rebecca, his wife:

there also Lia doth lie buried.

32And when he had ended the command-

ments, wherewith he instructed his sons, he drew

up his feet upon the bed, and died: and he was

gathered to his people.Chapter 50

And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his fa-

ther's face, weeping and kissing him.

2And he commanded his servants, the physi-

cians, to embalm his father.

3And while they were fullling his commands,

there passed forty days: for this was the man-

ner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt

mourned for him seventy days.

4And the time of the mourning being expired,

Joseph spoke to the family of Pharao: If I have

found favour in your sight, speak in the ears of

Pharao:

5For my father made me swear to him, saying:

Behold I die; thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre

which I have digged for myself in the land of

Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father,

and return.

6And Pharao said to him: Go up and bury

thy father according as he made thee swear.

7So he went up, and there went with him all

the ancients of Pharao's house, and all the elders

of the land of Egypt.

8And the house of Joseph with his brethren,

except their children, and their

ocks and herds,

which they left in the land of Gessen.

9He had also in his train chariots and horse-

men: and it was a great company.

10And they came to the threshing

oor

of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan:

where celebrating the exequies with a great and

vehement lamentation, they spent full seven

days.

11And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw

this, they said: This is a great mourning to the

Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place

was called, The mourning of Egypt.

12So the sons of Jacob did as he had com-

manded them.66 Book of Genesis

13And carrying him into the land of

Chanaan, they buried him in the double cave,

which Abraham had bought together with the

eld for a possession of a burying place, of Eh-

pron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.

14And Joseph returned into Egypt with his

brethren, and all that were in his company, after

he had buried his father.

15Now he being dead, his brethren were

afraid, and talked one with another: Lest per-

haps he should remember the wrong he suered,

and requite us all the evil that we did to him.

16And they sent a message to him, saying:

Thy father commanded us before he died,

17That we should say thus much to thee from

him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of

thy brethren, and the sin and malice they prac-

tised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive

the servants of the God of thy father this wicked-

ness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.

18And his brethren came to him; and wor-

shipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We

are thy servants.

19And he answered them: Fear not: can we

resist the will of God?

20You thought evil against me: but God

turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as

at present you see, and might save many people.

21Fear not: I will feed you and your children.

And he comforted them, and spoke gently and

mildly.

22And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's

house; and lived a hundred and ten years. And

he saw the children of Ephraim to the third gen-

eration. The children also of Machir, the sons of

Manasses, were born on Joseph's knees.

23After which he told his brethren: God will

visit you after my death, and will make you go

up out of this land, to the land which he swore

to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.24And he made them swear to him, saying:

God will visit you, carry my bones with you out

of this place:

25And he died, being a hundred and ten years

old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a con

in Egypt.Book of Exodus

Chapter 1

These are the names of the children of Israel,

that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in

every man with his household:

2Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,

3Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,

4Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.

5And all the souls that came out of Jacob's

thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

6After he was dead, and all his brethren, and

all that generation,

7The children of Israel increased, and sprung

up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly

strong they lled the land.

8In the mean time there arose a new king over

Egypt, that knew not Joseph:

9And he said to his people: Behold the peo-

ple of the children of Israel are numerous and

stronger than we.

10Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they

multiply: and if any war shall rise against us,

join with our enemies, and having overcome us,

depart out of the land.

11Therefore he set over them masters of the

works, to aict them with burdens: and they

built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom,

and Ramesses.

12But the more they oppressed them, the

more they were multiplied and increased.

13And the Egyptians hated the children of

Israel, and aicted them and mocked them:14And they made their life bitter with hard

works in clay and brick, and with all manner of

service, wherewith they were overcharged in the

works of the earth.

15And the king of Egypt spoke to the mid-

wives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called

Sephora, the other Phua,

16Commanding them: When you shall do the

oce of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the

time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill

it: if a woman, keep it alive.

17But the midwives feared God, and did not

do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but

saved the men children.

19They answered: The Hebrew women are

not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves

are skilful in the oce of a midwife; and they are

delivered before we come to them.

20Therefore God dealt well with the mid-

wives: and the people multiplied and grew ex-

ceedingly strong.
21And because the midwives feared God, he

built them houses.

22Pharao therefore charged all his people,

saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male

sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of

the female, ye shall save alive.68 Book of Exodus

Chapter 2

After this there went a man of the house of Levi;

and took a wife of his own kindred.

2And she conceived, and bore a son: and

seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.

3And when she could hide him no longer, she

took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it

with slime and pitch: and put the little babe

therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's

brink,

4His sister standing afar o, and taking notice

what would be done.

5And behold the daughter of Pharao came

down to wash herself in the river: and her maids

walked by the river's brink. And when she saw

the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids

for it: and when it was brought,

6She opened it, and seeing within it an infant

crying, having compassion on it, she said: This

is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

7And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go,

and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the

babe?

8She answered: Go. The maid went and

called her mother.

9And Pharao's daughter said to her: Take

this child, and nurse him for me: I will give

thee thy wages. The woman took and nursed

the child: and when he was grown up, she deliv-

ered him to Pharao's daughter.

10And she adopted him for a son, and called

him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of

the water.

11In those days, after Moses was grown up, he

went out to his brethren: and saw their aiction,

and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews, his

brethren.

12And when he had looked about this way

and that way, and saw no one there, he slew theEgyptian and hid him in the sand.

13And going out the next day, he saw two

Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did

the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?

14But he answered: Who hath appointed

thee prince and judge over us? wilt thou kill

me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian?

Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be

known?

15And Pharao heard of this word, and sought

to kill Moses: but he

ed from his sight, and

abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down

by a well.

16And the priest of Madian had seven daugh-

ters, who came to draw water: and when the

troughs were lled, desired to water their father's

ocks.

17And the shepherds came and drove them

away: and Moses arose, and defending the

maids, watered their sheep.

19They answered: A man of Egypt delivered

us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew

water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.

20But he said: Where is he? why have you

let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.

21And Moses swore that he would dwell with

him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

22And she bore him a son, whom he called

Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a for-

eign country. And she bore another, whom he

called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father,

my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of

Pharao.

23Now after a long time the king of Egypt

died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried

out because of the works: and their cry went up

unto God from the works.

24And he heard their groaning, and remem-

bered the covenant which he made with Abra-

ham, Isaac, and Jacob.Book of Exodus 69

25And the Lord looked upon the children of

Israel, and he knew them.

Chapter 3

Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in

law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the

ock

to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the

mountain of God, Horeb.

2And the Lord appeared to him in a

ame of

re out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that

the bush was on re, and was not burnt.

3And Moses said: I will go, and see this great

sight, why the bush is not burnt.

4And when the Lord saw that he went for-

ward to see, he called to him out of the midst

of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he

answered: Here I am.

5And he said: Come not nigh hither, put o

the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon

thou standest, is holy ground.

6And he said: I am the God of thy father,

the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the

God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst

not look at God.

7And the Lord said to him: I have seen the

aiction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard

their cry because of the rigour of them that are

over the works;

8And knowing their sorrow, I am come down

to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyp-

tians, and to bring them out of that land into

a good and spacious land, into a land that

oweth with milk and honey, to the places of the

Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and

Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

9For the cry of the children of Israel is come

unto me: and I have seen their aiction, where-

with they are oppressed by the Egyptians.10But come, and I will send thee to Pharao,

that thou mayst bring forth my people, the chil-

dren of Israel, out of Egypt.

11And Moses said to God: Who am I that I

should go to Pharao, and should bring forth the

children of Israel out of Egypt?

12And he said to him: I will be with thee; and

this thou shalt have for a sign that I have sent

thee: When thou shalt have brought my people

out of Egypt, thou shalt oer sacrice to God

upon this mountain.

13Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the

children of Israel, and say to them: The God of

your fathers hath sent me to you. If they shall

say to me: What is his name? What shall I say

to them?

14God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He

said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Is-

rael: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.

15And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt

thou say to 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 to

you; this is my name for ever, and this is my

memorial unto all generations.

16Go and gather together the ancients of Is-

rael, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God

of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God

of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared

to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I

have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.

17And I have said the word to bring you forth

out of the aiction of Egypt, into the land of the

Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and

Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land

that

oweth with milk and honey.

19But I know that the king of Egypt will not

let you go, but by a mighty hand.

20For I will stretch forth my hand, and will

strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do70 Book of Exodus

in the midst of them: after these he will let you

go.

21And I will give favour to this people, in the

sight of the Egyptians: and when you go forth,

you shall not depart empty:

22But every woman shall ask of her neigh-

bour, and of her that is in her house, vessels of

silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall

put them on your sons and daughters, and shall

spoil Egypt.

Chapter 4

Moses answered, and said: They will not believe

me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The

Lord hath not appeared to thee.

2Then he said to him: What is that thou

holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.

3And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the

ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into

a serpent, so that Moses

ed from it.

4And the Lord said: Put out thy hand, and

take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and

took hold of it, and it was turned into a rod.

5That they may believe, saith he, that the

Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,

the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath

appeared to thee.

6And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into

thy bosom. And when he had put it into his

bosom, he brought it forth leprous as snow.

7And he said: Put back thy hand into thy

bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again,

and it was like the other

esh.

8If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor

hear the voice of the former sign, they will be-

lieve the word of the latter sign.

9But if they will not even believe these two

signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water,and pour it out upon the dry land, and what-

soever thou drawest out of the river, shall be

turned into blood.

10Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not

eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and

since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have

more impediment and slowness of tongue.

11The Lord said to him: Who made man's

mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf,

the seeing and the blind? did not I?

12Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth;

and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.

13But he said: I beseech thee, Lord, send

whom thou wilt send.

14The Lord being angry at Moses, said:

Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know that he is

eloquent: behold he cometh forth to meet thee,

and seeing thee, shall be glad at heart.

15Speak to him, and put my words in his

mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his

month, and will shew you what you must do.

16He shall speak in thy stead to the people,

and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to

him in those things that pertain to God.

17And take this rod in thy hand. wherewith

thou shalt do the signs.

19And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian:

Go, and return into Egypt; for they are all dead

that sought thy life.

20Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons,

and set them upon an ass; and returned into

Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.

21And the Lord said to him as he was return-

ing into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders

before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I

shall harden his heart, and he will not let the

people go.

22And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the

Lord: Israel is my son, my rstborn.Book of Exodus 71

23I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he

may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go:

behold I will kill thy son, thy rstborn.

24And when he was in his journey, in the inn,

the Lord met him, and would have killed him.

25Immediately Sephora took a very sharp

stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son,

and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse

art thou to me.

26And he let him go after she had said: A

bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the

circumcision.

27And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the

desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet

him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.

28And Moses told Aaron all the words of the

Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs

that he had commanded.

29And they came together, and they assem-

bled all the ancients of the children of Israel.

30And Aaron spoke all the words which the

Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the

signs before the people.

31And the people believed. And they heard

that the Lord had visited the children of Israel,

and that he had looked upon their aiction: and

falling down they adored.

Chapter 5

After these things, Moses and Aaron went in,

and said to Pharao: Thus saith the Lord God of

Israel: Let my people go, that they may sacrice

to me in the desert.

2But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I

should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know

not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

3And they said: The God of the Hebrews

hath called us, to go three days' journey into thewilderness, and to sacrice to the Lord our God;

lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.

4The king of Egypt said to them: Why do

you Moses and Aaron draw o the people from

their works? Get you gone to your burdens.

5And Pharao said: The people of the land

are numerous; you see that the multitude is in-

creased; how much more if you give them rest

from their works?

6Therefore he commanded the same day the

overseers of the works, and the task-masters of

the people, saying:

7You shall give straw no more to the people

to make brick, as before; but let them go and

gather straw.

8And you shall lay upon them the task of

bricks, which they did before; neither shall you

diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and

therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrice

to our God.

9Let them be oppressed with works, and let

them full them; that they may not regard lying

words.

10And the overseers of the works, and the

taskmasters, went out and said to the people:

Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;

11Go, and gather it where you can nd it;

neither shall any thing of your work be dimin-

ished.

12And the people was scattered through all

the land of Egypt to gather straw.

13And the overseers of the works pressed

them, saying: Full your work every day, as be-

fore ye were wont to do, when straw was given

you.

14And they that were over the works of the

children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao's

taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made

up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day,

as before?72 Book of Exodus

15And the ocers of the children of Israel

came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why

dealest thou so with thy servants?

16Straw is not given us, and bricks are re-

quired of us as before; behold we, thy servants,

are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly

dealt withal.

17And he said: You are idle, and therefore

you say: Let us go and sacrice to the Lord.

19And the ocers of the children of Israel saw

that they were in evil case, because it was said

to them: There shall not a whit be diminished

of the bricks for every day.

20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood

over against them as they came out from Pharao:

21And they said to them: The Lord see and

judge, because you have, made our savour to

stink before Pharao and his servants, and you

have given him a sword, to kill us.

22And Moses returned to the Lord, and

said: Lord, why hast thou aicted this people?

wherefore hast thou sent me?

23For since the time that I went in to Pharao

to speak in thy name, he hath aicted thy peo-

ple: and thou hast not delivered them.

Chapter 6

2And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am

the Lord

3That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to

Jacob, by the name of God Almighty: and my

name ADONAI I did not shew them.

4And I made a covenant with them, to give

them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pil-

grimage wherein they were strangers.

5I have heard the groaning of the children of

Israel, wherewith the Egyptians have oppressed

them: and I have remembered my covenant.6Therefore say to the children of lsrael: I

am the Lord who will bring you out from the

work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver

you from bondage: and redeem you with a high

arm, and great judgments.

7And I will take you to myself for my people,

I will be your God: and you shall know that I am

the Lord your God, who brought you out from

the work-prison of the Egyptians:

8And brought you into the land, concerning

which I lifted up my hand to give it to Abra-

ham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to

possess: I am the Lord.

9And Moses told all this to the children of

Israel: but they did not hearken to him, for an-

guish of spirit, and most painful work.

10And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

11Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt,

that he let the children of Israel go out of his

land.

12Moses answered before the Lord: Behold

the children of Israel do not hearken to me: and

how will Pharao hear me, especially as I am of

uncircumcised lips?

13And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron,

and he gave them a charge unto the children of

Israel, and unto Pharao the king of Egypt, that

they should bring forth the children of Israel out

of the land of Egypt.

14These are the heads of their houses by their

families. The sons of Ruben the rstborn of Is-

rael: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron and Charmi.

15These are the kindreds of Ruben. The sons

of Simeon, Jamuel and Jamin, and Ahod, and

Jachin, and Soar, and Saul the son of a Chanaan-

itess: these are the families of Simeon.

16And these are the names of the sons of

Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and

Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a

hundred and thirty- seven.Book of Exodus 73

17The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei, by

their kindreds.

19The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi.

These are the kindreds of Levi by their families.

20And Amram took to wife Jochabed his

aunt by the father's side: and she bore him

Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram's

life, were a hundred and thirty-seven.

21The sons also of Isaar: Core, and Nepheg,

and Zechri.

22The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and Eliza-

phan, and Sethri.

23And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the

daughter of Aminadab, sister of Nahason, who

bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and

Ithamar.

24The sons also of Core: Aser, and Elcana,

and Abiasaph. These are the kindreds of the

Corites.

25But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife

of the daughters of Phutiel: and she bore him

Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical

families by their kindreds.

26These are Aaron and Moses, whom the

Lord commanded to bring forth the children of

Israel out of the land of Egypt by their compa-

nies.

27These are they that speak to Pharao, king

of Egypt, in order to bring out the children of

Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and

Aaron,

28In the day when the Lord spoke to Moses

in the land of Egypt.

29And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am

the Lord; speak thou to Pharao, king of Egypt,

all that I say to thee.

30And Moses said before the Lord: Lo I am

of uncircumcised lips, how will Pharao hear me?Chapter 7

And the Lord said to Moses: Behold, I have ap-

pointed thee the god of Pharao; and Aaron, thy

brother, shall be thy prophet.

2Thou shalt speak to him all that I command

thee; and he shall speak to Pharao, that he let

the children of Israel go out of his land.

3But I shall harden his heart, and shall mul-

tiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

4And he will not hear you: and I will lay my

hand upon Egypt, and will bring forth my army

and my people, the children of Israel, out of the

land of Egypt, by very great judgments.

5And the Egyptians shall know that I am the

Lord, who have stretched forth my hand upon

Egypt, and have brought forth the children of

Israel out of the midst of them.

6And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had

commanded; so did they.

7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron

eighty- three, when they spoke to Pharao.

8And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:

9When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs;

thou shalt say to Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast

it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned

into a serpent.

10So Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao,

and did as the Lord had commanded. And

Aaron took the rod before Pharao and his ser-

vants, and it was turned into a serpent.

11And Pharao called the wise men and the

magicians; and they also by Egyptian enchant-

ments and certain secrets, did in like manner.

12And they every one cast down their rods,

and they were turned into serpents: but Aaron's

rod devoured their rods.

13And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he

did not hearken to them, as the Lord had com-

manded.74 Book of Exodus

14And the Lord said to Moses: Pharao's

heart is hardened, he will not let the people go.

15Go to him in the morning, behold he will

go out to the waters: and thou shalt stand to

meet him on the ' bank of the river: and thou

shalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned

into a serpent.

16And thou shalt say to him: The Lord God

of the Hebrews sent me to thee, saying: Let my

people go to sacrice to me in the desert: and

hitherto thou wouldst not hear.

17Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou

shalt know that I am the Lord: behold I will

strike with the rod, that is in my hand, the water

of the river, and it shall be turned into blood.

19The Lord also said to Moses: Say to Aaron,

Take thy rod; and stretch forth thy hand upon

the waters of Egypt, and upon their rivers, and

streams and pools, and all the ponds of waters,

that they may be turned into blood: and let

blood be in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels

of wood and of stone.

20And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had

commanded: and lifting up the rod, he struck

the water of the river before Pharao and his ser-

vants: and it was turned into blood.

21And the shes that were in the river died;

and the river corrupted, and the Egyptians could

not drink the water of the river, and there was

blood in all the land of Egypt.

22And the magicians of the Egyptians with

their enchantments did in like manner; and

Pharao's heart was hardened, neither did he hear

them, as the Lord had commanded.

23And he turned himself away, and went into

his house, neither did he set his heart to it this

time also.

24And all the Egyptians dug round about the

river for water to drink; for they could not drink

of the water of the river.25And seven days were fully ended, after that

the Lord struck the river.

Chapter 8

And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao,

and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord:

Let my people go to sacrice to me.

2But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I

will strike all thy coasts with frogs.

3And the river shall bring forth an abundance

of frogs; which shall come up and enter into thy

house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed,

and into the houses of thy servants, and to thy

people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains

of thy meats:

4And the frogs shall come in to thee, and to

thy people, and to all thy servants.

5And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron:

Stretch forth thy hand upon the streams, and

upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth

frogs upon the land of Egypt.

6And Aaron stretched forth his hand upon

the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up, and

covered the land of Egypt.

7And the magicians also, by their enchant-

ments, did in like manner, and they brought

forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.

8But Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and

said to them: Pray ye to the Lord to take away

the frogs from me and from my people; and I will

let the people go to sacrice to the Lord.

9And Moses said to Pharao: Set me a time

when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants,

and for thy people, that the frogs may be driven

away from thee and from thy house, and from thy

servants, and from thy people; and may remain

only in the river.

10And he answered: To morrow. But he said:Book of Exodus 75

I will do according to thy word; that thou mayest

know that there is none like to the Lord our God.

11And the frogs shall depart from thee, and

from thy house, and from thy servants, and from

thy people; and shall remain only in the river.

12And Moses and Aaron went forth from

Pharao: and Moses cried to the Lord for the

promise, which he had made to Pharao concern-

ing the frogs.

13And the Lord did according to the word of

Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and

out of the villages, and out of the elds:

14And they gathered them together into im-

mense heaps, and the land was corrupted.

15And Pharao seeing that rest was given,

hardened his own heart, and did not hear them,

as the Lord had commanded.

16And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron:

Stretch forth thy rod, and strike the dust of the

earth; and may there be sciniphs in all the land

of Egypt.

17And they did so. And Aaron stretched

forth his hand, holding the rod; and he struck

the dust of the earth, and there came sciniphs

on men and on beasts: all the dust of the earth

was turned into sciniphs through all the land of

Egypt.

19And the magicians said to Pharao: This

is the nger of God. And Pharao's heart was

hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as

the Lord had commanded.

20The Lord also said to Moses: Arise early,

and stand before Pharao; for he will go forth to

the waters: and thou shalt say to him: Thus

saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrice to

me.

21But if thou wilt not let them go, behold I

will send in upon thee, and upon thy servants,

and upon thy houses, all kind of

ies: and the

houses of the Egyptians shall be lled with

iesof divers kinds, and the whole land wherein they

shall be.

22And I will make the land of Gessen won-

derful in that day, so that

ies shall not be there:

and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the

midst of the earth.

23And I will put a division between my peo-

ple and thy people: to morrow shall this sign

be.
24And the Lord did so. And there came a

very grievous swarm of

ies into the houses of

Pharao and of his servants, and into all the land

of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this

kind of

ies.

25And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and

said to them: Go and sacrice to your God in

this land.

26And Moses said: It cannot be so: for we

shall sacrice the abominations of the Egyptians

to the Lord our God: now if we kill those things

which the Egyptians worship, in their presence,

they will stone us.

27We will go three days' journey into the

wilderness; and we will sacrice to the Lord our

God, as he hath commanded us.

28And Pharao said: I will let you go to sacri-

ce to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but

go no farther: pray for me.

29And Moses said: I will go out from thee,

and will pray to the Lord: and the

ies shall

depart from Pharao, and from his servants, and

from his people to morrow: but do not deceive

any more, in not letting the people go to sacrice

to the Lord.

30So Moses went out from Pharao, and

prayed to the Lord.

31And he did according to his word: and he

took away the

ies from Pharao, and from his

servants, and from his people: there was not left

so much as one.76 Book of Exodus

32And Pharao's heart was hardened, so that

neither this time would he let the people go.

Chapter 9

And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao,

and speak to him: Thus saith the Lord God of

the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrice to

me.

2But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:

3Behold my hand shall be upon thy elds;

and a very grievous murrain upon thy horses,

and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.

4And the Lord will make a wonderful dier-

ence between the possessions of Israel and the

possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all

shall die of those things that belong to the chil-

dren of Israel.

5And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To

morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land.

6The Lord therefore did this thing the next

day: and all the beasts of the Egyptians died,

but of the beasts of the children of Israel there

died not one.

7And Pharao sent to see; and there was not

any thing dead of that which Israel possessed.

And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did

not let the people go.

8And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:

Take to you handfuls of ashes out of the chim-

ney, and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the

presence of Pharao.

9And be there dust upon all the land of

Egypt: for there shall be boils and swelling blains

both in men and beasts, in the whole land of

Egypt.

10And they took ashes out of the chimney,

and stood before Pharao, and Moses sprinkled

it in the air; and there came boils with swellingblains in men and beasts.

11Neither could the magicians stand before

Moses, for the boils that were upon them, and

in all the land of Egypt.

12And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart,

and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord

had spoken to Moses.

13And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the

morning, and stand before Pharao, and thou

shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord, the God

of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrice to

me.

14For I will at this time send all my plagues

upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon

thy people; that thou mayst know that there is

none like me in all the earth.

15For now I will stretch out my hand to strike

thee, and thy people, with pestilence, and thou

shalt perish from the earth.

16And therefore have I raised thee, that I

may shew my power in thee, and my name may

be spoken of throughout all the earth.

17Dost thou yet hold back my people; and

wilt thou not let them go?

19Send therefore now presently, and gather

together thy cattle, and all that thou hast in

the eld; for men and beasts, and all things that

shall be found abroad, and not gathered together

out of the elds which the hail shall fall upon,

shall die.

20He that feared the word of the Lord among

Pharao's servants, made his servants and his cat-

tle
ee into houses:

21But he that regarded not the word of the

Lord, left his servants, and his cattle in the elds.

22And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth

thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail

in the whole land of Egypt upon men, and upon

beasts, and upon every herb of the eld in the

land of Egypt.Book of Exodus 77

23And Moses stretched forth his rod towards

heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and

lightnings running along the ground: and the

Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

24And the hail and re mixt with it drove on

together: and it was of so great bigness, as never

before was seen in the whole land of Egypt since

that nation was founded.

25And the hail destroyed through all the land

of Egypt all things that were in the elds, both

man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of

the eld, and it broke every tree of the country.

26Only in the land of Gessen, where the chil-

dren of Israel were, the hail fell not.

27And Pharao sent and called Moses and

Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned this time

also, the Lord is just: I and my people, are

wicked.
28Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings

of God and the hail may cease: that I may let

you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.

29Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the

city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord,

and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall

be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth

is the Lord's:

30But I know that neither thou, nor thy ser-

vants do yet fear the Lord God.

31The

ax therefore, and the barley were

hurt, because the barley was green, and the

ax

was now bolled;

32But the wheat, and other winter corn were

not hurt, because they were lateward.

33And when Moses was gone from Pharao

out of the city, he stretched forth his hands to

the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased,

neither did there drop any more rain upon the

earth.

34And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the

hail, and the thunders were ceased, increased hissin:

35And his heart was hardened, and the heart

of his servants, and it was made exceeding hard:

neither did he let the children of Israel go, as the

Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.

Chapter 10

And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao;

for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of

his servants: that I may work these my signs in

him,

2And thou mayst tell in the ears of thy sons,

and of thy grandsons, how often I have plagued

the Egyptians, and wrought my signs amongst

them: and you may know that I am the Lord.

3Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to

Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord

God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to

submit to me? let my people go, to sacrice to

me.

4But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go,

behold I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into

thy coasts;

5To cover the face of the earth, that nothing

thereof may appear, but that which the hail hath

left may be eaten: for they shall feed upon all the

trees that spring in the elds.

6And they shall ll thy houses, and the houses

of thy servants, and of all the Egyptians: such

a number as thy fathers have not seen, nor thy

grandfathers, from the time they were rst upon

the earth, until this present day. And he turned

himself away, and went forth from Pharao.

7And Pharao's servants said to him: How

long shall we endure this scandal? Iet the men

go to sacrice to the Lord their God. Dost thou

not see that Egypt is undone?

8And they called back Moses, and Aaron, to78 Book of Exodus

Pharao; and he said to them: Go, sacrice to the

Lord your God: who are they that shall go?

9Moses said: We will go with our young and

old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep

and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our

God.

10And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with

you, as I shall let you and your children go: who

can doubt but that you intend some great evil?

11It shall not be so. but go ye men only,

and sacrice to the Lord: for this yourselves also

desired. And immediately they were cast out

from Pharao's presence.

12And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth

thy hand upon the land of Egypt unto the locust,

that it come upon it, and devour every herb that

is left after the hail.

13And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the

land of Egypt: and the Lord brought a burning

wind all that day, and night; and when it was

morning, the burning wind raised the locusts.

14And they came up over the whole land of

Egypt; and rested in all the coasts of the Egyp-

tians, innumerable, the like as had not been be-

fore that time, nor shall be hereafter.

15And they covered the whole face of the

earth, wasting all things. And the grass of the

earth was devoured, and what fruits soever were

on the trees, which the hail had left; and there

remained not any thing that was green on the

trees, or in the herbs of the earth, in all Egypt.

16Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses

and Aaron, and said to them: I have sinned

against the Lord your God, and against you.

17But now forgive me my sin this time also,

and pray to the Lord your God, that he take

away from me this death.

19And he made a very strong wind to blow

from the west, and it took the locusts and cast

them into the Red Sea: there remained not somuch as one in all the coasts of Egypt.

20And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart,

neither did he let the children of Israel go.

21And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out

thy hand towards heaven: and may there be

darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that

it may be felt.

22And Moses stretched forth his hand to-

wards heaven: and there came horrible darkness

in all the land of Egypt for three days.

23No man saw his brother, nor moved himself

out of the place where he was: but wheresoever

the children of Israel dwelt, there was light.

24And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and

said to them: Go, sacrice to the Lord: let your

sheep only, and herds remain, let your children

go with you.

25Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacri-

ces and burnt-oerings, to the Lord our God.

26All the

ocks shall go with us; there shall

not a hoof remain of them: for they are necessary

for the service of the Lord our God: especially as

we know not what must be oered, till we come

to the very place.

27And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart,

and he would not let them go.

28And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from

me, and beware thou see not my face any more:

in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight,

thou shalt die.

29Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast

spoken, I will not see thy face anymore.

Chapter 11

And the Lord said to Moses: Yet one plague

more will I bring upon Pharao and Egypt, and

after that he shall let you go, and thrust you out.

2Therefore thou shalt tell all the people, thatBook of Exodus 79

every man ask of his friend, and every woman of

her neighbour, vessels of silver and of gold.

3And the Lord will give favour to his people

in the sight of the Egyptians. And Moses was a

very great man in the land of Egypt, in the sight

of Pharao's servants, and of all the people.

4And he said: Thus saith the Lord: At mid-

night I will enter into Egypt:

5And every rstborn in the land of the Egyp-

tians shall die, from the rstborn of Pharao who

sitteth on his throne, even to the rstborn of the

handmaid that is at the mill, and all the rst-

born of beasts.

6And there shall be a great cry in all the land

of Egypt, such as neither hath been before, nor

shall be hereafter.

7But with all the children of Israel there shall

not a dog make the least noise, from man even to

beast; that you may know how wonderful a dif-

ference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians

and Israel.

8And all these thy servants shall come down

to me, and shall worship me, saying: Go forth

thou, and all the people that is under thee: after

that we will go out.

9And he went out from Pharao exceeding an-

gry. But the Lord said to Moses: Pharao will

not hear you, that many signs may be done in

the land of Egypt.

10And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders

that are written, before Pharao. And the Lord

hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the

children of Israel go out of his land.

Chapter 12

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the

land of Egypt:

2This month shall be to you the beginning ofmonths; it shall be the rst in the months of the

year.

3Speak ye to the whole assembly of the chil-

dren of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth

day of this month let every man take a lamb by

their families and houses.

4But if the number be less than may suce

to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neigh-

bour that joineth to his house, according to the

number of souls which may be enough to eat the

lamb.

5And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a

male, of one year; according to which rite also

you shall take a kid.

6And you shall keep it until the fourteenth

day of this month; and the whole multitude

of the children of Israel shall sacrice it in the

evening.

7And they shall take of the blood thereof, and

put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper

door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat

it.

8And they shall eat the

esh that night

roasted at the re, and unleavened bread with

wild lettuce.

9You shall not eat thereof any thing raw,

nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the re;

you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails

thereof.

10Neither shall there remain any thing of it

until morning. If there be any thing left, you

shall burn it with re.

11And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird

your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet,

holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat

in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage)

of the Lord.

12And I will pass through the land of Egypt

that night, and will kill every rstborn in the

land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against80 Book of Exodus

all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I

am the Lord.

13And the blood shall be unto you for a sign

in the houses where you shall be; and I shall

see the blood, and shall pass over you; and the

plague shall not be upon you to destroy you,

when I shall strike the land of Egypt.

14And this day shall be for a memorial to you;

and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your

generations, with an everlasting observance.

15Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread:

in the rst day there shall be no leaven in your

houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened,

from the rst day until the seventh day, that soul

shall perish out of Israel.

16The rst day shall be holy and solemn, and

the seventh day shall be kept with the like solem-

nity: you shall do no work in them, except those

things that belong to eating.

17And you shall observe the feast of the un-

leavened bread: for in this same day I will bring

forth your army out of the land of Egypt, and

you shall keep this day in your generations by a

perpetual observance.

19Seven days there shall not be found any

leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened

bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly

of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the

land.

20You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all

your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.

21And Moses called all the ancients of the

children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a

lamb by your families, and sacrice the Phase.

22And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood

that is at the door, and sprinkle the transom of

the door therewith, and both the door cheeks:

let none of you go out of the door of his house

till morning.

23For the Lord will pass through striking theEgyptians: and when he shall see the blood on

the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass

over the door of the house, and not suer the

destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt

you.

24Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee

and thy children for ever.

25And when you have entered into the

land which the Lord will give you, as he hath

promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.

26And when your children shall say to you:

What is the meaning of this service?

27You shall say to them: It is the victim of

the passage of the Lord, when he passed over the

houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, striking

the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the

people bowing themselves, adored.

28And the children of Israel going forth, did

as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

29And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord

slew every rstborn in the land of Egypt, from

the rstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne,

unto the rstborn of the captive woman that was

in the prison, and all the rstborn of cattle.

30And Pharao arose in the night, and all his

servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great

cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein

there lay not one dead.

31And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in

the night, said: Arise and go forth from among

my people, you and the children of Israel: go,

sacrice to the Lord as you say.

32Your sheep and herds take along with you,

as you demanded, and departing bless me.

33And the Egyptians pressed the people to go

forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall

all die.

34The people therefore took dough before it

was leavened; and tying it in their cloaks, put it

on their shoulders.Book of Exodus 81

35And the children of Israel did as Moses had

commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians

vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment.

36And the Lord gave favour to the people in

the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto

them: and they stripped the Egyptians.

37And the children of Israel set forward from

Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred

thousand men on foot, beside children.

38And a mixed multitude, without number,

went up also with them, sheep and herds, and

beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

39And they baked the meal, which a little

before they had brought out of Egypt in dough:

and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it

could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing

them to depart, and not suering them to make

any stay; neither did they think of preparing any

meat.
40And the abode of the children of Israel that

they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty

years.

41Which being expired, the same day all the

army of the Lord went forth out of the land of

Egypt.

42This is the observable night of the Lord,

when he brought them forth out of the land of

Egypt: this night all the children of Israel must

observe in their generations.

43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:

This is the service of the Phase; no foreigner shall

eat of it.

44But every bought servant shall be circum-

cised, and so shall eat.

45The stranger and the hireling shall not eat

thereof.

46In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall

you carry forth of the

esh thereof out of the

house, neither shall you break a bone thereof.47All the assembly of the children of Israel

shall keep it.

48And if any stranger be willing to dwell

among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord,

all his males shall rst be circumcised, and then

shall he celebrate it according to the manner:

and he shall be as he that is born in the land:

but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not

eat thereof.

49The same law shall be to him that is born

in the land, and to the proselyte that sojourneth

with you.

50And all the children of Israel did as the

Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

51And the same day the Lord brought forth

the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by

their companies.

Chapter 13

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Sanctify unto me every rstborn that

openeth the womb among the children of Israel,

as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.

3And Moses said to the people: Remember

this day in which you came forth out of Egypt,

and out of the house of bondage, for with a

strong hand hath the Lord brought you forth out

of this place: that you eat no leavened bread.

4This day you go forth in the month of new

corn.

5And when the Lord shall have brought thee

into the land of the Chanaanite, and the Het-

hite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and

the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that

he would give thee, a land that

oweth with milk

and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of

sacred rites in this month.

6Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread:82 Book of Exodus

and on the seventh day shall be the solemnity of

the Lord.

7Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days:

there shall not be seen any thing leavened with

thee, nor in all thy coasts.

8And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, say-

ing: This is what the Lord did to me when I

came forth out of Egypt.

9And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and

as a memorial before thy eyes; and that the law

of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with a

strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of

the land of Egypt.

10Thou shalt keep this observance at the set

time from days to days.

11And when the Lord shall have brought thee

into the land of the Chanaanite, as he swore to

thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee:

12Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the

womb for the Lord, and all that is rst brought

forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of

the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.

13The rstborn of an ass thou shalt change

for a sheep: and if thou do not redeem it, thou

shalt kill it. And every rstborn of men thou

shalt redeem with a price.

14And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow,

saying: What is this? thou shalt answer him:

With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth

out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of

bondage.

15For when Pharao was hardened, and would

not let us go, the Lord slew every rstborn in the

land of Egypt, from the rstborn of man to the

rstborn of beasts: therefore I sacrice to the

Lord all that openeth the womb of the male sex,

and all the rstborn of my sons I redeem.

16And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and

as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remem-

brance: because the Lord hath brought us forthout of Egypt by a strong hand.

17And when Pharao had sent out the people,

the Lord led them not by the way of the land

of the Philistines, which is near; thinking lest

perhaps they would repent, if they should see

wars arise against them, and would return into

Egypt.
19And Moses took Joseph's bones with him:

because he had adjured the children of Israel,

saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones

from hence with you.

20And marching from Socoth, they encamped

in Etham, in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.

21And the Lord went before them to shew the

way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night

in a pillar of re; that he might be the guide of

their journey at both times.

22There never failed the pillar of the cloud

by day, nor the pillar of re by night, before the

people.

Chapter 14

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel: Let them

turn and encamp over against Phihahiroth,

which is between Magdal and the sea over

against Beelsephon: you shall encamp before it

upon the sea.

3And Pharao will say of the children of Israel:

They are straitened in the land, the desert hath

shut them in.

4And I shall harden his heart and he will pur-

sue you: and I shall be gloried in Pharao, and

in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know

that I am the Lord. And they did so.

5And it was told the king of the Egyptians

that the people was

ed: and the heart of Pharao

and of his servants was changed with regard toBook of Exodus 83

the people, and they said: What meant we to

do, that we let Israel go from serving us?

6So he made ready his chariot, and took all

his people with him.

7And he took six hundred chosen chariots,

and all the chariots that were in Egypt: and the

captains of the whole army.

8And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao,

king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Is-

rael; but they were gone forth in a mighty hand.

9And when the Egyptians followed the steps

of them who were gone before, they found them

encamped at the sea side: all Pharao's horse and

chariots and the whole army were in Phihahi-

roth, before Beelsephon.

10And when Pharao drew near, the children

of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians

behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and

cried to the Lord.

11And they said to Moses: Perhaps there

were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast

brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst

thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?

12Is not this the word that we spoke to thee

in Egypt, saying: Depart from us, that we may

serve the Egyptians? for it was much better to

serve them, than to die in the wilderness.

13And Moses said to the people: Fear not:

stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord,

which he will do this day; for the Egyptians,

whom you see now, you shall see no more for

ever.

14The Lord will ght for you, and you shall

hold your peace.

15And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest

thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel to

go forward.

16But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth

thy hand over the sea, and divide it: that the

children of Israel may go through the midst ofthe sea on dry ground.

17And I will harden the heart of the Egyp-

tians to pursue you: and I will be gloried in

Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots

and in his horsemen.

19And the angel of God, who went before

the camp of Israel, removing, went behind them:

and together with him the pillar of the cloud,

leaving the forepart,

20Stood behind, between the Egyptians'

camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark

cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they

could not come at one another all the night.

21And when Moses had stretched forth his

hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a

strong and burning wind blowing all the night,

and turned it into dry ground: and the water

was divided.

22And the children of Israel went in through

the midst of the sea dried up; for the water was

as a wall on their right hand and on their left.

23And the Egyptians pursuing went in after

them, and all Pharao's horses, his chariots and

horsemen, through the midst of the sea.

24And now the morning watch was come, and

behold the Lord looking upon the Egyptian army

through the pillar of re and of the cloud, slew

their host.

25And overthrew the wheels of the chariots,

and they were carried into the deep. And the

Egyptians said: Let us

ee from Israel; for the

Lord ghteth for them against us.

26And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth

thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come

again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots

and horsemen.

27And when Moses had stretched forth his

hand towards the sea, it returned at the rst

break of day to the former place: and as the

Egyptians were

eeing away, the waters came84 Book of Exodus

upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the

middle of the waves.

28And the waters returned, and covered the

chariots and the horsemen of all the army of

Pharao, who had come into the sea after them,

neither did there so much as one of them remain.

29But the children of Israel marched through

the midst of the sea upon dry land, and the wa-

ters were to them as a wall on the right hand

and on the left:

30And the Lord delivered Israel in that day

out of the hands of the Egyptians.

31And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the

sea shore, and the mighty hand that the Lord

had used against them: and the people feared

the Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses

his servant.

Chapter 15
Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this

canticle to the Lord, and said: Let us sing to the

Lord: for he is gloriously magnied, the horse

and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.

2The Lord is my strength and my praise, and

he is become salvation to me: he is my God, and

I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I

will exalt him.

3The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is

his name.

4Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast

into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in

the Red Sea.

5The depths have covered them, they are

sunk to the bottom like a stone.

6Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnied in

strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the

enemy.

7And in the multitude of thy glory thou hastput down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy

wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble.

8And with the blast of thy anger the waters

were gathered together: the

owing water stood,

the depths were gathered together in the midst

of the sea.

9The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake,

I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its ll:

I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

10Thy wind blew and the sea covered them:

they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

11Who is like to thee, among the strong, O

Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness,

terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?

12Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the

earth swallowed them.

13In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to

the people which thou hast redeemed: and in

thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy

habitation.

14Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows

took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.

15Then were the princes of Edom troubled,

trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all

the inhabitants of Chanaan became sti.

16Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the

greatness of thy arm: let them become immove-

able as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass

by: until this thy people pass by, which thou

hast possessed.

17Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them

in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most

rm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord;

thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have

established.

19For Pharao went in on horseback with his

chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord

brought back upon them the waters of the sea:

but the children of Israel walked on dry ground

in the midst thereof.Book of Exodus 85

20So Mary the prophetess, the sister of

Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the

women went forth after her with timbrels and

with dances.

21And she began the song to them, saying:

Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously mag-

nied, the horse and his rider he hath thrown

into the sea.

22And Moses brought Israel from the Red

Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of

Sur: and they marched three days through the

wilderness, and found no water.

23And they came into Mara, and they could

not drink the waters of Mara because they were

bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable

to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.

24And the people murmured against Moses,

saying: What shall we drink?

25But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed

him a tree, which when he had cast into the wa-

ters, they were turned into sweetness. There he

appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and

there he proved him,

26Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of

the Lord thy God, and do what is right before

him, and obey his commandments, and keep all

his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon

Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord

thy healer.

27And the children of Israel came into Elim,

where there were twelve fountains of water, and

seventy palm trees: and they encamped by the

waters.

Chapter 16

And they set forward from Elim, and all the

multitude of the children of Israel came into the

desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai:the fteenth day of the second month, after they

came out of the land of Egypt.

2And all the congregation of the children of

Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the

wilderness.

3And the children of Israel said to them:

Would to God we had died by the hand of the

Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the

eshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have

you brought us into this desert, that you might

destroy all the multitude with famine?

4And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will

rain bread from heaven for you; let the people

go forth, and gather what is sucient for every

day: that I may prove them whether they will

walk in my law, or not.

5But the sixth day let them provide for to

bring in: and let it be double to that they were

wont to gather every day.

6And Moses and Aaron said to the children

of Israel In the evening you shall know that the

Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of

Egypt:

7And in the morning you shall see the glory

of the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring

against the Lord: but as for us, what are we,

that you mutter against us?

8And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will

give you

esh to eat, and in the morning bread

to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings,

with which you have murmured against him, for

what are we? your murmuring is not against us,

but against the Lord.

9Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole

congregation of the children of Israel: Come be-

fore the Lord; for he hath heard your murmuring.

10And when Aaron spoke to all the assem-

bly of the children of Israel, they looked towards

the wilderness; and behold the glory of the Lord

appeared in a cloud.86 Book of Exodus

11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12I have heard the murmuring of the children

of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall

eat

esh, and in the morning you shall have your

ll of bread; and you shall know that I am the

Lord your God.

13So it came to pass in the evening, that

quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the

morning a dew lay round about the camp.

14And when it had covered the face of the

earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and

as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar

frost on the ground.

15And when the children of Israel saw it, they

said one to another: Manhu! which signieth:

What is this! for they knew not what it was.

And Moses said to them: This is the bread which

the Lord hath given you to eat.

16This is the word that the Lord hath com-

manded: Let every one gather of it as much as is

enough to eat; a gomor for every man, according

to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent,

so shall you take of it.

17And the children of Israel did so: and they

gathered, one more, another less.

19And Moses said to them: Let no man leave

thereof till the morning.

20And they hearkened not to him, but some

of them left until the morning, and it began to

be full of worms, and it putried, and Moses was

angry with them.

21Now every one of them gathered in the

morning, as much as might suce to eat: and

after the sun grew hot, it melted.

22But on the sixth day they gathered twice

as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all

the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses.

23And he said to them: This is what the Lord

hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sab-

bath sanctied to the Lord. Whatsoever workis to be done, do it; and the meats that are to

be dressed, dress them; and whatsoever shall re-

main, lay it up until the morning.

24And they did so as Moses had commanded,

and it did not putrify, neither was there worm

found in it.

25And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it

is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be

found in the eld.

26Gather it six days; but on the seventh day

is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not

be found.

27And the seventh day came; and some of

the people going forth to gather, found none.

28And the Lord said to Moses: How long will

you refuse to keep my commandments, and my

law?

29See that the Lord hath given you the sab-

bath, and for this reason on the sixth day he

giveth you a double provision: let each man stay

at home, and let none go forth out of his place

the seventh day.

30And the people kept the sabbath on the

seventh day.

31And the house of Israel called the name

thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed,

white, and the taste thereof like to

our with

honey.

32And Moses said: This is the word which the

Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and

let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter;

that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed

you in the wilderness when you were brought

forth out of the land of Egypt.

33And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel,

and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can

hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep unto

your generations,

34As the Lord commanded Moses. And

Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.Book of Exodus 87

35And the children of Israel ate manna forty

years, till they came to a habitable land: with

this meat were they fed, until they reached the

borders of the land of Chanaan.

36Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.

Chapter 17

Then all the multitude of the children of Israel

setting forward from the desert of Sin, by their

mansions, according to the word of the Lord, en-

camped in Raphidim, where there was no water

for the people to drink.

2And they chode with Moses, and said: Give

us water, that we may drink. And Moses an-

swered them: Why chide you with me? Where-

fore do you tempt the Lord?

3So the people were thirsty there for want

of water, and murmured against Moses, saying:

Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt,

to kill us and our children, and our beasts with

thirst?

4And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What

shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and

they will stone me.

5And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the

people, and take with thee of the ancients of Is-

rael: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith

thou didst strike the river, and go.

6Behold I will stand there before thee, upon

the rock Horeb, and thou shalt strike the rock,

and water shall come out of it that the people

may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of

Israel:

7And he called the name of that place Temp-

tation, because of the chiding of the children of

Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, say-

ing: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

8And Amalec came, and fought against Israelin Raphidim.

9And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men;

and go out and ght against Amalec: tomorrow

I will stand on the top of the hill, having the rod

of God in my hand.

10Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he

fought against Amalec; but Moses, and Aaron,

and Hur, went up upon the top of the hill.

11And when Moses lifted up his hands, Is-

rael overcame; but if he let them down a little,

Amalec overcame.

12And Moses's hands were heavy: so they

took a stone, and put under him, and he sat on

it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on

both sides. And it came to pass, that his hands

were not weary until sunset.

13And Josue put Amalec and his people to

ight, by the edge of the sword.

14And the Lord said to Moses: Write this

for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the

ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of

Amalec from under heaven.

15And Moses built an altar; and called the

name thereof, The Lord, my exaltation, saying:

16Because the hand of the throne of the Lord,

and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec,

from generation to generation.

Chapter 18

And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kins-

man of Moses, had heard all the things that God

had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and

that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of

Egypt:

2He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom

he had sent back:

3And her two sons, of whom one was called

Gersam: his father saying, I have been a stranger88 Book of Exodus

in a foreign country.

4And the other Eliezer: For the God of my

father, said he, is my helper, and hath delivered

me from the sword of Pharao.

5And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came

with his sons, and his wife to Moses into the

desert, where he was camped by the mountain

of God.

6And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro,

thy kinsman, come to thee, and thy wife, and thy

two sons with her.

7And he went out to meet his kinsman, and

worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted

one another with words of peace. And when he

was come into the tent,

8Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord

had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour

of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen

them in the journey, and that the Lord had de-

livered them.
9And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things

that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had

delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians.

10And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath

delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt.

11Now I know, that the Lord is great above

all gods; because they dealt proudly against

them.

12So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, oered

holocausts and sacrices to God: and Aaron and

all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with

him before God.

13And the next day Moses sat to judge the

people, who stood by Moses from morning until

night.

14And when his kinsman had seen all things

that he did among the people, he said: What is

it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest

thou alone, and all the people wait from morning

till night?15And Moses answered him: The people

come to me to seek the judgment of God?

16And when any controversy falleth out

among them, they come to me to judge between

them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his

laws.

17But he said: The thing thou dost is not

good.

19But hear my words and counsels, and God

shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those

things that pertain to God, to bring their words

to him:

20And to shew the people the ceremonies,

and the manner of worshipping; and the way

wherein they ought to walk, and the work that

they ought to do.

21And provide out of all the people able men,

such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and

that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of

thousands, and of hundreds, and of fties, and

of tens,

22Who may judge the people at all times:

and when any great matter soever shall fall out,

let them refer it to thee, and let them judge the

lesser matters only: that so it may be lighter for

thee, the burden being shared out unto others.

23If thou dost this, thou shalt full the com-

mandment of God, and shalt be able to bear his

precepts: and all this people shall return to their

places with peace.

24And when Moses heard this, he did all

things that he had suggested unto him.

25And choosing able men out of all Israel, he

appointed them rulers of the people, rulers over

thousands, and over hundreds, and over fties,

and over tens.

26And they judged the people at all times:

and whatsoever was of greater diculty they re-

ferred to him, and they judged the easier cases

only.Book of Exodus 89

27And he let his kinsman depart: and he

returned and went into his own country.

Chapter 19

In the third month of the departure of Israel out

of the land of Egypt, on this day they came into

the wilderness of Sinai:

2For departing out of Raphidim, and coming

to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the same

place, and there Israel pitched their tents over

against the mountain.

3And Moses went up to God; and the Lord

called unto him from the mountain, and said:

Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and

tell the children of Israel:

4You have seen what I have done to the Egyp-

tians, how I have carried you upon the wings of

eagles, and have taken you to myself.

5If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep

my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession

above all people: for all the earth is mine.

6And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom,

and a holy nation. These are the words thou

shalt speak to the children of Israel.

7Moses came; and calling together the elders

of the people, he declared all the words which

the Lord had commanded.

8And all the people answered together: All

that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And

when Moses had related the people's words to

the Lord,

9The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come to

thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the people

may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe

thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the

people to the Lord.

10And he said to him: Go to the people, and

sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and letthem wash their garments.

11And let them be ready against the third

day; for on the third day the Lord will come

down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount

Sinai.

12And thou shalt appoint certain limits to

the people round about, and thou shalt say to

them: Take heed ye go not up into the mount,

and that ye touch not the borders thereof: every

one that toucheth the mount, dying he shall die.

13No hands shall touch him, but he shall be

stoned to death, or he shall be shot through with

arrows: whether it be beast, or man, he shall not

live. When the trumpet shall begin to sound,

then let them go up into the mount.

14And Moses came down from the mount to

the people, and sanctied them. And when they

had washed thelr garments,

15He said to them: Be ready against the third

day, and come not near your wives.

16And now the third day was come, and the

morning appeared: and behold thunders began

to be heard, and lightning to

ash, and a very

thick cloud to cover the mount, and the noise

of the trumpet sounded exceeding loud; and the

people that was in the camp, feared.

17And when Moses had brought them forth

to meet God, from the place of the camp, they

stood at the bottom of the mount.

18And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: be-

cause the Lord was come down upon it in re,

and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace:

and all the mount was terrible.

19And the sound of the trumpet grew by de-

grees louder and louder, and was drawn out to a

greater length: Moses spoke, and God answered

him.

20And the Lord came down upon Mount

Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and he called

Moses unto the top thereof. And when he was90 Book of Exodus

gone up thither,

21He said unto him: Go down, and charge the

people; lest they should have a mind to pass the

limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude

of them should perish.

22The priests also that come to the Lord, let

them be sanctied, lest he strike them.

23And Moses said to the Lord: The people

cannot come up to Mount Sinai: for thou didst

charge, and command, saying: Set limits about

the mount, and sanctify it.

24And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee

down; and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron

with thee: but let not the priests and the people

pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest he

kill them.

25And Moses went down to the people and

told them all.

Chapter 20

And the Lord spoke all these words:

2I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee

out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of

bondage.

3Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

4Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven

thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in

heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of

those things that are in the waters under the

earth.

5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them:

I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visit-

ing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,

unto the third and fourth generation of them

that hate me:

6And shewing mercy unto thousands to them

that love me, and keep my commandments.

7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lordthy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him

guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his

God in vain.

8Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath

day.

9Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all

thy works.

10But on the seventh day is the sabbath of

the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on

it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast,

nor the stranger that is within thy gates.

11For in six days the Lord made heaven and

earth, and the sea, and all things that are in

them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore

the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctied

it.

12Honour thy father and thy mother, that

thou mayst be longlived upon the land which

the Lord thy God will give thee.

13Thou shalt not kill.

14Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15Thou shalt not steal.

16Thou shalt not bear false witness against

thy neighbour.

17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's

house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his

servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his

ass, nor any thing that is his.

18And all the people saw the voices and the

ames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the

mount smoking; and being terried and struck

with fear, they stood afar o,

19Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we

will hear: let not the Lord speak to us, lest we

die.

20And Moses said to the people: Fear not; for

God is come to prove you, and that the dread of

him might be in you, and you should not sin.Book of Exodus 91

21And the people stood afar o. But Moses

went to the dark cloud wherein God was.

22And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt

thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen

that I have spoken to you from heaven.

23You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall

you make to yourselves gods of gold.

24You shall make an altar of earth unto me,

and you shall oer upon it your holocausts and

peace oerings, your sheep and oxen, in every

place where the memory of my name shall be: I

will come to thee, and will bless thee.

25And if thou make an altar of stone unto

me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if

thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be deled.

26Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my

altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

Chapter 21

These are the judgments which thou shalt set

before them.

2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall

he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free

for nothing.

3With what raiment he came in, with the like

let him go out: if having a wife, his wife also shall

go out with him.

4But if his master gave him a wife, and she

hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and

her children shall be her master's: but he himself

shall go out with his raiment.

5And if the servant shall say: I love my master

and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

6His master shall bring him to the gods, and

he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he

shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he

shall be his servant for ever.

7If any man sell his daughter to be a servant,she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to

go out.

8If she displease the eyes of her master to

whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but

he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign

nation, if he despise her.

9But if he have betrothed her to his son, he

shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10And if he take another wife for him, he

shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, nei-

ther shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

11If he do not these three things, she shall go

out free without money.

12He that striketh a man with a will to kill

him, shall be put to death.

13But he that did not lie in wait for him, but

God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint

thee a place to which he must

ee.

14If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose,

and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him

away from my altar that he may die.

15He that striketh his father or mother, shall

be put to death.

16He that shall steal a man, and sell him, be-

ing convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.

17He that curseth his father or mother, shall

die the death.

18If men quarrel, and the one strike his neigh-

bour with a stone, or with his st, and he die not,

but keepeth his bed:

19If he rise again and walk abroad upon his

sta, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so

that he make restitution for his work, and for

his expenses upon the physicians.

20He that striketh his bondman, or bond-

woman, with a rod, and they die under his

hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

21But if the party remain alive a day or two,

he shall not be subject to the punishment, be-

cause it is his money.92 Book of Exodus

22If men quarrel, and one strike a woman

with child and she miscarry indeed, but live her-

self: he shall be answerable for so much damage

as the woman's husband shall require, and as

arbiters shall award.

23But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall

render life for life,

24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,

foot for foot,

25Burning for burning, wound for wound,

stripe for stripe.

26If any man strike the eye of his manservant

or maidservant, and leave them but one eye, he

shall let them go free for the eye which he put

out.

27Also if he strike out a tooth of his manser-

vant or maidservant, he shall in like manner

make them free.

28If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they

die, he shall be stoned: and his

esh shall not be

eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

29But if the ox was wont to push with his

horn yesterday, and the day before, and they

warned his master, and he did not shut him up,

and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox

shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put

to death.

30And if they set a price upon him, he shall

give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he

shall fall under the like sentence.

32If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he

shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master,

and the ox shall be stoned.

33If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover

it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

34The owner of the pit shall pay the price of

the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his

own.35If one man's ox gore another man's ox, and

he die: they shall sell the live ox, and shall divide

the price, and the carcass of that which died they

shall part between them:

36But if he knew that his ox was wont to push

yesterday, and the day before, and his master did

not keep him in; he shall pay ox for ox, and shall

take the whole carcass.

Chapter 22

If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell

it: he shall restore ve oxen for one ox, and four

sheep for one sheep.

2If a thief be found breaking open a house or

undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he

that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.

3But if he did this when the sun is risen, he

hath committed murder, and he shall die. If he

have not wherewith to make restitution for the

theft, he shall be sold.

4If that which he stole be found with him,

alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore

double.

5If any man hurt a eld or a vineyard, and

put in his beast to feed upon that which is other

men's: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he

hath in his own eld, or in his vineyard, accord-

ing to the estimation of the damage.

6If a re breaking out light upon thorns, and

catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the

elds, he that kindled the re shall make good

the loss.

7If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto

his friend to keep, and they be stolen away from

him that received them: if the thief be found, he

shall restore double:

8If the thief be not known, the master of the

house shall be brought to the gods, and shallBook of Exodus 93

swear that he did not lay his hand upon his

neighbour's goods,

9To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or

sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring

damage: the cause of both parties shall come to

the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall

restore double to his neighbour.

10If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast,

to his neighbour's custody, and it die, or be hurt,

or be taken by enemies, and no man saw it:

11There shall be an oath between them, that

he did not put forth his hand to his neighbour's

goods: and the owner shall accept of the oath,

and he shall not be compelled to make restitu-

tion.

12But if it were taken away by stealth, he

shall make the loss good to the owner.

13If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to

him that which was slain, and he shall not make

restitution.

14If a man borrow of his neighbour any of

these things, and it be hurt or die, the owner

not being present, he shall be obliged to make

restitution.

15But if the owner be present, he shall not

make restitution, especially if it were hired, and

came for the hire of his work.

16If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused,

and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have

her to wife.

17If the maid's father will not give her to

him, he shall give money according to the dowry,

which virgins are wont to receive.

18Wizards thou shalt not suer to live.

19Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall

be put to death.

20He that sacriceth to gods, shall be put to

death, save only to the Lord.

21Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor aict

him: for yourselves also were strangers in theland of Egypt.

22You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan.

23If you hurt them, they will cry out to me,

and I will hear their cry:

24And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will

strike you with the sword, and your wives shall

be widows, and your children fatherless.

25If thou lend money to any of my people

that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt

not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor

oppress them with usuries.

26If thou take of thy neighbour a garment

in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before

sunset.

27For that same is the only thing, wherewith

he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither

hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I

will hear him, because I am compassionate.

28Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods, and

the prince of thy people thou shalt not curse.

29Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and

thy rstfruits: thou shalt give the rstborn of

thy sons to me.

30Thou shalt do the same with the rstborn

of thy oxen also and sheep: seven days let it be

with its dam: the eighth day thou shalt give it

to me.

31You shall be holy men to me: the

esh that

beasts have tasted of before, you shall not eat,

but shall cast it to the dogs.

Chapter 23

Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither

shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for

a wicked person.

2Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do

evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the

opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.94 Book of Exodus
3Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in

judgment.

4If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going

astray, bring it back to him.

5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee

lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass

by, but shalt lift him up with him.

6Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's

judgment.

7Thou shalt

y Iying. The innocent and just

person thou shalt not put to death: because I

abhor the wicked.

8Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even

blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

9Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you

know the hearts of strangers: for you also were

strangers in the land of Egypt.

10Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and

shalt gather the corn thereof.

11But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone,

and suer it to rest, that the poor of thy people

may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the

beasts of the eld eat it: so shalt thou do with

thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.

12Six days thou shalt work: the seventh

day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass

may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the

stranger may be refreshed.

13Keep all things that I have said to you.

And by the name of strange gods you shall

not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your

mouth.

14Three times every year you shall celebrate

feasts to me.

15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened

bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened

bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the

month of new corn, when thou didst come forth

out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty be-

fore me.16And the feast of the harvest of the rst-

fruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in

the eld. The feast also in the end of the year,

when thou hast gathered in all thy corn out of

the eld.

17Thrice a year shall all thy males appear

before the Lord thy God.

18Thou shalt not sacrice the blood of my

victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my

solemnity remain until the morning.

19Thou shalt carry the rst-fruits of the corn

of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

20Behold I will send my angel, who shall go

before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and

bring thee into the place that I have prepared.

21Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and

do not think him one to be contemned: for he

will not forgive when thou hast sinned, and my

name is in him.

22But if thou wilt hear hi voice, and do all

that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies,

and will aict them that aict thee.

23And my angel shall go before thee, and

shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the

Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite,

and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will

destroy.

24Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve

them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt

destroy them, and break their statues.

25And you shall serve the Lord your God,

that I may bless your bread and your waters,

and may take away sickness from the midst of

thee.

26There shall not be one fruitless nor barren

in thy land: I will ll the number of thy days.

27I will send my fear before thee, and will

destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come:

and will turn the backs of all thy enemies beforeBook of Exodus 95

thee:

28Sending out hornets before, that shall drive

away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the

Hethite, before thou come in.

29I will not cast them out from thy face in one

year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness,

and the beasts multiply against thee.

30By little and little I will drive them out

from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost

possess the land.

31And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea

to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert

to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the

land into your hands, and will drive them out

from before you.

32Thou shalt not enter into league with them,

nor with their gods.

33Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps

they make thee sin against me, if thou serve their

gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a scandal to

thee.

Chapter 24

And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord,

thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy

of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar

o.

2And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord,

but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the

people come up with him.

3So Moses came and told the people all the

words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all

the people answered with one voice: We will do

all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.

4And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord:

and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the

foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to

the twelve tribes of Israel.5And he sent young men of the children of

Israel, and they oered holocausts, and sacriced

pacic victims of calves to the Lord.

6Then Moses took half of the blood, and put

it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the

altar.

7And taking the book of the covenant, he

read it in the hearing of the people: and they

said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we

will do, we will be obedient.

8And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon

the people, and he said: This is the blood of the

covenant, which the Lord hath made with you

concerning all these words.

9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu,

and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up:

10And they saw the God of Israel: and under

his feet as it were a work of sapphire stone, and

as the heaven, when clear.

11Neither did he lay his hand upon those of

the children of Israel, that retired afar o, and

they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

12And the Lord said to Moses: Come up

to me into the mount, and be there; and I will

give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the

commandments which I have written; that thou

mayest teach them.

13Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and

Moses going up into the mount of God,

14Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we

return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with

you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it

to them.

15And when Moses was gone up, a cloud cov-

ered the mount.

16And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Sinai,

covering it with a cloud six days: and the seventh

day he called him out of the midst of the cloud.

17And the sight of the glory of the Lord, was

like a burning re upon the top of the mount, in96 Book of Exodus
the eyes of the children of Israel.

18And Moses entering into the midst of the

cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was

there forty days and forty nights.

Chapter 25

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, that they

bring rstfruits to me: of every man that oereth

of his own accord, you shall take them.

3And these are the things you must take:

Gold, and silver, and brass,

4Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed,

and ne linen, and goats' hair,

5And rams' skins dyed red, and violet skins,

and setim wood:

6Oil to make lights: spices for ointment, and

for sweetsmelling incense:

7Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn

the ephod and the rational.

8And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I

will dwell in the midst of them:

9According to all the likeness of the taberna-

cle which I will shew thee, and of all the vessels

for the service thereof: and thus you shall make

it:

10Frame an ark of setim wood, the length

whereof shall be of two cubits and a half; the

breadth, a cubit and a half; the height, likewise,

a cubit and a half.

11And thou shalt overlay it with the purest

gold, within and without; and over it thou shalt

make a golden crown round about:

12And four golden rings, which thou shalt

put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings

be on the one side, and two on the other.

13Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood,

and shalt overlay them with gold.14And thou shalt put them in through the

rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may

be carried on them:

15And they shall be always in the rings, nei-

ther shall they at any time be drawn out of them.

16And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony

which I will give thee.

17Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the

purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cu-

bits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a

half.

18Thou shalt make also two cherubims of

beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle.

19Let one cherub be on the one side, and the

other on the other.

20Let them cover both sides of the propi-

tiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the

oracle, and let them look one towards the other,

their faces being turned towards the propitiatory

wherewith the ark is to to be covered.

21In which thou shalt put the testimony that

I will give thee.

22Thence will I give orders, and will speak to

thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of

the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark

of the testimony, all things which I will command

the children of Israel by thee.

23Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood,

of two cubits in length, and a cubit in breadth,

and a cubit and a half in height.

24And thou shalt overlay it with the purest

gold: and thou shalt make to it a golden ledge

round about.

25And to the ledge itself a polished crown,

four inches high; and over the same another little

golden crown.

26Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings,

and shalt put them in the four corners of the

same table, over each foot.Book of Exodus 97

27Under the crown shall the golden rings be,

that the bars may be put through them, and the

table may be carried.

28The bars also themselves thou shalt make

of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold,

to bear up the table.

29Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls,

censers, and cups, wherein the libations are to

be oered, of the purest gold.

30And thou shalt set upon the table loaves

of proposition in my sight always.

31Thou shalt make also a candlestick of

beaten work, of the nest gold, the shaft thereof,

and the branches, the cups, and the bowls, and

the lilies going forth from it.

32Six branches shall come out of the sides,

three out of one side, and three out of the other.

33Three cups as it were nuts to every branch,

and a bowl withal, and a lily: and three cups like-

wise of the fashion of nuts in the other branch,

and a bowl withal, and a lily. Such shall be the

work of the six branches, that are to come out

from the shaft:

34And in the candlestick itself shall be four

cups in the manner of a nut, and at every one

bowls and lilies.

35Bowls under two branches in three places,

which together make six, coming forth out of one

shaft.
36And both the bowls and the branches shall

be of the same beaten work of the purest gold.

37Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and

shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light

over against.

38The snuers also, and where the snungs

shall be put out, shall be made of the purest

gold.

39The whole weight of the candlestick, with

all the furniture thereof, shall be a talent of the

purest gold.40Look, and make it according to the pattern

that was shewn thee in the mount.

Chapter 26

And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this man-

ner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of ne twisted

linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice

dyed, diversied with embroidery.

2The length of one curtain shall be twenty-

eight cubits; the breadth shall be four cubits. All

the curtains shall be of one measure.

3Five curtains shall be joined one to another,

and the other ve shall be coupled together in

like manner.

4Thou shalt make loops of violet in the sides

and tops of the curtains, that they may be joined

one to another.
5Every curtain shall have fty loops on both

sides, so set on, that one loop may be against

another loop, and one may be tted to the other.

6Thou shalt make also fty rings of gold,

wherewith the veils of the curtains are to be

joined, that it may be made one tabernacle.

7Thou shalt make also eleven curtains of

goats' hair, to cover the top of the tabernacle.

8The length of one hair-curtain shall be thirty

cubits; and the breadth, four: the measure of all

the curtains shall be equal.

9Five of which thou shalt couple by them-

selves, and the six others thou shalt couple one

to another, so as to double the sixth curtain in

the front of the roof.

10Thou shalt make also fty loops in the edge

of one curtain, that it may be joined with the

other: and fty loops in the edge of the other

curtain, that it may be coupled with its fellow.

11Thou shalt make also fty buckles of brass,

wherewith the loops may be joined, that of all98 Book of Exodus

there may be made one covering.

12And that which shall remain of the cur-

tains, that are prepared for the roof, to wit, one

curtain that is over and above, with the half

thereof thou shalt cover the back parts of the

tabernacle.

13And there shall hang down a cubit on the

one side, and another on the other side, which

is over and above in the length of the curtains,

fencing both sides of the tabernacle.

14Thou shalt make also another cover to the

roof of rams' skins dyed red: and over that again

another cover of violet coloured skins.

15Thou shalt make also the boards of the

tabernacle standing upright of setim wood.

16Let every one of them be ten cubits in

length, and in breadth one cubit and a half.

17In the sides of the boards shall be made

two mortises, whereby one board may be joined

to another board: and after this manner shall all

the boards be prepared.

18Of which twenty shall be in the south side

southward.

19For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of

silver, that under every board may be put two

sockets at the two corners.

20In the second side also of the tabernacle

that looketh to the north, there shall be twenty

boards,

21Having forty sockets of silver, two sockets

shall be put under each board.

22But on the west side of the tabernacle thou

shalt make six boards.

23And again other two which shall be erected

in the corners at the back of the tabernacle.

24And they shall be joined together from be-

neath unto the top, and one joint shall hold them

all. The like joining shall be observed for the two

boards also that are to be put in the corners.25And they shall be in all eight boards, and

their silver sockets sixteen, reckoning two sockets

for each board.

26Thou shalt make also ve bars of setim

wood, to hold together the boards on one side of

the tabernacle.

27And ve others on the other side, and as

many at the west side:

28And they shall be put along by the midst

of the boards, from one end to the other.

29The boards also themselves thou shalt

overlay with gold, and shalt cast rings of gold

to be set upon them, for places for the bars to

hold together the boardwork: which bars thou

shalt cover with plates of gold.

30And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle ac-

cording to the pattern that was shewn thee in

the mount.

31Thou shalt make also a veil of violet,

and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and ne

twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work

and goodly variety:

32And thou shalt hang it up before four pil-

lars of setim wood, which themselves also shall

be overlaid with gold, and shall have heads of

gold, but sockets of silver.

33And the veil shall be hanged on with rings,

and within it thou shalt put the ark of the tes-

timony, and the sanctuary and the holy of the

holies shall be divided with it.

34And thou shalt set the propitiatory upon

the ark of the testimony, in the holy of holies.

35And the table without the veil, and over

against the table the candlestick in the south

side of the tabernacle: for the table shall stand

in the north side.

36Thou shalt make also a hanging in the en-

trance of the tabernacle of violet, and purple,

and scarlet twice dyed, and ne twisted linen

with embroidered work.Book of Exodus 99

37And thou shalt overlay with gold ve pillars

of setim wood, before which the hanging shall

be drawn: their heads shall be of gold, and the

sockets of brass.

Chapter 27
Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood,

which shall be ve cubits long, and as many

broad, that is four square, and three cubits high.

2And there shall be horns at the four corners

of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

3And thou shalt make for the uses thereof

pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and

esh-

hooks, and repans: all its vessels thou shalt

make of brass.

4And a grate of brass in manner of a net; at

the four corners of which, shall be four rings of

brass,

5Which thou shalt put under the hearth of the

altar: and the grate shall be even to the midst

of the altar.

6Thou shalt make also two bars for the altar,

of setim wood, which thou shalt cover with plates

of brass:

7And thou shalt draw them through rings,

and they shall be on both sides of the altar to

carry it.

8Thou shalt not make it solid, but empty and

hollow in the inside, as it was shewn thee in the

mount.

9Thou shalt make also the court of the taber-

nacle, in the south side whereof southward there

shall be hangings of ne twisted linen of a hun-

dred cubits long for one side.

10And twenty pillars with as many sockets of

brass, the heads of which, with their engraving,

shall be of silver.

11In like manner also on the north sidethere shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long,

twenty pillars, and as many sockets of brass, and

their heads with their engraving of silver.

12But in the breadth of the court, that

looketh to the west, there shall be hangings of

fty cubits, and ten pillars, and as many sock-

ets.

13In that breadth also of the court, which

looketh to the east, there shall be fty cubits.

14In which there shall be for one side, hang-

ings of fteen cubits, and three pillars, and as

many sockets.

15And in the other side, there shall be hang-

ings of fteen cubits, with three pillars, and as

many sockets.

16And in the entrance of the court there shall

be made a hanging of twenty cubits of violet and

purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and ne twisted

linen, with embroidered work: it shall have four

pillars, with as many sockets.

17All the pillars of the court round about

shall be garnished with plates of silver, silver

heads, and sockets of brass.

18In length the court shall take up a hundred

cubits, in breadth fty, the height shall be of ve

cubits, and it shall be made of ne twisted linen,

and shall have sockets of brass.

19All the vessels of the tabernacle for all uses

and ceremonies, and the pins both of it and of

the court, thou shalt make of brass.

20Command the children of Israel that they

bring thee the purest oil of the olives, and beaten

with a pestle: that a lamp may burn always,

21In the tabernacle of the testimony, without

the veil that hangs before the testimony. And

Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may

give light before the Lord until the morning. It

shall be a perpetual observance throughout their

successions among the children of Israel.100 Book of Exodus

Chapter 28

Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his

sons, from among the children of Israel, that they

may minister to me in the priest's oce: Aaron,

Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

2And thou shalt make a holy vesture for

Aaron, thy brother, for glory and for beauty.

3And thou shalt speak to all the wise of heart,

whom I have lled with the spirit of wisdom, that

they may make Aaron's vestments, in which he

being consecrated, may minister to me.

4And these shall be the vestments that they

shall make: A rational and an ephod, a tunic and

a strait linen garment, a mitre and a girdle. They

shall make the holy vestments for thy brother

Aaron and his sons, that they may do the oce

of priesthood unto me.

5And they shall take gold, and violet, and

purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and ne linen.

6And they shall make the ephod of gold,

and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed,

and ne twisted linen, embroidered with divers

colours.

7It shall have the two edges joined in the top

on both sides, that they may be closed together.

8The very workmanship also, and all the vari-

ety of the work, shall be of gold, and violet, and

purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and ne twisted

linen.

9And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and

shalt grave on them the names of the children of

Israel:

10Six names on one stone, and the other

six on the other, according to the order of their

birth.

11With the work of an engraver, and the

graving of a jeweller, thou shalt engrave them

with the names of the children of Israel, set in

gold and compassed about:12And thou shalt put them in both sides of

the ephod, a memorial for the children of Israel.

And Aaron shall bear their names before the

Lord upon both shoulders, for a remembrance.

13Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.

14And two little chains of the purest gold,

linked one to another, which thou shalt put into

the hooks.

15And thou shalt make the rational of judg-

ment with embroidered work of divers colours,

according to the workmanship of the ephod, of

gold, violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed,

and ne twisted linen.

16It shall be four square and doubled: it shall

be the measure of a span both in length and in

breadth.

17And thou shalt set in it four rows of stones

. In the rst row shall be a sardius stone, and a

topaz, and an emerald:

18In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and

a jasper:
19In the third a ligurius, an agate, and an

amethyst:

20In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a

beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.

21And they shall have the names of the chil-

dren of Israel: with twelve names shall they be

engraved, each stone with the name of one ac-

cording to the twelve tribes.

22And thou shalt make on the rational

chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold:

23And two rings of gold, which thou shalt

put in the two ends at the top of the rational.

24And the golden chains thou shalt join to

the rings, that are in the ends thereof.

25And the ends of the chains themselves,

thou shalt join together with two hooks, on both

sides of the ephod, which is towards the rational.

26Thou shalt make also two rings of gold,

which thou shalt put in the top parts of the ra-Book of Exodus 101

tional, in the borders that are over against the

ephod, and look towards the back parts thereof.

27Moreover also other two rings of gold,

which are to be set on each side of the ephod be-

neath, that looketh towards the nether joining,

that the rational may be tted with the ephod,

28And may be fastened by the rings thereof

unto the rings of the ephod with a violet llet,

that the joining articially wrought may con-

tinue, and the rational and the ephod may not

be loosed one from the other.

29And Aaron shall bear the names of the chil-

dren of Israel in the rational of judgment upon

his breast, when he shall enter into the sanctu-

ary, a memorial before the Lord for ever.

30And thou shalt put in the rational of

judgment doctrine and truth, which shall be on

Aaron's breast, when he shall go in before the

Lord: and he shall bear the judgment of the chil-

dren of Israel on his breast, in the sight of the

Lord always.

31And thou shalt make the tunic of the ephod

all of violet,

32In the midst whereof above shall be a hole

for the head, and a border round about it woven,

as is wont to be made in the outmost parts of

garments, that it may not easily be broken.

33And beneath at the feet of the same tu-

nic, round about, thou shalt make as it were

pomegranates, of violet, and purple, and scar-

let twice dyed, with little bells set between:

34So that there shall be a golden bell and a

pomegranate, and again another golden bell and

a pomegranate.

35And Aaron shall be vested with it in the of-

ce of his ministry, that the sound may be heard,

when he goeth in and cometh out of the sanctu-

ary, in the sight of the Lord, and that he may

not die.

36Thou shalt make also a plate of the purestgold: wherein thou shalt grave with engraver's

work, Holy to the Lord.

37And thou shalt tie it with a violet llet,

and it shall be upon the mitre,

38Hanging over the forehead of the high

priest. And Aaron shall bear the iniquities of

those things, which the children of Israel have

oered and sanctied, in all their gifts and oer-

ings. And the plate shall be always on his fore-

head, that the Lord may be well pleased with

them.

39And thou shalt gird the tunic with ne

linen, and thou shalt make a ne linen mitre,

and a girdle of embroidered work.

40Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt

prepare linen tunics, and girdles and mitres for

glory and beauty:

41And with all these things thou shalt vest

Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him. And

thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and

shalt sanctify them, that they may do the oce

of priesthood unto me.

42Thou shalt make also linen breeches, to

cover the

esh of their nakedness, from the reins

to the thighs:

43And Aaron and his sons shall use them

when they shall go into the tabernacle of the

testimony, or when they approach to the altar

to minister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of

iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to

Aaron, and to his seed after him.

Chapter 29

And thou shalt also do this, that they may be

consecrated to me in priesthood. Take a calf

from the herd, and two rams without blemish,

2And unleavened bread, and a cake without

leaven, tempered with oil, wafers also unleav-102 Book of Exodus

ened, anointed with oil: thou shalt make them

all of wheaten

our.

3And thou shalt put them in a basket, and

oer them: and the calf and the two rams.

4And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to

the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. And

when thou hast washed the father and his sons

with water,

5Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments,

that is, with the linen garment and the tunic,

and the ephod and the rational, which thou shalt

gird with the girdle.

6And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head,

and the holy plate upon the mitre,

7And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon

his head: and by this rite shall he be consecrated.

8Thou shalt bring his sons also, and shalt put

on them the linen tunics, and gird them with a

girdle:

9To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou

shalt put mitres upon them; and they shall be

priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After

thou shalt have consecrated their hands,

10Thou shalt present also the calf before the

tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his

sons shall lay their hands upon his head,

11And thou shalt kill him in the sight of the

Lord, beside the door of the tabernacle of the

testimony.

12And taking some of the blood of the calf,

thou shalt put it upon the horns of the altar with

thy nger, and the rest of the blood thou shalt

pour at the bottom thereof.

13Thou shalt take also all the fat that cov-

ereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and

the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,

and shalt oer a burn oering upon the altar:

14But the

esh of the calf, and the hide and

the dung, thou shalt burn abroad, without the

camp, because it is for sin.15Thou shalt take also one ram, upon the

head whereof Aaron and his sons shall lay their

hands.

16And when thou hast killed him, thou shalt

take of the blood thereof, and pour round about

the altar.

17And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and

having washed his entrails and feet, thou shalt

put them upon the

esh that is cut in pieces, and

upon his head.

18And thou shalt oer the whole ram for a

burnt oering upon the altar: it is an oblation

to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim

of the Lord.

19Thou shalt take also the other ram, upon

whose head Aaron and his sons shall lay their

hands.

20And when thou hast sacriced him, thou

shalt take of his blood, and put upon the tip of

the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and upon

the thumbs and great toes of their right hand

and foot, and thou shalt pour the blood upon

the altar round about.

21And when thou hast taken of the blood

that is upon the altar, and of the oil of unction,

thou shalt sprinkle Aaron and his vesture, his

sons and their vestments. And after they and

their vestments are consecrated,

22Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the

rump, and the fat that covereth the lungs, and

the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and

the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder,

because it is the ram of consecration:

23And one roll of bread, a cake tempered

with oil, a wafer out of the basket of unleavened

bread, which is set in the sight of the Lord:

24And thou shalt put all upon the hands of

Aaron and of his sons, and shalt sanctify them

elevating before the Lord.

25And thou shalt take all from their hands;Book of Exodus 103

and shalt burn them upon the altar for a holo-

caust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the

Lord, because it is his oblation.

26Thou shalt take also the breast of the ram,

wherewith Aaron was consecrated, and elevating

it thou shalt sanctify it before the Lord, and it

shall fall to thy share.

27And thou shalt sanctify both the conse-

crated breast, and the shoulder that thou didst

separate of the ram,

28Wherewith Aaron was consecrated and his

sons, and they shall fall to Aaron's share, and his

sons', by a perpetual right from the children of

Israel: because they are the choicest and the be-

ginnings of their peace victims which they oer

to the Lord.

29And the holy vesture, which Aaron shall

use, his sons shall have after him, that they may

be anointed, and their hands consecrated in it.

30He of his sons that shall be appointed high

priest in his stead, and that shall enter into the

tabernacle of the testimony to minister in the

sanctuary, shall wear it seven days.

31And thou shalt take the ram of the con-

secration, and shalt boil the

esh thereof in the

holy place:

32And Aaron and his sons shall eat it. The

loaves also, that are in the basket, they shall eat

in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,

33That it may be an atoning sacrice, and

the hands of the oerers may be sanctied. A

stranger shall not eat of them, because they are

holy.

34And if there remain of the consecrated

esh, or of the bread, till the morning, thou shalt

burn the remainder with re: they shall not be

eaten, because they are sanctied.

35All that I have commanded thee, thou shalt

do unto Aaron and his sons. Seven days shalt

thou consecrate their hands:36And thou shalt oer a calf for sin every day

for expiation. And thou shalt cleanse the altar

when thou hast oered the victim of expiation,

and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.

37Seven days shalt thou expiate the altar and

sanctify it, and it shall be most holy. Every one,

that shall touch it, shall be holy.

38This is what thou shalt sacrice upon the

altar: Two lambs of a year old every day contin-

ually,

39One lamb in the morning, and another in

the evening.

40With one lamb a tenth part of

our tem-

pered with beaten oil, of the fourth part of a hin,

and wine for libation of the same measure.

41And the other lamb thou shalt oer in the

evening, according to the rite of the morning

oblation, and according to what we have said,

for a savour of sweetness:

42It is a sacrice to the Lord, by perpetual

oblation unto your generations, at the door of

the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord,

where I will appoint to speak unto thee.

43And there will I command the children of

Israel, and the altar shall be sanctied by my

glory.

44I will sanctify also the tabernacle of the

testimony with the altar, and Aaron with his

sons, to do the oce of priesthood unto me.

45And I will dwell in the midst of the children

of Israel, and will be their God:

46And they shall know that I am the Lord

their God, who have brought them out of the

land of Egypt, that I might abide among them,

I the Lord their God.104 Book of Exodus

Chapter 30

Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense,

of setim wood.

2It shall be a cubit in length, and another in

breadth, that is, four square, and two in height.

Horns shall go out of the same.

3And thou shalt overlay it with the purest

gold, as well the grate thereof, as the walls round

about, and the horns. And thou shalt make to

it a crown of gold round about,

4And two golden rings under the crown on

either side, that the bars may be put into them,

and the altar be carried.

5And thou shalt make the bars also of setim

wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

6And thou shalt set the altar over against the

veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony

before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony

is covered, where I will speak to thee.

7And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense

upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the

lamps, he shall burn it:

8And when he shall place them in the evening,

he shall burn an everlasting incense before the

Lord throughout your generations.

9You shall not oer upon it incense of another

composition, nor oblation, and victim, neither

shall you oer libations.

10And Aaron shall pray upon the horns

thereof once a year, with the blood of that which

was oered for sin; and shall make atonement

upon it in your generations. It shall be most

holy to the Lord.

11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12When thou shalt take the sum of the chil-

dren of Israel, according to their number, every

one of them shall give a price for their souls to

the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among

them, when they shall be reckoned.13And this shall every one give that passeth

at the naming, half a sicle according to the stan-

dard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols.

Half a sicle shall be oered to the Lord.

14He that is counted in the number from

twenty years and upwards, shall give the price.

15The rich man shall not add to half a sicle,

and the poor man shall diminish nothing.

16And the money received, which was con-

tributed by the children of Israel, thou shalt de-

liver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the testi-

mony, that it may be a memorial of them before

the Lord, and he may be merciful to their souls.

17And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

18Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with

its foot to wash in: and thou shalt set it between

the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar.

And water being put into it:

19Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands

and feet in it:

20When they are going into the tabernacle of

the testimony, and when they are to come to the

altar, to oer on it incense to the Lord,

21Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an ever-

lasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.

22And the Lord spoke to Moses,

23Saying: Take spices, of principal and cho-

sen myrrh ve hundred sicles, and of cinnamon

half so much; that is, two hundred and fty

sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred

and fty,

24And of cassia ve hundred sicles by the

weight of the sanctuary, of oil of olives the mea-

sure hin:

25And thou shalt make the holy oil of unc-

tion, an ointment compounded after the art of

the perfumer,

26And therewith thou shalt anoint the taber-

nacle of the testimony, and the ark of the testa-

ment,Book of Exodus 105

27And the table with the vessels thereof, the

candlestick and furniture thereof, the altars of

incense,

28And of holocaust, and all the furniture that

belongeth to the service of them.

29And thou shalt sanctify all, and they shall

be most holy: he that shall touch them shall be

sanctied.

30Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and

shalt sanctify them, that they may do the oce

of priesthood unto me.

31And thou shalt say to the children of Is-

rael: This oil of unction shall be holy unto me

throughout your generations.

32The

esh of man shall not be anointed

therewith, and you shall make none other of the

same composition, because it is sanctied, and

shall be holy unto you.

33What man soever shall compound such,

and shall give thereof to a stranger, he shall be

cut o from his people.

34And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto

thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of

sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all

shall be of equal weight.

35And thou shalt make incense compounded

by the work of the perfumer, well tempered to-

gether, and pure, and most worthy of sanctica-

tion.

36And when thou hast beaten all into very

small powder, thou shalt set of it before the

tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I

will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense

be unto you.

37You shall not make such a composition for

your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.

38What man soever shall make the like, to

enjoy the smell thereof, he shall perish out of his

people.Chapter 31

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Behold, I have called by name Beseleel the

son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Juda,

3And I have lled him with the spirit of God,

with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge

in all manner of work,

4To devise whatsoever may be articially

made of gold, and silver, and brass,

5Of marble, and precious stones, and variety

of wood.

6And I have given him for his companion Oo-

liab, the son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan.

And I have put wisdom in the heart of every skil-

ful man, that they may make all things which I

have commanded thee,

7The tabernacle of the covenant, and the ark

of the testimony, and the propitiatory, that is

over it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,

8And the table and the vessels thereof, the

most pure candlestick with the vessels thereof,

and the altars of incense,

9And of holocaust, and all their vessels, the

laver with its foot,

10The holy vestments in the ministry for

Aaron the priest, and for his sons, that they may

execute their oce, about the sacred things:

11The oil of unction, and the incense of spices

in the sanctuary, all things which I have com-

manded thee, shall they make.

12And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

13Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath;

because it is a sign between me and you in your

generations that you may know that I am the

Lord, who sanctify you.

14keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto

you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to106 Book of Exodus

death: he that shall do any work in it, his soul

shall perish out of the midst of his people.

15Six days shall you do work: in the seventh

day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord.

Every one that shall do any work on this day,

shall die.
16Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath,

and celebrate it in their generations. It is an

everlasting covenant

17Between me and the children of Israel, and

a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made

heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased

from work.

18And the Lord, when he had ended these

words in Mount Sinai, gave to Moses two stone

tables of testimony, written with the nger of

God.

Chapter 32

And the people seeing that Moses delayed to

come down from the mount, gathering together

against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that

may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man

that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we

know not what has befallen him.

2And Aaron said to them: Take the golden

earrings from the ears of your wives, and your

sons and daughters, and bring them to me.

3And the people did what he had com-

manded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

4And when he had received them, he fash-

ioned them by founders' work, and made of them

a molten calf. And they said: These are thy

gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the

land of Egypt.

5And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar

before it, and made proclamation by a crier's

voice, saying To morrow is the solemnity of theLord.

6And rising in the morning, they oered holo-

causts, and peace victims, and the people sat

down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

7And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go,

get thee down: thy people, which thou hast

brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.

8They have quickly strayed from the way

which thou didst shew them: and they have

made to themselves a molten calf, and have

adored it, and sacricing victims to it, have said:

These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought

thee out of the land of Egypt.

9And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that

this people is stinecked:

10Let me alone, that my wrath may be kin-

dled against them, and that I may destroy them,

and I will make of thee a great nation.

11But Moses besought the Lord his God, say-

ing: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled

against thy people, whom thou hast brought out

of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with

a mighty hand?

12Let not the Egyptians say, I beseech thee:

He craftily brought them out, that he might kill

them in the mountains, and destroy them from

the earth: let thy anger cease, and be appeased

upon the wickedness of thy people.

13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy

servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self,

saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of

heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken

of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess

it for ever:

14And the Lord was appeased from doing the

evil which he had spoken against his people.

15And Moses returned from the mount, car-

rying the two tables of the testimony in his hand,

written on both sides,Book of Exodus 107

16And made by the work of God; the writing

also of God was graven in the tables.

17And Josue hearing the noise of the people

shout. ing, said to Moses: The noise of battle is

heard in the camp.

18But he answered: It is not the cry of men

encouraging to ght, nor the shout of men com-

pelling to

ee: but I hear the voice of singers.

19And when he came nigh to the camp, he

saw the calf, and the dances: and being very

angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and

broke them at the foot of the mount:

20And laying hold of the calf which they had

made, he burnt it, and beat it to powder, which

he strewed into water, and gave thereof to the

children of Israel to drink.

21And he said to Aaron: What has this peo-

ple done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon

them a most heinous sin?

22And he answered him: Let not my lord be

oended; for thou knowest this people, that they

are prone to evil.

23They said to me: make us gods, that may

go before us; for as to this Moses, who brought

us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not

what is befallen him.

24And I said to them: Which of you hath any

gold? and they took and brought it to me; and

I cast it into the re, and this calf came out.

25And when Moses saw that the people were

naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion

of the shame of the lth, and had set them naked

among their enemies)

26Then standing in the gate of the camp, he

said: If any man be on the Lord's side, let him

join with me. And all the sons of Levi gathered

themselves together unto him:

27And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord

God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his

thigh: go, and return from gate to gate throughthe midst of the camp, and let every man kill his

brother, and friend, and neighbour.

28And the sons of Levi did according to the

words of Moses, and there were slain that day

about three and twenty thousand men.

29And Moses said: You have consecrated

your hands this day to the Lord, every man in

his son and in his brother, that a blessing may

be given to you.

30And when the next day was come, Moses

spoke to the people: You have sinned a very

great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any

means I may be able to entreat him for your

crime.

31And returning to the Lord, he said: I be-

seech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin,

and they have made to themselves gods of gold:

either forgive them this trespass,

32Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book

that thou hast written.

33And the Lord answered him: He that hath

sinned against me, him will I strike out of my

book:

34But go thou, and lead this people whither

I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee.

And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also

of theirs.

35The Lord therefore struck the people for

the guilt, on occasion of the calf which Aaron

had made.

Chapter 33

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get

thee up from this place, thou and thy people

which thou hast brought out of the land of

Egypt, into the land concerning which I swore

to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: To thy

seed I will give it:108 Book of Exodus

2And I will send an angel before thee, that

I may cast out the Chanaanite, and the Amor-

rhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and

the Hevite, and the Jebusite,

3That thou mayst enter into the land that

oweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up

with thee, because thou art a stinecked people;

lest I destroy thee in the way.

4And the people hearing these very bad tid-

ings, mourned: and no man put on his orna-

ments according to custom.

5And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the

children of Israel: Thou art a stinecked people,

once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and

shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy

ornaments, that I may know what to do to thee.

6So the children of Israel laid aside their or-

naments by Mount Horeb.

7Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it

without the camp afar o, and called the name

thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And

all the people, that had any question, went forth

to the tabernacle of the covenant, without the

camp.

8And when Moses went forth to the taberna-

cle, all the people rose up, and every one stood

in the door of his pavilion, and they beheld the

back of Moses, till he went into the tabernacle.

9And when he was gone into the tabernacle of

the covenant, the pillar of the cloud came down,

and stood at the door, and he spoke with Moses.

10And all saw that the pillar of the cloud

stood at the door of the tabernacle. And they

stood and worshipped at the doors of their tent.

11And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face,

as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And

when he returned into the camp, his servant Jo-

sue, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not

from the tabernacle.

12And Moses said to the Lord: Thou com-mandest me to lead forth this people; and thou

dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with

me, especially whereas thou hast said: I know

thee by name, and thou hast found favour in my

sight.

13If therefore I have found favour in thy sight,

shew me thy face, that I may know thee, and may

nd grace before thy eyes: look upon thy people

this nation.

14And the Lord said: My face shall go before

thee, and I will give thee rest.

15And Moses said: If thou thyself dost not

go before, bring us not out of this place.

16For how shall we be able to know, I and thy

people, that we have found grace in thy sight, un-

less thou walk with us, that we may be gloried

by all people that dwell upon the earth?

17And the Lord said to Moses: This word

also, which thou hast spoken, will I do; for thou

hast found grace before me, and thee I have

known by name.

18And he said: Shew me thy glory.

19He answered: I will shew thee all good, and

I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before

thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and

I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.

20And again he said: Thou canst not see my

face: for man shall not see me, and live.

21And again he said: Behold there is a place

with me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock.

22And when my glory shall pass, I will set

thee in a hole of the rock, and protect thee with

my righthand till I pass:

23And I will take away my hand, and thou

shalt see my back parts: but my face thou canst

not see.Book of Exodus 109

Chapter 34

And after this he said: Hew thee two tables of

stone like unto the former, and I will write upon

them the words, which were in the tables, which

thou brokest.

2Be ready in the morning, that thou mayst

forthwith go up into Mount Sinai, and thou shalt

stand with me upon the top of the mount.

3Let no man go up with thee, and let not any

man be seen throughout all the mount; neither

let the oxen nor the sheep feed over against it.

4Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as

had been before; and rising very early he went

up into the Mount Sinai, as the Lord had com-

manded him, carrying with him the tables.

5And when the Lord was come down in a

cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the

name of the Lord.

6And when he passed before him, he said: O

the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious,

patient and of much compassion, and true,

7Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who

takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin,

and no man of himself is innocent before thee.

Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the

children, and to the grandchildren unto the third

and fourth generation.

8And Moses making haste, bowed down pros-

trate unto the earth, and adoring,

9Said: If I have found grace in thy sight, O

Lord, I beseech thee that thou wilt go with us,

(for it is a stinecked people) and take away our

iniquities and sin, and possess us.

10The Lord answered: I will make a covenant

in the sight of all, I will do signs such as were

never seen upon the earth, nor in any nations;

that this people, in the midst of whom thou art,

may see the terrible work of the Lord which I

will do.11Observe all things which this day I com-

mand thee: I myself will drive out before thy

face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the

Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and

the Jebusite.

12Beware thou never join in friendship with

the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy

ruin:

13But destroy their altars, break their statues

and cut down their groves:

14Adore not any strange god. The Lord his

name is jealous, he is a jealous God.

15Make no covenant with the men of those

countries; lest, when they have committed for-

nication with their gods, and have adored their

idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sac-

riced.

16Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a

wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have

committed fornication, they make thy sons also

to commit fornication with their gods.

17Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten

gods.

19All of the male kind that openeth the

womb, shall be mine. Of all beasts; both of oxen

and of sheep, it shall be mine.

20The rstling of an ass thou shalt redeem

with a sheep: but if thou wilt not give a price for

it, it shall be slain. The rstborn of thy sons thou

shalt redeem: neither shalt thou appear before

me empty.

21Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day

thou shalt cease to plough and to reap.

22Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the

rstfruits of the corn of thy wheat harvest, and

the feast when the time of the year returneth

that all things are laid in.

23Three times in the year all thy males shall

appear in the sight of the almighty Lord the God

of Israel.110 Book of Exodus

24For when I shall have taken away the na-

tions from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy

borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land

when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight

of the Lord thy God thrice in a year.

25Thou shalt not oer the blood of my sacri-

ce upon leaven; neither shall there remain in the

morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity

of the Phase.

26The rst of the fruits of thy ground thou

shalt oer in the house of the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

27And the Lord said to Moses: Write thee

these words, by which I have made a covenant

both with thee and with Israel.

28And he was there with the Lord forty days

and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank

water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten

words of the covenant.

29And when Moses came down from the

Mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testi-

mony, and he knew not that his face was horned

from the conversation of the Lord.

30And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing

the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come

near.

31And being called by him, they returned,

both Aaron and the rulers of the congregation.

And after that he spoke to them,

32And all the children of Israel came to him:

and he gave them in commandment all that he

had heard of the Lord on Mount Sinai.

33And having done speaking, he put a veil

upon his face.

34But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke

with him, he took it away until he came forth,

and then he spoke to the children of Israel all

things that had been commanded him.

35And they saw that the face of Moses when

he came out was horned, but he covered his faceagain, if at any time he spoke to them.

Chapter 35

And all the multitude of the children of Israel

being gathered together, he said to them: These

are the things which the Lord hath commanded

to be done:

2Six days you shall do work; the seventh day

shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest

of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it,

shall be put to death.

3You shall kindle no re in any of your habi-

tations on the sabbath day.

4And Moses said to all the assembly of the

children of Israel: This is the word the Lord hath

commanded, saying:

5Set aside with you rstfruits to the Lord.

Let every one that is willing and hath a ready

heart, oer them to the Lord: gold, and silver,

and brass,

6Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed,

and ne linen, goats' hair,

7And rams' skins dyed red, and violet

coloured skins, setim wood,

8And oil to maintain lights, and to make oint-

ment, and most sweet incense,

9Onyx stones, and precious stones, for the

adorning of the ephod and the rational.

10Whosoever of you is wise, let him come,

and make that which the Lord hath commanded:

11To wit, the tabernacle, and the roof

thereof, and the cover, the rings, and the board-

work with the bars, the pillars and the sockets:

12The ark and the staves, the propitiatory,

and the veil that is drawn before it:

13The table with the bars and the vessels,

and the loaves of proposition:Book of Exodus 111

14The candlestick to bear up the lights, the

vessels thereof and the lamps, and the oil for the

nourishing of res:

15The altar of incense, and the bars, and

the oil of unction, and the incense of spices: the

hanging at the door of the tabernacle:

16The altar of holocaust, and its grate of

brass, with the bars and vessels thereof: the laver

and its foot:

17The curtains of the court, with the pillars

and the sockets, the hanging in the doors of the

entry.

18The pins of the tabernacle, and of the

court, with their little cords:

19The vestments that are to be used in the

ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron

the high priest, and of his sons, to do the oce

of priesthood to me.

20And all the multitude of the children of

Israel going out from the presence of Moses,

21Oered rstfruits to the Lord with a most

ready and devout mind, to make the work of the

tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was nec-

essary to the service and to the holy vestments,

22Both men and women gave bracelets and

earrings, rings and tablets: every vessel of gold

was set aside to be oered to the Lord.

23If any man had violet, and purple, and scar-

let twice dyed, ne linen and goats' hair, ram-

skins dyed red, and violet coloured skins,

24Metal of silver and brass, they oered it to

the Lord, and setim wood for divers uses.

25The skilful women also gave such things as

they had spun, violet, purple, and scarlet, and

ne linen,

26And goats' hair, giving all of their own ac-

cord.

27But the princes oered onyx stones, and

precious stones, for the ephod and the rational,28And spices and oil for the lights, and for the

preparing of ointment, and to make the incense

of most sweet savour.

29All, both men and women, with devout

mind oered gifts, that the works might be done

which the Lord had commanded by the hand of

Moses. All the children of Israel dedicated vol-

untary oerings to the Lord.

30And Moses said to the children of Israel:

Behold, the Lord hath called by name Beseleel,

the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of

Juda,

31And hath lled him with the spirit of God,

with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge,

and all learning,

32To devise and to work in gold and silver

and brass,

33And in engraving stones, and in carpenters'

work. Whatsoever can be devised articially,

34He hath given in his heart: Ooliab also, the

son of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan:

35Both of them hath he instructed with wis-

dom, to do carpenters' work, and tapestry, and

embroidery in blue and purple, and scarlet twice

dyed, and ne linen, and to weave all things, and

to invent all new things.

Chapter 36

Beseleel therefore, and Ooliab, and every wise

man, to whom the Lord gave wisdom and under-

standing, to know how to work articially, made

the things that are necessary for the uses of the

sanctuary, and which the Lord commanded.

2And when Moses had called them, and ev-

ery skilful man, to whom the Lord had given

wisdom, and such as of their own accord had

oered themselves to the making of the work,

3He delivered all the oerings of the children112 Book of Exodus

of Israel unto them. And while they were earnest

about the work, the people daily in the morning

oered their vows.

4Whereupon the workmen being constrained

to come,

5Said to Moses: The people oereth more

than is necessary.

6Moses therefore commanded proclamation

to be made by the crier's voice: Let neither man

nor woman oer any more for the work of the

sanctuary. And so they ceased from oering

gifts,

7Because the things that were oered did suf-

ce, and were too much.

8And all the men that were wise of heart,

to accomplish the work of the tabernacle, made

ten curtains of twisted ne linen, and violet, and

purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with varied work,

and the art of embroidering:

9The length of one curtain was twenty-eight

cubits, and the breadth four: all the curtains

were of the same size.

10And he joined ve curtains, one to another,

and the other ve he coupled one to another.

11He made also loops of violet in the edge of

one curtain on both sides, and in the edge of the

other curtain in like manner,

12That the loops might meet one against an-

other, and might be joined each with the other.

13Whereupon also he cast fty rings of gold,

that might catch the loops of the curtains, and

they might be made one tabernacle.

14He made also eleven curtains of goats' hair,

to cover the roof of the tabernacle:

15One curtain was thirty cubits long, and

four cubits broad: all the curtains were of one

measure.

16Five of which he joined apart, and the other

six apart.17And he made fty loops in the edge of one

curtain, and fty in the edge of another curtain,

that they might be joined one to another.

18And fty buckles of brass wherewith the

roof might be knit together, that of all the cur-

tains there might be made one covering.

19He made also a cover for the tabernacle

of rams' skins dyed red; and another cover over

that of violet skins.

20He made also the boards of the tabernacle

of setim wood standing.

21The length of one board was ten cubits;

and the breadth was one cubit and a half.

22There were two mortises throughout every

board, that one might be joined to the other.

And in this manner he made for all the boards

of the tabernacle.

23Of which twenty were at the south side

southward,

24With forty sockets of silver, two sockets

were put under one board on the two sides of

the corners, where the mortises of the sides end

in the corners.

25At that side also of the tabernacle, that

looketh towards the north, he made twenty

boards,

26With forty sockets of silver, two sockets for

every board.

27But against the west, to wit, at that side

of the tabernacle, which looketh to the sea, he

made six boards,

28And two others at each corner of the taber-

nacle behind:

29Which were also joined from beneath unto

the top, and went together into one joint. Thus

he did on both sides at the corners:

30So there were in all eight boards, and they

had sixteen sockets of silver, to wit, two sockets

under every board.Book of Exodus 113

31He made also bars of setim wood, ve to

hold together the boards of one side of the taber-

nacle,

32And ve others to join together the boards

of the other side; and besides these, ve other

bars at the west side of the tabernacle towards

the sea.

33He made also another bar, that might come

by the midst of the boards from corner to corner.

34And the boards themselves he overlaid with

gold casting for them sockets of silver. And their

rings he made of gold, through which the bars

might be drawn: and he covered the bars them-

selves with plates of gold.

35He made also a veil of violet, and purple,

scarlet and ne twisted linen, varied and distin-

guished with embroidery:

36And four pillars of setim wood, which with

their heads he overlaid with gold, casting for

them sockets of silver.

37He made also a hanging in the entry of

the tabernacle of violet, purple, scarlet, and ne

twisted linen, with the work of an embroiderer.

38And ve pillars with their heads, which he

covered with gold, and their sockets he cast of

brass.

Chapter 37

And Beseleel made also, the ark of setim wood:

it was two cubits and a half in length, and a

cubit and a half in breadth, and the height was

of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with

the purest gold within and without.

2And he made to it a crown of gold round

about,

3Casting four rings of gold at the four corners

thereof: two rings in one side, and two in the

other.4And he made bars of setim wood, which he

overlaid with gold,

5And he put them into the rings that were at

the sides of the ark to carry it.

6He made also the propitiatory, that is, the

oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half

in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth.

7Two cherubims also of beaten gold, which

he set on the two sides of the propitiatory:

8One cherub in the top of one side, and the

other cherub in the top of the other side: two

cherubims at the two ends of the propitiatory,

9Spreading their wings, and covering the pro-

pitiatory, and looking one towards the other, and

towards it.

10He made also the table of setim wood, in

length two cubits, and in breadth one cubit, and

in height it was a cubit and a half.

11And he overlaid it with the nest gold, and

he made to it a golden ledge round about,

12And to the ledge itself he made a polished

crown of gold, of four ngers breadth, and upon

the same another golden crown.

13And he cast four rings of gold, which he

put in the four corners at each foot of the table,

14Over against the crown: and he put the

bars into them, that the table might be carried.

15The bars also themselves he made of setim

wood, and overlaid them with gold.

16And the vessels for the divers uses of the

table, dishes, bowls, and cups, and censers of

pure gold, wherein the libations are to be oered.

17He made also the candlestick of beaten

work of the nest gold. from the shaft whereof

its branches, its cups, and bowls, and lilies came

out:

19Three cups in manner of a nut on each

branch, and bowls withal and lilies: and three

cups of the fashion of a nut in another branch,

and bowls withal and lilies. The work of the six114 Book of Exodus

branches, that went out from the shaft of the

candlestick was equal.

20And in the shaft itself were four cups after

the manner of a nut, and bowls withal at every

one, and lilies:

21And bowls under two branches in three

places, which together made six branches going

out from one shaft.

22So both the bowls, and the branches were

of the same, all beaten work of the purest gold.

23He made also the seven lamps with their

snuers, and the vessels where the snungs were

to be put out, of the purest gold.

24The candlestick with all the vessels thereof

weighed a talent of gold.

25He made also the alter of incense of setim

wood, being a cubit on every side foursquare,

and in height two cubits: from the corners of

which went out horns.

26And he overlaid it with the purest gold,

with its grate, and the sides, and the horns.

27And he made to it a crown of gold round

about, and two golden rings under the crown at

each side, that the bars might be put into them,

and the altar be carried.

28And the bars themselves he made also of

setim wood, and overlaid them with plates of

gold.

29He compounded also the oil for the oint-

ment of sanctication, and incense of the purest

spices, according to the work of a perfumer.

Chapter 38

He made also the altar of holocaust of setim

wood, ve cubits square, and three in height:

2The horns whereof went out from the cor-

ners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass.

3And for the uses thereof, he prepared diversvessels of brass, cauldrons, tongs,

eshhooks,

pothooks and repans.

4And he made the grate thereof of brass, in

manner of a net, and under it in the midst of the

altar a hearth,

5Casting four rings at the four ends of the net

at the top, to put in bars to carry it:

6And he made the bars of setim wood, and

overlaid them with plates of brass:

7And he drew them through the rines that

stood out in the sides of the altar. And the altar

itself was not solid, but hollow, of boards, and

empty within.

8He made also the laver of brass, with the

foot thereof, of the mirrors of the women that

watched at the door of the tabernacle.

9He made also the court, in the south side

whereof were hangings of ne twisted linen of a

hundred cubits.

10Twenty pillars of brass with their sockets,

the beads of the pillars, and the whole graving

of the work, of silver.

11In like manner at the north side the hang-

ings, the pillars, and the sockets and heads of

the pillars were of the same measure, and work

and metal.

12But on that side that looketh to the west,

there were hangings of fty cubits, ten pillars of

brass with their sockets, and the heads of the

pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver.

13Moreover, towards the east he prepared

hangings of fty cubits:

14Fifteen cubits of which, were on one side

with three pillars, and their sockets:

15And on the other side (for between the two

he made the entry of the tabernacle) there were

hangings equally of fteen cubits, and three pil-

lars, and as many sockets.

16All the hangings of the court were woven

with twisted linen.Book of Exodus 115

17The sockets of the pillars were of brass,

and their heads with all their gravings of silver:

and he overlaid the pillars of the court also with

silver.

18And he made in the entry thereof an em-

broidered hanging of violet, purple, scarlet, and

ne twisted linen, that was twenty cubits long,

and ve cubits high, according to the measnre of

all the hangings of the court.

19And the pillars in the entry were four, with

sockets of brass, and their heads and gravings of

silver.

20The pins also of the tabernacle and of the

court round about he made of brass.

21These are the instruments of the tabernacle

of the testimony, which were counted according

to the commandment of Moses, in the ceremonies

of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of

Aaron the priest:

22Which Beseleel, the son of Uri, the son of

Hur of the tribe of Juda, had made, as the Lord

commanded by Moses.
23Having for his companion Ooliab, the son

of Achisamech, of the tribe of Dan: who also was

an ex- cellent articer in wood, and worker in

tapestry and embroidery in violet, purple, scar-

let, and ne linen.

24All the gold that was spent in the work

of the sanctuary, and that was oered in gifts,

was nine and twenty talents, and seven hundred

and thirty sicles according to the standard of the

sanctuary.

25And it was oered by them that went to be

numbered, from twenty years old and upwards,

of six hundred and three thousand ve hundred

and fty men able to bear arms.

26There were moreover a hundred talents of

silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanc-

tuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.

27A hundred sockets were made of a hun-dred talents, one talent being reckoned for every

socket.

28And of the thousand seven hundred and

seventy- ve he made the heads of the pillars,

which also he overlaid with silver.

29And there were oered of brass also

seventy-two thousand talents, and four hundred

sicles besides,

30Of which were cast the sockets in the entry

of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the al-

tar of brass with the grate thereof, and also the

vessels that belong to the use thereof.

31And the sockets of the court as well round

about as in the entry thereof, and the pins of the

tabernacle, and of the court round about.

Chapter 39

And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and

ne linen, the vestments for Aaron to wear when

he ministered in the holy places, as the Lord

commanded Moses.

2So he made an ephod of gold, violet, and

purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and ne twisted

linen,

3With embroidered work, and he cut thin

plates of gold, and drew them small into threads,

that they might be twisted with the woof of the

foresaid colours,

4And two borders coupled one to the other

in the top on either side,

5And a girdle of the same colours, as the Lord

had commanded Moses.

6He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set

and closed in gold, and graven, by the art of a

lapidary, with the names of the children of Israel:

7And he set them in the sides of the ephod,

for a memorial of the children of Israel, as the

Lord had commanded Moses.116 Book of Exodus

8He made also a rational with embroidered

work, according to the work of the ephod, of

gold, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and

ne twisted linen:

9Foursquare, double, of the measure of a

span.

10And he set four rows of precious stones in

it. In the rst row was a sardius, a topaz, an

emerald.

11In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and

a jasper.

12In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and an

amethyst.

13In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a

beryl, set and enclosed in gold by their rows.

14And the twelve stones, were engraved with

the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, each one

with its several name.

15They made also in the rational little chains,

linked one to another, of the purest gold,

16And two hooks, and as many rings of gold.

And they set the rings on either side of the ra-

tional,

17On which rings the two golden chains

should hang, which they put into the hooks that

stood out in the corners of the ephod.

18These both before and behind so answered

one another, that the ephod and the rational

were bound together,

19Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly

coupled with rings, which a violet llet joined,

lest they should

ag loose, and be moved one

from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses.

20They made also the tunic of the ephod all

of violet,

21And a hole for the head in the upper part

at the middle, and a woven border round about

the hole:

22And beneath at the feet pomegranates of

violet, purple, scarlet, and ne twisted linen:23And little bells of the purest gold, which

they put between the pomegranates at the bot-

tom of the tunic round about:

24To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate,

wherewith the high priest went adorned, when

he discharged his ministry, as the Lord had com-

manded Moses.

25They made also ne linen tunics with wo-

ven work for Aaron and his sons:

26And mitres with their little crowns of ne

linen:

27And linen breeches of ne linen:

28And a girdle of ne twisted linen, violet,

purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery

work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

29They made also the plate of sacred vener-

ation of the purest gold, and they wrote on it

with the engraving of a lapidary: The Holy of

the Lord:

30And they fastened it to the mitre with a

violet llet, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

31So all the work of the tabernacle and of

the roof of the testimony was nished: and the

children of Israel did all things which the Lord

had commanded Moses.

32And they oered the tabernacle, and the

roof, and the whole furniture, the rings, the

boards, the bars, the pillars and their sockets,

33The cover of rams' skins dyed red, and the

other cover of violet skins,

34The veil, the ark, the bars, the propitiatory,

35The table, with the vessels thereof, and the

loaves of proposition:

36The candlestick, the lamps, and the furni-

ture of them, with the oil:

37The altar of gold, and the ointment, and

the incense of spices:

38And the hanging in the entry of the taber-

nacle:Book of Exodus 117

39The altar of brass, the grate, the bars, and

all the vessels thereof: the laver, with the foot

thereof: the hangings of the court, and the pil-

lars, with their sockets:

40The hanging in the entry of the court, and

the little cords, and the pins thereof. Noth-

ing was wanting of the vessels, that were com-

manded to be made for the ministry of the taber-

nacle, and for the roof of the covenant.

41The vestments also, which the priests, to

wit, Aaron and his sons, use in the sanctuary,

42The children of Israel oered, as the Lord

had commanded.

43And when Moses saw all things nished,

he blessed them.

Chapter 40

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2The rst month, the rst day of the month,

thou shalt set up the tabernacle of the testimony,

3And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let

down the veil before it:

4And thou shalt bring in the table, and set

upon it the things that are commanded accord-

ing to the rite. The candlestick shall stand with

its lamps,

5And the altar of gold, whereon the incense

is burnt before the ark of the testimony. Thou

shalt put the hanging in the entry of the taber-

nacle,

6And before it the altar of holocaust.

7The laver between the altar and the taber-

nacle, and thou shalt ll it with water.

8And thou shalt encompass the court with

hangings, and the entry thereof.

9And thou shalt take the oil of unction and

anoint the tabernacle with its vessels, that they

may be sanctied:10The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:

11The laver with its foot: thou shalt conse-

crate all with the oil of unction, that they may

be most holy.

12And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons

to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,

and having washed them with water,

13Thou shalt put on them the holy vest-

ments, that they may minister to me, and that

the unction of them may prosper to an everlast-

ing priesthood.

14And Moses did all that the Lord had com-

manded.
15So in the rst month of the second year,

the rst day of the month, the tabernacle was

set up.

16And Moses reared it up, and placed the

boards and the sockets and the bars, and set up

the pillars,

17And spread the roof over the tabernacle,

putting over it a cover, as the Lord had com-

manded.

18And he put the testimony in the ark,

thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

19And when he had brought the ark into the

tabernacle, he drew the veil before it to full the

command ment of the Lord.

20And he set the table in the tabernacle of

the testimony, at the north side, without the veil,

21Setting there in order the loaves of propo-

sition, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

22He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle

of the testimony, over against the table on the

south side,

23Placing the lamps in order, according to

the precept of the Lord.

24He set also the altar of gold under the roof

of the testimony, over against the veil,

25And burnt upon it the incense of spices, as

the Lord had commanded Moses.118 Book of Exodus

26And he put also the hanging in the entry

of the tabernacle of the testimony,

27And the altar of holocaust in the entry of

the testimony, oering the holocaust, and the

sacrices upon it, as the Lord had commanded.

28And he set the laver between the taberna-

cle of the testimony and the altar, lling it with

water.

29And Moses and Aaron, and his sons,

washed their hands and feet,

30When they went into the tabernacle of the

covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had

commanded Moses.

31He set up also the court round about the

tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging

in the entry thereof. After all things were per-

fected,

32The cloud covered the tabernacle of the

testimony, and the glory of the Lord lled it.

33Neither could Moses go into the tabernacle

of the covenant, the cloud covering all things,

and the majesty of the Lord shining, for the

cloud had covered all.

34If at any time the cloud removed from the

tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward

by their troops:

35If it hung over, they remained in the same

place.

36For the cloud of the Lord hung over the

tabernacle by day, and a re by night, in the

sight of all the children of Israel throughout all

their mansions.Book of Leviticus

Chapter 1

And the Lord called Moses, and spoke to him

from the tabernacle of the testimony, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: The man among you that

shall oer to the Lord a sacrice of the cattle,

that is, oering victims of oxen and sheep:

3If his oering be a holocaust, and of the herd,

he shall oer a male without blemish, at the door

of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to

him.

4And he shall put his hand upon the head of

the victim: and it shall be acceptable, and help

to its expiation.

5And he shall immolate the calf before the

Lord: and the priests the sons of Aaron shall of-

fer the blood thereof, pouring it round about the

altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.

6And when they have

ayed the victim, they

shall cut the joints into pieces:

7And shall put re on the altar, having before

laid in order a pile of wood.

8And they shall lay the parts that are cut

out in order thereupon: to wit, the head, and all

things that cleave to the liver;

9The entrails and feet being washed with wa-

ter. And the priest shall burn them upon the

altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savour to the

Lord.

10And if the oering be of the

ocks, a holo-

caust of sheep or of goats, he shall oer a malewithout blemish.

11And he shall immolate it at the side of

the altar that looketh to the north, before the

Lord: but the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood

thereof upon the altar round about.

12And they shall divide the joints, the head,

and all that cleave to the liver: and shall lay

them upon the wood, under which the re is to

be put.

13But the entrails and the feet they shall

wash with water. And the priest shall oer it all

and burn it all upon the altar for a holocaust,

and most sweet savour to the Lord.

14But if the oblation of a holocaust to the

Lord be of birds, of turtles, or of young pigeons:

15The priest shall oer it at the altar: and

twisting back the neck, and breaking the place

of the wound, he shall make the blood run down

upon the brim of the altar.

16But the crop of the throat, and the feathers

he shall cast beside the altar at the east side, in

the place where the ashes are wont to be poured

out.

17And he shall break the pinions thereof, and

shall not cut, nor divide it with a knife: and

shall burn it upon the altar, putting re under

the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most

sweet savour to the Lord.120 Book of Leviticus

Chapter 2

When any one shall oer an oblation of sacrice

to the Lord, his oering shall be of ne

our: and

he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,

2And shall bring it to the sons of Aaron the

priests. And one of them shall take a handful of

the

our and oil, and all the frankincense; and

shall put it a memorial upon the altar for a most

sweet savour to the Lord.

3And the remnant of the sacrice shall be

Aaron's, and his sons', holy of holies of the of-

ferings of the Lord.

4But when thou oerest a sacrice baked

in the oven of

our, to wit, loaves with-

out leaven, tempered with oil, and unleavened

wafers, anointed with oil:

5If thy oblation be from the fryingpan, of

our tempered with oil, and without leaven:

6Thou shalt divide it into little pieces, and

shalt pour oil upon it.

7And if the sacrice be from the gridiron, in

like manner the

our shall be tempered with oil.

8And when thou oerest it to the Lord, thou

shalt deliver it to the hands of the priest.

9And when he hath oered it, he shall take a

memorial out of the sacrice, and burn it upon

the altar for a sweet savour to the Lord.

10And whatsoever is left, shall be Aaron's,

and his sons': holy of holies of the oerings of

the Lord.

11Every oblation that is oered to the Lord

shall be made without leaven: neither shall any

leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrice to the

Lord.

12You shall oer only the rstfruits of them

and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the

altar, for a savour of sweetness.

13Whatsoever sacrice thou oerest, thou

shalt season it with salt: neither shalt thou takeaway the salt of the covenant of thy God from

thy sacrice. In all thy oblations thou shalt oer

salt.

14But if thou oer a gift of the rstfruits of

thy corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, thou

shalt dry it at the re, and break it small like

meal; and so shalt thou oer thy rstfruits to

the Lord:

15Pouring oil upon it and putting on frank-

incense, because it is the oblation of the Lord.

16Whereof the priest shall burn for a memo-

rial of the gift, part of the corn broken small and

of the oil, and all the frankincense.

Chapter 3

And if his oblation be a sacrice of peace oer-

ings, and he will oer of the herd, whether male

or female: he shall oer them without blemish

before the Lord.

2And he shall lay his hand upon the head of

his victim, which shall be slain in the entry of

the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons

of Aaron the priests shall pour the blood round

about upon the altar.

3And they shall oer of the sacrice of peace

oerings, for an oblation to the Lord: the fat

that covereth the entrails, and all the fat that is

within,

4The two kidneys with the fat wherewith the

anks are covered, and the caul of the liver with

the two little kidneys.

5And they shall burn them upon the altar,

for a holocaust, putting re under the wood: for

an oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.

6But if his oblation and the sacrice of peace

oering be of the

ock, whether he oer male or

female, they shall be without blemish.

7If he oer a lamb before the Lord:Book of Leviticus 121

8He shall put his hand upon the head of the

victim. And it shall be slain in the entry of

the tabernacle of the testimony: and the sons of

Aaron shall pour the blood thereof round about

upon the altar.

9And they shall oer of the victim of peace

oerings, a sacrice to the Lord: the fat and the

whole rump,

10With the kidneys, and the fat that covereth

the belly and all the vitals and both the little

kidneys, with the fat that is about the

anks,

and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.

11And the priest shall burn them upon the

altar, for the food of the re, and of the oblation

of the Lord.

12If his oering be a goat, and he oer it to

the Lord:

13He shall put his hand upon the head

thereof: and shall immolate it in the entry of

the tabernacle of the testimony. And the sons of

Aaron shall pour the blood thereof round about

upon the altar.

14And they shall take of it for the food of the

Lord's re, the fat that covereth the belly, and

that covereth all the vital parts:

15The two little kidneys with the caul that

is upon them which is by the

anks, and the fat

of the liver with the little kidneys.

16And the priest shall burn them upon the

altar, for the food of the re, and of a most sweet

savour. All the fat shall be the Lord's.

17By a perpetual law for your generations,

and in all your habitations: neither blood nor

fat shall you eat at all.

Chapter 4

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Say to the children of Israel: The soul thatsinneth through ignorance, and doth any thing

concerning any of the commandments of the

Lord, which he commanded not to be done:

3If the priest that is anointed shall sin, mak-

ing the people to oend, he shall oer to the Lord

for his sin a calf without blemish.

4And he shall bring it to the door of the tes-

timony before the Lord: and shall put his hand

upon the head thereof, and shall sacrice it to

the Lord.

5He shall take also of the blood of the calf:

and carry it into the tabernacle of the testimony.

6And having dipped his nger in the blood,

he shall sprinkle with it seven times before the

Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.

7And he shall put some of the same blood

upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense

most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the

tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour

all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar

of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle.

8And he shall take o the fat of the calf for

the sin oering, as well that which covereth the

entrails, as all the inwards:

9The two little kidneys, and the caul that is

upon them, which is by the

anks, and the fat

of the liver with the little kidneys:

10As it is taken o from the calf of the sacri-

ce of peace oerings. And he shall burn them

upon the altar of holocaust.

11But the skin and all the

esh with the head

and the feet and the bowels and the dung:

12And the rest of the body, he shall carry

forth without the camp into a clean place where

the ashes are wont to be poured out: and he shall

burn them upon a pile of wood. They shall be

burnt in the place where the ashes are poured

out.

13And if all the multitude of Israel shall be

ignorant, and through ignorance shall do that122 Book of Leviticus

which is against the commandment of the Lord,

14And afterwards shall understand their sin:

they shall oer for their sin a calf, and shall bring

it to the door of the tabernacle.

15And the ancients of the people shall put

their hands upon the head thereof before the

Lord. And the calf being immolated in the sight

of the Lord:

16The priest that is anointed shall carry of

the blood into the tabernacle of the testimony.

17And shall dip his nger in it and sprinkle

it seven times before the veil.

18And he shall put of the same blood on the

horns of the altar that is before the Lord, in the

tabernacle of the testimony. And the rest of the

blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of

holocaust, which is at the door of the tabernacle

of the testimony.

19And all the fat thereof he shall take o,

and shall burn it upon the altar:

20Doing so with this calf, as he did also with

that before. And the priest praying for them,

the Lord will be merciful unto them.

21But the calf itself he shall carry forth with-

out the camp, and shall burn it as he did the

former calf: because it is for the sin of the mul-

titude.

22If a prince shall sin, and through ignorance

do any one of the things that the law of the Lord

forbiddeth,

23And afterwards shall come to know his sin:

he shall oer a buck goat without blemish, a sac-

rice to the Lord.

24And he shall put his hand upon the head

thereof: and when he hath immolated it in the

place where the holocaust is wont to be slain

before the Lord, because it is for sin,

25The priest shall dip his nger in the blood

of the victim for sin, touching therewith thehorns of the altar of holocaust, and pouring out

the rest at the foot thereof.

26But the fat he shall burn upon it, as is wont

to be done with the victims of peace oerings.

And the priest shall pray for him, and for his

sin: and it shall be forgiven him.

27And if any one of the people of the land

shall sin through ignorance, doing any of those

things that by the law of the Lord are forbidden,

and oending,

28And shall come to know his sin: he shall

oer a she goat without blemish.

29And he shall put his hand upon the head

of the victim that is for sin: and shall immolate

it in the place of the holocaust.

30And the priest shall take of the blood with

his nger, and shall touch the horns of the altar

of holocaust: and shall pour out the rest at the

foot thereof.
31But taking o all the fat, as is wont to be

taken away of the victims of peace oerings, he

shall burn it upon the altar, for a sweet savour

to the Lord: and he shall pray for him, and it

shall be forgiven him.

32But if he oer of the

ock a victim for his

sin, to wit, an ewe without blemish:

33He shall put his hand upon the head

thereof, and shall immolate it in the place where

the victims of holocausts are wont to be slain.

34And the priest shall take of the blood

thereof with his nger, and shall touch the horns

of the altar of holocaust: and the rest he shall

pour out at the foot thereof.

35All the fat also he shall take o, as the fat

of the ram that is oered for peace oerings is

wont to be taken away: and shall burn it upon

the altar, for a burnt sacrice of the Lord. And

he shall pray for him and his sin, and it shall be

forgiven him.Book of Leviticus 123

Chapter 5

If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing,

and is a witness either because he himself hath

seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he

shall bear his iniquity.

2Whosoever toucheth any unclean thing, ei-

ther that which hath been killed by a beast, or

died of itself, or any other creeping thing: and

forgetteth his uncleanness, he is guilty, and hath

oended.

3And if he touch any thing of the uncleanness

of man, according to any uncleanness wherewith

he is wont to be deled: and having forgotten it,

come afterwards to know it, he shall be guilty of

an oence.

4The person that sweareth, and uttereth with

his lips, that he would do either evil or good,

and bindeth the same with an oath, and his

word: and having forgotten it afterwards under-

standeth his oence,

5Let him do penance for his sin:

6And oer of the

ocks an ewe lamb, or a she

goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for

his sin.

7But if he be not able to oer a beast, let him

oer two turtles, or two young pigeons to the

Lord, one for sin, and the other for a holocaust,

8And he shall give them to the priest: who

shall oer the rst for sin, and twist back the

head of it to the little pinions, so that it stick to

the neck, and be not altogether broken o.

9And of its blood he shall sprinkle the side

of the altar: and whatever is left, he shall let it

drop at the bottom thereof, because it is for sin.

10And the other he shall burn for a holocaust,

as is wont to be done. And the priest shall pray

for him, and for his sin, and it shall be forgiven

him.

11And if his hand be not able to oer twoturtles, or two young pigeons, he shall oer for

his sin the tenth part of an ephi of

our. He shall

not put oil upon it, nor put any frankincense

thereon, because it is for sin.

12And he shall deliver it to the priest, who

shall take a handful thereof, and shall burn it

upon the altar for a memorial of him that oered

it:

13Praying for him and making atonement.

But the part that is left, he himself shall have

for a gift.

14And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

15If any one shall sin through mistake, trans-

gressing the ceremonies in those things that are

sacriced to the Lord, he shall oer for his of-

fence a ram without blemish out of the

ocks,
that may be bought for two sicles, according to

the weight of the sanctuary.

16And he shall make good the damage itself

which he hath done, and shall add the fth part

besides, delivering it to the priest, who shall pray

for him, oering the ram: and it shall be forgiven

him.

17If any one sin through ignorance, and do

one of those things which by the law of the Lord

are forbidden, and being guilty of sin, under-

stand his iniquity:

18He shall oer of the

ocks a ram without

blemish to the priest, according to the measure

and estimation of the sin. And the priest shall

pray for him, because he did it ignorantly: And

it shall be forgiven him,

19Because by mistake he trespassed against

the Lord.

Chapter 6

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord,124 Book of Leviticus

shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to

his keeping, which was committed to his trust;

or shall by force extort any thing, or commit

oppression;
3Or shall nd a thing lost, and denying it,

shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of

the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:

4Being convicted of the oence, he shall re-

store

5All that he would have gotten by fraud, in

the principal, and the fth part besides, to the

owner, whom he wronged.

6Moreover for his sin he shall oer a ram with-

out blemish out of the

ock: and shall give it to

the priest, according to the estimation and mea-

sure of the oence.

7And he shall pray for him before the Lord:

and he shall have forgiveness for every thing in

doing of which he bath sinned.

8And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

9Command Aaron and his sons: This is the

law of a holocaust. It shall be burnt upon the

altar, all night until morning: the re shall be of

the same altar.

10The priest shall be vested with the tunick

and the linen breeches; and he shall take up

the ashes of that which the devouring re hath

burnt: and putting them beside the altar,

11Shall put o his former vestments, and be-

ing clothed with others, shall carry them forth

without the camp, and shall cause them to be

consumed to dust in a very clean place.

12And the re on the altar shall always burn,

and the priest shall feed it, putting wood on it ev-

ery day in the morning: and laying on the holo-

caust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace

oerings.

13This is the perpetual re which shall never

go out on the altar.

14This is the law of the sacrice and libations,which the children of Aaron shall oer before the

Lord, and before the altar.

15The priest shall take a handful of the

our

that is tempered with oil, and all the frankin-

cense that is put upon the

our: and he shall

burn on the altar for a memorial of most sweet

odour to the Lord.

16And the part of the

our that is left, Aaron

and his sons shall eat, without leaven: and he

shall eat it in the holy place of the court of the

tabernacle.

17And therefore it shall not be leavened, be-

cause part thereof is oered for the burnt sacri-

ce of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that

which is oered for sin and for trespass.

18The males only of the race of Aaron shall

eat it. It shall be an ordinance everlasting in

your generations concerning the sacrices of the

Lord: Every one that toucheth them shall be

sanctied.

19And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

20This is the oblation of Aaron, and of his

sons, which they must oer to the Lord, in the

day of their anointing. They shall oer the tenth

part of an ephi of

our for a perpetual sacrice,

half of it in the morning, and half of it in the

evening.

21It shall be tempered with oil, and shall be

fried in a fryingpan.

22And the priest that rightfully succeedeth

his father, shall oer it hot, for a most sweet

odour to the Lord: and it shall he wholly burnt

on the altar.

23For every sacrice of the priest shall be

consumed with re: neither shall any man eat

thereof.

24And the Lord spoke to Moses. saying:

25Say to Aaron and his sons: This is the law

of the victim for sin. In the place where the

holocaust is oered, it shall be immolated beforeBook of Leviticus 125

the Lord. It is holy of holies.

26The priest that oereth it, shall eat it in a

holy place, in the court of the tabernacle.

27Whatsoever shall touch the

esh thereof,

shall be sanctied. If a garment be sprinkled

with the blood thereof, it shall be washed in a

holy place.

28And the earthen vessel, wherein it was sod-

den, shall be broken: but if the vessel be of brass,

it shall be scoured, and washed with water.

29Every male of the priestly race shall eat of

the

esh thereof, because it is holy of holies.

30For the victim that is slain for sin, the

blood of which is carried into the tabernacle of

the testimony to make atonement in the sanctu-

ary, shall not be eaten, but shall be burnt with

re.

Chapter 7

This also is the law of the sacrice for a trespass:

it is most holy.

2Therefore where the holocaust is immolated,

the victim also for a trespass shall be slain: the

blood thereof shall be poured round about the

altar.

3They shall oer thereof the rump and the

fat that covereth the entrails:

4The two little kidneys, and the fat which is

by the

anks, and the caul of the liver with the

little kidneys.

5And the priest shall burn them upon the

altar: it is the burnt sacrice of the Lord for a

trespass.

6Every male of the priestly race, shall eat this

esh in a holy place, because it is most holy.

7As the sacrice for sin is oered, so is also

that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of

both these sacrices. It shall belong to the priestthat oereth it.

8The priest that oereth the victim of holo-

caust, shall have the skin thereof.

9And every sacrice of

our that is baked

in the oven, and whatsoever is dressed on the

gridiron, or in the fryingpan, shall be the priest's

that oereth it.

10Whether they be tempered with oil, or dry,

all the sons of Aaron shall have one as much as

another.

11This is the law of the sacrice of peace

oerings that is oered to the Lord.

12If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they

shall oer loaves without leaven tempered with

oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and

ne

our fried, and cakes tempered and mingled

with oil.

13Moreover loaves of leavened bread with the

sacrice of thanks, which is oered for peace of-

ferings:

14Of which one shall be oered to the Lord

for rstfruits, and shall be the priest's that shall

pour out the blood of the victim.

15And the

esh of it shall be eaten the same

day: neither shall any of it remain until the

morning.

16If any man by vow, or of his own accord

oer a sacrice, it shall in like manner be eaten

the same day. And if any of it remain until the

morrow, it is lawful to eat it.

17But whatsoever shall be found on the third

day shall be consumed with re.

18If any man eat of the

esh of the victim

of peace oerings on the third day, the oblation

shall be of no eect: neither shall it prot the

oerer. Yea rather, whatsoever soul shall dele

itself with such meat, shall be guilty of trans-

gression.

19The

esh that hath touched any unclean

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re. He that is clean shall eat of it.

20If any one that is deled shall eat of the

esh of the sacrice of peace oerings, which is

oered to the Lord, he shall be cut o from his

people.

21And he that hath touched the uncleanness

of man, or of beast, or of any thing that can

dele, and shall eat of such kind of

esh: shall

be cut o from his people.

22And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

23Say to the children of Israel: The fat of a

sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat you shall not

eat.

24The fat of a carcass that hath died of itself,

and of a beast that was caught by another beast,

you shall have for divers uses.

25If any man eat the fat that should be of-

fered for the burnt sacrice of the Lord, he shall

perish out of his people.

26Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any

creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts.

27Every one that eateth blood, shall perish

from among the people.

28And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

29Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He

that oereth a victim of peace oerings to the

Lord, let him oer therewith a sacrice also, that

is, the libations thereof.

30He shall hold in his hands the fat of the

victim, and the breast. And when he hath of-

fered and consecrated both to the Lord, he shall

deliver them to the priest,

31Who shall burn the fat upon the altar. But

the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

32The right shoulder also of the victim, of

peace oerings shall fall to the priest for rst-

fruits.

33He among the sons of Aaron, that oereth

the blood, and the fat: he shall have the right

shoulder also for his portion.34For the breast that is elevated and the

shoulder that is separated I have taken of the

children of Israel, from o their victims of peace

oerings: and have given them to Aaron the

priest, and to his sons, by a law for ever, from

all the people of Israel.

35This is the anointing of Aaron and his sons,

in the ceremonies of the Lord, in the day when

Moses oered them, that they might do the oce

of priesthood,

36And the things that the Lord commanded

to be given them by the children of Israel, by a

perpetual observance in their generations.

37This is the law of holocaust, and of the

sacrice for sin, and for trespass, and for conse-

cration, and the victims of peace oerings:

38Which the Lord appointed to Moses in

mount Sinai, when he commanded the children

of Israel, that they should oer their oblations

to the Lord in the desert of Sinai.

Chapter 8

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Take Aaron with his sons, their vestments,

and the oil of unction: a calf for sin, two rams,

a basket with unleavened bread.

3And thou shalt gather together all the con-

gregation to the door of the tabernacle.

4And Moses did as the Lord had commanded.

And all the multitude being gathered together

before the door of the tabernacle:

5He said: This is the word that the Lord hath

commanded to be done.

6And immediately, he oered Aaron and his

sons. And when he had washed them,

7He vested the high priest with the strait

linen garment, girding him with the girdle, and

putting on him the violet tunick: and over it heBook of Leviticus 127

put the ephod.

8And binding it with the girdle, he tted it to

the rational, on which was Doctrine and Truth.

9He put also the mitre upon his head: and

upon the mitre over the forehead, he put the

plate of gold, consecrated with sanctication, as

the Lord had commanded him.

10He took also the oil of unction, with which

he anointed the tabernacle, with all the furniture

thereof.

11And when he had sanctied and sprinkled

the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all

the vessels thereof: and the laver with the foot

thereof, he sanctied with the oil.

12And he poured it upon Aaron's head: and

he anointed and consecrated him.

13And after he had oered his sons, he vested

them with linen tunicks, and girded them with

girdles: and put mitres on them as the Lord had

commanded.

14He oered also the calf for sin: and when

Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon the

head thereof,

15He immolated it: and took the blood, and

dipping his nger in it, he touched the horns of

the altar round about. Which being expiated,

and sanctied, he poured the rest of the blood

at the bottom thereof.

16But the fat that was upon the entrails, and

the caul of the liver, and the two little kidneys,

with their fat, he burnt upon the altar.

17And the calf with the skin, and the

esh

and the dung, he burnt without the camp, as the

Lord had commanded.

18He oered also a ram for holocaust. And

when Aaron and his sons had put their hands

upon its head:

19He immolated it, and poured the blood

thereof round about the altar.20And cutting the ram into pieces, the head

thereof, and the joints, and the fat he burnt in

the re.

21Having rst washed the entrails, and the

feet, and the whole ram together he burnt upon

the altar: because it was a holocaust of most

sweet odour to the Lord, as he had commanded

him.

22He oered also the second ram, in the con-

secration of priests: and Aaron, and his sons put

their hands upon the head thereof.

23And when Moses had immolated it, he

took of the blood thereof, and touched the tip

of Aaron's right ear, and the thumb of his right

hand, and in like manner also the great toe of

his right foot.

24He oered also the sons of Aaron: and

when with the blood of the ram that was immo-

lated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of

every one of them, and the thumbs of their right

hands, and the great toes of their right feet, the

rest he poured on the altar round about.

25But the fat, and the rump, and all the fat

that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the

liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and

with the right shoulder, he separated.

26And taking out of the basket of unleavened

bread, which was before the Lord, a loaf without

leaven, and a cake tempered with oil and a wafer,

he put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder:

27Delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons.

Who having lifted them up before the Lord,

28He took them again from their hands, and

burnt them upon the altar of holocaust: because

it was the oblation of consecration, for a sweet

odour of sacrice to the Lord.

29And he took of the ram of consecration,

the breast for his portion, elevating it before the

Lord, as the Lord had commanded him.

30And taking the ointment, and the blood128 Book of Leviticus

that was upon the altar, he sprinkled Aaron, and

his vestments, and his sons, and their vestments

with it.

31And when he had sanctied them in their

vestments, he commanded them, saying: Boil

the

esh before the door of the tabernacle, and

there eat it. Eat ye also the loaves of conse-

cration, that are laid in the basket, as the Lord

commanded me, saying: Aaron and his sons shall

eat them.

32And whatsoever shall be left of the

esh

and the loaves, shall be consumed with re.

33And you shall not go out of the door of the

tabernacle for seven days, until the day wherein

the time of your consecration shall be expired.

For in seven days the consecration is nished:

34As at this present it hath been done, that

the rite of the sacrice might be accomplished.

35Day and night shall you remain in the

tabernacle observing the watches of the Lord,

lest you die. For so it hath been commanded

me.

36And Aaron and his sons did all things

which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.

Chapter 9

And when the eighth day was come, Moses called

Aaron and his sons, and the ancients of Israel,

and said to Aaron:

2Take of the herd a calf for sin, and a ram

for a holocaust, both without blemish, and oer

them before the Lord.

3And to the children of Israel thou shalt say:

Take ye a he goat for sin, and a calf, and a lamb,

both of a year old, and without blemish for a

holocaust.

4Also a bullock and a ram for peace oerings.

And immolate them before the Lord, oering forthe sacrice of every one of them

our tempered

with oil: for to day the Lord will appear to you.

5They brought therefore all things that Moses

had commanded before the door of the taberna-

cle: where when all the multitude stood,

6Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord

hath commanded. Do it, and his glory will ap-

pear to you.

7And he said to Aaron: Approach to the al-

tar, and oer sacrice for thy sin. Oer the holo-

caust, and pray for thyself and for the people:

and when thou hast slain the people's victim,

pray for them, as the Lord hath commanded.

8And forthwith Aaron, approaching to the

altar, immolated the calf for his sin.

9And his sons brought him the blood of it:

and he dipped his nger therein, and touched

the horns of the altar, and poured the rest at

the foot thereof.

10And the fat, and the little kidneys, and the

caul of the liver, which are for sin, he burnt upon

the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

11But the

esh and skins thereof he burnt

with re without the camp.

12He immolated also the victim of holocaust:

and his sons brought him the blood thereof,

which he poured round about on the altar.

13And the victim being cut into pieces, they

brought to him the head and all the members:

all which he burnt with re upon the altar.

14Having rst washed the entrails and the

feet with water.

15Then oering for the sin of the people, he

slew the he goat: and expiating the altar,

16He oered the holocaust.

17Adding in the sacrice the libations, which

are oered withal, and burning them upon the

altar, besides the ceremonies of the morning

holocaust.Book of Leviticus 129

18He immolated also the bullock and the ram,

and peace oerings of the people: and his sons

brought him the blood, which he poured upon

the altar round about.

19The fat also of the bullock, and the rump

of the ram, and the two little kidneys with their

fat, and the caul of the liver,

20They put upon the breasts. And after the

fat was burnt upon the altar,

21Aaron separated their breasts, and the

right shoulders, elevating them before the Lord,

as Moses had commanded.

22And stretching forth his hands to the peo-

ple, he blessed them. And so the victims for sin,

and the holocausts, and the peace oerings being

nished, he came down.

23And Moses and Aaron went into the taber-

nacle of the testimony, and afterwards came

forth and blessed the people. And the glory of

the Lord appeared to all the multitude.

24And, behold, a re, coming forth from the

Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that

was upon the altar: which when the multitude

saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.

Chapter 10

And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking

their censers, put re therein, and incense on it,

oering before the Lord strange re: which was

not commanded them.

2And re coming out from the Lord destroyed

them: and they died before the Lord.

3And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the

Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctied in them

that approach to me: and I will be gloried in

the sight of all the people. And when Aaron

heard this, he held his peace.

4And Moses called Misael and Elisaphan, thesons of Oziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to

them: Go and take away your brethren from be-

fore the sanctuary, and carry them without the

camp.

5And they went forthwith and took them as

they lay, vested with linen tunicks, and cast them

forth, as had been commanded them.

6And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar

and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover not your heads,

and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you

die, and indignation come upon all the congre-

gation. Let your brethren, and all the house of

Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has

kindled.

7But you shall not go out of the door of the

tabernacle: otherwise you shall perish, for the

oil of the holy unction is on you. And they did

all things according to the precept of Moses.

8The Lord also said to Aaron:

9You shall not drink wine nor any thing that

may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you

enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest

you die. Because it is an everlasting precept;

through your generations:

10And that you may have knowledge to dis-

cern between holy and unholy, between unclean

and clean:

11And may teach the children of Israel all my

ordinances which the Lord hath spoken to them

by the hand of Moses.

12And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar

and Ithamar, his sons that were left: Take the

sacrice that is remaining of the oblation of the

Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar,

because it is holy of holies.

13And you shall eat it in a holy place: which

is given to thee and thy sons of the oblations of

the Lord, as it hath been commanded me.

14The breast also that is oered, and the

shoulder that is separated, you shall eat in a130 Book of Leviticus

most clean place, thou and thy sons, and thy

daughters with thee. For they are set aside for

thee and thy children, of the victims of peace

oerings of the children of Israel.

15Because they have elevated before the Lord

the shoulder and the breast, and the fat that is

burnt on the altar: and they belong to thee and

to thy sons by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath

commanded.

16While these things were a doing, when

Moses sought for the buck goat, that had been

oered for sin, he found it burnt. And being an-

gry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron

that were left, he said:

17Why did you not eat in the holy place the

sacrice for sin, which is most holy, and given

to you, that you may bear the iniquity of the

people, and may pray for them in the sight of

the Lord.

18Especially, whereas none of the blood

thereof hath been carried within the holy places:

and you ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary,

as was commanded me?

19Aaron answered: This day hath been of-

fered the victim for sin, and the holocaust before

the Lord: and to me what thou seest has hap-

pened. How could I eat it, or please the Lord in

the ceremonies, having a sorrowful heart?

20Which when Moses had heard he was sat-

ised.

Chapter 11

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

2Say to the children of Israel: These are the

animals which you are to eat of all the living

things of the earth.

3Whatsoever hath the hoof divided, and

cheweth the cud among the beasts, you shall eat.4But whatsoever cheweth indeed the cud, and

hath a hoof, but divideth it not, as the camel,

and others: that you shall not eat, but shall

reckon it among the unclean.

5The cherogrillus which cheweth the cud, but

divideth not the hoof, is unclean.

6The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud,

but divideth not the hoof.

7And the swine, which, though it divideth

the hoof, cheweth not the cud.

8The

esh of these you shall not eat, nor shall

you touch their carcasses, because they are un-

clean to you.

9These are the things that breed in the wa-

ters, and which it is lawful to eat. All that hath

ns, and scales, as well in the sea, as in the rivers,

and the pools, you shall eat.

10But whatsoever hath not ns and scales,

of those things that move and live in the waters,

shall be an abomination to you,

11And detestable. Their

esh you shall not

eat: and their carcasses you shall avoid.

12All that have not ns and scales, in the

waters, shall be unclean.

13Of birds these are they which you must

not eat, and which are to be avoided by you:

The eagle, and the grion, and the osprey.

14And the kite, and the vulture, according

to their kind.

15And all that is of the raven kind, according

to their likeness.
16The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus,

and the hawk according to its kind.

17The screech owl, and the cormorant, and

the ibis.

18And the swan, and the bittern, and the

porphyrion.

19The heron, and the charadroin according

to its kind, the houp also, and the bat.Book of Leviticus 131

20Of things that

y, whatsoever goeth upon

four feet, shall be abominable to you.

21But whatsoever walketh upon four feet, but

hath the legs behind longer, wherewith it hop-

peth upon the earth,

22That you shall eat: as the bruchus in its

kind, the attacus, and ophimachus, and the lo-

cust, every, one according to their kind.

23But of

ying things whatsoever hath four

feet only, shall be an abomination to you.

24And whosoever shall touch the carcasses of

them, shall be deled: and shall be unclean until

the evening:

25And if it be necessary that he carry any of

these things when they are dead: he shall wash

his clothes, and shall be unclean until the sun

set.

26Every beast that hath a hoof, but divideth

it not, nor cheweth the cud shall be unclean: and

he that toucheth it, shall be deled.

27That which walketh upon hands of all an-

imals which go on all four, shall be unclean: he

that shall touch their carcasses shall be deled

until evening.

28And he that shall carry such carcasses,

shall wash his clothes, and shall be unclean until

evening: because all these things are unclean to

you.

29These also shall be reckoned among un-

clean things, of all that move upon the earth.

The weasel, and the mouse, and the crocodile,

every one according to their kind:

30The shrew, and the chameleon, and the

stellio, and the lizard, and the mole.

31All these are unclean. He that toucheth

their carcasses shall be unclean until the evening.

32And upon what thing soever any of their

carcasses shall fall, it shall be deled, whether

it be a vessel of wood, or a garment, or skins or

haircloths: or any thing in which work is done.They shall be dipped in water, and shall be un-

clean until the evening, and so afterwards shall

be clean.
33But an earthen vessel, into which any of

these shall fall, shall be deled: and therefore is

to be broken.

34Any meat which you eat, if water from such

a vessel be poured upon it, shall be unclean; and

every liquor that is drunk out of any such vessel,

shall be unclean.

35And upon whatsoever thing any of these

dead beasts shall fall, it shall be unclean.

Whether it be oven, or pots with feet, they shall

be destroyed, and shall be unclean.

36But fountains and cisterns, and all gather-

ings together of waters shall be clean. He that

toucheth their carcasses shall be deled.

37If it fall upon seed corn, it shall not dele

it.

38But if any man pour water upon the seed,

and afterwards it be touched by the carcasses, it

shall be forthwith deled.

39If any beast die, of which it is lawful for

you to eat, he that toucheth the carcass thereof,

shall be unclean until the evening.

40And he that eateth or carrieth any thing

thereof, shall wash his clothes, and shall be un-

clean until the evening.

41All that creepeth upon the earth shall be

abominable: neither shall it be taken for meat.

42Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four

feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth,

you shall not eat, because it is abominable.

43Do not dele your souls, nor touch aught

thereof, lest you be unclean,

44For I am the Lord your God. Be holy be-

cause I am holy. Dele not your souls by any

creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.

45For I am the Lord, who brought you out of

the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.132 Book of Leviticus

46You shall be holy, because I am holy. This

is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living

creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth

on the earth:

47That you may know the dierences of the

clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to

eat, and what to refuse.

Chapter 12

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: If a woman having received

seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean

seven days, according to the days of separation

of her

owers.
3And on the eighth day the infant shall be

circumcised:

4But she shall remain three and thirty days

in the blood of her purication. She shall touch

no holy thing: neither shall she enter into the

sanctuary, until the days of her purication, be

fullled.

5But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall

be unclean two weeks, according to the custom

of her monthly courses. And she shall remain in

the blood of her purication sixty-six days.

6And when the days of her purication are

expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall

bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testi-

mony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a

young pigeon or a turtle for sin: and shall deliver

them to the priest.

7Who shall oer them before the Lord, and

shall pray for her: and so she shall be cleansed

from the issue of her blood. This is the law for

her that beareth a man child or a maid child.

8And if her hand nd not suciency, and she

is not able to oer a lamb, she shall take two tur-tles, or two young pigeons, one for a holocaust,

and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for

her, and so she shall be cleansed.

Chapter 13
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

2The man in whose skin or

esh shall arise a

dierent colour or a blister, or as it were some-

thing shining, that is the stroke of the leprosy,

shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any or

of his sons.

3And if he see the leprosy in his skin, and

the hair turned white and the place where the

leprosy appears lower than the skin and the rest

of the

esh: it is the stroke of the leprosy, and

upon his judgment he shall be separated.

4But if there be a shining whiteness in the

skin, and not lower than the other

esh, and the

hair be of the former colour, the priest shall shut

him up seven days.

5And the seventh day he shall look on him:

and if the leprosy be grown no farther, and hath

not spread itself in the skin, he shall shut him

up again other seven days.

6And on the seventh day, he shall look on

him. If the leprosy be somewhat obscure, and

not spread in the skin, he shall declare him clean,

because it is but a scab: and the man shall wash

his clothes, and shall be clean.

7But, if the leprosy grow again, after he was

seen by the priest and restored to cleanness, he

shall be brought to him:

8And shall be condemned of uncleanness.

9If the stroke of the leprosy be in a man, he

shall be brought to the priest:

10And he shall view him. And when there

shall be a white colour in the skin, and it shall

have changed the look of the hair, and the livingBook of Leviticus 133

esh itself shall appear:

11It shall be judged an inveterate leprosy, and

grown into the skin. The priest therefore shall

declare him unclean: and shall not shut him up,

because he is evidently unclean.

12But if the leprosy spring out running about

in the skin, and cover all the skin from the head

to the feet, whatsoever falleth under the sight of

the eyes:

13The priest shall view him, and shall judge

that the leprosy which he has is very clean: be-

cause it is all turned into whiteness, and there-

fore the man shall be clean.

14But when the live

esh shall appear in him:

15Then by the judgment of the priest he shall

be deled, and shall be reckoned among the un-

clean. For live

esh, if it be spotted with leprosy,

is unclean.

16And if again it be turned into whiteness,

and cover all the man:

17The priest shall view him, and shall judge

him to be clean.

18When also there has been an ulcer in the

esh and the skin, and it has been healed:

19And in the place of the ulcer, there ap-

peareth a white scar, or somewhat red, the man

shall be brought to the priest.

20And when he shall see the place of the

leprosy lower than the other

esh, and the hair

turned white: he shall declare him unclean, for

the plague of leprosy is broken out in the ulcer.

21But if the hair be of the former colour,

and the scar somewhat obscure, and be not lower

than the

esh that is near it: he shall shut him

up seven days.

22And if it spread, he shall judge him to have

the leprosy:

23But if it stay in its place, it is but the scar

of an ulcer: and the man shall be clean.24The

esh also and skin that hath been

burnt, and after it is healed hath a white or a

red scar:

25The priest shall view it, and if he see it

turned white, and the place thereof is lower than

the other skin: he shall declare him unclean, be-

cause the evil of leprosy is broken out in the scar.

26But if the colour of the hair be not changed,

nor the blemish lower than the other

esh, and

the appearance of the leprosy be somewhat ob-

scure: he shall shut him up seven days,

27And on the seventh day he shall view him.

If the leprosy be grown farther in the skin, he

shall declare him unclean.

28But if the whiteness stay in its place, and

be not very clear, it is the sore of a burning: and

therefore he shall be cleansed, because it is only

the scar of a burning.

29If the leprosy break out in the head or the

beard of a man or woman, the priest shall see

them,

30And if the place be lower than the other

esh, and the hair yellow, and thinner than

usual: he shall declare them unclean, because

it is the leprosy of the head and the beard;

31But if he perceive the place of the spot is

equal with the

esh that is near it, and the hair

black: he shall shut him up seven days,

32And on the seventh day he shall look upon

it. If the spot be not grown, and the hair keep

its colour, and the place of the blemish be even

with the other

esh:

33The man shall be shaven all but the place

of the spot: and he shall be shut up other seven

days.

34If on the seventh day the evil seem to have

stayed in its place, and not lower than the other

esh, he shall cleanse him: and his clothes being

washed he shall be clean.134 Book of Leviticus

35But if after his cleansing the spot spread

again in the skin:

36He shall seek no more whether the hair be

turned yellow, because he is evidently unclean.

37But if the spot be stayed, and the hair be

black, let him know that the man is healed: and

let him condently pronounce him clean.

38If a whiteness appear in the skin of a man

or a woman,

39The priest shall view them. If he nd that

a darkish whiteness shineth in the skin, let him

know that it is not the leprosy, but a white blem-

ish, and that the man is clean.

40The man whose hair falleth o from his

head, he is bald and clean:

41And if the hair fall from his forehead, he is

bald before and clean.

42But if in the bald head or in the bald fore-

head there be risen a white or reddish colour:

43And the priest perceive this, he shall con-

demn him undoubtedly of leprosy which is risen

in the bald part.

44Now whosoever shall be deled with the

leprosy, and is separated by the judgment of the

priest:

45Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his

head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth: and

he shall cry out that he is deled and unclean.

46All the time that he is a leper and unclean

he shall dwell alone without the camp.

47A woollen or linen garment that shall have

the leprosy

48In the warp, and the woof: or skin, or what-

soever is made of a skin:

49If it be infected with a white or red spot,

it shall be accounted the leprosy, and shall be

shewn to the priest.

50And he shall look upon it and shall shut it

up seven days.51And on the seventh day when he looketh

on it again, if he nd that it is grown, it is a xed

leprosy. He shall judge the garment unclean, and

every thing wherein it shall be found.

52And therefore it shall be burnt with re.

53But if he see that it is not grown,

54He shall give orders, and they shall wash

that part wherein the leprosy is: and he shall

shut it up other seven days.

55And when he shall see that the former

colour is not returned, nor yet the leprosy

spread, he shall judge it unclean: and shall burn

it with re, for the leprosy has taken hold of the

outside of the garment, or through the whole.

56But if the place of the leprosy be somewhat

dark, after the garment is washed, he shall tear

it o, and divide it from that which is sound.

57And if after this there appear in those

places that before were without spot, a

ying

and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with

re.

58If it cease, he shall wash with water the

parts that are pure, the second time: and they

shall be clean.

59This is the law touching the leprosy of any

woollen or linen garment, either in the warp or

woof, or any thing of skins: how it ought to be

cleaned, or pronounced unclean.

Chapter 14

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be

cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest:

3Who going out of the camp, when he shall

nd that the leprosy is cleansed,

4Shall command him that is to be puried, to

oer for himself two living sparrows, which it is

lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, andBook of Leviticus 135

hyssop.

5And he shall command one of the sparrows

to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living

waters.

6But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with

the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop,

in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated:

7Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to

be cleansed seven times, that he may be rightly

puried. And he shall let go the living sparrow,

that it may

y into the eld.

8And when the man hath washed his clothes,

he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall

be washed with water: and being puried he

shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry

without his own tent seven days.

9And on the seventh day he shall shave the

hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows,

and the hair of all his body. And having washed

again his clothes, and his body,

10On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs

without blemish, and an ewe of a year old with-

out blemish, and three tenths of

our tempered

with oil for a sacrice, and a sextary of oil apart.

11And when the priest that purieth the

man, hath presented him, and all these things

before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of

the testimony:

12He shall take a lamb, and oer it for a

trespass oering with the sextary of oil. And

having oered all before the Lord,

13He shall immolate the lamb, where the vic-

tim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the

holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For as that

which is for sin, so also the victim for a tres-

pass oering pertaineth to the priest: it is holy

of holies.

14And the priest taking of the blood of the

victim that was immolated for trespass, shall put

it upon the tip of the right ear of him that iscleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand

and the great toe of his right foot.

15And he shall pour of the sextary of oil into

his own left hand,

16And shall dip his right nger in it, and

sprinkle it before the Lord seven times.

17And the rest of the oil in his left hand,

he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of

him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his

right hand and the great toe of his right foot,

and upon the blood that was shed for trespass:

18And upon his head.

19And he shall pray for him before the Lord,

and shall oer the sacrice for sin. Then shall

he immolate the holocaust.

20And put it on the altar with the libations

thereof: and the man shall be rightly cleansed.

21But if he be poor, and his hand cannot nd

the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an

oering for trespass, that the priest may pray for

him, and a tenth part of

our tempered with oil

for a sacrice, and a sextary of oil:

22And two turtles or two young pigeons, of

which one may be for sin, and the other for a

holocaust.

23And he shall oer them on the eighth day

of his purication to the priest, at the door of

the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord.

24And the priest receiving the lamb for tres-

pass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them

together.

25And the lamb being immolated, he shall

put of the blood thereof upon the tip of the right

ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb

of his right hand, and the great toe of his right

foot.

26But he shall pour part of the oil into his

own left hand,

27And dipping the nger of his right hand

in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the136 Book of Leviticus

Lord.

28And he shall touch the tip of the right ear

of him that is cleansed, and the thumb of his

right hand and the great toe of his right foot, in

the place of the blood that was shed for trespass.

29And the other part of the oil that is in his

left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the

puried person, that he may appease the Lord

for him.

30And he shall oer a turtle, or young pigeon:

31One for trespass, and the other for a holo-

caust, with their libations.

32This is the sacrice of a leper, that is not

able to have all things that appertain to his

cleansing.

33And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron,

saying:

34When you shall come into the land of

Chanaan, which I will give you for a possession,

if there be the plague or leprosy in a house:

35He whose house it is, shall go and tell the

priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is

the plague of leprosy in my house,

36And he shall command, that they carry

forth all things out of the house, before he go

into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, let

all things become unclean that are in the house.

And afterwards he shall go in to view the leprosy

of the house.
37And if he see in the walls thereof as it were

little dints, disgured with paleness or redness,

and lower than all he rest:

38He shall go out of the door of the house,

and forthwith shut it up seven days,

39And returning on the seventh day, he shall

look upon it. If he nd that the leprosy is spread,

40He shall command, that the stones wherein

the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the

city into an unclean place:41And that the house be scraped on the in-

side round about, and the dust of the scrapings

be scattered without the city into an unclean

place:

42And that other stones be laid in the place

of them that were taken away, and the house be

plastered with other mortar.

43But if after the stones be taken out, and

the dust scraped o, and it be plastered with

other earth.

44The priest going in perceive that the lep-

rosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is

a lasting leprosy, and the house is unclean.

45And they shall destroy it forthwith, and

shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all

the dust without the town into an unclean place.

46He that entereth into the house when it is

shut, shall be unclean until evening,

47And he that sleepeth in it, and eateth any

thing, shall wash his clothes.

48But if the priest going in perceive that the

leprosy is not spread in the house, after it was

plastered again, he shall purify it, it being cured.

49And for the purication thereof he shall

take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet,

and hyssop.

50And having immolated one sparrow in an

earthen vessel, over living waters,

51He shall take the cedar wood, and the hys-

sop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and

shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is

immolated, and in the living water: and he shall

sprinkle the house seven times.

52And shall purify it as well with the blood of

the sparrow, as with the living water, and with

the living sparrow, and with the cedar wood, and

the hyssop, and the scarlet.

53And when he hath let go the sparrow to

freely away into the eld, he shall pray for the

house: and it shall be rightly cleansed.Book of Leviticus 137

54This is the law of every kind of leprosy and

stroke.
55Of the leprosy of garments and houses,

56Of a scar and of blisters breaking out of a

shining spot, and when the colours are diversely

changed:

57That it may be known when a thing is clean

or unclean.

Chapter 15

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and say to

them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall

be unclean.

3And then shall he be judged subject to this

evil, when a lthy humour, at every moment,

cleaveth to his

esh, and gathereth there.

4Every bed on which he sleepeth, shall be

unclean, and every place on which he sitteth.

5If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his

clothes and being washed with water, he shall be

unclean until the evening.

6If a man sit where that man hath sitten, he

also shall wash his clothes: and being washed

with water, shall be unclean until the evening.

7He that toucheth his

esh, shall wash his

clothes: and being himself washed with water

shall be unclean until the evening.

8If such a man cast his spittle upon him that

is clean, he shall wash his clothes: and being

washed with water, he shall be unclean until the

evening.

9The saddle on which he hath sitten shall be

unclean.

10And whatsoever has been under him that

hath the issue of seed, shall be unclean until the

evening. He that carrieth any of these things,shall wash his clothes: and being washed with

water, he shall be unclean until the evening.

11Every person whom such a one shall touch,

not having washed his hands before, shall wash

his clothes: and being washed with water, shall

be unclean until the evening.

12If he touch a vessel of earth, it shall be

broken: but if a vessel of wood, it shall be washed

with water.

13If he who suereth this disease be healed,

he shall number seven days after his cleansing:

and having washed his clothes, and all his body

in living water, he shall be clean.

14And on the eighth day he shall take two

turtles, or two young pigeons, and he shall come

before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of

the testimony, and shall give them to the priest.

15Who shall oer one for sin, and the other

for a holocaust: and he shall pray for him before

the Lord, that he may be cleansed of the issue

of his seed.

16The man from whom the seed of copulation

goeth out, shall wash all his body with water:

and he shall be unclean until the evening.

17The garment or skin that he weareth, he

shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean

until the evening.

18The woman, with whom he copulateth,

shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean

until the evening.

19The woman, who at the return of the

month, hath her issue of blood, shall be sepa-

rated seven days.

20Every one that toucheth her, shall be un-

clean until the evening.

21And every thing that she sleepeth on, or

that she sitteth on in the days of her separation,

shall be deled.

22He that toucheth her bed shall wash his

clothes: and being himself washed with water,138 Book of Leviticus

shall be unclean until the evening.

23Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which

she sitteth, shall wash his clothes: and himself

being washed with water, shall be deled until

the evening.

24If a man copulateth with her in the time

of her

owers, he shall be unclean seven days:

and every bed on which he shall sleep, shall be

deled.

25The woman that hath still issue of blood

many days out of her ordinary time, or that

ceaseth not to

ow after the monthly courses,

as long as she is subject to this disease, shall be

unclean, in the same manner as if she were in

her

owers.

26Every bed on which she sleepeth, and every

vessel on which she sitteth, shall be deled.

27Whosoever toucheth them shall wash his

clothes: and himself being washed with water,

shall be unclean until the evening.

28If the blood stop and cease to run, she shall

count seven days of her purication:

29And on the eighth day she shall oer for

herself to the priest, two turtles, or two young

pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of the tes-

timony:
30And he shall oer one for sin, and the other

for a holocaust, and he shall pray for her before

the Lord, and for the issue of her uncleanness.

31You shall teach therefore the children of

Israel to take heed of uncleanness, that they may

not die in their lth, when they shall have deled

my tabernacle that is among them.

32This is the law of him that hath the issue

of seed, and that is deled by copulation.

33And of the woman that is separated in her

monthly times, or that hath a continual issue of

blood, and of the man that sleepeth with her.Chapter 16

And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death

of the two sons of Aaron when they were slain

upon their oering strange re:

2And he commanded him, saying: Speak to

Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into

the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the

propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest

he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the or-

acle),

3Unless he rst do these things. He shall oer

a calf for sin, and a ram for a holocaust.

4He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he

shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he

shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall

put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are

holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after

he is washed.

5And he shall receive from the whole multi-

tude of the children of Israel two buck goats for

sin, and one ram for a holocaust.

6And when he hath oered the cattle and

prayed for himself and for his own house:

7He shall make the two buck goats to stand

before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of

the testimony.

8And casting lots upon them both, one to

be oered to the Lord, and the other to be the

emissary goat:

9That whose lot fell to be oered to the Lord,

he shall oer for sin.

10But that whose lot was to be the emissary

goat, he shall present before the Lord, that he

may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into

the wilderness.

11After these things are duly celebrated, he

shall oer the calf: and praying for himself and

for his own house, he shall immolate it.

12And taking the censer, which he hath lledBook of Leviticus 139

with the burning coals of the altar, and taking

up with his hands the compounded perfume for

incense, he shall go in within the veil into the

holy place:

13That when the perfumes are put upon the

re, the cloud and vapour thereof may cover the

oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may

not die.

14He shall take also of the blood of the calf,

and sprinkle with his nger seven times towards

the propitiatory to the east.

15And when he hath killed the buck goat for

the sin of the people, he shall carry in the blood

thereof within the veil, as he was commanded

to do with the blood of the calf, that he may

sprinkle it over against the oracle:

16And may expiate the sanctuary from the

uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from

their transgressions, and all their sins. Accord-

ing to this rite shall he do to the tabernacle of

the testimony, which is xed among them in the

midst of the lth of their habitation.

17Let no man be in the tabernacle when the

high priest goeth into the sanctuary, to pray for

himself and his house, and for the whole congre-

gation of Israel, until he come out.

18And when he is come out to the altar that

is before the Lord, let him pray for himself: and

taking the blood of the calf, and of the buck goat,

let him pour it upon the horns thereof round

about.

19And sprinkling with his nger seven times,

let him expiate, and sanctify it from the unclean-

ness of the children of Israel.

20After he hath cleaned the sanctuary, and

the tabernacle, and the altar, then let him oer

the living goat.

21And putting both hands upon his head,

let him confess all the iniquities of the children

of Israel, and all their oences and sins. Andpraying that they may light on its head, he shall

turn him out by a man ready for it, into the

desert.

22And when the goat hath carried all their

iniquities into an uninhabited land, and shall be

let go into the desert:

23Aaron shall return into the tabernacle of

the testimony, and putting o the vestments,

which he had on him before when he entered

into the sanctuary, and leaving them there,

24He shall wash his

esh in the holy place,

and shall put on his own garments. And after

that he is come out and hath oered his own

holocaust, and that of the people, he shall pray

both for himself, and for the people.

25And the fat that is oered for sins, he shall

burn on the altar.

26But he that hath let go the emissary goat,

shall wash his clothes, and his body with water,

and so shall enter into the camp.

27But the calf and the buck goat, that were

sacriced for sin, and whose blood was carried

into the sanctuary, to accomplish the atonement,

they shall carry forth without the camp, and

shall burn with re: their skins and their

esh,

and their dung.

28And whosoever burneth them shall wash

his clothes, and

esh with water: and so shall

enter into the camp.

29And this shall be to you an everlasting or-

dinance. The seventh month, the tenth day of

the month, you shall aict your souls, and shall

do no work, whether it be one of your own coun-

try, or a stranger that sojourneth among you.

30Upon this day shall be the expiation for

you, and the cleansing from all your sins. You

shall be cleansed before the Lord.

31For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall

aict your souls by a perpetual religion.

32And the priest that is anointed, and whose140 Book of Leviticus

hands are consecrated to do the oce of the

priesthood in his father's stead, shall make

atonement. And he shall be vested with the linen

robe and the holy vestments.

33And he shall expiate the sanctuary and the

tabernacle of the testimony and the altar: the

priest also and all the people.

34And this shall be an ordinance for ever,

that you pray for the children of Israel, and for

all their sins once a year. He did therefore as the

Lord had commanded Moses.

Chapter 17

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the

children of Israel, saying to them: This is the

word, which the Lord hath commanded, saying:

3Any man whosoever of the house of Israel, if

he kill an ox, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp,

or without the camp,

4And oer it not at the door of the tabernacle

an oblation to the Lord, shall be guilty of blood.

As if he had shed blood, so shall he perish from

the midst of his people.

5Therefore the children of Israel shall bring

to the priest their victims, which they kill in the

eld, that they may be sanctied to the Lord be-

fore the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:

and they may sacrice them for peace oerings

to the Lord.

6And the priest shall pour the blood upon the

altar of the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle

of the testimony: and shall burn the fat for a

sweet odour to the Lord.

7And they shall no more sacrice their vic-

tims to devils, with whom they have committed

fornication. It shall be an ordinance for ever to

them and to their posterity.8And thou shalt say to them: The man of the

house of Israel, and of the strangers who sojourn

among you, that oereth a holocaust or a victim,

9And bringeth it not to the door of the taber-

nacle of the testimony, that it may be oered to

the Lord, shall perish from among his people.

10If any man whosoever of the house of Israel,

and of the strangers that sojourn among them,

eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and

will cut him o from among his people.

11Because the life of the

esh is in the blood:

and I have given it to you, that you may make

atonement with it upon the altar for your souls,

and the blood may be for an expiation of the

soul.

12Therefore I have said to the children of

Israel: No soul of you, nor of the strangers that

sojourn among you, shall eat blood.

13Any man whosoever of the children of Is-

rael, and of the strangers that sojourn among

you, if by hunting or fowling, he take a wild beast

or a bird, which is lawful to eat, let him pour out

its blood, and cover it with earth.

14For the life of all

esh is in the blood.

Therefore I said to the children of Israel: you

shall not eat the blood of any

esh at all, be-

cause the life of the

esh is in the blood, and

whosoever eateth it, shall be cut o.

15The soul that eateth that which died of

itself, or has been caught by a beast, whether

he be one of your own country or a stranger,

shall wash his clothes and himself with water,

and shall be deled until the evening: and in

this manner he shall be made clean.

16But if he do not wash his clothes, and his

body, he shall bear his iniquity.Book of Leviticus 141

Chapter 18

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.

3You shall not do according to the custom

of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: nei-

ther shall you act according to the manner of

the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring

you. Nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

4You shall do my judgments, and shall ob-

serve my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am

the Lord your God.

5Keep my laws and my judgments: which if

a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

6No man shall approach to her that is near of

kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the

Lord.

7Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy

father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy

mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

8Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy

father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.

9Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy

sister by father or by mother: whether born at

home or abroad.

10Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter:

because it is thy own nakedness.

11Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy father's wife's daughter, whom she bore to

thy father: and who is thy sister.

12Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy father's sister: because she is the

esh of thy

father.

13Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy mother's sister: because she is thy mother's

esh.

14Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy father's brother: neither shalt thou approachto his wife, who is joined to thee by anity.

15Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy daughter in law: because she is thy son's

wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.

16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy brother's wife: because it is the nakedness

of thy brother.

17Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy wife and her daughter. Thou shalt not take

her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to

discover her shame: because they are her

esh,
and such copulation is incest.

18Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a

harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover

her nakedness, while she is yet living.

19Thou shalt not approach to a woman hav-

ing her

owers: neither shalt thou uncover her

nakedness.

20Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's

wife: nor be deled with mingling of seed.

21Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be

consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor dele the

name of thy God. I am the Lord.

22Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with

womankind: because it is an abomination.

23Thou shalt not copulate with any beast:

neither shalt thou be deled with it. A woman

shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with

it: because it is a heinous crime.

24Dele not yourselves with any of these

things with which all the nations have been de-

led, which I will cast out before you,

25And with which the land is deled: the

abominations of which I will visit, that it may

vomit out its inhabitants.

26Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments:

and do not any of these abominations. Neither

any of your own nation, nor any stranger that

sojourneth among you.142 Book of Leviticus

27For all these detestable things the inhab-

itants of the land have done, that were before

you, and have deled it.

28Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit

you also out, if you do the like things: as it vom-

ited out the nation that was before you.

29Every soul that shall commit any of these

abominations, shall perish from the midst of his

people.

30Keep my commandments. Do not the

things which they have done, that have been be-

fore you: and be not deled therein. I am the

Lord your God.

Chapter 19

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to all the congregation of the children

of Israel. And thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy,

because I the Lord your God am holy.

3Let every one fear his father, and his mother.

Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

4Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves

molten gods. I am the Lord your God.

5If ye oer in sacrice a peace oering to the

Lord, that he may be favourable:

6You shall eat it on the same day it was of-

fered, and the next day. And whatsoever shall

be left until the third day, you shall burn with

re.

7If after two days any man eat thereof, he

shall be profane and guilty of impiety:

8And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath

deled the holy thing of the Lord. And that soul

shall perish from among his people.

9When thou reapest the corn of thy land,

thou shalt not cut down all that is on the face

of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou

gather the ears that remain.10Neither shalt thou gather the bunches and

grapes that fall down in thy vineyard: but shalt

leave them to the poor and the strangers to take.

I am the Lord your God.

11You shall not steal. You shall not lie: nei-

ther shall any man deceive his neighbour.

12Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name,

nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.

13Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour,

nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him

that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with

thee until the morning.

14Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor

put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou

shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the

Lord.

15Thou shalt not do that which is unjust,

nor judge unjustly. Respect not the person of the

poor: nor honour the countenance of the mighty.

But judge thy neighbour according to justice.

16Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whis-

perer among the people. Thou shalt not stand

against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the

Lord.

17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy

heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur

sin through him.

18Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the

injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend

as thyself. I am the Lord.

19Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy

cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind.

Thou shalt not sow thy eld with dierent seeds.

Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of

two sorts.

20If a man carnally lie with a woman that

is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not

redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both

shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to

death, because she was not a free woman.Book of Leviticus 143

21And for his trespass he shall oer a ram

to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the

testimony.

22And the priest shall pray for him: and for

his sin before the Lord: and he shall have mercy

on him, and the sin shall be forgiven.

23When you shall be come into the land,

and shall have planted in it fruit trees, you shall

take away the rstfruits of them. The fruit that

comes forth shall be unclean to you: neither shall

you eat of them.

24But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall

be sanctied, to the praise of the Lord.

25And in the fth year you shall eat the fruits

thereof, gathering the increase thereof. I am the

Lord your God.

26You shall not eat with blood. You shall

not divine nor observe dreams.

27Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor

shave your beard.

28You shall not make any cuttings in your

esh, for the dead: neither shall you make in

yourselves any gures or marks. I am the Lord.

29Make not thy daughter a common strum-

pet, lest the land be deled, and lled with

wickedness.

30Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my

sanctuary. I am the Lord.

31Go not aside after wizards: neither ask any

thing of soothsayers, to be deled by them. I am

the Lord your God.

32Rise up before the hoary head, and honour

the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord

thy God. I am the Lord.

33If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide

among you, do not upbraid hin:

34But let him be among you as one of the

same country. And you shall love him as your-

selves: for you were strangers in the land of

Egypt. I am the Lord your God.35Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in

rule, in weight, or in measure.

36Let the balance be just and the weights

equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I

am the Lord your God, that brought you out of

the land of Egypt.

37Keep all my precepts, and all my judg-

ments: and do them. I am the Lord.

Chapter 20

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Thus shalt thou say to the children of Is-

rael: If any man of the children Israel, or of the

strangers that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to

the idol Moloch, dying let him die. The people

of the land shall stone him.

3And I will set my face against him: and

I will cut him o from the midst of his people,

because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and

hath deled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy

name.

4And if the people of the land neglecting,

and as it were little regarding my commandment,

let alone the man that hath given of his seed to

Moloch, and will not kill him:

5I will set my face against that man, and his

kindred, and will cut o both him and all that

consented with him, to commit fornication with

Moloch, out of the midst of their people.

6The soul that shall go aside after magicians,

and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication

with them: I will set my face against that soul,

and destroy it out of the midst of its people.

7Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because

I am the Lord your God.

8Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the

Lord that sanctify you.144 Book of Leviticus

9He that curseth his father, or mother, dy-

ing let him die. He hath cursed his father, and

mother: let his blood be upon him.

10If any man commit adultery with the wife

of another, and dele his neighbour's wife: let

them be put to death, both the adulterer and

the adulteress.

11If a man lie with his stepmother, and dis-

cover the nakedness of his father, let them both

be put to death: their blood be upon them.

12If any man lie with his daughter in law:

let both die, because they have done a heinous

crime. Their blood be upon them.

13If any one lie with a man as with a woman,

both have committed an abomination: let them

be put to death. Their blood be upon them.

14If any man after marrying the daughter,

marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime.

He shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall

so great an abomination remain in the midst of

you.

15He that shall copulate with any beast or

cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall

kill.

16The woman that shall lie under any beast,

shall be killed together with the same. Their

blood be upon them.

17If any man take his sister, the daughter of

his father, or the daughter of his mother, and

see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's

shame: they have committed a crime. They shall

be slain, in the sight of their people, because they

have discovered one another's nakedness. And

they shall bear their iniquity.

18If any man lie with a woman in her

owers,

and uncover her nakedness, and she open the

fountain of her blood: both shall be destroyed

out of the midst of their people.

19Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of

thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thyfather. He that doth this, hath uncovered the

shame of his own

esh: both shall bear their

iniquity.

20If any man lie with the wife of his uncle

by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and

uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall

bear their sin. They shall die without children.

21He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth

an unlawful thing: he hath uncovered his

brother's nakedness. They shall be without chil-

dren.

22Keep my laws and my judgments, and do

them: lest the land into which you are to enter

to dwell therein, vomit you also out.

23Walk not after the laws of the nations,

which I will cast out before you. For they have

done all these things: and therefore I abhorred

them.

24But to you I say: Possess their land which

I will give you for an inheritance, a land

owing

with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God,

who have separated you from other people.

25Therefore do you also separate the clean

beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from

the unclean. Dele not your souls with beasts,

or birds, or any things that move on the earth,

and which I have shewn you to be unclean:

26You shall be holy unto me, because I the

Lord am holy: and I have separated you from

other people, that you should be mine.

27A man, or woman, in whom there is a

pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die.

They shall stone them. Their blood be upon

them.

Chapter 21

The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests

the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them:Book of Leviticus 145
Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the

death of his citizens.

2But only for his kin, such as are near in

blood: that is to say, for his father and for his

mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for

his brother also:

3And for a maiden sister, who hath had no

husband.

4But not even for the prince of his people shall

he do any thing that may make him unclean.

5Neither shall they shave their head, nor their

beard, nor make incisions in their

esh.

6They shall be holy to their God, and shall

not profane his name. For they oer the burnt

oering of the Lord, and the bread of their God:

and therefore they shall be holy.

7They shall not take to wife a harlot or a

vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away

from her husband: because they are consecrated

to their God,

8And oer the loaves of proposition. Let

them therefore be holy because I also am holy:

the Lord, who sanctify them.

9If the daughter of a priest be taken in whore-

dom and dishonour the name of her father, she

shall be burnt with re.

10The high priest, that is to say, the priest

who is the greatest among his brethren, upon

whose head the oil of unction hath been poured;

and whose hands have been consecrated for the

priesthood; and who hath been vested with the

holy vestments. He shall not uncover his head:

he shall not rend his garments.

11Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person:

not even for his father, or his mother, shall he

be deled.

12Neither shall he go out of the holy places,

lest he dele the sanctuary of the Lord: because

the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon

him. I am the Lord.13He shall take a virgin unto his wife.

14But a widow or one that is divorced, or

deed, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid

of his own people.

15He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred

with the common people of this nation: for I am

the Lord who sanctify him.

16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

17Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed

throughout their families, hath a blemish, he

shall not oer bread to his God.

18Neither shall he approach to minister to

him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a

little, or a great, or a crooked nose;

19If his foot, or if his hand be broken;

20If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have

a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry

scurf in his body, or a rupture.

21Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest

hath a blemish: he shall not approach to oer

sacrices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.

22He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves that

are oered in the sanctuary.

23Yet so that he enter not within the veil,

nor approach to the altar: because he hath a

blemish, and he must not dele my sanctuary. I

am the Lord who sanctify them.

24Moses, therefore spoke to Aaron, and to

his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had

been commanded him.

Chapter 22

And the Lord spoke to Moses saying:

2Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they

beware of those things that are consecrated of

the children of Israel: and dele not the name of

the things sanctied to me, which they oer. I

am the Lord.146 Book of Leviticus

3Say to them and to their posterity: Ev-

ery man of your race, that approacheth to those

things that are consecrated, and which the chil-

dren of Israel have oered to the Lord, in whom

there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord.

I am the Lord.

4The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a

leper, or that suereth a running of the seed,

shall not eat of those things that are sanctied

to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any

thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he

whose seed goeth from him as in generation:

5And he that toucheth a creeping thing, or

any unclean thing, the touching of which is de-

ling:

6Shall be unclean until the evening, and shall

not eat those things that are sanctied. But

when he hath washed his

esh with water,

7And the sun is down, then being puried,

he shall eat of the sanctied things, because it is

his meat.

8That which dieth of itself, and that which

was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be

deled therewith. I am the Lord.

9Let them keep my precepts, that they may

not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when

they shall have deled it. I am the Lord who

sanctify them.

10No stranger shall eat of the sanctied

things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired ser-

vant, shall not eat of them.

11But he whom the priest hath bought, and

he that is his servant, born in his house, these

shall eat of them.

12If the daughter of a priest be married to any

of the people, she shall not eat of those things

that are sanctied nor of the rstfruits.

13But if she be a widow, or divorced, and

having no children return to her father's house,

she shall eat of her father's meats, as she waswont to do when she was a maid. No stranger

hath leave to eat of them.

14He that eateth of the sanctied things

through ignorance, shall add the fth part with

that which he ate, and shall give it to the priest

into the sanctuary.

15And they shall not profane the sanctied

things of the children of Israel, which they oer

to the Lord:

16Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their

trespass, when they shall have eaten the sancti-

ed things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

17And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

18Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to

all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to

them: The man of the house of Israel, and of

the strangers who dwell with you, that oereth

his oblation, either paying his vows, or oering

of his own accord, whatsoever it be which he

presenteth for a holocaust of the Lord,

19To be oered by you: it shall be a male

without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep,

or of the goats.

20If it have a blemish you shall not oer it:

neither shall it be acceptable.

21The man that oereth a victim of peace

oerings to the Lord, either paying his vows, or

oering of his own accord, whether of beeves or

of sheep, shall oer it without blemish, that it

may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in

it.

22If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or

blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not

oer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of

them upon the Lord's altar.

23An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear and the

tail cut o, thou mayst oer voluntarily: but a

vow may not be paid with them.

24you shall not oer to the Lord any beast

that hath the testicles bruised, or crushed, or cutBook of Leviticus 147

and taken away: neither shall you do any such

things in your land.

25you shall not oer bread to your God, from

the hand of a stranger, nor any other thing that

he would give: because they are all corrupted,

and deled. You shall not receive them.

26And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

27When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is

brought forth, they shall be seven days under

the udder of their dam: but the eighth day, and

thenceforth, they may be oered to the Lord.

28Whether it be a cow, or a sheep, they shall

not be sacriced the same day with their young

ones.

29If you immolate a victim for thanksgiving

to the Lord, that he may be favourable,

30You shall eat it the same day. There shall

not any of it remain until the morning of the

next day. I am the Lord.

31Keep my commandments, and do them. I

am the Lord.

32Profane not my holy name, that I may be

sanctied in the midst of the children of Israel.

I am the Lord who sanctify you:

33And who brought you out of the land of

Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the Lord.

Chapter 23

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: These are the feasts of the

Lord, which you shall call holy.

3Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day,

because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be

called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it

is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.

4These also are the holy days of the Lord,

which you must celebrate in their seasons.5The rst month, the fourteenth day of the

month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.

6And the fteenth day of the same month

is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the

Lord. Seven days shall you eat unleavened

bread.

7The rst day shall be most solemn unto you,

and holy: you shall do no servile work therein.

8But you shall oer sacrice in re to the

Lord seven days. And the seventh day shall be

more solemn, and more holy: and you shall do

no servile work therein.

9And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

10Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: When you shall have entered

into the land which I will give you, and shall

reap your corn, you shall bring sheaves of ears,

the rstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

11Who shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord,

the next day after the sabbath, that it may be

acceptable for you, and shall sanctify it.

12And on the same day that the sheaf is con-

secrated, a lamb without blemish of the rst year

shall be killed for a holocaust of the Lord.

13And the libations shall be oered with it:

two tenths of

our tempered with oil, for a burnt

oering of the Lord, and a most sweet odour.

Libations also of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

14You shall not eat either bread, or parched

corn, or frumenty or the harvest, until the day

that you shall oer thereof to your God. It is

a precept for ever throughout your generations,

and all your dwellings.

15You shall count therefore from the morrow

after the sabbath, wherein you oered the sheaf

of rstfruits, seven full weeks.

16Even unto the morrow after the seventh

week be expired, that is to say, fty days: and

so you shall oer a new sacrice to the Lord.

17Out of all your dwellings, two loaves of the148 Book of Leviticus

rstfruits, of two tenths of

our leavened, which

you shall bake for the rstfruits of the Lord.

18And you shall oer with the loaves seven

lambs without blemish of the rst year, and one

calf from the herd, and they shall be for a holo-

caust with their two rams: and they shall be for

a holocaust with their libations for a most sweet

odour to the Lord.

19You shall oer also a buck goat for sin, and

two lambs of the rst year for sacrices of peace

oerings.

20And when the priest hath lifted them up

with the loaves of the rstfruits before the Lord,

they shall fall to his use.

21And you shall call this day most solemn,

and most holy. You shall do no servile work

therein. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in

all your dwellings and generations.

22And when you reap the corn of your land,

you shall not cut it to the very ground: nei-

ther shall you gather the ears that remain. But

you shall leave them for the poor and for the

strangers. I am the Lord your God.

23And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

24Say to the children of Israel: The seventh

month, on the rst day of the month, you shall

keep a sabbath, a memorial, with the sound of

trumpets, and it shall be called holy.

25You shall do no servile work therein, and

you shall oer a holocaust to the Lord.

26And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

27Upon the tenth day of this seventh month

shall be the day of atonement. It shall be most

solemn, and shall be called holy: and you shall

await your souls on that day, and shall oer a

holocaust to the Lord.

28You shall do no servile work in the time of

this day: because it is a day of propitiation, that

the Lord your God may be merciful unto you.29Every soul that is not aicted on this day,

shall perish from among his people.

30And every soul that shall do any work, the

same will I destroy from among his people.

31You shall do no work therefore on that day:

it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in

all your generations, and dwellings.

32It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall af-

ict your souls beginning on the ninth day of

the month. From evening until evening you shall

celebrate your sabbaths.

33And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

34Say to the children of Israel: From the f-

teenth day of this same seventh month, shall be

kept the feast of tabernacles, seven days to the

Lord.

35The rst day shall be called most solemn

and most holy: you shall do no servile work

therein. And seven days you shall oer holo-

causts to the Lord.

36The eighth day also shall be most solemn

and most holy: and you shall oer holocausts to

the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and con-

gregation. You shall do no servile work therein.

37These are the feasts of the Lord which you

shall call most solemn and most holy, and shall

oer on them oblations to the Lord: holocausts

and libations according to the rite of every day.

38Besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and your

gifts, and those things that you oer by vow, or

which you shall give to the Lord voluntarily.

39So from the fteenth day of the seventh

month, when you shall have gathered in all the

fruits of your land, you shall celebrate the feast

of the Lord seven days. On the rst day and the

eighth shall be a sabbath: that is a day of rest.

40And you shall take to you on the rst day

the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of

palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and wil-

lows of the brook: And you shall rejoice beforeBook of Leviticus 149

the Lord your God.

41And you shall keep the solemnity thereof

seven days in the year. It shall be an everlasting

ordinance in your generations. In the seventh

month shall you celebrate this feast.

42And you shall dwell in bowers seven days.

Every one that is of the race of Israel, shall dwell

in tabernacles:

43That your posterity may know, that I made

the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles,

when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.

I am the Lord your God.

44And Moses spoke concerning the feasts of

the Lord to the children of Israel.

Chapter 24

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Command the children of Israel, that they

bring unto thee the nest and clearest oil of

olives, to furnish the lamps continually,

3Without the veil of the testimony in the

tabernacle of the covenant. And Aaron shall

set them from evening until morning before the

Lord, by a perpetual service and rite in your gen-

erations.
4They shall be set upon the most pure can-

dlestick before the Lord continually.

5Thou shalt take also ne

our, and shalt

bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be

in every loaf.

6And thou shalt set them six and six, one

against another, upon the most clean table be-

fore the Lord.

7And thou shalt put upon them the clearest

frankincense, that the bread may be for a memo-

rial of the oblation of the Lord.

8Every sabbath they shall be changed before

the Lord: being received of the children of Israelby an everlasting covenant.

9And they shall be Aaron's and his sons', that

they may eat them in the holy place: because it

is most holy of the sacrices of the Lord by a

perpetual right.

10And behold there went out the son of a

woman of Israel, whom she had of an Egyptian,

among the children of Israel: and fell at words

in the camp with a man of Israel.

11And when he had blasphemed the name,

and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses.

(Now his mother was called Salumith, the daugh-

ter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.)

12And they put him into prison, till they

might know what the Lord would command.

13And the Lord spoke to Moses,

14Saying: Bring forth the blasphemer with-

out the camp: and let them that heard him, put

their hands upon his head: and let all the people

stone him.

15And thou shalt speak to the children of

Israel: The man that curseth his God, shall bear

his sin:

16And he that blasphemeth the name of the

Lord, dying let him die. All the multitude shall

stone him, whether he be a native or a stranger.

He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, dy-

ing let him die.

17He that striketh and killeth a man: dying

let him die.

18He that killeth a beast, shall make it good

that is to say, shall give beast for beast.

19He that giveth a blemish to any of his

neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done

to him:

20Breach for breach, eye for ere, tooth for

tooth, shall he restore. What blemish he gave,

the like shall he be compelled to suer.

21He that striketh a beast, shall render an-

other. He that striketh a man shall be punished.150 Book of Leviticus

22Let there be equal judgment among you,

whether he be a stranger, or a native that of-

fends: because I am the Lord your God.

23And Moses spoke to the children of Is-

rael. And they brought forth him that had blas-

phemed, without the camp: and they stoned

him. And the children of Israel did as the Lord

had commanded Moses.

Chapter 25

And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai,

saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: When you shall have entered

into the land which I will give you, observe the

rest of the sabbath of the Lord.

3Six years thou shalt sow thy eld and six

years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt

gather the fruits thereof.

4But in the seventh year there shall be a sab-

bath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou

shalt not sow thy eld, nor prune thy vineyard.

5What the ground shall bring forth of itself,

thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather

the grapes or the rstfruits as a vintage. For it

is a year of rest to the land.

6But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee

and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and

thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn

with thee.

7All things that grow shall be meat to thy

beasts and to thy cattle.

8Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks

of years: that is to say, seven times seven, which

together make forty-nine years.

9And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the

seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in

the time of the expiation in all your land.10And thou shalt sanctify the ftieth year,

and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabi-

tants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee.

Every man shall return to his possession, and

every one shall go back to his former family:

11Because it is the jubilee and the ftieth

year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that

grow in the eld of their own accord, neither shall

you gather the rstfruits of the vines,

12Because of the sanctication of the jubilee.

But as they grow you shall presently eat them.

13In the year of the jubilee all shall return to

their possessions.

14When thou shalt sell any thing to thy

neighbour, or shalt buy of him: grieve not thy

brother. But thou shalt buy of him according to

the number of years from the jubilee.

15And he shall sell to thee according to the

computation of the fruits.

16The more years remain after the jubilee,

the more shall the price increase: and the less

time is counted, so much the less shall the pur-

chase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of

the fruits.

17Do not aict your countrymen: but let

every one fear his God. Because I am the Lord

your God.

18Do my precepts, and keep my judgments,

and full them: that you may dwell in the land

without any fear.

19And the ground may yield you its fruits,

of which you may eat your ll, fearing no man's

invasion.

20But if you say: What shall we eat the sev-

enth year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

21I will give you my blessing the sixth year:

and it shall yield the fruits of three years.

22And the eighth year you shall sow, and

shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year:

till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.Book of Leviticus 151

23The land also shall not be sold for ever:

because it is mine, and you are strangers and

sojourners with me.

24For which cause all the country of your pos-

session shall be under the condition of redemp-

tion.

25If thy brother being impoverished sell his

little possession, and his kinsman will: he may

redeem what he had sold.

26But if he have no kinsman, and he himself

can nd the price to redeem it:

27The value of the fruits shall be counted

from that time when he sold it. And the overplus

he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive

his possession again.

28But if his hands nd not the means to repay

the price, the buyer shall have what he bought,

until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all

that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the

ancient possessor.

29He that selleth a house within the walls of

a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until

one year be expired.

30If he redeem it not, and the whole year

be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his

posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed,

not even in the jubilee.

31But if the house be in a village, that hath

no walls, it shall be sold according to the same

law as the elds. If it be not redeemed before,

in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.

32The houses of Levites, which are in cities,

may always be redeemed.

33If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they

shall all return to the owners: because the houses

of the cities of the Levites are for their posses-

sions among the children of Israel.

34But let not their suburbs be sold, because

it is a perpetual possession.

35If thy brother be impoverished, and weakof hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and

sojourner, and he live with thee:

36Take not usury of him nor more than thou

gavest. Fear thy God, that thy brother may live

with thee.

37Thou shalt not give him thy money upon

usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

38I am the Lord your God, who brought you

out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you

the land of Chanaan, and might be your God.

39If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell

himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with

the service of bondservants.

40But he shall be as a hireling, and a so-

journer: he shall work with thee until the year

of the jubilee.

41And afterwards he shall go out with his

children: and shall return to his kindred and to

the possession of his fathers.

42For they are my servants, and I brought

them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be

sold as bondmen.

43Aict him not by might: but fear thy God.

44Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen,

be of the nations that are round about you:

45And of the strangers that sojourn among

you, or that were born of them in your land.

These you shall have for servants:

46And by right of inheritance shall leave them

to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever.

But oppress not your brethren the children of

Israel by might.

47If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner

grow strong among you, and thy brother being

impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his

race:

48After the sale he may be redeemed. He

that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

49Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his152 Book of Leviticus

kinsman, by blood, or by anity. But if he him-

self be able also, he shall redeem himself:

50Counting only the years from the time

of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and

counting the money that he was sold for, accord-

ing to the number of the years and the reckoning

of a hired servant.

51If there be many years that remain until

the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay

the price.

52If few, he shall make the reckoning with

him according to the number of the years: and

shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the

years.

53His wages being allowed for which he served

before: he shall not aict him violently in thy

sight.

54And if by these means he cannot be re-

deemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out

with his children.

55For the children of Israel are my servants,

whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

Chapter 26

I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to

yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall

you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone

in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your

God.

2Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanc-

tuary. I am the Lord.

3If you walk in my precepts, and keep my

commandments, and do them, I will give you

rain in due seasons.

4And the ground shall bring forth its increase:

and the trees shall be lled with fruit.

5The threshing of your harvest shall reach

unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reachunto the sowing time: and you shall eat your

bread to the full, and dwell in your land without

fear.

6I will give peace in your coasts: you shall

sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid.

I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall

not pass through your quarters.

7You shall pursue your enemies: and they

shall fall before you.

8Five of yours shall pursue a hundred oth-

ers: and a hundred of you ten thousand. Your

enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9I will look on you, and make you increase:

you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my

covenant with you.

10You shall eat the oldest of the old store:

and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.
11I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you:

and my soul shall not cast you o.

12I will walk among you, and will be your

God: and you shall be my people.

13I am the Lord your God: who have brought

you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you

should not serve them: and who have broken the

chains of your necks, that you might go upright.

14But if you will not hear me, nor do all my

commandments:

15If you despise my laws, and contemn my

judgments so as not to do those things which are

appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:

16I also will do these things to you. I will

quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat,

which shall waste your eyes, and consume your

lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which

shall be devoured by your enemies.

17I will set my face against you, and you

shall fall down before your enemies: and shall

be made subject to them that hate you. You

shall

ee when no man pursueth you.Book of Leviticus 153

18But if you will not yet for all this obey me:

I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

19And I will break the pride of your stub-

bornness: and I will make to you the heaven

above as iron, and the earth as brass.

20Your labour shall be spent in vain: the

ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor

the trees yield their fruit.

21If you walk contrary to me, and will not

hearken to me, I will bring seven times more

plagues upon you for your sins.

22And I will send in upon you the beasts of

the eld, to destroy you and your cattle, and

make you few in number: and that your high-

ways may be desolate.

23And if even so you will not amend, but will

walk contrary to me:

24I also will walk contrary to you, and will

strike you seven times for your sins.

25And I will bring in upon you the sword

that shall avenge my covenant. And when you

shall

ee into the cities, I will send the pestilence

in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered

into the hands of your enemies,

26After I shall have broken the sta of your

bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread

in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you

shall eat, and shall not be lled,

27But if you will not for all this hearken to

me, but will walk against me

28I will also go against you with opposite

fury: and I will chastise you with seven plagues

for your sins,

29So that you shall eat the

esh of your sons

and of your daughters.

30I will destroy your high places, and break

your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your

idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

31Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be

a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuariesdesolate: and will receive no more your sweet

odours.

32And I will destroy your land: and your

enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall

be the inhabitants thereof.

33And I will scatter you among the Gentiles:

and I will draw out the sword after you. And

your land shall be desert, and your cities de-

stroyed.

34Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all

the days of her desolation. When you shall be

35In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sab-

bath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation:

because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when

you dwelt therein.

36And as to them that shall remain of you I

will send fear in their hearts in the countries of

their enemies. The sound of a

ying leaf shall

terrify them: and they shall

ee as it were from

the sword. They shall fall, when no man pur-

sueth them.

37And they shall every one fall upon their

brethren as

eeing from wars: none of you shall

dare to resist your enemies.

38You shall perish among the Gentiles: and

an enemy's land shall consume you.

39And if of them also some remain, they shall

pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their

enemies: and they shall be aicted for the sins

of their fathers, and their own.

40Until they confess their iniquities, and the

iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have

transgressed against me, and walked contrary

unto me.

41Therefore I also will walk against them,

and bring them into their enemies' land until

their uncircumcised mind be ashamed. Then

shall they pray for their sins.

42And I will remember my covenant, that I

made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I154 Book of Leviticus

will remember also the land:

43Which when she shall be left by them, shall

enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But

they shall pray for their sins, because they re-

jected my judgments, and despised my laws.

44And yet for all that when they were in the

land of their enemies, I did not cast them o

altogether. Neither did I so despise them that

they should be quite consumed: and I should

make void my covenant with them. For I am the

Lord their God.

45And I will remember my former covenant,

when I brought them out of the land of Egypt,

in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God.

I am the Lord. These are the judgments, and

precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between

him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai,

by the hand of Moses.

Chapter 27

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: The man that shall have made

a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall give

the price according to estimation.

3If it be a man from twenty years old unto

sixty years old, he shall give fty sicles of silver,

after the weight of the sanctuary:

4If a woman, thirty.

5But from the fth year until the twentieth,

a man shall give twenty sicles: a woman ten.

6From one month until the fth year, for a

male shall be given ve sicles: for a female three.

7A man that is sixty years old or upward,

shall give fteen sicles: a woman ten.

8If he be poor, and not able to pay the esti-

mation, he shall stand before the priest: and as

much as he shall value him at, and see him ableto pay, so much shall he give.

9But a beast that may be sacriced to the

Lord, if any one shall vow, shall be holy,

10And cannot be changed: that is to say, nei-

ther a better for a worse, nor a worse for a better.

And if he shall change it: both that which was

changed, and that for which it was changed, shall

be consecrated to the Lord.

11An unclean beast, which cannot be sacri-

ced to the Lord, if any man shall vow, shall be

brought before the priest:

12Who judging whether it be good or bad,

shall set the price.

13Which, if he that oereth it will give, he

shall add above the estimation the fth part.

14If a man shall vow his house, and sanctify it

to the Lord, the priest shall consider it, whether

it be good or bad: and it shall be sold according

to the price, which he shall appoint.

15But if he that vowed, will redeem it, he

shall give the fth part of the estimation over

and above: and shall have the house.

16And if he vow the eld of his possession,

and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be

rated according to the measure of the seed. If the

ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let

it be sold for fty sicles of silver.

17If he vow his eld immediately from the

year of jubilee that is beginning: as much as it

may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.

18But if some time after, the priest shall

reckon the money according to the number of

years that remain until the jubilee, and the price

shall be abated.

19And if he that had vowed, will redeem his

eld, he shall add the fth part of the money of

the estimation, and shall possess it.

20And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold

to any other man, he that vowed it, may not

redeem it any more.Book of Leviticus 155

21For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall

be sanctied to the Lord, and as a possession

consecrated, pertaineth to the right of the priest.

22If a eld that was bought, and not of a

man's ancestors' possession, be sanctied to the

Lord:

23The priest shall reckon the price according

to the number of years, unto the jubilee. And he

that had vowed, shall give that to the Lord.

24But in the jubilee, it shall return to the

former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the

lot of his possession.

25All estimation shall be made according to

the sicle of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty

obols.

26The rstborn, which belong to the Lord,

no man may sanctify and vow: whether it be

bullock, or sheep, they are the Lord's.

27And if it be an unclean beast, he that oer-

eth it shall redeem it, according to thy estima-

tion, and shall add the fth part of the price. If

he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another

for how much soever it was estimated by thee.

28Any thing that is devoted to the Lord,

whether it be man, or beast, or eld, shall not be

sold: neither may it be redeemed. Whatsoever

is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the

Lord.

29And any consecration that is oered by

man, shall not be redeemed, but dying shall die.

30All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of

the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanc-

tied to him.

31And if any man will redeem his tithes, he

shall add the fth part of them.

32Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and

goats, that pass under the shepherd's rod, every

tenth that cometh shall be sanctied to the Lord.

33It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad,

neither shall it be changed for another. If anyman change it: both that which was changed,

and that for which it was changed, shall be sanc-

tied to the Lord, and shall not be redeemed.

34These are the precepts which the Lord com-

manded Moses for the children of Israel in mount

Sinai.Book of Numbers

Chapter 1

And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of

Sinai in the tabernacle of the covenant, the rst

day of the second month, the second year of their

going out of Egypt, saying:

2Take the sum of all the congregation of the

children of Israel by their families, and houses,

and the names of every one, as many as are of

the male sex,

3From twenty years old and upwards, of all

the men of Israel t for war, and you shall num-

ber them by their troops, thou and Aaron.

4And there shall be with you the princes of

the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,

5Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur

the son of Sedeur.

6Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.

7Of Juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

8Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar.

9Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.

10And of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim,

Elisama the son of Ammiud: of Manasses,

Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

11Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon.

12Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.

13Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran.

14Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel.

15Of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan.

16These are the most noble princes of the

multitude by their tribes and kindreds, and the

chiefs of the army of Israel:17Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the

multitude of the common people:

18And assembled them on the rst day of the

second month, reckoning them up by the kin-

dreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and

names of every one from twenty years old and

upward,

19As the Lord had commanded Moses. And

they were numbered in the desert of Sinai.

20Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their

generations and families and houses and names

of every head, all that were of the male sex, from

twenty years old and upward, that were able to

go forth to war,

21Were forty-six thousand ve hundred.

22Of the sons of Simeon by their generations

and families, and houses of their kindreds, were

reckoned up by the names and heads of every

one, all that were of the male sex, from twenty

years old and upward, that were able to go forth

to war,

23Fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

24Of the sons of Gad, by their generations

and families and houses of their kindreds were

reckoned up by the names of every one from

twenty years old and upward, all that were able

to go forth to war,

25Forty-ve thousand six hundred and fty.

26Of the sons of Juda, by their generations

and families and houses of their kindreds, by the

names of every one from twenty years old and

upward, all that were able to go forth to war,Book of Numbers 157

27Were reckoned up seventy-four thousand

six hundred.

28Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations

and families and houses of their kindreds, by the

names of every one from twenty years old and

upward, all that could go forth to war,

29Were reckoned up fty-four thousand four

hundred.

30Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations

and families and houses of their kindreds, were

reckoned up by the names of every one from

twenty years old and upward, all that were able

to go forth to war,

31Fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

32Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons

of Ephraim, by the generations and families and

houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the

names of every one, from twenty years old and

upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

33Forty thousand ve hundred.

34Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the

generations and families and houses of their kin-

dreds, were reckoned up by the names of every

one from twenty years old and upward, all that

could go forth to war,

35Thirty-two thousand two hundred.

36Of the sons of Benjamin, by their genera-

tions and families and houses of their kindreds,

were reckoned up by the names of every one from

twenty years old and upward, all that were able

to go forth to war,

37Thirty-ve thousand four hundred.

38Of the sons of Dan, by their generations

and families and houses of their kindreds, were

reckoned up by the names of every one from

twenty years old and upward, all that were able

to go forth to war,

39Sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

40Of the sons of Aser, by their generations

and families and houses of their kindreds, werereckoned up by the names of every one from

twenty years old and upward, all that were able

to go forth to war,

41Forty-one thousand and ve hundred.

42Of the sons of Nephtali, by their genera-

tions and families and houses of their kindreds,

were reckoned up by the names of every one from

twenty years old and upward, were able to go

forth to war,
43Fifty-three thousand four hundred.

44These are they who were numbered by

Moses and Aaron, and the twelve princes of Is-

rael, every one by the houses of their kindreds.

45And the whole number of the children of

Israel by their houses and families, from twenty

years old and upward, that were able to go to

war,

46Were six hundred and three thousand ve

hundred and fty men.

47But the Levites in the tribes of their fami-

lies were not numbered with them.

48And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

49Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt

thou put down the sum of them with the children

of Israel:

50But appoint them over the tabernacle of

the testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and

whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They

shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture

thereof: and they shall minister, and shall en-

camp round about the tabernacle.

51When you are to go forward, the Levites

shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to

camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever

cometh to it, shall be slain.

52And the children of Israel shall camp every

man by his troops and bands and army.

53But the Levites shall pitch their tents

round about the tabernacle, lest there come in-

dignation upon the multitude of the children of158 Book of Numbers

Israel, and they shall keep watch, and guard the

tabernacle of the testimony.

54And the children of Israel did according

to all things which the Lord had commanded

Moses.

Chapter 2

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

2All the children of Israel shall camp by their

troops, ensigns, and standards, and the houses

of their kindreds, round about the tabernacle of

the covenant.

3On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the

bands of his army: and the prince of his sons;

shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

4And the whole sum of the ghting men of his

stock, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

5Next unto him they of the tribe of Issachar

encamped, whose prince was Nathanael, the son

of Suar.

6And the whole number of his ghting men

were fty-four thousand four hundred.

7In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab

the son of Helon.

8And all the army of ghting men of his stock,

were fty-seven thousand four hundred.

9All that were numbered in the camp of Juda,

were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four

hundred: and they by their troops shall march

rst.

10In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the

south side, the prince shall be Elisur the son of

Sedeur:

11And the whole army of his ghting men,

that were numbered, were forty-six thousand ve

hundred.

12Beside him camped they of the tribe of

Simeon: whose prince was Salamiel the son ofSurisaddai.

13And the whole army of his ghting men,

that were numbered, were fty-nine thousand

three hundred.

14In the tribe of Gad the prince was Eliasaph

the son of Duel.

15And the whole army of his righting men

that were numbered, were forty-ve thousand six

hundred and fty.

16All that were reckoned up in the camp of

Ruben, were a hundred and fty-one thousand

four hundred and fty, by their troops: they shall

march in the second place.

17And the tabernacle of the testimony shall

be carried by the ocers of the Levites and their

troops. As it shall be set up, so shall it be taken

down. Every one shall march according to their

places, and ranks.

18On the west side shall be the camp of the

sons of Ephraim, whose prince was Elisama the

son of Ammiud.

19The whole army of his ghting men, that

were numbered, were forty thousand ve hun-

dred.

20And with them the tribe of the sons of

Manasses, whose prince was Gamaliel the son of

Phadassur.

21And the whole army of his ghting men,

that were numbered, were thirty-two thousand

two hundred.

22In the tribe of the sons of Benjamin the

prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon.

23And the whole army of ghting men, that

were reckoned up, were thirty-ve thousand four

hundred.

24All that were numbered in the camp of

Ephraim, were a hundred and eight-thousand

one hundred by their troops: they shall march

in the third place.Book of Numbers 159

25On the north side camped the sons of Dan:

whose prince was Ahiezar the son of Ammisad-

dai.

26The whole army of his ghting men, that

were numbered, were sixty-two thousand seven

hundred.

27Beside him they of the tribe of Aser pitched

their tents: whose prince was Phegiel the son of

Ochran.

28The whole army of his ghting men, that

were numbered, were forty-one thousand ve

hundred.

29Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the

prince was Ahira the son of Enan.

30The whole army of his ghting men, were

fty-three thousand four hundred.

31All that were numbered in the camp of

Dan, were a hundred and fty-seven thousand

six hundred: and they shall march last.

32This is the number of the children of Israel,

of their army divided according to the houses of

their kindreds and their troops, six hundred and

three thousand ve hundred and fty.

33And the Levites were not numbered among

the children of Israel: for so the Lord had com-

manded Moses.

34And the children of Israel did according to

all things that the Lord had commanded. They

camped by their troops, and marched by the

families and houses of their fathers.

Chapter 3

These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in

the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount

Sinai.

2And these the names of the sons of Aaron:

his rstborn Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and

Ithamar.3These the names of the sons of Aaron the

priests that were anointed, and whose hands

were lled and consecrated, to do the functions

of priesthood.

4Now Nadab and Abiu died, without chil-

dren, when they oered strange re before the

Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and

Ithamar performed the priestly oce in the pres-

ence of Aaron their father.

5And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

6Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them

stand in the sight of Aaron the priest to min-

ister to him, and let them watch,

7And observe whatsoever appertaineth to the

service of the multitude before the tabernacle of

the testimony,

8And let them keep the vessels of the taber-

nacle, serving in the ministry thereof.

9And thou shalt give the Levites for a gift,

10To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they

are delivered by the children of Israel. But thou

shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service

of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to

minister, shall be put to death.

11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12I have taken the Levites from the chil-

dren of Israel, for every rstborn that openeth

the womb among the children of Israel, and the

Levites shall be mine.

13For every rstborn is mine: since I struck

the rstborn in the land of Egypt: I have sanc-

tied to myself whatsoever is rstborn in Israel

both of man and beast, they are mine: I am the

Lord.

14And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert

of Sinai, saying:

15Number the sons of Levi by the houses of

their fathers and their families, every male from

one month and upward.160 Book of Numbers

16Moses numbered them as the Lord had

commanded.

17And there were found sons of Levi by their

names, Gerson and Caath Merari.

18The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei.

19The sons of Caath: Amram, and Jesaar,

Hebron and Oziel:

20The sons of Merari, Moholi and Musi.

21Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnites,

and the Semeites:

22Of which were numbered, people of the

male sex from one month and upward, seven

thousand ve hundred.

23These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on

the west,

24Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael.

25And their charge shall be in the tabernacle

of the covenant:

26The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof,

the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the

tabernacle of the covenant, and the curtains of

the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the

entry of the court of the tabernacle, and whatso-

ever belongeth to the rite of the altar, the cords

of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof.

27Of the kindred of Caath come the fam-

ilies of the Amramites and Jesaarites and He-

bronites and Ozielites. These are the families of

the Caathites reckoned up by their names:

28All of the male sex from one month and

upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall

have the guard of the sanctuary,

29And shall camp on the south side.

30And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son

of Oziel:

31And they shall keep the ark, and the table

and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels

of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, and

the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.32And the prince of the princes of the Levites,

Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be over

them that watch for the guard of the sanctuary.

33And of Merari are the families of the Moho-

lites, and Musites, reckoned up by their names:

34All of the male kind from one month and

upward, six thousand two hundred.

35Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel:

their shall camp on the north side.

36Under their custody shall be the boards of

the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pillars and

their sockets, and all things that pertain to this

kind of service:

37And the pillars of the court round about

with their sockets, and the pins with their cords.

38Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that

is to say on the east side shall Moses and Aaron

camp, with their sons, having the custody of the

sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel.

What stranger soever cometh unto it, shall be

put to death.

39All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron

numbered according to the precept of the Lord,

by their f families, of the male kind from one

month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

40And the Lord said to Moses: Number the

rstborn of the male sex of the children of Israel,

from one month and upward, and thou shalt take

the sum of them.

41And thou shalt take the Levites to me for

all the rstborn of the children of Israel, I am

the Lord: and their cattle for all the rstborn of

the cattle of the children of Israel:

42Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had com-

manded, the rstborn of the children of Israel:

43And the males by their names, from one

month and upward, were twenty-two thousand

two hundred and seventy-three.

44And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:Book of Numbers 161

45Take the Levites for the rstborn of the

children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites

for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I

am the Lord.

46But for the price of the two hundred and

seventy-three, of the rstborn of the children of

Israel, that exceed the number of the Levites,

47Thou shalt take ve sicles for every bead,

according to the weight of the sanctuary. A sicle

hath twenty obols.

48And thou shalt give the money to Aaron

and his sons, the price of them that are above.

49Moses therefore took the money of them

that were above, and whom they had redeemed

from the Levites,

50For the rstborn of the children of Israel,

one thousand three hundred and sixty-ve sicles,

according to the weight of the sanctuary,

51And gave it to Aaron and his sons accord-

ing to the word that the Lord had commanded

him.

Chapter 4

And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, say-

ing:

2Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the

midst of the Levites, by their houses and fami-

lies.

3From thirty years old and upward, to fty

years old, of all that go in to stand and to min-

ister in the tabernacle of the covenant.

4This is the service of the sons of Caath:

5When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron

and his sons shall go into the tabernacle of the

covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take

down the veil that hangeth before the door, and

shall wrap up the ark of the testimony in it,

6And shall cover it again with a cover of violetskins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet,

and shall put in the bars.

7They shall wrap up also the table of proposi-

tion in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the

censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to

pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always

on it:

8And they shall spread over it a cloth of scar-

let, which again they shall cover with a covering

of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.

9They shall take also a cloth of violet where-

with they shall cover the candlestick with the

lamps and tongs thereof and the snuers and all

the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dress-

ing of the lamps:

10And over all they shall put a cover of violet

skins and put in the bars.

11And they shall wrap up the golden altar

also in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it

a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars.

12All the vessels wherewith they minister in

the sanctuary, they shall wrap up in a cloth of

violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet

skins, and put in the bars.

13They shall cleanse the altar also from the

ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth,

14And shall put it with all the vessels that

they use in the ministry thereof, that is to say,

repans,

eshhooks and forks, pothooks and

shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the

altar together with a covering of violet skins, and

shall put in the bars.

15And when Aaron and his sons have

wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels thereof

at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons

of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped

up: and they shall not touch the vessels of the

sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens

of the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the

covenant:162 Book of Numbers

16And over them shall be Eleazar the son

of Aaron the priest, to whose charge pertaineth

the oil to dress the lamps, and the sweet incense,

and the sacrice, that is always oered, and the

oil of unction, and whatsoever pertaineth to the

service of the tabernacle, and of all the vessels

that are in the sanctuary.

17And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron,

saying:

18Destroy not the people of Caath from the

midst of the Levites:

19But do this to them, that they may live,

and not die, by touching the holies of holies.

Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall

appoint every man his work, and shall divide the

burdens that every man is to carry.

20Let not others by any curiosity see the

things that are in the sanctuary before they be

wrapped up, otherwise they shall die.

21And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

22Take the sum of the sons of Gerson also by

their houses and families and kindreds.

23From thirty years old and upward, unto

fty years old. Number them all that go in and

minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.

24This is the oce of the family of the Ger-

sonites:

25To carry the curtains of the tabernacle and

the roof of the covenant, the other covering, and

the violet covering over all, and the hanging that

hangeth in the entry of the tabernacle of the

covenant,

26The curtains of the court, and the veil in

the entry that is before tabernacle. All things

that pertain to the altar, the cords and the ves-

sels of the ministry,

27The sons of Gerson shall carry, by the com-

mandment of Aaron and his sons: and each man

shall know to what burden he must be assigned.28This is the service of the family of the Ger-

sonites in the tabernacle of the covenant, and

they shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son

of Aaron the priest.

29Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Merari

also by the families and houses of their fathers,

30From thirty years old and upward, unto

fty years old, all that go in to the oce of their

ministry, and to the service of the covenant of

the testimony.

31These are their burdens: They shall carry

the boards of the tabernacle and the bars

thereof, the pillars and their sockets,

32The pillars also of the court round about,

with their sockets and pins and cords. They shall

receive by account all the vessels and furniture,

and so shall carry them.

33This is the oce of the family of the Mer-

arites, and their ministry in the tabernacle of the

covenant: and they shall be under the hand of

Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

34So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the

synagogue reckoned up the sons of Caath, by

their kindreds and the houses of their fathers,

35From thirty years old and upward, unto

fty years old, all that go in to the ministry of

the tabernacle of the covenant:

36And they were found two thousand seven

hundred and fty.

37This is the number of the people of Caath

that go in to the tabernacle of the covenant:

these did Moses and Aaron number according

to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

38The sons of Gerson also were numbered by

the kindreds and houses of their fathers,

39From thirty years old and upward, unto

fty years old, all that go in to minister in the

tabernacle of the covenant:

40And they were found two thousand six hun-

dred and thirty.Book of Numbers 163

41This is the people of the Gersonites, whom

Moses and Aaron numbered according to the

word of the Lord.

42The sons of Merari also were numbered by

the kindreds and houses of their fathers,

43From thirty years old and upward, unto

fty years old, all that go in to full the rites of

the tabernacle of the covenant:

44And they were found three thousand two

hundred.

45This is the number of the sons of Merari,

whom Moses and Aaron reckoned up according

to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of

Moses.

46All that were reckoned up of the Levites,

and whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of

Israel took by name, by the kindreds and houses

of their fathers,

47From thirty years old and upward, until

fty years old, that go into the ministry of the

tabernacle, and to carry the burdens,

48Were in all eight thousand ve hundred and

eighty.

49Moses reckoned them up according to the

word of the Lord, every one according to their

oce and burdens, as the Lord had commanded

him.

Chapter 5

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Command the children of Israel, that they

cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever

hath an issue of seed, or is deled by the dead:

3Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them

out of the camp, lest they dele it when I shall

dwell with you,

4And the children of Israel did so, and they

cast them forth without the camp, as the Lordhad spoken to Moses.

5And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

6Say to the children of Israel: When a man or

woman shall have committed any of all the sins

that men are wont to commit, and by negligence

shall have transgressed the commandment of the

Lord, and oended,

7They shall confess their sin, and restore the

principal itself, and the fth part over and above,

to him against whom they have sinned.

8But if there be no one to receive it, they shall

give it to the Lord, and it shall be the priest's,

besides the ram that is oered for expiation, to

be an atoning sacrice.

9All the rstfruits also, which the children of

Israel oer, belong to the priest:

10And whatsoever is oered into the sanctu-

ary by every one, and is delivered into the hands

of the priest, it shall be his.

11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

12Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall

have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

13Shall have slept with another man, and her

husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is

secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, be-

cause she was not found in the adultery:

14If the spirit of jealousy stir up the hus-

band against his wife, who either is deled, or is

charged with false suspicion,

15He shall bring her to the priest, and shall

oer an oblation for her, the tenth part of a mea-

sure of barley meal: he shall not pour oil thereon,

nor put frankincense upon it: because it is a sac-

rice of jealousy, and an oblation searching out

adultery.

16The priest therefore shall oer it, and set

it before the Lord.

17And he shall take holy water in an earthen

vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pave-164 Book of Numbers

ment of the tabernacle into it.

18And when the woman shall stand before

the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall

put on her hands the sacrice of remembrance,

and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall

hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath

heaped curses with execration.

19And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If

another man hath not slept with thee, and if

thou be not deled by forsaking thy husband's

bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have

heaped curses, shall not hurt thee.

20But if thou hast gone aside from thy hus-

band, and art deled, and hast lain with another

man:

21These curses shall light upon thee: The

Lord make thee a curse, and an example for all

among his people: may he make thy thigh to rot,

and may thy belly swell and burst asunder.

22Let the cursed waters enter into thy belly,

and may thy womb swell and thy thigh rot. And

the woman shall answer, Amen, amen.

23And the priest shall write these curses in

a book, and shall wash them out with the most

bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the

curses,

24And he shall give them her to drink. And

when she hath drunk them up,

25The priest shall take from her hand the

sacrice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before

the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet so

as rst,

26To take a handful of the sacrice of that

which is oered, and burn it upon the altar: and

so give the most bitter waters to the woman to

drink.

27And when she hath drunk them, if she

be deled, and having despised her husband

be guilty of adultery, the malediction shall go

through her, and her belly swelling, her thighshall rot: and the woman shall be a curse, and

an example to all the people.

28But if she be not deled, she shall not be

hurt, and shall bear children.

29This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath

gone aside from her husband, and be deled,

30And the husband stirred up by the spirit

of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the

priest do to her according to all things that are

here written:

31The husband shall be blameless, and she

shall bear her iniquity.

Chapter 6

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: When a man, or woman, shall

make a vow to be sanctied, and will consecrate

themselves to the Lord:

3They shall abstain from wine, and from ev-

ery thing that may make a man drunk. They

shall not drink vinegar of wine, or of any other

drink, nor any thing that is pressed out of the

grape: nor shall they eat grapes either fresh or

dried.

4All the days that they are consecrated to

the Lord by vow: they shall eat nothing that

cometh of the vineyard, from the raisin even to

the kernel.

5All the time of his separation no razor shall

pass over his head, until the day be fullled of

his consecration to the Lord. He shall be holy,

and shall let the hair of his head grow.

6All the time of his consecration he shall not

go in to any dead,

7Neither shall he make himself unclean, even

for his father, or for his mother, or for his

brother, or for his sister, when they die, becauseBook of Numbers 165

the consecration of his God is upon his head.

8All the days of his separation he shall be

holy to the Lord.

9But if any man die suddenly before him: the

head of his consecration shall be deled: and he

shall shave it forthwith on the same day of his

purication, and again on the seventh day.

10And on the eighth day he shall bring two

turtles, or two young pigeons to the priest in the

entry of the covenant of the testimony.

11And the priest shall oer one for sin, and

the other for a holocaust, and shall pray for him,

for that he hath sinned by the dead: and he shall

sanctify his head that day:

12And shall consecrate to the Lord the days

of his separation, oering a lamb of one year for

sin: yet so that the former days be made void,

because his sanctication was profaned.

13This is the law of consecration. When the

days which he had determined by vow shall be

expired, he shall bring him to the door of the

tabernacle of the covenant,

14And shall oer his oblation to the Lord:

one he lamb of a year old without blemish for a

holocaust, and one ewe lamb of a year old with-

out blemish for a sin oering, and one ram with-

out blemish for a victim of peace oering,

15A basket also of unleavened bread, tem-

pered with oil, and wafers without leaven

anointed with oil, and the libations of each:

16And the priest shall present them before

the Lord, and shall oer both the sin oering

and the holocaust.

17But the ram he shall immolate for a sacri-

ce of peace oering to the Lord, oering at the

same time the basket of unleavened bread, and

the libations that are due by custom.

18Then shall the hair of the consecration of

the Nazarite, be shaved o before the door of the

tabernacle of the covenant: and he shall take hishair, and lay it upon the re, which is under the

sacrice of the peace oerings.

19And shall take the boiled shoulder of the

ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket,

and one unleavened wafer, and he shall deliver

them into the hands of the Nazarite, after his

head is shaven.

20And receiving them again from him, he

shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord: and

they being sanctied shall belong to the priest,

as the breast, which was commanded to be sepa-

rated, and the shoulder. After this the Nazarite

may drink wine.

21This is the law of the Nazarite, when he

hath vowed his oblation to the Lord in the time

of his consecration, besides those things which

his hand shall nd, according to that which he

had vowed in his mind, so shall he do for the

fullling of his sanctication.

22And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

23Say to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you

bless the children of Israel, and you shall say to

them:

24The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.

25The Lord shew his face to thee, and have

mercy on thee.

26The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and

give thee peace.

27And they shall invoke my name upon the

children of Israel, and I will bless them.

Chapter 7

And it came to pass in the day that Moses had

nished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had

anointed and sanctied it with all its vessels, the

altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,

2The princes of Israel and the heads of the

families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of166 Book of Numbers

them who had been numbered, oered

3Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons cov-

ered, and twelve oxen. Two princes oered one

wagon, and each one an ox, and they oered

them before the tabernacle.

4And the Lord said to Moses:

5Receive them from them to serve in the min-

istry of the tabernacle, and thou shalt deliver

them to the Levites according to the order of

their ministry.

6Moses therefore receiving the wagons and

the oxen, delivered them to the Levites.

7Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the

sons of Gerson, according to their necessity.

8The other four wagons, and eight oxen he

gave to the sons of Merari, according to their

oces and service, under the hand of Ithamar

the son of Aaron the priest.

9But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons

or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and

carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.

10And the princes oered for the dedication

of the altar on the day when it was anointed,

their oblation before the altar.

11And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of

the princes one day after another oer their gifts

for the dedication of the altar.

12The rst day Nahasson the son of Ami-

nadab of the tribe of Juda oered his oering:

13And his oering was a silver dish weigh-

ing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl

of seventy sicles according to the weight of the

sanctuary, both full of

our tempered with oil

for a sacrice:
14A little mortar of ten sicles of gold full of

incense:

15An ox of the herd, and a ram, and lamb of

a year old for a holocaust:

16And a buck goat for sin:17And for the sacrice of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve he goats, ve lambs of a year

old. This was the oering of Nahasson the son

of Aminadab.

18The second day Nathanael the son of Suar,

prince of the tribe of Issachar, made his oering,

19A silver dish weighing one hundred and

thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, ac-

cording to the weight of the sanctuary, both full

of

our tempered with oil for a sacrice:

20A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

21An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

22And a buck goat for sin:

23And for the sacrice of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Nathanael the

son of Suar.

24The third day the prince of the sons of

Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon,

25Oered a silver dish weighing one hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles

by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of

our

tempered with oil for a sacrice:

26A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

27An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

28And a buck goat for sin:

29And for the sacrice of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This is the oblation of Eliab the son of

Helon.

30The fourth day the prince of the sons of

Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur,

31Oered a silver dish weighing one hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles

according to the weight of the sanctuary, both

full of

our tempered with oil for a sacrice:Book of Numbers 167

32A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

33An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old, for a holocaust:

34And a buck goat for sin:

35And for victims of peace oerings two oxen,

ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a year

old. This was the oering of Elisur the son of

Sedeur.

36The fth day the prince of the sons of

Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai,

37Oered a silver dish weighing one hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles

after the weight of the sanctuary, both full of

our tempered with oil for a sacrice:

38A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

39An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

40And a buck goat for sin:

41And for sacrices of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Salamiel the

son of Surisaddai.

42The sixth day the prince of the sons of Gad,

Eliasaph the son of Duel,

43Oered a silver dish weighing a hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles

by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of

our
tempered with oil for a sacrice:

44A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

45An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

46And a buck goat for sin:

47And for sacrices of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Eliasaph the

son of Duel.48The seventh day the prince of the sons of

Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud,

49Oered a silver dish weighing a hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles

according to the weight of the sanctuary, both

full of

our tempered with oil for a sacrice:

50A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

51An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

52And a buck goat for sin:

53And for sacrices of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Elisama the

son of Ammiud.

54The eighth day the prince of the sons of

Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur,

55Oered a silver dish, weighing a hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles,

according to the weight of the sanctuary, both

full of

our tempered with oil for a sacrice:

56A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

57An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

58And a buck goat for sin:

59And for sacrices of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Gamaliel the

son of Phadassur.

60The ninth day the prince of the sons of

Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon,

61Oered a silver dish weighing a hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles

by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of

our

tempered with oil for a sacrice:

62A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

63An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:168 Book of Numbers

64And a buck goat for sin:

65And for sacrices of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Abidan the son

of Gedeon.

66The tenth day the princes of the sons of

Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai,

67Oered a silver dish weighing a hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles,

according to the weight of the sanctuary, both

full of

our tempered with oil for a sacrice:

68A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

69An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

70And a buck goat for sin:

71And for sacrices of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Ahiezer the

son of Ammisaddai.

72The eleventh day the prince of the sons of

Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran,

73Oered a silver dish weighing a hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles,

according to the weight of the sanctuary, both

full of

our tempered with oil for a sacrice:

74A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

75An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

76And a buck goat for sin:

77And for sacrices of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Phegiel the son

of Ochran.

78The twelfth day the prince of the sons of

Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan,

79Oered a silver dish weighing a hundred

and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles,according to the weight of the sanctuary, both

full of

our tempered with oil for a sacrice:

80A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles

full of incense:

81An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb

of a year old for a holocaust:

82And a buck goat for sin:

83And for sacrices of peace oerings, two

oxen, ve rams, ve buck goats, ve lambs of a

year old. This was the oering of Ahira the son

of Enan.
84These were the oerings made by the

princes of Israel in the dedication of the altar,

in the day wherein it was consecrated. Twelve

dishes of silver: twelve silver bowls: twelve little

mortars of gold:

85Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty

sicles of silver, and each bowl seventy sicles: that

is, putting all the vessels of silver together, two

thousand four hundred sicles, by the weight of

the sanctuary.

86Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense,

weighing ten sicles apiece, by the weight of the

sanctuary: that is, in all a hundred and twenty

sicles of gold.

87Twelve oxen out of the herd for a holocaust,

twelve rams, twelve lambs of a year old, and their

libations: twelve buck goats for sin.

88And for sacrices of peace oerings, oxen

twenty-four, rams sixty, buck goats sixty, lambs

of a year old sixty. These things were oered in

the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed.

89And when Moses entered into the taber-

nacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he

heard the voice of one speaking to him from the

propitiatory, that is over the ark between the two

cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him.Book of Numbers 169

Chapter 8

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him:

When thou shalt place the seven lamps, let the

candlestick be set up on the south side. Give or-

ders therefore that the lamps look over against

the north, towards the table of the loaves of

proposition, over against that part shall they

give light, towards which the candlestick looketh.

3And Aaron did so, and he put the lamps

upon the candlestick, as the Lord had com-

manded Moses.

4Now this was the work of the candlestick, it

was of beaten gold, both the shaft in the mid-

dle, and all that came out of both sides of the

branches: according to the pattern which the

Lord had shewn to Moses, so he made the can-

dlestick.

5And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

6Take the Levites out of the midst of the chil-

dren of Israel, and thou shalt purify them,

7According to this rite: Let them be sprinkled

with the water of purication, and let them shave

all the hairs of their

esh. And when they shall

have washed their garments, and are cleansed,

8They shall take an ox of the herd, and for

the oering thereof ne

our tempered with oil:

and thou shalt take another ox of the herd for a

sin oering:

9And thou shalt bring the Levites before the

tabernacle of the covenant, calling together all

the multitude of the children of Israel:

10And when the Levites are before the Lord,

the children of Israel shall put their hands upon

them:

11And Aaron shall oer the Levites, as a gift

in the sight of the Lord from the children of Is-

rael, that they may serve in his ministry.

12The Levites also shall put their hands uponthe heads of the oxen, of which thou shalt sacri-

ce one for sin, and the other for a holocaust to

the Lord, to pray for them.

13And thou shalt set the Levites in the sight

of Aaron and of his, and shalt consecrate them

being oered to the Lord,

14And shalt separate them from the midst of

the children of Israel, to be mine.

15And afterwards they shall enter into the

tabernacle of the covenant, to serve me. And

thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them for

an oblation of the Lord: for as a gift they were

given me by the children of Israel.

16I have taken them instead of the rstborn

that open every womb in Israel,

17For all the rstborn of the children of Israel,

both of men and of beasts, are mine. From the

day that I slew every rstborn in the land of

Egypt, have I sanctied them to myself:

18And I have taken the Levites for all the

rstborn of the children of Israel:

19And have delivered them for a gift to Aaron

and his sons out of the midst of the people,

to serve me for Israel in the tabernacle of the

covenant, and to pray for them, lest there should

be a plague among the people, if they should pre-

sume to approach unto my sanctuary.

20And Moses and Aaron and all the multi-

tude of the children of Israel did with the Levites

all that the Lord had commanded Moses

21And they were puried, and washed their

garments. And Aaron lifted them up in the sight

of the Lord, and prayed for them,

22That being puried they might go into the

tabernacle of the covenant to do their services

before Aaron and his sons. As the Lord had

commanded Moses touching the Levites, so was

it done.
23And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:170 Book of Numbers

24This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-

ve years old and upwards, they shall go in to

minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.

25And when they shall have accomplished

the ftieth year of their age, they shall cease to

serve:

26And they shall be the ministers of their

brethren in the tabernacle of the covenant, to

keep the things that are committed to their care,

but not to do the works. Thus shalt thou order

the Levites touching their charge.

Chapter 9

The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai,

the second year after they were come out of the

land of Egypt, in the rst month, saying:

2Let the children of Israel make the phase in

its due time,

3The fourteenth day of this month in the

evening, according to all the ceremonies and jus-

tications thereof.

4And Moses commanded the children of Israel

that they should make the phase.

5And they made it in its proper time: the

fourteenth day of the month at evening, in mount

Sinai. The children of Israel did according to all

things that the Lord had commanded Moses.

6But behold some who were unclean by occa-

sion of the soul of a man, who could not make the

phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,

7Said to them: We are unclean by occasion

of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that

we may not oer in its season the oering to the

Lord among the children of Israel?

8And Moses answered them: Stay that I may

consult the Lord what he will ordain concerning

you.

9And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:10Say to the children of Israel: The man that

shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead,

or shall be in a journey afar o in your nation,

let him make the phase to the Lord.

11In the second month, on the fourteenth day

of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with

unleavened bread and wild lettuce:

12They shall not leave any thing thereof until

morning, nor break a bone thereof, they shall

observe all the ceremonies of the phase.

13But if any man is clean, and was not on a

journey, and did not make the phase, that soul

shall be cut o from among his people, because

he oered not sacrice to the Lord in due season:

he shall bear his sin.

14The sojourner also and the stranger if they

be among you, shall make the phase to the Lord

according to the ceremonies and justications

thereof. The same ordinances shall be with you

both for the stranger, and for him that was born

in the land.

15Now on the day that the tabernacle was

reared up, a cloud covered it. But from the

evening there was over the tabernacle, as it were,

the appearance of re until the morning.

16So it was always: by day the cloud covered

it, and by night as it were the appearance of re.

17And when the cloud that covered the taber-

nacle was taken up, then the children of Israel

marched forward: and in the place where the

cloud stood still, there they camped.

18At the commandment of the Lord they

marched, and at his commandment they pitched

the tabernacle. All the days that the cloud

abode over the tabernacle, they remained in the

same place:

19And if it was so that it continued over it a

long time, the children of Israel kept the watches

of the Lord, and marched not,

20For as many days soever as the cloud stayedBook of Numbers 171

over the tabernacle. At the commandment of the

Lord they pitched their tents, and at his com-

mandment they took them down.

21If the cloud tarried from evening until

morning, and immediately at break of day left

the tabernacle, they marched forward: and if it

departed after a day and a night, they took down

their tents.

22But if it remained over the tabernacle for

two days or a month or a longer time, the chil-

dren of Israel remained in the same place, and

marched not: but immediately as soon as it de-

parted, they removed the camp.

23By the word of the Lord they pitched their

tents, and by his word they marched: and kept

the watches of the Lord according to his com-

mandment by the hand of Moses.

Chapter 10

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver,

wherewith thou mayest call together the multi-

tude when the camp is to be removed.

3And when thou shalt sound the trumpets,

all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the

door of the tabernacle of the covenant.

4If thou sound but once, the princes and the

heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to

thee.

5But if the sound of the trumpets be longer,

and with interruptions, they that are on the east

side, shall rst go forward.

6And at the second sounding and like noise

of the trumpet, they who lie on the south side

shall take up their tents. And after this manner

shall the rest do, when the trumpets shall sound

for a march.

7But when the people is to be gathered to-gether, the sound of the trumpets shall be plain,

and they shall not make a broken sound.

8And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound

the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for

ever in your generations.

9If you go forth to war out of your land

against the enemies that ght against you, you

shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there

shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord

your God, that you may be delivered out of the

hands of your enemies.

10If at any time you shall have a banquet,

and on your festival days, and on the rst days

of your months, you shall sound the trumpets

over the holocausts, and the sacrices of peace

oerings, that they may be to you for a remem-

brance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

11The second year, in the second month, the

twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken

up from the tabernacle of the covenant.

12And the children of Israel marched by their

troops from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud

rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

13And the rst went forward according to the

commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

14The sons of Juda by their troops: whose

prince was Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

15In the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the

prince was Nathanael the son of Suar.

16In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was

Eliab the son of Helon.

17And the tabernacle was taken down, and

the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bear-

ing it.

18And the sons of Ruben also marched, by

their troops and ranks, whose prince was Helisur

the son of Sedeur.

19And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince was

Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.172 Book of Numbers

20And in the tribe of Gad, the prince was

Eliasaph the son of Duel.

21Then the Caathites also marched carrying

the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle car-

ried, till they came to the place of setting it up.

22The sons of Ephraim also moved their

camp by their troops, in whose army the prince

was Elisama the son of Ammiud.

23And in the tribe of the sons of Manasses,

the prince was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

24And in the tribe of Benjamin, the prince

was Abidan the son of Gedeon.

25The last of all the camp marched the sons

of Dan by their troops, in whose army the prince

was Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.

26And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the

prince was Phegiel the son of Ochran.

27And in the tribe of the sons of Nephtali,

the prince was Ahira the son of Enan.

28This was the order of the camps, and

marches of the children of Israel by their troops,

when they set forward.

29And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel

the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going to-

wards the place which the Lord will give us:

come with us, that we may do thee good: for

the Lord hath promised good things to Israel.

30But he answered him: I will not go with

thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I

was born.
31And he said: Do not leave us: for thou

knowest in what places we should encamp in the

wilderness, and thou shalt be our guide.

32And if thou comest with us, we will give

thee what is the best of the riches which the Lord

shall deliver to us.

33So they marched from the mount of the

Lord three days' journey, and the ark of the

covenant of the Lord went before them, for three

days providing a place for the camp.34The cloud also of the Lord was over them

by day when they marched.

35And when the ark was lifted up, Moses

said: Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scat-

tered, and let them that hate thee,

ee from be-

fore thy face.

36And when it was set down, he said: Return,

O Lord, to the multitude of the host of Israel.

Chapter 11

In the mean time there arose a murmuring of

the people against the Lord, as it were repining

at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it

he was angry. And the re of the Lord being

kindled against them, devoured them that were

at the uttermost part of the camp.

2And when the people cried to Moses, Moses

prayed to the Lord, and the re was swallowed

up.

3And he called the name of that place, The

burning: for that the re of the Lord had been

kindled against them.

4For a mixt multitude of people, that came

up with them, burned with desire, sitting and

weeping, the children of Israel also being joined

with them, and said: Who shall give us

esh to

eat?

5We remember the sh that we ate in Egypt

free cost: the cucumbers come into our mind,

and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions,

and the garlic.

6Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else

but manna.

7Now the manna was like coriander seed, of

the colour of bdellium.

8And the people went about, and gathering

it, ground it in a mill, or beat it in a mortar, and

boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof of theBook of Numbers 173

taste of bread tempered with oil.

9And when the dew fell in the night upon the

camp, the manna also fell with it.

10Now Moses heard the people weeping by

their families, every one at the door of his tent.

And the wrath of the Lord was exceedingly

enkindled: to Moses also the thing seemed in-

supportable.

11And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou

aicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not nd

favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the

weight of all this people upon me?

12Have I conceived all this multitude, or

begotten them, that thou shouldst say to me:

Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont

to carry the little infant, and bear them into the

land, for which thou hast sworn to their fathers?

13Whence should I have

esh to give to so

great a multitude? They weep against me, say-

ing: Give us

esh that we may eat.

14I am not able alone to bear all this people,

because it is too heavy for me.

15But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I be-

seech thee to kill me, and let me nd grace in

thy eyes, that I be not aicted with so great

evils.

16And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto

me seventy men of the ancients of Israel, whom

thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the

people: and thou shalt bring them to the door of

the tabernacle of the covenant, and shalt make

them stand there with thee,

17That I may come down and speak with

thee: and I will take of thy spirit, and will give to

them, that they may bear with thee the burden

of the people, and thou mayest not be burthened

alone.

18And thou shalt say to the people: Be ye

sanctied: to morrow you shall eat

esh: for I

have heard you say: Who will give us

esh toeat? It was well with us in Egypt. That the

Lord may give you

esh, and you may eat:

19Not for one day, nor two, nor ve, nor ten,

no nor for twenty.

20But even for a month of days, till it come

out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to

you, because you have cast o the Lord, who is

in the midst of you, and have wept before him,

saying: Why came we out of Egypt?

21And Moses said: There are six hundred

thousand footmen of this people, and sayest

thou: I will give them

esh to eat a whole

month?

22Shall then a multitude of sheep and oxen

be killed, that it may suce for their food? or

shall the shes of the sea be gathered together

to ll them?

23And the Lord answered him: Is the hand

of the Lord unable? Thou shalt presently see

whether my word shall come to pass or no.

24Moses therefore came, and told the people

the words of the Lord, and assembled seventy

men of the ancients of Israel, and made them to

stand about the tabernacle.

25And the Lord came down in a cloud, and

spoke to him, taking away of the spirit that was

in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And

when the spirit had rested on them they proph-

esied, nor did they cease afterwards.

26Now there remained in the camp two of

the men, of whom one was called Eldad, and the

other Medad, upon whom the spirit rested; for

they also had been enrolled, but were not gone

forth to the tabernacle.

27And when they prophesied in the camp,

there ran a young man, and told Moses, saying:

Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp.

28Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minis-

ter of Moses, and chosen out of many, said: My

lord Moses forbid them.174 Book of Numbers

29But he said: Why hast thou emulation for

me? O that all the people might prophesy, and

that the Lord would give them his spirit!

30And Moses returned, with the ancients of

Israel, into the camp.

31And a wind going out from the Lord, taking

quails up beyond the sea brought them, and cast

them into the camp for the space of one day's

journey, on every side of the camp round about,

and they

ew in the air two cubits high above

the ground.

32The people therefore rising up all that day,

and night, and the next day, gathered together

of quails, he that did least, ten cores: and they

dried them round about the camp.

33As yet the

esh was between their teeth,

neither had that kind of meat failed: when

behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked

against the people, struck them with an exceed-

ing great plague.

34And that place was called, The graves of

lust: for there they buried the people that had

lusted. And departing from the graves of lust,

they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.

Chapter 12

And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, be-

cause of his wife the Ethiopian,

2And they said: Hath the Lord spoken by

Moses only? Hath he not also spoken to us in

like manner? And when the Lord heard this,

3(For Moses was a man exceeding meek above

all men that dwelt upon earth)

4Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron

and Mary: Come out you three only to the taber-

nacle of the covenant. And when they were come

out,

5The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud,and stood in the entry of the tabernacle calling

to Aaron and Mary. And when they were come,

6He said to them: Hear my words: if there be

among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear

to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a

dream.

7But it is not so with my servant Moses who

is most faithful in all my house:

8For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and

plainly, and not by riddles and gures doth he

see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to

speak ill of my servant Moses?

9And being angry with them he went away:

10The cloud also that was over the taberna-

cle departed: and behold Mary appeared white

as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had

looked on her, and saw her all covered with lep-

rosy,

11He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord,

lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly

committed:

12Let her not be as one dead, and as an

abortive that is cast forth from the mother's

womb. Lo, now one half of her

esh is consumed

with the leprosy.

13And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O

God, I beseech thee heal her.

14And the Lord answered him: If her father

had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have

been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her

be separated seven days without the camp, and

afterwards she shall be called again.

15Mary therefore was put out of the camp

seven days: and the people moved not from that

place until Mary was called again.Book of Numbers 175

Chapter 13
And the people marched from Haseroth, and

pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.

2And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.

3Send men to view the land of Chanaan,

which I will give to the children of Israel, one

of every tribe, of the rulers.

4Moses did what the Lord had commanded,

sending from the desert of Pharan, principal

men, whose names are these:

5Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of

Zechur.

6Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of

Huri.

7Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Je-

phone.

8Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of

Joseph.

9Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of

Nun.

10Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the son of

Raphu.

11Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the son of

Sodi.

12Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre of

Manasses, Gaddi the son of Susi.

13Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of

Gemalli.

14Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of

Michael.

15Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the son of

Vapsi.

16Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.

17These are the names of the men, whom

Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee

the son of Nun, Josue.

18And Moses sent them to view the land of

Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by thesouth side. And when you shall come to the

mountains,

19View the land, of what sort it is, and the

people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether

they be strong or weak: few in number or many:

20The land itself, whether it be good or bad:

what manner of cities, walled or without walls:

21The ground, fat or barren, woody or with-

out trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of

the fruits of the land. Now it was the time when

the rstripe grapes are t to be eaten.

22And when they were gone up, they viewed

the land from the desert of Sin, unto Rohob as

you enter into Emath.

23And they went up at the south side, and

came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai

and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was

built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.

24And forward as far as the torrent of the

cluster of grapes, they cut o a branch with its

cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a

lever. They took also of the pomegranates and

of the gs of that place:

25Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say,

the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from

thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster

of grapes.

26And they that went to spy out the land

returned after forty days, having gone round all

the country,

27And came to Moses and Aaron and to

all the assembly of the children of Israel to the

desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speak-

ing to them and to all the multitude, they shewed

them the fruits of the land:

28And they related and said: We came into

the land to which thou sentest us, which in very

deed

oweth with milk and honey as may be

known by these fruits:

29But it hath very strong inhabitants, and176 Book of Numbers

the cities are great and walled. We saw there

the race of Enac.

30Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite

and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the moun-

tains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and

near the streams of the Jordan.

31In the mean time Caleb, to still the mur-

muring of the people that rose against Moses,

said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we

shall be able to conquer it.

32But the others, that had been with him,

said: No, we are not able to go up to this people,

because they are stronger than we.

33And they spoke ill of the land, which they

had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying:

The land which we have viewed, devoureth its

inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a

tall stature.

34There we saw certain monsters of the sons

of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of

whom, we seemed like locusts.

Chapter 14

Therefore the whole multitude crying wept that

night.

2And all the children of Israel murmured

against Moses and Aaron, saying:

3Would God that we had died in Egypt: and

would God we may die in this vast wilderness,

and that the Lord may not bring us into this

land, lest we fall by the sword, and our wives and

children be led away captives. Is it not better to

return into Egypt?

4And they said one to another: Let us ap-

point a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

5And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they

fell down

at upon the ground before the multi-

tude of the children of Israel.6But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son

of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the

land, rent their garments,

7And said to all the multitude of the children

of Israel: The land which we have gone round is

very good:

8If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us

into it, and give us a land

owing with milk and

honey.

9Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear

ye not the people of this land, for we are able to

eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them:

the Lord is with us, fear ye not.

10And when all the multitude cried out, and

would have stoned them, the glory of the Lord

appeared over the tabernacle of the covenant to

all the children of Israel.

11And the Lord said to Moses: How long will

this people detract me? how long will they not

believe me for all the signs that I have wrought

before them?

12I will strike them therefore with pestilence,

and will consume them: but thee I will make a

ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than

this is.

13And Moses said to the Lord: That the

Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast

brought forth this people,

14And the inhabitants of this land, (who have

heard that thou, O Lord, art among this people,

and art seen face to face, and thy cloud pro-

tecteth them, and thou goest before them in a

pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of re by

night,)

15May hear that thou hast killed so great a

multitude as it were one man and may say:

16He could not bring the people into the land

for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill

them in the wilderness.Book of Numbers 177

17Let then the strength of the Lord be mag-

nied, as thou hast sworn, saying:

18The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by

taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving

no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers

upon the children unto the third and fourth gen-

eration.

19Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this peo-

ple, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as

thou hast been merciful to them from their going

out of Egypt unto this place.

20And the Lord said: I have forgiven accord-

ing to thy word.

21As I live: and the whole earth shall be lled

with the glory of the Lord.

22But yet all the men that have seen my

majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt,

and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now

ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

23Shall not see the land for which I swore to

their fathers, neither shall any one of them that

hath detracted me behold it.

24My servant Caleb, who being full of an-

other spirit hath followed me, I will bring into

this land which he hath gone round: and his

seed shall possess it.

25For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite

dwell in the valleys. To morrow remove the

camp, and return into the wilderness by the way

of the Red Sea.

26And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron,

saying:

27How long doth this wicked multitude mur-

mur against me? I have heard the murmurings

of the children of Israel.

28Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the

Lord: According as you have spoken in my hear-

ing, so will I do to you.

29In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie.

All you that were numbered from twenty yearsold and upward, and have murmured against me,

30Shall not enter into the land, over which

I lifted up my hand to make you dwell therein,

except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the

son of Nun.

31But your children, of whom you said, that

they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring

in: that they may see the land which you have

despised.

32Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

33Your children shall wander in the desert

forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until

the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the

desert,

34According to the number of the forty days,

wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be

counted for a day. And forty years you shall re-

ceive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:

35For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this

wicked multitude, that hath risen up together

against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away

and die.

36Therefore all the men, whom Moses had

sent to view the land, and who at their re-

turn had made the whole multitude to murmur

against him, speaking ill of the land that it was

naught,

37Died and were struck in the sight of the

Lord.

38But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb had

gone to view the land.

39And Moses spoke all these words to all the

children of Israel, and the people mourned ex-

ceedingly.

40And behold rising up very early in the

morning, they went up to the top of the moun-

tain, and said: We are ready to go up to the

place, of which the Lord hath spoken: for we

have sinned.

41And Moses said to them: Why transgress178 Book of Numbers

you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed

prosperously with you?

42Go not up, for the Lord is not with you:

lest you fall before your enemies.

43The Amalecite and the Chanaanite are be-

fore you, and by their sword you shall fall, be-

cause you would not consent to the Lord, neither

will the Lord be with you.

44But they being blinded went up to the top

of the mountain. But the ark of the testament

of the Lord and Moses departed not from the

camp.

45And the Amalecite came down, and the

Chanaanite that dwelt in the mountain: and

smiting and slaying them pursued them as far

as Horma.

Chapter 15

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel and thou shalt

say to them: When you shall be come unto the

land of your habitation, which I will give you,

3And shall make an oering to the Lord, for

a holocaust, or a victim, paying your vows, or

voluntarily oering gifts, or in your solemnities

burning a sweet savour unto the Lord, of oxen

or of sheep:

4Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall of-

fer a sacrice of ne

our, the tenth part of an

ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a hin of

oil:

5And he shall give the same measure of wine

to pour out in libations for the holocaust or for

the victim. For every lamb,

6And for every ram there shall be a sacrice

of

our of two tenths, which shall be tempered

with the third part of a hin of oil:

7And he shall oer the third part the samemeasure of wine for the libation, for a sweet

savour to the Lord.

8But when thou oerest a holocaust or sac-

rice of oxen, to full thy vow or for victims of

peace oerings,

9Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of

our tempered with half a hin of oil,

10And wine for libations of the same measure,

for an oering of most sweet savour to the Lord.

11Thus shalt thou do

12For every ox and ram and lamb and kid.

13Both they that are born in the land, and

the strangers

14Shall oer sacrices after the same rite.

15There shall be all one law and judgment

both for you and for them who are strangers in

the land.

16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

17Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them:

18When you are come into the land which I

will give you,

19And shall eat of the bread of that country,

you shall separate rstfruits to the Lord,

20Of the things you eat. As you separate

rstfruits of your barn

oors:

21So also shall you give rstfruits of your

dough to the Lord.

22And if through ignorance you omit any

of these things, which the Lord hath spoken to

Moses,

23And by him hath commanded you from the

day that he began to command and thencefor-

ward,

24And the multitude have forgotten to do it:

they shall oer a calf out of the herd, a holocaust

for a most sweet savour to the Lord, and the

sacrice and libations thereof, as the ceremonies

require, and a buck goat for sin:Book of Numbers 179

25And the priest shall pray for all the mul-

titude of the children of Israel: and it shall be

forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly,

oering notwithstanding a burnt oering to the

Lord for themselves and for their sin and their

Ignorance:

26And it shall be forgiven all the people of the

children of Israel: and the strangers that sojourn

among them: because it is the fault of all the

people through ignorance.

27But if one soul shall sin ignorantly, he shall

oer a she goat of a year old for his sin.

28And the priest shall pray for him, because

he sinned ignorantly before the Lord: and he

shall obtain his pardon, and it shall be forgiven

him.

29The same law shall be for all that sin by

ignorance, whether they be natives or strangers.

30But the soul that committeth any thing

through pride, whether he be born in the land

or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious

against the Lord) shall be cut o from among

his people:

31For he hath contemned the word of the

Lord, and made void his precept: therefore shall

he be destroyed, and shall bear his iniquity.

32And it came to pass, when the children of

Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a

man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,

33That they brought him to Moses and Aaron

and the whole multitude.

34And they put him into prison, not knowing

what they should do with him.

35And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man

die, let all the multitude stone him without the

camp.

36And when they had brought him out, they

stoned him, and he died as the Lord had com-

manded.

37The Lord also said to Moses:38Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt tell them to make to themselves fringes in

the corners of their garments, putting in them

ribands of blue:

39That when they shall see them, they may

remember all the commandments of the Lord,

and not follow their own thoughts and eyes going

astray after divers things,

40But rather being mindful of the precepts

of the Lord, may do them and be holy to their

God.

41I am the Lord your God, who brought you

out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your

God.

Chapter 16

And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of

Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron

the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of

the children of Ruben,

2Rose up against Moses, and with them two

hundred and fty others of the children of Israel,

leading men of the synagogue, and who in the

time of assembly were called by name.

3And when they had stood up against Moses

and Aaron, they said: Let it be enough for you,

that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones,

and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up

yourselves above the people of the Lord?

4When Moses heard this, he fell

at on his

face:

5And speaking to Core and all the multi-

tude, he said: In the morning the Lord will make

known who belong to him, and the holy he will

join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they

shall approach to him.

6Do this therefore: Take every man of you

your censers, thou Core, and all thy company.180 Book of Numbers

7And putting re in them to morrow, put in-

cense upon it before the Lord: and whomsoever

he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you take

too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

8And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of

Levi.

9Is it a small thing unto you, that the God

of Israel hath spared you from all the people,

and joined you to himself, that you should serve

him in the service of the tabernacle, and should

stand before the congregation of the people, and

should minister to him?

10Did he therefore make thee and all thy

brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto

him, that you should challenge to yourselves the

priesthood also,

11And that all thy company should stand

against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you

murmur against him?

12Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron

the sons of Eliab. But they answered: We will

not come.

13Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast

brought us out of a land that

owed with milk

and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou

rule also like a lord over us?

14Thou hast brought us indeed into a land

that

oweth with rivers of milk and honey, and

hast given us possessions of elds and vineyards;

wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not

come.

15Moses therefore being very angry, said to

the Lord: Respect not their sacrices: thou

knowest that I have not taken of them so much

as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any

of them.

16And he said to Core: Do thou and thy con-

gregation stand apart before the Lord to morrow,

and Aaron apart.

17Take every one of you censers, and put in-cense upon them, oering to the Lord two hun-

dred and fty censers: let Aaron also hold his

censer.

18When they had done this, Moses and

Aaron standing,

19And had drawn up all the multitude

against them to the door of the tabernacle, the

glory of the Lord appeared to them all.

20And the Lord speaking to Moses and

Aaron, said:

21Separate yourselves from among this con-

gregation, that I may presently destroy them.

22They fell

at on their face, and said: O

most mighty, the God of the spirits of all

esh,

for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against

all?

23And the Lord said to Moses:

24Command the whole people to separate

themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan

and Abiron.

25And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and

Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him,

26He said to the multitude: Depart from the

tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of

theirs, lest you be involved in their sins.

27And when they were departed from their

tents round about, Dathan and Abiron coming

out stood in the entry of their pavilions with

their wives and children, and all the people.

28And Moses said: By this you shall know

that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that

you see, and that I have not forged them of my

own head:

29If these men die the common death of men,

and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith

others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did

not send me.

30But if the Lord do a new thing, and the

earth opening her mouth swallow them down,

and all things that belong to them, and they goBook of Numbers 181

down alive into hell, you shall know that they

have blasphemed the Lord.

31And immediately as he had made an end

of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their

feet:

32And opening her mouth, devoured them

with their tents and all their substance.

33And they went down alive into hell, the

ground closing upon them, and they perished

from among the people.

34But all Israel, that was standing round

about,

ed at the cry of them that were per-

ishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow

us up also.

35And a re coming out from the Lord, de-

stroyed the two hundred and fty men that of-

fered the incense.

36And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

37Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the

priest to take up the censers that lie in the burn-

ing, and to scatter the re of one side and the

other: because they are sanctied

38In the deaths of the sinners: and let him

beat them into plates, and fasten them to the

altar, because incense hath been oered in them

to the Lord, and they are sanctied, that the

children of Israel may see them for a sign and a

memorial.

39Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen

censers, wherein they had oered, whom the

burning re had devoured, and beat them into

plates, fastening them to the altar:

40That the children of Israel might have for

the time to come wherewith they should be ad-

monished, that no stranger or any one that is not

of the seed of Aaron should come near to oer

incense to the Lord, lest he should suer as Core

suered, and all his congregation, according as

the Lord spoke to Moses.

41The following day all the multitude of thechildren of Israel murmured against Moses and

Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of the

Lord.

42And when there arose a sedition, and the

tumult increased,

43Moses and Aaron

ed to the tabernacle of

the covenant. And when they were gone into it,

the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord

appeared.

44And the Lord said to Moses:

45Get you out from the midst of this multi-

tude, this moment will I destroy them. And as

they were lying on the ground,

46Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and

putting re in it from the altar, put incense upon

it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them:

for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and

the plague rageth.

47When Aaron had done this, and had run

to the midst of the multitude which the burning

re was now destroying, he oered the incense:

48And standing between the dead and the

living, he prayed for the people, and the plague

ceased.

49And the number of them that were slain

was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men,

besides them that had perished in the sedition

of Core.

50And Aaron returned to Moses to the door

of the tabernacle of the covenant after the de-

struction was over.

Chapter 17

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Speak to the children of Israel, and take of

every one of them a rod by their kindreds, of all

the princes of the tribes, twelve rods, and write

the name of every man upon his rod.182 Book of Numbers

3And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe

of Levi, and one rod shall contain all their fami-

lies:

4And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle

of the covenant before the testimony, where I will

speak to thee.

5Whomsoever of these I shall choose, his rod

shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me

the murmurings of the children of Israel, where-

with they murmur against you.

6And Moses spoke to the children of Israel:

and all the princes gave him rods one for every

tribe: and there were twelve rods besides the rod

of Aaron.

7And when Moses had Laid them up before

the Lord in the tabernacle of the testimony:

8He returned on the following day, and found

that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi,

was budded: and that the buds swelling it hid

bloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves,

were formed into almonds.

9Moses therefore brought out all the rods

from before the Lord to all the children of Is-

rael: and they saw, and every one received their

rods.

10And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back

the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the tes-

timony, that it may be kept there for a token of

the rebellious children of Israel, and that their

complaints may cease from me lest they die.

11And Moses did as the Lord had com-

manded.

12And the children of Israel said to Moses:

Behold we are consumed, we all perish.

13Whosoever approacheth to the tabernacle

of the Lord, he dieth. Are we all to a man to be

utterly destroyed?Chapter 18

And the Lord said to Aaron: Thou, and thy sons,

and thy father's house with thee shall bear the

iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons

with thee shall bear the sins of your priesthood.

2And take with thee thy brethren also of the

tribe of Levi, and the sceptre of thy father, and

let them be ready in hand, and minister to thee:

but thou and thy sons shall minister in the taber-

nacle of the testimony.

3And the Levites shall watch to do thy com-

mands, and about all the works of the taberna-

cle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of

the sanctuary nor the altar, lest both they die,

and you also perish with them.

4But let them be with thee, and watch in

the charge of the tabernacle, and in all the cere-

monies thereof. A stranger shall not join himself

with you.

5Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and

in the ministry of the altar: lest indignation rise

upon the children of Israel.

6I have given you your brethren the Levites

from among the children of Israel, and have de-

livered them for a gift to the Lord, to serve in

the ministries of the tabernacle.

7But thou and thy sons look ye to the priest-

hood: and all things that pertain to the service

of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall

be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall

approach, he shall be slain.

8And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have

given thee the charge of my rstfruits. All things

that are sanctied by the children of Israel, I

have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the

priestly oce, by everlasting ordinances.

9These therefore shalt thou take of the things

that are sanctied, and are oered to the Lord.

Every oering, and sacrice, and whatsoever isBook of Numbers 183

rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and be-

cometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy

sons.

10Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary: the

males only shall eat thereof, because it is a con-

secrated thing to thee.

11But the rstfruits, which the children of

Israel shall vow and oer, I have given to thee,

and to thy sons, and to thy daughters, by a per-

petual law. He that is clean in thy house, shall

eat them.

12All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and

of the corn, whatsoever rstfruits they oer to

the Lord, I have given them to thee.

13All the rstripe of the fruits, that the

ground bringeth forth, and which are brought

to the Lord, shall be for thy use: he that is clean

in thy house, shall eat them.

14Every thing that the children of Israel shall

give by vow, shall be thine.

15Whatsoever is rstborn of all

esh, which

they oer to the Lord, whether it be of men,

or of beasts, shall belong to thee: only for the

rstborn of man thou shalt take a price, and ev-

ery beast that is unclean thou shalt cause to be

redeemed,

16And the redemption of it shall be after one

month, for ve sicles of silver, by the weight of

the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.

17But the rstling of a cow, and of a sheep

and of a goat thou shalt not cause to be re-

deemed, because they are sanctied to the Lord.

Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar,

and their fat thou shalt burn for a most sweet

odour to the Lord.

18But the

esh shall fall to thy use, as the

consecrated breast, and the right shoulder shall

be thine.

19All the rstfruits of the sanctuary which

the children of Israel oer to the Lord, I havegiven to thee and to thy sons and daughters, by

a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for

ever before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.

20And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall

possess nothing in their land, neither shall you

have a portion among them: I am thy portion

and inheritance in the midst of the children of

Israel.

21And I have given to the sons of Levi all the

tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry

wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the

covenant:

22That the children of Israel may not ap-

proach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit

deadly sin,

23But only the sons of Levi may serve me

in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the peo-

ple. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your

generations. They shall not possess any other

thing,

24But be content with the oblation or tithes,

which I have separated for their uses and neces-

sities.

25And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

26Command the Levites, and declare unto

them: When you shall receive of the children of

Israel the tithes, which I have given you, oer

the rstfruits of them to the Lord, that is to say,

the tenth part of the tenth:

27That it may be reckoned to you as an obla-

tion of rstfruits, as well of the barn

oors as of

the winepresses:

28And of all the things of which you receive

tithes, oer the rstfruits to the Lord, and give

them to Aaron the priest.

29All the things that you shall oer of the

tithes, and shall separate for the gifts of the

Lord, shall be the best and choicest things.

30And thou shalt say to them: If you oer all

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shall be reckoned to you as if you had given the

rstfruits of the barn

oor and the winepress:

31And you shall eat them in all your places,

both you and your families: because it is your

reward for the ministry, wherewith you serve in

the tabernacle of the testimony.

32And you shall not sin in this point, by re-

serving the choicest and fat things to yourselves,

lest you profane the oblations of the children of

Israel, and die.

Chapter 19

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

2This is the observance of the victim, which

the Lord hath ordained. Command the children

of Israel, that they bring unto thee a red cow of

full age, in which there is no blemish, and which

hath not carried the yoke:

3And you shall deliver her to Eleazar the

priest, who shall bring her forth without the

camp, and shall immolate her in the sight of all:

4And dipping his nger in her blood, shall

sprinkle it over against the door of the tabernacle

seven times,

5And shall burn her in the sight of all deliv-

ering up to the re her skin, and her

esh, and

her blood, and her dung.

6The priest shall also take cedar wood, and

hyssop, and scarlet twice dyed, and cast it into

the

ame, with which the cow is consumed.

7And then after washing his garments, and

body, he shall enter into the camp, and shall be

unclean until the evening.

8He also that hath burned her, shall wash

his garments, and his body, and shall be unclean

until the evening.

9And a man that is clean shall gather up the

ashes of the cow, and shall pour them forth with-out the camp in a most clean place, that they

may be reserved for the multitude of the children

of Israel, and for a water of aspersion: because

the cow was burnt for sin.

10And when he that carried the ashes of the

cow, hath washed his garments, he shall be un-

clean until the evening. The children of Israel,

and the strangers that dwell among them, shall

observe this for a holy thing by a perpetual or-

dinance.

11He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and

is therefore unclean seven days,

12Shall be sprinkled with this water on the

third day, and on the seventh, and so shall be

cleansed. If he were not sprinkled on the third

day, he cannot be cleansed on the seventh.

13Every one that toucheth the corpse of a

man, and is not sprinkled with this mixture,

shall profane the tabernacle of the Lord, and

shall perish out of Israel: because he was not

sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be

unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon

him.

14This is the law of a man that dieth in a

tent: All that go into his tent and all the vessels

that are there, shall be unclean seven days.

15The vessel that hath no cover, nor binding

over it, shall be unclean.

16If any man in the eld touch the corpse of

a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or

his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven

days.

17And they shall take of the ashes of the

burning and of the sin oering, and shall pour

living waters upon them into a vessel.

18And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in

them, and shall sprinkle therewith all the tent,

and all the furniture, and the men that are de-

led with touching any such thing:

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purify the unclean on the third and on the sev-

enth day. And being expiated the seventh day,

he shall wash both himself and his garments, and

be unclean until the evening.

20If any man be not expiated after this rite,

his soul shall perish out of the midst of the

church: because he hath profaned the sanctu-

ary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the

water of purication.

21This precept shall be an ordinance for ever.

He also that sprinkled the water, shall wash his

garments. Every one that shall touch the waters

of expiation, shall be unclean until the evening.

22Whatsoever a person toucheth who is un-

clean, he shall make it unclean: and the person

that toucheth any of these things, shall be un-

clean until the evening.

Chapter 20

And the children of Israel, and all the multitude

came into the desert of Sin, in the rst month:

and the people abode in Cades. And Mary died

there, and was buried in the same place.

2And the people wanting water, came to-

gether against Moses and Aaron:

3And making a sedition, they said: Would

God we had perished among our brethren before

the Lord.

4Why have you brought out the church of the

Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our

cattle should die?

5Why have you made us come up out of

Egypt, and have brought us into this wretched

place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth

gs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is

there any water to drink?

6And Moses and Aaron leaving the multitude,

went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell

at upon the ground, and cried to the Lord, and

said. O Lord God, hear the cry of this people,

and open to them thy treasure, a fountain of

living water, that being satised, they may cease

to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared

over them.

7And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

8Take the rod, and assemble the people to-

gether, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak

to the rock before them, and it shall yield wa-

ters. And when thou hast brought forth water

out of the rock, all the multitude and their cattle

shall drink.

9Moses therefore took the rod, which was be-

fore the Lord, as he had commanded him,

10And having gathered together the multi-

tude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye

rebellious and incredulous: Can we bring you

forth water out of this rock?

11And when Moses bad lifted up his hand,

and struck the rock twice with the rod, there

came forth water in great abundance, so that

the people and their cattle drank,

12And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:

Because you have not believed me, to sanctify

me before the children of Israel, you shall not

bring these people into the land, which I will

give them.

13This is the Water of contradiction, where

the children of Israel strove with words against

the Lord, and he was sanctied in them.

14In the mean time Moses sent messengers

from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus

saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the

labour that hath come upon us:

15In what manner our fathers went down into

Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the

Egyptians aicted us and our fathers.

16And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard

us, and sent an angel, who hath brought us out186 Book of Numbers

of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades,

which is in the uttermost of thy borders,

17And we beseech thee that we may have

leave to pass through thy country. We will not

go through the elds, nor through the vineyards,

we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we

will go by the common highway, neither turning

aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till we

are past thy borders.

18And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not

pass by me: if thou dost I will come out armed

against thee.

19And the children of Israel said: We will

go by the beaten way: and if we and our cattle

drink of thy waters, we will give thee what is just:

there shall be no diculty in the price, only let

us pass speedily.

20But he answered: Thou shalt not pass.

And immediately he came forth to meet them

with an innite multitude, and a strong hand,

21Neither would he condescend to their de-

sire to grant them passage through his borders.

Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.

22And when they had removed the camp

from Cades, they came to mount Hor, which is

in the borders of the land of Edom:

23Where the Lord spoke to Moses:

24Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for

he shall not go into the land which I have given

the children of Israel, because he was incredulous

to my words, at the waters of contradiction.

25Take Aaron and his son with him, and

bring them up into mount Hor:

26And when thou hast stripped the father of

his vesture, thou shalt vest therewith Eleazar his

son: Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and

die there.

27Moses did as the Lord had commanded:

and they went up into mount Hor before all the

multitude.28And when he had stripped Aaron of his

vestments, he vested Eleazar his son with them.

29And Aaron being dead in the top of the

mountain, he came down with Eleazar.

30And all the multitude seeing that Aaron

was dead, mourned for him thirty days through-

out all their families.

Chapter 21
And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt

towards the south, had heard this, to wit, that

Israel was come by the way of the spies, he fought

against them, and overcoming them carried o

their spoils.

2But Israel binding himself by vow to the

Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into

my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

3And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel,

and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut

them o and destroyed their cities: and they

called the name of that place Horma, that is to

say, Anathema.

4And they marched from mount Hor, by the

way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the

land of Edom. And the people began to be weary

of their journey and labour:

5And speaking against God and Moses, they

said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to

die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor

have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this

very light food.

6Wherefore the Lord sent among the people

ery serpents, which bit them and killed many

of them.

7Upon which they came to Moses, and said;

We have sinned, because we have spoken against

the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away

these serpents from us. And Moses prayed forBook of Numbers 187

the people.

8And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen

serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being

struck shall look on it, shall live.

9Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and

set it up for a sign: which when they that were

bitten looked upon, they were healed.

10And the children of Israel setting forwards

camped in Oboth.

11And departing thence they pitched their

tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that faceth

Moab toward the east.

12And removing from thence, they came to

the torrent Zared:

13Which they left and encamped over against

Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out

on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is

the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and

the Amorrhites.

14Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars

of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he

do in the streams of Arnon.

15The rocks of the torrents were bowed down

that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the

borders of the Moabites.

16When they went from that place, the

well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses:

Gather the people together, and I will give them

water.

17Then Israel sung this song: Let the well

spring up. They sung thereto:

18The well, which the princes dug, and the

chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of

the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they

marched from the wilderness to Mathana.

19From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Na-

haliel unto Bamoth.

20From Bamoth, is a valley in the country

of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked to-

wards the desert.21And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king

of the Amorrhites, saying:

22I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass

through thy land: we will not go aside into the

elds or the vineyards, we will not drink waters

of the wells, we will go the king's highway, till

we be past thy borders.

23And he would not grant that Israel should

pass by his borders: but rather gathering an

army, went forth to meet them in the desert,

and came to Jasa and fought against them.

24And he was slain by them with the edge

of the sword, and they possessed his land from

the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the connes

of the children of Ammon: for the borders of the

Ammonites, were kept with a strong garrison.

25So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in

the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon,

and in the villages thereof.

26Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of

the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of

Moab: and took all the land, that had been of

his dominion, as far as the Arnon.

27Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come

into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and

set up:

28A re is gone out of Hesebon, a

ame from

the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the

Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places

of the Arnon.

29Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O

people of Chamos. He hath given his sons to

ight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon

the king of the Amorrhites.

30Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto

Dibon, they came weary to Nophe, and unto

Medaba.

31So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amor-

rhite.

32And Moses sent some to take a view of188 Book of Numbers

Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and con-

quered the inhabitants.

33And they turned themselves, and went up

by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan

came against them with all his people, to ght

in Edrai.

34And the Lord said to Moses: Fear him not,

for I have delivered him and all his people, and

his country into thy hand: and thou shalt do

to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the

Amorrhites, the inhabitant of Hesebon.

35So they slew him also with his sons, and all

his people, not letting any one escape, and they

possessed his land.

Chapter 22

And they went forward and encamped in the

plains of Moab, over against where Jericho is sit-

uate beyond the Jordan.

2And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that

Israel had done to the Amorrhite,

3And that the Moabites were in great fear of

him, and were not able to sustain his assault,

4He said to the elders of Madian: So will this

people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as

the ox is wont to eat the grass to the very roots.

Now he was at that time king in Moab.

5He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the

son of Beor, a soothsayer, who dwelt by the river

of the land of the children of Ammon, to call

him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of

Egypt, that hath covered the face of the earth,

sitting over against me.

6Come therefore, and curse this people, be-

cause it is mightier than I: if by any means I may

beat them and drive them out of my land: for I

know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed,

and he whom thou shalt curse is cursed.7And the ancients of Moab, and the elders

of Madian, went with the price of divination in

their hands. And where they were come to Bal-

aam, and had told him all the words of Balac:

8He answered: Tarry here this night and I

will answer whatsoever the Lord shall say to me.

And while they stayed with Balaam, God came

and said to him:

9What mean these men that are with thee?

10He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king

of the Moabites hath sent to me,

11Saying: Behold a people that is come out of

Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come

and curse them, if by any means I may ght with

them and drive them away.

12And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not

go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people:

because it is blessed.

13And he rose in the morning and said to the

princes: Go into your country, because the Lord

hath forbid me to come with you.

14The princes returning, said to Balac: Bal-

aam would not come with us.

15Then he sent many more and more noble

than he had sent before:

16Who, when they were come to Balaam,

said: Thus saith Balac the son of Sephor, De-

lay not to come to me:

17For I am ready to honour thee, and will

give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse

this people.

18Balaam answered: If Balac would give me

his house full of silver and gold, I cannot alter

the word of the Lord my God, to speak either

more or less.

19I pray you to stay here this night also, that

I may know what the Lord will answer me once

more.

20God therefore came to Balaam in the night,

and said to him: If these men be come to callBook of Numbers 189

thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou

do what I shall command thee.

21Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling

his ass went with them.

22And God was angry. And an angel of the

Lord stood in the way against Balaam, who sat

on the ass, and had two servants with him.

23The ass seeing the angel standing in the

way, with a drawn sword, turned herself out of

the way, and went into the eld. And when Bal-

aam beat her, and had a mind to bring her again

to the way,

24The angel stood in a narrow place be-

tween two walls, wherewith the vineyards were

enclosed.

25And the ass seeing him, thrust herself close

to the wall, and bruised the foot of the rider. But

he beat her again:

26And nevertheless the angel going on to a

narrow place, where there was no way to turn

aside either to the right hand or to the left, stood

to meet him.
27And when the ass saw the angel standing,

she fell under the feet of the rider: who being an-

gry beat her sides more vehemently with a sta.

28And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass,

and she said: What have I done to thee? Why

strikest thou me, lo, now this third time?

29Balaam answered: Because thou hast de-

served it, and hast served me ill: I would I had

a sword that I might kill thee.

30The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which

thou hast been always accustomed to ride until

this present day? tell me if I ever did the like

thing to thee. But he said: Never.

31Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes of Bal-

aam, and he saw the angel standing in the way

with a drawn sword, and he worshipped him

falling

at on the ground.

32And the angel said to him: Why beatestthou thy ass these three times? I am come to

withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and

contrary to me:

33And unless the ass had turned out of the

way, giving place to me who stood against thee,

I had slain thee, and she should have lived.

34Balaam said: I have sinned, not knowing

that thou didst stand against me: and now if it

displease thee that I go, I will return.

35The angel said: Go with these men, and see

thou speak no other thing than what I shall com-

mand thee. He went therefore with the princes.

36And when Balac heard it he came forth

to meet him in a town of the Moabites, that is

situate in the uttermost borders of Arnon.

37And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers

to call thee, why didst thou not come immedi-

ately to me? was it because I am not able to

reward thy coming?

38He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I

have power to speak any other thing but that

which God shall put in my mouth?

39So they went on together, and came into

a city, that was in the uttermost borders of his

kingdom.

40And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep,

he sent presents to Balaam, and to the princes

that were with him.

41And when morning was come, he brought

him to the high places of Baal, and he beheld

the uttermost part of the people.

Chapter 23

And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven

altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same

number of rams.

2And when he had done according to the

word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and190 Book of Numbers

a ram upon every altar.

3And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by

thy burnt oering, until I go, to see if perhaps

the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall

command, I will speak to thee.

4And when he was gone with speed, God met

him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have

erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone

a calf and a ram.

5And the Lord put the word in his mouth,

and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou

speak.

6Returning he found Balac standing by

his burnt oering, with all the princes of the

Moabites:

7And taking up his parable, he said: Balac

king of the Moabites hath brought me from

Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come,

said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest

Israel.

8How shall I curse him, whom God hath not

cursed? By what means should I detest him,

whom the Lord detesteth not?

9I shall see him from the tops of the rocks,

and shall consider him from the hills. This peo-

ple shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned

among the nations.

10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know

the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul

die the death of the just, and my last end be like

to them.

11And Balac said to Balaam: What is this

that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my ene-

mies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.

12He answered him: Can I speak any thing

else but what the Lord commandeth?

13Balac therefore said: Come with me to an-

other place from whence thou mayest see part of

Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them

from thence.14And when he had brought him to a high

place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam

built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf

and a ram,

15He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt

oering while I go to meet him.

16And when the Lord had met him, and had

put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to

Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.

17Returning he found him standing by his

burnt sacrice, and the princes of the Moabites

with him. And Balac said to him: What hath

the Lord spoken?

18But he taking up his parable, said: Stand,

O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:

19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor

is the son of man, that he should be changed.

Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he

spoken, and will he not full?

20I was brought to bless, the blessing I am

not able to hinder.

21There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there

an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his

God is with him, and the sound of the victory of

the king in him.

22God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose

strength is like to the rhinoceros.

23There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor div-

ination in Israel. In their times it shall be told

to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

24Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness,

and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie

down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood

of the slain.

25And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse,

nor bless him.

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soever God should command me, that I would

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27And Balac said to him: Come and I will

bring thee to another place; if peradventure it

please God that thou mayest curse them from

thence.

28And when he had brought him upon the

top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the

wilderness,

29Balaam said to him: Build me here seven

altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same

number of rams.

30Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid

on every altar, a calf and a ram.

Chapter 24

And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord

that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had

gone before, to seek divination: but setting his

face towards the desert,

2And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding

in their tents by their tribes: and the spirit of

God rushing upon him,

3He took up his parable and said: Balaam

the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said,

whose eye is stopped up:

4The bearer of the words of God hath said,

he that hath beheld the vision of the Almighty,

he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:

5How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob,

and thy tents, O Israel!

6As woody valleys, as watered gardens near

the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath

pitched, as cedars by the waterside.

7Water shall

ow out of his bucket, and his

seed shall be in many waters. For Agag his king

shall be removed, and his kingdom shall be taken

away.

8God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose

strength is like to the rhinoceros. They shall de-vour the nations that are his enemies, and break

their bones, and pierce them with arrows.

9Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a

lioness, whom none shall dare to rouse. He that

blesseth thee, shall also himself be blessed: he

that curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed.

10And Balac being angry against Balaam,

clapped his hands together and said: I called

thee to curse my enemies, and thou on the con-

trary hast blessed them three times.

11Return to thy place. I had determined in-

deed greatly to honour thee, but the Lord hath

deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.

12Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not

say to thy messengers, whom thou sentest to me:

13If Balac would give me his house full of

silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word

of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my

own head either good or evil: but whatsoever

the Lord shall say, that I will speak?

14But yet going to my people, I will give thee

counsel, what this people shall do to thy people

in the latter days.

15Therefore taking up his parable, again he

said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The

man whose eye is stopped up, hath said:

16The hearer of the words of God hath said,

who knoweth the doctrine of the Highest, and

seeth the visions of the Almighty, who falling

hath his eyes opened:

17I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold

him, but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of

Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel:

and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall

waste all the children of Seth

18And he shall possess Idumea: the inher-

itance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but

Israel shall do manfully.

19Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule,

and shall destroy the remains of the city.192 Book of Numbers

20And when he saw Amalec, he took up his

parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of na-

tions, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.

21He saw also the Cinite: and took up his

parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is

strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,

22And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin,

how long shalt thou be able to continue? For

Assur shall take thee captive.

23And taking up his parable, again he said:

Alas, who shall live when God shall do these

things?

24They shall come in galleys from Italy, they

shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the

Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also

shall perish.

25And Balaam rose, and returned to his

place: Balac also returned the way that he came.

Chapter 25

And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the

people committed fornication with the daughters

of Moab,

2Who called them to their sacrices. And

they ate of them, and adored their gods.

3And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor:

upon which the Lord being angry,

4Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the

people, and hang them up on gibbets against

the sun: that my fury may be turned away from

Israel.

5And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let

every man kill his neighbours, that have been

initiated to Beelphegor.

6And behold one of the children of Israel went

in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in

the sight of Moses and of all the children of Is-

rael, who were weeping before the door of thetabernacle.

7And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the

son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from

the midst of the multitude, and taking a dagger,

8Went in after the Israelite into the brothel

house, and thrust both of them through to-

gether, to wit, the man and the woman in the

genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the

children of Israel.

9And there were slain four and twenty thou-

sand men.

10And the Lord said to Moses:

11Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron

the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the

children of Israel: because he was moved with

my zeal against them, that I myself might not

destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.

12Therefore say to him: behold I give him

the peace of my covenant,

13And the covenant of the priesthood for ever

shall be both to him and his seed, because he

hath been zealous for his God, and hath made

atonement for the wickedness of the children of

Israel.

14And the name of the Israelite, that was

slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the

son of Salu, a prince of the kindred and tribe of

Simeon.

15And the Madianite woman, that was slain

with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur,

a most noble prince among the Madianites.

16And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

17Let the Madianites nd you their enemies,

and slay you them:

18Because they also have acted like enemies

against you, and have guilefully deceived you by

the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daugh-

ter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the

day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.Book of Numbers 193

Chapter 26
After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord

said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron,

the priest:

2Number the whole sum of the children of

Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their

houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth

to war.

3Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, be-

ing in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over

against Jericho, spoke to them that were

4From twenty years old and upward, as the

Lord had commanded: and this is the number of

them:

5Ruben the rstborn of Israel. His sons were

Henoch, of whom is the family of the Henochites:

and Phallu, of whom is the family of the Phal-

luites:

6And Hesron, of whom is the family of the

Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family

of the Charmites.

7These are the families of the stock of Ruben:

whose number was found to be forty-three thou-

sand seven hundred and thirty.

8The son of Phallu was Eliab.

9His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and

Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the

princes of the people, that rose against Moses

and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they

rebelled against the Lord:

10And the earth opening her mouth swal-

lowed up Core, many others dying, when the re

burned two hundred and fty men. And there

was a great miracle wrought,

11That when Core perished, his sons did not

perish.

12The sons of Simeon by their kindreds: Na-

muel, of him is the family of the Namuelites:

Jamin, of him is the family of the Jaminites:Jachim, of him is the family of the Jachimites:

13Zare, of him is the family of the Zarites:

Saul, of him is the family of the Saulites.

14These are the families of the stock of

Simeon, of which the whole number was twenty-

two thousand two hundred.

15The sons of Gad by their kindreds: Sephon,

of him is the family of the Sephonites: Aggi, of

him is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of him is

the family of the Sunites:

16Ozni, of him is the family of the Oznites:

Her, of him is the family of the Herites:

17Arod, of him is the family of the Arodites:

Ariel, of him is the family of the Arielites.

18These are the families of Gad, of which the

whole number was forty thousand ve hundred.

19The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both

died in the land of Chanaan.

20And the sons of Juda by their kindreds

were: Sela, of whom is the family of the Selaites:

Phares, of whom is the family of the Pharesites:

Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites.

21Moreover the sons of Phares were: Hesron,

of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and

Hamul, of whom is the family of the Hamulites.

22These are the families of Juda, of which

the whole number was seventy-six thousand ve

hundred.

23The sons of Issachar, by their kindreds:

Thola of whom is the family of the Tholaites:

Phua, of whom is the family of the Phuaites:

24Jasub, of whom is the family of the Ja-

subites: Semran, of whom is the family of the

Semranites.

25These are the kindreds of Issachar, whose

number was sixty-four thousand three hundred.

26The sons of Zabulon by their kindreds:

Sared, of whom is the family of the Saredites:

Elon, of whom is the family of the Elonites:

Jalel, of whom is the family of the Jalelites.194 Book of Numbers

27These are the kindreds of Zabulon, whose

number was sixty thousand ve hundred.

28The sons of Joseph by their kindred, Man-

asses and Ephraim.

29Of Manasses was born Machir, of whom

is the family of the Machirites. Machir begot

Galaad, of whom is the family of the Galaadites.

30Galaad had sons: Jezer, of whom is the

family of the Jezerites: and Helec, of whom is

the family of the Helecites:

31And Asriel, of whom is the family of the

Asrielites: and Sechem, of whom is the family of

the Sechemites:

32And Semida, of whom is the family of the

Semidaites: and Hepher, of whom is the family

of the Hepherites.

33And Hepher was the father of Salphaad,

who had no sons, but only daughters, whose

names are these: Maala, and Noa, and Hegla,

and Melcha, and Thersa.

34These are the families of Manasses, and the

number of them fty-two thousand seven hun-

dred.

35And the sons of Ephraim by their kindreds

were these: Suthala, of whom is the family of

the Suthalaites: Becher, of whom is the family

of the Becherites: Thehen, of whom is the family

of the Thehenites.

36Now the son of Suthala was Heran, of

whom is the family of the Heranites.

37These are the kindreds of the sons of

Ephraim: whose number was thirty-two thou-

sand ve hundred.

38These are the sons of Joseph by their fam-

ilies. The sons of Benjamin in their kindreds:

Bela, of whom is the family of the Belaites: As-

bel, of whom is the family of the Asbelites: Ahi-

ram, of whom is the family of the Ahiramites:

39Supham, of whom is the family of the

Suphamites: Hupham, of whom is the family ofthe Huphamites.

40The sons of Bela: Hered, and Noeman. Of

Hered, is the family of the Heredites: of Noeman,

the family of the Noemanites.

41These are the sons of Benjamin by their

kindreds, whose number was forty-ve thousand

six hundred.

42The sons of Dan by their kindreds: Suham,

of whom is the family of the Suhamites: These

are the kindreds of Dan by their families.

43All were Suhamites, whose number was

sixty-four thousand four hundred.

44The sons of Aser by their kindreds: Jemna,

of whom is the family of the Jemnaites: Jessui,

of whom is the family of the Jessuites: Brie, of

whom is the family of the Brieites.

45The sons of Brie: Heber, of whom is the

family of the Heberites: and Melchiel, of whom

is the family of the Melchielites.

46And the name of the daughter of Aser, was

Sara.

47These are the kindreds of the sons of Aser,

and their number fty-three thousand four hun-

dred.

48The sons of Nephtali by their kindreds: Je-

siel, of whom is the family of the Jesielites: Guni,

of whom is the family of the Gunites:

49Jeser, of whom is the family of the Je-

serites: Sellem, of whom is the family of the

Sellemites.

50These are the kindreds of the sons of Neph-

tali by their families: whose number was forty-

ve thousand four hundred.

51This is the sum of the children of Israel,

that were reckoned up, six hundred and one

thousand seven hundred and thirty.

52And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

53To these shall the land be divided for their

possessions according to the number of names.Book of Numbers 195

54To the greater number thou shalt give a

greater portion, and to the fewer a less: to every

one, as they have now been reckoned up, shall a

possession be delivered:

55Yet so that by lot the land be divided to

the tribe and families.

56Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be

taken by the more, or the fewer.

57This also is the number of the sons of Levi

by their families: Gerson, of whom is the family

of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the family

of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family

of the Merarites.

58These are the families of Levi: The family

of Lobni, the family of Hebroni, the family of

Core. Now Caath begot Amram:

59Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of

Levi, who was born to him in Egypt. She bore

to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses,

and Mary their sister.

60Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu, and

Eleazar and Ithamar:

61Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they

had oered the strange re before the Lord.

62And all that were numbered, were twenty-

three thousand males from one month old and

upward: for they were not reckoned up among

the children of Israel, neither was a possession

given to them with the rest.

63This is the number of the children of Is-

rael, that were enrolled by Moses and Eleazar

the priest, in the plains of Moab upon the Jor-

dan, over against Jericho.

64Among whom there was not one of them

that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron

in the desert of Sinai.

65For the Lord had foretold that they should

die in the wilderness. And none remained of

them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue

the son of Nun.Chapter 27

Then came the daughters of Salphaad, the son

of Hepher, the son of Galaad, the son of Machir,

the son of Manasses, who was the son of Joseph:

and their names are Maala, and Noa, and Hegla,

and Melcha, and Thersa.

2And they stood before Moses and Eleazar

the priest, and all the princes of the people at

the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and

said:

3Our father died in the desert, and was not

in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord

under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he

had no male children. Why is his name taken

away out of his family, because he had no son?

Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our

father.

4And Moses referred their cause to the judg-

ment of the Lord.

5And the Lord said to him:

6The daughters of Salphaad demand a just

thing: Give them a possession among their fa-

ther's kindred, and let them succeed him in his

inheritance.

7And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak

these things:

8When a man dieth without a son, his inher-

itance shall pass to his daughter.

9If he have no daughter, his brethren shall

succeed him.

10And if he have no brethren, you shall give

the inheritance to his father's brethren.

11But if he have no uncles by the father, the

inheritance shall be given to them that are the

next akin. And this shall be to the children of

Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord

hath commanded Moses.

12The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into

this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the196 Book of Numbers

land which I will give to the children of Israel.

13And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also

shalt go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is

gone:

14Because you oended me in the desert of

Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither

would you sanctify me before them at the waters.

These are the waters of contradiction in Cades

of the desert of Sin.

15And Moses answered him:

16May the Lord the God of the spirits of

all

esh provide a man, that may be over this

multitude:

17And may go out and in before them, and

may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the

people of the Lord be as sheep without a shep-

herd.

18And the Lord said to him: take Josue the

son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and

put thy hand upon him.

19And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest

and all the multitude:

20And thou shalt give him precepts in the

sight of all, and part of thy glory, that all the

congregation of the children of Israel may hear

him.
21If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the

priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all

the children of Israel with him, and the rest of

the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

22Moses did as the Lord had commanded.

And, when he had taken Josue, he set him before

Eleazar the priest, and all the assembly of the

people,

23And laying his hands on his head, he re-

peated all things that the Lord had commanded.Chapter 28

The Lord also said to Moses:

2Command the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: Oer ye my oblation and my

bread, and burnt sacrice of most sweet odour,

in their due seasons.

3These are the sacrices which you shall oer:

Two lambs of a year old without blemish every

day for the perpetual holocaust:

4One you shall oer in the mornings, and the

other in the evening:

5And the tenth part of an ephi of

our, which

shall be tempered with the, purest oil, of the

measure of the fourth part of a hin.

6It is the continual holocaust which you of-

fered in mount Sinai for a most sweet odour of a

sacrice by re to the Lord.

7And for a libation you shall oer of wine

the fourth part of a hin for every lamb in the

sanctuary of the Lord.

8And you shall oer the other lamb in like

manner in the evening according to all the rites

of the morning sacrice, and of the libations

thereof, an oblation of most sweet odour to the

Lord.

9And on the sabbath day you shall oer two

lambs of a year old without blemish, and two

tenths of

our tempered with oil in sacrice, and

the libations,

10Which regularly are poured out every sab-

bath for the perpetual holocaust.

11And on the rst day of the month you shall

oer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the

herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old,

without blemish,

12And three tenths of

our tempered with oil

in sacrice for every calf: and two tenths of

our

tempered with oil for every ram:

13And the tenth of a tenth of

our temperedBook of Numbers 197

with oil in sacrice for every lamb. It is a holo-

caust of most sweet odour and an oering by re

to the Lord.

14And these shall be the libations of wine

that are to be poured out for every victim: Half

a hin for every calf, a third for a ram, and a

fourth for a lamb. This shall be the holocaust

for every month, as they succeed one another in

the course of the year.

15A buck goat also shall be oered to the

Lord for a sin oering over and above the per-

petual holocaust with its libations.

16And in the rst month, on the four tenth

day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord,

17And on the fteenth day the solemn feast:

seven days shall they eat unleavened bread.

18And the rst day of them shall be venera-

ble and holy: you shall not do any servile work

therein.

19And you shall oer a burnt sacrice a holo-

caust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one

ram, seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:

20And for the sacrice of every one three

tenths of

our which shall be tempered with oil

to every calf, and two tenths to every ram,

21And the tenth of a tenth, to every lamb,

that is to say, to all the seven lambs:

22And one buck goat for sin, to make atone-

ment for you,

23Besides the morning holocaust which you

shall always oer.

24So shall you do every day of the seven days

for the food of the re, and for a most sweet

odour to the Lord, which shall rise from the holo-

caust, and from the libations of each.

25The seventh day also shall be most solemn

and holy unto you, you shall do no servile work

therein.

26The day also of rstfruits, when after

the weeks are accomplished, you shall oer newfruits to the Lord, shall be venerable and holy:

you shall do no servile work therein.

27And you shall oer a holocaust for a most

sweet odour to the Lord, two calves of the herd,

one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without

blemish:

28And in the sacrices of them three tenths

of

our tempered with oil to every calf, two to

every ram,

29The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which

in all are seven lambs: a buck goat also,

30Which is slain for expiation: besides the

perpetual holocaust and the libations thereof.

31You shall oer them all without blemish

with their libations.

Chapter 29

The rst day also of the seventh month shall be

venerable and holy unto you; you shall do no

servile work therein, because it is the day of the

sounding and of trumpets.

2And you shall oer a holocaust for a most

sweet odour to the Lord, one calf of the herd,

one ram and seven lambs of a year old, without

blemish.

3And for their sacrices, three tenths of

our

tempered with oil to every calf, two tenths to a

ram,

4One tenth to a lamb, which in all are seven

lambs:

5And a buck goat for sin, which is oered for

the expiation of the people,

6Besides the holocaust of the rst day of the

month with the sacrices thereof, and the per-

petual holocaust with the accustomed libations.

With the same ceremonies you shall oer a burnt

sacrice for a most sweet odour to the Lord.

7The tenth day also of this seventh month198 Book of Numbers

shall be holy and venerable unto you, and you

shall aict your souls; you shall do no servile

work therein.

8And you shall oer a holocaust to the Lord

for a most sweet odour, one calf of the herd,

one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without

blemish:

9And for their sacrices, three tenths of

our

tempered with oil to every calf, two tenths to a

ram,

10The tenth of a tenth to every lamb, which

are in all seven lambs:

11And a buck goat for sin, besides the things

that are wont to be oered for sin, for expia-

tion, and for the perpetual holocaust with their

sacrice and libations.

12And on the fteenth day of the seventh

month, which shall be unto you holy and ven-

erable, you shall do no servile work, but shall

celebrate a solemnity to the Lord seven days.

13And you shall oer a holocaust for a most

sweet odour to the Lord, thirteen calves of the

herd, two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old,

without blemish:

14And for their libations three tenths of

our

tempered with oil to every calf, being in all thir-

teen calves: and two tenths to each ram, being

two rams,

15And the tenth of a tenth to every lamb,

being in all fourteen lambs:

16And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpet-

ual holocaust, and the sacrice and the libation

thereof.

17On the second day you shall oer twelve

calves of the herd, two rams and fourteen lambs

of a year old, without blemish:

18And the sacrices and the libations for ev-

ery one, for the calves and for the rams and for

the lambs you shall duly celebrate:

19And a buck goat for a sin oering besidesthe perpetual holocaust, and the sacrice and

the libation thereof.

20The third day you shall oer eleven calves,

two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, with-

out blemish:

21And the sacrices and the libations of every

one for the calves and for the rams and for the

lambs you shall oer according to the rite:

22And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpet-

ual holocaust, and the sacrice, and the libation

thereof.

23The fourth day you shall oer ten calves,

two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, with-

out blemish:

24And the sacrices and the libations of every

one for the calves and for the rams and for the

lambs you shall celebrate in right manner:

25And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpet-

ual holocaust, and the sacrice and the libation

thereof.

26The fth day you shall oer nine calves,

two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, with-

out blemish:

27And the sacrices and the libations of every

one for the calves and for the rams and for the

lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:

28And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpet-

ual holocaust, and the sacrice and the libation

thereof.

29The sixth day you shall oer eight calves,

two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, with-

out blemish:

30And the sacrices and the libations of every

one for the calves and for the rams and for the

lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:

31And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpet-

ual holocaust, and the sacrice and the libation

thereof.

32The seventh day you shall oer seven calves

and two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old,Book of Numbers 199

without blemish:

33And the sacrices and the libations of every

one for the calves and for the rams and for the

lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:

34And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpet-

ual holocaust, and the sacrice and the libation

thereof.

35On the eighth day, which is most solemn,

you shall do no servile work:

36But you shall oer a holocaust for a most

sweet odour to the Lord, one calf, one ram, and

seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:

37And the sacrices and the libations of every

one for the calves and for the rams and for the

lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:

38And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpet-

ual holocaust, and the sacrice and the libation

thereof.

39These things shall you oer to the Lord

in your solemnities: besides your vows and vol-

untary oblations for holocaust, for sacrice, for

libation, and for victims of peace oerings.

Chapter 30

And Moses told the children of Israel all that the

Lord had commanded him:

2And he said to the princes of the tribes of

the children of Israel: This is the word that the

Lord hath commanded:

3If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind

himself by an oath: he shall not make his word

void but shall full all that he promised.

4If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself

by an oath, being in her father's house, and but

yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow

that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith

she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she

shall be bound by the vow:5Whatsoever she promised and swore, she

shall full in deed.

6But if her father, immediately as soon as

he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her

oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound

to what she promised, because her father hath

gainsaid it.

7If she have a husband, and shall vow any

thing, and the word once going out of her mouth

shall bind her soul by an oath,

8The day that her husband shall hear it, and

not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow,

and shall give whatsoever she promised.

9But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it,

and make her promises and the words wherewith

she had bound her soul of no eect: the Lord will

forgive her.

10The widow, and she that is divorced, shall

full whatsoever they vow.

11If the wife in the house of her husband,

hath bound herself by vow and by oath,

12If her husband hear, and hold his peace,

and doth not disallow the promise, she shall ac-

complish whatsoever she had promised.

13But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not

be bound by the promise: because her husband

gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful to her.

14If she vow and bind herself by oath, to af-

ict her soul by fasting, or abstinence from other

things, it shall depend on the will of her husband,

whether she shall do it, or not do it.

15But if the husband hearing it hold his

peace, and defer the declaring his mind till

another day: whatsoever she had vowed and

promised, she shall full: because immediately

as he heard it, he held his peace.

16But if he gainsay it after that he knew it,

he shall bear her iniquity.

17These are the laws which the Lord ap-

pointed to Moses between the husband and the200 Book of Numbers

wife, between the father and the daughter that

is as yet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her

father's house.

Chapter 31

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Revenge rst the children of Israel on the

Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy

people.

3And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men

to ght, who may take the revenge of the Lord

on the Madianites.

4Let a thousand men be chosen out of every

tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

5And they gave a thousand of every tribe,

that is to say, twelve thousand men well ap-

pointed for battle.

6And Moses sent them with Phinees the son

of Eleazar the priest, and he delivered to him the

holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound.

7And when they had fought against the Ma-

dianites and had overcome them, they slew all

the men.
8And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur,

and Hur, and Rebe, ve princes of the nation:

Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the

sword.

9And they took their women, and their chil-

dren captives, and all their cattle, and all their

goods: and all their possessions they plundered:

10And all their cities, and their villages, and

castles, they burned.

11And they carried away the booty, and all

that they had taken both of men and of beasts.

12And they brought them to Moses, and

Eleazar the priest, and to all the multitude of

the children of Israel. But the rest of the things

for use they carried to the camp on the plains ofMoab, beside the Jordan over against Jericho.

13And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all

the princes of the synagogue went forth to meet

them without the camp.

14And Moses being angry with the chief o-

cers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions

that were come from the battle,

15Said: Why have you saved the women?

16Are not these they, that deceived the chil-

dren of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and

made you transgress against the Lord by the sin

of Phogor, for which also the people was pun-

ished?

17Therefore kill all that are of the male

sex, even of the children: and put to death the

women, that have carnally known men.

18But the girls, and all the women that are

virgins save for yourselves:

19And stay without the camp seven days.

He that hath killed a man, or touched one that

is killed, shall be puried the third day and the

seventh day.

20And of all the spoil, every garment, or ves-

sel, or any thing made for use, of the skins, or

hair of goats, or of wood, shall be puried.

21Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of

the army, that had fought, in this manner: This

is the ordinance of the law, which the Lord hath

commanded Moses:

22Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and

lead, and tin,

23And all that may pass through the re,

shall be puried by re, but whatsoever cannot

abide the re, shall be sanctied with the water

of expiation:

24And you shall wash your garments the sev-

enth day, and being puried, you shall after-

wards enter into the camp.

25And the Lord said to Moses:Book of Numbers 201

26Take the sum of the things that were taken

both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the

priest and the princes of the multitude:

27And thou shalt divide the spoil equally,

between them that fought and went out to the

war, and between the rest of the multitude.

28And thou shalt separate a portion to the

Lord from them that fought and were in the bat-

tle, one soul of ve hundred as well of persons as

of oxen and asses and sheep.

29And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest,

because they are the rstfruits of the Lord.

30Out of the moiety also of the children of

Israel thou shalt take the ftieth head of persons,

and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all

beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites

that watch in the charge of the tabernacle of the

Lord.

31And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord

had commanded.

32And the spoil which the army had taken,

was six hundred seventy-ve thousand sheep,

33Seventy-two thousand oxen,

34Sixty-one thousand asses:

35And thirty-two thousand persons of the fe-

male sex, that had not known men.

36And one half was given to them that had

been in the battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-

seven thousand ve hundred sheep:

37Out of which, for the portion of the Lord,

were reckoned six hundred seventy ve sheep.

38And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,

seventy-two oxen:

39Out of the thirty thousand ve hundred

asses, sixty-one asses:

40Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there

fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.

41And Moses delivered the number of the

rstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as

had been commanded him,42Out of the half of the children of Israel,

which he had separated for them that had been

in the battle.

43But out of the half that fell to the rest

of the multitude, that is to say, out of the

three hundred thirty-seven thousand ve hun-

dred sheep,

44And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,

45And out of the thirty thousand ve hun-

dred asses,

46And out of the sixteen thousand persons,

47Moses took the ftieth head, and gave it

to the Levites that watched in the tabernacle of

the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.

48And when the commanders of the army,

and the tribunes and centurions were come to

Moses, they said:

49We thy servants have reckoned up the num-

ber of the ghting men, whom we had under our

hand, and not so much as one was wanting.

50Therefore we oer as gifts to the Lord what

gold every one of us could nd in the booty,

in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and

chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

51And Moses and Eleazar the priest received

all the gold in divers kinds,

52In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred

and fty sicles, from the tribunes and from the

centurions.

53For that which every one had taken in the

booty was his own.

54And that which was received they brought

into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memo-

rial of the children of Israel before the Lord.

Chapter 32

And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many

ocks

of cattle, and their substance in beasts was in-202 Book of Numbers

nite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and

Galaad t for feeding cattle,

2They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest,

and the princes of the multitude, and said:

3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra,

Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban, and Nebo, and

Beon,

4The land, which the Lord hath conquered

in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very

fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy

servants have very much cattle:

5And we pray thee, if we have found favour

in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants

in possession, and make us not pass over the Jor-

dan.

6And Moses answered them: What, shall

your brethren go to ght, and will you sit here?

7Why do ye overturn the minds of the chil-

dren of Israel, that they may not dare to pass

into the place which the Lord hath given them?

8Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent

from Cadesbarne to view the land?

9And when they were come as far as the valley

of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they

overturned the hearts of the children of Israel,

that they should not enter into the coasts, which

the Lord gave them.

10And he swore in his anger, saying:

11If these men, that came up out of Egypt,

from twenty years old and upward, shall see the

land, which I promised with an oath to Abra-

ham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not

follow me,

12Except Caleb the son of Jephone the

Cenezite, and Josue the son of Nun: these have

fullled my will.

13And the Lord being angry against Israel,

led them about through the desert forty years,

until the whole generation, that had done evil in

his sight, was consumed.14And behold, said he, you are risen up in-

stead of your fathers, the increase and ospring

of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord

against Israel.

15For if you will not follow him, he will leave

the people in the wilderness, and you shall be

the cause of the destruction of all.

16But they coming near, said: We will make

sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong

cities for our children:

17And we ourselves will go armed and ready

for battle before the children of Israel, until we

bring them in unto their places. Our little ones,

and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear

of the ambushes of the inhabitants.

18We will not return into our houses until the

children of Israel possess their inheritance:

19Neither will we seek any thing beyond the

Jordan, because we have already our possession

on the east side thereof,

20And Moses said to them: If you do what

you promise, go on well appointed for war before

the Lord:

21And let every ghting man pass over the

Jordan, until the Lord overthrow his enemies:

22And all the land be brought under him,

then shall you be blameless before the Lord and

before Israel, and you shall obtain the countries

that you desire, before the Lord.

23But if you do not what you say, no man

can doubt but you sin against God: and know

ye, that your sin shall overtake you.

24Build therefore cities for your children, and

folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and

accomplish what you have promised.

25And the children of Gad and Ruben said

to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what

my lord commandeth.

26We will leave our children, and our wives

and sheep and cattle, in the cities of Galaad:Book of Numbers 203

27And we thy servants all well appointed will

march on to the war, as thou, my lord, speakest.

28Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the

priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes

of the families of all the tribes of Israel, and said

to them:

29If the children of Gad, and the children of

Ruben pass with you over the Jordan, all armed

for war before the Lord, and the land be made

subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.

30But if they will not pass armed with you

into the land of Chanaan, let them receive places

to dwell in among you.

31And the children of Gad, and the children

of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to

his servants, so will we do:

32We will go armed before the Lord into the

land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have

already received our possession beyond the Jor-

dan.

33Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad

and of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses

the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king

of the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king

of Basan, and their land and the cities thereof

round about.

34And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and

Ataroth, and Aroer,

35And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and

Jegbaa,

36And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced

cities, and folds for their cattle.

37But the children of Ruben built Hesebon,

and Eleale, and Cariathaim,

38And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names be-

ing changed) and Sabama: giving names to the

cities which they had built.

39Moreover the children of Machir, the son of

Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it, cut-

ting o the Amorrhites, the inhabitants thereof.40And Moses gave the land of Galaad to

Machir the son of Manasses, and he dwelt in it.

41And Jair the son of Manasses went, and

took the villages thereof, and he called them

Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages of Jair.

42Nobe also went, and took Canath with

the villages thereof: and he called it by his own

name, Nobe.

Chapter 33

These are the mansions of the children of Israel,

who went out of Egypt by their troops under the

conduct of Moses and Aaron,

2Which Moses wrote down according to the

places of their encamping, which they changed

by the commandment of the Lord.

3Now the children of Israel departed from

Ramesses the rst month, on the fteenth day

of the rst month, the day after the phase, with

a mighty hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians,

4Who were burying their rstborn, whom the

Lord had slain (upon their gods also he had ex-

ecuted vengeance,)

5And they camped in Soccoth.

6And from Soccoth they came into Etham,

which is in the uttermost borders of the wilder-

ness.

7Departing from thence they came over

against Phihahiroth, which looketh towards

Beelsephon, and they camped before Magdalum.

8And departing from Phihahiroth, they

passed through the midst of the sea into the

wilderness: and having marched three days

through the desert of Etham, they camped in

Mara.

9And departing from Mara, they came into

Elim, where there were twelve fountains of wa-

ters, and seventy palm trees: and there they204 Book of Numbers

camped.
10But departing from thence also, they

pitched their tents by the Red Sea. And depart-

ing from the Red Sea,

11They camped in the desert of Sin.

12And they removed from thence, and came

to Daphca.

13And departing from Daphca, they camped

in Alus.

14And departing from Alus, they pitched

their tents in Raphidim, where the people

wanted water to drink.

15And departing from Raphidim, they

camped in the desert of Sinai.

16But departing also from the desert of Sinai,

they came to the graves of lust.

17And departing from the graves of lust, they

camped in Haseroth.

18And from Haseroth they came to Rethma.

19And departing from Rethma, they camped

in Remmomphares.

20And they departed from thence and came

to Lebna.

21Removing from Lebna they camped in

Ressa.

22And departing from Ressa, they came to

Ceelatha.
23And they removed from thence and

camped in the mountain Sepher.

24Departing from the mountain Sepher, they

came to Arada,

25From thence they went and camped in

Maceloth.

26And departing from Maceloth, they came

to Thahath.

27Removing from Thahath they camped in

Thare.

28And they departed from thence, and

pitched their tents in Methca.29And removing from Methca, they camped

in Hesmona.

30And departing from Hesmona, they came

to Moseroth.

31And removing from Moseroth, they

camped in Benejaacan.

32And departing from Benejaacan, they came

to mount Gadgad.

33From thence they went and camped in Jete-

batha.

34And from Jetebatha they came to Hebrona.

35And departing from Hebrona, they camped

in Asiongaber.

36They removed from thence and came into

the desert of Sin, which is Cades.

37And departing from Cades, they camped

in mount Hor, in the uttermost borders of the

land of Edom.

38And Aaron the priest went up into mount

Hor at the commandment of the Lord: and there

he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth

of the children of Israel out of Egypt, the fth

month, the rst day of the month,

39When he was a hundred and twenty-three

years old.

40And king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt

towards the south, heard that the children of Is-

rael were come to the land of Chanaan.

41And they departed from mount Hor, and

camped in Salmona.

42From whence they removed and came to

Phunon.

43And departing from Phunon, they camped

in Oboth.

44And from Oboth they came to Ijeabarim,

which is in the borders of the Moabites.

45And departing from Ijeabarim they pitched

their tents in Dibongab.

46From thence they went and camped in Hel-

mondeblathaim.Book of Numbers 205

47And departing from Helmondeblathaim,

they came to the mountains of Abarim over

against Nabo.

48And departing from the mountains of

Abarim, they passed to the plains of Moab, by

the Jordan, over against Jericho.

49And there they camped from Bethsimoth

even to Ablesatim in the plains of the Moabites,

50Where the Lord said to Moses:

51Command the children of Israel, and say

to them: When you shall have passed over the

Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan,

52Destroy all the inhabitants of that land:

Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their

statues, and waste all their high places,

53Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For

I have given it you for a possession.

54And you shall divide it among you by lot.

To the more you shall give a larger part, and

to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot

shall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The

possession shall be divided by the tribes and the

families.

55But if you will not kill the inhabitants of

the land: they that remain, shall be unto you as

nails in your eyes, and spears in your sides, and

they shall be your adversaries in the land of your

habitation.

56And whatsoever I had thought to do to

them, I will do to you.

Chapter 34

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2Command the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: When you are entered into

the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into

your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by

these limits:3The south side shall begin from the wilder-

ness of Sin, which is by Edom: and shall have

the most salt sea for its furthest limits eastward:

4Which limits shall go round on the south

side by the ascent of the Scorpion and so into

Senna, and reach toward the south as far as

Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go

out to the town called Adar, and shall reach as

far as Asemona.

5And the limits shall fetch a compass from

Asemona to the torrent of Egypt, and shall end

in the shore of the great sea.

6And the west side shall begin from the great

sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.

7But toward the north side the borders shall

begin from the great sea, reaching to the most

high mountain,
8From which they shall come to Emath, as

far as the borders of Sedada:

9And the limits shall go as far as Zephrona,

and the village of Enan. These shall be the bor-

ders on the north side.

10From thence they shall mark out the

grounds towards the east side from the village

of Enan unto Sephama.

11And from Sephama the bounds shall go

down to Rebla over against the fountain of Daph-

nis: from thence they shall come eastward to the

sea of Cenereth,

12And shall reach as far as the Jordan, and

at the last shall be closed in by the most salt sea.

This shall be your land with its borders round

about.

13And Moses commanded the children of Is-

rael, saying: This shall be the land which you

shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath

commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and

to the half tribe.

14For the tribe of the children of Ruben by

their families, and the tribe of the children of206 Book of Numbers

Gad according to the number of their kindreds,

and half of the tribe of Manasses,

15That is, two tribes and a half, have received

their portion beyond the Jordan over against

Jericho at the east side.

16And the Lord said to Moses:

17These are the names of the men, that shall

divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and

Josue the son of Nun,

18And one prince of every tribe,

19Whose names are these: Of the tribe of

Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.

20Of the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the son of

Ammiud.

21Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son

of Chaselon.

22Of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci

the son of Jogli.

23Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of

Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

24Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the son

of Sephtan.

25Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan the son

of Pharnach.

26Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the prince,

the son of Ozan.

27Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son of Sa-

lomi.

28Of the tribe of Nephtali: Phedael the son

of Ammiud.

29These are they Whom the Lord hath com-

manded to divide the land of Chanaan to the

children of Israel.

Chapter 35

And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in

the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against

Jericho:2Command the children of Israel that they

give to the Levites out of their possessions,

3Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round

about: that they may abide in the towns, and

the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:

4Which suburbs shall reach from the walls

of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every

side:

5Toward the east shall be two thousand cu-

bits: and toward the south in like manner shall

be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also,

which looketh to the west, shall be the same ex-

tent: and the north side shall be bounded with

the like limits. And the cities shall be in the

midst, and the suburbs without.

6And among the cities, which you shall give

to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge

to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may

ee to them: and besides these there shall be

other forty-two cities,

7That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.

8And of these cities which shall be given out

of the possessions of the children of Israel, from

them that have more, more shall be taken: and

from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give

towns to the Levites according to the extent of

their inheritance.

9The Lord said to Moses:

10Speak to the children of Israel, and thou

shalt say to them: When you shall have passed

over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan,

11Determine what cities shall be for the

refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against

their will.

12And when the fugitive shall be in them, the

kinsman of him that is slain may not have power

to kill him, until he stand before the multitude,

and his cause be judged.

13And of those cities, that are separated for

the refuge of fugitives,Book of Numbers 207

14Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and

three in the land of Chanaan,

15As well for the children of Israel as for

strangers and sojourners, that he may

ee to

them, who hath shed blood against his will.

16If any man strike with iron, and he die that

was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he

himself shall die.

17If he throw a stone, and he that is struck

die: he shall be punished in the same manner.

18If he that is struck with wood die: he shall

be revenged by the blood of him that struck him.

19The kinsman of him that was slain, shall

kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth

him, he shall kill him.

20If through hatred any one push a man, or

ing any thing at him with ill design:

21Or being his enemy, strike him with his

hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of

murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as

soon as he ndeth him, shall kill him.

22But if by chance medley, and without ha-

tred,

23And enmity, he do any of these things,

24And this be proved in the hearing of the

people, and the cause be debated between him

that struck, and the next of kin:

25The innocent shall be delivered from the

hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back

by sentence into the city, to which he had

ed,

and he shall abide there until the death of the

high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

26If the murderer be found without the limits

of the cities that are appointed for the banished,

27And be struck by him that is the avenger

of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him.

28For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the

city until the death of the high priest: and after

he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his

own country.29These things shall be perpetual, and for an

ordinance in all your dwellings.

30The murderer shall be punished by wit-

nesses: none shall be condemned upon the evi-

dence of one man.

31You shall not take money of him that is

guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.

32The banished and fugitives before the

death of the high priest may by no means return

into their own cities.

33Dele not the land of your habitation,

which is stained with the blood of the innocent:

neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his

blood that hath shed the blood of another.

34And thus shall your possession be cleansed,

myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that

dwell among the children of Israel.

Chapter 36

And the princes of the families of Galaad, the son

of Machir, the son of Manasses, of the stock of

the children of Joseph, came and spoke to Moses

before the princes of Israel, and said:

2The Lord hath commanded thee, my lord,

that thou shouldst divide the land by lot to the

children of Israel, and that thou shouldst give to

the daughters of Salphaad our brother the pos-

session due to their father:

3Now if men of another tribe take them to

wives, their possession will follow them, and be-

ing transferred to another tribe, will be a dimin-

ishing of our inheritance.

4And so it shall cone to pass, that when the

jubilee, the is, the ftieth year of remission, is

come, the distribution made by the lots shall be

confounded, and the possession of the one shall

pass to the others.

5Moses answered the children of Israel, and208 Book of Numbers

said by the command of the Lord: The tribe of

the children of Joseph hath spoken rightly.

6And this is the law promulgated by the Lord

touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them

marry to whom they will, only so that it be to

men of their own tribe.

7Lest the possession of the children of Israel

be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall

marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:

8And all women shall take husbands of the

same tribe: that the inheritance may remain in

the families.

9And that the tribes be not mingled one with

another, but remain so

10As they were separated by the Lord. And

the daughters of Salphaad did as was com-

manded:

11And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla, and

Melcha, and Noa were married to the sons of

their uncle by their father

12Of the family of Manasses, who was the son

of Joseph: and the possession that had been al-

lotted to them, remained in the tribe and family

of their father.

13These are the commandments and judg-

ment, which the Lord commanded by the hand

of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains

of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho.Book of Deuteronomy

Chapter 1
These are the words, which Moses spoke to all

Israel beyond the Jordan, in the plain wilderness,

over against the Red Sea, beetween Pharan and

Thophel and Laban and Haseroth, where there

is very much gold.

2Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way

of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.

3In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the

rst day of the month, Moses spoke to the chil-

dren of Israel all that the Lord had commanded

him to say to them:

4After that he had slain Sehon king of the

Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon: and Og king

of Basan who abode in Astaroth, and in Edrai,

5Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And

Moses began to expound the law, and to say:

6The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, say-

ing: You have stayed long enough in this moun-

tain:

7Turn you, and come to the mountain of the

Amorrhites, and to the other places that are next

to it, the plains and the hills and the vales to-

wards the south, and by the sea shore, the land

of the Chanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as the

great river Euphrates.

8Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you:

go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord

swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Ja-

cob, that he would give it to them, and to theirseed after them.

9And I said to you at that time:

10I alone am not able to bear you: for the

Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are

this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude.

11(The Lord God of your fathers add to this

number many thousands, and bless you as he

hath spoken.)

12I alone am not able to bear your business,

and the charge of you and your dierences.

13Let me have from among you wise and un-

derstanding men, and such whose conversation is

approved among your tribes, that I may appoint

them your rulers.

14Then you answered me: The thing is good

which thou meanest to do.

15And I took out of your tribes men wise

and honourable, and appointed them rulers, tri-

bunes, and centurions, and ocers over fties,

and over tens, who might teach you all things.

16And I commanded them, saying: Hear

them, and judge that which is just: whether he

be one of your country, or a stranger.

17There shall be no dierence of persons, you

shall hear the little as well as the great: neither

shall you respect any man's person, because it

is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem

hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.

18And I commanded you all things that you

were to do.

19And departing from Horeb, we passed210 Book of Deuteronomy

through the terrible and vast wilderness, which

you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Am-

orrhite, as the Lord our God had commanded

us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,

20I said to you: You are come to the moun-

tain of the Amorrhite, which the Lord our God

will give to us.

21See the land which the Lord thy God giveth

thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God

hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any

way discouraged.

22And you came all to me, and said: Let us

send men who may view the land, and bring us

word what way we shall go up, and to what cities

we shall go.

23And because the saying pleased me, I sent

of you twelve men, one of every tribe:

24Who, when they had set forward and had

gone up to the mountains, came as far as the

valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land,

25Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its

fertility, they brought them to us, and said: The

land is good, which the Lord our God will give

us.

26And you would not go up, but being in-

credulous to the word of the Lord our God,

27You murmured in your tents, and said: The

Lord hateth us, and therefore he hath brought

us out of the land of Egypt, that he might deliver

us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy

us.

28Whither shall we go up? the messengers

have terried our hearts, saying: The multitude

is very great, and taller than we: the cities are

great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the

sons of the Enacims there.

29And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye

afraid of them:

30The Lord God, who is your leader, himself

will ght for you, as he did in Egypt in the sightof all.

31And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen)

the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is

wont to carry his little son, all the way that you

have come, until you came to this place.

32And yet for all this you did not believe the
Lord your God,

33Who went before you in the way, and

marked out the place, wherein you should pitch

your tents, in the night shewing you the way by

re, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud.

34And when the Lord had heard the voice of

your words, he was angry and swore, and said:

35Not one of the men of this wicked gener-

ation shall see the good land, which I promised

with an oath to your fathers:

36Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he

shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he

hath trodden upon, and to his children, because

he hath followed the Lord.

37Neither is his indignation against the peo-

ple to be wondered at, since the Lord was angry

with me also on your account, and said: Neither

shalt thou go in thither.

38But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he

shall go in for thee: exhort and encourage him,

and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.

39Your children, of whom you said that they

should be led away captives, and your sons who

know not this day the dierence of good and evil,

they shall go in: and to them I will give the land,

and they shall possess it.

40But return you and go into the wilderness

by the way of the Red Sea.

41And you answered me: We have sinned

against the Lord: we will go up and ght, as the

Lord our God hath commanded. And when you

went ready armed unto the mountain,

42The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not

up, and ght not, for I am not with you: lest youBook of Deuteronomy 211

fall before your enemies.

43I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resist-

ing the commandment of the Lord, and swelling

with pride, you went up into the mountain.

44And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the moun-

tains coming out, and meeting you, chased you,

as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir

as far as Horma.

45And when you returned and wept before

the Lord, he heard you not, neither would he

yield to your voice.

46So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.

Chapter 2

And departing from thence we came into the

wilderness that leadeth to the Red Sea, as the

Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed

mount Seir a long time.

2And the Lord said to me:

3You have compassed this mountain long

enough: go toward the north:

4And command thou the people, saying: You

shall pass by the borders of your brethren the

children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they

will be afraid of you.

5Take ye then good heed that you stir not

against them. For I will not give you of their

land so much as the step of one foot can tread

upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau,

for a possession.

6You shall buy meats of them for money and

shall eat: you shall draw waters for money, and

shall drink.

7The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every

work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling

with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast

passed through this great wilderness, for forty

years, and thou hast wanted nothing.8And when we had passed by our brethren the

children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way

of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber,

we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of

Moab.

9And the Lord said to me: Fight not against

the Moabites, neither go to battle against them:

for I will not give thee any of their land, because

I have given Ar to the children of Lot in posses-

sion.

10The Emims rst were the inhabitants

thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall,

that like the race of the Enacims,

11They were esteemed as giants, and were

like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites

call them Emims.

12The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir:

who being driven out and destroyed, the children

of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the land of

his possession, which the Lord gave him.

13Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared,

we came to it.

14And the time that we journeyed from

Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared,

was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of

the men that were t for war was consumed out

of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:

15For his hand was against them, that they

should perish from the midst of the camp.

16And after all the ghting men were dead,

17The Lord spoke to me, saying:

18Thou shalt pass this day the borders of

Moab, the city named Ar:

19And when thou comest nigh the frontiers

of the children of Ammon, take heed thou ght

not against them, nor once move to battle: for I

will not give thee of the land of the children of

Ammon, because I have given it to the children

of Lot for a possession.212 Book of Deuteronomy

20It was accounted a land of giants: and gi-

ants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites

call Zomzommims,

21A people great and many, and of tall

stature, like the Enacims whom the Lord de-

stroyed before their face: and he made them to

dwell in their stead,

22As he had done in favour of the children

of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroying the Hor-

rhites, and delivering their land to them, which

they possess to this day.

23The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim

as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappado-

cians: who came out of Cappadocia, and de-

stroyed them and dwelt in their stead.

24Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Be-

hold I have delivered into thy hand Sehon king

of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to

possess his land and make war against him.

25This day will I begin to send the dread and

fear of thee upon the nations that dwell under

the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name

they may fear and tremble, and be in pain like

women in travail.

26So I sent messengers from the wilderness

of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with

peaceable words, saying:

27We will pass through thy land, we will go

along by the highway: we will not turn aside

neither to the right hand nor to the left.

28Sell us meat for money, that we may eat:

give us water for money and so we will drink.

We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,

29As the children of Esau have done, that

dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in

Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to

the land which the Lord our God will give us.

30And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not

let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hard-

ened his spirit, and xed his heart, that he mightbe delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.

31And the Lord said to me: Behold I have

begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land,

begin to possess it.

32And Sehon came out to meet us with all

his people to ght at Jasa.

33And the Lord our God delivered him to us:

and we slew him with his sons and all his people.
34And we took all his cities at that time,

killing the inhabitants of them, men and women

and children. We left nothing of them:

35Except the cattle which came to the share

of them that took them: and the spoils of the

cities, which we took:

36From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the

torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley,

as far as Galaad. There was not a village or

city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God

delivered all unto us:

37Except the land of the children of Ammon,

to which we approached not: and all that bor-

der upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the

mountains, and all the places which the Lord our

God forbade us.

Chapter 3

Then we turned and went by the way of Basan:

and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us

with his people to ght in Edrai.

2And the Lord said to me: Fear him not:

because he is delivered into thy hand, with all his

people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as

thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites,

that dwelt in Hesebon.

3So the Lord our God delivered into our

hands, Og also, the king of Basan, and all his

people: and we utterly destroyed them,

4Wasting all his cities at one time, there wasBook of Deuteronomy 213

not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the

country of Argob the kingdom of Og in Basan.

5All the cities were fenced with very high

walls, and with gates and bars, besides innumer-

able towns that had no walls.

6And we utterly destroyed them, as we had

done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying

every city, men and women and children:

7But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we

took for our prey.

8And we took at that time the land out of

the hand of the two kings of the Amorrhites,

that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent

Arnon unto the mount Hermon,

9Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the

Amorrhites Sanir:

10All the cities that are situate in the plain,

and all the land of Galaad and Basan as far as

Selcha and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og in

Basan.

11For only Og king of Basan remained of the

race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which

is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being

nine cubits long, and four broad after the mea-

sure of the cubit of a man's hand.

12And we possessed the land at that time

from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the tor-

rent Arnon, unto the half of mount Galaad: and

I gave the cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.

13And I delivered the other part of Galaad,

and all Basan the kingdom of Og to the half tribe

of Manasses, all the country of Argob: and all

Basan is called the Land of giants.

14Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the

country of Argob unto the borders of Gessuri,

and Machati. And he called Basan by his own

name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of

Jair, until this present day.

15To Machir also I gave Galaad.

16And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gaveof the land of Galaad as far as the torrent Arnon,

half the torrent, and the connes even unto the

torrent Jeboc, which is the border of the children

of Ammon:

17And the plain of the wilderness, and the

Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth unto the

sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to

the foot of mount Phasga eastward.

18And I commanded you at that time, say-

ing: The Lord your God giveth you this land for
an inheritance, go ye well appointed before your

brethren the children of Israel, all the strong men

of you.

19Leaving your wives and children and cattle.

For I know you have much cattle, and they must

remain in the cities, which I have delivered to

you.

20Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as

he hath given to you: and they also possess the

land, which he will give them beyond the Jordan:

then shall every man return to his possession,

which I have given you.

21I commanded Josue also at that time, say-

ing:Thy eyes have seen what the Lord your God

hath done to these two kings: so will he do to all

the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.

22Fear them not: for the Lord your God will

ght for you.

23And I besought the Lord at that time, say-

ing:

24Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto

thy servant thy greatness, and most mighty

hand, for there is no other God either in heaven

or earth, that is able to do thy works, or to be

compared to thy strength.

25I will pass over therefore, and will see

this excellent land beyond the Jordan, and this

goodly mountain, and Libanus.

26And the Lord was angry with me on your

account and heard me not, but said to me: It is214 Book of Deuteronomy

enough: speak no more to me of this matter.

27Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy

eyes round about to the west, and to the north,

and to the south, and to the east, and behold it,

for thou shalt not pass this Jordan.

28Command Josue, and encourage and

strengthen him: for he shall go before this peo-

ple, and shall divide unto them the land which

thou shalt see.

29And we abode in the valley over against

the temple of Phogor.

Chapter 4

And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and

judgments which I teach thee: that doing them,

thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess

the land which the Lord the God of your fathers

will give you.

2You shall not add to the word that I speak

to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep

the commandments of the Lord your God which

I command you.

3Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath

done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed

all his worshippers from among you.

4But you that adhere to the Lord your God,

are all alive until this present day.

5You know that I have taught you statutes

and justices, as the Lord my God hath com-

manded me: so shall you do them in the land

which you shall possess:

6And you shall observe, and full them in

practice. For this is your wisdom, and under-

standing in the sight of nations, that hearing all

these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and

understanding people, a great nation.

7Neither is there any other nation so great,

that hath gods so nigh them, as our God ispresent to all our petitions.

8For what other nation is there so renowned

that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and

all the law, which I will set forth this day before

our eyes?

9Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul care-

fully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have

seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all

the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to

thy sons and to thy grandsons,

10From the day in which thou didst stand

before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord

spoke to me, saying: Call together the people

unto me, that they may hear my words, and may

learn to fear me all the time that they live on the

earth, and may teach their children.

11And you came to the foot of the mount,

which burned even unto heaven: and there was

darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

12And the Lord spoke to you from the midst

of the re. You heard the voice of his words, but

you saw not any form at all.

13And he shewed you his covenant, which he

commanded you to do, and the ten words that

he wrote in two tables of stone.

14And he commanded me at that time that I

should teach you the ceremonies and judgments

which you shall do in the land, that you shall

possess.

15Keep therefore your souls carefully. You

saw not any similitude in the day that the Lord

God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the

re:

16Lest perhaps being deceived you might

make you a graven similitude, or image of male

or female,

17The similitude of any beasts, that are upon

the earth, or of birds, that

y under heaven,

18Or of creeping things, that move on the

earth, or of shes, that abide in the waters underBook of Deuteronomy 215

the earth:

19Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven,

thou see the sun and the moon, and all the

stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou

adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God

created for the service of all the nations, that are

under heaven.

20But the Lord hath taken you and brought

you out of the iron furnaces of Egypt, to make

you his people of inheritance, as it is this present

day.

21And the Lord was angry with me for your

words, and he swore that I should not pass over

the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land,

which he will give you.

22Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass

over the Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the

goodly land.

23Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant

of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with

thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of

those things which the Lord hath forbid to be

made:
24Because the Lord thy God is a consuming

re, a jealous God.

25If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and

abide in the land, and being deceived, make to

yourselves any similitude, committing evil before

the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:

26I call this day heaven and earth to witness,

that you shall quickly perish out of the land,

which, when you have passed over the Jordan,

you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein

long, but the Lord will destroy you,

27And scatter you among all nations, and you

shall remain a few among the nations, to which

the Lord shall lead you.

28And there you shall serve gods, that were

framed with men's hands: wood and stone, that

neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.29And when thou shalt seek there the Lord

thy God, thou shalt nd him: yet so, if thou seek

him with all thy heart, and all the aiction of

thy soul.

30After all the things aforesaid shall nd

thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the

Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.

31Because the Lord thy God is a merciful

God: he will not leave thee, nor altogether de-

stroy thee, nor forget the covenant, by which he

swore to thy fathers.

32Ask of the days of old, that have been be-

fore thy time from the day that God created man

upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the

other end thereof, if ever there was done the like

thing, or it hath been known at any time,

33That a people should hear the voice of God

speaking out of the midst of re, as thou hast

heard, and lived:

34If God ever did so as to go, and take to

himself a nation out of the midst of nations by

temptations, signs, and wonders, by ght, and a

strong hand, and stretched out arm, and horrible

visions according to all the things that the Lord

your God did for you in Egypt, before thy eyes.

35That thou mightest know that the Lord he

is God, and there is no other besides him.

36From heaven he made thee to hear his

voice, that he might teach thee. And upon earth

he shewed thee his exceeding great re, and thou

didst hear his words out of the midst of the re,

37Because he loved thy fathers, and chose

their seed after them. And he brought thee out

of Egypt, going before thee with his great power,

38To destroy at thy coming very great na-

tions, and stronger than thou art, and to bring

thee in, and give thee their land for a possession,

as thou seest at this present day.

39Know therefore this day, and think in thy

heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above,216 Book of Deuteronomy

and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.

40Keep his precepts and commandments,

which I command thee: that it may be well with

thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst

remain a long time upon the land, which the

Lord thy God will give thee.

41Then Moses set aside three cities beyond

the Jordan at the east side,

42That any one might

ee to them who

should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was

not his enemy a day or two before, and that he

might escape to some one of these cities:

43Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in

the plains of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in

Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and Golan

in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.

44This is the law, that Moses set before the

children of Israel,

45And these are the testimonies and cere-

monies and judgments, which he spoke to the

children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,

46Beyond the Jordan in the valley over

against the temple of Phogor, in the land of Se-

hon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hes-

ebon, whom Moses slew. And the children of

Israel coming out of Egypt,

47Possessed his land, and the land of Og king

of Basan, of the two kings of the Amorrhites,

who were beyond the Jordan towards the rising

of the sun:

48From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank

of the torrent Arnon, unto mount Sion, which is

also called Hermon,

49All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east

side, unto the sea of the wilderness, and unto the

foot of mount Phasga.Chapter 5

And Moses called all Israel, and said to them:

Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments,

which I speak in your ears this day: learn them,

and full them in work.

2The Lord our God made a covenant with us

in Horeb.

3He made not the covenant with our fathers,

but with us, who are now present and living.

4He spoke to us face to face in the mount out

of the midst of re.

5I was the mediator and stood between the

Lord and you at that time, to shew you his

words, for you feared the re, and went not up

into the mountain, and he said:

6I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee

out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of

bondage.

7Thou shalt not have strange gods in my

sight.

8Thou shalt not make to thy self a graven

thing, nor the likeness of any things, that are in

heaven above, or that are in the earth beneath,

or that abide in the waters under the earth.

9Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt

not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a

jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers

upon their children unto the third and fourth

generation, to them that hate me,

10And shewing mercy unto many thousands,

to them that love me, and keep my command-

ments.

11Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord

thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished

that taketh his name upon a vain thing.

12Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify

it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

13Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all

thy works.Book of Deuteronomy 217

14The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that

is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not

do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy

daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidser-

vant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy

beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates:

that thy manservant and thy maidservant may

rest, even as thyself.

15Remember that thou also didst serve in

Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out

from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched

out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee

that thou shouldst observe the sabbath day.

16Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord

thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst

live a long time, and it may be well with thee in

the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

17Thou shalt not kill.

18Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

19And thou shalt not steal.

20Neither shalt thou bear false witness

against thy neighbour.

21Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife:

nor his house, nor his eld, nor his manservant,

nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor
any thing that is his.

22These words the Lord spoke to all the mul-

titude of you in the mountain, out of the midst

of the re and the cloud, and the darkness, with

a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote

them in two tables of stone, which he delivered

unto me.

23But you, after you heard the voice out of

the midst of the darkness, and saw the mountain

burn, came to me, all the princes of the tribes

and the elders, and you said:

24Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us

his majesty and his greatness, we have heard his

voice out of the midst of the re, and have proved

this day that God speaking with man, man hathlived.

25Why shall we die therefore, and why shall

this exceeding great re comsume us: for if we

hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we

shall die.

26What is all

esh, that it should hear the

voice of the living God, who speaketh out of the

midst of the re, as we have heard, and be able

to live?

27Approach thou rather: and hear all things

that the Lord our God shall say to thee, and

thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and will

do them.

28And when the Lord had heard this, he said

to me: I have heard the voice of the words of

this people, which they spoke to thee: they have

spoken all things well.

29Who shall give them to have such a mind,

to fear me, and to keep all my commandments

at all times, that it may be well with them and

with their children for ever?

30Go and say to them: Return into your

tents.

31But stand thou here with me, and I will

speak to thee all my commandments, and cere-

monies and judgments: which thou shalt teach

them, that they may do them in the land, which

I will give them for a possession.

32Keep therefore and do the things which the

Lord God hath commanded you: you shall not

go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

33But you shall walk in the way that the Lord

your God hath commanded, that you may live,

and it may be well with you, and your days may

be long in the land of your possession.218 Book of Deuteronomy

Chapter 6

These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and

judgments, which the Lord your God com-

manded that I should teach you, and that you

should do them in the land into which you pass

over to possess it:

2That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God,

and keep all his commandments and precepts,

which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy

grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days

may be prolonged.

3Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things

which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it

may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly

multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers

hath promised thee a land

owing with milk and

honey.

4Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

5Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy

whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with

thy whole strength.

6And these words which I command thee this

day, shall be in thy heart:

7And thou shalt tell them to thy children,

and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in

thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping

and rising.
8And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy

hand, and they shall be and shall move between

thy eyes.

9And thou shalt write them in the entry, and

on the doors of thy house.

10And when the Lord thy God shall have

brought thee into the land, for which he swore

to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and

shall have given thee great and goodly cities,

which thou didst not build,

11Houses full of riches, which thou didst not

set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vine-yards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,

12And thou shalt have eaten and be full:

13Take heed deligently lest thou forget the

Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,

out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the

Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou

shalt swear by his name.

14You shall not go after the strange gods of

all the nations, that are round about you:

15Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God

in the midst of thee: lest at any time the wrath

of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and

take thee away from the face of the earth.

16Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as

thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

17Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and

the testimonies and ceremonies which he hath

commanded thee.

18And do that which is pleasing and good in

the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with

thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly

land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy

fathers,

19That he would destroy all thy enemies be-

fore thee, as he hath spoken.

20And when thy son shall ask thee to mor-

row, saying: What mean these testimonies, and

ceremonies and judgments, which the Lord our

God hath commanded us?

21Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen

of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out

of Egypt with a strong hand.

22And he wrought signs and wonders great

and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and

all his house, in our sight,

23And he brought us out from thence, that

he might bring us in and give us the land, con-

cerning which he swore to our fathers.

24And the Lord commanded that we should

do all these ordinances, and should fear the LordBook of Deuteronomy 219

our God, that it might be well with us all the

days of our life, as it is at this day.

25And he will be merciful to us, if we keep

and do all his precepts before the Lord our God,

as he hath commanded us.

Chapter 7

When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee

into the land, which thou art going in to pos-

sess, and shall have destroyed many nations be-

fore thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and

the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the

Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,

seven nations much more numerous than thou

art, and stronger than thou:

2And the Lord thy God shall have delivered

them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them.

Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew

mercy to them:

3Neither shalt thou make marriages with

them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his

son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

4For she will turn away thy son from following

me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and

the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will

quickly destroy thee.

5But thus rather shall you deal with them:

Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and

cut down their groves, and burn their graven

things.

6Because thou art a holy people to the Lord

thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee,

to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are

upon the earth.

7Not because you surpass all nations in num-

ber, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen

you, for you are the fewest of any people:

8But because the Lord hath loved you, andhath kept his oath, which he swore to your fa-

thers: and hath brought you out with a strong

hand, and redeemed you from the house of

bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of

Egypt.

9And thou shalt know that the Lord thy

God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping

his covenant and mercy to them that love him,

and to them that keep his commandments, unto

a thousand generations:

10And repaying forthwith them that hate

him, so as to destroy them, without further de-

lay immediately rendering to them what they de-

serve.

11Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies

and judgments, which I command thee this day

to do.
12If after thou hast heard these judgments,

thou keep and do them, the Lord thy God will

also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy

which he swore to thy fathers:

13And he will love thee and multiply thee,

and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the

fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy

oil, and thy herds, and the

ocks of thy sheep

upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers

that he would give it thee.

14Blessed shalt thou be among all people.

No one shall be barren among you of either sex,

neither of men nor cattle.

15The Lord will take away from thee all

sickness: and the grievous inrmities of Egypt,

which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee,

but upon thy enemies.

16Thou shalt consume all the people, which

the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye

shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve

their gods, lest they be thy ruin.

17If thou say in thy heart: These nations are

more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?220 Book of Deuteronomy

18Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy

God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians,

19The exceeding great plagues, which thy

eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the

strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with

which the Lord thy God brought thee out: so

will he do to all the people, whom thou fearest.

20Moreover the Lord thy God will send also

hornets among them, until he destroy and con-

sume all that have escaped thee, and could hide

themselves.

21Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord

thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty

and terrible:

22He will consume these nations in thy sight

by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not

be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps

the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.

23But the Lord thy God shall deliver them

in thy sight: and shall slay them until they be

utterly destroyed.

24And he shall deliver their kings into thy

hands, and thou shalt destroy their names from

under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist

thee, until thou destroy them.

25Their graven things thou shalt burn with

re: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of

which they are made, neither shalt thou take to

thee any thing thereof, lest thou oend, because

it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

26Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the

idol into thy house, lest thou become an anath-

ema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and

shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and lth,

because it is an anathema.Chapter 8

All the commandments, that I command thee

this day, take great care to observe: that you

may live, and be multiplied, and going in may

possess the land, for which the Lord swore to

your fathers.

2And thou shalt remember all the way

through which the Lord thy God hath brought

thee for forty years through the desert, to aict

thee and to prove thee, and that the things that

were known in thy heart might be made known,

whether thou wouldst keep his commandments

or no.

3He aicted thee with want, and gave thee

manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy

fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone

doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth

from the mouth of God.

4Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered,

hath not decayed for age, and thy foot is not

worn, lo this is the fortieth year,

5That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that

as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy

God hath trained thee up.

6That thou shouldst keep the commandments

of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and

fear him.

7For the Lord thy God will bring thee into

a good land, of brooks and of waters, and of

fountains: in the plains of which and the hills

deep rivers break out:

8A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards,

wherein g trees and pomegranates, and olive-

yards grow: a land of oil and honey.

9Where without any want thou shalt eat thy

bread, and enjoy abundance of all things: where

the stones are iron, and out of its hills are dug

mines of brass:

10That when thou hast eaten, and art full,Book of Deuteronomy 221

thou mayst bless the Lord thy God for the ex-

cellent land which he hath given thee.

11Take heed, and beware lest at any time

thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his

commandments and judgments and ceremonies,

which I command thee this day:

12Lest after thou hast eaten and art lled,

hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,

13And shalt have herds of oxen and

ocks of

sheep, and plenty of gold and of silver, and of all

things,

14Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember

not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of

the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:

15And was thy leader in the great and ter-

rible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent

burning with his breath, and the scorpion and

the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought

forth streams out of the hardest rock,

16And fed thee in the wilderness with manna

which thy fathers knew not. And after he had af-

icted and proved thee, at the last he had mercy

on thee,

17Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My

own might, and the strength of my own hand

have achieved all these things for me.

18But remember the Lord thy God, that he

hath given thee strength, that he might full his

covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fa-

thers, as this present day sheweth.

19But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and

follow strange gods, and serve and adore them:

behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly

perish.

20As the nations, which the Lord destroyed

at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you

be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.Chapter 9

Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jor-

dan this day; to possess nations very great, and

stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up

to the sky,

2A people great and tall, the sons of the

Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of,

against whom no man is able to stand.

3Thou shalt know therefore this day that the

Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee,

a devouring and consuming re, to destroy and

extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy

face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee.

4Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God

shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my

justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess

this land, whereas these nations are destroyed

for their wickedness.

5For it is not for thy justices, and the up-

rightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to

possess their lands: but because they have done

wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in:

and that the Lord might aaccomplish his word,

which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abra-

ham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6Know therefore that the Lord thy God

giveth thee not this excellent land in possession

for thy justices, for thou art a very stinecked

people.

7Remember, and forget not how thou pro-

vokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilder-

ness. From the day that thou camest out of

Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove

against the Lord.

8For in Horeb, also thou didst provoke him,

and he was angry, and would have destroyed

thee,

9When I went up into the mount to receive

the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant222 Book of Deuteronomy

which the Lord made with you: and I contin-

ued in the mount forty days and nights, neither

eating bread, nor drinking water.

10And the Lord gave me two tables of stone

written with the nger of God, and containing

all the words that he spoke to you in the mount

from the midst of the re, when the people were

assembled together.
11And when forty days were passed, and as

many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of

stone, the tables of the covenant,

12And said to me: Arise, and go down from

hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast

brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the

way that thou hast shewn them, and have made

to themselves a molten idol.

13And again the Lord said to me: I see that

this people is stinecked:

14Let me alone that I may destroy them, and

abolish their name from under heaven, and set

thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger

than this.

15And when I came down from the burning

mount, and held the two tables of the covenant

with both hands,

16And saw that you had sinned against the

Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a

molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way,

which he had shewn you:

17I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke

them in your sight.

18And I fell down before the Lord as before,

forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor

drinking water, for all your sins, which you had

committed against the Lord, and had provoked

him to wrath:

19For I feared his indignation and anger,

wherewith being moved against you, he would

have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this

time also.20And he was exceeding angry against Aaron

also, and would have destroyed him, and I prayed

in like manner for him.

21And your sin that you had committed, that

is, the calf, I took, and burned it with re, and

breaking it into pieces, until it was as small as

dust, I threw it into the torrent, which cometh

down from the mountain.

22At the burning also, and at the place of

temptation, and at the graves of lust you pro-

voked the Lord:

23And when he sent you from Cadesbarne,

saying: Go up, and possess the land that I have

given you, and you slighted the commandment

of the Lord your God, and did not believe him,

neither would you hearken to his voice:

24But were always rebellious from the day

that I began to know you.

25And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty

days and nights, in which I humbly besought

him, that he would not destroy you as he had

threatened:

26And praying, I said: O Lord God, destroy

not thy people, and thy inheritance, which thou

hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast

brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

27Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac,

and Jacob: look not on the stubbornness of this

people, nor on their wickedness and sin:

28Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land,

out of which thou hast brought us, say: The

Lord could not bring them into the land that he

promised them, and he hated them: therefore he

brought them out, that he might kill them in the

wilderness,

29Who are thy people and thy inheritance,

whom thou hast brought out by thy great

strength, and in thy stretched out arm.Book of Deuteronomy 223

Chapter 10

At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two

tables of stone like the former, and come up to

me into the mount: and thou shalt make an ark

of wood,

2And I will write on the tables the words

that were in them, which thou brokest before,

and thou shalt put them in the ark.

3And I made an ark of setim wood. And when

I had hewn two tables of stone like the former,

I went up into the mount, having them in my

hands.

4And he wrote in the tables, according as

he had written before, the ten words, which the

Lord spoke to you in the mount from the midst

of the re, when the people were assembled: and

he gave them to me.

5And returning from the mount, I came

down, and put the tables into the ark, that I

had made, and they are there till this present,

as the Lord commanded me.

6And the children of Israel removed their

camp from Beroth, of the children of Jacan into

Mosera, where Aaron died and was buried, and

Eleazar his son succeeded him in the priestly of-

ce.

7From thence they came to Gadgad, from

which place they departed, and camped in Jete-

batha, in a land of waters and torrents.

8At that time he separated the tribe of Levi,

to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and

to stand before him in the ministry, and to bless

in his name until this present day.

9Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession

with his brethren: because the Lord himself is

his possession, as the Lord thy God promised

him.

10And I stood in the mount, as before, forty

days and nights: and the Lord heard me thistime also, and would not destroy thee.

11And he said to me: Go, and walk before

the people, that they may enter, and possess the

land, which I swore to their fathers that I would

give them.

12And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy

God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord

thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him,

and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart,

and with all thy soul:

13And keep the commandments of the Lord,

and his ceremonies, which I command thee this

day, that it may be well with thee?

14Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and

the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things

that are therein.

15And yet the Lord hath been closely joined

to thy fathers, and loved them and chose their

seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all

nations, as this day it is proved.

16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your

heart, and stien your neck no more.

17Because the Lord your God he is the God

of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and

mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person

nor taketh bribes.

18He doth judgment to the fatherless and the

widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food

and raiment.

19And do you therefore love strangers, be-

cause you also were strangers in the land of

Egypt.

20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and

serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and

shalt swear by his name.

21He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath

done for thee these great and terrible things,

which thy eyes have seen.

22In seventy souls thy fathers went down into

Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath224 Book of Deuteronomy

multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

Chapter 11

Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe

his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and

commmandments at all times.

2Know this day the things that your chil-

dren know not, who saw not the chastisements of

the Lord your God, his great doings and strong

hand, and stretched out arm,

3The signs and works which he did in the

midst of Egypt to king Pharao, and to all his

land,

4And to all the host of the Egyptians, and

to their horses and chariots: how the waters of

the Red Sea covered them, when they pursued

you, and how the Lord destroyed them until this

present day:

5And what he hath done to you in the wilder-

ness, til you came to this place:

6And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of

Eliab, who was the son of Ruben: whom the

earth, opening her mouth swallowed up with

their households and tents, and all their sub-

stance, which they had in the midst of Israel.

7Your eyes have seen all the great works of

the Lord, that he hath done,

8That you may keep all his commandments,

which I command you this day, and may go in,

and possess the land, to which you are entering,

9And may live in it a long time: which the

Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to

their seed, a land which

oweth with milk and

honey.

10For the land, which thou goest to possess,

is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou

camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters

are brought in to water it after the manner ofgardens.

11But it is a land of hills and plains, expect-

ing rain from heaven.

12And the Lord thy God doth always visit it,

and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the

year unto the end thereof.

13If then you obey my commandments, which

I command you this day, that you love the Lord

your God, and serve him with all your heart, and

with all your soul:

14He will give to your land the early rain and

the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn,

and your wine, and your oil,

15And your hay out of the elds to feed your

cattle, and that you may eat and be lled.

16Beware lest perhaps your heart be de-

ceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve

strange gods, and adore them:

17And the Lord being angry shut up heaven,

that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield

her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excel-

lent land, which the Lord will give you.

18Lay up these words in your hearts and

minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands,

and place them between your eyes.

19Teach your children that they meditate on

them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when

thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest

down and risest up.

20Thou shalt write them upon the posts and

the doors of thy house:

21That thy days may be multiplied, and the

days of thy children in the land which the Lord

swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as

long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.

22For if you keep the commandments which

I command you, and do them, to love the Lord

your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto

him,Book of Deuteronomy 225

23The Lord will destroy all these nations be-

fore your face, and you shall possess them, which

are greater and stronger than you.

24Every place, that your foot shall tread

upon, shall be yours. From the desert, and from

Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the

western sea shall be your borders.

25None shall stand against you: the Lord

your God shall lay the dread and fear of you

upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as

he hath spoken to you.

26Behold I set forth in your sight this day a

blessing and a curse:

27A blessing, if you obey the commandments

of the Lord your God, which I command you this

day:

28A curse, if you obey not the command-

ments of the Lord your God, but revolt from

the way which now I shew you, and walk after

strange gods which you know not.

29And when the Lord thy God shall have

brought thee into the land, whither thou goest

to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount

Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:

30Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the

way that goeth to the setting of the sun, in the

land of the Chanaanite who dwelleth in the plain

country over against Galgala, which is near the

valley that reacheth and entereth far.

31For you shall pass over the Jordan, to pos-

sess the land, which the Lord your God will give

you, that you may have it and possess it.

32See therefore that you full the ceremonies

and judgments, which I shall set this day before

you.Chapter 12

These are the precepts and judgments, that you

must do in the land, which the Lord the God of

thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the

days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.

2Destroy all the places in which the nations,

that you shall possess, worshipped their gods

upon high mountains, and hills, and under ev-

ery shady tree:

3Overthrow their altars, and break down

their statues, burn their groves with re, and

break their idols in pieces: destroy their names

out of those places.

4You shall not do so to the Lord your God:

5But you shall come to the place, which the

Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes,

to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

6And you shall oer in that place your holo-

causts and victims, the tithes and rstfruits of

your hands and your vows and gifts, the rst-

born of your herds and your sheep.

7And you shall eat there in the sight of the

Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all

things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you

and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath

blessed you.

8You shall not do there the things we do here

this day, every man that which seemeth good to

himself.
9For until this present time you are not come

to rest, and to the possession, which the Lord

your God will give you.

10You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall

dwell in the land which the Lord your God will

give you, that you may have rest from all enemies

round about: and may dwell without any fear,

11In the place, which the Lord your God shall

choose, that his name may be therein. Thither

shall you bring all the things that I command226 Book of Deuteronomy

you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the

rstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the

choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the

Lord.

12There shall you feast before the Lord your

God, you and your sons and your daughters,

your menservants and maidservants, and the

Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath

no other part and possession among you.

13Beware lest thou oer thy holocausts in

every place that thou shalt see:

14But in the place which the Lord shall

choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou oer sac-

rices, and shalt do all that I command thee.

15But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating

of
esh delight thee, kill, and eat according to

the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath

given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean,

that is to say, having blemish or defect: or clean,

that is to say, sound and without blemish, such

as may be oered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt

thou eat it:

16Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou

shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

17Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes

of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the rst-

born of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any thing

that thou vowest, and that thou wilt oer vol-

untarily, and the rstfruits of thy hands:

18But thou shalt eat them before the Lord

thy God in the place which the Lord thy God

shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter,

and thy manservant, and maidservant, and the

Levite that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt

rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God

in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.

19Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all

the time that thou livest in the land.

21And if the place which the Lord thy God

shall choose, that his name should be there, befar o, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy
ocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat

in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee.

22Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so

shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean

shall eat of them alike.

23Only beware of this, that thou eat not the

blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore

thou must not eat the soul with the

esh:

24But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as

water,

25That it may be well with thee and thy chil-

dren after thee, when thou shalt do that which

is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.

26But the things which thou hast sanctied

and vowed to the Lord, thou shalt take, and shalt

come to the place which the Lord shall choose:

27And shalt oer thy oblations, the

esh and

the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God:

the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on the

altar: and the

esh thou thyself shalt eat.

28Observe and hear all the things that I com-

mand thee, that it may be well with thee and thy

children after thee for ever, when thou shalt do

what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord

thy God.

29When the Lord thy God shall have de-

stroyed before thy face the nations, which thou

shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt pos-

sess them, and dwell in their land:

30Beware lest thou imitate them, after they

are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou

seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these na-

tions have worshipped their gods, so will I also

worship.

31Thou shalt not do in like manner to the

Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods

all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth,

oering their sons and daughters, and burning

them with re.Book of Deuteronomy 227

32What I command thee, that only do thou

to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.

Chapter 13

If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or

one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he

foretell a sign and a wonder,

2And that come to pass which he spoke, and

he say to thee: Let us go and follow strange gods,

which thou knowest not, and let us serve them:

3Thou shalt not hear the words of that

prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God tri-

eth you, that it may appear whether you love

him with all your heart, and with all your soul,

or not.

4Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and

keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him

you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.

5And that prophet or forger of dreams shall

be slain: because he spoke to draw you away

from the Lord your God, who brought you out

of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from

the house of bondage: to make thee go out of

the way, which the Lord thy God commanded

thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of

the midst of thee.

6If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy

son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bo-

som, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own

soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let

us go, and serve strange gods, which thou know-

est not, nor thy fathers,

7Of all the nations round about, that are near

or afar o, from one end of the earth to the other,

8Consent not to him, hear him not, neither

let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,

9But thou shalt presently put him to death.

Let thy hand be rst upon him, and afterwardsthe hands of all the people.

10With stones shall he be stoned to death:

because he would have withdrawn thee from the

Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land

of Egypt, from the house of bondage:

11That all Israel hearing may fear, and may

do no more any thing like this.

12If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy

God shall give thee to dwell in, thou hear some

say:

13Children of Belial are gone out of the midst

of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of

their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve

strange gods which you know not:

14Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth

of the thing by looking well into it, and if thou

nd that which is said to be certain, and that

this abomination hath been really committed,

15Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of

that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt

destroy it and all things that are in it, even the

cattle.

16And all the household goods that are there,

thou shalt gather together in the midst of the

streets thereof, and shall burn them with the city

itself, so as to comsume all for the Lord thy God,

and that it be a heap for ever: it shall be built

no more.

17And there shall nothing of that anathema

stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from

the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on

thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fa-

thers,

18When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord

thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I com-

mand thee this day, that thou mayst do what is

pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.228 Book of Deuteronomy

Chapter 14

Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall

not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for

the dead;

2Because thou art a holy people to the Lord

thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar

people of all nations that are upon the earth.

3Eat not the things that are unclean.

4These are the beasts that you shall eat, the

ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

5The hart and the roe, the bue, the

chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the

camelopardalus.

6Every beast that divideth the hoof in two

parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

7But of them that chew the cud, but divide

not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel,

the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew

the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be

unclean to you.

8The swine also, because it divideth the hoof,

but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their

esh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you

shall not touch.

9These shall you eat of all that abide in the

waters: All that have ns and scales, you shall

eat.

10Such as are without ns and scales, you

shall not eat, because they are unclean.

11All birds that are clean you shall eat.

12The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and

the grype, and the osprey,

13The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite

according to their kind:

14And all of the raven's kind:

15And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus,

and the hawk according to its kind:

16The heron, and the swan, and the stork,17And the cormorant, the porphirion, and

the night crow,

18The bittern, and the charadrion, every one

in their kind: the houp also and the bat.

19Every thing that creepeth, and hath little

wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

20All that is clean, you shall eat.

21But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not

thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within

thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou

art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou

shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

22Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes

of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

23And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God

in the place which he shall choose, that his name

may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn,

and thy wine, and thy oil, and the rstborn of

thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn

to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

24But when the way and the place which the

Lord thy God shall choose, are far o, and he

hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all

these things thither,

25Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them

into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and

shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose:

26And thou shalt buy with the same money

whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or

of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all

that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat be-

fore the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and

thy house:

27And the Levite that is within thy gates,

beware thou forsake him not, because he hath

no other part in thy possession.

28The third year thou shalt separate another

tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time,

and shalt lay it up within thy gates.

29And the Levite that hath no other partBook of Deuteronomy 229

nor possession with thee, and the stranger and

the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy

gates, shall come and shall eat and be lled: that

the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works

of thy hands that thou shalt do.

Chapter 15

In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,

2Which shall be celebrated in this order. He

to whom any thing is owing from his friend or

neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again,

because it is the year of remission of the Lord.

3Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst ex-

act it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou

shalt not have power to demand it again.

4And there shall be no poor nor beggar

among you: that the Lord thy God may bless

thee in the land which he will give thee in pos-

session.

5Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy

God, and keep all things that he hath ordained,

and which I command thee this day, he will bless

thee, as he hath promised.

6Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou

shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt have do-

minion over very many nations, and no one shall

have dominion over thee.

7If one of thy brethren that dewlleth within

thy gates of thy city in the land which the Lord

thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou

shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,

8But shalt open it to the poor man, thou

shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he

hath need of.

9Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal

in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The

seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou

turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, deny-ing to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry

against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin

unto thee.

10But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt

thou do any thing craftily in relieving his neces-

sities: that the Lord thy God may bless thee at

all times, and in all things to which thou shalt

put thy hand.

11There will not be wanting poor in the land

of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to

open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother,

that liveth in the land.

12When thy brother a Hebrew man, or He-

brew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee

six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him

go free:

13And when thou sendest him out free, thou

shalt not let him go away empty:

14But shall give him for his way out of thy

ocks, and out of thy barn

oor, and thy wine-

press, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless

thee.

15Remember that thou also wast a bondser-

vant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God

made thee free, and therefore I now command

thee this.

16But if he say: I will not depart: because

he loveth thee, and thy house, and ndeth that

he is well with thee:

17Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through

his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall

serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like manner

to thy womanservant also.

18Turn not away thy eyes from them when

thou makest them free: because he hath served

thee six years according to the wages of a

hireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee

in all the works that thou dost.

19Of the rstlings, that come of thy herds

and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify to the Lord230 Book of Deuteronomy

thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou

shalt not work with the rstling of a bullock, and

thou shalt not shear the rstlings of thy sheep.

20In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou

eat them every year, in the place that the Lord

shall choose, thou and thy house.

21But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or

blind, or in any part disgured or feeble, it shall

not be sacriced to the Lord thy God.

22But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy

city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them

alike, as the roe and as the hart.

23Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their

blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

Chapter 16
Observe the month of new corn, which is the

rst of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate

the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this

month the Lord thy God brought thee out of

Egypt by night.

2And thou shalt sacrice the phase to the

Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place

which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his

name may dwell there.

3Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread:

seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the

bread of aiction, because thou camest out of

Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the

day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of

thy life.

4No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for

seven days, neither shall any of the

esh of that

which was sacriced the rst day in the evening

remain until morning.

5Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any

one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will

give thee:6But in the place which the Lord thy God

shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at

the going down of the sun, at which time thou

camest out of Egypt.

7And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place

which the Lord thy God shall choose, and in

the morning rising up thou shalt go into thy

dwellings.

8Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread:

and on the seventh day, because it is the assem-

bly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.

9Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks

from that day, wherein thou didst put the sickle

to the corn.

10And thou shalt celebrate the festival of

weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation

of thy hand, which thou shalt oer according to

the blessing of the Lord thy God.

11And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy

God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and

thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the

Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger

and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide

with you: in the place which the Lord thy God

shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

12And thou shalt remember that thou wast

a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do

the things that are commanded.

13Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of

tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered

in thy fruit of the barn

oor and of the winepress.

14And thou shalt make merry in thy festi-

val time, thou, thy son, and thy daughter, thy

manservant, and thy maidservant, the Levite

also and the stranger, and the fatherless and the

widow that are within thy gates.

15Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to

the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord

shall choose: and the Lord thy God will belssBook of Deuteronomy 231

thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy

hands, and thou shalt be in joy.

16Three times in a year shall all thy males ap-

pear before the Lord thy God in the place which

he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread,

in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of taberna-

cles. No one shall appear with his hands empty

before the Lord:

17But every one shall oer according to what

he hath, according to the blessing of the Lord his

God, which he shall give him.

18Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates

in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall

give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge

the people with just judgment,

19And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt

not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the

eyes of the wise, and change the words of the

just.

20Thou shalt follow justly after that which is

just: that thou mayst live and possess the land,

which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

21Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree

near the altar of the Lord thy God:

22Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thy-

self a statue: which things the Lord thy God

hateth.

Chapter 17

Thou shalt not sacrice to the Lord thy God a

sheep, or an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any

fault: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy

God.

2When there shall be found among you within

any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall

give thee, man or woman that do evil in the

sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his

covenant,3So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore

them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of

heaven, which I have not commanded:

4And this is told thee, and hearing it thou

hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true,

and that the abomination is committed in Israel:

5Thou shalt bring forth the man or the

woman, who have committed that most wicked

thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be

stoned.

6By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall

he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to

death, when only one beareth witness against

him.

7The hands of the witnesses shall be rst

upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hands

of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take

away the evil out of the midst of thee.

8If thou perceive that there be among you a

hard and doubtful matter in judgment between

blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and

leprosy: and thou see that the words of the

judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go

up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall

choose.

9And thou shalt come to the priests of the

Levitical race, and to the judge, that shall be at

that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and they

shall shew thee the truth of the judgment.

10And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall

say, that preside in the place, which the Lord

shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,

11According to his law; and thou shalt follow

their sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the

right hand nor to the left hand.

12But he that will be proud, and refuse to

obey the commandment of the priest, who min-

istereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and

the decree of the judge, that man shall die, and

thou shalt take away the evil from Israel:232 Book of Deuteronomy

13And all the people hearing it shall fear,

that no one afterwards swell with pride.

14When thou art come into the land, which

the Lord thy God will give thee, and possessest

it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me, as all

nations have that are round about:

15Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God

shall choose out of the number of thy brethren.

Thou mayst not make a man of another nation

king, that is not thy brother.

16And when he is made king, he shall not

multiply horses to himself, nor lead back the peo-

ple into Egypt, being lifted up with the number

of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath

commanded you to return no more the same way.

17He shall not have many wives, that may

allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and

gold.

18But after he is raised to the throne of

his kingdom, he shall copy out to himself the

Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the

copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,

19And he shall have it with him, and shall

read it all the days of his life, that he may learn

to fear the Lord his God, and keep his words and

ceremonies, that are commanded in the law;

20And that his heart be not lifted up with

pride over his brethren, nor decline to the right

or to the left, that he and his sons may reign a

long time over Israel.

Chapter 18

The priests and Levites, and all that are of the

same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance

with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the

sacrices of the Lord, and his oblations,

2And they shall receive nothing else of the

possession of their brethren: for the Lord himselfis their inheritance, as he hath said to them.

3This shall be the priest's due from the peo-

ple, and from them that oer victims: whether

they sacrice an ox, or a sheep, they shall give

to the priest the shoulder and the breast:

4The rstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of

oil, and a part of the wool from the shearing of

their sheep.

5For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all

thy tribes, to stand and to minister to the name

of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.

6If a Levite go out of any one of the cities

throughout all Israel, in which he dwelleth, and

have a longing mind to come to the place which

the Lord shall choose,

7He shall minister in the name of the Lord

his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, that

shall stand at that time before the Lord.

8He shall receive the same portion of food

that the rest do: besides that which is due to him

in his own city, by succession from his fathers.

9When thou art come into the land which the

Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou

have a mind to imitate the abominations of those

nations.

10Neither let there be found among you any

one that shall expiate his son or daughter, mak-

ing them to pass through the re: or that con-

sulteth soothsayers, or observeth dreams and

omens, neither let there be any wizard,

11Nor charmer, nor any one that consul-

teth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that

seeketh the truth from the dead.

12For the Lord abhorreth all these things,

and for these abominations he will destroy them

at thy coming.

13Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot

before the Lord thy God.

14These nations, whose land thou shalt pos-

sess, hearken to soothsayers and diviners: butBook of Deuteronomy 233

thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy

God.

15The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a

PROPHET of thy nation and of thy brethren

like unto me: him thou shalt hear:

16As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God

in Horeb, when the assembly was gathered to-

gether, and saidst: Let me not hear any more

the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see

any more this exceeding great re, lest I die.

17And the Lord said to me: They have spo-

ken all things well.

18I will raise them up a prophet out of the

midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will

put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak

to them all that I shall command him.

19And he that will not hear his words, which

he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger.

20But the prophet, who being corrupted with

pride, shall speak in my name things that I did

not command him to say, or in the name of

strange gods, shall be slain.

21And if in silent thought thou answer: How

shall I know the word that the Lord hath not

spoken?

22Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that

same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord,

and it cometh not to pass: that thing the Lord

hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged

it by the pride of his mind: and therefore thou

shalt not fear him.

Chapter 19

When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the na-

tions, whose land he will deliver to thee, and

thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the cities

and houses thereof:

2Thou shalt separate to thee three cities inthe midst of the land, which the Lord will give

thee in possession,

3Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt

divide the whole province of thy land equally into

three parts: that he who is forced to

ee for

manslaughter, may have near at hand whither

to escape.

4This shall be the law of the slayer that

eeth,

whose life is to be saved: He that killeth his

neighbor ignorantly, and who is proved to have

had no hatred against him yesterday and the day

before:

5But to have gone with him to the wood to

hew wood, and in cutting down the tree the axe

slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping

from the handle struck his friend, and killed him:

he shall

ee to one of the cities aforesaid, and

live:

6Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose

blood was shed, pushed on by his grief should

pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too

long, and take away the life of him who is not

guilty of death, because he is proved to have had

no hatred before against him that was slain.

7Therefore I command thee, that thou sepa-

rate three cities at equal distance one from an-

other.

8And when the Lord thy God shall have en-

larged thy borders, as he swore to the fathers,

and shall give thee all the land that he promised

them,

9(Yet so, if thou keep his commandments,

and do the things which I command thee this

day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk

in his ways at all times) thou shalt add to thee

other three cities, and shalt double the number

of the three cities aforesaid:

10That innocent blood may not be shed in

the midst of the land which the Lord thy God

will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of234 Book of Deuteronomy

blood.

11But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in

wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he

die, and he

ee to one of the cities aforesaid,

12The ancients of his city shall send, and take

him out of the place of refuge, and shall deliver

him into the hand of the kinsman of him whose

blood was shed, and he shall die.

13Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt

take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Is-

rael, that it may be well with thee.

14Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neigh-

bour's landmark, which thy predecessors have

set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God

will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive

to possess.

15One witness shall not rise up against any

man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness be: but in

the mouth of two or three witnesses every word

shall stand.

16If a lying witness stand against a man, ac-

cusing him of transgression,

17Both of them, between whom the contro-

versy is, shall stand before the Lord in the sight

of the priests and the judges that shall be in

those days.

18And when after most diligent inquisition,

they shall nd that the false witness hath told a

lie against his brother:

19They shall render to him as he meant to

do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the

evil out of the midst of thee:

20That others hearing may fear, and may not

dare to do such things.

21Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require

life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for

hand, foot for foot.Chapter 20

If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and

see horsemen and chariots, and the numbers of

the enemy's army greater than thine, thou shalt

not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with

thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

2And when the battle is now at hand, the

priest shall stand before the army, and shall

speak to the people in this manner:

3Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day

against your enemies, let not your heart be dis-

mayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear ye

them not:

4Because the Lord your God is in the midst of

you, and will ght for you against your enemies,

to deliver you from danger.

5And the captains shall proclaim through ev-

ery band in the hearing of the army: What man

is there, that hath built a new house, and hath

not dedicated it? let him go and return to his

house, lest he die in the battle, and another man

dedicate it.

6What man is there, that hath planted a vine-

yard, and hath not as yet made it to be common,

whereof all men may eat? let him go, and return

to his house, lest he die in the battle, and an-

other man execute his oce.

7What man is there, that hath espoused a

wife, and not taken her? let him go, and return

to his house, lest he die in the war, and another

man take her.

8After these things are declared they shall

add the rest, and shall speak to the people:

What man is there that is fearful, and faint

hearted? let him go, and return to his house,

lest he make the hearts of his brethren to fear,

as he himself is possessed with fear.

9And when the captains of the army shall

hold their peace, and have made an end of speak-Book of Deuteronomy 235

ing, every man shall prepare their bands to ght.

10If at any time thou come to ght against a

city, thou shalt rst oer it peace.

11If they receive it, and open the gates to

thee, all the people that are therein, shall be

saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.

12But if they will not make peace, and shall

begin war against thee, thou shalt besiege it.

13And when the Lord thy God shall deliver

it into thy hands, thou shalt slay all that are

therein of the male sex, with the edge of the

sword,

14Excepting women and children, cattle and

other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt

divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt

eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy

God shall give thee.

15So shalt thou do to all cities that are at

a great distance from thee, and are not of these

cities which thou shalt receive in possession.

16But of those cities that shall be given thee,

thou shalt suer none at all to live:

17But shalt kill them with the edge of the

sword, to wit, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite,

and the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the

Hevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God

hath commanded thee:

18Lest they teach you to do all the abomi-

nations which they have done to their gods: and

you should sin against the Lord your God.

19When thou hast besieged a city a long time,

and hath compassed it with bulwarks, to take

it, thou shalt not cut down the trees that may

be eaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country

round about with axes: for it is a tree, and not a

man, neither can it increase the number of them

that ght against thee.

20But if there be any trees that are not fruit-

ful, but wild, and t for other uses, cut them

down, and make engines, until thou take the city,which ghteth against thee.

Chapter 21

When there shall be found in the land, which the

Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man

slain, and it is not known who is guilty of the

murder,

2Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and

shall measure from the place where the body li-

eth the distance of every city round about:

3And the ancients of that city which they

shall perceive to be nearer than the rest, shall

take a heifer of the herd, that hath not drawn in

the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,

4And they shall bring her into a rough and

stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor sown:

and there they shall strike o the head of the

heifer:

5And the priests the sons of Levi shall come,

whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister

to him, and to bless in his name, and that by

their word every matter should be decided, and

whatsoever is clean or unclean should be judged.

6And the ancients of that city shall come to

the person slain, and shall wash their hands over

the heifer that was killed in the valley,

7And shall say: Our hands did not shed this

blood, nor did our eyes see it.

8Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou

hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay not innocent

blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people

Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from

them:

9And thou shalt be free from the innocent's

blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done

what the Lord hath commanded thee.

10If thou go out to ght against thy ene-

mies, and the Lord thy God deliver them into236 Book of Deuteronomy

thy hand, and thou lead them away captives,

11And seest in the number of the captives a

beautiful woman, and lovest her, and wilt have

her to wife,

12Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and

she shall shave her hair, and pare her nails,

13And shall put o the raiment, wherein she

was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and

mourn for her father and mother one month: and

after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt

sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.

14But if afterwards she please thee not, thou

shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her

for money nor oppress her by might because thou

hast humbled her.

15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and

the other hated, and they have had children by

him, and the son of the hated be the rstborn,

16And he meaneth to divide his substance

among his sons: he may not make the son of the

beloved the rstborn, and prefer him before the

son of the hated.

17But he shall acknowledge the son of the

hated for the rstborn, and shall give him a

double portion of all he hath: for this is the

rst of his children, and to him are due the rst

birthrights.

18If a man have a stubborn and unruly son,

who will not hear the commandments of his fa-

ther or mother, and being corrected, slighteth

obedience:

19They shall take him and bring him to the

ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,

20And shall say to them: This our son is

rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our

admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and

to debauchery and banquetings:

21The people of the city shall stone him: and

he shall die, that you may take away the evil out

of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it maybe afraid.

22When a man hath committed a crime for

which he is to be punished with death, and being

condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:

23His body shall not remain upon the tree,

but shall be buried the same day: for he is ac-

cursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou

shalt not dele thy land, which the Lord thy God

shall give thee in possession.

Chapter 22

Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's

ox, or his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring

them back to thy brother.

2And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know

him not: thou shalt bring them to thy house, and

they shall be with thee until thy brother seek

them, and receive them.

3Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass,

and with his raiment, and with every thing that

is thy brother's, which is lost: if thou nd it,

neglect it not as pertaining to another.

4If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be

fallen down in the way, thou shalt not slight it,

but shalt lift it up with him.

5A woman shall not be clothed with man's ap-

parel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel:

for he that doth these things is abominable be-

fore God.

6If thou nd as thou walkest by the way, a

bird's nest in a tree, or on the ground, and the

dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs:

thou shalt not take her with her young:

7But shalt let her go, keeping the young which

thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee,

and thou mayst live a long time.

8When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt

make a battlement to the roof round about: lestBook of Deuteronomy 237

blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty,

if any one slip, and fall down headlong.

9Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers

seeds: lest both the seed which thou hast sown,

and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctied to-

gether.

10Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an

ass together.

11Thou shalt not wear a garment that is wo-

ven of woollen and linen together.

12Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the

four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt

be covered.

13If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate

her,

14And seek occasions to put her away, laying

to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took

this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found

her not a virgin:

15Her father and mother shall take her, and

shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity

to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

16And the father shall say: I gave my daugh-

ter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth

her,

17He layeth to her charge a very ill name,

so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin:

and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's

virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before

the ancients of the city:

18And the ancients of that city shall take that

man, and beat him,

19Condemning him besides in a hundred

sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's

father, because he hath defamed by a very ill

name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to

wife, and may not put her away all the days of

his life.

20But if what he charged her with be true,

and virginity be not found in the damsel:21They shall cast her out of the doors of her

father's house, and the men of the city shall stone

her to death, and she shall die: because she hath

done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore

in her father's house: and thou shalt take away

the evil out of the midst of thee.

22If a man lie with another man's wife, they

shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and

the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil

out of Israel.

23If a man have espoused a damsel that is a

virgin, and some one nd her in the city, and lie

with her,

24Thou shalt bring them both out to the

gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the

damsel, because she cried not out, being in the

city: the man, because he hath humbled his

neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the

evil from the midst of thee.

25But if a man nd a damsel that is be-

trothed, in the eld, and taking hold of her, lie

with her, he alone shall die:

26The damsel shall suer nothing, neither is

she guilty of death: for as a robber riseth against

his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did

the damsel suer:

27She was alone in the eld: she cried, and

there was no man to help her.

28If a man nd a damsel that is a virgin, who

is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and

the matter come to judgment:

29He that lay with her shall give to the father

of the maid fty sicles of silver, and shall have

her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he

may not put her away all the days of his life.

30No man shall take his father's wife, nor

remove his covering.238 Book of Deuteronomy

Chapter 23

An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut

away, or yard cut o, shall not enter into the

church of the Lord.

2A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a pros-

titute, shall not enter into the church of the Lord,

until the tenth generation.

3The Ammonite and the Moabite, even af-

ter the tenth generation shall not enter into the

church of the Lord for ever:

4Because they would not meet you with bread

and water in the way, when you came out of

Egypt: and because they hired against thee Bal-

aam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in

Syria, to curse thee.

5And the Lord thy God would not hear Bal-

aam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing,

because he loved thee.

6Thou shalt not make peace with them, nei-

ther shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days

of thy life for ever.

7Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because

he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because

thou wast a stranger in his land.

8They that are born of them, in the third gen-

eration shall enter into the church of the Lord.

9When thou goest out to war against thy en-

emies, thou shalt keep thyself from every evil

thing.

10If there be among you any man, that is

deled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out

of the camp,

11And shall not return, before he be washed

with water in the evening: and after sunset he

shall return into the camp.

12Thou shalt have a place without the camp,

to which thou mayst go for the necessities of na-

ture,

13Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And whenthou sittest down, thou shalt dig round about,

and with the earth that is dug up thou shalt

cover

14That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord

thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to

deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to thee:)

and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness

appear therein, lest he go away from thee.

15Thou shalt not deliver to his master the

servant that is

ed to thee.

16He shall dwell with thee in the place that

shall please him, and shall rest in one of thy

cities: give him no trouble.

17There shall be no whore among the daugh-

ters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons

of Israel.

18Thou shalt not oer the hire of a strumpet,

nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord

thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed:

because both these are an abomination to the

Lord thy God.

19Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money

to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:

20But to the stranger. To thy brother thou

shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury:

that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy

works in the land, which thou shalt go in to pos-

sess.

21When thou hast made a vow to the Lord

thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because

the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou

delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.

22If thou wilt not promise, that shalt be with-

out sin.

23But that which is once gone out of thy lips,

thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast

promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken

with thy own will and with thy own mouth.

24Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou

mayst eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: butBook of Deuteronomy 239

must carry none out with thee:

25If thou go into thy friend's corn, thou

mayst break the ears, and rub them in thy hand:

but not reap them with a sickle.

Chapter 24

If a man take a wife, and have her, and she nd

not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he

shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in

her hand, and send her out of his house.

2And when she is departed, and marrieth an-

other husband,

3And he also hateth her, and hath given her a

bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house

or is dead:

4The former husband cannot take her again

to wife: because she is deled, and is become

abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy

land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give

thee to possess.

5When a man hath lately taken a wife, he

shall not go out to war, neither shall any public

business be enjoined him, but he shall be free

at home without fault, that for one year he may

rejoice with his wife.

6Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the up-

per millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his

life to thee.

7If any man be found soliciting his brother of

the children of Israel, and selling him shall take

a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt

take away the evil from the midst of thee.

8Observe diligently that thou incur not the

stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt do what-

soever the priests of the Levitical race shall

teach thee, according to what I have commanded

them, and full thou it carefully.9Remember what the Lord your God did to

Mary, in the way when you came out of Egypt.

10When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour

any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go

into his house to take away a pledge:

11But thou shalt stand without, and he shall

bring out to thee what he hath.

12But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge

with thee that night,

13But thou shalt restore it to him presently

before the going down of the sun: that he may

sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and thou

mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.

14Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy,

and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a

stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and

is within thy gates:

15But thou shalt pay him the price of his

labour the same day, before the going down of

the sun, because he is poor, and with it main-

taineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the

Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

16The fathers shall not be put to death for

the children, nor the children for the fathers, but

every one shall die for his own sin,

17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the

stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou

take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

18Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt,

and the Lord thy God delivered thee from

thence. Therefore I command thee to do this

thing.

19When thou hast reaped the corn in thy

eld, and hast forgot and left a sheaf, thou shalt

not return to take it away: but thou shalt suer

the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to

take it away: that the Lord thy God may bless

thee in all the works of thy hands.

20If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive

trees, thou shalt not return to gather whatsoever240 Book of Deuteronomy

remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave it for the

stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.

21If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard,

thou shalt not gather the clusters that remain,

but they shall be for the stranger, the fatherless,

and the widow.

22Remember that thou also wast a bondman

in Egypt, and therefore I command thee to do

this thing.

Chapter 25

If there be a controversy between men, and they

call upon the judges: they shall give the prize

of justice to him whom they perceive to be just:

and him whom they nd to be wicked, they shall

condemn of wickedness.

2And if they see that the oender be worthy

of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall

cause him to be beaten before them. According

to the measure of the sin shall the measure also

of the stripes be:

3Yet so, that they exceed not the number of

forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn

before thy eyes.

4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth

out thy corn on the

oor.

5When brethren dwell together, and one of

them dieth without children, the wife of the

deceased shall not marry to another: but his

brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his

brother:

6And the rst son he shall have of her he shall

call by his name, that his name be not abolished

out of Israel.

7But if he will not take his brother's wife, who

by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to

the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients,

and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raiseup his brother's name in Israel: and will not take

me to wife.

8And they shall cause him to be sent for forth-

with, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not

take her to wife:

9The woman shall come to him before the

ancients, and shall take o his shoe from his foot,

and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done

to the man that will not build up his brother's

house:

10And his name shall be called in Israel, the

house of the unshod.

11If two men have words together, and one

begin to ght against the other, and the other's

wife willing to deliver her husband out of the

hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand,

and take him by the secrets,

12Thou shalt cut o her hand, neither shalt

thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

13Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy

bag, a greater and a less:

14Neither shall there be in thy house a greater

bushel and a less.

15Thou shalt have a just and a true weight,

and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou

mayest live a long time upon the land which the

Lord thy God shall give thee.

16For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that

doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.

17Remember what Amalec did to thee in the

way when thou camest out of Egypt:

18How he met thee: and slew the hindmost

of the army, who sat down, being weary, when

thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he

feared not God.

19Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give

thee rest, and shall have subdued all the nations

round about in the land which he hath promised

thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under

heaven. See thou forget it not.Book of Deuteronomy 241

Chapter 26

And when thou art come into the land which the

Lord thy God will give thee to possess, and hast

conquered it, and dwellest in it:

2Thou shalt take the rst of all thy fruits,

and put them in a basket, and shalt go to the

place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that

his name may be invocated there:

3And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be

in those days, and say to him: I profess this day

before the Lord thy God, that I am come into

the land, for which he swore to our fathers, that

he would give it us.

4And the priest taking the basket at thy

hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord

thy God:

5And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the

Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father,

who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there

in a very small number, and grew into a nation

great and strong and of an innite multitude.

6And the Egyptians aicted us, and perse-

cuted us, laying on us most grievous burdens:

7And we cried to the Lord God of our fa-

thers: who heard us, and looked down upon our

aiction, and labour, and distress:

8And brought us out of Egypt with a strong

hand, and a stretched out arm, with great terror,

with signs and wonders:

9And brought us into this place, and gave us

this land

owing with milk and honey.

10And therefore now I oer the rstfruits of

the land which the Lord hath given me. And

thou shalt leave them in the sight of the Lord

thy God, adoring the Lord thy God.

11And thou shalt feast in all the good things

which the Lord thy God hath given thee, and

thy house, thou and the Levite, and the stranger

that is with thee.12When thou hast made an end of tithing all

thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt

give it to the Levite, and to the stanger, and to

the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may

eat within thy gates, and be lled:

13And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of

the Lord thy God: I have taken that which was

sanctied out of my house, and I have given it

to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the

fatherless, and to the widow, as thou hast com-

manded me: I have not transgressed thy com-

mandments nor forgotten thy precepts.

14I have not eaten of them in my mourn-

ing, nor separated them for any uncleanness,

nor spent any thing of them in funerals. I have

obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have

done all things as thou hast commanded me.

15Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high

habitation of heaven, and bless thy people Is-

rael, and the land which thou hast given us, as

thou didst swear to our fathers, a land

owing

with milk and honey.

16This day the Lord thy God hath com-

manded thee to do these commandments and

judgments: and to keep and full them with all

thy heart, and with all thy soul.

17Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be

thy God, and to walk in his ways and keep his

ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and

obey his command.

18And the Lord hath chosen thee this day,

to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to

thee, and to keep all his commandments:

19And to make thee higher than all nations

which he hath created, to his own praise, and

name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy peo-

ple of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.242 Book of Deuteronomy

Chapter 27

And Moses with the ancients of Israel com-

manded the people, saying: Keep every com-

mandment that I command you this day.

2And when you are passed over the Jordan

into the land which the Lord thy God will give

thee, thou shalt set up great stones, and shalt

plaster them over with plaster,

3That thou mayst write on them all the words

of this law, when thou art passed over the Jor-

dan: that thou mayst enter into the land which

the Lord thy God will give thee, a land

owing

with milk and honey, as he swore to thy fathers.

4Therefore when you are passed over the Jor-

dan, set up the stones which I command you

this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster

them with plaster:

5And thou shalt build there an altar to the

Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not

touched,

6And of stones not fashioned nor polished:

and thou shalt oer upon it holocausts to the

Lord thy God:

7And shalt immolate peace victims, and eat

there, and feast before the Lord thy God.

8And thou shalt write upon the stones all the

words of this law plainly and clearly.

9And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi

said to all Israel: Attend, and hear, O Israel:

This day thou art made the people of the Lord

thy God:

10Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the com-

mandments and justices which I command thee.

11And Moses commanded the people in that

day, saying:

12These shall stand upon mount Garizim to

bless the people, when you are passed the Jor-

dan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and

Benjamin.13And over against them shall stand on

mount Hebal to curse: Ruben, Gad, and Aser,

and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali.

14And the Levites shall pronounce, and say

to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

15Cursed be the man that maketh a graven

and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord,

the work of the hands of articers, and shall put

it in a secret place: and all the people shall an-

swer and say: Amen.

16Cursed be he that honoureth not his father

and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's

landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

18Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wan-

der out of his way: and all the people shall say:

Amen.
19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment

of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow:

and all the people shall say: Amen.

20Cursed be he that lieth with his father's

wife, and uncovereth his bed: and all the people

shall say: Amen.

21Cursed be he that lieth with any beast:

and all the people shall say: Amen.

22Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the

daughter of his father, or of his mother: and all

the people shall say: Amen.

23Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-

in-law: and all the people shall say: Amen.

24Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neigh-

bour: and all the people shall say: Amen.

25Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an

innocent person: and all the people shall say:

Amen.

26Cursed be he that abideth not in the words

of this law, and fullleth them not in work: and

all the people shall say: Amen.Book of Deuteronomy 243

Chapter 28

Now if thou wilt hear the voice of all his com-

mandments, which I command thee this day, the

Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the

nations that are on the earth.

2And all these blessings shall come upon thee

and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his pre-

cepts.

3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed

in the eld.

4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and

the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cat-

tle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy

sheep.

5Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy

stores.

6Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going

out.

7The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise

up against thee, to fall down before thy face: one

way shall they come out against thee, and seven

ways shall they

ee before thee.

8The Lord will send forth a blessing upon

thy storehouses, and upon all the works of thy

hands: and will bless thee in the land that thou

shalt receive.

9The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy

people to himself, as he swore to thee: if thou

keep the commandments of the Lord thy God,

and walk in his ways.

10And all the people of the earth shall see

that the name of the Lord is invocated upon

thee, and they shall fear thee.

11The Lord will make thee abound with all

goods, with the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit

of thy cattle, with the fruit of thy land, which

the Lord swore to thy fathers that he would give

thee.

12The Lord will open his excellent treasure,the heaven, that it may give rain in due season:

and he will bless all the works of thy hands. And

thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not

borrow of any one.

13And the Lord shall make thee the head and

not the tail: and thou shalt be always above, and

not beneath: yet so if thou wilt hear the com-

mandments of the Lord thy God which I com-

mand thee this day, and keep and do them,

14And turn not away from them neither to

the right hand, nor to the left, nor follow strange

gods, nor worship them.

15But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the

Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his com-

mandments and ceremonies, which I command

thee this day, all these curses shall come upon

thee, and overtake thee.

16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in

the eld.

17Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy

stores.

18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and

the fruit of thy ground, the herds of thy oxen,

and the

ocks of thy sheep.

19Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed

going out.

20The Lord shall send upon thee famine and

hunger, and a rebuke upon all the works which

thou shalt do: until he consume and destroy thee

quickly, for thy most wicked inventions, by which

thou hast forsaken me.

21May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee,

until he consume thee out of the land, which thou

shalt go in to possess.

22May the Lord aict thee with miserable

want, with the fever and with cold, with burning

and with heat, and with corrupted air and with

blasting, and pursue thee till thou perish.

23Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass:

and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.244 Book of Deuteronomy

24The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy

land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon

thee, till thou be consumed.

25The Lord make thee to fall down before

thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against

them, and

ee seven ways, and be scattered

throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.

26And be thy carcass meat for all the fowls

of the air, and the beasts of the earth, and be

there none to drive them away.

27The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of

Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which the

dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch:

so that thou canst not be healed.

28The Lord strike thee with madness and

blindness and fury of mind.

29And mayst thou grope at midday as the

blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make

straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times

suer wrong, and be oppressed with violence,

and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

30Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep

with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not

dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and

not gather the vintage thereof.

31May thy ox be slain before thee, and thou

not eat thereof. May thy ass be taken away in

thy sight, and not restored to thee. May thy

sheep be given to thy enemies, and may there be

none to help thee.

32May thy sons and thy daughters be given

to another people, thy eyes looking on, and lan-

guishing at the sight of them all the day, and

may there be no strength in thy hand.

33May a people which thou knowest not,

eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours:

and mayst thou always suer oppression, and be

crushed at all times.

34And be astonished at the terror of those

things which thy eyes shall see:35May the Lord strike thee with a very sore

ulcer in the knees and in the legs, and be thou

incurable from the sole of the foot to the top of

the head.

36The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king,

whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into

a nation which thou and thy fathers know not:

and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood

and stone.

37And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and

a byword to all people, among whom the Lord

shall bring thee in.

38Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground,

and gather little: because the locusts shall con-

sume all.
39Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it,

and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any

thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with

worms.

40Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy bor-

ders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for

the olives shall fall o and perish.

41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and

shalt not enjoy them: because they shall be led

into captivity.

42The blast shall consume all the trees and

the fruits of thy ground.

43The stranger that liveth with thee in the

land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher:

and thou shalt go down, and be lower.

44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not

lend to him. He shall be as the head, and thou

shalt be the tail.

45And all these curses shall come upon thee,

and shall pursue and overtake thee, till thou per-

ish: because thou heardst not the voice of the

Lord thy God, and didst not keep his command-

ments and ceremonies which he commanded

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46And they shall be as signs and wonders on

thee, and on thy seed for ever.

47Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy

God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abun-

dance of all things:

48Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the

Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst,

and nakedness, and in want of all things: and

he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he

consume thee.

49The Lord will bring upon thee a nation

from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the

earth, like an eagle that

yeth swiftly, whose

tongue thou canst not understand,

50A most insolent nation, that will shew no

regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the in-

fant,

51And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and

the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed,

and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil,

nor herds of oxen, nor

ocks of sheep: until he

destroy thee.

52And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy

strong and high wall be brought down, wherein

thou trustedst in all thy land. Thou shalt be

besieged within thy gates in all thy land which

the Lord thy God will give thee:

53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb,

and the

esh of thy sons and of thy daugh-

ters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in

the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy

shall oppress thee.

54The man that is nice among you, and very

delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife,

that lieth in his bosom,

55So that he will not give them of the

esh of

his children, which he shall eat: because he hath

nothing else in the siege and the want, where-

with thy enemies shall distress thee within all

thy gates.56The tender and delicate woman, that could

not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot

for over much niceness and tenderness, will envy

her husband who lieth in her bosom, the

esh of

her son, and of her daughter,

57And the lth of the afterbirths, that come

forth from between her thighs, and the children

that are born the same hour. For they shall eat

them secretly for the want of all things, in the

siege and distress, wherewith thy enemy shall

oppress thee within thy gates.

58If thou wilt not keep, and full all the words

of this law, that are written in this volume, and

fear his glorious and terrible name: that is, The

Lord thy God:

59The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and

the plagues of thy seed, plagues great and last-

ing, inrmities grievous and perpetual.

60And he shall bring back on thee all the

aictions of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of,

and they shall stick fast to thee.

61Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all

the diseases, and plagues, that are not written

in the volume of this law till he consume thee:

62And you shall remain few in number, who

before were as the stars of heaven for multitude,

because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord

thy God.

63And as the Lord rejoiced upon you be-

fore doing good to you, and multiplying you: so

he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to

nought, so that you shall be taken away from

the land which thou shalt go in to possess.

64The Lord shall scatter thee among all peo-

ple, from the farthest parts of the earth to the

ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange

gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy

fathers, wood and stone.

65Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those

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of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee a fearful

heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed

with pensiveness:

66And thy life shall be as it were hanging be-

fore thee. Thou shalt fear night and day, neither

shalt thou trust thy life.

67In the morning thou shalt say: Who will

grant me evening? and at evening: Who will

grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy

heart, wherewith thou shalt be terried, and for

those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.

68The Lord shall bring thee again with ships

into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee

that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt

thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen

and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Chapter 29

These are the words of the covenant which the

Lord commanded Moses to make with the chil-

dren of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that

covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2And Moses called all Israel, and said to

them: You have seen all the things that the Lord

did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao,

and to all his servants, and to his whole land.

3The great temptations, which thy eyes have

seen, those mighty signs and wonders,

4And the Lord hath not given you a heart to

understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may

hear, unto this present day.

5He hath brought you forty years through the

desert: your garments are not worn out, neither

are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.

6You have not eaten bread, nor have you

drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know

that I am the Lord your God.

7And you came to this place: and Sehon kingof Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out

against us to ght. And we slew them.

8And took their land, and delivered it for a

possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe

of Manasses.

9Keep therefore the words of this covenant,

and full them: that you may understand all

that you do.

10You all stand this day before the Lord your

God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and

doctors, all the people of Israel,

11Your children and your wives, and the

stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, be-

sides the hewers of wood, and them that bring

water:

12That thou mayst pass in the covenant of

the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this

day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.

13That he may raise thee up a people to him-

self, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken

to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob.

14Neither with you only do I make this

covenant, and conrm these oaths,

15But with all that are present and that are

absent.

16For you know how we dwelt in the land

of Egypt, and how we have passed through the

midst of nations, and passing through them,

17You have seen their abominations and lth,

that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver

and gold, which they worshipped.

18Lest perhaps there should be among you

a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose

heart is turned away this day from the Lord our

God, to go and serve the gods of those nations:

and there should be among you a root bringing

forth gall and bitterness.

19And when he shall hear the words of this

oath, he should bless himself in his heart say-Book of Deuteronomy 247

ing: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the

naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may

consume the thirsty,

20And the Lord should not forgive him: but

his wrath and jealousy against that man should

be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all

the curses that are written in this volume should

light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his

name from under heaven,

21And utterly destroy him out of all the

tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are

contained in the book of this law and covenant:

22And the following generation shall say, and

the children that shall be born hereafter, and the

strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the

plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the

Lord hath aicted it,

23Burning it with brimstone, and the heat

of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor

any green thing grow therein, after the exam-

ple of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha,

Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed

in his wrath and indignation:

24And all the nations shall say: Why hath

the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth

this exceeding great heat of his wrath?

25And they shall answer: Because they for-

sook the covenant of the Lord, which he made

with their fathers, when he brought them out of

the land of Egypt:

26And they have served strange gods, and

adored them, whom they knew not, and for

whom they had not been assigned:

27Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kin-

dled against this land, to bring upon it all the

curses that are written in this volume:

28And he hath cast them out of their land, in

anger and in wrath, and in very great indigna-

tion, and hath thrown them into a strange land,

as it is seen this day.29Secret things to the Lord our God: things

that are manifest, to us and to our children for

ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Chapter 30

Now when all these things shall be come upon

thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set

forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with

repentance of thy heart among all the nations,

into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered

thee,

2And shalt return to him, and obey his com-

mandments, as I command thee this day, thou

and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all

thy soul:

3The Lord thy God will bring back again

thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and

gather thee again out of all the nations, into

which he scattered thee before.

4If thou be driven as far as the poles of

heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back

from hence,

5And will take thee to himself, and bring thee

into the land which thy fathers possessed, and

thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will

make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.

6The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart,

and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love

the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all

thy soul, that thou mayst live.

7And he will turn all these curses upon thy

enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute

thee.

8But thou shalt return, and hear the voice

of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the com-

mandments which I command thee this day:

9And the Lord thy God will make thee

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of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the

fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all

things. For the Lord will return to rejoice over

thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fa-

thers:

10Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord

thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies,

which are written in this law: and return to the

Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all

thy soul.

11This commandment, that I command thee

this day is not above thee, nor far o from thee:

12Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say:

Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto

us, and we may hear and full it in work?

13Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst

excuse thyself, and say: Which of us can cross

the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may hear,

and do that which is commanded?

14But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy

mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it.

15Consider that I have set before thee this

day life and good, and on the other hand death

and evil:

16That thou mayst love the Lord thy God,

and walk in his ways, and keep his command-

ments and ceremonies and judgments, and bless

thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to pos-

sess.

17But if thy heart be turned away, so that

thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error

thou adore strange gods, and serve them:

18I foretell thee this day that thou shalt per-

ish, and shalt remain but a short time in the

land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan,

and shalt go in to possess it.

19I call heaven and earth to witness this day,

that I have set before you life and death, bless-

ing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both

thou and thy seed may live:20And that thou mayst love the Lord thy

God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for

he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that

thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord

swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

that he would give it them.

Chapter 31

And Moses went, and spoke all these words to

all Israel,

2And he said to them: I am this day a hun-

dred and twenty years old, I can no longer go out

and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said

to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.

3The Lord thy God then will pass over be-

fore thee: he will destroy all these nations in thy

sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this Jo-

sue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath

spoken.

4And the Lord shall do to them as he did to

Sehon and Og the kings of the Amorrhites, and

to their land, and shall destroy them.

5Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered

these also to you, you shall do in like manner to

them as I have commmanded you.

6Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not,

nor be ye dismayed at their sight: for the Lord

thy God he himself is thy leader, and will not

leave thee nor forsake thee.

7And Moses called Josue, and said to him be-

fore all Israel: Take courage, and be valiant: for

thou shalt bring this people into the land which

the Lord swore he would give to their fathers,

and thou shalt divide it by lot.

8And the Lord who is your leader, he himself

will be with thee: he will not leave thee, nor

forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

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to the priests the sons of Levi, who carried the

ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the

ancients of Israel.

10And he commanded them, saying: After

seven years, in the year of remission, in the feast

of tabernacles,

11When all Israel come together, to appear in

the sight of the Lord thy God in the place which

the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read the words

of this law before all Israel, in their hearing.

12And the people being all assembled to-

gether, both men and women, children and

strangers, that are within thy gates: that hear-

ing they may learn, and fear the Lord your God,

and keep, and full all the words of this law:

13That their children also, who now are ig-

norant, may hear, and fear the Lord their God,

all the days that they live in the land whither

you are going over the Jordan to possess it.

14And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the

days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand

ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that I may

give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and

stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:

15And the Lord appeared there in the pil-

lar of a cloud, which stood in the entry of the

tabernacle.

16And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou

shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people ris-

ing up will go a fornicating after strange gods in

the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there

will they forsake me, and will make void the

covenant, which I have made with them,

17And my wrath shall be kindled against

them in that day: and I will forsake them, and

will hide my face from them, and they shall be

devoured: all evils and aictions shall nd them,

so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is

because God is not with me, that these evils have

found me.18But I will hide, and cover my face in that

day, for all the evils which they have done, be-

cause they have followed strange gods.

19Now therefore write you this canticle, and

teach the children of Israel: that they may know

it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song

may be unto me for a testimony among the chil-

dren of Israel.

20For I will bring them into the land, for

which I swore to their fathers, that

oweth with

milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and

are full and fat, they will turn away after strange

gods, and will serve them: and will despise me,

and make void my covenant.

21And after many evils and aictions shall

have come upon them, this canticle shall answer

them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall

take away out of the mouth of their seed. For

I know their thoughts, and what they are about

to do this day, before that I bring them into the

land which I have promised them.

22Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and

taught it to the children of Israel.

23And the Lord commanded Josue the son

of Nun, and said: Take courage, and be valiant:

for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the

land which I have promised, and I will be with

thee.

24Therefore after Moses had wrote the words

of this law in a volume, and nished it:

25He commanded the Levites, who carried

the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying:

26Take this book, and put it in the side of the

ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that

it may be there for a testimony against thee.

27For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most sti

neck. While I am yet living, and going in with

you, you have always been rebellious against the

Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?

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tribes, and your doctors, and I will speak these

words in their hearing, and will call heaven and

earth to witness against them.

29For I know that, after my death, you will

do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside form the

way that I have commanded you: and evils shall

come upon you in the latter times, when you

shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke

him by the works of your hands.

30Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of

the whole assembly of Israel, the words of this

canticle, and nished it even to the end.

Chapter 32

Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the

earth give ear to the words of my mouth.

2Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my

speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the

herb, and as drops upon the grass.

3Because I will invoke the name of the Lord:

give ye magnicence to our God.

4The works of God are perfect, and all his

ways are judgments: God is faithful and without

any iniquity, he is just and right.

5They have sinned against him, and are none

of his children in their lth: they are a wicked

and perverse generation.

6Is this the return thou makest to the Lord,

O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy

father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee,

and created thee?

7Remember the days of old, think upon every

generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to

thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

8When the Most High divided the nations:

when he separated the sons of Adam, he ap-

pointed the bounds of people according to the

number of the children of Israel.9But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob

the lot of his inheritance.

10He found him in a desert land, in a place of

horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about,

and taught him: and he kept him as the apple

of his eye.

11As the eagle enticing her young to

y, and

hovering over them, he spread his wings, and

hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.

12The Lord alone was his leader: and there

was no strange god with him.

13He set him upon high land: that he might

eat the fruits of the elds, that he might suck

honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest

stone,
14Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep

with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the

breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of

wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the

grape.

15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew

fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who

made him, and departed from God his saviour.

16They provoked him by strange gods, and

stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.

17They sacriced to devils and not to God:

to gods whom they knew not: that were newly

come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

18Thou hast forsaken the God that begot

thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created

thee.

19The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath:

because his own sons and daughters provoked

him.

20And he said: I will hide my face from them,

and will consider what their last end shall be: for

it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful chil-

dren.

21They have provoked me with that which

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ities: and I will provoke them with that which

is no people, and will vex them with a foolish

nation.

22A re is kindled in my wrath, and shall

burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour

the earth with her increase, and shall burn the

foundations of the mountains.

23I will heap evils upon them, and will spend

my arrows among them.

24They shall be consumed with famine, and

birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite:

I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with

the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground,

and of serpents.

25Without, the sword shall lay them waste,

and terror within, both the young man and the

virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

26I said: Where are they? I will make the

memory of them to cease from among men.

27But for the wrath of the enemies I have

deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be

proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and

not the Lord, hath done all these things.

28They are a nation without counsel, and

without wisdom.

29O that they would be wise and would un-

derstand, and would provide for their last end.

30How should one pursue after a thousand,

and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because

their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut

them up?

31For our God is not as their gods: our ene-

mies themselves are judges.

32Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom,

and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes

are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.

33Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the

venom of asps, which is incurable.

34Are not these things stored up with me,

and sealed up in my treasures?35Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in

due time, that their foot may slide: the day of

destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste

to come.

36The Lord will judge his people, and will

have mercy on his servants: he shall see that

their hand is weakened, and that they who were

shut up have also failed, and they that remained

are consumed.

37And he shall say: Where are their gods, in

whom they trusted?

38Of whose victims they ate the fat, and

drank the wine of their drink oerings: let them

arise and help you, and protect you in your dis-

tress.

39See ye that I alone am, and there is no

other God besides me: I will kill and I will make

to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is

none that can deliver out of my hand.

40I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will

say: I live for ever.

41If I shall whet my sword as the lightning,

and my hand take hold on judgment: I will ren-

der vengeance to my enemies, and repay them

that hate me.

42I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

and my sword shall devour

esh, of the blood of

the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head

of the enemies.

43Praise his people, ye nations, for he will

revenge the blood of his servants: and will ren-

der vengeance to their enemies, and he will be

merciful to the land of his people.

44So Moses came and spoke all the words of

this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue

the son of Nun.

45And he ended all these words, speaking to

all Israel.

46And he said to them: Set your hearts on all

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you shall command your children to observe and

to do, and to full all that is written in this law:

47For they are not commanded you in vain,

but that every one should live in them, and that

doing them you may continue a long time in the

land whither you are going over the Jordan to

possess it.

48And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day,

saying:

49Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is

to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is

in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and

see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to

the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in

the mountain.

50When thou art gone up into it thou shalt

be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother

died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his peo-

ple:

51Because you trespassed against me in the

midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of

contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and

you did not sanctify me among the children of

Israel.

52Thou shalt see the land before thee, which

I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt

not enter into it.

Chapter 33

This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God,

Moses, blessed the children of Israel, before his

death.

2And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and

from Seir he rose up to us: he hath appeared

from mount Pharan, and with him thousands of

saints. In his right hand a ery law.

3He hath loved the people, all the saints are

in his hand: and they that approach to his feet,shall receive of his doctrine.

4Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance

of the multitude of Jacob.

5He shall be king with the most right, the

princes of the people, being assembled with the

tribes of Israel.

6Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small

in number.

7This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord,

the voice of Juda, and bring him in unto his peo-

ple: his hands shall ght for him, and he shall

be his helper against his enemies.

8To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and

thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou

hast proved in the temptation, and judged at

the waters of contradiction:

9Who hath said to his father, and to his

mother: I do not know you; and to his bretheren:

I know you not: and their own children they have

not known. These have kept thy word, and ob-

served thy covenant,

10Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O

Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and

holocaust upon thy altar.

11Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive

the works of his hands. Strike the backs of his

enemies, and let not them that hate him rise.

12And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved

of the Lord shall dwell condently in him: as in

a bride chamber shall he abide all the day long,

and between his shoulders shall be rest.

13To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of

the Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and

of the dew, and of the deep that lieth beneath.

14Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and

by the moon.

15Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of

the fruits of the everlasting hills:

16And of the fruits of the earth, and of

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appeared in the bush, come upon the head of

Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite

among his brethren.

17His beauty as of the rstling of a bullock,

his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them

shall he push the nations even to the ends of the

earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and

these the thousands of Manasses.

18And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabu-

lon, in thy going out; and Issachar in thy taber-

nacles.

19They shall call the people to the mountain:

there shall they sacrice the victims of justice.

Who shall suck as milk the abundance of the

sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.

20And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in

his breadth: he hath rested as a lion, and hath

seized upon the arm and the top of the head.

21And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his

portion the teacher was laid up: who was with

the princes of the people, and did the justices of

the Lord, and his judgment with Israel.

22To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion,

he shall

ow plentifully from Basan.

23And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall

enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the bless-

ings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and the

south.

24To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed

with children, let him be acceptable to his

brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

25His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the

days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.

26There is no other god like the God of the

rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is

thy helper. By his magnicence the clouds run

hither and thither.

27His dwelling is above, and underneath are

the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy

from before thee, and shall say: Be thou broughtto nought.

28Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The

eye of Jacob in a land of corn and wine, and the

heavens shall be misty with dew.

29Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee,

O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield

of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy ene-

mies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon

their necks.

Chapter 34

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab

upon mount Nebo, to the top of Phasga over

against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all

the land of Galaad as far as Dan.

2And all Nephtali, and the land of Ephraim

and Manasses, and all the land of Juda unto the

furthermost sea,

3And the south part, and the breadth of the

plain of Jericho the city of palm trees as far as

Segor.

4And the Lord said to him: This is the land,

for which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

saying: I will give it to thy seed. Thou hast seen

it with thy eyes, and shalt not pass over to it.

5And Moses the servant of the Lord died

there, in the land of Moab, by the command-

ment of the Lord:

6And he buried him in the valley of the land

of Moab over against Phogor: and no man hath

known of his sepulchre until this present day.

7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old

when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were

his teeth moved.

8And the children of Israel mourned for him

in the plains of Moab thirty days: and the days

of their mourning in which they mourned Moses

were ended.254 Book of Deuteronomy

9And Josue the son of Nun was lled with

the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid

his hands upon him. And the children of Is-

rael obeyed him, and did as the Lord comanded

Moses.

10And there arose no more a prophet in Israel

like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to

face,

11In all the signs and wonders, which he sent

by him, to do in the land of Egypt to Pharao,

and to all his servants, and to his whole land,

12And all the mighty hand, and great mira-

cles, which Moses did before all Israel.Book of Josue

Chapter 1

Now it came to pass after the death of Moses,

the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to

Josue, the son of Nun, the minister of Moses,

and said to him:

2Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass

over this Jordan, thou and thy people with thee,

into the land which I will give to the children of

Israel.

3I will deliver to you every place that the sole

of your foot shall tread upon, as I have said to

Moses.

4From the desert, and from Libanus unto the

great river Euphrates, all the land of the Het-

hites, unto the great sea toward the going down

of the sun, shall be your border.

5No man shall be able to resist you all the

days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so

will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor

forsake thee.

6Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt

divide by lot to this people the land for which I

swore to their fathers, that I would deliver it to

them.

7Take courage therefore, and be very valiant:

that thou mayst observe and do all the law,

which Moses my servant hath commanded thee:

turn not from it to the right hand or to the

left, that thou mayst understand all things which

thou dost.

8Let not the book of this law depart from thymouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and

night, that thou mayst observe and do all things

that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy

way, and understand it.

9Behold I command thee, take courage, and

be strong. Fear not, and be not dismayed: be-

cause the Lord thy God is with thee in all things

whatsoever thou shalt go to.

10And Josue commanded the princes of the

people, saying: Pass through the midst of the

camp, and command the people, and say:

11Prepare your victuals: for after the third

day you shall pass over the Jordan, and shall go

in to possess the land, which the Lord your God

will give you.

12And he said to the Rubenites, and the Ga-

dites, and the half tribe of Manasses:

13Remember the word, which Moses the ser-

vant of the Lord commanded you, saying: The

Lord your God hath given you rest, and all this

land.

14Your wives, and children; and cattle, shall

remain in the land which Moses gave you on this

side of the Jordan: but pass you over armed be-

fore your brethren all of you that are strong of

hand, and ght for them,

15Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as

he hath given you, and they also possess the land

which the Lord your God will give them: and so

you shall return into the land of your possession,

and you shall dwell in it, which Moses the servant

of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan, toward256 Book of Josue

the rising of the sun.

16And they made answer to Josue, and said:

All that thou hast commanded us, we will do:

and whither soever thou shalt send us, we will

go.
17As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will

we obey thee also: only be the Lord thy God

with thee, as he was with Moses.

18He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not

obey all thy words, that thou shalt command

him, let him die: only take thou courage, and do

manfully.

Chapter 2

And Josue, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two

men, to spy secretly: and said to them: Go, and

view the land, and the city of Jericho. They

went, and entered into the house of a woman that

was a harlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her.

2And it was told the king of Jericho, and was

said: Behold there are men come in hither, by

night, of the children of Israel, to spy the land.

3And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, say-

ing: Bring forth the men that came to thee, and

are entered into thy house: for they are spies,

and are come to view all the land.

4And the woman taking the men, hid them,

and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew

not whence they were:

5And at the time of shutting the gate in

the dark, they also went out together. I know

not whither they are gone: pursue after them

quickly, and you will overtake them.

6But she made the men go up to the top of

her house, and covered them with the stalks of

ax, which was there.

7Now they that were sent, pursued after

them, by the way that leadeth to the fords ofthe Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out,

the gate was presently shut.

8The men that were hid were not yet asleep,

when behold the woman went up to them, and

said:

9I know that the Lord hath given this land

to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us,

and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all

strength.

10We have heard that the Lord dried up the

water of the Red Sea, at your going in, when you

came out of Egypt: and what things you did

to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were

beyond the Jordan, Sehon and Og whom you

slew.

11And at the hearing these things, we were

arighted, and our heart fainted away, neither

did there remain any spirit in us, at your coming

in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven

above, and in the earth beneath.

12Now, therefore, swear ye to me by the Lord,

that as I have shewed mercy to you, so you also

will shew mercy to my father's house: and give

me a true token.

13That you will save my father and mother,

my brethren and sisters, and all things that are

theirs, and deliver our souls from death.

14They answered her: Be our lives for you

unto death, only if thou betray us not. And

when the Lord shall have delivered us the land,

we will shew thee mercy and truth.

15Then she let them down with a cord out of

a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

16And she said to them: Get ye up to the

mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they

return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they

come back, and so you shall go on yonr way.

17And they said to her: We shall be blameless

of this oath, which thou hast made us swear,

18If, when we come into the land, this scar-Book of Josue 257

let cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window,

by which thou hast let us down: and gather to-

gether thy father and mother, and brethren, and

all thy kindred into thy house.

19Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy

house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and

we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall

be with thee in the house, shall light upon our

head, if any man touch them.

20But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this

word abroad, we shall be quit of this oath, which

thou hast made us swear.

21And she answered: As you have spoken, so

be it done: and sending them on their way, she

hung the scarlet cord in the window.

22But they went and came to the mountains,

and stayed there three days, till they that pur-

sued them were returned. For having sought

them through all the way, they found them not.

23And when they were gone back into the

city, the spies returned, and came down from

the mountain: and passing over the Jordan, they

came to Josue, the son of Nun, and told him all

that befel them,

24And said: the Lord hath delivered all this

land into our hands, and all the inhabitants

thereof are overthrown with fear.

Chapter 3

And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the

camp: and they departed from Setim, and came

to the Jordan: he, and all the children of Israel,

and they abode there for three days.

2After which, the heralds went through the

midst of the camp,

3And began to proclaim: When you shall see

the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God,

and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, riseyou up also, and follow them as they go before:

4And let there be between you and the ark

the space of two thousand cubits: that you may

see it afar o, and know which way you must go:

for you have not gone this way before: and take

care you come not near the ark.

5And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanc-

tied: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders

among you.

6And he said to the priests: Take up the ark

of the covenant, and go before the people. And

they obeyed his commands, and took it up, and

walked before them.

7And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I

begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may

know that as I was with Moses, so I am with

thee also.

8And do thou command the priests, that

carry the ark of the covenant, and say to them:

When you shall have entered into part of the wa-

ter of the Jordan, stand in it.

9And Josue said to the children of Israel:

Come hither, and hear the word of the Lord your

God.

10And again he said: By this you shall know,

that the Lord, the living God, is in the midst of

you, and that he shall destroy, before your sight,

the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and

the Pherezite, the Gergesite also, and the Je-

busite, and the Amorrhite.

11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord

of all the earth shall go before you into the Jor-

dan.

12Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Is-

rael, one of every tribe.

13And when the priests, that carry the ark

of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set

the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan,

the waters that are beneath shall run down and

go o: and those that come from above, shall258 Book of Josue

stand together upon a heap.

14So the people went out of their tents, to

pass over the Jordan: and the priests that car-

ried the ark of the covenant, went on before

them.

15And as soon as they came into the Jordan,

and their feet were dipped in part of the water,

(now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had lled

the banks of its channel,)

16The waters that came down from above

stood in one place, and swelling up like a moun-

tain, were seen afar o, from the city that is

called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those

that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the

wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea)

until they wholly failed.

17And the people marched over against Jeri-

cho: and the priests that carried the ark of the

covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry

ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the

people passed over, through the channel that was

dried up.

Chapter 4

And when they were passed over, the Lord said

to Josue:

2Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:

3And command them to take out of the midst

of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood,

twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in

the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your

tents this night.

4And Josue called twelve men, whom he had

chosen out of the children of Israel, one out of

every tribe,
5And he said to them: Go before the ark of

the Lord your God to the midst of the Jordan,

and carry from thence every man a stone on yourshoulders, according to the number of the chil-

dren of Israel,

6That it may be a sign among you: and when

your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying:

What means these stones?

7You shall answer them: The waters of the

Jordan ran o before the ark of the covenant of

the Lord when it passed over the same: there-

fore were these stones set for a monument of the

children of Israel forever.

8The children of Israel therefore did as Jo-

sue commanded them, carrying out of the chan-

nel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord had

commanded him according to the number of the

children of Israel unto the place wherein they

camped, and there they set them.

9And Josue put other twelve stones in the

midst of the channel of the Jordan, where

the priests stood that carried the ark of the

covenant: and they are there until this present

day.

10Now the priests that carried the ark, stood

in the midst of the Jordan, till all things were

accomplished, which the Lord had commanded

Josue to speak to the people, and Moses had said

to him. And the people made haste, and passed

over.

11And when they had all passed over, the

ark also of the Lord passed over, and the priests

went before the people.

12The children of Ruben also, and Gad, and

half the tribe of Manasses, went armed before

the children of Israel, as Moses had commanded

them.

13And forty thousand ghting men by their

troops and bands, marched through the plains

and elds of the city of Jericho.

14In that day the Lord magnied Josue in

the sight of all Israel, that they should fear him,

as they had feared Moses, while he lived.Book of Josue 259

15And he said to him:

16Command the priests, that carry the ark

of the covenant, to come up out of the Jordan.

17And he commanded them, saying: Come

ye up out of the Jordan.

18And when they that carried the ark of the

covenant of the Lord, were come up, and began

to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned

into their channel, and ran as they were wont

before.
19And the people came up out of the Jordan,

the tenth day of the rst month, and camped in

Galgal, over against the east side of the city of

Jericho.

20And the twelve stones, which they had

taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Josue

pitched in Galgal,

21And said to the children of Israel: When

your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow,

and shall say to them: What mean these stones?

22You shall teach them, and say: Israel

passed over this Jordan through the dry chan-

nel,

23The Lord your God drying up the waters

thereof in your sight, until you passed over:

24As he had done before in the Red Sea,

which he dried up till we passed through:

25That all the people of the earth may learn

the most mighty hand of the Lord, that you also

may fear the Lord your God for ever.

Chapter 5

Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who

dwelt beyond the Jordan, westward, and all the

kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near

the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried

up the waters of the Jordan before the children

of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failedthem, and there remained no spirit in them, fear-

ing the coming in of the children of Israel.

2At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make

thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second

time the children of Israel.

3He did what the Lord had commanded, and

he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill

of the foreskins.

4Now this is the cause of the second circumci-

sion: All the people that came out of Egypt that

were males, all the men t for war, died in the

desert, during the time of the long going about

in the way:

6Now these were all circumcised. But the

people that were born in the desert,

6During the forty years of the journey in the

wide wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they

were consumed that had not heard the voice of

the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that

he would not shew them the land

owing with

milk and honey.

7The children of these succeeded in the place

of their fathers, and were circumcised by Josue:

for they were uncircumcised even as they were

born, and no one had circumcised them in the

way.

8Now after they were all circumcised, they

remained in the same place of the camp, until

they were healed.

9And the Lord said to Josue: This day have

I taken away from you the reproach of Egypt.

And the name of that place was called Galgal,

until this present day.

10And the children of Israel abode in Galgal,

and they kept the phase, on the fourteenth day

of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho:

11And they ate on the next day unleavened

bread of the corn of the land, and frumenty of

the same year.

12And the manna ceased after they ate of the260 Book of Josue

corn of the land, neither did the children of Israel

use that food any more, but they ate of the corn

of the present year of the land of Chanaan.

13And when Josue was in the eld of the

city of Jericho, he lifted up his eyes, and saw a

man standing over against him, holding a drawn

sword, and he went to him, and said: Art thou

one of ours, or of our adversaries?

14And he answered: No: but I am prince of

the host of the Lord, and now I am come.

15Josue fell on his face to the ground. And

worshipping, said: What saith my lord to his

servant?

16Loose, saith he, thy shoes from o thy feet:

for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And

Josue did as was commanded him.

Chapter 6

Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for

fear of the children of Israel, and no man durst

go out or come in.

2And the Lord said to Josue: Behold I

have given into thy hands Jericho, and the king

thereof, and all the valiant men.

3Go round about the city all ye ghting men

once a day: so shall ye do for six days.

4And on the seventh day the priests shall take

the seven trumpets, which are used in the ju-

bilee, and shall go before the ark of the covenant:

and you shall go about the city seven times, and

the priests shall sound the trumpets.

5And when the voice of the trumpet shall

give a longer and broken tune, and shall sound

iu your ears, all the people shall shout together

with a very great shout, and the walls of the city

shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in

every one at the place against which they shall

stand.6Then Josue, the son of Nun, called the

priests, and said to them: Take the ark of the

covenant: and let seven other priests take the

seven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before

the ark of the Lord.

7And he said to the people: Go, and compass

the city, armed, marching before the ark of the

Lord.

8And when Josue had ended his words, and

the seven priests blew the seven trumpets before

the ark of the covenant of the Lord,

9And all the armed men went before, the rest

of the common people followed the ark, and the

sound of the trumpets was heard on all sides.

10But Josue had commanded the people, say-

ing: You shall not shout, nor shall your voice be

heard, nor any word go out of your mouth: until

the day come wherein I shall say to you: Cry,

and shout.

11So the ark of the Lord went about the city

once a day, and returning into the camp, abode

there.

12And Josue rising before day, the priests

took the ark of the Lord,

13And seven of them seven trumpets, which

are used in the jubilee: and they went before

the ark of the Lord, walking and sounding the

trumpets: and the armed men went before them,

and the rest of the common people followed the

ark, and they blew the trumpets.

14And they went round about the city the

second day once, and returned into the camp.

So they did six days.

15But the seventh day, rising up early, they

went about the city, as it was ordered, seven

times.

16And when in the seventh going about the

priests sounded with the trumpets, Josue said to

all Israel: Shout: for the Lord hath delivered the

city to you:Book of Josue 261

17And let this city be an anathema, and all

things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Ra-

hab, the harlot, live, with all that are with her

in the house: for she hid the messengers whom

we sent.

18But beware ye lest you touch ought of those

things that are forbidden, and you be guilty of

transgression, and all the camp of Israel be under

sin, and be troubled.

19But whatsoever gold or silver there shall

be, or vessels of brass and iron, let it be conse-

crated to the Lord, laid up in his treasures.

20So all the people making a shout, and

the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the

sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the

walls forthwith fell down: and every man went

up by the place that was over against him: and

they took the city,

21And killed all that were in it, man and

woman, young and old. The oxen also, and the

sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of

the sword.

22But Josue said to the two men that had

been sent for spies: Go into the harlot's house,

and bring her out, and all things that are hers,

as you assured her by oath.

23And the young men went in, and brought

out Rahab, and her parents, her brethren also,

and all her goods, and her kindred, and made

them to stay without the camp.

24But they burned the city, and all things

that were therein; except the gold and silver, and

vessels of brass and iron, which they consecrated

unto the treasury of the Lord.

25But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her

father's house, and all she had, and they dwelt

in the midst of Israel until this present day: be-

cause she hid the messengers whom he had sent

to spy out Jericho. At that time, Josue made an

imprecation, saying:26Cursed be the man before the Lord, that

shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In

his rstborn may he lay the foundation thereof,

and in the last of his children set up its gates.

27And the Lord was with Josue, and his name

was noised throughout all the land

Chapter 7

But the children of Israel transgressed the com-

mandment, and took to their own use of that

which was accursed. For Achan, the son of

Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the

tribe of Juda, took something of the anathema:

and the Lord was angry against the children of

Israel.

2And when Josue sent men from Jericho

against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, on the

east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them:

Go up, and view the country: and they fullled

his command, and viewed Hai.

3And returning, they said to him: Let not all

the people go up, but let two or three thousand

men go, and destroy the city: why should all the

people be troubled in vain, against enemies that

are very few?

4There went up therefore three thousand

ghting men: who immediately turned their

backs,

5And were defeated by the men of the city of

Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men:

and the enemies pursued them from the gate as

far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they

ed

by the descent: and the heart of the people was

struck with fear, and melted like water.

6But Josue rent his garments, and fell

at on

the ground, before the ark of the Lord, until the

evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel:

and they put dust upon their heads.262 Book of Josue

7And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why

wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jor-

dan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite,

and to destroy us? would God we had stayed be-

yond the Jordan, as we began.

8My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel

turning their backs to their enemies?

9The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants

of the land, will hear of it, and being gathered

together will surround us, and cut o our name

from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy

great name?

10And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why

liest thou

at on the ground?

11Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my

covenant: and they have taken of the anathema,

and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among

their goods.

12Neither can Israel stand before his enemies,

but he shall

ee from them: because he is deled

with the anathema. I will be no more with you,

till you destroy him that is guilty of this wicked-

ness.

13Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them:

Be ye sanctied against tomorrow: for thus saith

the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in the midst

of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy

enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is

deled with this wickedness.

14And you shall come in the morning, every

one by your tribes: and what tribe soever the lot

shall nd, it shall come by its kindreds, and the

kindred by its houses and tho house by the men.

15And whosoever he be that shall be found

guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with re,

with all his substance, because he hath trans-

gressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done

wickedness in Israel.

16Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morn-

ing, made Israel to come by their tribes, and thetribe of Juda was found.

17Which being brought by in families, it was

found to be the family of Zare. Bringing that

also by the houses, he found it to be Zabdi:

18And bringing his house man by man, he

found Achan, the son of Charmi, the son of

Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda.

19And Josue said to Achan: My son, give

glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and

tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.

20And Achan answered Josue, and said to

him: Indeed I have sinned against the Lord, the

God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

21For I saw among the spoils a scarlet gar-

ment, exceeding good, and two hundred sicles of

silver, and a golden rule of fty sicles: and I cov-

eted them, and I took them away, and hid them

in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the

silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.

22Josue therefore sent ministers: who run-

ning to his tent, found all hid in the same place,

together with the silver.

23And taking them away out of the tent, they

brought them to Josue, and to all the children

of Israel, and threw them down before the Lord.

24Then Josue, and all Israel with him, took

Achan, the son of Zare, and the silver, and the

garment, and the golden rule, his sons also, and

his daughters, his oxen, and asses, and sheep, the

tent also, and all the goods: and brought them

to the valley of Achor:

25Where Josue said: Because thou hast trou-

bled us, the Lord trouble thee this day. And all

Israel stoned him: and all things that were his,

were consumed with re.

26And they gathered together upon him a

great heap of stones, which remaineth until this

present day And the wrath of the Lord was

turned away from them. And the name of that

place was called the Valley of Achor, until thisBook of Josue 263

day.

Chapter 8

And the Lord said to Josue: Fear not, nor be

thou dismayed: take with thee all the multitude

of ghting men, arise, and go up to the town of

Hai: Behold I have delivered into thy hand the

king thereof, and the people, and the city, and

the land.

2And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to

the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho,

and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and all

the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves:

lay an ambush for the city behind it.

3And Josue arose, and all the army of the

ghting men with him, to go up against Hai:

and he sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men

in the night,

4And commanded them, saying: Lay an am-

bush behind the city: and go not very far from

it: and be ye all ready.

5But I, and the rest of the multitude which

is with me, will approach on the contrary side

against the city. And when they shall come out

against us, we will

ee, and turn our backs, as

we did before:

6Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from

the city: for they will think that we

ee as before.

7And whilst we are

eeing, and they pursu-

ing, you shall rise out of the ambush, and shall

destroy the city: and the Lord your God will

deliver it into your hands.

8And when you shall have taken it, set it

on re, and you shall do all things so as I have

commanded.

9And he sent them away, and they went on

to the place of the ambush, and abode between

Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city ofHai. But Josue staid that night in the midst of

the people,

10And rising early in the morning, he mus-

tered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients

in the front of the army, environed with the aid

of the ghting men.

11And when they were come, and were gone

up over against the city, they stood on the north

side of the city, between which and them there

was a valley in the midst.

12And he had chosen ve thousand men, and

set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and

Hai, on the west side of the same city:

13But all the rest of the army went in battle

array on the north side, so that the last of that

multitude reached to the west side of the city. So

Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of

the valley.

14And when the king of Hai saw this, he made

haste in the morning, and went out with all the

army of the city, and set it in battle array, toward

the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush

behind his back.

15But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making

as if they were afraid, and

eeing by the way of

the wilderness.

16But they shouting together, and encourag-

ing one another, pursued them. And when they

were come from the city,

17And not one remained in the city of Hai

and of Bethel, that did not pursue after Israel,

leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,

18The Lord said to Josue: Lift up the shield

that is in thy hand, towards the city of Hai, for

I will deliver it to thee.

19And when he had lifted up his shield to-

wards the city, the ambush, that lay hid, rose up

immediately: and going to the city, took it, and

set it on re.

20And the men of the city, that pursued after264 Book of Josue

Josue, looking back, and seeing the smoke of the

city rise up to heaven, had no more power to

ee

this way or that way: especially as they that had

counterfeited

ight, and were going toward the

wilderness, turned back most valiantly against

them that pursued.

21So Josue, and all Israel, seeing that the city

was taken, and that the smoke of the city rose

up, returned, and slew the men of Hai.

22And they also that had taken and set the

city on re, issuing out of the city to meet their

own men, began to cut o the enemies who were

surrounded by them. So that the enemies be-

ing cut o on both sides, not one of so great a

multitude was saved.

23And they took the king of the city of Hai

alive and brought him to Josue.

24So all being slain that had pursued after

Israel, in his

ight to the wilderness, and falling

by the sword in the same place, the children of

Israel returned and laid waste the city.

25And the number of them that fell that day,

both of men and women, was twelve thousand

persons, all of the city of Hai.

26But Josue drew not back his hand, which

he had stretched out on high, holding the shield,

till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain.

27And the children of Israel divided among

them, the cattle and the prey of the city, as the

Lord had commanded Josue.

28And he burnt the city, and made it a heap

forever:

29And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet,

until the evening and the going down of the sun.

Then Josue commanded, and they took down his

carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very

entrance of the city, heaping upon it a great heap

of stones, which remaineth until this present day.

30Then Josue built an altar to the Lord, the

God of Israel, in Mount Hebal,31As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had

commanded the children of Israel, and it is writ-

ten in the book of the law of Moses: an altar

of unhewn stones, which iron had not touched:

and he oered upon it holocausts to the Lord,

and immolated victims of peace oerings.

32And he wrote upon stones, the Deuteron-

omy of the law of Moses, which he had ordered

before the children of Israel.

33And all the people, and the ancients, and

the princes, and judges, stood on both sides of

the ark, before the priests that carried the ark

of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger

and he that was born among them, half of them

by Mount Garizim, and half by Mount Hebal, as

Moses the servant of the Lord, had commanded.

And rst he blessed the people of Israel.

34After this, he read all the words of the

blessing and the cursing, and all things that were

written in the book of the law.

35He left out nothing of those things which

Moses had commanded, but he repeated all be-

fore all the people of Israel, with the women and

children, and strangers, that dwelt among them.

Chapter 9

Now when these things were heard of, all the

kings beyond the Jordan, that dwelt in the

mountains, and in the plains, in the places near

the sea, and on the coasts of the great sea, they

also that dwell by Libanus, the Hethite, and the

Amorrhite, the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and

the Hevite, and the Jebusite,

2Gathered themselves together, to ght

against Josue and Israel with one mind, and one

resolution.

3But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all

that Josue had done to Jericho and Hai:Book of Josue 265

4Cunningly devising took for themselves pro-

visions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and

wine bottles rent and sewed up again,

5And very old shoes, which for a show of

age were clouted with patches, and old garments

upon them: the loaves also, which they carried

for provisions by the way, were hard, and broken

into pieces:

6And they went to Josue, who then abode in

the camp at Galgal, and said to him, and to all

Israel with him: We are come from a far coun-

try, desiring to make peace with you. And the

children of Israel answered them, and said:

7Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to

our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.

8But they said to Josue: We are thy servants.

Josue said to them: Who are you? and whence

came you?

9They answered: From a very far country thy

servants are come in the name of the Lord thy

God. For we have heard the fame of his power,

all the things that he did in Egypt.

10And to the two kings of the Amorrhites,

that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon, king of

Hesebon, and Og, king of Basan, that was in

Astaroth:

11And our ancients, and all the inhabitants

of our country, said to us: Take with you victuals

for a long way, and go meet them, and say: We

are your servants, make ye a league with us.

12Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we

set out from our houses to come to you, now they

are become dry, and broken in pieces by being

exceeding old.

13These bottles of wine when we lled them

were new, now they are rent and burst. These

garments we have on, and the shoes we have on

our feet, by reason of the very long journey, are

worn out, and almost consumed.

14They took therefore of their victuals, andconsulted not the mouth of the Lord.

15And Josue made peace with them, and en-

tering into a league, promised that they should

not be slain: the princes also of the multitude

swore to them.

16Now three days after the league was made,

they heard that they dwelt nigh, and they should

be among them.

17And the children of Israel removed the

camp, and came into their cities on the third day,

the names of which are, Gabaon, and Caphira,

and Beroth, and Cariathiarim.

18And they slew them not, because the

princes of the multitude had sworn in the name

of the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the com-

mon people murmured against the princes.

19And they answered them: We have sworn

to them in the name of the Lord, the God of

Israel, and therefore we may not touch them.

20But this we will do to them: Let their lives

be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred

up against us, if we should be forsworn:

21But so let them live, as to serve the whole

multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in wa-

ter. As they were speaking these things,

23Therefore you shall be under a curse, and

your race shall always be hewers of wood, and

carriers of water, into the house of my God.

24They answered: It was told us, thy ser-

vants, that the Lord thy God had promised his

servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to

destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore

we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives,

compelled by the dread we had of you, and we

took this counsel.

25And now we are in thy hand: deal with us

as it seemeth good and right unto thee.

26So Josue did as he had said, and delivered

them from the hand of the children of Israel, that

they should not be slain.266 Book of Josue

27And he gave orders in that day, that they

should be in the service of all the people, and of

the altar of the Lord, hewing wood, and carrying

water, until this present time, in the place which

the Lord hath chosen.

Chapter 10
When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard

these things, to wit, that Josue had taken Hai,

and had destroyed it, (for as he had done to Jeri-

cho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and

its king) and that the Gabaonites were gone over

to Israel, and were their confederates,

2He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was

a great city, and one of the royal cities, and

greater than the town of Hai, and all its ghting

men were most valiant.

3Therefore Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem,

sent to Oham, king of Hebron, and to Pharam,

king of Jerimoth, and to Japhia, king of Lachis,

and to Dabir, king of Eglon, saying:

4Come up to me, and bring help, that we may

take Gabaon, because it hath gone over to Josue,

and to the children of Israel.

5So the ve kings of the Amorrhites be-

ing assembled together, went up: the king of

Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jeri-

moth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they

and their armies, and camped about Gabaon,

laying siege to it.

6But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon,

which was besieged, sent to Josue, who then

abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him:

Withdraw not thy hands from helping thy ser-

vants: come up quickly, and save us, and bring us

succour: for all the kings of the Amorrhites, who

dwell in the mountains, are gathered together

against us.7And Josue went up from Galgal, and all the

army of the warriors with him, most valiant men.

8But the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not:

for I have delivered them into thy hands: none

of them shall be able to stand against thee.

9So Josue going up from Galgal all the night,

came upon them suddenly.

10And the Lord troubled them, at the sight of

Israel: and he slew them with a great slaughter,

in Gabaon, and pursued them by the way of the

ascent to Bethoron, and cut them o all the way

to Azeca and Maceda.

11And when they were

eeing from the

children of Israel, and were in the descent of

Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great

stones from heaven, as far as Azeca: and many

more were killed with the hailstones, than were

slain by the swords of the children of Israel,

12Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the day

that he delivered the Amorrhite in the sight of

the children of Israel, and he said before them:

Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O

moon, toward the valley of Ajalon.

13And the sun and the moon stood still, till

the people revenged themselves of their enemies.

Is not this written in the book of the just? So

the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and

hasted not to go down the space of one day.

14There was not before, nor after, so long a

day, the Lord obeying the voice of a man, and

ghting for Israel.

15And Josue returned, with all Israel, into

the camp of Galgal.

16For the ve kings were

ed, and had hid

themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda.

17And it was told Josue, that the ve kings

were found hid in a cave of the city of Maceda.

18And he commanded them that were with

him, saying: Roll great stones to the mouth of

the cave, and set careful men to keep them shutBook of Josue 267

up:

19And stay you not, but pursue after the ene-

mies, and kill all the hindermost of them as they

ee, and do not suer them whom the Lord God

hath delivered into your hands, to shelter them-

selves in their cities.

20So the enemies being slain with a great

slaughter, and almost utterly consumed, they

that were able to escape from Israel, entered into

fenced cities.

21And all the army returned to Josue, in

Maceda, where the camp then was, in good

health, and without the loss of any one: and no

man durst move his tongue against the children

of Israel.

22And Josue gave orders, saying: Open the

mouth of the cave, and bring forth to me the ve

kings that lie hid therein.

23And the ministers did as they were com-

manded: and they brought out to him the ve

kings out of the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the

king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king

of Lachis, the king of Eglon.

24And when they were brought out to him,

he called all the men of Israel, and said to the

chiefs of the army that were with him: Go, and

set your feet on the necks of these kings. And

when they had gone, and put their feet upon the

necks of them lying under them,

25He said again to them: Fear not, neither

be ye dismayed, take courage, and be strong: for

so will the Lord do to all your enemies, against

whom you ght.

26And Josue struck, and slew them, and

hanged them upon ve gibbets; and they hung

until the evening.

27And when the sun was down, he com-

manded the soldiers to take them down from the

gibbets. And after they were taken down, they

cast them into the cave, where they had lain hid,and put great stones at the mouth thereof, which

remain until this day.

28The same day Josue took Maceda, and de-

stroyed it with the edge of the sword, and killed

the king and all the inhabitants thereof: he left

not in it the least remains. And he did to the

king of Maceda, as he had done to the king of

Jericho.

29And he passed from Maceda with all Israel

to Lebna, and fought against it:

30And the Lord delivered it with the king

thereof into the hands of Israel: and they de-

stroyed the city with the edge of the sword, and

all the inhabitants thereof. They left not in it

any remains. And they did to the king of Lebna,

as they had done to the king of Jericho.

31From Lebna he passed unto Lachis, with all

Israel: and investing it with his army, besieged

it.

32And the Lord delivered Lachis into the

hands of Israel, and he took it the following day,

and put it to the sword, and every soul that was

in it, as he had done to Lebna.

33At that time Horam, king of Gazer, came

up to succour Lachis: and Josue slew him with

all his people so as to leave none alive.

34And he passed from Lachis to Eglon, and

surrounded it,

35And took it the same day: and put to the

sword all the souls that were in it, according to

all that he had done to Lachis.

36He went up also with all Israel from Eglon

to Hebron, and fought against it:

37Took it, and destroyed it with the edge

of the sword: the king also thereof, and all the

towns of that country, and all the souls that

dwelt in it: he left not therein any remains: as

he had done to Eglon, so did he also to Hebron,

putting to the sword all that he found in it.

38Returning from thence to Dabir,268 Book of Josue

39He took it, and destroyed it: the king also

thereof, and all the towns round about, he de-

stroyed with the edge of the sword: he left not

in it any remains: as he had done to Hebron and

Lebna, and to their kings, so did he to Dabir,

and to the king thereof.

40So Josue conquered all the country of the

hills, and of the south, and of the plain, and of

Asedoth, with their kings: he left not any re-

mains therein, but slew all that breathed, as the

Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

41From Cadesbarne even to Gaza. All the

land of Gosen even to Gabaon,

42And all their kings, and their lands he took

and wasted at one onset: for the Lord the God

of Israel fought for him.

43And he returned with all Israel to the place

of the camp in Galgal.

Chapter 11

And when Jabin king of Asor had heard these

things, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to

the king of Semeron, and to the king of Achsaph:

2And to the kings of the north, that dwelt in

the mountains and in the plains over against the

south side of Ceneroth, and in the levels and the

countries of Dor by the sea side:

3To the Chanaanites also on the east and on

the west, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite,

and the Pherezite, and the Jebusite in the moun-

tains: to the Hevite also who dwelt at the foot

of Hermon in the land of Maspha.

4And they all came out with their troops, a

people exceeding numerous as the sand that is

on the sea shore, their horses also and chariots a

very great multitude,

5And all these kings assembled together at

the waters of Merom, to ght against Israel.6And the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not:

for to morrow at this same hour I will deliver all

these to be slain in the sight of Israel: thou shalt

hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn their

chariots with re.

7And Josue came, and all the army with him,

against them to the waters of Merom on a sud-

den, and fell upon them.

8And the Lord delivered them into the hands

of Israel. And they defeated them, and chased

them as far as the great Sidon and the waters of

Maserophot, and the eld of Masphe, which is

on the east thereof. He slew them all, so as to

leave no remains of them:

9And he did as the Lord had commanded

him, he hamstringed their horses and burned

their chariots.

10And presently turning back he took Asor:

and slew the king thereof with the sword. Now

Asor of old was the head of all these kingdoms.

11And he cut o all the souls that abode

there: he left not in it any remains, but utterly

destroyed all, and burned the city itself with re.

12And he took and put to the sword and

destroyed all the cities round about, and their

kings, as Moses the servant of God had com-

manded him.

13Except the cities that were on hills and

high places, the rest Israel burned: only Asor

that was very strong he consumed with re.

14And the children of Israel divided among

themselves all the spoil of these cities and the

cattle, killing all the men.

15As the Lord had commanded Moses his

servant, so did Moses command Josue, and he

accomplished all: he left not one thing undone

of all the commandments which the Lord had

commanded Moses.

16So Josue took all the country of the hills,

and of the south, and the land of Gosen, and theBook of Josue 269

plains and the west country, and the mountain

of Israel, and the plains thereof:

17And part of the mountain that goeth up to

Seir as far as Baalgad, by the plain of Libanus

under mount Hermon: all their kings he took,

smote and slew.

18Josue made war a long time against these

kings.

19There was not a city that delivered itself

to the children of Israel, except the Hevite, who

dwelt in Gabaon: for he took all by ght.

20For it was the sentence of the Lord, that

their hearts should be hardened, and they should

ght against Israel, and fall, and should not de-

serve any clemency, and should be destroyed as

the Lord had commanded Moses.

21At that time Josue came and cut o the

Enancims from the mountains, from Hebron,

and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the mountain

of Juda and Israel, and destroyed their cities.

22He left not any of the stock of the Enacims,

in the land of the children of Israel: except the

cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in which

alone they were left.

23So Josue took all the land, as the Lord

spoke to Moses, and delivered it in possession to

the children of Israel, according to their divisions

and tribes. And the land rested from wars.

Chapter 12

These are the kings, whom the children of Israel

slew and possessed their land beyond the Jor-

dan towards the rising of the sun, from the tor-

rent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east

country that looketh towards the wilderness.

2Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in

Hesebon, and had dominion from Aroer, which

is seated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon,and of the middle part in the valley, and of half

Galaad, as far as the torrent Jaboc, which is the

border of the children of Ammon.

3And from the wilderness, to the sea of Cen-

eroth towards the east, and to the sea of the

wilderness, which is the most salt sea, on the

east side by the way that leadeth to Bethsimoth:

and on the south side that lieth under Asedoth,

Phasga.

4The border of Og the king of Basan, of the

remnant of the Raphaims who dwelt in Astaroth,

and in Edrai, and had dominion in mount Her-

mon, and in Salecha, and in all Basan, unto the

borders

5Of Gessuri and Machati, and of half Galaad:

the borders of Sehon the king of Hesebon.

6Moses the servant of the Lord, and the chil-

dren of Israel slew them, and Moses delivered

their land in possession to the Rubenites, and

Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses.

7These are the kings of the land, whom Josue

and the children of Israel slew beyond the Jordan

on the west side from Baalgad in the eld of

Libanus, unto the mount, part of which goeth up

into Seir: and Josue delivered it in possession to

the tribes of Israel, to every one their divisions,

8As well in the mountains as in the plains

and the champaign countries. In Asedoth, and

in the wilderness, and in the south was the Het-

hite and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite and the

Pherezite, the Hevite and the Jebusite.

9The king of Jericho one: the king of Hai,

which is on the side of Bethel, one:

10The king of Jerusalem one, the king of He-

bron one,

11The king of Jerimoth one, thee king of

Lachis one,

12The king of Eglon one, the king of Gazer

one,270 Book of Josue

13The king of Dabir one, the king of Gader

one,

14The king of Herma one, the king of Hered

one,

15The king of Lebna one, the king of Odullam

one,

16The king of Maceda one, the king of Bethel

one,

17The king of Taphua one, the king of Opher

one,

18The king of Aphec one, the king of Saron

one,

19The king of Madon one, the king of Asor

one,

20The king of Semeron one, the king of

Achsaph one,

21The king of Thenac one, the king of

Mageddo one,

22Thee king of Cades one, the king of

Jachanan of Carmel one,

23The king of Dor, and of the province of Dor

one, the king of the nations of Galgal one,

24The king of Thersa one: all the kings thirty

and one.

Chapter 13

Josue was old, and far advanced in years, and

the Lord said to him: Thou art grown old, and

advanced in age, and there is a very large country

left, which is not yet divided by lot:

2To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.

3From the troubled river, that watereth

Egypt, unto the border of Accaron northward:

the land of Chanaan, which is divided among

the lords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azo-

tians, the Ascalonites, the Gethites, and the Ac-

cronites.4And on the south side are the Hevites, all the

land of Chanaan, and Maara of the Sidonians as

far as Apheca, and the borders of the Amorrhite,

5And his connes. The country also of

Libanus towards the east from Baalgad under

mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.

6Of all that dwell in the mountains from

Libanus, to the waters of Maserephoth, and all

the Sidonians. I am he that will cut them o

from before the face of the children of Israel. So

let their land come in as a part of the inheritance

of Israel, as I have commanded thee.

7And now divide the land in possession to the

nine tribes, and to the half tribe of Manasses,

8With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed

the land, which Moses the servant of the Lord

delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on

the east side.

9From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the

torrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley and

all the plains of Medaba, as far as Dibon:

10And all the cities of Sehon, king of the

Amorrhites, who reigned in Hesebon, unto the

borders of the children of Ammon.

11And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri

and Machati, and all mount Hermon, and all

Basan as far as Salecha,

12All the kingdom of Og in Basan, who

reigned in Astaroth and Edrai, he was of the

remains of the Raphaims: and Moses overthrew

and destroyed them.

13And the children of Israel would not de-

stroy Gessuri and Machati and they have dwelt

in the midst of Israel, until this present day.

14But to the tribe of Levi he gave no posses-

sion: but the sacrices and victims of thee Lord

God of Israel, are his inheritance, as he spoke to

him.

15And Moses gave a possession to the chil-

dren of Ruben according to their kindreds.Book of Josue 271

16And their border was from Aroer, which

is on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in the

midst of the valley of the same torrent: all the

plain, that leadeth to Medaba,

17And Hesebon, and all their villages, which

are in the plains. Dibon also, and Bamothbaal,

and the town of Baalmaon,

18And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,

19And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and

Sarathasar in the mountain of the valley.

20Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and

Bethiesimoth,
21And all the cities of the plain, and all the

kingdoms of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that

reigned in Hesebon, whom Moses slew with the

princes of Madian: Hevi, and Recem, and Sur

and Hur, and Rebe, dukes of Sehon inhabitants

of the land.

22Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer,

the children of Israel slew with the sword among

the rest that were slain.

23And the river Jordan was the border of

the children of Ruben. This is the possession of

the Rubenites, by their kindreds, of cities and

villages.

24And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad and

to his children by their kindreds a possession, of

which this is the division.

25The border of Jaser, and all the cities of

Galaad, and half the land of the children of

Ammon: as far as Aroer which is over against

Rabba:

26And from Hesebon unto Ramoth, Masphe

and Betonim: and from Manaim unto the bor-

ders of Dabir.

27And in the valley Betharan and Beth-

nemra, and Socoth, and Saphon the other part

of the kingdom of Sehon king of Hesebon: the

limit of this also is the Jordan, as far as the ut-

termost part of the sea of Cenereth beyond theJordan on the east side,

28This is the possession of the children of

Gad by their families, their cities, and villages.

29He gave also to the half tribe of Manasses

and his children possession according to their

kindreds,

30The beginning whereof is this: from Man-

aim all Basan, and all the kingdoms of Og king

of Basan, and all the villages of Jair, which are

in Basan, threescore towns.

31And half Galaad, and Astaroth, and Edrai,

cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan: to the

children of Machir, the son of Manasses, to one

half of the children of Machir according to their

kindreds.

32This possession Moses divided in the plains

of Moab, beyond the Jordan, over against Jeri-

cho on the east side,

33But to the tribe of Levi he gave no posses-

sion: because the Lord the God of Israel himself

is their possession, as he spoke to them.

Chapter 14

This is what the children of Israel possessed in

the land of Chanaan, which Eleazar the priest,

and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the

families by the tribes of Israel gave to them.

2Dividing all by lot, as the Lord had com-

manded the hand of Moses, to the nine tribes,

and the half tribe.

3For to two tribes and a half Moses had

given possession beyond the Jordan: besides

the Levites, who received no land among their

brethren:

4But in their place succeeded the children of

Joseph divided into two tribes, of Manasses and

Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive other

portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their272 Book of Josue

suburbs to feed their beasts and

ocks.

5As the Lord had commanded Moses so did

the children of Israel, and they divided the land.

6Then the children of Juda came to Josue

in Galgal, and Caleb the son of Jephone the

Cenezite spoke to him: Thou knowest what the

Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning

me and thee in Cadesbarne.

7I was forty years old when Moses the servant

of the Lord sent me from Cadesbarne, to view

the land, and I brought him word again as to me

seemed true,

8But my brethren, that had gone up with

me, discouraged the heart of the people: and I

nevertheless followed the Lord my God.

9And Moses swore in that day, saying: The

land which thy foot hath trodden upon shall be

thy possession, and thy children for ever, because

thou hast followed the Lord my God.

10The Lord therefore hath granted me life,

as he promised until this present day, It is forty

and ve years since the Lord spoke this word

to Moses, when Israel journeyed through the

wilderness: this day I am eighty-ve years old,

11As strong as I was at that time when I was

sent to view the land: the strength of that time

continueth in me until this day, as well to ght

as to march.

12Give me therefore this mountain, which the

Lord promised, in thy hearing also, wherein are

the Enacims, and cities great and strong: if so

be the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able

to destroy them, as he promised me.

13And Josue blessed him, and gave him He-

bron in possession.

14And from that time Hebron belonged to

Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, until this

present day: because he followed the Lord the

God of Israel.
15The name of Hebron before was calledCariath-Arbe: Adam the greatest among the

Enacims was laid there and the land rested from

wars.

Chapter 15

Now the lot of the children of Juda by their kin-

dreds was this: From the frontier of Edom, to

the desert of Sin southward, and to the utter-

most part of the south coast.

2Its beginning was from the top of the most

salt sea, and from the bay thereof, that looketh

to the south.

3And it goeth out towards the ascent of the

Scorpion, and passeth on to Sina: and ascendeth

into Cadesbarne, and reacheth into Esron, going

up to Addar, and compassing Carcaa.

4And from thence passing along into Ase-

mona, and reaching the torrent of Egypt: and

the bounds thereof shall be the great sea, this

shall be the limit of the south coast.

5But on the east side the beginning shall be

the most salt sea even to the end of the Jordan:

and towards the north from the bay of the sea

unto the same river Jordan.

6And the border goeth up into Beth-Hagla,

and passeth by the north into Beth-Araba: going

up to the stone of Boen the son of Ruben.

7And reaching as far as the borders of De-

bara from the valley of Achor, and so northward

looking towards Galgal, which is opposite to the

ascent of Adommin, on the south side of the tor-

rent, and the border passeth the waters that are

called the fountain of the sun: and the goings

out thereof shall be at the fountain Rogel.

8And it goeth up by the valley of the son

of Ennom on the side of the Jebusite towards

the south, the same is Jerusalem: and thence

ascending to the top of the mountain, which isBook of Josue 273

over against Geennom to the west in the end of

the valley of Raphaim, northward.

9And it passeth on from the top of the moun-

tain to the fountain of the water of Nephtoa: and

reacheth to the towns of mount Ephron: and it

bendeth towards Baala, which is Cariathiarim,

that is to say, the city of the woods.

10And it compasseth from Baala westward

unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of

mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and

goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into

Thamna.

11And reacheth northward to a part of Ac-

caron at the side: and bendeth to Sechrona, and

passeth mount Baala: and cometh into Jebneel,

and is bounded westward with the great sea.

12These are the borders round about of the

children of Juda in their kindreds.

13But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave

a portion in the midst of the children of Juda,

as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe

the father of Enac, which is Hebron.

14And Caleb destroyed out of it the three

sons of Enac, Sesai and Ahiman, and Tholmai

of the race of Enac.

15And going up from thence he came to the

inhabitants of Dabir, which before was called

Cariath-Sepher, that is to say, the city of letters.

16And Caleb said: He that shall smite

Cariath-Sepher, and take it, I will give him Axa

my daughter to wife.

17And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger

brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Axa

his daughter to wife.

18And as they were going together, she was

moved by her husband to ask a eld of her father,

and she sighed as she sat on her ass. And Caleb

said to her: What aileth thee?

19But she answered: Give me a blessing:

thou hast given me a southern and dry land, giveme also a land that Is watered. And Caleb gave

her the upper and the nether watery ground.

20This is the possession of the tribe of the

children of Juda by their kindreds.

21And the cities from the uttermost parts of

the children of Juda by the borders of Edom to

the south, were Cabseel and Eder and Jagur,

22And Cina and Dimona and Adada,

23And Cades and Asor and Jethnam,

24Ziph and Telem and Baloth,

25New Asor and Carioth, Hesron, which is

Asor.

26Amam, Sama and Molada,

27And Asergadda and Hassemon and Beth-

phelet,

28And Hasersual and Bersabee and Bazio-

thia,

29And Baala and Jim and Esem,

30And Eltholad and Cesil and Harma,

31And Siceleg and Medemena and Sensenna,

32Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and Remmon:

all the cities twenty-nine, and their villages.

33But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and

Asena,

34And Zanoe and Engannim and Taphua and

Enaim,

35And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho and

Azeca,
36And Saraim and Adithaim and Gedera and

Gederothaim: fourteen cities, and their villages.

37Sanan and Hadassa and Magdalgad,

38Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,

39Lachis and Bascath and Eglon,

40Chebbon and Leheman and Cethlis,

41And Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama

and Maceda: sixteen cities, and their villages.

42Labana and Ether and Asan,

43Jephtha and Esna and Nesib,

44And Ceila and Achzib and Maresa: nine

cities, and their villages.274 Book of Josue

45Accaron with the towns and villages

thereof.

46From Accaron even to the sea: all places

that lie towards Azotus and the villages thereof.

47Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza

with its towns and villages, even to the torrent

of Egypt, and the great sea that is the border

thereof.

48And in the mountain Samir and Jether and

Socoth,

49And Danna and Cariath-senna, this is

Dabir:

50Anab and Istemo and Anim,

51Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven cities and

their villages.

52Arab and Ruma and Esaan,

53And Janum and Beththaphua and Apheca,

54Athmatha and Cariath-Arbe, this is He-

bron and Sior: nine cities and their villages.

55Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,

56Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,

57Accain, Gabaa and Thamna: ten cities and

their villages.

58Halhul, and Bessur, and Gedor,

59Mareth, and Bethanoth, and Eltecon: six

cities and their villages.

60Cariathbaal, the same is Cariathiarim the

city of woods, and Arebba: two cities and their

villages.

61In the desert Betharaba, Meddin and

Sachacha,

62And Nebsan, and the city of salt, and En-

gaddi: six cities and their villages.

63But the children of Juda could not de-

stroy the Jebusite that dwelt in Jerusalem: and

the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in

Jerusalem until this present day.Chapter 16

And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from

the Jordan over against Jericho and the waters

thereof, on the east: the wilderness which goeth

up from Jericho to the mountain of Bethel:

2And goeth out from Bethel to Luza: and

passeth the border of Archi, to Ataroth,

3And goeth down westward, by the border

of Jephleti, unto the borders of Beth-horon the

nether, and to Gazer: and the countries of it are

ended by the great sea:

4And Manasses and Ephraim the children of

Joseph possessed it.

5And the border of the children of Ephraim

was according to their kindreds: and their pos-

session towards the east was Ataroth-addar unto

Beth-horon the upper.

6And the connes go out unto the sea: but

Machmethath looketh to the north, and it goeth

round the borders eastward into Thanath-selo:

and passeth along on the east side to Janoe.

7And it goeth down from Janoe into Ataroth

and Naaratha: and it cometh to Jericho, and

goeth out to the Jordan.

8From Taphua it passeth on towards the

sea into the valley of reeds, and the goings out

thereof are at the most salt sea. This is the pos-

session of the tribe of the children of Ephraim

by their families.

9And there were cities with their villages sep-

arated for the children of Ephraim in the midst

of the possession of the children of Manasses.

10And the children of Ephraim slew not

the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the

Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until

this day, paying tribute.Book of Josue 275

Chapter 17

And this lot fell to the tribe of Manasses for he

is the rstborn of Joseph to Machir the rstborn

of Manasses the father of Galaad, who was a

warlike man, and had for possession Galaad and

Basan.

2And to the rest of the children of Manasses

according to their families: to the children of

Abiezer, and to the children of Helec, and to the

children of Esriel, and to the children of Sechem,

and to the children of Hepher, and to the chil-

dren of Semida: these are the male children of

Manasses the son of Joseph, by their kindreds.

3But Salphaad the son of Hepher the son of

Galaad the son of Machir the son of Manasses

had no sons, but only daughters: whose names

are these, Maala and Noa and Hegla and Melcha

and Thersa.

4And they came in the presence of Eleazar

the priest and of Josue the son of Nun, and of

the princes, saying: The Lord commanded by

the hand of Moses, that a possession should be

given us in the midst of our brethren. And he

gave them according to the commandment of the

Lord a possession amongst the brethren of their

father.

5And there fell ten portions to Manasses, be-

side the land of Galaad and Basan beyond the

Jordan.

6For the daughters of Manasses possessed in-

heritance in the midst of his sons. And the land

of Galaad fell to the lot of the rest of the children

of Manasses.

7And the border of Manasses was from Aser,

Machmethath which looketh towards Sichem:

and it goeth out on the right hand by the in-

habitants of the fountain of Taphua.

8For the lot of Manasses took in the land of

Taphua, which is on the borders of Manasses,and belongs to the children of Ephraim.

9And the border goeth down to the valley of

the reeds, to the south of the torrent of the cities

of Ephraim, which are in the midst of the cities

of Manasses: the border of Manasses is on the

north side of the torrent, and the outgoings of it

are at the sea:

10So that the possession of Ephraim is on the

south, and on the north that of Manasses, and

the sea is the border of both, and they are joined

together in the tribe of Aser on the north, and

in the tribe of Issachar on the east.

11And the inheritance of Manasses in Is-

sachar and in Aser, was Bethsan and its villages,

and Jeblaam with its villages, and the inhabi-

tants of Dor, with the towns thereof: the inhab-

itants also of Endor with the villages thereof:

and in like manner the inhabitants of Thenac

with the villages thereof: and the inhabitants of

Mageddo with their villages, and the third part

of the city of Nopheth.

12Neither could the children of Manasses

overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite be-

gan to dwell in his land.

13But after that the children of Israel were

grown strong, they subdued the Chanaanites,

and made them their tributaries, and they did

not kill them.

14And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue,

and said: Why hast thou given me but one lot

and one portion to possess, whereas I am of so

great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me?

15And Josue said to them: If thou be a great

people, go up into the woodland, and cut down

room for thyself in the land of the Pherezite and

the Raphaims: because the possession of mount

Ephraim is too narrow for thee.

16And the children of Joseph answered him:

We cannot go up to the mountains, for the

Chanaanites that dwell in the low lands, wherein276 Book of Josue

are situate Bethsan with its towns, and Jezrael

in the midst of the valley, have chariots of iron.

17And Josue said to the house of Joseph, to

Ephraim and Manasses: Thou art a great people,

and of great strength, thou shalt not have one lot

only:

18But thou shalt pass to the mountain, and

shalt cut down the wood, and make thyself room

to dwell in: and mayst proceed farther, when

thou hast destroyed the Chanaanites, who as

thou sayest have iron chariots, and are very

strong.

Chapter 18

And all the children of Israel assembled together

in Silo, and there they set up the tabernacle of

the testimony, and the land was subdued before

them.

2But there remained seven tribes of the chil-

dren of Israel, which as yet had not received their

possessions.
3And Josue said to them: How long are you

indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the

land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath

given you?

4Choose of every tribe three men, that I may

send them, and they may go and compass the

land, and mark it out according to the number

of each multitude: and bring back to me what

they have marked out.

5Divide to yourselves the land into seven

parts: let Juda be in his bounds on the south

side, and the house of Joseph on the north.

6The land in the midst between these mark ye

out into seven parts; and you shall come hither

to me, that I may cast lots for you before the

Lord your God.

7For the Levites have no part among you,but the priesthood of the Lord is their inheri-

tance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe

of Manasses have already received their posses-

sions beyond the Jordan eastward: which Moses

the servant of the Lord gave them.

8And when the men were risen up, to go to

mark out the land, Josue commanded them say-

ing: Go round the land and mark it out, and

return to me: that I may cast lots for you before

the Lord in Silo.

9So they went and surveying it divided it into

seven parts, writing them down in a book. And

they returned to Josue, to the camp in Silo.

10And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo,

and divided the land to the children of Israel

into seven parts.

11And rst came up the lot of the children of

Benjamin by their families, to possess the land

between the children of Juda, and the children

of Joseph.

12And their border northward was from the

Jordan: going along by the side of Jericho on

the north side, and thence going up westward to

the mountains, and reaching to the wilderness of

Bethaven,

13And passing along southward by Luza, the

same is Bethel, and it goeth down into Ataroth-

addar to the mountain, that is on the south of

the nether Beth-horon.

14And it bendeth thence going round towards

the sea, south of the mountain that looketh to-

wards Beth-horon to the southwest: and the

outgoings thereof are into Cariathbaal, which is

called also Cariathiarim, a city of the children of

Juda This is their coast towards the sea, west-

ward.
15But on the south side the border goeth out

from part of Cariathiarim towards the sea, and

cometh to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoa.

16And it goeth down to that part of theBook of Josue 277

mountain that looketh on the valley of the chil-

dren of Ennom: and is over against the north

quarter in the furthermost part of the valley of

Raphaim, and it goeth down into Geennom (that

is the valley of Ennom) by the side of the Je-

busite to the south: and cometh to the fountain

of Rogel,

17Passing thence to the north, and going out

to Ensemes, that is to say, the fountain of the

sun:

18And It passeth along to the hills that are

over against the ascent of Adommim: and it

goeth down to Abenboen, that is, the stone of

Boen the son of Ruben: and it passeth on the

north side to the champaign countries; and goeth

down Into the plain,

19And it passeth by Bethhagla northward:

and the outgoings thereof are towards the north

of the most salt sea at the south end of the Jor-

dan.

20Which is the border of it on the east side.

This is the possession of the children of Benjamin

by their borders round about, and their families.

21And their cities were, Jericho and Beth-

hagla and Vale-Casis,

22Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel,

23And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,

24The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee:

twelve cities, and their villages.

25Gabam and Rama and Beroth,

26And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,

27And Recem, Jarephel, and Tharela,

28And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is

Jerusalem, Gabaath and Cariath: fourteen

cities, and their villages. This is the possession

of the children of Benjamin by their families.Chapter 19

And the second lot came forth for the children of

Simeon by their kindreds: and their inheritance

was

2In the midst of the possession of the children

of Juda: Bersabee and Sabee and Molada

3And Hasersual, Bala and Asem,

4And Eltholad, Bethul and Harma,

5And Siceleg and Bethmarchaboth and

Hasersusa,

6And Bethlebaoth and Sarohen: thirteen

cities, and their villages.

7And Remmon and Athor and Asan: four

cities, and their villages.

8And all the villages round about these cities

to Baalath Beer Ramath to the south quarter.

This is the inheritance of the children of Simeon

according to their kindreds,

9In the possession and lot of the children of

Juda: because it was too great, and therefore

the children of Simeon had their possession in

the midst of their inheritance.

10And the third lot fell to the children of

Zabulon by their kindreds: and the border of

their possession was unto Sarid.

11And It went up from the sea and from Mer-

ala, and came to Debbaseth: as far as the tor-

rent, which is over against Jeconam.

12And it returneth from Sarid eastward to

the borders of Ceseleththabor: and it goeth out

to Dabereth and ascendeth towards Japhie.

13And it passeth along from thence to the

east side of Gethhepher and Thacasin: and goeth

out to Remmon, Amthar and Noa.

14And it turneth about to the north of

Hanathon: and the outgoings thereof are the val-

ley of Jephtahel,

15And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and

Jedala and Bethlehem: twelve cities and their278 Book of Josue

villages.

16This is the inheritance of the tribe of the

children of Zabulon by their kindreds, the cities

and their villages.

17The fourth lot came out to Issachar by their

kindreds.

18And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casa-

loth and Sunem,

19And Hapharaim and Seon and Anaharath,

20And Rabboth and Cesion, Abes,

21And Rameth and Engannim and Enhadda

and Bethpheses.

22And the border thereof cometh to Thabor

and Sehesima and Bethsames: and the outgoings

thereof shall be at the Jordan: sixteen cities, and

their villages.

23This is the possession of the sons of Issachar

by their kindreds, the cities and their villages.

24And the fth lot fell to the tribe of the

children of Aser by their kindreds:

25And their border was Halcath and Chali

and Beten and Axaph,

26And Elmelech and Amaad and Messal: and

it reacheth to Carmel by the sea and Sihor and

Labanath,

27And it returneth towards the east to

Bethdagon: and passeth along to Zabulon and

to the valley of Jephthael towards the north to

Bethemec and Nehiel. And it goeth out to the

left side of Cabul,

28And to Abaran and Rohob and Hamon and

Cana, as far as the great Sidon.

29And it returneth to Horma to the strong

city of Tyre, and to Hosa: and the outgoings

thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of

Achziba:

30And Amma and Aphec and Rohob:

twenty-two cities, and their villages.

31This is the possession of the children of

Aser by their kindreds, and the cities and theirvillages.

32The sixth lot came out to the sons of Neph-

tali by their families:

33And the border began from Heleph and

Elon to Saananim, and Adami, which is Neceb,

and Jebnael even to Lecum:

34And the border returneth westward to

Azanotthabor, and goeth out from thence to Hu-

cuca, and passeth along to Zabulon southward,

and to Aser westward, and to Juda upon the

Jordan towards the rising of the sun.

35And the strong cities are Assedim, Ser, and

Emath, and Reccath and Cenereth,

36And Edema and Arama, Asor,

37And Cedes and Edri, Enhasor,

38And Jeron and Magdalel, Horem, and

Bethanath and Bethsames: nineteen cities, and

their villages.

39This is the possession of the tribe of the

children of Nephtali by their kindreds, the cities

and their villages.

40The seventh lot came out to the tribe of

the children of Dan by their families

41And the border of their possession was

Saraa and Esthaol, and Hirsemes, that is, the

city of the sun,

42Selebin and Aialon and Jethela,

43Elon and Themna and Acron,

44Elthece, Gebbethon and Balaath,

45And Juda and Bane and Barach and Geth-

remmon:

46And Mejarcon and Arecon, with the border

that looketh towards Joppe,

47And is terminated there. And the children

of Dan went up and fought against Lesem, and

took it: and they put it to the sword, and pos-

sessed it, and dwelt in it, calling the name of it

Lesem Dan, by the name of Dan their father.

48This is the possession of the tribe of the

sons of Dan, by their kindreds, the cities andBook of Josue 279

their villages.

49And when he had made an end of dividing

the land by lot to each one by their tribes, the

children of Israel gave a possession to Josue the

son of Nun in the midst of them,

50According to the commandment of the

Lord, the city which he asked for, Thamnath

Saraa, in mount Ephraim: and he built up the

city, and dwelt in it.

51These are the possessions which Eleazar

the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the

princes of the families, and of the tribes of the

children of Israel, distributed by lot in Silo, be-

fore the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the

testimony, and they divided the land.

Chapter 20

And the Lord spoke to Josue, saying: Speak to

children of Israel and say to them:

2Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to

you by the hand of Moses:

3That whosoever shall kill a person unawares

may

ee to them, and may escape the wrath of

the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.

4And when he shall

ee to one of these cities:

he shall stand before the gate of the city, and

shall speak to the ancients of that city, such

things as prove him innocent: and so shall they

receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.

5And when the avenger of blood shall pursue

him, they shall not deliver him into his hands,

because he slew his neighbour unawares, and is

not proved to have been his enemy two or three

days before,

6And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand

before judgment to give an account of his fact,

and till the death of the high priest, who shall

be at that time: then shall the manslayer return,and go into his own city and house from whence

he

ed.

7And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of

mount Nephtali, and Sichem in mount Ephraim,

and Cariath-Arbe, the same is Hebron in the

mountain of Juda.

8And beyond the Jordan to the east of Jeri-

cho, they appointed Bosor, which is upon the

plain of the wilderness of the tribe of Ruben,

and Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Gad, and

Gaulon in Basan of the tribe of Manasses.

9These cities were appointed for all the chil-

dren of Israel, and for the strangers, that dwelt

among them, that whosoever had killed a per-

son unawares might

ee to them, and not die

by the hand of the kinsman, coveting to revenge

the blood that was shed, until he should stand

before the people to lay open his cause.

Chapter 21

Then the princes of the families of Levi came to

Eleazar the priest, and to Josue the son of Nun,

and to the princes of the kindreds of all the tribes

of the children of Israel

2And they spoke to them in Silo in the land

of Chanaan, and said: The Lord commanded by

the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us

to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.

3And the children of Israel gave out of their

possessions according to the commandment of

the Lord, cities and their suburbs.

4And the lot came out for the family of Caath

of the children of Aaron the priest out of the

tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of Benjamin,

thirteen cities.

5And to the rest of the children of Caath,

that is, to thee Levites, who remained, out of

the tribes of Ephraim, and of Dan, and the half280 Book of Josue
tribe of Manasses, ten cities.

6And the lot came out to children of Gerson,

that they should take of the tribes of Issachar

and of Aser and of Nephtali, and of the half tribe

of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.

7And to the sons of Merari by their kindreds,

of the tribes of Ruben and of Gad and of Zabu-

lon, twelve cities.

8And the children of Israel gave to the Levites

the cities and their suburbs, as the Lord com-

manded by the hand of Moses, giving to every

one by lot.

9Of the tribes of the children of Juda and

of Simeon Josue gave cities: whose names are

these,

10To the sons of Aaron, of the families of

Caath of the race of Levi (for the rst lot came

out for them)

11The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which

is called Hebron, in the mountain of Juda, and

the suburbs thereof round about.

12But the elds and the villages thereof he

had given to Caleb the son of Jephone for his

possession.

13He gave therefore to the children of Aaron

the priest, Hebron a city of refuge, and the

suburbs thereof, and Lebna with the suburbs

thereof,

14And Jether and Estemo,

15And Holon, and Dabir,

16And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with

their suburbs: nine cities out of the two tribes,

as hath been said.

17And out of the tribe of the children of Ben-

jamin, Gabaon, and Gabae,

18And Anathoth and Almon, with, their sub-

urbs: four cities.

19All the cities together of the children of

Aaron the priest, were thirteen, with their sub-

urbs,20And to the rest of the families of the chil-

dren of Caath of the race of Levi was given this

possession.

21Of the tribe of Ephraim, Sichem one of

the cities of refuge, with the suburbs thereof in

mount Ephraim, and Gazer,

22And Cibsaim, and Beth-horon, with their

suburbs, four cities.

23And of he tribe of Dan, Eltheco and

Gabathon,

24And Aialon and Gethremmon, with their

suburbs, four cities.

25And of the half tribe of Manasses, Thanac

and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, two cities.

26All the cities were ten, with their suburbs,

which were given to the children of Caath, of the

inferior degree.

27To the children of Gerson also of the race

of Levi out of the half tribe of Manasses, Gaulon

in Basan, one of the cities of refuge, and Bosra,

with their suburbs, two cities.

28And of the tribe of Issachar, Cesion, and

Dabereth,

29And Jaramoth, and Engannim, with their

suburbs, four cities.

30And of the tribe of Aser, Masal and Abdon,

31And Helcath, and Rohob, with their sub-

urbs, four cities.

32Of the tribe also of Nephtali, Cedes in

Galilee, one of the cities of refuge: and Ham-

moth Dor, and Carthan, with their suburbs,

three cities.

33All the cities of the families of Gerson, were

thirteen, with their suburbs.

34And to the children of Merari, Levites of

the inferior degree, by their families were given

of the tribe of Zabulon, Jecnam and Cartha,

35And Damna and Naalol, four cities with

their suburbs.Book of Josue 281

36Of the tribe of Ruben beyond the Jordan

over against Jericho, Bosor in the wilderness, one

of the cities of refuge, Misor and Jaser and Jeth-

son and Mephaath, four cities with their sub-

urbs.

37Of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad, one

of the cities of refuge, and Manaim and Hesebon

and Jaser, four cities with their suburbs,

38All the cities of the children of Merari by

their families and kindreds, were twelve.

39So all the cities of the Levites within the

possession of the children of Israel were forty-

eight,

40With their suburbs, each distributed by the

families.

41And the Lord God gave to Israel all the

land that he had sworn to give to their fathers:

and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.

42And he gave them peace from all nations

round about: and none of their enemies durst

stand against them, but were brought under

their dominion.

43Not so much as one word, which he had

promised to perform unto them, was made void,

but all came to pass.

Chapter 22
At the same time Josue called the Rubenites,

and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses,

2And said to them: You have done all that

Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you:

you have also obeyed me in all things,

3Neither have you left your brethren this long

time, until this present day, keeping the com-

mandment of the Lord your God.

4Therefore as the Lord your God hath given

your brethren rest and peace, as he promised:

return, and go to your dwellings, and to the landof your possession, which Moses the servant of

the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan:

5Yet so that you observe attentively, and in

work full the commandment and the law which

Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you:

that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all

his ways, and keep all his commandments, and

cleave to him, and serve him with all your heart,

and with all your soul.

6And Josue blessed them, and sent them

away, and they returned to their dwellings.

7Now to half the tribe of Manasses, Moses

had given a possession in Basan: and therefore

to the half that remained, Josue gave a lot among

the rest of their brethren beyond the Jordan to

the west. And when he sent them away to their

dwellings and had blessed them,

8He said to them: With much substance and

riches, you return to your settlements, with sil-

ver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of rai-

ment: divide the prey of your enemies with your

brethren.

9So the children of Ruben, and the children

of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses returned,

and parted from the children of Israel in Silo,

which is in Chanaan, to go into Galaad the land

of their possession, which they had obtained ac-

cording to the commandment of the Lord by the

hand of Moses.

10And when they were come to banks of the

Jordan, in the land of Chanaan, they built an

altar immensely great near the Jordan.

11And when the children of Israel had heard

of it, and certain messengers brought them an

account that the children of Ruben, and of Gad,

and the half tribe of Manasses had built an altar

in the land of Chanaan, upon the banks of the

Jordan, over against the children of Israel:

12They all assembled in Silo, to go up and

ght against them.282 Book of Josue

13And in the mean time they sent to them

into the land of Galaad, Phinees the son of

Eleazar the priest,

14And ten princes with him, one of every

tribe.

15Who came to the children of Ruben, and

of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, into the

land of Galaad, and said to them:

16Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What

meaneth this transgression? Why have you for-

saken the Lord the God of Israel, building a sac-

rilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of

him?

17Is it a small thing to you that you sinned

with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime re-

maineth in us to this day? and many of the

people perished.

18And you have forsaken the Lord to day, and

to morrow his wrath will rage against all Israel.

19But if you think the land of your possession

to be unclean, pass over to the land wherein is

the tabernacle of the Lord, and dwell among us:

only depart not from the Lord, and from our

society, by building an altar beside the altar of

the Lord our God.

20Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress

the commandment of the Lord, and his wrath

lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was

but one man, and would to God he alone had

perished in his wickedness.

21And the children of Ruben, and of Gad,

and of the half tribe of Manasses answered the

princes of the embassage of Israel:

22The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord

the most mighty God, he knoweth, and Israel

also shall understand: If with the design of trans-

gression we have set up this altar, let him not

save us, but punish us immediately:

23And if we did it with that mind, that we

might lay upon it holocausts, and sacrice, andvictims of peace oerings, let him require and

judge:

24And not rather with this thought and de-

sign, that we should say: To morrow your chil-

dren will say to our children: What have you to

do with the Lord the God of Israel?

25The Lord hath put the river Jordan for

a border between us and you, O ye children of

Ruben, and ye children of Gad: and therefore

you have no part in the Lord. And by this occa-

sion your children shall turn away our children

from the fear of the Lord. We therefore thought

it best,

26And said: Let us build us an altar, not for

holocausts, nor to oer victims,

27But for a testimony between us and you,

and our posterity and yours, that we may serve

the Lord, and that we may have a right to of-

fer both holocausts, and victims and sacrices of

peace oerings: and that your children to mor-

row may not say to our children: You have no

part in the Lord.

28And if they will say so, they shall answer

them: Behold the altar of the Lord, which our

fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for sacri-

ce, but for a testimony between us and you.

29God keep us from any such wickedness that

we should revolt from the Lord, and leave o

following his steps, by building an altar to of-

fer holocausts, and sacrices, and victims, beside

the altar of the Lord our God, which is erected

before his tabernacle.

30And when Phinees the priest, and the

princes of the embassage, who were with him,

had heard this, they were satised: and they ad-

mitted most willingly the words of the children

of Ruben, and Gad, and of the half tribe of Man-

asses,

31And Phinees the priest the son of Eleazar

said to them: Now we know that the Lord is withBook of Josue 283

us, because you are not guilty of this revolt, and

you have delivered the children of Israel from the

hand of the Lord.

32And he returned with the princes from the

children of Ruben and Gad, out of the land of

Galaad, into the land of Chanaan, to the children

of Israel, and brought them word again.

33And the saying pleased all that heard it.

And the children of Israel praised God, and they

no longer said that they would go up against

them, and ght, and destroy the land of their

possession.

34And the children of Ruben, and the chil-

dren of Gad called the altar which they had built,

Our testimony, that the Lord is God,

Chapter 23

And when a long time was passed, after that the

Lord had given peace to Israel, all the nations

round about being subdued. and Josue being

now old, and far advanced in years:

2Josue called for all Israel, and for the elders,

and for the princes, and for the judges, and for

the masters, and said to them: I am old, and far

advanced in years,

3And you see all that the Lord your God hath

done to all the nations round about, how he him-

self hath fought for you:

4And now since he hath divided to you by

lot all the land, from the east of the Jordan unto

the great sea, ant many nations yet remain:

5The Lord your God will destroy them, and

take them away from before your face, and you

shall possess the land as he hath promised you.

6Only take courage, and be careful to observe

all things that are written in the book of the law

of Moses: and turn not aside from them neither

to the right hand nor to the left:7Lest after that you are come in among the

Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should

swear by the name of their gods, and serve them,

and adore them:

8But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as

you have done until this day.

9And then the Lord God will take away before

your eyes nations that are great and very strong,

and no man shall be able to resist you.

10One of you shall chase a thousand men of

the enemies: because the Lord your God himself

will ght for you, as he hath promised.

11This only take care of with all diligence,

that you love the Lord your God.

12But if you will embrace the errors of these

nations that dwell among you, and make mar-

riages with them, and join friendships:

13Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your

God will not destroy them before your face, but

they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a

stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your

eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from

o this excellent land, which he hath given you.

14Behold this day I am going into the way

of all the earth, and you shall know with all

your mind that of all the words which the Lord

promised to perform for you, not one hath failed,

15Therefore as he hath fullled in deed, what

he promised, and all things prosperous have

come: so will he bring upon you all the evils

he hath threatened, till he take you away and

destroy you from o this excellent land, which

he hath given you,

16When you shall have transgressed the

covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath

made with you, and shall have served strange

gods, and adored them: then shall the indig-

nation of the Lord rise up quickly and speedily

against you, and you shall be taken away from

this excellent land, which he hath delivered to284 Book of Josue

you.

Chapter 24

And Josue gathered together all the tribes of Is-

rael in Sichem, and called for the ancients, and

the princes and the judges, and the masters: and

they stood in the sight of the Lord:

2And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith

the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt

of old on the other side of the river, Thare the

father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served

strange gods.

3And I took your father Abraham from the

borders of Mesopotamia: and brought him into

the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed,

4And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave

Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir

for his possession: but Jacob and his children

went down into Egypt.

5And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck

Egypt with many signs and wonders.

6And I brought you and your fathers out of

Egypt, and you came to the sea: and the Egyp-

tians pursued your fathers with chariots and

horsemen, as far as the Red Sea.

7And the children of Israel cried to the Lord:

and he put darkness between you and the Egyp-

tians, and brought the sea upon them, and cov-

ered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt,

and you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.

8And I brought you into the land of the Am-

orrhite, who dwelt beyond the Jordan. And

when they fought against you, I delivered them

into your hands, and you possessed their land,

and slew them.

9And Balac son of Sephor king of Moab arose

and fought against Israel. And he sent and called

for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you:10And I would not hear him, but on the con-

trary I blessed you by him, and I delivered you

out of his hand.

11And you passed over the Jordan, and you

came to Jericho. And the men of that city fought

against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite,

and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the

Gergesite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: and

I delivered them into your hands.

12And I sent before you and I drove them

out from their places, the two kings of the Am-

orrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,

13And I gave you a land, in which you had

not laboured, and cities to dwell in which you

built not, vineyards and oliveyards, which you

planted not.

14Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve

him with a perfect and most sincere heart: and

put away the gods which your fathers served in

Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

15But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord,

you have your choice: choose this day that which

pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve,

whether the gods which your fathers served in

Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in

whose land you dwell: but as for me and my

house we will serve thee Lord,

16And the people answered, and said, God

forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve

strange gods.

17The Lord our God he brought us and our

fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house

of bondage: and did very great signs in our sight,

and preserved us in all the way by which we jour-

neyed, and among all the people through whom

we passed.

18And he hath cast out all the nations, the

Amorrhite the inhabitant of the land into which

we are come. Therefore we will serve the Lord,

for he is our God.Book of Josue 285

19And Josue said to the people: You will not

be able to serve the Lord: for he is a holy God,

and mighty and jealous, and will not forgive your

wickedness and sins.

20If you leave the Lord, and serve strange

gods, he will turn, and will aict you, and will

destroy you after all the good he hath done you.

21And the people said to Josue: No, it shall

not be so as thou sayest, but we will serve the

Lord.

22And Josue said to the people, You are wit-

nesses, that you yourselves have chosen you the

Lord to serve him. And they answered: We are

witnesses.

23Now therefore, said he, put away strange

gods from among you, and incline your hearts to

the Lord the God of Israel.

24And the people said to Josue: We will serve

the Lord our God, and we will be obedient to his

commandments.

25Josue therefore on that day made a

covenant, and set before the people command-

ments and judgments in Sichem.

26And he wrote all these things in the vol-

ume of the law of the Lord: and he took a great

stone, and set it under the oak that was in the

sanctuary of the Lord.

27And he said to all the people: Behold this

stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath

heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath

spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will

deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

28And he sent the people away every one to

their own possession,

29And after these things Josue the son of Nun

the servant of the Lord died, being a hundred

and ten years old:

30And they buried him in the border of his

possession in Thamnathsare, which is situate in

mount Ephraim, on the north side of mountGaas.

31And Israel served the Lord all the days of

Josue, and of the ancients that lived a long time

after Josue, and that had known all the works of

the Lord which he had done in Israel.

32And the bones of Joseph which the children

of Israel had taken out of Egypt, they buried in

Sichem, in that part of the eld which Jacob

had bought of the sons of Hemor the father of

Sichem, for a hundred young ewes, and it was in

the possession of the sons of Joseph.

33Eleazar also the son of Aaron died: and

they buried him in Gabaath that belongeth to

Phinees his son, which was given him in mount

Ephraim.Book of Judges

Chapter 1

After the death of Josue, the children of Israel

consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up be-

fore us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the

leader of the war?

2And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold

I have delivered the land into his hands.

3And Juda said to Simeon, his brother: Come

up with me into my lot, and ght against the

Chanaanite, that I also may go along with thee

into thy lot. And Simeon went with him.

4And Juda went up, and the Lord deliv-

ered the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite into their

hands: and they slew of them in Bezec ten thou-

sand men.

5And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and

fought against him, and they defeated the

Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.

6And Adonibezec

ed: and they pursued af-

ter him and took him, and cut o his ngers and

toes.

7And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, hav-

ing their ngers and toes cut o, gathered up

the leavings of the meat under my table: as I

have done, so hath God requited me. And they

brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

8And the children of Juda besieging

Jerusalem, took it, and put it to the sword, and

set the whole city on re.

9And afterwards they went down and foughtagainst the Chanaanite, who dwelt in the moun-

tains, and in the south, and in the plains.

11And departing from thence, he went to the

inhabitants of Dabir, the ancient name of which

was Cariath-Sepher, that is, the city of letters.

12And Caleb said: He that shall take

Cariath-Sepher, and lay it waste, to him will I

give my daughter Axa to wife.

13And Othoniel, the son of Cenez, the

younger brother of Caleb, having taken it, he

gave him Axa his daughter to wife.

14And as she was going on her way, her hus-

band admonished her to ask a eld of her father.

And as she sighed sitting on her ass, Caleb said

to her: What aileth thee?

15But she answered: Give me a blessing, for

thou hast given me a dry land: give me also a

watery land So Caleb gave her the upper and the

nether watery ground.

16And the children of the Cinite, the kinsman

of Moses, went up from the city of palms, with

the children of Juda, into the wilderness of his

lot, which is at the south side of Arad, and they

dwelt with him.

17And Juda went with Simeon, his brother,

and they together defeated the Chanaanites that

dwelt in Sephaath, and slew them. And the

name of the city was called Horma, that is,

Anathema.

18And Juda took Gaza, with its connes, and

Ascalon, and Accaron, with their connes.Book of Judges 287

19And the Lord was with Juda, and he pos-

sessed the hill country: but was not able to de-

stroy the inhabitants of the valley, because they

had many chariots armed with scythes.

20And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses

had said, who destroyed out of it the three sons

of Enac.

21But the sons of Benjamin did not destroy

the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem: and the

Jebusite hath dwelt with the sons of Benjamin

in Jerusalem until this present day.

22The house of Joseph also went up against

Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

23For when they were besieging the city,

which before was called Luza,

24They saw a man coming out of the city,

and they said to him: Shew us the entrance into

the city, and we will shew thee mercy.

25And when he had shewed them, they smote

the city with the edge of the sword: but that

man, and all his kindred, they let go:

26Who being sent away, went into the land

of Hetthim, and built there a city, and called it

Luza: which is so called until this day.

27Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and

Thanac, with their villages; nor the inhabitants

of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with their

villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell

with them.

28But after Israel was grown strong, he made

them tributaries, and would not destroy them.

29Ephraim also did not slay the Chanaanite

that dwelt in Gazer, bnt dwelt with him.

30Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of

Cetron, and Naalol: but the Chanaanite dwelt

among them, and became their tributary.

31Aser also destroyed not the inhabitants of

Accho, and of Sidon, of Ahalab, and of Achazib,

and of Helba, and of Aphec, and of Rohob:32And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaan-

ites, the inhabitants of that land, and did not

slay them.

33Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabi-

tants of Bethsames, and of Bethanath: and he

dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the in-

habitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and

Bethanites were tributaries to him.

34And the Amorrhite straitened the children

of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not a

place to go down to the plain:

35And he dwelt in the mountain Hares, that

is, of potsherds, in Aialon and Salebim. And

the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy upon

him, and he became tributary to him.

36And the border of the Amorrhite was from

the ascent of the scorpion, the rock, and the

higher places.

Chapter 2

And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal

to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go

out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land

for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised

that I would not make void my covenant with

you for ever:

2On condition that you should not make a

league with the inhabitants of this land, but

should throw down their altars: and you would

not hear my voice: why have you done this?

3Wherefore I would not destroy them from

before your face; that you may have enemies,

and their gods may be your ruin.

4And when the angel of the Lord spoke these

words to all the children of Israel: they lifted up

their voice, and wept.

5And the name of that place was called, The

place of weepers, or of tears: and there they of-288 Book of Judges

fered sacrices to the Lord.

6And Josue sent away the people, and the

children of Israel went every one to his own pos-

session to hold it:

7And they served the Lord all his days, and

the days of the ancients, that lived a long time

after him, and who knew all the works of the

Lord, which he had done for Israel.

8And Josue, the son of Nun, the servant of

the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years

old;

9And they buried him in the borders of his

possession in Thamnathsare, in Mount Ephraim,

on the north side of Mount Gaas.

10And all that generation was gathered to

their fathers: and there arose others that knew

not the Lord and the works which he had done

for Israel.

11And the children of Israel did evil in the

sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

12And they left the Lord, the God of their

fathers, who had brought them out of the land

of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and

the gods of the people that dwelt round about

them, and they adored them: and they provoked

the Lord to anger,

13Forsaking him, and serving Baal and As-

taroth

14And the Lord being angry against Israel,

delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who

took them and sold them to their enemies, that

dwelt round about: neither could they stand

against their enemies:

15But whithersoever they meant to go, the

hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said,

and as he had sworn to them: and they were

greatly distressed.

16And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver

them from the hands of those that oppressed

them: but they would not hearken to them,17Committing fornication with strange gods,

and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way,

in which their fathers had walked: and hear-

ing the commandments of the Lord, they did all

things contrary.

18And when the Lord raised them up judges,

in their days, he was moved to mercy, and heard

the groanings of the aicted, and delivered them

from the slaughter of the oppressors.

19But after the judge was dead, they re-

turned, and did much worse things than their

fathers had done, following strange gods, serv-

ing them, and adoring them. They left not their

own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which

they were accustomed to walk.

20And the wrath of the Lord was kindled

against Israel, and he said: Behold this nation

hath made void my covenant, which I had made

with their fathers, and hath despised to hearken

to my voice:

21I also will not destroy the nations which

Josue left when he died:

22That through them I may try Israel,

whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and

walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

23The Lord therefore left all these nations,

and would not quickly destroy them, neither did

he deliver them into the hands of Josue.

Chapter 3

These are the nations which the Lord left, that

by them he might instruct Israel, and all that

had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

2That afterwards their children might learn

to ght with their enemies, and to be trained up

to war:

3The ve princes of the Philistines, and all the

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that dwelt in Mount Libanus, from Mount Baal

Hermon to the entering into Emath.

4And he left them, that he might try Israel by

them, whether they would hear the command-

ments of the Lord, which he had commanded

their fathers, by the hand of Moses, or not.

5So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst

of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Am-

orrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and

the Jebusite:

6And they took their daughters to wives, and

they gave their own daughters to their sons, and

they served their gods.

7And they did evil in the sight of the Lord,

and they forgot their God, and served Baalim

and Astaroth.

8And the Lord being angry with Israel, deliv-

ered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim,

king of Mesopotamia, and they served him eight

years.

9And they cried to the Lord, who raised them

up a saviour, and delivered them; to wit, Oth-

oniel, the son of Cenez, the younger brother of

Caleb:

10And the spirit of the Lord was in him, and

he judged Israel. And he went out to ght, and

the Lord delivered Chusan Rasathaim, king of

Syria, and he overthrew him:

11And the land rested forty years, and Oth-

oniel, the son of Cenez, died.

12And the children of Israel did evil again in

the sight of the Lord: who strengthened against

them Eglon, king of Moab: because they did evil

in his sight.

13And he joined to him the children of Am-

mon, and Amalec: and he went and overthrew

Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.

14And the children of Israel served Eglon,

king of Moab, eighteen years.

15And afterwards they cried to the Lord, whoraised them up a saviour, called Aod, the son of

Cera, the son of Jemini, who used the left hand

as well as the right. And the children of Israel

sent presents to Eglon, king of Moab, by him.

16And he made himself a two-edged sword,

with a haft in the midst of the length of the palm

of the hand, and was girded therewith, under his

garment, on the right thigh.

17And he presented the gifts to Eglon, king

of Moab Now Eglon was exceeding fat.

18And when he had presented the gifts unto

him he followed his companions that came along

with him.

19Then returning from Galgal, where the

idols were, he said to the king: I have a secret

message to thee, O king. And he commanded

silence: and all being gone out that were about

him,

20Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in

a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a

word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose

up from his throne.

21And Aod put forth his left hand, and took

the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it

into his belly,

22With such force that the haft went in after

the blade into the wound, and was closed up with

the abundance of fat. So that he did not draw

out the dagger, but left it in the body as he had

struck it in: and forthwith, by the secret parts

of nature, the excrements of the belly came out.

23And Aod carefully shutting the doors of

the parlour, and locking them,

24Went out by a postern door. And the king's

servants going in, saw the doors of the parlour

shut, and they said: Perhaps he is easing nature

in his summer parlour.

25And waiting a long time, till they were

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their lord lying dead on the ground.

26But Aod, while they were in confusion,

escaped, and passed by the place of the idols

from whence he had returned. And he came to

Seirath:

27And forthwith he sounded the trumpet in

Mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel went

down with him, he himself going in the front.

28And he said to them: Follow me: for the

Lord hath delivered our enemies, the Moabites,

into our hands. And they went down after him,

and seized upon the fords of the Jordan, which

are in the way to Moab: and they suered no

man to pass over:

29But they slew of the Moabites at that time,

about ten thousand, all strong and valiant men:

none of them could escape.

30And Moab was humbled that day under

the hand of Israel: and the land rested eighty

years.

31After him was Samgar, the son of Anath,

who slew of the Philistines six hundred men with

a ploughshare: and he also defended Israel.

Chapter 4
And the children of Israel again did evil in the

sight of the Lord after the death of Aod:

2And the Lord delivered them up into the

hands of Jabin, king of Chanaan, who reigned in

Asor: and he had a general of his army named

Sisara, and he dwelt in Haroseth of the Gentiles.

3And the children of Israel cried to the Lord:

for he had nine hundred chariots set with scythes

and for twenty years had grievously oppressed

them.

4And there was at that time Debbora, a

prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, who judged the

people.5And she sat under a palm tree, which was

called by her name, between Rama and Bethel,

in Mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel

came up to her for all judgment.

6And she sent and called Barac, the Son of

Abinoem, out of Cedes, in Nephthali: and she

said to him: The Lord God of Israel hath com-

manded thee: Go, and lead an army to Mount

Thabor, and thou shalt take with thee ten thou-

sand ghting men of the children of Nephthali,

and of the children of Zabulon:

7And I will bring unto thee in the place of

the torrent Cison, Sisara, the general of Jabin's

army, and his chariots, and all his multitude, and

will deliver them into thy hand.

8And Barac said to her: If thou wilt come

with me, I will go: if thou wilt not come with

me, I will not go.

9She said to him: I will go, indeed, with

thee, but at this time the victory shall not be

attributed to thee, because Sisara shall be deliv-

ered into the hand of a woman. Debbora there-

fore arose, and went with Barac to Cedes.

10And he called unto him Zabulon and Neph-

thali, and went up with ten thousand ghting

men, having Debbora in his company.

11Now Haber, the Cinite, had some time be-

fore departed from the rest of the Cinites, his

brethren, the sons of Hobab, the kinsman of

Moses: and had pitched his tents unto the valley,

which is called Sennim, and was near Cedes.

12And it was told Sisara, that Barac, the son

of Abinoem, was gone up to Mount Thabor:

13And he gathered together his nine hundred

chariots armed with scythes, and all his army,

from Haroseth of the Gentiles, to the torrent Ci-

son.

14And Debbora said to Barac: Arise, for this

is the day wherein the Lord hath delivered Sisara

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Barac went down from Mount Thabor, and ten

thousand ghting men with him.

15And the Lord struck a terror into Sisara,

and all his chariots, and all his multitude, with

the edge of the sword, at the sight of Barac; in-

somuch, that Sisara leaping down from o his

chariot,

ed away on foot,

16And Barac pursued after the

eeing chari-

ots, and the army, unto Haroseth of the Gentiles;

and all the multitude of the enemies was utterly

destroyed.

17But Sisara

eeing, came to the tent of Ja-

hel, the wife of Haber, the Cinite, for there was

peace between Jabin, the king of Asor, and the

house of Haber, the Cinite.

18And Jahel went forth to meet Sisara, and

said to him: Come in to me, my lord; come in,

fear not. He went into her tent, and being cov-

ered by her with a cloak,

19Said to her: Give me, I beseech thee, a little

water, for I am very thirsty. She opened a bottle

of milk, and gave him to drink, and covered him.

20And Sisara said to her: Stand before the

door of the tent, and when any shall come and

inquire of thee, saying: Is there any man here?

thou shalt say: There is none.

21So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the

tent, and taking also a hammer: and going in

softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon

the temples of his head, and striking it with the

hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the

ground: and so passing from deep sleep to death,

he fainted away and died.

22And behold, Barac came pursuing after Sis-

ara: and Jahel went out to meet him, and said to

him: Come, and I will shew thee the man whom

thou seekest. And when he came into her tent,

he saw Sisara lying dead, and the nail fastened

in his temples.

23So God that day humbled Jabin, the kingof Chanaan, before the children of Israel:

24Who grew daily stronger, and with

a mighty hand overpowered Jabin, king of

Chanaan, till they quite destroyed him.

Chapter 5

In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem,

sung, and said:

2O you of Israel, that have willingly oered

your lives to danger, bless the Lord.

3Hear, O ye kings, give ear, O ye princes: It

is I, it is I, that will sing to the Lord, I will sing

to the Lord, the God of Israel.

4O Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, and

passedst by the regions of Edom, the earth trem-

bled, and the heavens and clouds dropped water.

5The mountains melted before the face of the

Lord, and Sinai before the face of the Lord the

God of Israel.

6In the days of Samgar, the son of Anath,

in the days of Jahel, the paths rested: and they

that went by them, walked through bye-ways.

7The valiant men ceased, and rested in Israel:

until Debbora arose, a mother arose in Israel.

8The Lord chose new wars, and he himself

overthrew the gates of the enemies: a shield and

spear was not seen among forty thousand of Is-

rael.

9My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you,

that of your own good will oered yourselves to

danger, bless the Lord.

11Where the chariots were dashed together,

and the army of the enemies was choked, there

let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed, and his

clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then

the people of the Lord went down to the gates,

and obtained the sovereignty.

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utter a canticle. Arise, Barac, and take hold of

thy captives, O son of Abinoem.

13The remnants of the people are saved, the

Lord hath fought among the valiant ones.

14Out of Ephraim he destroyed them into

Amalec, and after him out of Benjamin into thy

people, O Amalec: Out of Machir there came

down princes, and out of Zabulon they that led

the army to ght.

15The captains of Issachar were with Debb-

ora, and followed the steps of Barac, who ex-

posed himself to danger, as one going headlong,

and into a pit. Ruben being divided against him-

self, there was found a strife of courageous men.

16Why dwellest thou between two borders,

that thou mayst hear the bleatings of the

ocks?

Ruben being divided against himself, there was

found a strife of courageous men.

17Galaad rested beyond the Jordan, and Dan

applied himself to ships: Aser dwelt on the sea

shore, and abode in the havens.

18But Zabulon and Nephthali oered their

lives to death in the region of Merome.

19The kings came and fought, the kings of

Chanaan fought in Thanac, by the waters of

Mageddo and yet they took no spoils.

20There was war made against them from

heaven: the stars, remaining in their order and

courses, fought against Sisara.

21The torrent of Cison dragged their car-

casses, the torrent of Cadumim, the torrent of

Cison: tread thou, my soul, upon the strong

ones.

22The hoofs of the horses were broken whilst

the stoutest of the enemies

ed amain, and fell

headlong down.

23Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel

of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, be-

cause they came not to the help of the Lord, to

help his most valiant men.24Blessed among women be Jahel, the wife

of Haber the Cinite, and blessed be she in her

tent.

25He asked her water, and she gave him milk,

and oered him butter in a dish t for princes.

26She put her left hand to the nail, and her

right hand to the workman's hammer, and she

struck Sisara, seeking in his head a place for the

wound, and strongly piercing through his tem-

ples.
27Between her feet he fell: he fainted, and he

died: he rolled before her feet, and there he lay

lifeless and wretched.

28His mother looked out at a window, and

howled: and she spoke from the dining room:

Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why

are the feet of his horses so slow?

29One that was wiser than the rest of his

wives, returned this answer to her mother in law:

30Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and

the fairest of the women is chosen out for him:

garments of divers colours are given to Sisara

for his prey, and furniture of dierent kinds is

heaped together to adorn necks.

31So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but

let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth

in his rising.

32And the land rested for forty years.

Chapter 6

And the children of Israel again did evil in the

sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the

hand of Madian seven years,

2And they were grievously oppressed by

them. And they made themselves dens and caves

in the mountains, and strong holds to resist.

3And when Israel had sown, Madian and

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up:

4And pitching their tents among them,

wasted all things as they were in the blade, even

to the entrance of Gaza: and they left nothing

at all in Israel for sustenance of life, nor sheep,

nor oxen, nor asses.

5For they and all their

ocks came with their

tents, and like locusts lled all places, an innu-

merable multitude of men, and of camels, wast-

ing whatsoever they touched.

6And Israel was humbled exceedingly in the

sight of Madian.

7And he cried to the Lord, desiring help

against the Madianites.

8And he sent unto them a prophet, and he

spoke: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: I

made you to come up out of Egypt, and brought

you out of the house of bondage,

9And delivered you out of the hands of the

Egyptians, and of all the enemies that aicted

you: and I cast them out at your coming in, and

gave you their land.

10And I said: I am the Lord your God, fear

not the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land

you dwell. And you would not hear my voice.

11And an angel of the Lord came, and sat

under an oak that was in Ephra, and belonged

to Joas, the father of the family of Ezri. And

when Gedeon, his son, was threshing and cleans-

ing wheat by the winepress, to

ee from Madian,

12The angel of the Lord appeared to him,

and said: The Lord is with thee, O most valiant

of men.

13And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee,

my lord, if the Lord be with us, why have these

evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles,

which our fathers have told us of, saying: The

Lord brought us out of Egypt but now the Lord

hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand

of Madian.14And the Lord looked upon him, and said:

Go, in this thy strength, and thou shalt deliver

Israel out of the hand of Madian: know that I

have sent thee.

15He answered, and said: I beseech thee, my

lord wherewith shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my

family is the meanest in Manasses, and I am the

least in my father's house.

16And the Lord said to him: I will be with

thee: and thou shalt cut o Madian as one man.

17And he said: If I have found grace before

thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest

to me:

18And depart not hence, till I return to thee,

and bring a sacrice, and oer it to thee. And

he answered: I will wait thy coming.

19So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and

made unleavened loaves of a measure of

our:

and putting the

esh in a basket, and the broth

of the

esh into a pot, he carried all under the

oak, and presented to him.

20And the angel of the Lord said to him:

Take the

esh and the unleavened loaves, and

lay them upon that rock, and pour out the broth

thereon. And when he had done so,

21The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of

the rod, which he held in his hand, and touched

the

esh and the unleavened loaves: and there

arose a re from the rock, and consumed the

esh and the unleavened loaves: and the angel

of the Lord vanished out of his sight.

22And Gedeon seeing that it was the angel of

the Lord, said: Alas, my Lord God: for I have

seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

23And the Lord said to him: Peace be with

thee: fear not, thou shalt not die.

24And Gedeon built there an altar to the

Lord, and called it the Lord's peace, until this

present day. And when he was yet in Ephra,

which is of the family of Ezri,294 Book of Judges

25That night the Lord said to him: Take a

bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of

seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of

Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the

grove that is about the altar:

26And thou shalt build un altar to the Lord

thy God, in the top of this rock, whereupon thou

didst lay the sacrice before: and thou shalt take

the second bullock, and shalt oer a holocaust

upon a pile of the wood, which thou shalt cut

down out of the grove.

27Then Gedeon, taking ten men of his ser-

vants, did as the Lord had commanded him. But

fearing his father's house, and the men of that

city, he would not do it by day, but did all by

night.
28And when the men of that town were risen

in the morning, they saw the altar of Baal de-

stroyed, and the grove cut down, and the second

bullock laid upon the altar, which then was built.

29And they said one to another: Who hath

done this? And when they inquired for the au-

thor of the fact, it was said: Gedeon, the son of

Joas, did all this.

30And they said to Joas: Bring out thy son

hither, that he may die: because he hath de-

stroyed the altar of Baal, and hath cut down his

grove.

31He answered them: Are you the avengers

of Baal, that you ght for him? he that is his

adversary, let him die before to morrow light ap-

pear: if he be a god, let him revenge himself on

him that hath cast down his altar.

32From that day Gedeon was called Jerobaal,

because Joas had said: Let Baal revenge himself

on him that hath cast down his altar.

33Now all Madian, and Amalec, and the east-

ern people, were gathered together, and passing

over the Jordan, camped in the valley of Jezrael.

34But the spirit of the Lord came uponGedeon, and he sounded the trumpet, and called

together the house of Abiezer, to follow him.

35And he sent messengers into all Manasses,

and they also followed him : and other messen-

gers into Aser and Zabulon, and Nephthali, and

they came to meet him.

36And Gedeon said to God: If thou wilt save

Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,

37I will put this

eece of wool on the

oor: if

there be dew in the

eece only, and it be dry on

all the ground beside, I shall know that by my

hand, as thou hast said, thou wilt deliver Israel.

38And it was so. And rising before day,

wringing the

eece, he lled a vessel with the

dew.

39And he said again to God: Let not thy

wrath be kindled against me, if I try once more,

seeking a sign in the

eece. I pray that the

eece

only may be dry, and all the ground wet with

dew.

40And God did that night as he had re-

quested: and it was dry on the

eece only, and

there was dew on all the ground.

Chapter 7

Then Jerobaal, who is the same as Gedeon, rising

up early, and all the people with him, came to

the fountain that is called Harad. Now the camp

of Madian was in the valley, on the north side of

the high hill.

2And the Lord said to Gedeon: The peo-

ple that are with thee are many, and Madian

shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel

should glory against me, and say: I was delivered

by my own strength.

3Speak to the people, and proclaim in the

hearing of all: Whosoever is fearful and timo-

rous, let him return. So two and twenty thou-Book of Judges 295

sand men went away from Mount Galaad and

returned home, and only ten thousand remained.

4And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people

are still too many, bring them to the waters, and

there I will try them: and of whom I shall say to

thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom

I shall forbid to go, let him return.

5And when the people were come down to

the waters, the Lord said to Gedeon: They that

shall lap the water with their tongues, as dogs

are wont to lap, thou shalt set apart by them-

selves: but they that shall drink bowing down

their knees, shall be on the other side.

6And the number of them that had lapped

water; casting it with the hand to their mouth,

was three hundred men: and all the rest of the

multitude had drunk kneeling.

7And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three

hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you,

and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the

rest of the people return to their place.

8So taking victuals and trumpets according to

their number, he ordered all the rest of the mul-

titude to depart to their tents: and he with the

three hundred gave himself to the battle. Now

the camp of Madia was beneath him in the val-

ley.

9The same night the Lord said to him: Arise,

and go down into the camp: because I have de-

livered them into thy hand.

10But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara,

thy servant, go down with thee.

11And when thou shalt hear what they are

saying, then shall thy hands be strengthened,

and thou shalt go down more secure to the ene-

mies' camp. And he went down with Phara his

servant, into part of the camp, where was the

watch of men in arms.

12But Madian and Amalec, and all the east-

ern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multi-tude of locusts: their camels also were innumer-

able, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

13And when Gedeon was come, one told his

neighbour a dream: and in this manner related

what he had seen: I dreamt a dream, and it

seemed to me as if a hearth cake of barley bread

rolled and came down into the camp of Madian:

and when it was come to a tent, it struck it, and

beat it down

at to the ground.

14He to whom he spoke, answered: This is

nothing else but the sword of Gedeon, the son of

Joas, a man of Israel. For the Lord hath deliv-

ered Madian, and all their camp into his hand.

15And when Gedeon had heard the dream,

and the interpretation thereof, he adored: and

returned to the camp of Israel, and said: Arise,

for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian

into our hands.

16And he divided the three hundred men into

three parts, and gave them trumpets in their

hands, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the

pitchers.

17And he said to them: What you shall see

me do, do you the same: I will go into one part

of the camp, and do you as I shall do.

18When the trumpet shall sound in my hand,

do you also blow the trumpets on every side of

the camp, and shout together to the Lord and to

Gedeon.

19And Gedeon, and the three hundred men

that were with him, went into part of the camp,

at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the

watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound

their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one

against another.

20And when they sounded their trurmpets

in three places round about the camp, and had

broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in

their left hands, and with their right hands the

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The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon:

21Standing every man in his place round

about the enemies' camp. So all the camp was

troubled, and crying out and howling, they

ed

away:

22And the three hundred men nevertheless

persisted sounding the trumpets. And the Lord

sent the sword into all the camp, and they killed
one another,

23Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the bor-

der of Abelmahula, in Tebbath. But the men of

Israel, shouting from Nephthali, and Aser, and

from all Manasses, pursued after Madian.

24And Gedeon sent messengers into all

Mount Ephraim, saying: Come down to meet

Madian, and take the waters before them to

Bethbera and the Jordan. And all Ephraim

shouted, and took the waters before them and

the Jordan as far as Bethbera.

25And having taken two men of Madian,

Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew in the rock of

Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they

pursued Madian, carrying the heads of Oreb and

Zeb to Gedeon, beyond the waters of the Jordan.

Chapter 8

And the men of Ephraim said to him: What is

this that thou meanest to do, that thou wouldst

not call us, when thou wentest to ght against

Madian? And they chid him sharply, and almost

oered violence.

2And he answered them: What could I have

done like to that which you have done? Is not

one bunch of grapes of Ephraim better than the

vintages of Abiezer?
3The Lord hath delivered into your hands the

princes of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: what could

I have done like to what you have done? Andwhen he had said this, their spirit was appeased,

with which they swelled against him.

4And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan,

he passed over it with the three hundred men

that were with him: who were so weary that

they could not pursue after them that

ed.

5And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I

beseech you, bread to the people that is with me,

for they are faint: that we may pursue Zebee,

and Salmana, the kings of Madian.

6The princes of Soccoth answered: Perad-

venture the palms of the hands of Zebee and

Salmana are in thy hand, and therefore thou de-

mandest that we should give bread to thy army.

7And he said to them: When the Lord there-

fore shall have delivered Zebee and Salmana into

my hands, I will thresh your

esh with the thorns

and briers of the desert.

8And going up from thence, he came to

Phanuel: and he spoke the like things to the

men of that place. And they also answered him,

as the men of Soccoth had answered.

9He said, therefore, to them also: When I

shall return a conqueror in peace, I will destroy

this tower.

10But Zebee and Salmana were resting with

all their army. For fteen thousand men were

left of all the troops of the eastern people, and

one hundred and twenty thousand warriors that

drew the sword were slain.

11And Gedeon went up by the way of them

that dwelt in tents, on the east of Nobe and Jeg-

baa, and smote the camp of the enemies, who

were secure, and suspected no hurt.

12And Zebee and Salmana

ed, and Gedeon

pursued and took them, all their host being put

in confusion.

13And returning from the battle before the

sun rising,

14He took a boy of the men of Soccoth: andBook of Judges 297

he asked him the names of the princes and an-

cients of Soccoth, and he described unto him

seventy-seven men.

15And he came to Soccoth, and said to them:

Behold Zebee, and Salmana, concerning whom

you upbraided me, saying: Peradventure the

hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hands,

and therefore thou demandest that we should

give bread to the men that are weary and faint.

16So he took the ancients of the city, and

thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them

with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soc-

coth.

17And he demolished the tower of Phanuel,

and slew the men of the city.

18And he said to Zebee and Salmana: What

manner of men were they, whom you slew in

Thabor? They answered: They were like thee,

and one of them as the son of a king.

20And he said to Jether, his eldest son: Arise,

and slay them. But he drew not his sword: for

he was afraid, being but yet a boy.

21And Zebee and Salmana said: Do thou rise

and run upon us: because the strength of a man

is according to his age: Gedeon rose up, and slew

Zebee and Salmana: and he took the ornaments

and bosses, with which the necks of the camels

of kings are wont to be adorned.

22And all the men of Israel said to Gedeon:

Rule thou over us, and thy son, and thy son's

son: because thou hast delivered us from the

hand of Madian.

23And he said to them: I will not rule over

you, neither shall my son rule over you, but the

Lord shall rule over you.

24And he said to them: I desire one request

of you: Give me the earlets of your spoils. For

the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden

earlets.

25They answered: We will give them mostwillingly. And spreading a mantle on the ground,

they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.

26And the weight of the earlets that he re-

quested, was a thousand seven hundred sicles

of gold, besides the ornaments, and jewels, and

purple raiment, which the kings of Madian were

wont to use, and besides the golden chains that

were about the camels necks.

27And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and

put it in his city Ephra. And all Israel commit-

ted fornication with it, and it became a ruin to

Gedeon, and to all his house.

28But Madian was humbled before the chil-

dren of Israel, neither could they any more lift up

their heads: but the land rested for forty years,

while Gedeon presided.

29So Jerobaal, the son of Joas, went and

dwelt in his own house:

30And he had seventy sons, who came out of

his thigh, for he had many wives.

31And his concubine, that he had in Sichem,

bore him a son, whose name was Abimelech.

32And Gedeon, the son of Joas died in a good

old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of his

father, in Ephra, of the family of Ezri.

33But after Gedeon was dead, the children of

Israel turned again, and committed fornication

with Baalim. And they made a covenant with

Baal, that he should be their god:

34And they remembered not the Lord their

God, who delivered them out of the hands of all

their enemies round about:

35Neither did they shew mercy to the house

of Jerobaal Gedeon, according to all the good

things he had done to Israel.298 Book of Judges

Chapter 9

And Abimelech, the son of Jerobaal, went to

Sichem, to his mother's brethren, and spoke to

them, and to all the kindred of his mother's fa-

ther, saying:

2Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is

better for you that seventy men, all the sons of

Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that one man

should rule over you? And withal, consider that

I am your bone, and your

esh.
3And his mother's brethren spoke of him to

all the men of Sichem, all these words, and they

inclined their hearts after Abimelech, saying: He

is our brother:

4And they gave him seventy weight of sil-

ver out of the temple of Baalberith: wherewith

he hired to himself men that were needy, and

vagabonds, and they followed him.

5And he came to his father's house in Ephra,

and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, sev-

enty men, upon one stone: and there remained

only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who

was hidden.

6And all the men of Sichem were gathered

together, and all the families of the city of Mello:

and they went and made Abimelech king, by the

oak that stood in Sichem.

7This being told to Joatham, he went, and

stood on the top of Mount Garizim: and lifting

up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men

of Sichem, so may God hear you.

8The trees went to anoint a king over them:

and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over

us.

9And it answered: Can I leave my fatness,

which both gods and men make use of, to come

to be promoted among the trees?

10And the trees said to the g tree: Come

thou and reign over us.11And it answered them: Can I leave my

sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be

promoted among the other trees?

12And the trees said to the vine: Come thou

and reign over us.

13And it answered them: Can I forsake my

wine, that cheereth God and men, and be pro-

moted among the other trees?

14And all the trees said to the bramble:

Come thou and reign over us.

15And it answered them: If, indeed, you

mean to make me king, come ye, and rest under

my shadow: but if you mean it not, let re come

out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of

Libanus.

16Now, therefore, if you have done well, and

without sin, in appointing Abimelech king over

you, and have dealt well with Jerobaal, and with

his house, and have made a suitable return for

the benets of him who fought for you,

17And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver

you from the hand of Madian,

18And you are now risen up against my fa-

ther's house, and have killed his sons, seventy

men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech,

the son of his handmaid, king over the inhabi-

tants of Sichem, because he is your brother:

19If therefore you have dealt well, and with-

out fault, with Jerobaal and his house, rejoice

ye, this day, in Abimelech, and may he rejoice in

you.

20But if unjustly: let re come out from him,

and consume the inhabitants of Sichem, and the

town of Mello: and let re come out from the

men of Sichem and from the town of Mello, and

devour Abimelech.

21And when he had said thus, he

ed, and

went into Bera: and dwelt there for fear of Abim-

elech, his brother.Book of Judges 299

22So Abimelech reigned over Israel three

years.

23And the Lord sent a very evil spirit between

Abimelech and the inhabitants of Sichem; who

began to detest him,

24And to lay the crime of the murder of the

seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of

their blood, upon Abimelech, their brother, and

upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites,

who aided him.

25And they set an ambush against him on

the top of the mountains: and while they waited

for his coming, they committed robberies, tak-

ing spoils of all that passed by: and it was told

Abimelech.

26And Gaal, the son of Obed, came with his

brethren, and went over to Sichem. And the in-

habitants of Sichem, taking courage at his com-

ing,

27Went out into the elds, wasting the

vineyards, and treading down the grapes: and

singing and dancing, they went into the temple

of their god, and in their banquets and cups they

cursed Abimelech.

28And Gaal, the son of Obed, cried: Who is

Abimelech, and what is Sichem, that we should

serve him? Is he not the son of Jerobaal, and

hath made Zebul, his servant, ruler over the men

of Emor, the father of Sichem? Why then shall

we serve him?

29Would to God that some man would put

this people under my hand, that I might remove

Abimelech out of the way. And it was said to

Abimelech: Gather together the multitude of an

army, and come.

30For Zebul, the ruler of the city, hearing the

words of Gaal, the son of Obed, was very angry,

31And sent messengers privately to Abim-

elech, saying: Behold, Gaal, the son of Obed, is

come into Sichem with his brethren, and endeav-oureth to set the city against thee.

32Arise, therefore, in the night, with the peo-

ple that is with thee, and lie hid in the eld:

33And betimes in the morning, at sun rising,

set upon the city, and when he shall come out

against thee, with his people, do to him what

thou shalt be able.

34Abimelech, therefore, arose with all his

army, by night, and laid ambushes near Sichem

in four places.

35And Gaal, the son of Obed, went out, and

stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. And

Abimelech rose up, and all his army with him,

from the places of the ambushes.

36And when Gaal saw the people, he said to

Zebul: Behold, a multitude cometh down from

the mountains. And he answered him: Thou

seest the shadows of the mountains as if they

were the heads of men, and this is thy mistake.

37Again Gaal said: Behold, there cometh

people down from the midst of the land, and one

troop cometh by the way that looketh towards

the oak.
38And Zebul said to him: Where is now thy

mouth, wherewith thou saidst: Who is Abim-

elech, that we should serve him? Is not this the

people which thou didst despise? Go out, and

ght against him.

39So Gaal went out, in the sight of the people

of Sichem, and fought against Abimelech,

40Who chased and put him to

ight, and

drove him to the city: and many were slain of

his people, even to the gate of the city:

41And Abimelech sat down in Ruma: but

Zebul drove Gaal, and his companions, out of

the city, and would not suer them to abide in

it.

42So the day following the people went out

into the eld. And it was told to Abimelech,

43And he took his army, and divided it into300 Book of Judges

three companies, and laid ambushes in the elds.

And seeing that the people came out of the city,

he arose, and set upon them,

44With his own company, assaulting and be-

sieging the city: whilst the two other companies

chased the enemies that were scattered about the

eld.

45And Abimelech assaulted the city all that

day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants

thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed salt

in it.

46And when they who dwelt in the tower

of Sichem, had heard this, they went into the

temple of their god Berith, where they had made

a covenant with him, and from thence the place

had taken its name, and it was exceeding strong.

47Abimelech also hearing that the men of the

tower of Sichem were gathered together,

48Went up into mount Selmon, he and all his

people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down

the bough of a tree, and laying it on his shoulder,

and carrying it, he said to his companions: What

you see me do, do ye out of hand.

49So they cut down boughs from the trees,

every man as fast as he could, and followed their

leader. And surrounding the fort, they set it on

re: and so it came to pass, that with the smoke

and with the re a thousand persons were killed,

men and women together, of the inhabitants of

the town of Sichem.

50Then Abimelech, departing from thence,

came to the town of Thebes, which he sur-

rounded and besieged with his army.

51And there was in the midst of the city

a high tower, to which both the men and the

women were

ed together, and all the princes

of the city, and having shut and strongly barred

the gate, they stood upon the battlements of the

tower to defend themselves.

52And Abimelech, coming near the tower,fought stoutly: and, approaching to the gate,

endeavoured to set re to it:

53And behold, a certain woman casting a

piece of a millstone from above, dashed it against

the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.

54And he called hastily to his armourbearer,

and said to him: Draw thy sword, and kill me:

lest it should be said that I was slain by a woman.

He did as he was commanded, and slew him.

55And when he was dead all the men of Israel

that were with him, returned to their homes.

56And God repaid the evil that Abimelech

had done against his father, killing his seventy

brethren.

57The Sichemites also were rewarded for

what they had done, and the curse of Joatham,

the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.

Chapter 10

After Abimelech, there arose a ruler in Israel,

Thola, son of Phua, the uncle of Abimelech, a

man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount

Ephraim:

2And he judged Israel three and twenty years,

and he died, and was buried in Samir.

3To him succeeded Jair, the Galaadite, who

judged Israel for two and twenty years,

4Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass

colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which

from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is,

the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the

land of Galaad.

5And Jair died, and was buried in the place

which is called Camon.

6But the children of Israel, adding new sins

to their old ones, did evil in the sight of the Lord,

and served idols, Baalim and Astaroth, and the

gods of Syria, and of Sidon, and of Moab, and ofBook of Judges 301

the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines:

and they left the Lord, and did not serve him.

7And the Lord being angry with them, deliv-

ered them into the hands of the Philistines, and

of the children of Ammon.

8And they were aicted, and grievously op-

pressed for eighteen years, all they that dwelt

beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorrhite,

who is in Galaad:
9Insomuch that the children of Ammon, pass-

ing over the Jordan, wasted Juda, and Benjamin,

and Ephraim: and Israel was distressed exceed-

ingly.

10And they cried to the Lord, and said, We

have sinned against thee, because we have for-

saken the Lord our God, and have served Baalim.

11And the Lord said to them: Did not the

Egyptians, and the Amorrhites, and the children

of Ammon, and the Philistines,

12The Sidonians also, and Amalec, and

Chanaan, oppress you, and you cried to me, and

I delivered you out of their hand?

13And yet you have forsaken me, and have

worshipped strange gods: therefore I will deliver

you no more:

14Go, and call upon the gods which you have

chosen: let them deliver you in the time of dis-

tress.

15And the children of Israel said to the Lord:

We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever

pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.

16And saying these things, they cast away

out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods,

and served the Lord their God: and he was

touched with their miseries.

17And the children of Ammon shouting to-

gether, pitched their tents in Galaad: against

whom the children of Israel assembled them-

selves together, and camped in Maspha.18And the princes of Galaad said one to an-

other: Whosoever of us shall rst begin to ght

against the children of Ammon, he shall be the

leader of the people of Galaad.

Chapter 11

There was at that time Jephte, the Galaadite,

a most valiant man, and a warrior, the son of

a woman that was a harlot, and his father was

Galaad.

2Now Galaad had a wife of whom he had

sons: who, after they were grown up, thrust out

Jephte, saying: Thou canst not inherit in the

house of our father, because thou art born of

another mother.

3Then he

ed and avoided them, and dwelt

in the land of Tob: and there were gathered to

him needy men and robbers, and they followed

him as their prince.

4In those days the children of Ammon made

war against Israel.

5And as they pressed hard upon them, the

ancients of Galaad went to fetch Jephte out of

the land of Tob to help them:

6And they said to him: Come thou, and be

our prince, and ght against the children of Am-

mon.

7And he answered them: Are not you the men

that hated me, and cast me out of my father's

house, and now you are come to me, constrained

by necessity?

8And the princes of Galaad said to Jephte:

For this cause we are now come to thee, that thou

mayst go with us, and ght against the children

of Ammon, and be head over all the inhabitants

of Galaad.

9Jephte also said to them: If you be come to

me sincerely, that I should ght for you against302 Book of Judges

the children of Ammon, and the Lord shall de-

liver them into my hand, shall I be your prince?

10They answered him: The Lord, who

heareth these things, he himself is mediator and

witness that we will do as we have promised.

11Jephte therefore went with the princes

of Galaad, and all the people made him their

prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before

the Lord in Maspha.

12And he sent messengers to the king of the

children of Ammon, to say in his name: What

hast thou to do with me, that thou art come

against me, to waste my land?

13And he answered them: Because Israel

took away my land, when he came up out of

Egypt, from the connes of the Arnon unto the

Jaboc and the Jordan: now, therefore, restore

the same peaceably to me.

14And Jephte again sent word by them, and

commanded them to say to the king of Ammon:

15Thus saith Jephte: Israel did not take away

the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of

Ammon:

16But when they came up out of Egypt, he

walked through the desert to the Red Sea, and

came into Cades.

17And he sent messengers to the king of

Edom, saying: Suer me to pass through thy

land. But he would not condescend to his re-

quest. He sent also to the king of Moab, who,

likewise, refused to give him passage. He abode,

therefore, in Cades,

18And went round the land of Edom at the

side, and the land of Moab: and came over

against the east coast of the land of Moab, and

camped on the other side of the Arnon: and he

would not enter the bounds of Moab.

19So Israel sent messengers to Sehon, king of

the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and they

said to him: Suer me to pass through thy landto the river.

20But he, also despising the words of Israel,

suered him not to pass through his borders: but

gathering an innite multitude, went out against

him to Jasa, and made strong opposition.

21And the Lord delivered him, with all his

army, into the hands of Israel, and he slew him,

and possessed all the land of the Amorrhite, the

inhabitant of that country,

22And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon

to the Jaboc, and from the wilderness to the Jor-

dan.

23So the Lord, the God of Israel, destroyed

the Amorrhite, his people of Israel ghting

against him, and wilt thou now possess his land?

24Are not those things which thy god

Chamos possesseth, due to thee by right? But

what the Lord our God hath obtained by con-

quest, shall be our possession:

25Unless, perhaps, thou art better than

Balac, the son of Sephor, king of Moab: or canst

shew that he strove against Israel, and fought

against him,

26Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the

villages thereof, and in Aroer, and its villages,

and in all the cities near the Jordan, for three

hundred years. Why have you for so long a time

attempted nothing about this claim?

27Therefore I do not trespass against thee,

but thou wrongest me by declaring an unjust war

against me. The Lord be judge, and decide this

day, between Israel and the children of Ammon.

28And the king of the children of Ammon

would not hearken to the words of Jephte, which

he sent him by the messengers.

29Therefore the spirit of the Lord came upon

Jephte, and going round Galaad, and Manasses,

and Maspha of Galaad, and passing over from

thence to the children of Ammon,

30He made a vow to the Lord, saying: IfBook of Judges 303

thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my

hands,

31Whosoever shall rst come forth out of the

doors of my house, and shall meet me, when I

return in peace from the children of Ammon, the

same will I oer a holocaust to the Lord.

32And Jephte passed over to the children of

Ammon to ght against them: and the Lord de-

livered them into his hands.

33And he smote them from Aroer till you

come to Mennith, twenty cities, and as far as

Abel, which is set with vineyards, with a very

great slaughter: and the children of Ammon were

humbled by the children of Israel.

34And when Jephte returned into Maspha,

to his house, his only daughter met him with

timbrels and with dances: for he had no other

children.

35And when he saw her, he rent his garments,

and said: Alas! my daughter, thou hast deceived

me, and thou thyself art deceived: for I have

opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do no

other thing.

36And she answered him: My father, if thou

hast opened thy mouth to the Lord, do unto me

whatsoever thou hast promised, since the victory

hath been granted to thee, and revenge of thy

enemies.

37And she said to her father: Grant me only

this, which I desire: Let me go, that I may go

about the mountains for two months, and may

bewail my virginity with my companions.

38And he answered her: Go. And he sent

her away for two months. And when she was

gone with her comrades and companions, she

mourned her virginity in the mountains.

39And the two months being expired, she re-

turned to her father, and he did to her as he had

vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came

a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:40That, from year to year, the daughters of

Israel assemble together, and lament the daugh-

ter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four days.

Chapter 12

But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim.

And passing towards the north, they said to

Jephte: When thou wentest to ght against the

children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call

us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we

will burn thy house.

2And he answered them: I and my people

were at great strife with the children of Ammon:

and I called you to assist me, and you would not

do it.

3And when I saw this, I put my life in my

own hands, and passed over against the children

of Ammon and the Lord delivered them into my

hands. What have I deserved, that you should

rise up to ght against me?

4Then calling to him all the men of Galaad,

he fought against Ephraim: and the men of

Galaad defeated Ephraim, because he had said:

Galaad is a fugitive of Ephraim, and dwelleth in

the midst of Ephraim and Manasses.

5And the Galaadites secured the fords of the

Jordan, by which Ephraim was to return. And

when any one of the number of Ephraim came

thither in the

ight, and said: I beseech you let

me pass: the Galaadites said to him: Art thou

not an Ephraimite? If he said: I am not:

6They asked him: Say then, Scibboleth,

which is interpreted, An ear of corn. But he an-

swered, Sibboleth, not being able to express an

ear of corn by the same letter. Then presently

they took him and killed him in the very pas-

sage of the Jordan. And there fell at that time

of Ephraim, two and forty thousand.304 Book of Judges

7And Jephte, the Galaadite, judged Israel six

years: and he died, and was buried in his city of

Galaad.

8After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Is-

rael:

9He had thirty sons, and as many daughters,

whom he sent abroad, and gave to husbands, and

took wives for his sons, of the same number,

bringing them into his house. And he judged

Israel seven years:

10And he died, and was buried in Bethlehem.

11To him succeeded Ahialon, a Zabulonite:

and he judged Israel ten years:

12And he died, and was buried in Zabulon.

13After him, Abdon, the son of Illel, a

Pharathonite, judged Israel:

14And he had forty sons, and of them thirty

grandsons, mounted upon seventy ass colts, and

he judged Israel eight years:

15And he died, and was buried in Pharathon,

in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of Amalech.

Chapter 13

And the children of Israel did evil again in the

sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the

hands of the Philistines forty years.

2Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and

of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and

his wife was barren.

3And an angel of the Lord appeared to her,

and said: Thou art barren and without children:

but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.

4Now therefore beware, and drink no wine

nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.

6Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son,

and no razor shall touch his head: for he shall

be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and fromhis mother's womb, and he shall begin to deliver

Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

6And when she was come to her husband, she

said to him: A man of God came to me, having

the countenance of an angel, very awful. And

when I asked him whence he came, and by what

name he was called, he would not tell me:

7But he answered thus: Behold thou shalt

conceive and bear a son: beware thou drink

no wine, nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean

thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite of God

from his infancy, from his mother's womb until

the day of his death.

8Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and said:

I beseech thee, O Lord, that the man of God,

whom thou didst send, may come again, and

teach us what we ought to do concerning the

child, that shall be born.

9And the Lord heard the prayer of Manue,

and the angel of the Lord appeared again to his

wife, as she was sitting in the eld. But Manue

her husband was not with her. And when she

saw the angel,

10She made haste, and ran to her husband:

and told him, saying: Behold the man hath ap-

peared to me, whom I saw before.

11He rose up, and followed his wife: and com-

ing to the man, said to him: Art thou he that

spoke to the woman? And he answered: I am.

12And Manue said to him: When thy word

shall come to pass, what wilt thou that the child

should do? or from what shall he keep himself?

13And the angel of the Lord said to Manue:

From all the things I have spoken of to thy wife,

let her refrain herself:

14And let her eat nothing that cometh of

the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong

drink, nor eat any unclean thing: and whatso-

ever I have commanded her, let her full and

observe.Book of Judges 305

15And Manue said to the angel of the Lord:

I beseech thee to consent to my request, and let

us dress a kid for thee.

16And the angel answered him: If thou press

me I will not eat of thy bread: but if thou wilt of-

fer a holocaust, oer it to the Lord. And Manue

knew not it was the angel of the Lord.

17And he said to him: What is thy name,

that, if thy word shall come to pass, we may

honour thee?

18And he answered him: Why askest thou

my name, which is wonderful?

19Then Manue took a kid of the

ocks, and
the libations, and put them upon a rock, oering

to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and he

and his wife looked on.

20And when the

ame from the altar went up

towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended

also in the same. And when Manue and his wife

saw this, they fell

at on the ground;

21And the angel of the Lord appeared to

them no more. And forthwith Manue under-

stood that it was an angel of the Lord,

22And he said to his wife: We shall certainly

die, because we have seen God.

23And his wife answered him: If the Lord

had a mind to kill us, he would not have received

a holocaust and libations at our hands; neither

would he have shewed us all these things, nor

have told us the things that are to come.

24And she bore a son, and called his name

Samson. And the child grew, and the Lord

blessed him.

25And the Spirit of the Lord began to be

with him in the camp of Dan, between Saraa

and Esthaol.Chapter 14

Then Samson went down to Thamnatha, and

seeing there a woman of the daughters of the

Philistines,

2He came up, and told his father and his

mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of

the daughters of the Philistines: I bescech you,

take her for me to wife.

3And his father and mother said to him: Is

there no woman among the daughters of thy

brethren, or among all my people, that thou wilt

take a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircum-

cised? And Samson said to his father: Take this

woman for me; for she hath pleased my eyes.

4Now his parents knew not that the thing

was done by the Lord, and that he sought an

occasion against the Philistines: for at that time

the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

5Then Samson went down with his father and

mother to Thamnatha. And when they were

come to the vineyards of the town, behold a

young lion met him, raging and roaring.

6And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Sam-

son, and he tore the lion as he would have torn a

kid in pieces, having nothing at all in his hand:

and he would not tell this to his father and

mother.

7And he went down, and spoke to the woman

that had pleased his eyes.

8And after some days, returning to take her,

he went aside to see the carcass of the lion, and

behold there was a swarm of bees in the mouth

of the lion, and a honey-comb.

9And when he had taken it in his hands, he

went on eating: and coming to his father and

mother, he gave them of it, and they ate: but he

would not tell them that he had taken the honey

from the body of the lion.

11And when the citizens of that place saw306 Book of Judges

him, they brought him thirty companions to be

with him.

12And Samson said to them: I will propose

to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me

within the seven days of the feast, I will give you

thirty shirts, and as many coats:

13But if you shall not be able to declare it,

you shall give me thirty shirts and the same num-

ber of coats. They answered him: Put forth the

riddle, that we may hear it.

14And he said to them: Out of the eater

came forth meat, and out of the strong came

forth sweetness. And they could not for three

days expound the riddle.

15And when the seventh day came, they

said to the wife of Samson: Sooth thy husband,

and persuade him to tell thee what the riddle

meaneth. But if thou wilt not do it, we will burn

thee, and thy father's house. Have you called us

to the wedding on purpose to strip us?

16So she wept before Samson and com-

plained, saying: Thou hatest me, and dost not

love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me

the riddle, which thou hast proposed to the sons

of my people. But he answered: I would not tell

it to my father and mother: and how can I tell

it to thee?

17So she wept before him the seven days of

the feast: and, at length, on the seventh day, as

she was troublesome to him, he expounded it.

And she immediately told her countrymen.

18And they, on the seventh day before the

sun went down, said to him: What is sweeter

than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?

And he said to them: If you had not ploughed

with my heifer, you had not found out my riddle.

19And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him,

and he went down to Ascalon, and slew there

thirty men whose garments he took away, and

gave to them that had declared the riddle. Andbeing exceeding angry, he went up to his father's

house:
20But his wife took one of his friends and

bridal companions for her husband.

Chapter 15

And a while after, when the days of the wheat

harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to

visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the

ock. And when he would have gone into her

chamber, as usual, her father would not suer

him, saying:

2I thought thou hadst hated her, and there-

fore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a

sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take

her to wife instead of her.

3And Samson answered him: From this day

I shall be blameless in what I do against the

Philistines: for I will do you evils.

4And he went and caught three hundred

foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened

torches between the tails:

6And setting them on re he let the foxes go,

that they might run about hither and thither.

And they presently went into the standing corn

of the Philistines. Which being set on re, both

the corn that was already carried together, and

that which was yet standing, was all burnt, inso-

much that the

ame consumed also the vineyards

and the oliveyards.

6Then the Philistines said: Who hath done

this thing? And it was answered: Samson, the

son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took

away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done

these things. And the Philistines went up and

burnt both the woman and her father.

7But Samson said to them: Although you

have done this, yet will I be revenged of you,Book of Judges 307

and then I will be quiet.

8And he made a great slaughter of them, so

that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg

upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a

cavern of the rock Etam.

9Then the Philistines going up into the land

of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards

was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where

their army was spread abroad.

10And the men of the tribe of Juda said to

them: Why are you come up against us? They

answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to

pay him for what he hath done against us.

11Wherefore three thousand men of Juda

went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and

said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the

Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do

thus? And he said to them: As they did to me,

so have I done to them.

12And they said to him: We are come to bind

thee, and to deliver thee into the hands of the

Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear to

me, and promise me that you will not kill me.

13They said: We will not kill thee: but we

will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him

with two new cords, and brought him from the

rock Etam.

14Now when he was come to the place of the

Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to

meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came strongly

upon him: and as

ax is wont to be consumed

at the approach of re, so the bands with which

he was bound were broken and loosed.

15And nding a jawbone, even the jawbone

of an ass, which lay there, catching it up, he slew

therewith a thousand men.

16And he said: With the jawbone of an ass,

with the jaw of the colt of asses, I have destroyed

them, and have slain a thousand men.

17And when he had ended these words,singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand,
and called the name of that place Ramathlechi,

which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.

18And being very thirsty, he cried to the

Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great

deliverance and victory into the hand of thy ser-

vant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall

into the hands of the uncircumcised.

19Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the

jaw of the ass and waters issued out of it. And

when he had drunk them, he refreshed his spirit,

and recovered his strength. Therefore the name

of that place was called The Spring of him that

invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.

20And he judged Israel, in the days of the

Philistines, twenty years.

Chapter 16

He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman,

a harlot, and went in unto her.

2And when the Philistines had heard this,

and it was noised about among them, that Sam-

son was come into the city, they surrounded him,

setting guards at the gate of the city, and watch-

ing there all the night in silence, that in the

morning they might kill him as he went out.

3But Samson slept till midnight, and then

rising, he took both the doors of the gate, with

the posts thereof and the bolt, and laying them

on his shoulders, carried them up to the top of

the hill, which looketh towards Hebron.

4After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in

the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.

5And the princes of the Philistines came to

her, and sald: Deceive him, and learn of him

wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may

be able to overcome him, to bind and aict him:

which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one308 Book of Judges

of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

6And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I be-

seech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth,

and what it is, wherewith if thou wert bound,

thou couldst not break loose.

7And Samson answered her: If I shall be

bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet

dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other

men.

8And the princes of the Philistines brought

unto her seven cords, such as he spoke of, with

which she bound him;

9Men lying privately in wait with her, and in

the chamber, expecting the event of the thing,

and she cried out to him: The Philistines are

upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as

a man would break a thread of tow twined with

spittle, when it smelleth the re: so it was not

known wherein his strength lay.

10And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast

mocked me, and hast told me a false thing: but

now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest be

bound.

11And he answered her: If I shall be bound

with new ropes, that were never in work, I shall

be weak and like other men.

12Dalila bound him again with these, and

cried out: The Philistines are upon thee, Sam-

son, there being an ambush prepared for him

in the chamber. But he broke the bands like

threads of webs.

13And Dalila said to him again: How long

dost thou deceive me, and tell me lies? Shew me

wherewith thou mayest be bound. And Samson

answered her: If thou plattest the seven locks

of my head with a lace, and tying them round

about a nail, fastenest it in the ground, I shall

be weak.

14And when Dalila had done this, she said

to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.And awaking out of his sleep, he drew out the

nail with the hairs and the lace.

15And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say

thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me?

Thou hast told me lies these three times, and

wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength

lieth.

16And when she pressed him much, and con-

tinually hung upon him for many days, giving

him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and

was wearied even unto death.

17Then opening the truth of the thing, he

said to her: The razor hath never come upon

my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, con-

secrated to God from my mother's womb: If my

head be shaven, my strength shall depart from

me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like

other men.

18Then seeing that he had discovered to

her all his mind, she sent to the princes of the

Philistines, saying: Come up this once more, for

now he hath opened his heart to me. And they

went up, taking with them the money which they

had promised.

19But she made him sleep upon her knees,

and lay his head in her bosom. And she called

a barber and shaved his seven locks, and began

to drive him away, and thrust him from her: for

immediately his strength departed from him.

20And she said: The Philistines are upon

thee, Samson. And awaking from sleep, he said

in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and

shake myself, not knowing that the Lord was de-

parted from him.

21Then the Philistines seized upon him, and

forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound

in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in prison

made him grind.

22And now his hair began to grow again,

23And the princes of the Philistines assem-Book of Judges 309

bled together, to oer great sacrices to Dagon

their god, and to make merry, saying: Our

god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our

hands.

24And the people also seeing this, praised

their god, and said the same: Our god hath de-

livered our adversary into our hands, him that

destroyed our country, and killed very many.

25And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had

now taken their good cheer, they commanded

that Samson should be called, and should play

before them. And being brought out of prison,

he played before them; and they made him stand

between two pillars.

26And he said to the lad that guided his

steps: Suer me to touch the pillars which sup-

port the whole house, and let me lean upon

them, and rest a little.

27Now the house was full of men and women,

and all the princes of the Philistines were there.

Moreover about three thousand persons of both

sexes, from the roof and the higher part of the

house, were beholding Samson's play.

28But he called upon the Lord, saying: O

Lord God remember me, and restore to me now

my former strength, O my God, that I may re-

venge myself on my enemies, and for the loss of

my two eyes I may take one revenge.

29And laying hold on both the pillars on

which the house rested, and holding the one with

his right hand, and the other with his left,

30He said: Let me die with the Philistines.

And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the

house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the

multitude, that was there: and he killed many

more at his death, than he had killed before in

his life.

31And his brethren and all his kindred, going

down took his body, and buried it between Saraa

and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his fatherManue: and he judged Israel twenty years.

Chapter 17
There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim,

whose name was Michas.

2Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred

pieces of silver, which thou hadst put aside for

thyself, and concerning which thou didst swear

in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with

me. And she said to him. Blessed be my son by

the Lord.

3So he restored them to his mother, who said

to him: I have consecrated and vowed this silver

to the Lord, that my son may receive it at my

hand, and make a graven and a molten god; so

now I deliver it to thee.

4And he restored them to his mother: and she

took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them

to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and

a molten God, which was in the house of Michas.

5And he separated also therein a little temple

for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim,

that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and

he lled the hand of one of his sons, and he be-

came his priest.

6In those days there was no king in Israel, but

every one did that which seemed right to himself.

7There was also another young man of Beth-

lehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was

a Levite, and dwelt there.

8Now he went out from the city of Bethlehem,

and desired to sojourn wheresoever he should

nd it convenient for him. And when he was

come to mount Ephraim, as he was on his jour-

ney, and had turned aside a little into the house

of Michas,

9He was asked by him whence he came. And

he answered: I am a Levite of Bethlehem Juda,310 Book of Judges

and I am going to dwell where I can, and where

I shall nd a place to my advantage.

10And Michas said: Stay with me, and be

unto me a father and a priest, and I will give

thee every year ten pieces of silver, and a double

suit of apparel, and thy victuals.

11He was content, and abode with the man,

and was unto him as one of his sons.

12And Michas lled his hand, and had the

young man with him for his priest, saying:

13Now I know God will do me good, since I

have a priest of the race of the Levites.

Chapter 18

In those days there was no king in Israel, and

the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to

dwell in: for unto that day they had not received

their lot among the other tribes.

2So the children of Dan sent ve most valiant

men, of their stock and family, from Saraa and

Esthaol, to spy out the land, and to view it dili-

gently: and they said to them: Go, and view

the land. They went on their way, and when

they came to mount Ephraim, they went into

the house of Michas, and rested there:

3And knowing the voice of the young man the

Levite, and lodging with him, they said to him:

Who brought thee hither? what dost thou here?

why wouldst thou come hither?

4He answered them: Michas hath done such

and such things for me, and hath hired me to be

his priest.

5Then they desired him to consult the Lord,

that they might know whether their journey

should be prosperous, and the thing should have

eect.

6He answered them: Go in peace: the Lord

looketh on your way, and the journey that yougo.

7So the ve men going on came to Lais: and

they saw how the people dwelt therein without

any fear, according to the custom of the Sido-

nians, secure and easy, having no man at all to

oppose them, being very rich, and living sep-

arated, at a distance from Sidon and from all

men.

8And they returned to their brethren in Saraa

and Esthaol, who asked them what they had

done: to whom they answered:

9Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have

seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful:

neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess

it, there will be no diculty.

10We shall come to a people that is secure,

into a spacious country, and the Lord will deliver

the place to us, in which there is no want of any

thing that groweth on the earth.

11There went therefore of the kindred of Dan,

to wit, from Saraa and Esthaol, six hundred men,

furnished with arms for war.

12And going up they lodged in Cariathiarim

of Juda: which place from that time is called the

camp of Dan, and is behind Cariathiarim.

13From thence they passed into mount

Ephraim. And when they were come to the

house of Michas,

14The ve men, that before had been sent to

view the land of Lais, said to the rest of their

brethren: You know that in these houses there

is an ephod and theraphim, and a graven and a

molten god: see what you are pleased to do.

15And when they had turned a little aside,

they went into the house of the young man the

Levite, who was in the house of Michas: and

they saluted him with words of peace.

16And the six hundred men stood before the

door, appointed with their arms.

17But they that were gone into the houseBook of Judges 311

of the young man, went about to take away the

graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim,

and the molten god, and the priest stood before

the door, the six hundred valiant men waiting

not far o.

18So they that were gone in took away the

graven thing, the ephod, and the idols, and the

molten god, And the priest said to them: What

are you doing?

19And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and

put thy nger on thy mouth, and come with us,

that we may have thee for a father, and a priest.

Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the

house of one man, or in a tribe and family in

Israel?

20When he heard this, he agreed to their

words, and took the ephod, and the idols, and

the graven god, and departed with them.

21And when they were going forward, and

had put before them the children and the cattle,

and all that was valuable,

22And were now at a distance from the house

of Michas, the men that dwelt in the houses of

Michas gathering together followed them,

23And began to shout out after them. They

looked back, and said to Michas: What aileth

thee? Why dost thou cry?

24And he answered: You have taken away

my gods which I have made me, and the priest,

and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth

thee?

25And the children of Dan said to him: See

thou say no more to us, lest men enraged come

upon thee, and thou perish with all thy house.

26And so they went on the journey they

had begun. But Michas seeing that they were

stronger than he, returned to his house.

27And the six hundred men took the priest,

and the things we spoke of before, and came to

Lais, to a people that was quiet and secure, andsmote them with the edge of the sword: and the

city they burnt with re,

28There being no man at all who brought

them any succour, because they dwelt far from

Sidon, and had no society or business with any

man. And the city was in the land of Rohob:

and they rebuilt it, and dwelt therein,

29Calling the name of the city Dan, after the

name of their father, who was the son of Israel,

which before was called Lais.

30And they set up to themselves the graven

idol, and Jonathan the son of Gersam, the son of

Moses, he and his sons were priests in the tribe

of Dan, until the day of their captivity.

31And the idol of Michas remained with them

all the time that the house of God was in Silo.

In those days there was no king in Israel.

Chapter 19

There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side

of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem

Juda:

2And she left him, and returned to her fa-

ther's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him

four months.

3And her husband followed her, willing to be

reconciled with her, and to speak kindly to her,

and to bring her back with him, having with him

a servant and two asses: and she received him,

and brought him into her father's house. And

when his father in law had heard this, and had

seen him, he met him with joy,

4And embraced the man. And the son in law

tarried in the house of his father in law three

days, eating with him and drinking familiarly.

5But on the fourth day, arising early in the

morning, he desired to depart. But his father in

law kept him, and said to him: Taste rst a little312 Book of Judges

bread, and strengthen thy stomach, and so thou

shalt depart.

6And they sat down together, and ate and

drank. And the father of the young woman said

to his son in law: I beseech thee to stay here to

day, and let us make merry together.

7But he rising up, began to be for depart-

ing. And nevertheless his father in law earnestly

pressed him, and made him stay with him.

8But when morning was come, the Levite pre-

pared to go on his journey. And his father in law

said to him again: I beseech thee to take a lit-

tle meat, and strengthening thyself, till the day

be farther advanced, afterwards thou mayest de-

part. And they ate together.

9And the young man arose to set forward with

his wife and servant. And his father in law spoke

to him again: Consider that the day is declining,

and draweth toward evening: tarry with me to

day also, and spend the day in mirth, and to

morrow thou shalt depart, that thou mayest go

into thy house.

10His son in law would not consent to his

words: but forthwith went forward, and came

over against Jebus, which by another name is

called Jerusalem, leading with him two asses

loaden, and his concubine.

11And now they were come near Jebus, and

the day was far spent: and the servant said to his

master: Come, I beseech thee, let us turn into

the city of the Jebusites, and lodge there.

12His master answered him: I will not go into

the town of another nation, who are not of the

children of Israel, but I will pass over to Gabaa:

13And when I shall come thither, we will

lodge there, or at least in the city of Rama.

14So they passed by Jebus, and went on their

journey, and the sun went down upon them when

they were by Gabaa, which is in the tribe of Ben-

jamin:15And they turned into it to lodge there. And

when they were come in, they sat in the street of

the city, for no man would receive them to lodge.

16And behold they saw an old man, returning

out of the eld and from his work in the evening,

and he also was of mount Ephraim, and dwelt as

a stranger in Gabaa; but the men of that country

were the children of Jemini.

17And the old man lifting up his eyes, saw

the man sitting with his bundles in the street of

the city, and said to him: Whence comest thou?

and whither goest thou?

18He answered him: We came out from Beth-

lehem Juda, and we are going to our home, which

is on the side of mount Ephraim, from whence

we went to Bethlehem: and now we go to the

house of God, and none will receive us under his

roof:

19We have straw and hay for provender of the

asses, and bread and wine for the use of myself

and of thy handmaid, and of the servant that is

with me: we want nothing but lodging.

20And the old man answered him: Peace be

with thee: I will furnish all things that are neces-

sary: only I beseech thee, stay not in the street.

21And he brought him into his house, and

gave provender to his asses: and after they had

washed their feet, he entertained them with a

feast.

22While they were making merry, and re-

freshing their bodies with meat and drink, after

the labour of the journey, the men of that city,

sons of Belial (that is, without yoke), came and

beset the old man's house, and began to knock

at the door, calling to the master of the house,

and saying: Bring forth the man that came into

thy house, that we may abuse him:

23And the old man went out to them, and

said: Do not so, my brethren, do not so wickedly:

because this man is come into my lodging, andBook of Judges 313

cease I pray you from this folly.

24I have a maiden daughter, and this man

hath a concubine, I will bring them out to you,

and you may humble them, and satisfy your

lust: only, I beseech you, commit not this crime

against nature on the man.

25They would not be satised with his words;

which the man seeing, brought out his concubine

to them, and abandoned her to their wickedness:

and when they had abused her all the night, they

let her go in the morning.

26But the woman, at the dawning of the day,

came to the door of the house, where her lord

lodged, and there fell down.

27And in the morning the man arose, and

opened the door, that he might end the jour-

ney he had begun: and behold his concubine lay

before the door with her hands spread on the

threshold.

28He thinking she was taking her rest, said to

her: Arise, and let us be going. But as she made

no answer, perceiving she was dead, he took her

up, and laid her upon his ass, and returned to

his house.

29And when he was come home, he took a

sword, and divided the dead body of his wife

with her bones into twelve parts, and sent the

pieces into all the borders of Israel.

30And when every one had seen this, they

all cried out: There was never such a thing done

in Israel, from the day that our fathers came up

out of Egypt, until this day: give sentence, and

decree in common what ought to be done.

Chapter 20

Then all the children of Israel went out, and

gathered together as one man, from Dan to

Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lordin Maspha:

2And all the chiefs of the people, and all the

tribes of Israel, met together in the assembly of

the people of God, four hundred thousand foot-

men t for war.

3(Nor were the children of Benjamin igno-

rant that the children of Israel were come up

to Maspha.) And the Levite, the husband of the

woman that was killed being asked, how so great

a wickedness had been committed,

4Answered: I came into Gabaa, of Benjamin,

with my wife, and there I lodged:

5And behold the men of that city, in the night

beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill

me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury

of lust, so that at last she died.

6And I took her and cut her in pieces, and

sent the parts into all the borders of your pos-

session: because there never was so heinous a

crime, and so great an abomination committed

in Israel.

7You are all here, O children of Israel, deter-

mine what you ought to do.

8And all the people standing, answered as by

the voice of one man: We will not return to our

tents, neither shall any one of us go into his own

house:

9But this we will do in common against

Gabaa:

10We will take ten men of a hundred out of

all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a

thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand,

to bring victuals for the army, that we may ght

against Gabaa of Benjamin, and render to it for

its wickedness, what it deserveth.

11And all Israel were gathered together

against the city, as one man, with one mind, and

one counsel:

12And they sent messengers to all the tribe

of Benjamin, to say to them: Why hath so great314 Book of Judges

an abomination been found among you?

13Deliver up the men of Gabaa, that have

committed this heinous crime, that they may die,

and the evil may be taken away out of Israel.

But they would not hearken to the proposition

of their brethren the children of Israel:

14But out of all the cities which were of

their lot, they gathered themselves together into

Gabaa, to aid them, and to ght against the

whole people of Israel.

15And there were found of Benjamin ve and

twenty thousand men that drew the sword, be-

sides the inhabitants of Gabaa,

16Who were seven hundred most valiant men,

ghting with the left hand as well as with the

right: and slinging stones so sure that they could

hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone's going

on either side.

17Of the men of Israel also, beside the chil-

dren of Benjamin, were found four hundred thou-

sand that drew swords and were prepared to

ght.
18And they arose and came to the house of

God, that is, to Silo: and they consulted God,

and said: Who shall be in our army the rst to go

to the battle against the children of Benjamin?

And the Lord answered them: Let Juda be your

leader.

19And forthwith the children of Israel rising

in the morning, camped by Gabaa:

20And going out from thence to ght against

Benjamin, began to assault the city.

21And the children of Benjamin coming out

of Gabaa slew of the children of Israel that day

two and twenty thousand men.

22Again Israel, trusting in their strength and

their number, set their army in array in the same

place, where they had fought before:

23Yet so that they rst went up and wept

before the Lord until night: and consulted himand said: Shall I go out any more to ght against

the children of Benjamin my brethren or not?

And he answered them: Go up against them,

and join battle.

24And when the children of Israel went out

the next day to ght against the children of Ben-

jamin,

25The children of Benjamin sallied forth out

of the gates of Gabaa: and meeting them, made

so great a slaughter of them, as to kill eighteen

thousand men that drew the sword.

26Wherefore all the children of Israel came to

the house of God, and sat and wept before the

Lord: and they fasted that day till the evening,

and oered to him holocausts, and victims of

peace oerings,

27And inquired of him concerning their state.

At that time the ark of the covenant of the Lord

was there,

28And Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son

of Aaron, was over the house. So they consulted

the Lord, and said: Shall we go out any more

to ght against the children of Benjamin, our

brethren, or shall we cease? And the Lord said

to them: Go up, for to morrow I will deliver

them into your hands.

29And the children of Israel set ambushes

round about the city of Gabaa:

30And they drew up their army against Ben-

jamin the third time, as they had done the rst

and second.

31And the children of Benjamin boldly issued

out of the city, and seeing their enemies

ee, pur-

sued them a long way, so as to wound and kill

some of them, as they had done the rst and

second day, whilst they

ed by two highways,

whereof one goeth up to Bethel and the other to

Gabaa, and they slew about thirty men:

32For they thought to cut them o as they

did before. But they artfully feigning a

ight,Book of Judges 315

designed to draw them away from the city, and

by their seeming to

ee, to bring them to the

highways aforesaid.

33Then all the children of Israel rising up

out of the places where they were, set their

army in battle array, in the place which is called

Baalthamar. The ambushes also, which were

about the city, began by little and little to come

forth,

34And to march from the west side of the

city. And other ten thousand men chosen out

of all Israel, attacked the inhabitants of the city.

And the battle grew hot against the children of

Benjamin: and they understood not that present

death threatened them on every side.

35And the Lord defeated them before the

children of Israel, and they slew of them in that

day ve and twenty thousand, and one hundred,

all ghting men, and that drew the sword.

36But the children of Benjamin, when they

saw themselves to be too weak, began to

ee.

Which the children of Israel seeing, gave them

place to

ee, that they might come to the am-

bushes that were prepared, which they had set

near the city.

37And they that were in ambush arose on a

sudden out of their coverts, and whilst Benjamin

turned their backs to the slayers, went into the

city, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

38Now the children of Israel had given a sign

to them, whom they had laid in ambushes, that

after they had taken the city, they should make

a re: that by the smoke rising on high, they

might shew that the city was taken.

39And when the children of Israel saw this in

the battle, (for the children of Benjamin thought

they

ed, and pursued them vigorously, killing

thirty men of their army)

40And perceived, as it were, a pillar of smoke

rise up from the city; and Benjamin lookingback, saw that the city was taken, and that the
ames ascended on high:

41They that before had made as if they

ed,

turning their faces, stood bravely against them.

Which the children of Benjamin seeing, turned

their backs,

42And began to go towards the way of the

desert, the enemy pursuing them thither also.

And they that red the city came also out to

meet them.

43And so it was, that they were slain on both

sides by the enemies, and there was no rest of

their men dying. They fell and were beaten down

on the east side of the city of Gabaa.

44And they that were slain in the same place,

were eighteen thousand men, all most valiant sol-

diers.

45And when they that remained of Benjamin

saw this, they

ed into the wilderness, and made

towards the rock that is called Remmon. In that

ight also, as they were straggling, and going

dierent ways; they slew of them ve thousand

men. And as they went farther, they still pur-

sued them, and slew also other two thousand.

46And so it came to pass, that all that were

slain of Benjamin, in divers places, were ve and

twenty thousand ghting men, most valiant for

war.

47And there remained of all the number of

Benjamin only six hundred men that were able

to escape, and

ee to the wilderness: and they

abode in the rock Remmon four months.

48But the children of Israel returning, put

all the remains of the city to the sword, both

men and beasts, and all the cities and villages of

Benjamin were consumed with devouring

ames.316 Book of Judges

Chapter 21

Now the children of Israel had also sworn in Mas-

pha, saying: None of us shall give of his daugh-

ters to the children of Benjamin to wife.

2And they all came to the house of God in

Silo, and sitting before him till the evening, lifted

up their voices, and began to lament and weep,

saying:

3O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an

evil come to pass in thy people, that this day

one tribe should be taken away from among us?

4And rising early the next day, they built an

altar: and oered there holocausts, and victims

of peace, and they said:

5Who is there among all the tribes of Israel

that came not up with the army of the Lord? for

they had bound themselves with a great oath,

when they were in Maspha, that whosoever were

wanting should be slain.

6And the children of Israel being moved with

repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to

say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.

7Whence shall they take wives? For we have

all in general sworn, not to give our daughters to

them.

8Therefore they said: Who is there of all the

tribes of Israel, that came not up to the Lord

to Maspha? And, behold, the inhabitants of

Jabes Galaad were found not to have been in

that army.

9(At that time also when they were in Silo,

no one of them was found there,)

10So they sent ten thousand of the most

valiant men, and commanded them, saying: Go

and put the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad to the

sword, with their wives and their children.

11And this is what you shall observe: Every

male, and all women that have known men, you

shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.12And there were found of Jabes Galaad four

hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of

a man, and they brought them to the camp in

Silo, into the land of Chanaan.

13And they sent messengers to the children

of Benjamin, that were in the rock Remmon, and

commanded them to receive them in peace.

14And the children of Benjamin came at

that time, and wives were given them of Jabes

Galaad: but they found no others, whom they

might give in like manner.

15And all Israel was very sorry, and repented

for the destroying of one tribe out of Israel.

16And the ancients said: What shall we do

with the rest, that have not received wives? for

all the women in Benjamin are dead.

17And we must use all care, and provide with

great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed

out of Israel.

18For as to our own daughters we cannot give

them, being bound with an oath and a curse,

whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give

Benjamin any of his daughters to wife.

19So they took counsel, and said: Behold,

there is a yearly solemnity of the Lord in Silo,

which is situate on the north of the city of Bethel,

and on the east side of the way, that goeth from

Bethel to Sichem, and on the south of the town

of Lebona.

20And they commanded the children of Ben-

jamin and said: Go, and lie hid in the vineyards,

21And when you shall see the daughters of

Silo come out, as the custom is, to dance, come

ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and catch

you every man his wife among them, and go into

the land of Benjamin.

22And when their fathers and their brethren

shall come, and shall begin to complain against

you, and to chide, we will say to them: Have pity

on them: for they took them not away as by theBook of Judges 317

right of war or conquest, but when they asked

to have them, you gave them not, and the fault

was committed on your part.

23And the children of Benjamin did as they

had been commanded: and, according to their

number, they carried o for themselves every

man his wife of them that were dancing: and

they went into their possession, and built up

their cities, and dwelt in them.

24The children of Israel also returned by their

tribes, and families, to their dwellings. In those

days there was no king in Israel: but every one

did that which seemed right to himself.Book of Ruth

Chapter 1

In the days of the judges, when the judges ruled,

there came a famine in the land. And a certain

man of Bethlehem Juda, went to sojourn in the

land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

2He was named Elimelech, and his wife

Noemi: and his two sons, the one Mahalon,

and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem

Juda. And entering into the country of Moab,

they abode there.

3And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died:

and she remained with her sons.

4And they took wives of the women of Moab,

of which one was called Orpha, and the other

Ruth. And they dwelt their ten years,

5And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and

Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having

lost both her sons and her husband.

6And she arose to go from the land of Moab

to her own country, with both her daughters in

law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked

upon his people, and had given them food.

7Wherefore she went forth out of the place

of her sojournment, with both her daughters in

law: and being now in the way to return into the

land of Juda,

8She said to them: Go ye home to your moth-

ers, the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you

have dealt with the dead and with me.

9May he grant you to nd rest in the houses

of the husbands whom you shall take. And shekissed them. And they lifted up their voice, and

began to weep,

10And to say: We will go on with thee to thy

people.

11But she answered them: Return, my

daughters: why come ye with me? have I any

more sons in my womb, that you may hope for

husbands of me?

12Return again, my daughters, and go your

ways: for I am now spent with age, and not t for

wedlock. Although I might conceive this night,

and bear children,

13If you would wait till they were grown up,

and come to man's estate, you would be old

women before you marry. Do not so, my daugh-

ters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for

your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone

out against me.

14And they lifted up their voice, and began

to weep again: Orpha kissed her mother in law,

and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother in

law.

15And Noemi said to her: Behold thy

kinswoman is returned to her people, and to her

gods, go thou with her.

16She answered: Be not against me, to desire

that I should leave thee and depart: for whith-

ersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou

shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall

be my people, and thy God my God.

17The land that shall receive thee dying, in

the same will I die: and there will I be buried.Book of Ruth 319

The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also,

if aught but death part me and thee.

18Then Noemi seeing that Ruth was stead-

fastly determined to go with her, would not be

against it, nor persuade her any more to return

to her friends:

20But she said to them: Call me not Noemi

(that is, beautiful,) but call me Mara (that is,

bitter), for the Almighty hath quite lled me

with bitterness.

21I went out full and the Lord hath brought

me back empty. Why then do you call me Noemi,

whom the Lord hath humbled, and the Almighty

hath aicted?
22So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess,

her daughter in law, from the land of her so-

journment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the

beginning of the barley harvest.

Chapter 2

Now her husband Elimelech had a kinsman, a

powerful man, and very rich, whose name was

Booz.

3And Ruth, the Moabitess, said to her mother

in law: If thou wilt, I will go into the eld, and

glean the ears of corn that escape the hands of

the reapers, wheresoever I shall nd grace with a

householder, that will be favourable to me. And

she answered her: Go, my daughter.

3She went, therefore, and gleaned the ears

of corn after the reapers. And it happened that

the owner of that eld was Booz, who was of the

kindred of Elimelech.

4And behold, he came out of Bethlehem, and

said to the reapers: The Lord be with you. And

they answered him: The Lord bless thee.

5And Booz said to the young man that was

set over the reapers: Whose maid is this ?6And he answered him: This is the

Moabitess, who came with Noemi, from the land

of Moab,

7And she desired leave to glean the ears

of corn that remain, following the steps of the

reapers: and she hath been in the eld from

morning till now, and hath not gone home for

one moment.

8And Booz said to Ruth: Hear me, daughter,

do not go to glean in any other eld, and do not

depart from this place: but keep with my maids,

9And follow where they reap. For I have

charged my young men, not to molest thee: and

if thou art thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of

the waters whereof the servants drink.

11And he answered her: All hath been told

me, that thou hast done to thy mother in law

after the death of thy husband: and how thou

hast left thy parents, and the land wherein thou

wast born, and art come to a people which thou

knewest not heretofore.

12The Lord render unto thee for thy work,

and mayst thou receive a full reward of the Lord

the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and

under whose wings thou art

ed.

13And she said: I have found grace in thy

eyes, my lord, who hast comforted me, and hast

spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am

not like to one of thy maids.

14And Booz said to her: At mealtime come

thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy

morsel in the vinegar. So she sat at the side of

the reapers, and she heaped to herself frumenty,

and ate and was lled, and took the leavings.

15And she arose from thence, to glean the

ears of corn as before. And Booz commanded

his servants, saying: If she would even reap with

you, hinder her not:

16And let fall some of your handfuls of pur-

pose, and leave them, that she may gather them320 Book of Ruth

without shame, and let no man rebuke her when

she gathereth them.

17She gleaned therefore in the eld till

evening: and beating out with a rod, and thresh-

ing what she had gleaned, she found about the

measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three

bushels:

18Which she took up, and returned into the

city, and shewed it to her mother in law: more-

over, she brought out, and gave her of the re-

mains of her meat, wherewith she had been lled.

19And her mother in law said to her: Where

hast thou gleaned today, and where hast thou

wrought? blessed be he that hath had pity on

thee. And she told her with whom she had

wrought: and she told the man's name, that he

was called Booz.

20And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he

of the Lord: because the same kindness which

he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to

the dead. And again she said: The man is our

kinsman.

21And Ruth said: He also charged me, that I

should keep close to his reapers, till all the corn

should be reaped.

22And her mother in law said to her: It is

better for thee, my daughter, to go out to reap

with his maids, lest in another man's eld some

one may resist thee.

23So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and

continued to glean with them, till all the barley

and the wheat were laid up in the barns.

Chapter 3

After she was returned to her mother in law,

Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest

for thee, and will provide that it may be well

with thee.2This Booz, with whose maids thou wast

joined in the eld, is our near kinsman, and

behold this night he winnoweth barley in the

threshing

oor.
3Wash thyself therefore and anoint thee, and

put on thy best garments, and go down to the

barn

oor: but let not the man see thee, till he

shall have done eating and drinking.

4And when he shall go to sleep, mark the

place wherein he sleepeth: and thou shalt go

in, and lift up the clothes wherewith he is cov-

ered towards his feet, and shalt lay thyself down

there: and he will tell thee what thou must do.

5She answered: Whatsoever thou shalt com-

mand, I will do.

6And she went down to the barn

oor, and

did all that her mother in law had bid her.

7And when Booz had eaten, and drunk, and

was merry, he went to sleep by the heap of

sheaves, and she came softly, and uncovering his

feet, laid herself down.

8And behold, when it was now midnight the

man was afraid, and troubled: and he saw a

woman lying at his feet,

9And he said to her: Who art thou ? And

she answered: I am Ruth, thy handmaid: spread

thy coverlet over thy servant, for thou art a near

kinsman.
10And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord,

my daughter, and thy latter kindness has sur-

passed the former: because thou hast not fol-

lowed young men either poor or rich.

11Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou

shalt say to me I will do to thee. For all the

people that dwell within the gates of my city,

know that thou art a virtuous woman.

12Neither do I deny myself to be near of kin,

but there is another nearer than I.

13Rest thou this night: and when morning is

come, if he will take thee by the right of kindred,Book of Ruth 321

all is well: but if he will not, I will undoubtedly

take thee, so the Lord liveth: sleep till the morn-

ing.

14So she slept at his feet till the night was

going o. And she arose before men could know

one another, and Booz said: Beware lest any

man know that thou camest hither.

15And again he said: Spread thy mantle,

wherewith thou art covered, and hold it with

both hands. And when she spread it and held it,

he measured six measures of barley, and laid it

upon her. And she carried it, and went into the

city,

16And came to her mother in law; who said

to her: What hast thou done, daughter? And

she told her all that the man had done to her.

17And she said: Behold he hath given me six

measures of barley: for he said: I will not have

thee return empty to thy mother in law.

18And Noemi said: Wait, my daughter, till

we see what end the thing will have. For the man

will not rest until he have accomplished what he

hath said.

Chapter 4

2And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of

the city, said to them: Sit ye down here.

3They sat down, and he spoke to the kins-

man: Noemi, who is returned from the country

of Moab will sell a parcel of land that belonged

to our brother Elimelech.

4I would have thee to understand this, and

would tell thee before all that sit here, and be-

fore the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take

possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it,

and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me

so, that I may know what I have to do. For

there is no near kinsman besides thee, who artrst, and me, who am second. But he answered:

I will buy the eld.

5And Booz said to him: When thou shalt

buy the eld at the woman's hand, thou must

take also Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife

of the deceased: to raise up the name of thy

kinsman in his inheritance.

6He answered: I yield up my right of next

akin: for I must not cut o the posterity of my

own family. Do thou make use of my privilege,

which I profess I do willingly forego.

7Now this in former times was the manner in

Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one

yielded his right to another: that the grant might

be sure, the man put o his shoe and gave it to

his neighbour; this was a testimony of cession of

right in Israel.

8So Booz said to his kinsman: Put o thy

shoe. And immediately he took it o from his

foot.

9And he said to the ancients, and to all the

people: You are witnesses this day, that I have

bought all that was Elimelech's, and Chelion's,

and Mahalon's, of the hand of Noemi:

10And have taken to wife Ruth, the

Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the

name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his

name be cut o, from among his family and his

brethren and his people. You, I say, are wit-

nesses of this thing.

11Then all the people that were in the gate,

and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses:

The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy

house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the

house of Israel: that she may be an example of

virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name

in Bethlehem:

12And that the house may be, as the house

of Phares, whom Thamar bore unto Juda, of the

seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young322 Book of Ruth

woman.

13Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her:

and went in unto her, and the Lord gave her to

conceive, and to bear a son.

14And the women said to Noemi: Blessed

be the Lord, who hath not suered thy family

to want a successor: that his name should be

preserved in Israel.

16And Noemi taking the child, laid it in her

bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto

it.

17And the women, her neighbours, congratu-

lating with her, and saying, There is a son born

to Noemi, called his name Obed: he is the father

of Isai, the father of David.

18These are the generations of Phares:

Phares begot Esron,

19Esron begot Aram, Aram begot Aminadab,

20Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson be-

got Salmon,

21Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,

22Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.First Book of Samuel

Chapter 1

There was a man of Ramathaimsophim, of

Mount Ephraim, and his name was Elcana, the

son of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, the son of

Thohu, the son of Suph, an Ephraimite:

2And he had two wives, the name of one

was Anna, and the name of the other Phenenna.

Phenenna had children: but Anna had no chil-

dren.

3And this man went up out of his city upon

the appointed days, to adore and to oer sacrice

to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two sons

of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of

the Lord.

4Now the day came, and Elcana oered sac-

rice, and gave to Phenenna, his wife, and to all

her sons and daughters, portions:

5But to Anna he gave one portion with sor-

row, because he loved Anna. And the Lord had

shut up her womb.

6Her rival also aicted her, and troubled her

exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her,

that the Lord had shut up her womb:

7And thus she did every year, when the time

returned, that they went up to the temple of

the Lord: and thus she provoked her: but Anna

wept, and did not eat.

8Then Elcana, her husband, said to her:

Anna, why weepest thou? and why dost thou

not eat? and why dost thou aict thy heart?

Am not I better to thee than ten children?9So Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk

in Silo: And Heli, the priest, sitting upon a stool

before the door of the temple of the Lord;

10As Anna had her heart full of grief, she

prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears,

11And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of

hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful

of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt

give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him

to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor

shall come upon his head.

12And it came to pass, as she multiplied

prayers before the Lord, that Heli observed her

mouth.

13Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her

lips moved, but her voice was not heard at all.

Heli therefore thought her to be drunk,

14And said to her: How long wilt thou be

drunk? digest a little the wine, of which thou

hast taken too much.

15Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for

I am an exceeding unhappy woman, and have

drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I

have poured out my soul before the Lord.

16Count not thy handmaid for one of the

daughters of Belial: for out of the abundance

of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now.

17Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and

the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which

thou hast asked of him.

18And she said: Would to God thy handmaid

may nd grace in thy eyes. So the woman went324 First Book of Samuel

on her way, and ate, and her countenance was

no more changed.

19And they rose in the morning, and wor-

shipped before the Lord: and they returned, and

came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana

knew Anna his wife: And the Lord remembered

her.

20And it came to pass when the time was

come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and

called his name Samuel: because she had asked

him of the Lord.

21And Elcana, her husband, went up, and

all his house, to oer to the Lord the solemn

sacrice, and his vow.

22But Anna went not up: for she said to her

husband: I will not go till the child be weaned,

and till I may carry him, that he may appear

before the Lord, and may abide always there.

23And Elcana, her husband, said to her: Do

what seemeth good to thee, and stay till thou

wean him: and I pray that the Lord may full

his word. So the woman staid at home, and gave

her son suck, till she weaned him.

24And after she had weaned him, she car-

ried him with her, with three calves, and three

bushels of

our, and a bottle of wine, and she

brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo.

Now the child was as yet very young:

25And they immolated a calf, and oered the

child to Heli.

26And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord,

as thy soul liveth, my lord: I am that woman,

who stood before thee here praying to the Lord.

27For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath

granted me my petition, which I asked of him.

28Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord

all the days of his life, he shall be lent to the

Lord. And they adored the Lord there. And

Anna prayed, and said:Chapter 2

My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn

is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over

my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salva-

tion.

2There is none holy as the Lord is: for there

is no other beside thee, and there is none strong

like our God.

3Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boast-

ing: let old matters depart from your mouth: for

the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him

are thoughts prepared.

4The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the

weak are girt with strength.

5They that were full before, have hired out

themselves for bread: and the hungry are lled,

so that the barren hath borne many: and she

that had many children is weakened.

6The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he

bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

7The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he

humbleth and he exalteth:

8He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and

lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he

may sit with princes, and hold the throne of

glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's,

and upon them he hath set the world.

9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the

wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no

man shall prevail by his own strength.

10The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him:

and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens:

The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and

he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt

the horn of his Christ.

11And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house:

but the child ministered in the sight of the Lord

before the face of Heli the priest.First Book of Samuel 325

12Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial,

not knowing the Lord,

13Nor the oce of the priests to the people:

but whosoever had oered a sacrice, the servant

of the priest came, while the

esh was in boiling,

with a

eshhook of three teeth in his hand,

14And thrust it into the kettle, or into the

cauldron, or into the pot, or into the pan: and

all that the

eshhook brought up, the priest took

to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that came

to Silo.

15Also before they burnt the fat, the servant

of the priest came, and said to the man that

sacriced: Give me

esh to boil for the priest:

for I will not take of thee sodden

esh, but raw.

16And he that sacriced said to him: Let

the fat rst be burnt to day, according to the

custom, and then take to thee as much as thy

soul desireth. But he answered, and said to him:

Not so: but thou shalt give it me now, or else I

will take it by force.

17Wherefore the sin of the young men was

exceeding great before the Lord: because they

withdrew men from the sacrice of the Lord.

18But Samuel ministered before the face of

the Lord: being a child girded with a linen

ephod.

19And his mother made him a little coat,

which she brought to him on the appointed days,

when she went up with her husband, to oer the

solemn sacrice.

20And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and

he said to him: The Lord give thee seed of this

woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the Lord.

And they went to their own home.

21And the Lord visited Anna, and she con-

ceived, and bore three sons, and two daughters:

and the child Samuel became great before the

Lord.

22Now Heli was very old, and he heard allthat his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay

with the women that waited at the door of the

tabernacle:

23And he said to them: Why do ye these

kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things,

from all the people?

24Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report

that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord

to transgress.

25If one man shall sin against another, God

may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man

shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for

him? And they hearkened not to the voice of

their father, because the Lord would slay them.

26But the child Samuel advanced, and grew

on, and pleased both the Lord and men.

27And there came a man of God to Heli, and

said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Did I not

plainly appear to thy father's house, when they

were in Egypt in the house of Pharao?

28And I chose him out of all the tribes of

Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, and

burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod before

me: and I gave to thy father's house of all the

sacrices of the children of Israel.

29Why have you kicked away my victims, and

my gifts which I commanded to be oered in the

temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy sons

than me, to eat the rstfruits of every sacrice

of my people Israel?

30Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of

Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the

house of thy father, should minister in my sight,

for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this

from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him

will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be

despised.

31Behold the days come: and I will cut o

thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that

there shall not be an old man in thy house.326 First Book of Samuel

32And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple,

in all the prosperity of Israel, and there shall not

be an old man in thy house for ever.

33However, I will not altogether take away

a man of thee from my altar: but that thy eyes

may faint, and thy soul be spent: and a great

part of thy house shall die, when they come to

man's estate.

34And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall

come upon thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees: in

one day they shall both of them die.

35And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who

shall do according to my heart, and my soul and

I will build him a faithful house, and he shall

walk all days before my anointed.

36And it shall come to pass, that whosoever

shall remain in thy house shall come that he may

be prayed for, and shall oer a piece of silver, and

a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I beseech

thee, to somewhat of the priestly oce, that I

may eat a morsel of bread.

Chapter 3

Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord be-

fore Heli, and the word of the Lord was precious

in those days, there was no manifest vision.

2And it came to pass one day when Heli lay

in his place, and his eyes were grown dim, that

he could not see:

3Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel

slept in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of

God was.
4And the Lord called Samuel. And he an-

swered: Here am I.

5And he ran to Heli, and said: Here am I: for

thou didst call me. He said: I did not call: go

back and sleep. And he went and slept.

6And the Lord called Samuel again. AndSamuel arose and went to Heli, and said: Here

am I: for thou calledst me. He answered: I did

not call thee, my son: return and sleep.

7Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nei-

ther had the word of the Lord been revealed to

him.

8And the Lord called Samuel again the third

time. And he arose up and went to Heli,

9And said: Here am I: for thou didst call

me. Then Heli understood that the Lord called

the child, and he said to Samuel: Go, and sleep:

and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say:

Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. So Samuel

went, and slept in his place.

10And the Lord came, and stood, and he

called, as he had called the other times, Samuel,

Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for thy

servant heareth.

11And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold I do

a thing in Israel: and whosoever shall hear it,

both his ears shall tingle.

12In that day I will raise up against Heli all

the things I have spoken concerning his house: I

will begin, and I will make an end.

13For I have foretold unto him, that I will

judge his house for ever, for iniquity, because

he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did not

chastise them.

14Therefore have I sworn to the house of Heli,

that the iniquity of his house shall not be expi-

ated with victims nor oerings for ever.

15And Samuel slept till morning, and opened

the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel

feared to tell the vision to Heli.

16Then Heli called Samuel, and said: Samuel,

my son. And he answered: Here am I.

17And he asked him: What is the word that

the Lord hath spoken to thee? I beseech thee

hide it not from me. May God do so and so to

thee, and add so and so, if thou hide from meFirst Book of Samuel 327

one word of all that were said to thee.

18So Samuel told him all the words, and did

not hide them from him. And he answered: It is

the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.

19And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with

him, and not one of his words fell to the ground.

20And all Israel, from Dan to Bersabee, knew

that Samuel was a faithful prophet of the Lord.

21And the Lord again appeared in Silo, for

the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Silo, ac-

cording to the word of the Lord. And the word

of Samuel came to pass to all Israel.

Chapter 4

And it came to pass in those days, that

the Philistines gathered themselves together to

ght: and Israel went out to war against the

Philistines, and camped by the Stone of help.

And the Philistines came to Aphec,

2And put their army in array against Israel.

And when they had joined battle, Israel turned

their backs to the Philistines: and there were

slain in that ght, here and there in the elds,

about four thousand men.

3And the people returned to the camp: and

the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord

defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let us

fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord

from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that

it may save us from the hand of our enemies.

4So the people sent to Silo, and they brought

from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord

of hosts, sitting upon the cherubims: and the

two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with

the ark of the covenant of God.

5And when the ark of the covenant of the

Lord was come into the camp, all Israel shouted

with a great shout, and the earth rang again.6And the Philistines heard the noise of the

shout, and they said: What is this noise of a

great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And

they understood that the ark of the Lord was

come into the camp.

7And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God

is come into the camp. And sighing, they said:

8Woe to us: for there was no such great

joy yesterday, and the day before: Woe to us.

Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high

Gods? these are the Gods that struck Egypt

with all the plagues in the desert.

9Take courage, and behave like men, ye

Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the

Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage

and ght.

10So the Philistines fought, and Israel was

overthrown, and every man

ed to his own

dwelling: and there was an exceeding great

slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand

footmen.

11And the ark of God was taken: and the

two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were slain.

12And there ran a man of Benjamin out of

the army, and came to Silo the same day, with

his clothes rent, and his head strewed with dust.

13And when he was come, Heli sat upon a

stool over against the way, watching. For his

heart was fearful for the ark of God. And when

the man was come into the city, he told it: and

all the city cried out.

14And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and

he said: What meaneth the noise of this uproar?

But he made haste, and came, and told Heli.

15Now Heli was ninety and eight years old,

and his eyes were dim, and he could not see.

16And he said to Heli: I am he that came

from the battle, and have

ed out of the eld

this day. And he said to him: What is there

done, my son?328 First Book of Samuel

17And he that brought the news answered,

and said: Israel is

ed before the Philistines, and

there has been a great slaughter of the people:

moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are

dead: and the ark of God is taken.

18And when he had named the ark of God,

he fell from his stool backwards by the door, and

broke his neck and died. For he was an old man,

and far advanced in years: And he judged Israel

forty years.

19And his daughter in law, the wife of Phi-

nees, was big with child, and near her time: and

hearing the news that the ark of God was taken,

and her father in law, and her husband, were

dead, she bowed herself and fell in labour: for

her pains came upon her on a sudden.

20And when she was upon the point of death,

they that stood about her said to her: Fear not,

for thou hast borne a son. She answered them

not, nor gave heed to them.

21And she called the child Ichabod, saying:

The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of

God was taken, and for her father in law, and

for her husband:

22And she said: The glory is departed from

Israel, because the ark of God was taken.

Chapter 5

And the Philistines took the ark of God, and

carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus.

2And the Philistines took the ark of God, and

brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it

by Dagon.
3And when the Azotians arose early the next

day, behold Dagon lay upon his face on the

ground before the ark of the Lord: and they took

Dagon, and set him again in his place.

4And the next day again, when they rose inthe morning, they found Dagon lying upon his

face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and

the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his

hands, were cut o upon the threshold:

5And only the stump of Dagon remained in

its place. For this cause neither the priests of

Dagon, nor any that go into the temple, tread

on the threshold of Dagon in Azotus unto this

day.

6And the hand of the Lord was heavy

upon the Azotians, and he destroyed them, and

aicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with

emerods. And in the villages and elds in the

midst of that country, there came forth a mul-

titude of mice, and there was the confusion of a

great mortality in the city.

7And the men of Azotus seeing this kind of

plague, said: The ark of the God of Israel shall

not stay with us: for his hand is heavy upon us,

and upon Dagon, our god.

8And sending, they gathered together all the

lords of the Philistines to them, and said: What

shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?

And the Gethites answered: Let the ark of the

God of Israel be carried about. And they carried

the ark of the God of Israel about.

9And while they were carrying it about, the

hand of the Lord came upon every city with an

exceeding great slaughter: and he smote the men

of every city, both small and great, and they had

emerods in their secret parts. And the Gethites

consulted together, and made themselves seats

of skins.

10Therefore they sent the ark of God into

Accaron. And when the ark of God was come

into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying:

They have brought the ark of the God of Israel

to us, to kill us and our people.

11They sent therefore, and gathered together

all the lords of the Philistines: and they said:First Book of Samuel 329

Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let

it return into its own place, and not kill us and

our people.

12For there was the fear of death in every

city, and the hand of God was exceeding heavy.

The men also that did not die, were aicted with

the emerods: and the cry of every city went up

to heaven.
Chapter 6

Now the ark of God was in the land of the

Philistines seven months.

2And the Philistines called for the priests and

the diviners, saying: What shall we do with the

ark of the Lord? tell us how we are to send it

back to its place. And they said:

3If you send back the ark of the God of Is-

rael, send it not away empty, but render unto

him what you owe for sin, and then you shall

be healed: and you shall know why his hand de-

parteth not from you.

4They answered: What is it we ought to ren-

der unto him for sin? and they answered:

5According to the number of the provinces

of the Philistines you shall make ve golden

emerods, and ve golden mice: for the same

plague hath been upon you all, and upon your

lords. And you shall make the likeness of your

emerods, and the likeness of the mice, that have

destroyed the land, and you shall give glory to

the God of Israel: to see if he will take o his

hand from you, and from your gods, and from

your land.

6Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt

and Pharao hardened their hearts? did not he,

after he was struck, then let them go, and they

departed?

7Now, therefore, take and make a new cart:and two kine that have calved, on which there

hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up

their calves at home.

8And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and

lay it on the cart, and the vessels of gold, which

you have paid him for sin, you shall put into a

little box at the side thereof: and send it away,

that it may go.

9And you shall look: and if it go up by the

way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then

he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we

shall know that it is not his hand hath touched

us, but it hath happened by chance.

10They did therefore in this manner: and

taking two kine, that had sucking calves, they

yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves

at home.

11And they laid the ark of God upon the cart,

and the little box that had in it the golden mice,

and the likeness of the emerods.

12And the kine took the straight way, that

leadeth to Bethsames, and they went along the

way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside

neither to the right hand nor to the left: and the

lords of the Philistines followed them as far as

the borders of Bethsames.

13Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat

in the valley: and lifting up their eyes, they saw

the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

14And the cart came into the eld of Josue,

a Bethsamite, and stood there. And there was a

great stone, and they cut in pieces the wood of

the cart, and laid the kine upon it a holocaust

to the Lord.

15And the Levites took down the ark of God,

and the little box that was at the side of it,

wherein were the vessels of gold, and they put

them upon the great stone. The men also of

Bethsames oered holocausts, and sacriced vic-

tims that day to the Lord.330 First Book of Samuel

16And the ve princes of the Philistines saw,

and they returned to Accaron the same day.

17And these are the golden emerods, which

the Philistines returned for sin to the Lord: For

Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for

Geth one, for Accaron one:

18And the golden mice, according to the

number of the cities of the Philistines, of the

ve provinces, from the fenced city to the village

that was without wall, and to the great Abel

(the stone) whereon they set down the ark of

the Lord, which was till that day in the eld of

Josue the Bethsamite.

19But he slew of the men of Bethsames, be-

cause they had seen the ark of the Lord, and he

slew of the people seventy men, and fty thou-

sand of the common people. And the people

lamented, because the Lord had smitten the peo-

ple with a great slaughter.

20And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall

be able to stand before the Lord this holy God?

and to whom shall he go up from us?

21And they sent messengers to the inhab-

itants of Cariathiarim, saying: The Philistines

have brought back the ark of the Lord, come ye

down and fetch it up to you.

Chapter 7

And the men of Cariathiarim came, and fetched

up the ark of the Lord, and carried it into the

house of Abinadab, in Gabaa: and they sancti-

ed Eleazar, his son, to keep the ark of the Lord.

2And it came to pass, that from the day the

ark of the Lord abode in Cariathiarim, days were

multiplied (for it was now the twentieth year)

and all the house of Israel rested, following the

Lord.
3And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel,saying: If you turn to the Lord with all your

heart, put away the strange gods from among

you, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your

hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, and he

will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

4Then the children of Israel put away Baalim

and Astaroth, and served the Lord only.

5And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Mas-

phath, that I may pray to the Lord for you.

6And they gathered together to Masphath,

and they drew water, and poured it out before

the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they

said there: We have sinned against the Lord.

And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mas-

phath.

7And the Philistines heard that the children

of Israel were gathered together to Masphath,

and the lords of the Philistines went up against

Israel. And when the children of Israel heard

this, they were afraid of the Philistines.

8And they said to Samuel: Cease not to cry

to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us

out of the hand of the Philistines.

9And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and of-

fered it whole for a holocaust to the Lord: and

Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord

heard him.

10And it came to pass, when Samuel was of-

fering the holocaust, the Philistines began the

battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered

with a great thunder on that day upon the

Philistines, and terried them, and they were

overthrown before the face of Israel.

11And the men of Israel going out of Mas-

phath, pursued after the Philistines, and made

slaughter of them till they came under Bethchar.

12And Samuel took a stone, and laid it be-

tween Masphath and Sen: and he called the

place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far

the Lord hath helped us.First Book of Samuel 331

13And the Philistines were humbled, and

they did not come any more into the borders

of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against

the Philistines, all the days of Samuel.

14And the cities which the Philistines had

taken from Israel, were restored to Israel, from

Accaron to Geth, and their borders: and he de-

livered Israel from the hand of the Philistines,

and there was peace between Israel and the Am-

orrhites.

15And Samuel judged Israel all the days of

his life:
16And he went every year about to Bethel

and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he judged

Israel in the foresaid places.

17And he returned to Ramatha: for there was

his house, and there he judged Israel: he built

also there an altar to the Lord.

Chapter 8

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that

he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.

2Now the name of his rstborn son was Joel:

and the name of the second was Abia, judges in

Bersabee.

3And his sons walked not in his ways: but

they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes,

and perverted judgment.

4Then all the ancients of Israel being assem-

bled came to Samuel to Ramatha.

5And they said to him: Behold thou art old,

and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a

king, to judge us, as all nations have.

6And the word was displeasing in the eyes of

Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to

judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord.

7And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to

the voice of the people in all that they say tothee. For they have not rejected thee, but me,

that I should not reign over them.

8According to all their works, they have done

from the day that I brought them out of Egypt

until this day: as they have forsaken me, and

served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.

9Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but

yet testify to them, and foretell them the right

of the king, that shall reign over them.

10Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord

to the people that had desired a king of him,

11And said: This will be the right of the king

that shall reign over you: He will take your sons,

and put them in his chariots, and will make them

his horsemen, and his running footmen, to run

before his chariots,

12And he will appoint of them to be his tri-

bunes, and his centurions, and to plough his

elds, and to reap his corn, and to make him

arms and chariots.

13Your daughters also he will take to make

him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.

14And he will take your elds, and your vine-

yards, and your best oliveyards, and give them

to his servants.

15Moreover he will take the tenth of your

corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to

give to his eunuchs and servants.

16Your servants also, and handmaids, and

your goodliest young men, and your asses, he

will take away, and put them to his work.

17Your

ocks also he will tithe, and you shall

be his servants.

18And you shall cry out in that day from

the face of the king, whom you have chosen to

yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in

that day, because you desired unto yourselves a

king.

19But the people would not hear the voice of

Samuel, and they said, Nay: but there shall be332 First Book of Samuel

a king over us,

20And we also will be like all nations: and

our king shall judge us, and go out before us,

and ght our battles for us.

21And Samuel heard all the words of the peo-

ple, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

22And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to

their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel

said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to

his city.

Chapter 9

Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name

was Cis, the son of Abiel, the son of Seror, the

son of Bechorath, the son of Aphia, the son of a

man of Jemini, valiant and strong.

2And he had a son whose name was Saul,

a choice and goodly man, and there was not

among the children of Israel a goodlier person

than he: from his shoulders and upward he ap-

peared above all the people.

3And the asses of Cis, Saul's father, were

lost: and Cis said to his son Saul: Take one of

the servants with thee, and arise, go, and seek

the asses. And when they had passed through

Mount Ephraim,

4And through the land of Salisa, and had not

found them, they passed also through the land

of Salim, and they were not there: and through

the land of Jemini, and found them not.

5And when they were come to the land of

Suph, Saul said to the servant that was with

him: Come, let us return, lest perhaps my fa-

ther forget the asses, and be concerned for us.

6And he said to him: Behold there is a man

of God in this city, a famous man: all that he

saith, cometh certainly to pass. Now, therefore,

let us go thither, perhaps he may tell us of ourway, for which we are come.

7And Saul said to his servant: Behold we

will go: but what shall we carry to the man of

God? the bread is spent in our bags: and we

have no present to make to the man of God, nor

any thing at all.

8The servant answered Saul again, and said:

Behold there is found in my hand the fourth part

of a sicle of silver, let us give it to the man of

God, that he may tell us our way.

9Now in time past in Israel, when a man went

to consult God, he spoke thus: Come, let us go

to the seer. For he that is now called a prophet,

in time past was called a seer.

10And Saul said to his servant: Thy word is

very good, come let us go. And they went into

the city, where the man of God was.

11And when they went up the ascent to the

city, they found maids coming out to draw water,

and they said to them: Is the seer here?

12They answered and said to them: He is:

behold he is before you, make haste now: for he

came to day into the city, for there is a sacrice

of the people to day in the high place.

13As soon as you come into the city, you shall

immediately nd him, before he go up to the high

place to eat: for the people will not eat till he

come; because he blesseth the victim, and after-

wards they eat that are invited. Now, therefore,

go up, for to day you shall nd him.

14And they went up into the city. And when

they were walking in the midst of the city, behold

Samuel was coming out over against them, to go

up to the high place.

15Now the Lord had revealed to the ear of

Samuel the day before Saul came, saying:

16To morrow about this same hour I will send

thee a man of the land of Benjamin, and thou

shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Is-

rael: and he shall save my people out of the handFirst Book of Samuel 333

of the Philistines: for I have looked down upon

my people, because their cry is come to me.

17And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said

to him: Behold the man, of whom I spoke to

thee, this man shall reign over my people.

18And Saul came to Samuel in the midst of

the gate, and said: Tell me, I pray thee, where

is the house of the seer?

19And Samuel answered Saul, saying: I am

the seer; go up before me to the high place, that

you may eat with me to day, and I will let thee

go in the morning: and tell thee all that is in thy

heart.

20And as for the asses, which were lost three

days ago, be not solicitous, because they are

found. And for whom shall be all the best things

of Israel? Shall they not be for thee and for all

thy father's house?

21And Saul answering, said: Am not I a son

of Jemini of the least tribe of Israel, and my kin-

dred the last among all the families of the tribe

of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this

word to me?

22Then Samuel taking Saul, and his servant,

brought them into the parlour, and gave them a

place at the head of them that were invited. For

there were about thirty men.

23And Samuel said to the cook: Bring the

portion which I gave thee, and commanded thee

to set it apart by thee.

24And the cook took up the shoulder, and

set it before Saul. And Samuel said: Behold

what is left, set it before thee, and eat; because

it was kept of purpose for thee, when I invited

the people. And Saul ate with Samuel that day.

25And they went down from the high place

into the town, and he spoke with Saul upon the

top of the house: and he prepared a bed for Saul

on the top of the house and he slept.

26And when they were risen in the morning,and it began now to be light, Samuel called Saul

on the top of the house, saying: Arise, that I

may let thee go. And Saul arose: and they went

out both of them: to wit, he and Samuel.

27And as they were going down in the end

of the city, Samuel said to Saul: Speak to the

servant to go before us, and pass on: but stand

thou still a while, that I may tell thee the word

of the Lord.

Chapter 10

And Samuel took a little vial of oil, and poured it

upon his head, and kissed him, and said: Behold,

the Lord hath anointed thee to be prince over

his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his people

out of the hands of their enemies, that are round

about them. And this shall be a sign unto thee,

that God hath anointed thee to be prince.

2When thou shalt depart from me this day,

thou shalt nd two men by the sepulchre of

Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south,

and they shall say to thee: The asses are found

which thou wentest to seek: and thy father,

thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for

you, and saith: What shall I do for my son?

3And when thou shalt depart from thence,

and go farther on, and shalt come to the oak of

Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going

up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids,

and another three loaves of bread, and another

carrying a bottle of wine.

4And they will salute thee, and will give thee

two loaves, and thou shalt take them at their

hand.

5After that thou shalt come to the hill of

God, where the garrison of the Philistines is: and

when thou shalt be come there into the city, thou

shalt meet a company of prophets coming down334 First Book of Samuel

from the high place, with a psaltery, and a tim-

brel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and

they shall be prophesying.

6And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon

thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and

shalt be changed into another man.

7When therefore these signs shall happen to

thee, do whatsoever thy hand shall nd, for the

Lord is with thee.

8And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal,

(for I will come down to thee), that thou mayst

oer an oblation, and sacrice victims of peace:

seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee,

and I will shew thee what thou art to do.

9So when he had turned his back to go from

Samuel, God gave unto him another heart, and

all these things came to pass that day.

11And all that had known him yesterday

and the day before, seeing tha the was with the

prophets, and prophesied, said to each other:

What is this that hath happened to the son of

Cis? is Saul also among the prophets?

12And one answered another, saying: And

who is their father? therefore it became a

proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets?

13And when he had made an end of proph-

esying, he came to the high place.

14And Saul's uncle said to him, and to his

servant: Whither went you? They answered: To

seek the asses: and not nding them, we went to

Samuel.

15And his uncle said to him: Tell me what

Samuel said to thee.

16And Saul said to his uncle: He told us that

the asses were found. But of the matter of the

kingdom of which Samuel had spoken to him, he

told him not.

17And Samuel called together the people to

the Lord in Maspha:

18And he said to the children of Israel: Thussaith the Lord the God of Israel: I brought up

Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from the

hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all

the kings who aicted you.

19But you this day have rejected your God,

who only hath saved you out of all your evils and

your tribulations: and you have said: Nay: but

set a king over us. Now therefore stand before

the Lord by your tribes, and by your families.

20And Samuel brought to him all the tribes of

Israel, and the lot fell on the tribe of Benjamin.

21And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and

the kindreds thereof, and the lot fell upon the

kindred of Metri, and it came to Saul, the son of

Cis. They sought him therefore, and he was not

found.

22And after this they consulted the Lord

whether he would come thither. And the Lord

answered: Behold he is hidden at home.

23And they ran and fetched him thence: and

he stood in the midst of the people, and he was

higher than any of the people from the shoulders

and upward.

24And Samuel said to all the people: Surely

you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that

there is none like him among all the people. And

all the people cried and said: God save the king.

25And Samuel told the people the law of the

kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up

before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the

people, every one to his own house.

26Saul also departed to his own house in

Gabaa: and there went with him a part of the

army, whose hearts God had touched.

27But the children of Belial said: Shall this

fellow be able to save us? And they despised him,

and brought him no presents; but he dissembled

as though he heard not.First Book of Samuel 335

Chapter 11

And it came to pass about a month after this,

that Naas, the Ammonite, came up, and began

to ght against Jabes Galaad. And all the men

of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us,

and we will serve thee.

2And Naas, the Ammonite, answered them:

On this condition will I make a covenant with

you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes,

and make you a reproach in all Israel.

3And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Allow

us seven days, that we may send messengers to

all the coasts of Israel: and if there be no one to

defend us, we will come out to thee.

4The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of

Saul: and they spoke these words in the hearing

of the people: and all the people lifted up their

voices, and wept.

5And behold Saul came, following oxen out

of the eld, and he said: What aileth the people

that they weep? And they told him the words

of the men of Jabes.

6And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul,

when he had heard these words, and his anger

was exceedingly kindled.

7And taking both the oxen, he cut them in

pieces, and sent them into all the coasts of Is-

rael, by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall not

come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall

it be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord

fell upon the people, and they went out as one

man.

8And he numbered them in Bezec: and there

were of the children of Israel three hundred thou-

sand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand.

9And they said to the messengers that came:

Thus shall you say to the men of Jabes Galaad:

To morrow, when the sun shall be hot, you shall

have relief. The messengers therefore came, andtold the men of Jabes, and they were glad.

10And they said: In the morning we will come

out to you: and you shall do what you please

with us.

11And it came to pass, when the morrow was

come, that Saul put the people in three compa-

nies: and he came into the midst of the camp in

the morning watch, and he slew the Ammonites

until the day grew hot, and the rest were scat-

tered, so that two of them were not left together.

12And the people said to Samuel: Who is he

that said: Shall Saul reign over us? Bring the

men, and we will kill them.

13And Saul said: No man shall be killed this

day: because the Lord this day hath wrought

salvation in Israel:

14And Samuel said to the people: Come, and

let us go to Galgal, and let us renew the kingdom

there.

15And all the people went to Galgal, and

there they made Saul king, before the Lord in

Galgal, and they sacriced there victims of peace

before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men

of Israel rejoiced exceedingly.

Chapter 12

And Samuel said to all Israel: Behold I have

hearkened to your voice in all that you said to

me, and have made a king over you.

2And now the king goeth before you: but I

am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with

you: having then conversed with you from my

youth until this day, behold here I am.

3Speak of me before the Lord, and before his

anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox,

or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have

oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at

any man's hand: and I will despise it this day,336 First Book of Samuel

and will restore it to you.

4And they said: Thou hast not wronged us,

nor oppressed us, nor taken ought at any man's

hand.

5And he said to them: The Lord is witness

against you, and his anointed is witness this day,

that you have not found any thing in my hand.

And they said: He is witness.

6And Samuel said to the people: It is the

Lord who made Moses and Aaron, and brought

our fathers out of the land of Egypt.

7Now, therefore, stand up, that I may plead

in judgment against you before the Lord, con-

cerning all the kindness of the Lord, which he

hath shewn to you, and to your fathers:

8How Jacob went into Egypt, and your fa-

thers cried to the Lord: and the Lord sent Moses

and Aaron, and brought your fathers out of

Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

9And they forgot the Lord their God, and

he delivered them into the hands of Sisara, cap-

tain of the army of Hasor, and into the hands of

the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of

Moab, and they fought against them.

11And the Lord sent Jerobaal, and Badan,

and Jephte, and Samuel, and delivered you from

the hand of your enemies round about, and you

dwelt securely.

12But seeing that Naas, king of the children

of Ammon, was come against you, you said to

me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us: whereas

the Lord your God was your king.

13Now, therefore, your king is here, whom

you have chosen and desired: Behold the Lord

hath given you a king.

14If you will fear the Lord, and serve him,

and hearken to his voice, and not provoke the

mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and the

king who reigneth over you, be followers of the

Lord your God.15But if you will not hearken to the voice of

the Lord, but will rebel against his words, the

hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and upon

your fathers.

16Now then stand, and see this great thing

which the Lord will do in your sight.

17Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call

upon the Lord, and he shall send thunder and

rain: and you shall know, and see that you your-

selves have done a great evil in the sight of the

Lord, in desiring a king over you.

18And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the

Lord sent thunder and rain that day.

19And all the people greatly feared the Lord

and Samuel. And all the people said to Samuel:

Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God, that

we may not die, for we have added to all our sins

this evil, to ask for a king.

20And Samuel said to the people: Fear not,

you have done all this evil: but yet depart not

from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with

all your heart.

21And turn not aside after vain things, which

shall never prot you, nor deliver you, because

they are vain.

22And the Lord will not forsake his people

for his great name's sake: because the Lord hath

sworn to make you his people.

23And far from me be this sin against the

Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I

will teach you the good and right way.

24Therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in

truth, and with your whole heart, for you have

seen the great works which he hath done among

you.

25But if you will still do wickedly: both you

and your king shall perish together.First Book of Samuel 337

Chapter 13

Saul was a child of one year when he began to

reign, and he reigned two years over Israel.

2And Saul chose him three thousand men

of Israel: and two thousand were with Saul in

Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand

with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the

rest of the people he sent back every man to their

dwellings.

3And Jonathan smote the garrison of the

Philistines which was in Gabaa. And when the

Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the

trumpet over all the land, saying: Let the He-

brews hear.

4And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath

smitten the garrison of the Philistines: and Is-

rael took courageagainst the Philistines. And

the people were called together after Saul to Gal-

gal.

5The Philistines also were assembled to ght

against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six

thousand horsemen, and a multitude of people

besides, like the sand on the seashore for number.

And going up they camped in Machmas, at the

east of Bethaven.

6And when the men of Israel saw that they

were straitened (for the people were distressed),

they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and

in rocks, and in dens, and in pits.

7And some of the Hebrews passed over the

Jordan into the land of Gad and Galaad. And

when Saul was yet in Galgal, all the people that

followed him were greatly afraid.

8And he waited seven days, according to the

appointment of Samuel, and Samuel came not to

Galgal, and the people slipt away from him.

9Then Saul said: Bring me the holocaust,

and the peace oerings. And he oered the holo-

caust.10And when he had made an end of oering

the holocaust, behold Samuel came: and Saul

went forth to meet him and salute him.

11And Samuel said to him: What hast thou

done? Saul answered: Because I saw that

the people slipt from me, and thou wast not

come according to the days appointed, and the

Philistines were gathered together in Machmas,

12I said: Now will the Philistines come down

upon me to Galgal, and I have not appeased the

face of the Lord. Forced by necessity, I oered

the holocaust.

13And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast done

foolishly, and hast not kept the commandments

of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee.

And if thou hadst not done thus, the Lord would

now have established thy kingdom over Israel for

ever:

14But thy kingdom shall not continue. The

Lord hath sought him a man according to his

own heart: and him hath the Lord commanded

to be prince over his people, because thou hast

not observed that which the Lord commanded.

15And Samuel arose and went up from Gal-

gal to Gabaa of Benjamin. And the rest of the

people went up after Saul, to meet the people

who fought against them, going from Galgal to

Gabaa, in the hill of Benjamin. And Saul num-

bered the people, that were found with him,

about six hundred men.

16And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the

people that were present with them, were in

Gabaa of Benjamin: But the Philistines en-

camped in Machmas.

17And there went out of the camp of the

Philistines three companies to plunder. One

company went towards the way of Ephra to the

land of Sual;

18And another went by the way of Bethoron,

and the third turned to the way of the border,338 First Book of Samuel

above the valley of Seboim towards thc desert.

19Now there was no smith to be found in all

the land of Israel, for the Philistines had taken

this precaution, lest the Hebrews should make

them swords or spears.

20So all Israel went down to the Philistines,

to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his

spade, and his axe, and his rake.

21So that their shares, and their spades, and

their forks, and their axes, were blunt, even to

the goad, which was to be mended.

22And when the day of battle was come, there

was neither sword nor spear found in the hand

of any of the people that were with Saul and

Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son.

23And the army of the Philistines went out

in order to advance further in Machmas.

Chapter 14

Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the

son of Saul, said to the young man that bore his

armour: Come, and let us go over to the garrison

of the Philistines, which is on the other side of

yonder place. But he told not this to his father.

2And Saul abode in the uttermost part of

Gabaa, under the pomegranate tree, which was

in Magron: and the people with him were about

six hundred men.

3And Achias, the son of Achitob, brother of

Ichabod the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the

priest of the Lord in Silo, wore the ephod. And

the people knew not whither Jonathan was gone.

4Now there were between the ascents, by

which Jonathan sought to go over to the garri-

son of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both

sides, and steep clis like teeth on the one side,

and on the other, the name of the one was Boses,

and the name of the other was Sene:5One rock stood out toward the north, over

against Machmas, and the other to the south,

over against Gabaa.

6And Jonathan said to the young man that

bore his armour: Come, let us go over to the

garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the

Lord will do for us: because it is easy for the

Lord to save either by many, or by few.

7And his armourbearer said to him: Do all

that pleaseth thy mind: go whither thou wilt,

and I will be with thee wheresoever thou hast a

mind.

8And Jonathan said: Behold we will go over

to these men. And when we shall be seen by

them,

9If they shall speak thus to us: Stay till we

come to you: let us stand still in our place, and

not go up to them.

10But if they shall say: Come up to us: let

us go up, because the Lord hath delivered them

into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us.

11So both of them discovered themselves

to the garrison of the Philistines: and the

Philistines said: Behold the Hebrews come forth

out of the holes wherein they were hid.

12And the men of the garrison spoke to

Jonathan, and to his armourbearer, and said:

Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing.

And Jonathan said to his armourbearer: Let us

go up, follow me: for the Lord hath delivered

them into the hands of Israel.

13And Jonathan went up creeping on his

hands and feet, and his armourbearer after him.

And some fell before Jonathan, others his ar-

mourbearer slew as he followed him.

14And the rst slaughter which Jonathan

and his armourbearer made, was of about twenty

men, within half an acre of land, which a yoke

of oxen is wont to plough in a day.

15And there was a miracle in the camp, inFirst Book of Samuel 339

the elds: and all the people of their garrison,

who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and

the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle

from God.

16And the watchmen of Saul, who were in

Gabaa of Benjamin looked, and behold a multi-

tude overthrown, and

eeing this way and that.

17And Saul said to the people that were

with him: Look, and see who is gone from us.

And when they had sought, it was found that

Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.

18And Saul said to Achias: Bring the ark of

the Lord. (For the ark of God was there that

day with the children of Israel.)

19And while Saul spoke to the priest,

there arose a great uproar in the camp of the

Philistines: and it increased by degrees, and was

heard more clearly. And Saul said to the priest:

Draw in thy hand.

20Then Saul, and all the people that were

with him, shouted together, and they came to

the place of the ght: and behold every man's

sword was turned upon his neighbour, and there

was a very great slaughter.

21Moreover, the Hebrews that had been with

the Philistines yesterday and the day before, and

went up with them into the camp, returned to

be with the Israelites, who were with Saul and

Jonathan.

22And all the Israelites that had hid them-

selves in mount Ephraim, hearing that the

Philistines

ed, joined themselves with their

countrymen in the ght. And there were with

Saul about ten thousand men.

23And the Lord saved Israel that day. And

the ght went on as far as Bethaven.

24And the men of Israel were joined together

that day: and Saul adjured the people, say-

ing: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till

evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. Sonone of the people tasted any food.

25And all the common people came into a for-

est, in which there was honey upon the ground.

26And when the people came into the forest,

behold the honey dropped, but no man put his

hand to his mouth. For the people feared the

oath.

27But Jonathan had not heard when his fa-

ther adjured the people: and he put forth the

end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and

dipt it in a honeycomb: and he carried his hand

to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.

28And one of the people answering, said: Thy

father hath bound the people with an oath, say-

ing: Cursed be the man that shall eat any food

this day. (And the people were faint.)

29And Jonathan said: My father hath trou-

bled the land: you have seen yourselves that my

eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of

this honey:

30How much more if the people had eaten of

the prey of their enemies, which they found? had

there not been made a greater slaughter among

the Philistines?

31So they smote that day the Philistines,

from Machmas to Aialon. And the people were

wearied exceedingly.

32And falling upon the spoils, they took

sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on

the ground: and the people ate them with the

blood.

33And they told Saul that the people had

sinned against the Lord, eating with the blood.

And he said: You have transgressed: roll here to

me now a great stone.

34And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among

the people, and tell them to bring me every man

his ox and his ram and slay them upon this

stone, and eat, and you shall not sin against the

Lord, in eating with the blood. So all the people340 First Book of Samuel

brought every man his ox with him till the night:

and slew them there.

35And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and

he then rst began to build an altar to the Lord.

36And Saul said: Let us fall upon the

Philistines by night, and destroy them till the

morning light, and let us not leave a man of

them. And the people said: Do all that seemeth

good in thy eyes. And the priest said: Let us

draw near hither unto God.

37And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pur-

sue after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them

into the hands of Israel? And he answered him

not that day.

38And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners

of the people: and know, and see by whom this

sin hath happened to day.

39As the Lord liveth, who is the Saviour of Is-

rael, if it was done by Jonathan, my son, he shall

surely die. In this none of the people gainsayed

him.

40And he said to all Israel: Be you on one

side and I, with Jonathan, my son, will be on

the other side. And the people answered Saul:

Do what seemeth good in thy eyes.

41And Saul said to the Lord: O Lord God

of Israel, give a sign, by which we may know,

what the meaning is, that thou answerest not thy

servant to day: If this iniquity be in me, or in my

son Jonathan, give a proof: or if this iniquity be

in thy people, give holiness. And Jonathan and

Saul were taken, and the people escaped.

42And Saul said: (Cast lots between me, and

Jonathan, my son. And Jonathan was taken.

43And Saul said to Jonathan: Tell me what

thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and

said: I did but taste a little honey with the end

of the rod, which was in my hand, and behold I

must die.

44And Saul said: May God do so and so tome, and add still more: for dying thou shalt die,

O Jonathan.

45And the people said to Saul: Shall

Jonathan then die, who hath wrought this great

salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the

Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head

fall to the ground, for he hath wrought with God

this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that

he should not die.

46And Saul went back, and did not pursue

after the Philistines: and the Philistines went to

their own places.

47And Saul having his kingdom established

over Israel, fought against all his enemies round

about, against Moab, and against the children

of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba,

and the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned

himself, he overcame.

48And gathering together an army, he de-

feated Amalec, and delivered Israel from the

hand of them that spoiled them.

49And the sons of Saul, were Jonathan, and

Jessui, and Melchisua: and the names of his two

daughters, the name of the rstborn was Merob,

and the name of the younger Michol.

50And the name of Saul's wife was Achinoam,

the daughter of Achimaas; and the name of the

captain of his army was Abner, the son of Ner,

the cousin german of Saul.

51For Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner,

the father of Abner, was son of Abiel.

52And there was a great war against the

Philistines all the days of Saul. For whomso-

ever Saul saw to be a valiant man, and t for

war, he took him to himself.First Book of Samuel 341

Chapter 15

And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me

to anoint thee king over his people Israel: now

therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the

Lord:

2Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reck-

oned up all that Amalec hath done to Israel: how

he opposed them in the way when they came up

out of Egypt.

3Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and

utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not,

nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man

and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep,

camel and ass.

4So Saul commanded the people, and num-

bered them as lambs: two hundred thousand

footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.

5And when Saul was come to the city of

Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.

6And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart,

and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy

thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness

to all the children of Israel, when they came up

out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the

midst of Amalec.

7And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until

thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

8And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive:

but all the common people he slew with the edge

of the sword.

9And Saul and the people spared Agag, and

the best of the

ocks of sheep, and of the herds,

and the garments and the rams, and all that was

beautiful, and would not destroy them: but ev-

ery thing that was vile, and good for nothing,

that they destroyed.

10And the word of the Lord came to Samuel,

11It repenteth me that I have made Saul king:

for he hath forsaken me, and hath not executedmy commandments. And Samuel was grieved,

and he cried unto the Lord all night.

12And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul

in the morning, it was told Samuel that Saul was

come to Carmel, and had erected for himself a

triumphant arch, and returning had passed on,

and gone down to Galgal. And Samuel came to

Saul, and Saul was oering a holocaust to the

Lord, out of the choicest of the spoils, which he

had brought from Amalec.

13And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul

said to him: Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have

fullled the word of the Lord.

14And Samuel said: What meaneth then this

bleating of the

ocks, which soundeth in my ears,

and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?

15And Saul said: They have brought them

from Amalec: for the people spared the best of

the sheep and of the herds, that they might be

sacriced to the Lord thy God, but the rest we

have slain.

16And Samuel said to Saul: Suer me, and I

will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this

night. And he said to him: Speak.

17And Samuel said: When thou wast a lit-

tle one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made

the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord

anointed thee to be king over Israel.

18And the Lord sent thee on the way, and

said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and

thou shalt ght against them until thou hast ut-

terly destroyed them.

19Why then didst thou not hearken to the

voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey,

and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?

20And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hear-

kened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked

in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have

brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec

I have slain.342 First Book of Samuel

21But the people took of the spoils, sheep and

oxen, as the rstfruits of those things that were

slain, to oer sacrice to the Lord their God in

Galgal.

22And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire

holocausts and victims, and not rather that the

voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obe-

dience is better than sacrices: and to hearken

rather than to oer the fat or rams.

23Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to

rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse

to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast re-

jected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also

rejected thee from being king.

24And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned,

because I have transgressed the commandment

of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people,

and obeying their voice.

25But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and

return with me, that I may adore the Lord.

26And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return

with thee, because thou hath rejected the word

of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from

being king over Israel.

27And Samuel turned about to go away: but

he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it

rent.

28And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath

rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day,

and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better

than thee.

29But the triumpher in Israel will not spare,

and will not be moved to repentance: for he is

not a man that he should repent.

30Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour

me now before the ancients of my people, and

before Israel, and return with me, that I may

adore the Lord thy God.

31So Samuel turned again after Saul: and

Saul adored the Lord.32And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag,

the king of Amalec. And Agag was presented to

him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said:

Doth bitter death separate in this manner?

33And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made

women childless, so shall thy mother be childless

among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces

before the Lord in Galgal.

34And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but

Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

35And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day

of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for

Saul, because the Lord repented that he had

made him king over Israel.

Chapter 16

And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt

thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from

reigning over Israel? ll thy horn with oil, and

come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethle-

hemite: for I have provided me a king among his

sons.

2And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul

will hear of it, and he will kill me. And the Lord

said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of the

herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrice

to the Lord.

3And thou shalt call Isai to the sacrice, and

I will shew thee what thou art to do, and thou

shalt anoint him whom I shall shew to thee.

4Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to

him. And he came to Bethlehem, and the an-

cients of the city wondered, and meeting him,

they said: Is thy coming hither peaceable?

5And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to

oer sacrice to the Lord, be ye sanctied, and

come with me to the sacrice. And he sanctied

Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrice.First Book of Samuel 343
6And when they were come in, he saw Eliab,

and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?

7And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on

his countenance, nor on the height of his stature:

because I have rejected him, nor do I judge ac-

cording to the look of man: for man seeth those

things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the

heart.

8And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him

before Samuel. And he said: Neither hath the

Lord chosen this,

9And Isai brought Samma, and he said of

him: Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

10Isai therefore brought his seven sons before

Samuel: and Samuel said to Isai: The Lord hath

not chosen any one of these.

11And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all

thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a

young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel

said to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not

sit down till he come hither.

12He sent therefore and brought him. Now

he was ruddy and beautiful to behold, and of

a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise, and

anoint him, for this is he.

13Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and

anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and

the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from

that day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went

to Ramatha.

14But the Spirit of the Lord departed from

Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled

him.

15And the servants of Saul said to him: Be-

hold now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

16Let our lord give orders, and thy servants

who are before thee, will seek out a man skilful

in playing on the harp, that when the evil spirit

from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with

his hand, and thou mayst bear it more easily.17And Saul said to his servants: Provide me

then some man that can play well, and bring him

to me.

18And one of the servants answering, said:

Behold I have seen a son of Isai, the Beth-

lehemite, a skilful player, and one of great

strength, and a man t for war, and prudent

in his words, and a comely person: and the Lord

is with him.

19Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying:

Send me David, thy son, who is in the pastures.

20And Isai took an ass laden with bread, and

a bottle of wine, and a kid of the

ock, and sent

them by the hand of David, his son, to Saul.

21And David came to Saul, and stood before

him: and he loved him exceedingly, and made

him his armourbearer.

22And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David

stand before me: for he hath found favour in my

sight.

23So whensoever the evil spirit from the Lord

was upon Saul, David took his harp, and played

with his hand, and Saul was refreshed, and was

better, for the evil spirit departed from him.

Chapter 17

Now the Philistines gathering together their

troops to battle, assembled at Socho of Juda:

and camped between Socho and Azeca, in the

borders of Dommim.

2And Saul and the children of Israel being

gathered together, came to the valley of Tere-

binth, and they set the army in array to ght

against the Philistines.

3And 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.344 First Book of Samuel

4And there went out a man baseborn from

the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of

Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span:

5And he had a helmet of brass upon his head,

and he was clothed with a coat of mail with

scales, and the weight of his coat of mail was

ve thousand sicles of brass:

6And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and

a buckler of brass covered his shoulders.

7And the sta of his spear was like a weaver's

beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hun-

dred sicles of iron: and his armourbearer went

before him.

8And standing, he cried out to the bands of

Israel, and said to them: Why are you come out

prepared to ght? am not I a Philistine, and you

the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you,

and let him come down and ght hand to hand.

9If he be able to ght with me, and kill me, we

will be servants to you: but if I prevail against

him, and kill him, you shall be servants, and shall

serve us.

10And the Philistine said: I have deed the

bands of Israel this day: give me a man, and let

him ght with me hand to hand.

11And Saul and all the Israelites hearing

these words of the Philistine, were dismayed, and

greatly afraid.

12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite,

of Bethlehem Juda, before mentioned, whose

name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an

old man in the days of Saul, and of great age

among men.

13And his three eldest sons followed Saul to

the battle: and the names of his three sons that

went to the battle, were Eliab, the rstborn, and

the second, Abinadab, and the third Samma:

14But David was the youngest. So the three

eldest having followed Saul,15David went, and returned from Saul, to

feed his father's

ock at Bethlehem.

16Now the Philistine came out morning and

evening, and presented himself forty days.

17And Isai said to David, his son: Take for

thy brethren an ephi of frumenty, and these ten

loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren,

18And carry these ten little cheeses to the

tribune: and go see thy brethren, if they are well:

and learn with whom they are placed.

19But Saul, and they, and all the children of

Israel, were in the valley of Terebinth, ghting

against the Philistines.

20David, therefore, arose in the morning, and

gave the charge of the

ock to the keeper: and

went away loaded, as Isai had commanded him.

And he came to the place of Magala, and to the

army, which was going out to ght, and shouted

for the battle.

21For Israel had put themselves in array, and

the Philistines who stood against them were pre-

pared.

22And David leaving the vessels which he had

brought, under the care of the keeper of the bag-

gage, ran to the place of the battle, and asked if

all things went well with his brethren.

23And as he talked with them, that baseborn

man, whose name was Goliath, the Philistine, of

Geth, shewed himself coming up from the camp

of the Philistines: and he spoke according to the

same words, and David heard them,

24And all the Israelites, when they saw the

man,

ed from his face, fearing him exceedingly.

25And some one of Israel said: Have you seen

this man that is come up, for he is come up to

defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him,

the king will enrich with great riches, and will

give him his daughter, and will make his father's

house free from tribute in Israel.

26And David spoke to the men that stood byFirst Book of Samuel 345

him, saying: What shall be given to the man that

shall kill this Philistine, and shall take away the

reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircum-

cised Philistine, that he should defy the armies

of the living God?

27And the people answered him the same

words, saying: These things shall be given to

the man that shall slay him.

28Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard

this, when he was speaking with others, he was

angry with David, and said: Why camest thou

hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep

in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wicked-

ness of thy heart: that thou art come down to

see the battle.

29And David said: What have I done? is

there not cause to speak?

30And he turned a little aside from him to

another: and said the same word. And the peo-

ple answered him as before.

31And the words which David spoke were

heard, and were rehearsed before Saul.

32And when he was brought to Saul, he said

to him. Let not any man's heart be dismayed in

him: I thy servant will go, and will ght against

the Philistine.

33And Saul said to David: Thou art not able

to withstand this Philistine, nor to ght against

him: for thou art but a boy, but he is a warrior

from his youth.

34And David said to Saul: Thy servant kept

his father's sheep, and there came a lion, or a

bear, and took a ram out of the midst of the

ock:

35And I pursued after them, and struck them,

and delivered it out of their mouth: and they

rose up against me, and I caught them by the

throat, and I strangled, and killed them.

36For I thy servant have killed both a lion

and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistineshall be also as one of them. I will go now, and

take away the reproach of the people: for who

is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared

to curse the army of the living God?

37And David said: The Lord who delivered

me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw

of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand

of this Philistine. And Saul said to David: Go,

and the Lord be with thee.

38And Saul clothed David with his garments,

and put a helmet of brass upon his head, and

armed him with a coat of mail.

39And David having girded his sword upon

his armour, began to try if he could walk in ar-

mour: for he was not accustomed to it. And

David said to Saul: I cannot go thus, for I am

not used to it. And he laid them o,

40And he took his sta, which he had al-

ways in his hands: and chose him ve smooth

stones out of the brook, and put them into the

shepherd's scrip, which he had with him, and he

took a sling in his hand, and went forth against

the Philistine.

41And the Philistine came on, and drew nigh

against David, and his armourbearer went before

him.

42And when the Philistine looked, and beheld

David, he despised him. For he was a young

man, ruddy, and of a comely countenance.

43And the Philistine said to David: Am I a

dog, that thou comest to me with a sta? And

the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

44And he said to David: Come to me, and I

will give thy

esh to the birds of the air, and to

the beasts of the earth.

45And David said to the Philistine: Thou

comest to me with a sword, and with a spear,

and with a shield: but I come to thee in the

name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies

of Israel, which thou hast deed346 First Book of Samuel

46This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into

my hand, and I will slay thee, and take away thy

head from thee: and I will give the carcasses of

the army of the Philistines this day to the birds

of the air, and to the beasts of the earth: that

all the earth may know that there is a God in

Israel.

47And all this assembly shall know that the

Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for it is

his battle, and he will deliver you into our hands.

48And when the Philistine arose, and was

coming, and drew nigh to meet David, David

made haste, and ran to the ght to meet the

Philistine.

49And he put his hand into his scrip, and

took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and

fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the

forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth.

50And David prevailed over the Philistine,

with a sling and a stone, and he struck, and slew

the Philistine. And as David had no sword in

his hand,

51He ran, and stood over the Philistine, and

took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath,

and slew him, and cut o his head. And the

Philistines seeing that their champion was dead,

ed away.

52And the men of Israel and Juda rising

up shouted, and pursued after the Philistines

till they came to the valley and to the gates of

Accaron, and there fell many wounded of the

Philistines in the way of Saraim, and as far as

Geth, and as far as Accaron.

53And the children of Israel returning, after

they had pursued the Philistines, fell upon their

camp.

54And David taking the head of the Philis-

tine, brought it to Jerusalem: but his armour he

put in his tent.

55Now at the time that Saul saw David goingout against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the

captain of the army: Of what family is this young

man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy

soul liveth, O king, I know not.

56And the king said: Inquire thou, whose son

this young man is.

57And when David was returned, after

the Philistine was slain, Abner took him, and

brought him in before Saul, with the head of the

Philistine in his hand.

58And Saul said to him: Young man, of what

family art thou? And David said: I am the son

of thy servant Isai the Bethlehemite.

Chapter 18

And it came to pass, when he had made an end

of speaking to Saul, the son of Jonathan was knit

with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him

as his own soul.

2And Saul took him that day, and would not

let him return to his father's house.

3And David and Jonathan made a covenant,

for he loved him as his own soul.

4And Jonathan stripped himself of the coat

with which he was clothed, and gave it to David,

and the rest of his garments, even to his sword,

and to his bow, and to his girdle.

5And David went out to whatsoever business

Saul sent him, and he behaved himself prudently:

and Saul set him over the soldiers, and he was

acceptable in the eyes of all the people, and es-

pecially in the eyes of Saul's servants.

6Now when David returned, after he slew the

Philistine, the women came out of all the cities

of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul,

with timbrels of joy, and cornets.

7And the women sung as they played, and

they said: Saul slew his thousands, and DavidFirst Book of Samuel 347

his ten thousands.

8And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word

was displeasing in his eyes, and he said: They

have given David ten thousands, and to me they

have given but a thousand, what can he have

more but the kingdom?

9And Saul did not look on David with a good

eye from that day and forward.

10And the day after, the evil spirit from God

came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst

of his house. And David played with his hand

as at other times. And Saul held a spear in his

hand,

11And threw it, thinking to nail David to the

wall: and David stept aside out of his presence

twice.

12And Saul feared David, because the Lord

was with him, and was departed from Saul him-

self.

13Therefore Saul removed him from him, and

made him a captain over a thousand men, and

he went out and came in before the people.

14And David behaved wisely in all his ways,

and the Lord was with him.

15And Saul saw that he was exceeding pru-

dent, and began to beware of him.

16But all Israel and Juda loved David, for he

came in and went out before them.

17And Saul said to David: Behold my elder

daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife: only

be a valiant man, and ght the battles of the

Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not

my hand be upon him, but let the hands of the

Philistines be upon him.

18And David said to Saul: Who am I, or

what is my life, or my father's family in Israel,

that I should be son in law of the king?

19And it came to pass at the time when

Merob, the daughter of Saul, should have beengiven to David, that she was given to Hadriel,

the Molathite, to wife.

20But Michol, the other daughter of Saul,

loved David. And it was told Saul, and it pleased

him.

21And Saul said: I will give her to him, that

she may be a stumblingblock to him, and that

the hand of the Philistines may be upon him.

And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt

be my son in law this day.

22And Saul commanded his servants to speak

to David privately, saying: Behold, thou pleasest

the king, and all his servants love thee. Now,

therefore be the king's son in law.

23And the servants of Saul spoke all these

words in the ear of David. And David said: Doth

it seem to you a small matter to be the king's

son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small

ability.

24And the servants of Saul told him, saying:

Such words as these hath David spoken.

25And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The

king desireth not any dowry, but only a hun-

dred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged

of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to de-

liver David into the hands of the Philistines.

26And when his servants had told David the

words that Saul had said, the word was pleasing

in the eyes of David to be the king's son in law.

27And after a few days David rose up, and

went with the men that were under him, and

he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and

brought their foreskins and numbered them out

to the king, that he might be his son in law. Saul

therefore gave him Michol, his daughter, to wife.

28And Saul saw, and understood that the

Lord was with David. And Michol, the daughter

of Saul, loved him.

29And Saul began to fear David more: and

Saul became David's enemy continually.348 First Book of Samuel

30And the princes of the Philistines went

forth: and from the beginning of their going

forth, David behaved himself more wisely than

all the servants of Saul, and his name became

very famous.

Chapter 19

And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all

his servants, that they should kill David. But

Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David exceed-

ingly.

2And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my

father, seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to

thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and thou

shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid.

3And I will go out and stand beside my father

in the eld where thou art: and I will speak of

thee to my father, and whatsoever I shall see, I

will tell thee.

4And Jonathan spoke good things of David

to Saul, his father: and said to him: Sin not,

O king, against thy servant, David, because he

hath not sinned against thee, and his works are

very good towards thee.

5And he put his life in his hand, and slew

the Philistine, and the Lord wrought great sal-

vation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst

rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against in-

nocent blood, by killing David, who is without

fault?

6And when Saul heard this, he was appeased

with the words of Jonathan, and swore: As the

Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.

7Then Jonathan called David, and told him

all these words: and Jonathan brought in David

to Saul, and he was before him, as he had been

yesterday and the day before.

8And the war began again, and David wentout, and fought against the Philistines, and de-

feated them with a great slaughter, and they

ed

from his face.

9And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon

Saul; and he sat in his house, and held a spear

in his hand: and David played with his hand.

10And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the

wall with his spear. And David slipt away out of

the presence of Saul: and the spear missed him,

and was fastened in the wall, and David

ed, and
escaped that night.

11Saul therefore sent his guards to David's

house to watch him, that he might be killed in

the morning. And when Michol, David's wife,

had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thy-

self this night, to morrow thou wilt die:

12She let him down through a window. And

he went and

ed away, and escaped.

13And Michol took an image, and laid it on

the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at

the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

14And Saul sent ocers to seize David; and

it was answered that he was sick.

15And again Saul sent to see David, saying:

Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.

16And when the messengers were come in,

they found an image upon the bed, and a goat

skin at his head.

17And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou

deceived me so, and let my enemy go and

ee

away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he

said to me: Let me go, or else I will kill thee.

18But David

ed and escaped, and came to

Samuel in Ramatha, and told him all that Saul

had done to him: and he and Samuel went and

dwelt in Najoth.

19And it was told Saul by some, saying: Be-

hold David is in Najoth, in Ramatha.

20So Saul sent ocers to take David: and

when they saw a company of prophets prophesy-First Book of Samuel 349

ing, and Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit

of the Lord came also upon them, and they like-

wise began to prophesy.

21And when this was told Saul, he sent other

messengers: but they also prophesied. And

again Saul sent messengers the third time: and

they prophesied also. And Saul being exceeding

angry,

22Went also himself to Ramatha, and came

as far as the great cistern, which is in Socho, and

he asked, and said: In what place are Samuel and

David? And it was told him: Behold they are in

Najoth, in Ramatha.

23And he went to Najoth, in Ramatha, and

the Spirit of the Lord came upon him also, and

he went on, and prophesied till he came to Na-

joth, in Ramatha.

24And he stripped himself also of his gar-

ments, and prophesied with the rest before

Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and

night. This gave occasion to a proverb: What!

is Saul too among the prophets?

Chapter 20

But David

ed from Najoth, which is in Ra-

matha, and came and said to Jonathan: What

have I done? what is my iniquity, and what is

my sin against thy father, that he seeketh my

life?

2And he said to him: (God forbid, thou shalt

not die: for my father will do nothing, great or

little, without rst telling me: hath then my fa-

ther hid this word only from me? no, this shall

not be.

3And he swore again to David. And David

said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have

found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not

Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But trulyas the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is

but one step (as I may say) between me and

death.

4And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever

thy soul shall say to me, I will do for thee.

5And David said to Jonathan: Behold to mor-

row is the new moon, and I, according to custom,

am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go

then that I may be hid in the eld till the evening

of the third day.

6If thy father look and inquire for me, thou

shalt answer him: David asked me that he might

run to Bethlehem, his own city: because there

are solemn sacrices there for all of his tribe.

7If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall

have peace: but if he be angry, know that his

malice is come to its height.

8Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for

thou hast brought me, thy servant, into a

covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be

any iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring

me not in to thy father.

9And Jonathan said: Far be this from thee:

for if I should certainly know that evil is deter-

mined by my father against thee, I could do no

otherwise than tell thee.

10And David answered Jonathan: Who shall

bring me word, if thy father should answer thee

harshly concerning me?

11And Jonathan said to David: Come, and

let us go out into the eld. And when they were

both of them gone out into the eld,

12Jonathan said to David: O Lord God of

Israel, if I shall discover my father's mind, to

morrow, or the day after, and there be any thing

good for David, and I send not immediately to

thee, and make it known to thee,

13May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan,

and add still more. But if my father shall con-

tinue in malice against thee, I will discover it350 First Book of Samuel

to thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou

mayst go in peace, and the Lord be with thee,

as he hath been with my father.

14And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kind-

ness of the Lord: but if I die,

15Thou shalt not take away thy kindness

from my house for ever, when the Lord shall have

rooted out the enemies of David, every one of

them from the earth, may he take away Jonathan

from his house, and may the Lord require it at

the hands of David's enemies.

16Jonathan therefore made a covenant with

the house of David: and the Lord required it at

the hands of David's enemies.

17And Jonathan swore again to David, be-

cause he loved him: for he loved him as his own

soul.

18And Jonathan said to him: To morrow is

the new moon, and thou wilt be missed:

19For thy seat will be empty till after to mor-

row. So thou shalt go down quickly, and come

to the place where thou must he hid, on the day

when it is lawful to work, and thou shalt remain

beside the stone, which is called Ezel.

20And I will shoot three arrows near it, and

will shoot as if I were exercising myself at a mark.

21And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go

and fetch me the arrows.

22If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows

are on this side of thee, take them up: come thou

to me, because there is peace to thee, and there

is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak

thus to the boy: Behold the arrows are beyond

thee: go in peace, for the Lord hath sent thee

away.

23And concerning the word which I and thou

have spoken, the Lord be between thee and me

forever.

24So David was hid in the eld, and the new

moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.25And when the king sat down upon his

chair, (according to custom) which was beside

the wall, Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by

Saul's side, and David's place appeared empty.

26And Saul said nothing that day, for he

thought it might have happened to him, that he

was not clean, nor puried.

27And when the second day after the new

moon was come, David's place appeared empty

again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son: Why

cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yes-

terday, nor to day?

28And Jonathan answered Saul: He asked

leave of me earnestly to go to Bethlehem.

29And he said: Let me go, for there is a

solemn sacrice in the city, one of my brethren

hath sent for me: and now if I have found

favour in thy eyes, I will go quickly, and see

my brethren. For this cause he came not to the

king's table.

30Then Saul being angry against Jonathan,

said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the

ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest

the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the

confusion of thy shameless mother?

31For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon

earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy

kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and

fetch him to me: for he is the son of death.

32And Jonathan answering Saul, his father,

said: Why shall he die? What hath he done?

33And Saul caught up a spear to strike him.

And Jonathan understood that it was deter-

mined by his father to kill David.

34So Jonathan rose from the table in great

anger, and did not eat bread on the second day

after the new moon. For he was grieved for

David, because his father had put him to con-

fusion.

35And when the morning came, JonathanFirst Book of Samuel 351

went into the eld according to the appointment

with David, and a little boy with him.

36And he said to his boy: Go, and fetch me

the arrows which I shoot. And when the boy

ran, he shot another arrow beyond the boy.

37The boy therefore came to the place of the

arrow which Jonathan had shot: and Jonathan

cried after the boy, and said: Behold the arrow

is there further beyond thee.

38And Jonathan cried again after the boy,

saying: Make haste speedily, stand not. And

Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and

brought them to his master:

39And he knew not at all what was doing:

for only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

40Jonathan therefore gave his arms to the

boy, and said to him: Go, and carry them into

the city.

41And when the boy was gone, David rose

out of his place, which was toward the south, and

falling on his face to the ground, adored thrice:

and kissing one another, they wept together; but

David more.

42And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace:

and let all stand that we have sworn both of us

in the name of the Lord, saying: The Lord be

between me and thee, and between my seed and

thy seed for ever.

43And David arose, and departed: and

Jonathan went into the city.

Chapter 21

And David came to Nobe, to Achimelech, the

priest and Achimelech was astonished at David's

coming. And he said to him: Why art thou

alone, and no man with thee?

2And David said to Achimelech, the priest:

The king hath commanded me a business, andsaid: Let no man know the thing for which thou

art sent by me, and what manner of commands

I have given thee: and I have appointed my ser-

vants to such and such a place.

3Now therefore if thou have any thing at

hand, though it were but ve loaves, give me,

or whatsoever thou canst nd.

4And the priest answered David, saying: I

have no common bread at hand, but only holy

bread, if the young men be clean, especially from

women?

5And David answered the priest, and said to

him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we

have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the

day before, when we came out, and the vessels

of the young men were holy. Now this way is

deled, but it shall also be sanctied this day in

the vessels.

6The priest therefore gave him hallowed

bread: for there was no bread there, but only

the loaves of proposition, which had been taken

away from before the face of the Lord, that hot

loaves might be set up.

7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul

was there that day, within the tabernacle of the

Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the

chiefest of Saul's herdsmen.

8And David said to Achimelech: Hast thou

here at hand a spear, or a sword? for I brought

not my own sword, nor my own weapons with

me, for the king's business required haste.

9And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword

of Goliath, the Philistine, whom thou slewest in

the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in a cloth

behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it,

for here there is no other but this. And David

said: There is none like that, give it me.

10And David arose and

ed that day from

the face of Saul: and came to Achis, the king of

Geth:352 First Book of Samuel

11And the servants of Achis, when they saw

David, said to him: Is not this David, the king

of the land? Did they not sing to him in their

dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands,

and David his ten thousands?

12But David laid up these words in his heart,

and was exceedingly afraid at the face of Achis,

the king of Geth.

13And he changed his countenance before

them, and slipt down between their hands: and

he stumbled against the doors of the gate, and

his spittle ran down upon his beard.

14And Achis said to his servants: You saw

the man was mad: why have you brought him to

me?

15Have we need of mad men, that you have

brought in this fellow, to play the madman in my

presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

Chapter 22

David therefore went from thence, and

ed to

the cave of Odollam. And when his brethren,

and all his father's house, had heard of it, they

went down to him thither.

2And all that were in distress, and oppressed

with debt, and under aiction of mind, gath-

ered themselves unto him: and he became their

prince, and there were with him about four hun-

dred men.

3And David departed from thence into Mas-

pha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab:

Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I

beseech thee, till I know what God will do for

me.

4And he left them under thc eyes of the king

of Moab, and they abode with him all the days

that David was in the hold.

5And Gad the prophet said to David: Abidenot in the hold, depart, and go into the land of

Juda. And David departed, and came into the

forest of Haret.

6And SauI heard that David was seen, and

the men that were with him. Now whilst Saul

abode in Gabaa, and was in the wood, which is

by Rama, having his spear in his hand, and all

his servants were standing about him,

7He said to his servants that stood about him:

Hear me now, ye sons of Jemini: will the son of

Isai give every one of you elds, and vineyards,

and make you all tribunes, and centurions:

8That all of you have conspired against me,

and there is no one to inform me, especially when

even my son hath entered into league with the

son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth

my case, nor that giveth me any information: be-

cause my son hath raised up my servant against

me, plotting against me to this day.

9And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and

was the chief among the servants of Saul, an-

swering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe,

with Achimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest.

10And he consulted the Lord for him, and

gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of

Goliath, the Philistine.

11Then the king sent to call for Achimelech,

the priest, the son of Achitob, and all his father's

house, the priests that were in Nobe, and they

came all of them to the king.

12And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear, thou

son of Achitob. He answered: Here I am, my

lord.

13And Saul said to him: Why have you con-

spired against me, thou, and the son of Isai, and

thou hast given him bread and a sword, and hast

consulted the Lord for him, that he should rise

up against me, continuing a traitor to this day.

14And Achimelech answering the king, said:

And who amongst all thy servants is so faithfulFirst Book of Samuel 353

as David, who is the king's son in law, and goeth

forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy

house?

15Did I begin to day to consult the Lord for

him? far be this from me: let not the king sus-

pect such a thing against his servant, or any one

in all my father's house: for thy servant knew

nothing of this matter, either little or great.

16And the king said: Dying thou shalt die,

Achimelech, thou and all thy father's house.

17And the king said to the messengers that

stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of

the Lord, for their hand is with David, because

they knew that he was

ed, and they told it not

to me. And the king'sservants would not put

forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.

18And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and

fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite,

turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in that

day eighty-ve men that wore the linen ephod.

19And Nobe, the city of the priests, he

smote with the edge of the sword, both men and

women, children and sucklings, and ox, and ass,

and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

20But one of the sons of Achimelech, the son

of Achitob, whose name was Abiathar, escaped,

and

ed to David,

21And told him that Saul had slain the

priests of the Lord.

22And David said to Abiathar: I knew that

day when Doeg, the Edomite, was there, that

without doubt he would tell Saul: I have been

the occasion of the death of all the souls of thy

father's house.

23Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that

seeketh my life, seeketh thy life also, and with

me thou shalt be saved.Chapter 23

And they told David, saying: Behold the

Philistines ght against Ceila, and they rob the

barns.

2Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying:

Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the

Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt smite

the Philistines, and shalt save Ceila.

3And the men that were with David, said to

him: Behold we are in fear here in Judea, how

much more if we go to Ceila against the bands

of the Philistines?

4Therefore David consulted the Lord again.

And he answered and said to him: Arise, and go

to Ceila: for I will deliver the Philistines into thy

hand.

5David, therefore, and his men, went to Ceila,

and fought against the Philistines, and brought

away their cattle, and made a great slaughter of

them: and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila.

6Now at that time, when Abiathar, the son

of Achimelech,

ed to David, to Ceila, he came

down, having an ephod with him.

7And it was told Saul that David was come

to Ceila: and Saul said: The Lord hath delivered

him into my hands, and he is shut up, being come

into a city that hath gates and bars.

8And Saul commanded all the people to go

down to ght against Ceila, and to besiege David

and his men.

9Now when David understood that Saul se-

cretly prepared evil against him, he said to Abi-

athar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod.

10And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy

servant hath heard a report, that Saul designeth

to come to Ceila, to destroy the city for my sake:

11Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his

hands? and will Saul come down, as thy ser-

vant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, tell thy354 First Book of Samuel

servant. And the Lord said: He will come down.

12And David said: Will the men of Ceila

deliver me and my men into the hands of Saul?

And the Lord said: They will deliver thee up.

13Then David and his men, who were about

six hundred, arose, and departing from Ceila,

wandered up and down, uncertain where they

should stay: and it was told Saul that David

was

ed from Ceila, and had escaped: wherefore

he forbore to go out.

14But David abode in the desert in strong

holds, and he remained in a mountain of the

desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought

him always: but the Lord delivered him not into

his hands.

15And David saw that Saul was come out

to seek his life. And David was in the desert of

Ziph, in a wood.

16And Jonathan, the son of Saul, arose, and

went to David, into the wood, and strengthened

his hands in God: and he said to him:

17Fear not: for the hand of my father, Saul,

shall not nd thee, and thou shalt reign over

Israel, and I shall be next to thee; yea and my

father knoweth this.

18And they two made a covenant before

the Lord: and David abode in the wood: but

Jonathan returned to his house.

19And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in

Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not David lie hid with

us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount

Hachila, which is on the right hand of the desert.

20Now therefore come down, as thy soul hath

desired to come down: and it shall be our busi-

ness to deliver him into the king's hands.

21And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord,

for you have pitied my case.

22Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all dili-

gence, and curiously inquire, and consider the

place where his foot is, and who hath seen himthere: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in

wait for him.

23Consider, and see all his lurking holes,

wherein he is hid, and return to me with the

certainty of the thing, that I may go with you.

And if he should even go down into the earth

to hide himself, I will search him out in all the

thousands of Juda.

24And they arose, and went to Ziph before

Saul: and David and his men were in the desert

of Maon, in the plain at the right hand of Jesi-

mon.

25Then Saul and his men went to seek him:

and it was told David, and forthwith he went

down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness

of Maon: and when Saul had heard of it, he

pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

26And Saul went on this side of the mountain:

and David and his men were on the other side

of the mountain: and David despaired of being

able to escape from the face of Saul: and Saul

and his men encompassed David and his men

round about, to take them.

27And a messenger came to Saul, saying:

Make haste to come, for the Philistines have

poured in themselves upon the land.

28Wherefore Saul returned, leaving the pur-

suit of David, and went to meet the Philistines.

For this cause they called that place the rock of

division.

Chapter 24

Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in

strong holds of Engaddi.

2And when Saul was returned from following

the Philistines, they told him, saying: Behold,

David is in the desert of Engaddi.

3Saul, therefore, took three thousand chosenFirst Book of Samuel 355

men out of all Israel, and went out to seek after

David and his men, even upon the most craggy

rocks, which are accessible only to wild goats.

4And he came to the sheepcotes which were

in his way. And there was a cave, into which

Saul went, to ease nature: now David and his

men lay hid in the inner part of the cave.

5And the servants of David said to him: Be-

hold the day, of which the Lord said to thee:

I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou

mayst do to him as it shall seem good in thy

eyes. Then David arose, and secretly cut o the

hem of Saul's robe.

6After which David's heart struck him, be-

cause he had cut o the hem of Saul's robe.

7And he said to his men: The Lord be merci-

ful unto me, that I may do no such thing to my

master, the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand

upon him, because he is the Lord's anointed.

8And David stopped his men with his words,

and suered them not to rise against Saul: but

Saul, rising up out of the cave, went on his way.

9And David also rose up after him: and go-

ing out of the cave, cried after Saul, saying: My

lord the king. And Saul looked behind him: and

David bowing himself down to the ground, wor-

shipped,

10And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the

words of men that say: David seeketh thy hurt?

12Moreover, see and know, O my father, the

hem of thy robe in my hand, that when I cut

o the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my

hand against thee. Re

ect, and see, that there

is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have

I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for

my life, to take it away.

13The Lord judge between me and thee and

the Lord revenge me of thee: but my hand shall

not be upon thee.

14As also it is said in the old proverb: Fromthe wicked shall wickedness come forth: there-

fore my hand shall not be upon thee. After

whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?

15After whom dost thou pursue? After a

dead dog, after a

ea.

16Be the Lord judge, and judge between me

and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and de-

liver me out of thy hand.

17And when David had made an end of

speaking these words to Saul, Saul said: Is this

thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his

voice, and wept:

18And he said to David: Thou art more just

than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have

rewarded thee with evil.

19And thou hast shewed this day what good

things thou hast done to me: how the Lord deliv-

ered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed

me.

20For who when he hath found his enemy,

will let him go well away? But the Lord reward

thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done

to me this day.

21And now as I know that thou shalt surely

be king, and have the kingdom of Israel in thy

hand:

22Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt

not destroy my seed after me, nor take away my

name from the house of my father.

23And David swore to Saul. So Saul went

home: and David and his men went up into safer

places.

Chapter 25
And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered

together, and they mourned for him, and buried

him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose,

and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.356 First Book of Samuel

2Now there was a certain man in the wilder-

ness of Maon, and his possessions were in

Carmel, and the man was very great: and he

had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats:

and it happened that he was shearing his sheep

in Carmel.

3Now the name of the man was Nabal: and

the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was

a prudent and very comely woman: but her hus-

band was churlish, and very bad and ill natured:

and he was of the house of Caleb.

4And when David heard in the wilderness,

that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

5He sent ten young men, and said to them:

Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute

him in my name with peace.

6And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren,

and to thee, and peace to thy house, and peace

to all that thou hast.

7I have heard that thy shepherds that were

with us in the desert were shearing: we never

molested them, neither was there ought missing

to them of the

ock at any time, all the while

they were with us in Carmel.

8Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee.

Now therefore let thy servants nd favour in thy

eyes: for we are come in a good day, whatsoever

thy hand shall nd give to thy servants, and to

thy son David.

9And when David's servants came, they spoke

to Nabal all these words in David's name, and

then held their peace.

10But Nabal answering the servants of David,

said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai?

servants are multiplied now days who

ee from

their masters.

11Shall I then take my bread, and my water,

and the

esh of my cattle, which I have killed for

my shearers, and give to men whom I know not

whence they are?12So the servants of David went back their

way, and returning came and told him all the

words that he said.

13Then David said to his young men: Let

every man gird on his sword. And they girded

on every man his sword. And David also girded

on his sword: and there followed David about

four hundred men, and two hundred remained

with the baggage.

14But one of the servants told, Abigail, the

wife of Nabal, saying: Behold, David sent mes-

sengers out of the wilderness, to salute our mas-

ter: and he rejected them.

15These men were very good to us, and gave

us no trouble: Neither did we ever lose any thing

all the time that we conversed with them in the

desert.

16They were a wall unto us, both by night

and day, all the while we were with them keeping

the sheep.

17Wherefore consider, and think what thou

hast to do: for evil is determined against thy

husband, and against thy house, and he is a son

of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.

18Then Abigail made haste and took two

hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and

ve sheep ready dressed, and ve measures of

parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins,

and two hundred cakes of dry gs, and laid them

upon asses:

19And she said to her servants: Go before

me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told

not her husband, Nabal.

20And when she had gotten upon an ass, and

was coming down to the foot of the mountain,

David and his men came down over against her,

and she met them.

21And David said: Truly in vain have I kept

all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness,

and nothing was lost of all that pertained untoFirst Book of Samuel 357

him: and he hath returned me evil for good.

22May God do so and so, and add more to

the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong

to him till the morning, any that pisseth against

the wall.

23And when Abigail saw David, she made

haste and lighted o the ass, and fell before

David, on her face, and adored upon the ground.

24And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me

let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid

speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the

words of thy servant.

25Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, re-

gard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to

his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but

I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my

lord, whom thou sentest.

26Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth,

and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee

from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand

to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal,

and all they that seek evil to my lord.

27Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy

handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and

give it to the young men that follow thee, my

lord.

28Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for

the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful

house, because thou, my lord, ghtest the battles

of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in

thee all the days of thy life.

29For if a man at any time shall rise, and

persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my

lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living,

with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy

enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence

and whirling of a sling.

30And when the Lord shall have done to thee,

my lord, all the good that he hath spoken con-

cerning thee, and shall have made thee princeover Israel,

32And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the

Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day

to meet me, and blessed be thy speech:

33And blessed be thou, who hast kept me

to day from coming to blood, and revenging me

with my own hand.

34Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God

of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing

thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to

meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the

morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.

35And David received at her hand all that she

had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace

into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice,

and honoured thy face.

36And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he

had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king:

and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very

drunk: and she told him nothing less or more

until morning.

37But early in the morning, when Nabal had

digested his wine, his wife told him these words,

and his heart died within him, and he became as

a stone.

38And after ten days had passed, the Lord

struck Nabal, and he died.

39And when David had heard that Nabal was

dead, he said: Blessed be the Lord, who hath

judged the cause of my reproach, at the hand of

Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and

the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal

upon his head. Then David sent and treated

with Abigail, that he might take her to himself

for a wife.

40And David's servants came to Abigail, to

Carmel, and spoke to her, saying: David hath

sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a wife.

41And she arose, and bowed herself down

with her face to the earth, and said: Behold,358 First Book of Samuel

let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet

of the servants of my lord.

42And Abigail arose, and made haste, and

got upon an ass, and ve damsels went with her,

her waiting maids, and she followed the messen-

gers of David, and became his wife.

43Moreover David took also Achinoam of

Jezrahel: and they were both of them his wives.

44But Saul gave Michol, his daughter,

David's wife, to Phalti, the son of Lais, who was

of Gallim.

Chapter 26

And the men of Ziph came to Saul in Gabaa,

saying: Behold David is hid in the hill of Hachila,

which is over against the wilderness.

2And Saul arose, and went down to the

wilderness of Ziph having with him three thou-

sand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the

wilderness of Ziph.

3And Saul encamped in Gabaa Hachila,

which was over against the wilderness in the way:

and David abode in the wilderness. And seeing

that Saul was come after him into the wilderness,

4He sent spies, and learned that he was most

certainly come thither.

5And David arose secretly, and came to the

place where Saul was: and when he had beheld

the place, wherein Saul slept, and Abner, the

son of Ner, the captain of his army, and Saul

sleeping in a tent, and the rest of the multitude

round about him,

6David spoke to Achimelech, the Hethite, and

Abisai, the son of Sarvia, the brother of Joab,

saying: Who will go down with me to Saul into

the camp? And Abisai said: I will go with thee.

7So David and Abisai came to the people by

night, and found Saul lying and sleeping in thetent, and his spear xed in the ground at his

head: and Abner and the people sleeping round

about him.

8And Abisai said to David: God hath shut

up thy enemy this day into thy hands: now then

I will run him through with my spear, even to

the earth at once, and there shall be no need of

a second time.

9And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for

who shall put forth his hand against the Lord's

anointed, and shall be guiltless?

10And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless

the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come

to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

11The Lord be merciful unto me, and keep

me that I never put forth my hand against the

Lord's anointed. But now take the spear which

is at his head, and the cup of water, and let us

go.

12So David took the spear, and the cup of

water which was at Saul's head, and they went

away: and no man saw it, or knew it, or awaked,

but they were all asleep, for a deep sleep from

the Lord was fallen upon them.

13And when David was gone over to the other

side, and stood on the top of the hill afar o, and

a good space was between them,

14David cried to the people, and to Abner,

the son of Ner, saying: Wilt thou not answer,

Abner? And Abner answering, said: Who art

thou, that criest, and disturbest the king?

15And David said to Abner: Art not thou a

man? and who is like unto thee in Israel? why

then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for

there came one of the people in to kill the king

thy lord.

16This thing is not good, that thou hast done:

as the Lord liveth, you are the sons of death, who

have not kept your master, the Lord's anointed.

And now where is the king's spear, and the cupFirst Book of Samuel 359

of water, which was at his head?

17And Saul knew David's voice, and said: Is

this thy voice, my son David? And David said:

It is my voice, my lord the king.

18And he said: Wherefore doth my lord per-

secute his servant? What have I done? or what

evil is there in my hand?

19Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my lord

the king, the words of thy servant: If the Lord

stir thee up against me, let him accept of sacri-

ce: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in

the sight of the Lord, who have cast me out this

day, that I should not dwell in the inheritance of

the Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods.

20And now let not my blood be shed upon

the earth before the Lord: for the king of Israel

is come out to seek a

ea, as the partridge is

hunted in the mountains.

21And Saul said: I have sinned; return, my

son David, for I will no more do thee harm, be-

cause my life hath been precious in thy eyes this

day: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly,

and have been ignorant in very many things.

22And David answering, said: Behold the

king's spear: let one of the king's servants come

over and fetch it.

23And the Lord will reward every one accord-

ing to his justice, and his faithfulness: for the

Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand,

and I would not put forth my hand against the

Lord's anointed.

24And as thy life hath been much set by this

day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in

the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me from

all distress.

25Then Saul said to David: Blessed art thou,

my son David: and truly doing thou shalt do,

and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David

went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.Chapter 27

And David said in his heart: I shall one day or

other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better

for me to

ee, and to be saved in the land of the

Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and

cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will

ee then out of his hands.

2And David arose, and went away, both he

and the six hundred men that were with him, to

Achis, the son of Maoch, king of Geth.

3And David dwelt with Achis at Geth, he

and his men; every man with his household,

and David with his two wives, Achinoam, the

Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of

Carmel.

4And it was told Saul that David was

ed to

Geth, and he sought no more after him.

5And David said to Achis: If I have found

favour in thy sight, let a place be given me in

one of the cities of this country, that I may dwell

there: for why should thy servant dwell in the

royal city with thee?

6Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for

which reason Siceleg belongeth to the kings of

Juda unto this day.

7And the time that David dwelt in the coun-

try of the Philistines, was four months.

8And David and his men went up, and pil-

laged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites:

for these were of old the inhabitants of the coun-

tries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.

9And David wasted all the land, and left

neither man nor woman alive: and took away

the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the

camels, and the apparel, and returned and came

to Achis.

10And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou

gone against to day? David answered: Against

the south of Juda, and against the south of Jer-360 First Book of Samuel

ameel, and against the south of Ceni.

11And David saved neither man nor woman,

neither brought he any of them to Geth, saying:

Lest they should speak against us. So did David,

and such was his proceeding all the days that he

dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

12And Achis believed David, saying: He hath

done much harm to his people Israel: Therefore

he shall be my servant for ever.

Chapter 28

And it came to pass in those days, that the

Philistines gathered together their armies, to be

prepared for war against Israel: And Achis said

to David: Know thou now assuredly, that thou

shalt go out with me to the war, thou, and thy

men.
2And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt

know what thy servant will do. And Achis said

to David: And I will appoint thee to guard my

life for ever.

3Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel

mourned for him, and buried him in Ramatha,

his city. And Saul had put away all the magi-

cians and soothsayers out of the land.

4And the Philistines were gathered together,

and came and encamped in Sunam: and Saul

also gathered together all Israel, and came to

Gelboe.

5And Saul saw the army of the Philistines,

and was afraid, and his heart was very much

dismayed.

6And he consulted the Lord, and he answered

him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor

by prophets.

7And Saul said to his servants: Seek me a

woman that hath a divining spirit, and I will go

to her, and enquire by her. And his servants saidto him: There is a woman that hath a divining

spirit at Endor.

8Then he disguised himself: and put on other

clothes, and he went, and two men with him, and

they came to the woman by night, and he said

to her: Divine to me by thy divining spirit, and

bring me up him whom I shall tell thee.

9And the woman said to him: Behold thou

knowest all that Saul hath done, and how he

hath rooted out the magicians and soothsayers

from the land: why then dost thou lay a snare

for my life, to cause me to be put to death?

10And Saul swore unto her by the Lord, say-

ing: As the Lord liveth, there shall no evil hap-

pen to thee for this thing.

11And the woman said to him: Whom shall

I bring up to thee? And he said, Bring me up

Samuel.

13And the king said to her: Fear not: what

hast thou seen? and the woman said to Saul: I

saw gods ascending out of the earth.

14And he said to her: What form is he of?

And she said: An old man cometh up, and he

is covered with a mantle. And Saul understood

that it was Samuel, and he bowed himself with

his face to the ground, and adored.

15And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou

disturbed my rest, that I should be brought up?

And Saul said: I am in great distress: for the

Philistines ght against me, and God is departed

from me, and would not hear me, neither by the

hand of prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I

have called thee, that thou mayst shew me what

I shall do.

16And Samuel said: Why askest thou me,

seeing the Lord has departed from thee, and is

gone over to thy rival?

17For the Lord will do to thee as he spoke

by me, and he will rend thy kingdom out of thy

hand, and will give it to thy neighbour David:First Book of Samuel 361

18Because thou didst not obey the voice of

the Lord, neither didst thou execute the wrath

of his indignation upon Amalec. Therefore hath

the Lord done to thee what thou suerest this

day.

19And the Lord also will deliver Israel with

thee into the hands of the Philistines: and to

morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me: and

the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into

the hands of the Philistines.

20And forthwith Saul fell all along on the

ground; for he was frightened with the words of

Samuel, and there was no strength in him, for he

had eaten no bread all that day.

21And the woman came to Saul, (for he was

very much troubled) and said to him: Behold

thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have

put my life in my hand: and I hearkened unto

the words which thou spokest to me.

22Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou

also to the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set

before thee a morsel of bread, that thou mayst

eat and recover strength, and be able to go on

thy journey.

23But he refused, and said: I will not eat.

But his servants and the woman forced him, and

at length hearkening to their voice, he arose from

the ground, and sat upon the bed.

24Now the woman had a fatted calf in the

house, and she made haste and killed it: and

taking meal, kneaded it, and baked some un-

leavened bread,

25And set it before Saul, and before his ser-

vants. And when they had eaten they rose up,

and walked all that night.Chapter 29

Now all the troops of the Philistines were gath-

ered together to Aphec: and Israel also en-

camped by the fountain, which is in Jezrahel.

2And the lords of the Philistines marched

with their hundreds and their thousands: but

David and his men were in the rear with Achis.

3And the princes of the Philistines said to

Achis: What mean these Hebrews? And Achis

said to the princes of the Philistines: Do you

not know David who was the servant of Saul,

the king of Israel, and hath been with me many

days, or years, and I have found no fault in him,

since the day that he

ed over to me until this

day?

4But the prices of the Philistines were angry

with him, and they said to him: Let this man

return, and abide in his place, which thou hast

appointed him, and let him not go down with us

to battle, lest he be an adversary to us, when

we shall begin to ght: for how can he otherwise

appease his master, but with our heads?

5Is not this David, to whom they sung in

their dances, saying: Saul slew his thousands,

and David his ten thousands?

6Then Achis called David, and said to him:

As the Lord liveth, thou art upright and good

in my sight: and so is thy going out, and thy

coming in with me in the army: and I have not

found any evil in thee, since the day that thou

camest to me unto this day: but thou pleasest

not the lords.

7Return therefore, and go in peace, and of-

fend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.

8And David said to Achis: But what have I

done, or what hast thou found in me thy servant,

from the day that I have been in thy sight until

this day, that I may not go and ght against the

enemies of my lord the king?362 First Book of Samuel

9And Achis answering, said to David: I know

that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of

God: But the princes of the Philistines have said:

He shall not go up with us to the battle.

10Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and

the servants of thy lord, who came with thee:

and when you are up before day, and it shall

begin to be light, go on your way.

11So David and his men arose in the night,

that they might set forward in the morning, and

returned to the land of the Philistines: and the

Philistines went up to Jezrahel.

Chapter 30

Now when David and his men were come to Sice-

leg on the third day, the Amalecites had made

an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and

had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with re,

2And had taken the women captives that were

in it, both little and great: and they had not

killed any person, but had carried them with

them, and went on their way.

3So when David and his men came to the

city, and found it burnt with re, and that their

wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were

taken captives,

4David and the people that were with him,

lifted up their voices, and wept till they had no

more tears.

5For the two wives also of David were taken

captives, Achinoam, the Jezrahelitess, and Abi-

gail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

6And David was greatly aicted: for the peo-

ple had a mind to stone him, for the soul of every

man was bitterly grieved for his sons and daugh-

ters: but David took courage in the Lord his

God.

7And he said to Abiathar, the priest, the sonof Achimelech: Bring me hither the ephod. And

Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

8And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall

I pursue after these robbers, and shall I overtake

them, or not? And the Lord said to him: Pursue

after them: for thou shalt surely overtake them

and recover the prey.

9So David went, he and the six hundred men

that were with him, and they came to the torrent

Besor: and some, being weary, stayed there.

10But David pursued, he and four hundred

men: for two hundred stayed, who, being weary,

could not go over the torrent Besor.

11And they found an Egyptian in the eld,

and brought him to David: and they gave him

bread to eat, and water to drink,

12As also a piece of a cake of gs, and two

bunches of raisins. And when he had eaten them,

his spirit returned, and he was refreshed: for he

had not eaten bread, nor drunk water, three days

and three nights.

13And David said to him: To whom dost

thou belong; or whence dost thou come? and

whither art thou going? He said: I am a young

man of Egypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and

my master left me, because I began to be sick

three days ago.

14For we made an invasion on the south side

of Cerethi, and upon Juda, and upon the south

of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with re.

15And David said to him: Canst thou bring

me to this company? and he said: Swear to me

by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor deliver

me into the hands of my master, and I will bring

thee to this company. And David swore to him.

16And when he had brought him, behold they

were lying spread abroad upon all the ground,

eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a

festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which

they had taken out of the land of the Philistines,First Book of Samuel 363

and out of the land of Juda.

17And David slew them from the evening

unto the evening of the next day, and there es-

caped not a man of them, but four hundred

young men, who had gotten upon camels, and

ed.

18So David recovered all that the Amalecites

had taken, and he rescued his two wives.

19And there was nothing missing small or

great, neither of their sons or their daughters,

nor of the spoils, and whatsoever they had taken,

David recovered all.

20And he took all the

ocks and the herds,

and made them go before him: and they said:

This is the prey of David.

21And David came to the two hundred men,

who, being weary, had stayed, and were not able

to follow David, and he had ordered them to

abide at the torrent Besor: and they came out

to meet David, and the people that were with

him. And David coming to the people, saluted

them peaceably.
22Then all the wicked and unjust men, that

had gone with David, answering, said: Because

they came not with us, we will not give them

any thing of the prey which we have recovered:

but let every man take his wife, and his children,

and be contented with them, and go his way.

23But David said: You shall not do so, my

brethren, with these things, which the Lord hath

given us, who hath kept us, and hath delivered

the robbers that invaded us into our hands:

24And no man shall hearken to you in this

matter. But equal shall be the portion of him

that went down to battle, and of him that abode

at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.

25And this hath been done from that day

forward, and since was made a statute and an

ordinance, and as a law in Israel.

26Then David came to Siceleg, and sentpresents of the prey to the ancients of Juda,

his neighbours, saying: Receive a blessing of the

prey of the enemies of the Lord.

27To them that were in Bethel, and that were

in Ramoth to the south, and to them that were

in Jether.

28And to them that were in Aroer, and that

were in Sephamoth, and that were in Esthamo,

29And that were in Rachal, and that were in

the cities of Jerameel, and that were in the cities

of Ceni,

30And that were in Arama, and that were in

the lake Asan, and that were in Athach,

31And that were in Hebron, and to the rest

that were in those places, in which David had

abode with his men.

Chapter 31

And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the

men of Israel

ed from before the Philistines, and

fell down slain in mount Gelboe.

2And the Philistines fell upon Saul, and upon

his sons, and they slew Jonathan, and Abinadab,

and Melchisua, the sons of Saul.

3And the whole weight of the battle was

turned upon Saul: and the archers overtook him,

and he was grievously wounded by the archers.

4Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw

thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised

come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his

armourbearer would not: for he was struck with

exceeding great fear. Then Saul took his sword,

and fell upon it.

5And when his armourbearer saw this, to wit,

that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword

and died with him.

6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his

armourbearer, and all his men that same day364 First Book of Samuel

together.

7And the men of Israel, that were beyond the

valley, and beyond the Jordan, seeing that the

Israelites were

ed, and that Saul was dead, and

his sons, forsook their cities, and

ed: and the

Philistines came and dwelt there.

8And on the morrow the Philistines came to

strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three

sons lying in mount Gelboe.

9And they cut o Saul's head, and stripped

him of his armour, and sent into the land of the

Philistines round about, to publish it in the tem-

ples of their idols and among their people.

10And they put his armour in the temple of

Astaroth, but his body they hung on the wall of

Bethsan.

11Now when the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad

had heard all that the Philistines had done to

Saul,

12All the most valiant men arose, and walked

all the night, and took the body of Saul, and

the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Bethsan:

and they came to Jabes Galaad, and burnt them

there.

13And they took their bones, and buried

them in the wood of Jabes: and fasted seven

days.Second Book of Samuel

Chapter 1

Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that

David returned from the slaughter of the Amale-

cites, and abode two days in Siceleg.

2And on the third day, there appeared a man

who came out of Saul's camp, with his garments

rent, and dust strewed on his head: and when he

came to David, he fell upon his face, and adored.

3And David said to him: From whence

comest thou? And he said to him: I am

ed

out of the camp of Israel.

4And David said unto him: What is the mat-

ter that is come to pass? tell me: He said: The

people are

ed from the battle, and many of the

people are fallen and dead: moreover Saul and

Jonathan his son are slain.

5And David said to the young man that told

him: How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan

his son, are dead?

6And the young man that told him, said: I

came by chance upon mount Gelboe, and Saul

leaned upon his spear: and the chariots and

horsemen drew nigh unto him,

7And looking behind him, and seeing me, he

called me. And I answered, Here am I.

8And he said to me: Who art thou? And I

said to him: I am an Amalecite.

9And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill

me: for anguish is come upon me, and as yet my

whole life is in me.

10So standing over him, I killed him: for Iknew that he could not live after the fall: and I

took the diadem that was on his head, and the

bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought

them hither to thee, my lord.

11Then David took hold of his garments and

rent them, and likewise all the men that were

with him.

12And they mourned, and wept, and fasted

until evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son,

and for the people of the Lord, and for the house

of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.

13And David said to the young man that told

him: Whence art thou? He answered: I am the

son of a stranger of Amalec.

14David said to him: Why didst thou not fear

to put out thy hand to kill the Lord's anointed?

15And David calling one of his servants, said:

Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him

so that he died.

16And David said to him: Thy blood be upon

thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spo-

ken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's

anointed.

17And David made this kind of lamentation

over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.

18(Also he commanded that they should

teach the children of Juda the use of the bow,

as it is written in the book of the just.) And he

said: Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead,

wounded on thy high places.

19The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy

mountains: how are the valiant fallen?366 Second Book of Samuel

20Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the

streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the

Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the un-

circumcised triumph.

21Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew,

nor rain come upon you, neither be they elds of

rstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of

the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had

not been anointed with oil.

22From the blood of the slain, from the

fat of the valiant, the arrow of Jonathan never

turned back, and the sword of Saul did not re-

turn empty.

23Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in

their life, even in death they were not divided:

they were swifter than eagles, stronger than li-

ons.

24Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who

clothed you with scarlet in delights, who gave

ornaments of gold for your attire.

25How are the valiant fallen in battle?

Jonathan slain in the high places?

26I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: ex-

ceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the

love of women. As the mother loveth her only

son, so did I love thee.

27How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons

of war perished?

Chapter 2

And after these things David consulted the Lord,

saying: Shall I go up into one of the cities of

Juda? And the Lord said to him: Go up. And

David said: Whither shall I go up? And he an-

swered him: Into Hebron.

2So David went up, and his two wives Achi-

noam the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail the wife of

Nabal of Carmel:3And the men also that were with him, David

brought up every man with his household: and

they abode in the towns of Hebron.

4And the men of Juda came, and anointed

David there, to be king over the house of Juda.

And it was told David that the men of Jabes

Galaad had buried Saul.

5David therefore sent messengers to the men

of Jabes Galaad, and said to them: Blessed be

you to the Lord, who have shewn this mercy to

your master Saul, and have buried him.

6And now the Lord surely will render you

mercy and truth, and I also will requite you for

this good turn, because you have done this thing.

7Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye

men of valour: for although your master Saul be

dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed me to

be their king.

8But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul's

army, took Isboseth the son of Saul, and led him

about through the camp,

9And made him king over Galaad, and over

Gessuri, and over Jezrahel, and over Ephraim,

and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

10Isboseth the son of Saul was forty years

old when he began to reign over Israel, and he

reigned two years; and only the house of Juda

followed David.

11And the number of the days that David

abode, reigning in Hebron over the house of

Juda, was seven years and six months.

12And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants

of Isboseth the son of Saul, went out from the

camp to Gabaon.

13And Joab the son of Sarvia, and the ser-

vants of David went out, and met them by the

pool of Gabaon. And when they were come to-

gether, they sat down over against one another:

the one on the one side of the pool, and the other

on the other side.Second Book of Samuel 367

14And Abner said to Joab: Let the young

men rise, and play before us. And Joab an-

swered: Let them rise.

15Then there arose and went over twelve in

number of Benjamin, of the part of Isboseth the

son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

16And every one catching his fellow by the

head, thrust his sword into the side of his adver-

sary, and they fell down together: and the name

of the place was called: The eld of the valiant,

in Gabaon.

17And there was a very erce battle that day:

and Abner was put to

ight, with the men of

Israel, by the servants of David.

18And there were the three sons of Sarvia

there, Joab, and Abisai, and Asael: now Asael

was a most swift runner, like one of the roes that

abide in the woods.

19And Asael pursued after Abner, and turned

not to the right hand nor to the left from follow-

ing Abner.

20And Abner looked behind him, and said:

Art thou Asael? And he answered: I am.

21And Abner said to him: Go to the right

hand or to the left, and lay hold on one of the

young men and take thee his spoils. But Asael

would not leave o following him close.

22And again Abner said to Asael: Go o, and

do not follow me, lest I be obliged to stab thee

to the ground, and I shall not be able to hold up

my face to Joab thy brother.

23But he refused to hearken to him, and

would not turn aside: wherefore Abner struck

him with his spear with a back stroke in the

groin, and thrust him through, and he died upon

the spot: and all that came to the place where

Asael fell down and died stood still.

24Now while Joab and Abisai pursued after

Abner, the sun went down: and they came as

far as the hill of the aqueduct, that lieth overagainst the valley by the way of the wilderness

in Gabaon.

25And the children of Benjamin gathered

themselves together to Abner: and being joined

in one body, they stood on the top of a hill.

26And Abner cried out to Joab, and said:

Shall thy sword rage unto utter destruction?

knowest thou not that it is dangerous to drive

people to despair? how long dost thou defer to

bid the people cease from pursuing after their

brethren?

27And Joab said: As the Lord liveth, if thou

hadst spoke sooner, even in the morning the peo-

ple should have retired from pursuing after their

brethren.

28Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all

the army stood still, and did not pursue after

Israel any farther, nor ght any more.

29And Abner and his men walked all that

night through the plains: and they passed the

Jordan, and having gone through all Beth-horon,

came to the camp.

30And Joab returning, after he had left Ab-

ner, assembled all the people: and there were

wanting of David's servants nineteen men, be-

side Asael.

31But the servants of David had killed of Ben-

jamin, and of the men that were with Abner,

three hundred and sixty, who all died.

32And they took Asael, and buried him in the

sepulchre of his father in Bethlehem and Joab,

and the men that were with him, marched all the

night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

Chapter 3

Now there was a long war between the house of

Saul and the house of David: David prospering

and growing always stronger and stronger, but368 Second Book of Samuel

the house of Saul decaying daily.

2And sons were born to David in Hebron:

and his rstborn was Ammon of Achinoam the

Jezrahelitess:

3And his second Cheleab of Abigail the wife

of Nabal of Carmel: and the third Absalom the

son of Maacha the daughter of Tholmai king of

Gessur:

4And the fourth Adonias, the son of Haggith:

and the fth Saphathia the son of Abital:

5And the sixth Jethraam of Egla the wife of

David: these were born to David In Hebron.

6Now while there was war between the house

of Saul and the house of David, Abner the son

of Ner ruled the house of Saul.

7And Saul had a concubine named Respha,

the daughter of Aia. And Isboseth said to Abner:

8Why didst thou go in to my father's con-

cubine? And he was exceedingly angry for the

words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog's head

against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to

the house of Saul thy father, and to his brethren

and friends, and have not delivered thee into the

hands of David, and hast thou sought this day

against me to charge me with a matter concern-

ing a woman?

9So do God to Abner, and more also, unless

as the Lord hath sworn to David, so I do to him,

10That the kingdom be translated from the

house of Saul, and the throne of David be set up

over Israel, and over Juda from Dan to Bersabee.

11And he could not answer him a word, be-

cause he feared him.

12Abner therefore sent messengers to David

for himself, saying: Whose is the land? and that

they should say: Make a league with me, and

my hand shall be with thee: and I will bring all

Israel to thee.

13And he said: Very well: I will make a

league with thee: but one thing I require of thee,saying: Thou shalt not see my face before thou

bring Michol the daughter of Saul: and so thou

shalt come, and see me.

14And David sent messengers to Isboseth the

son of Saul, saying: Restore my wife Michol,

whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins

of the Philistines.

15And Isboseth sent, and took her from her

husband Phaltiel, the son of Lais.

16And her husband followed her, weeping as

far as Bahurim: and Abner said to him: Go and

return. And he returned.

17Abner also spoke to the ancients of Israel,

saying: Both yesterday and the day before you

sought for David that he might reign over you.

18Now then do it: because the Lord hath

spoken to David, saying: By the hand of my ser-

vant David I will save my people Israel from the

hands of the Philistines, and of all their enemies.

19And Abner spoke also to Benjamin. And

he went to speak to David in Hebron all that

seemed good to Israel, and to all Benjamin.

20And he came to David in Hebron with

twenty men: and David made a feast for Abner,

and his men that came with him.

21And Abner said to David: I will rise, that I

may gather all Israel unto thee my lord the king,

and may enter into a league with thee, and that

thou mayst reign over all as thy soul desireth.

Now when David had brought Abner on his way,

and he was gone in peace,

22Immediately, David's servants and Joab

came, after having slain the robbers, with an ex-

ceeding great booty. And Abner was not with

David in Hebron, for he had now sent him away,

and he was gone in peace.

23And Joab and all the army that was with

him, came afterwards: and it was told Joab, that

Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he

hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.Second Book of Samuel 369

24And Joab went in to the king, and said:

What hast thou done? Behold Abner came to

thee: Why didst thou send him away, and he is

gone and departed?

25Knowest thou not Abner the son of Ner,

that to this end he came to thee, that he might

deceive thee, and to know thy going out, and thy

coming in, and to know all thou dost?

26Then Joab going out from David, sent mes-

sengers after Abner, and brought him back from

the cistern of Sira, David knowing nothing of it.

27And when Abner was returned to Hebron,

Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate,

to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed

him there in the groin, and he died, in revenge

of the blood of Asael his brother.

28And when David heard of it, after the thing

was now done, he said: I, and my kingdom are

innocent before the Lord for ever of the blood of

Abner the son of Ner:

29And may it come upon the head of Joab,

and upon all his father's house: and let there

not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an

issue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth

the dista, or that falleth by the sword, or that

wanteth bread.

30So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Ab-

ner, because he had killed their brother Asael at

Gabaon in the battle.

31And David said to Joab, and to all the

people that were with him: Rend your garments,

and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn

before the funeral of Abner. And king David

himself followed the bier.

32And when they had buried Abner in He-

bron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at

the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.

33And the king mourning and lamenting over

Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die,

hath Abner died.34Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet

laden with fetters: but as men fall before the

children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all

the people repeating it wept over him.

35And when all the people came to take meat

with David, while it was yet broad day, David

swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also,

if I taste bread or any thing else before sunset.

36And all the people heard, and they were

pleased, and all that the king did seemed good

in the sight of all the people.

37And all the people, and all Israel under-

stood that day that it was not the king's doing,

that Abner the son of Ner was slain.

38The king also said to his servants: Do you

not know that a prince and a great man is slain

this day in Israel?

39But I as yet am tender, though anointed

king. And these men the sons of Sarvia are too

hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil

according to his wickedness.

Chapter 4

And Isboseth the son of Saul heard that Abner

was slain in Hebron: and his hands were weak-

ened, and all Israel was troubled.

2Now the son of Saul had two men captains of

his bands, the name of the one was Baana, and

the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rem-

mon a Berothite of the children of Benjamin: for

Beroth also was reckoned in Benjamin.

3And the Berothites

ed into Gethaim, and

were sojourners there until that time.

4And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son

that was lame of his feet: for he was ve years

old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan

from Jezrahel. And his nurse took him up and

ed: and as she made haste to

ee, he fell and370 Second Book of Samuel

became lame: and his name was Miphiboseth.

5And the sons of Remmon the Berothite,

Rechab and Baana coming, went into the house

of Isboseth in the heat of the day: and he was

sleeping upon his bed at noon. And the door-

keeper of the house, who was cleansing wheat,

was fallen asleep.

6And they entered into the house secretly

taking ears of corn, and Rechab and Baana his

brother stabbed him in the groin, and

ed away.

7For when they came into the house, he was

sleeping upon his bed in a parlour, and they

struck him and killed him and taking away his

head they went o by the way of the wilderness,

walking all night.

8And they brought the head of Isboseth to

David to Hebron: and they said to the king: Be-

hold the head of Isboseth the son of Saul thy

enemy who sought thy life: and the Lord hath

revenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and

of his seed.

9But David answered Rechab, and Baana his

brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and

said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath de-

livered my soul out of all distress,

10The man that told me, and said: Saul is

dead, who thought he brought good tidings, I ap-

prehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should

have been rewarded for his news.

11How much more now when wicked men

have slain an innocent man in his own house,

upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at

your hand, and take you away from the earth?

12And David commanded his servants and

they slew them: and cutting o their hands and

feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron:

but the head of Isboseth they took and buried in

the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.Chapter 5

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in

Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy

esh.

2Moreover yesterday also and the day before,

when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that

did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord

said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel,

and thou shalt be prince over Israel.

3The ancients also of Israel came to the

king of Hebron, and king David made a league

with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they

anointed David to be king over Israel.

4David was thirty years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned forty years.

5In Hebron he reigned over Juda seven years

and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned

three and thirty years over all Israel and Juda.

6And the king and all the men that were with

him went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites the in-

habitants of the land: and they said to David:

Thou shalt not come in hither unless thou take

away the blind and the lame that say: David

shall not come in hither.

7But David took the castle of Sion, the same

is the city of David.

8For David had oered that day a reward to

whosoever should strike the Jebusites and get

up to the gutters of the tops of the houses, and

take away the blind and the lame that hated the

soul of David: therefore it is said in the proverb:

The blind and the lame shall not come into the

temple.

9And David dwelt in the castle, and called it,

The city of David: and built round about from

Mello and inwards.

10And he went on prospering and growing

up, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.

11And Hiram the king of Tyre sent messen-Second Book of Samuel 371

gers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters,

and masons for walls: and they built a house for

David.

12And David knew that the Lord had con-

rmed him king over Israel, and that he had ex-

alted his kingdom over his people Israel.

13And David took more concubines and wives

of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron:

and there were born to David other sons also

and daughters:

14And these are the names of them, that were

born to him in Jerusalem, Samua, and Sobab,

and Nathan, and Solomon,

15And Jebahar, and Elisua, and Nepheg,

16And Japhia, and Elisama, and Elioda, and

Eliphaleth.

17And the Philistines heard that they had

anointed David to be king over Israel: and they

all came to seek David: and when David heard

of it, he went down to a strong hold.

18And the Philistines coming spread them-

selves in the valley of Raphaim.

19And David consulted the Lord, Saying:

Shall I go up to the Philistines? and wilt thou

deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said

to David: Go up, for I will surely deliver the

Philistines into thy hand.

20And David came to Baal Pharisim: and de-

feated them there, and he said, The Lord hath

divided my enemies before me, as waters are

divided. Therefore the name of the place was

called Baal Pharisim.

21And they left there their idols: which

David and his men took away.

22And the Philistines came up again and

spread themselves into the valley of Raphaim.

23And David consulted the Lord: Shall I go

up against the Philistines, and wilt thou deliver

them into my hands? He answered: Go not up

against them but fetch a compass behind them,and thou shalt come upon them over against the

pear trees.

24And when thou shalt hear the sound of

one going in the tops of the pear trees, then

shalt thou join battle: for then will the Lord

go out before thy face to strike the army of the

Philistines.

25And David did as the Lord had com-

manded him, and he smote the Philistines from

Gabaa until thou come to Gezer.

Chapter 6

And David again gathered together all the cho-

sen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

2And David arose and went, with all the peo-

ple that were with him of the men of Juda to

fetch the ark of God, upon which the name of

the Lord of Hosts is invoked, who sitteth over it

upon the cherubims.

3And they laid the ark of God upon a new

cart: and took it out of the house of Abinadab,

who was in Gabaa, and Oza and Ahio, the sons

of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

4And when they had taken it out of the house

of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, Ahio having

care of the ark of God went before the ark.

5But David and all Israel played before the

Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood,

on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and

cymbals.

6And when they came to the

oor of Na-

chon, Oza put forth his hand to the ark of God,

and took hold of it: because the oxen kicked and

made it lean aside.

7And the indignation of the Lord was enkin-

dled against Oza, and he struck him for his rash-

ness: and he died there before the ark of God.

8And David was grieved because the Lord372 Second Book of Samuel

had struck Oza, and the name of that place was

called: The striking of Oza, to this day.

9And David was afraid of the Lord that day,

saying: How shall the ark of the Lord come to

me?

10And he would not have the ark of the Lord

brought in to himself into the city of David: but

he caused it to be carried into the house of Obe-

dedom the Gethite.

11And the ark of the Lord abode in the house

of Obededom the Gethite three months: and the

Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.

12And it was told king David, that the Lord

had blessed Obededom, and all that he had, be-

cause of the ark of God. So David went, and

brought away the ark of God out of the house of

Obededom into the city of David with joy. And

there were with David seven choirs, and calves

for victims.

13And when they that carried the ark of the

Lord had gone six paces, he sacriced and ox and

a ram:

14And David danced with all his might before

the Lord: and David was girded with a linen

ephod.

15And David and all the louse of Israel

brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with

joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet.

16And when the ark of the Lord was come

into the city of David, Michol the daughter of

Saul, looking out through a window, saw king

David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and

she despised him in her heart.

17And they brought the ark of the Lord, and

set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle,

which David had pitched for it: and David of-

fered holocausts, and peace oerings before the

Lord.

18And when he had made an end of oering

holocausts and peace oerings, he blessed thepeople in the name of the Lord of hosts.

19And he distributed to all the multitude of

Israel, both men and women, to every one, a cake

of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and ne

our fried with oil: and all the people departed

every one to his own house.

20And David returned to bless his own house:

and Michol the daughter of Saul coming out to

meet David, said: How glorious was the king

of Israel to day, uncovering himself before the

handmaids of his servants, and was naked, as if

one of the buoons should be naked.

21And David said to Michol: Before the Lord,

who chose me rather than thy father, and than

all his house, and commanded me to be ruler

over the people of the Lord in Israel,

22I will both play and make myself meaner

than I have done: and I will be little in my own

eyes: and with the handmaids of whom thou

speakest, I shall appear more glorious.

23Therefore Michol the daughter of Saul had

no child to the day of her death.

Chapter 7

And it came to pass when the king sat in his

house, and the Lord had given him rest on every

side from all his enemies,

2He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou

see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark

of God is lodged within skins?

3And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all

that is in they heart: because the Lord is with

thee.

4But it came to pass that night, that the word

of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:

5Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith

the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell

in?Second Book of Samuel 373

6Whereas I have not dwelt in a house from

the day that I brought the children of Israel out

of the land of Egypt even to this day: but have

walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent.

7In all the places that I have gone through

with all the children of Israel, did ever I speak

a word to any one of the tribes of Israel, whom

I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying:

Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

8And now thus shalt thou speak to my ser-

vant David: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I took

thee out of the pastures from following the sheep

to be ruler over my people Israel:

9And I have been with thee wheresoever thou

hast walked, and have slain all thy enemies from

before thy face: and I have made thee a great

man, like unto the name of the great ones that

are on the earth.

10And I will appoint a place for my people Is-

rael, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell

therein, and shall be disturbed no more: nei-

ther shall the children of iniquity aict them

any more as they did before,

11From the day that I appointed judges over

my people Israel: and I will give thee rest from

all thy enemies. And the Lord foretelleth to thee,

that the Lord will make thee a house.

12And when thy days shall be fullled, and

thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up

thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of

the bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

13He shall build a house to my name, and

I will establish the throne of his kingdom fore

ever.

14I will be to him a father, and he shall be to

me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will

correct him with the rod of men, and with the

stripes of the children of men.

15But my mercy I will not take away from

him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removedfrom before my face.

16And thy house shall be faithful, and thy

kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne

shall be rm for ever.

17According to all these words and according

to all this vision so did Nathan speak to David.

18And David went in, and sat before the

Lord, and said: Who am I, O Lord God, and

what is my house, that thou hast brought me

thus far?

19Bur yet this hath seemed little in thy sight,

O Lord God, unless thou didst also speak of the

house of thy servant for a long time to come: for

this is the law of Adam, O Lord God:

20And what can David say more unto thee?

for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord God:

21For thy word's sake, and according to thy

own heart thou has done all these great things, so

that thou wouldst make it known to thy servant.

22Therefore thou art magnied, O Lord God,

because there is none like to thee, neither is there

any God besides thee, in all the things that we

have heard with our ears.

23And what nation is there upon earth, as

thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem for

a people to himself, and to make him a name,

and to do for them great and terrible things,

upon the earth, before the face of thy people,

whom thou redeemedst to thyself out of Egypt,

from the nations and their gods.

24For thou hast conrmed to thyself thy peo-

ple Israel to be an everlasting people: and thou,

O Lord God, art become their God.

25And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever

the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy

servant and concerning his house: and do as thou

hast spoken,

26That thy name may be magnied for ever,

and it may be said: The Lord of hosts is God

over Israel. And the house of thy servant David374 Second Book of Samuel

shall be established before the Lord.

27Because thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Is-

rael, hast revealed to the ear of thy servant, say-

ing: I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy

servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to

thee.

28And now, O Lord God, thou art God, and

thy words shall be true: for thou hast spoken to

thy servant these good things.

29And now begin, and bless the house of thy

servant, that it may endure for ever before thee:

because thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it, and

with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be

blessed for ever.

Chapter 8

And it came to pass after this that David de-

feated the Philistines, and brought them down,

and David took the bridle of tribute out of the

hand of the Philistines,

2And he defeated Moab, and measured them

with a line, casting them down to the earth: and

he measured with two lines, one to put to death,

and one to save alive: and Moab was made to

serve David under tribute.

3David defeated also Adarezer the son of Ro-

hob king of Soba, when he went to extend his

dominion over the river Euphrates.

4And David took from him a thousand and

seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand

footmen, and houghed all the chariot horses: and

only reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

5And the Syrians of Damascus came to suc-

cour Adarezer the king of Soba: and David slew

of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

6And David put garrisons in Syria of Damas-

cus: and Syria served David under tribute, and

the Lord preserved David in all his enterprises,whithersoever he went.

7And David took the arms of gold, which the

servants of Adarezer wore and brought them to

Jerusalem.

8And out of Bete, and out of Beroth, cities of

Adarezer, king David took and exceeding great

quantity of brass.

9And Thou the king of Emath heard that

David had defeated all the forces of Adarezer.

10And Thou sent Joram his son to king

David, to salute him, and to congratulate with

him, and to return him thanks: because he had

fought against Adarezer, and had defeated him.

For Thou was an enemy to Adarezer, and in his

hand were vessels of gold, and vessels of silver,

and vessels of brass:

11And king David dedicated them to the

Lord, together with the silver and gold that he

had dedicated of all the nations, which he had

subdued:

12Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children

Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalec,

and of the spoils of Adarezer the son of Rohob

king of Soba.

13David also made himself a name, when he

returned after taking Syria in the valley of the

saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:

14And he put guards in Edom, and placed

there a garrison: and all Edom was made to

serve David: and the Lord preserved David in

all enterprises he went about.

15And David reigned over all Israel: and

David did judgment and justice to all his peo-

ple.

16And Joab the son Sarvia was over the

army: and Josaphat the son of Ahilud was

recorder:

17And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achim-

elech the son of Abiathar, were the priests: and

Saraias was the scribe:Second Book of Samuel 375

18And Banaias the son of Joiada was over

the Cerethi and Phelethi: and the sons of David

were the princes.

Chapter 9

And David said: Is there any one, think you, left

of the house of Saul, that I may shew kindness

to him for Jonathan's sake?

2Now there was of the house of Saul, a servant

named Siba: and when the king had called him

to him, he said to him: Art thou Siba? And he

answered: I am Siba thy servant.

3And the king said: Is there any one left of

the house of Saul, that I may shew the mercy

of God unto Him? And Siba said to the king:

There is a son of Jonathan left, who is lame of

his feet.

4Where is he? said he. And Siba said to the

king: Behold he is in the house of Machir the

son of Ammiel in Lodabar.

5Then King David sent, and brought him out

of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel of Lod-

abar.

6And when Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan

the son of Saul was come to David, he fell on his

face and worshipped. And David said: Miphi-

boseth? And he answered: Behold thy servant.

7And David said to him: Fear not, for I will

surely shew thee mercy for Jonathan thy father's

sake, and I will restore the lands of Saul the fa-

ther, and thou shalt eat bread at my table al-

ways.

8He bowed down to him, and said: Who am

I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such

a dead dog as I am?

9Then the King called Siba the servant of

Saul, and said to him: All that belonged to Saul,

and all his house, I have given to thy master'sson.

10Thou therefore and the sons and thy ser-

vants shall till the land for him: and thou shalt

bring in food for thy master's son, that he may

be maintained: and Miphiboseth the son of thy

master shall always eat bread at my table. And

Siba had fteen sons and twenty servants.

11And Siba said to the king: As thou my

lord the hast commanded thy servant, so will

thy servant do: and Miphiboseth shall eat at my

table, as one of the sons of the King.

12And Miphiboseth had a young son whose

name was Micha: and all that kindred of the

house of Siba served Miphiboseth.

13But Miphiboseth dwelt in Jerusalem: be-

cause he ate always of the king's table: and he

was lame of both feet.

Chapter 10

And it came to pass after this, that the king of

the children of Ammon died, and Hanon his son

reigned in his stead.

2And David said: I will shew kindness to

Hanon the son of Daas, as his father shewed

kindness to me. So David sent his servants to

comfort him for the death of his father. But

when the servants of David were come into the

land of the children of Ammon,

3The princes of the children of Ammon said

to Hanon their lord: Thinkest thou that for the

honour of thy father, David hath sent comforters

to thee, and hath not David rather sent his ser-

vants to thee to search, and spy into the city,

and overthrow it?

4Wherefore Hanon took the servants of

David, and shaved o the one half of their

beards, and cut away half of their garments even

to the buttocks, and sent them away.376 Second Book of Samuel

5When this was told David, he sent to meet

them: for the men were sadly put to confusion,

and David commanded them, saying: Stay at

Jericho, till your beards be grown, and then re-

turn.

6And the children of Ammon seeing that they

had done an injury to David, sent and hired

the Syrians of Rohob, and the Syrians of Soba,

twenty thousand footmen, and of the king of

Maacha a thousand men, and of Istob twelve

thousand men.

7And when David heard this, he sent Joab

and the whole army of warriors.

8And the children of Ammon came out, and

set their men in array at the entering in of the

gate: but the Syrians of Soba, and of Rohob, and

of Istob, and of Maacha were by themselves in

the eld.

9Then Joab seeing that the battle was pre-

pared against him, both before and behind,

chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put

them in array against the Syrians:

10And the rest of the people he delivered to

Abisai his brother, who set them in array against

the children of Ammon.

11And Joab said: If the Syrians are too

strong for me, then thou shalt help me, but if

the children of Ammon are too strong for thee,

then I will help thee.

12Be of good courage, and let us ght for our

people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord

will do what is good in his sight.

13And Joab and the people that were with

him, began to ght against the Syrians: and they

immediately

ed before him.

14And the children of Ammon seeing that

the Syrians were

ed, they

ed also before Abi-

sai, and entered into the city: and Joab re-

turned from the children of Ammon, and came

to Jerusalem.15Then the Syrians seeing that they had

fallen before Israel, gathered themselves to-

gether.

16And Adarezer sent and fetched the Syrians,

that were beyond the river, and brought over

their army: and Sobach, the captain of the host

of Adarezer, was their general.

17And when this was told David, he gathered

all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan,

and came to Helam: and the Syrians set them-

selves in array against David, and fought against

him.

18And the Syrians

ed before Israel, and

David slew of the Syrians the men of seven

hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen:

and smote Sobach the captain of the army, who

presently died.

19And all the kings that were auxiliaries of

Adarezer, seeing themselves overcome by Israel,

were afraid and

ed away, eight and fty thou-

sand men before Israel. And they made peace

with Israel: and served them, and all the Syri-

ans were afraid to help the children of Ammon

any more.

Chapter 11
And it came to pass at the return of the year,

at the time when kings go forth to war, that

David sent Joab and his servants with him, and

all Israel, and they spoiled the children of Am-

mon, and besieged Rabba: but David remained

in Jerusalem.

2In the mean time it happened that David

arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon

the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the

roof of his house a woman washing herself, over

against him: and the woman was very beautiful.

3And the king sent, and inquired who theSecond Book of Samuel 377

woman was. And it was told him, that she was

Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of

Urias the Hethite.

4And David sent messengers, and took her,

and she came in to him, and he slept with her:

and presently she was puried from her unclean-

ness:

5And she returned to her house having con-

ceived. And she sent and told David, and said:

I have conceived.

6And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me

Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent Urias to David.

7And Urias came to David. And David asked

how Joab did, and the people, and how the war
was carried on.

8And David said to Urias: Go into thy house,

and wash thy feet. And Urias went out from the

king's house, and there went out after him a mess

of meat from the king.

9But Urias slept before the gate of the king's

house, with the other servants of his lord, and

went not down to his own house.

10And it was told David by some that said:

Urias went not to his house. And David said to

Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey?

why didst thou not go down to thy house?

11And Urias said to David: The ark of God

and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord

Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the

face of the earth: and shall I go into my house,

to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife?

By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I

will not do this thing.

12Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to

day, and to morrow I will send thee away. Urias

tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.

13And David called him to eat and to drink

before him, and he made him drunk: and he

went out in the evening, and slept on his couch

with the servants of his lord, and went not downinto his house.
14And when the morning was come, David

wrote a letter to Joab: and sent it by the hand

of Urias,

15Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the

front of the battle, where the ght is strongest:

and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and

die.

16Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city,

he put Urias in the place where he knew the

bravest men were.

17And the men coming out of the city, fought

against Joab, and there fell some of the people

of the servants of David, and Urias the Hethite

was killed also.

18Then Joab sent, and told David all things

concerning the battle.

19And he charged the messenger, saying:

When thou hast told all the words of the bat-

tle to the king,

20If thou see him to be angry, and he shall

say: Why did you approach so near to the wall to

ght? knew you not that many darts are thrown

from above o the wall?

21Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal?

did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon

him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why

did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy

servant Urias the Hethite is also slain.

22So the messenger departed, and came and

told David all that Joab had commanded him.

23And the messenger said to David: The men

prevailed against us, and they came out to us

into the eld: and we vigorously charged and

pursued them even to the gate of the city.

24And the archers shot their arrows at thy

servants from o the wall above: and some of the

king's servants are slain, and thy servant Urias

the Hethite is also dead.

25And David said to the messenger: Thus378 Second Book of Samuel

shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing dis-

courage thee: for various is the event of war: and

sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed

by the sword: encourage thy warriors against

the city, and exhort them that thou mayest over-

throw it.

26And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her

husband was dead, and she mourned for him.

27And the mourning being over, David sent

and brought her into his house, and she became

his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing

which David had done, was displeasing to the

Lord.
Chapter 12

And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when

he was come to him, he said to him: There were

two men in one city, the one rich, and the other

poor.

2The rich man had exceeding many sheep and

oxen.

3But the poor man had nothing at all but

one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and

nourished up, and which had grown up in his

house together with his children, eating of his

bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in

his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.

4And when a certain stranger was come to

the rich man, he spared to take of his own sheep

and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who

was come to him, but took the poor man's ewe,

and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

5And David's anger being exceedingly kin-

dled against that man, he said to Nathan: As

the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is

a child of death.

6He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he

did this thing, and had no pity.7And Nathan said to David: Thou art the

man. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I

anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered

thee from the hand of Saul,

8And gave thee thy master's house and thy

master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the

house of Israel and Juda: and if these things be

little, I shall add far greater things unto thee.

9Why therefore hast thou despised the word

of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast

killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast

taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him

with the sword of the children of Ammon.

10Therefore the sword shall never depart

from thy house, because thou hast despised me,

and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to

be thy wife.

11Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise

up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I

will take thy wives before thy eyes and give them

to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives

in the sight of this sun.

12For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this

thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight

of the sun.

13And David said to Nathan: I have sinned

against the Lord. And Nathan said to David:

The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou

shalt not die.

14Nevertheless, because thou hast given oc-

casion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme,

for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall

surely die.

15And Nathan returned to his house. The

Lord also struck the child which the wife of Urias

had borne to David, and his life was despaired

of.

16And David besought the Lord for the child:

and David kept a fast, and going in by himself

lay upon the ground.Second Book of Samuel 379

17And the ancients of his house came, to

make him rise from the ground: but he would

not, neither did he eat meat with them.

18And it came to pass on the seventh day

that the child died: and the servants of David

feared to tell him, that the child was dead. For

they said: Behold when the child was yet alive,

we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to

our voice: how much more will he aict himself

if we tell him that the child is dead?

19But when David saw his servants whisper-

ing, he understood that the child was dead: and

he said to his servants: Is the child dead? They

answered him He is dead.

20Then David arose from the ground, and

washed and anointed himself: and when he had

changed his apparel, he went into the house of

the Lord: and worshipped, and then he came

into his own house, and he called for bread, and

ate.

21And his servants said to him: What thing

is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and

weep for the child, while it was alive, but when

the child was dead, thou didst rise up, and eat

bread.

22And he said: While the child was yet alive,

I fasted and wept for him: for I said: Who

knoweth whether the Lord may not give him to

me, and the child may live?

23But now that he is dead, why should I fast?

Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I

shall go to him rather: but he shall not return

to me.

24And David comforted Bethsabee his wife,

and went in unto her, and slept with her: and

she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon,

and the Lord loved him.

25And he sent by the hand of Nathan the

prophet, and called his name, Amiable to the

Lord, because the Lord loved him.26And Joab fought against Rabbath of the

children of Ammon, and laid close siege to the

royal city.

27And Joab sent messengers to David, say-

ing: I have fought against Rabbath, and the city

of waters is about to be taken.

28Now therefore gather thou the rest of the

people together, and besiege the city and take

it: lest when the city shall be wasted by me, the

victory be ascribed to my name.

29Then David gathered all the people to-

gether, and went out against Rabbath: and after

ghting, he took it.

30And he took the crown of their king from

his head, the weight of which was a talent of

gold, set with most precious stones, and it was

put upon David's head, and the spoils of the city

which were very great he carried away.

31And bringing forth the people thereof he

sawed them, and drove over them chariots armed

with iron: and divided them with knives, and

made them pass through brickkilns: so did he

to all the cities of the children of Ammon: and

David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.

Chapter 13

And it came to pass after this that Ammon the

son of David loved the sister of Absalom the son

of David, who was very beautiful, and her name

was Thamar.

2And he was exceedingly fond of her, so that

he fell sick for the love of her: for as she was a

virgin, he thought it hard to do any thing dis-

honestly with her.

3Now Ammon had a friend, named Jonadab

the son of Semmaa the brother of David, a very

wise man:

4And he said to him: Why dost thou grow380 Second Book of Samuel

so lean from day to day, O son of the king? why

dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Am-

mon said to him: I am in love with Thamar the

sister of my brother Absalom.

5And Jonadab said to him: Lie down upon

thy bed, and feign thyself sick: and when thy

father shall come to visit thee, say to him: Let

my sister Thamar, I pray thee, come to me, to

give me to eat, and to make me a mess, that I

may eat it at her hand.

6So Ammon lay down, and made as if he were

sick: and when the king came to visit him, Am-

mon said to the king: I pray thee let my sister

Thamar come, and make in my sight two little

messes, that I may eat at her hand.

7Then David sent home to Thamar, saying:

Come to the house of thy brother Ammon, and

make him a mess.

8And Thamar came to the house of Ammon

her brother: but he was laid down: and she took

meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his

sight she made little messes.

9And taking what she had boiled, she poured

it out, and set it before him, but he would not

eat: and Ammon said: Put out all persons from

me. And when they had put all persons out,

10Ammon said to Thamar: Bring the mess

into the chamber, that I may eat at thy hand.

And Thamar took the little messes which she

had made, and brought them in to her brother

Ammon in the chamber.

11And when she had presented him the meat,

he took hold of her, and said: Come lie with me,

my sister.

12She answered him: Do not so, my brother,

do not force me: for no such thing must be done

in Israel. Do not thou this folly.

13For I shall not be able to bear my shame,

and thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel:

but rather speak to the king, and he will notdeny me to thee.

14But he would not hearken to her prayers,

but being stronger overpowered her and lay with

her.
15Then Ammon hated her with an exceeding

great hatred: so that the hatred wherewith he

hated her was greater than the love with which

he had loved her before. And Ammon said to

her: Arise, and get thee gone.

16She answered him: The evil which now

thou dost against me, in driving me away, is

greater than that which thou didst before. And

he would not hearken to her:

17But calling the servants that ministered to

him, he said: Thrust this woman out from me:

and shut the door after her.

18And she was clothed with a long robe: for

the king's daughters that were virgins, used such

kind of garments. Then his servant thrust her

out: and shut the door after her.

19And she put ashes on her head, and rent

her long robe and laid her hands upon her head,

and went on crying.

20And Absalom her brother said to her: Hath

thy brother Ammon lain with thee? but now,

sister, hold thy peace, he is thy brother: and

aict not thy heart for this thing. So Thamar

remained pining away in the house of Absalom

her brother.

21And when king David heard of these things

he was exceedingly grieved: and he would not

aict the spirit of his son Ammon, for he loved

him, because he was his rstborn.

22But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither

good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon be-

cause he had ravished his sister Thamar.

23And it came to pass after two years, that

the sheep of Absalom were shorn in Baalhasor,

which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all

the king's sons:Second Book of Samuel 381

24And he came to the king, and said to him:

Behold thy servant's sheep are shorn. Let the

king, I pray, with his servants come to his ser-

vant.

25And the king said to Absalom: Nay, my

son, do not ask that we should all come, and be

chargeable to thee. And when he pressed him,

and he would not go, he blessed him.

26And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come,

at least let my brother Ammon, I beseech thee,

come with us. And the king said to him: It is

not necessary that he should go with thee.

27But Absalom pressed him, so that he let

Ammon and all the king's sons go with him. And

Absalom made a feast as it were the feast of a

king.
28And Absalom had commanded his ser-

vants, saying: Take notice when Ammon shall

be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to

you: Strike him, and kill him, fear not: for it

is I that command you: take courage, and be

valiant men.

29And the servants of Absalom did to Am-

mon as Absalom had commanded them. And all

the king's sons arose and got up every man upon

his mule, and

ed.

30And while they were yet in the way, a ru-

mour came to David, saying: Absalom hath slain

all the king's sons, and there is not one them left.

31Then the king rose up, and rent his gar-

ments: and fell upon the ground, and all his ser-

vants, that stood about him, rent their garments.

32But Jonadab the son of Semmaa David's

brother answering, said: Let not my lord the

king think that all the king's sons are slain: Am-

mon only is dead, for he was appointed by the

mouth of Absalom from the day that he ravished

his sister Thamar.

33Now therefore let not my lord the king take

this thing into his heart, saying: All the king'ssons are slain: for Ammon only is dead.

34But Absalom
ed away: and the young

man that kept the watch, lifted up his eyes and

looked, and behold there came much people by

a by-way on the side of the mountain.

35And Jonadab said to the king: Behold the

king's sons are come: as thy servant said, so it

is.

36And when he made an end of speaking, the

king's sons also appeared: and coming in they

lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king

also and all his servants wept very much.

37But Absalom

ed, and went to Tholomai

the son of Ammiud the king of Gessur. And

David mourned for his son every day.

38And Absalom after he was

ed, and come

into Gessur, was there three years. And king

David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because

he was comforted concerning the death of Am-

mon.

Chapter 14

And Joab the son of Sarvia, understanding that

the king's heart was turned to Absalom,

2Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a

wise woman: and said to her: Feign thyself to be

a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be

not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a

woman that had a long time been mourning for

one dead.

3And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt

speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the

words in her mouth.

4And when the woman of Thecua was come in

to the king, she fell before him upon the ground,

and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.

5And the king said to her: What is the matter

with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow382 Second Book of Samuel

woman: for my husband is dead.

6And thy handmaid had two sons: and they

quarrelled with each other in the eld, and there

was none to part them: and the one struck the

other, and slew him.

7And behold the whole kindred rising against

thy handmaid, saith: Deliver him that hath slain

his brother, that we may kill him for the life of

his brother, whom he slew, and that we may

destroy the heir: and they seek to quench my

spark which is left, and will leave my husband

no name, nor remainder upon the earth.

8And the king said to the woman: Go to thy

house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

9And the woman of Thecua said to the king:

Upon me, my lord be the iniquity, and upon the

house of my father: but may the king and his

throne be guiltless.

10And the king said: If any one shall say

ought against thee, bring him to me, and he shall

not touch thee any more.

11And she said: Let the king remember the

Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multi-

plied to take revenge, and that they may not kill

my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there

shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

12The woman said: Let thy hand maid speak

one word to my lord the king. And he said:

Speak.

13And the woman said: Why hast thou

thought such a thing against the people of God,

and why hath the king spoken this word, to sin,

and not bring home again his own exile?

14We all die, and like waters that return no

more, we fall down into the earth: neither will

God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, mean-

ing that he that is cast o should not altogether

perish.

15Now therefore I am come, to speak this

word to my lord the king before the people. Andthy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it
maybe the king will perform the request of his

handmaid.

16And the king hath hearkened to me to de-

liver his handmaid out of the hand of all that

would destroy me and my son together out of

the inheritance of God.

17Then let thy handmaid say, that the word

of the Lord the king be made as a sacrice. For

even as an angel of God, so is my lord the king,

that he is neither moved with blessing nor curs-

ing: wherefore the Lord thy God is also with

thee.

18And the king answering, said to the

woman: Hide not from me the thing that I ask

thee. And the woman said to him: Speak, my

lord the king.

19And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab

with thee in all this? The woman answered, and

said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king,

it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right,

in all these things which my lord the king hath

spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me,

and he put all these words into the mouth of thy

handmaid.

20That I should come about with this form of

speech, thy servant Joab commanded this: but

thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to the

wisdom of an angel of God, to understand all

things upon earth.

21And the king said to Joab: Behold I am ap-

peased and have granted thy request: Go there-

fore and fetch back the boy Absalom.

22And Joab falling down to the ground upon

his face, adored, and blessed the king: and Joab

said: This day thy servant hath understood, that

I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king:

for thou hast fullled the request of thy servant.

23Then Joab arose and went to Gessur, and

brought Absalom to Jerusalem.Second Book of Samuel 383

24But the king said: Let him return into his

house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom

returned into his house, and saw not the king's

face.

25But in all Israel there was not a man so

comely, and so exceedingly beautiful as Absalom:

from the sole of the foot to the crown of his head

there was no blemish in him.

26And when he polled his hair (now he was

polled once a year, because his hair was burden-

some to him) he weighed the hair of his head

at two hundred sicles, according to the common

weight.
27And there were born to Absalom three

sons: and one daughter, whose name was

Thamar, and she was very beautiful.

28 And Absalom dwelt two years in

Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.

29He sent therefore to Joab, to send him to

the king: but he would not come to him. And

when he had sent the second time, and he would

not come to him,

30He said to his servants: You know the eld

of Joab near my eld, that hath a crop of barley:

go now and set it on re. So the servants of Ab-

salom set the corn on re. And Joab's servants

coming with their garments rent, said: The ser-

vants of Absalom have set part of the eld on

re.

31Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to

his house, and said: Why have thy servants set

my corn on re?

32And Absalom answered Joab: I sent to thee

beseeching thee to come to me, that I might send

thee to the king, to say to him: Wherefore am I

come from Gessur? it had been better for me to

be there: I beseech thee therefore that I may see

the face of the king: and if he be mindful of my

iniquity, let him kill me.

33So Joab going in to the king, told him all:and Absalom was called for, and, he went in to

the king: and prostrated himself on the ground

before him: and the king kissed Absalom.

Chapter 15

Now after these things Absalom made himself

chariots, and horsemen, and fty men to run be-

fore him.

2And Absalom rising up early stood by the

entrance of the gate, and when any man had

business to come to the king's judgment, Absa-

lom called him to him, and said: Of what city

art thou? He answered, and said: Thy servant

is of such tribe of Israel.

3And Absalom answered him: Thy words

seem to me good and just. But there is no man

appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absa-

lom said:

4O that they would make me judge over the

land, that all that have business might come to

me, that I might do them justice.

5Moreover when any man came to him to

salute him, he put forth his hand, and took him,

and kissed him.

6And this he did to all Israel that came for

judgment, to be heard by the king, and he en-

ticed the hearts of the men of Israel.

7And after forty years, Absalom said to king

David: Let me go, and pay my vows which I have

vowed to the Lord in Hebron.

8For thy servant made a vow, when he was in

Gessur of Syria, saying: If the Lord shall bring

me again into Jerusalem, I will oer sacrice to

the Lord.

9And king David said to him: Go in peace.

And he arose, and went to Hebron.

10And Absalom sent spies into all the tribes

of Israel, saying: As soon as you shall hear the384 Second Book of Samuel

sound of the trumpet, say ye: Absalom reigneth

in Hebron.

11Now there went with Absalom two hundred

men out of Jerusalem that were called, going

with simplicity of heart, and knowing nothing

of the design.

12Absalom also sent for Achitophel the

Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city Gilo.

And while he was oering sacrices, there was

a strong conspiracy, and the people running to-

gether increased with Absalom.

13And there came a messenger to David, say-

ing: All Israel with their whole heart followeth

Absalom.

14And David said to his servants, that were

with him in Jerusalem: Arise and let us

ee: for

we shall not escape else from the face of Absa-

lom: make haste to go out, lest he come and

overtake us, and bring ruin upon us, and smite

the city with the edge of the sword.

15And the king's servants said to him: What-

soever our lord the king shall command, we thy

servants will willingly execute.

16And the king went forth, and all his house-

hold on foot: and the king left ten women his

concubines to keep the house:

17And the king going forth and all Israel on

foot, stood afar o from the house:

18And all his servants walked by him, and the

bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and all

the Gethites, valiant warriors, six hundred men

who had followed him from Geth on foot, went

before the king.

19And the king said to Ethai the Gethite:

Why comest thou with us: return and dwell with

the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come

out of thy own place.

20Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt

thou be forced to go forth with us? but I shall

go whither I am going: return thou, and takeback thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will
shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast

shewn grace and delity.

21And Ethai answered the king, saying: As

the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth:

in what place soever thou shalt be, my lord, O

king, either in death, or in life, there will thy

servant be.

22And David said to Ethai: Come, and pass

over. And Ethai the Gethite passed, and all the

men that were with him, and the rest of the peo-

ple.

23And they all wept with a loud voice, and

all the people passed over: the king also himself

went over the brook Cedron, and all the people

marched towards the way that looketh to the

desert.

24And Sadoc the priest also came, and all the

Levites with him carrying the ark of the covenant

of God, and they set down the ark of God: and

Abiathar went up, till all the people that was

come out of the city had done passing.

25And the king said to Sadoc: Carry back

the ark of God into the city: if I shall nd grace

in the sight of the Lord, he will bring me again,

and he will shew me it, and his tabernacle.

26But if he shall say to me: Thou pleasest me

not: I am ready, let him do that which is good

before him.

27And the king said to Sadoc the priest: O

seer, return into the city in peace: and let Achi-

maas thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar,

your two sons, be with you.

28Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the

wilderness, till there come word from you to cer-

tify me.

29So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark

of God into Jerusalem: and they tarried there.

30But David went up by the ascent of mount

Olivet, going up and weeping, walking barefoot,Second Book of Samuel 385

and with his head covered, and all the people

that were with them, went up with their heads

covered weeping.

31And it was told David that Achitophel also

was in the conspiracy with Absalom, and David

said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the coun-

sel of Achitophel.

32And when David was come to the top of

the mountain, where he was about to adore the

Lord, behold Chusai the Arachite, came to meet

him with his garment rent and his head covered

with earth.

33And David said to him: If thou come with

me, thou wilt be a burden to me:

34But if thou return into the city, and wilt say

to Absalom: I am thy servant, O king: as I have

been thy father's servant, so I will be thy servant:

thou shalt defeat the counsel of Achitophel.

35And thou hast with thee Sadoc, and so-

ever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou

shalt tell it to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests.

36And there are with them their two sons

Achimaas; the son of Sadoc, and Jonathan the

son of Abiathar: and you shall send by them to

me every thing that you shall hear.

37Then Chusai the friend of David went into

the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

Chapter 16

And when David was a little past the top of

the hill, behold Siba the servant of Miphiboseth

came to meet him with two asses, laden with two

hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches

of raisins, a hundred cakes of gs, and a vessel

of wine.

2And the king said to Siba: What mean these

things? And Siba answered: The asses are for

the king's household to sit on: and the loavesand the gs for thy servants to eat, and the wine

to drink if any man be faint in the desert.

3And the king said: Where is thy master's

son? And Siba answered the king: He remained

in Jerusalem, saying: To day, will the house of

Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

4And the king said to Siba: I give thee all

that belonged to Miphiboseth. And Siba said: I

beseech thee let me nd grace before thee, my

lord, O king.

5And king David came as far as Bahurim:

and behold there came out from thence a man

of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei,

the son of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he

went on,

6And he threw stones at David, and at all the

servants of king David: and all the people, and

all the warriors walked on the right, and on the

left side of the king.

7And thus said Semei when he cursed the

king: Come out, come out, thou man of blood,

and thou man of Belial.

8The Lord hath repaid thee for all the blood

of the house of Saul: because thou hast usurped

the kingdom in his stead, and the Lord hath

given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy

son: and behold thy evils press upon thee, be-

cause thou art a man of blood.

9And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the

king: Why should this dead dog curse my lord

the king? I will go, and cut o his head.

10And the king said: What have I to do with

you, ye sons of Sarvia? Let him alone and let him

curse: for the Lord hath bid him curse David:

and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he

done so?

11And the king said to Abisai, and to all his

servants: Behold my son, who came forth from

my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now

a son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse386 Second Book of Samuel

as the Lord hath bidden him.

12Perhaps the Lord may look upon my aic-

tion, and the Lord may render me good for the

cursing of this day.

13And David and his men with him went by

the way. And Semei by the hill's side went over

against him, cursing, and casting stones at him,

and scattering earth.

14And the king and all the people with him

came weary, and refreshed themselves there.

15But Absalom and all his people came into

Jerusalem, and Achitophel was with him.

16And when Chusai the Arachite, David's

friend, was come to Absalom, he said to him:

God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king.

17And Absalom said to him, Is this thy kind-

ness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with

thy friend?

18And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for

I will be his, whom the Lord hath chosen, and

all this people, and all Israel, and with him will

I abide.

19Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not

the king's son? as I have served thy father, so

will I serve thee also.

20And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult

what we are to do.

21And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to

the concubines of thy father, whom he hath left

to keep the house: that when all Israel shall hear

that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands

may be strengthened with thee.

22So they spread a tent for Absalom on the

top of the house, and he went in to his father's

concubines before all Israel.

23Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he

gave in those days, was as if a man should consult

God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel, both

when he was with David, and when he was with

Absalom.Chapter 17

And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose

me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and

pursue after David this night.

2And coming upon him (for he is now weary,

and weak handed) I will defeat him: and when

all the people is put to

ight that is with him, I

will kill the king who will be left alone.

3And I will bring back all the people, as if

they were but one man: for thou seekest but one

man: and all the people shall be in peace.

4And his saying pleased Absalom, and all the

ancients of Israel.

5But Absalom said: Call Chusai the Arachite,

and let us hear what he also saith.

6And when Chusai was come to Absalom,

Absalom said to him: Achitophel hath spoken

after this manner: shall we do it or not? what

counsel dost thou give?

7And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel

that Achitophel hath given this time is not good.

8And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy

father, and the men that are with him, that they

are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a

bear raging in the wood when her whelps are

taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will

not lodge with the people.

9Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits, or in some

other place where he liest: and when any one

shall fall at the rst, every one that heareth it

shall say: There is a slaughter among the people

that followed Absalom.

10And the most valiant man whose heart is

as the heart of a lion, shall melt for fear: for

all the people of Israel know thy father to be a

valiant man, and that all who are with him are

valiant.

11But this seemeth to me to be good counsel:

Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan toSecond Book of Samuel 387

Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which cannot

be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of

them.

12And we shall come upon him in what place

soever he shall be found: and we shall cover him,

as the dew falleth upon the ground, and we shall

not leave of the men that are with him, not so

much as one.

13And if he shall enter into any city, all Israel

shall cast ropes round about that city, and we

will draw it into the river, so that there shall not

be found so much as one small stone thereof.

14And Absalom, and all the men of Israel

said: The counsel of Chusai the Arachite is bet-

ter than the counsel of Achitophel: and by the

will of the Lord the protable counsel of Achi-

tophel was defeated, that the Lord might bring

evil upon Absalom.

15And Chusai said to Sadoc and Abiathar the

priests: Thus and thus did Achitophel counsel

Absalom, and the ancients of Israel: and thus

and thus did I counsel them.

16Now therefore send quickly, and tell David,

saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the

wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the

king be swallowed up, and all the people that is

with him.

17And Jonathan and Achimaas stayed by the

fountain Rogel: and there went a maid and told

them: and they went forward, to carry the mes-

sage to king David, for they might not be seen,

nor enter into the city.

18But a certain boy saw them, and told Absa-

lom: but they making haste went into the house

of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well in

his court, and they went down into it.

19And a woman took, and spread a covering

over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry

sodden barley and so the thing was not known.

20And when Absalom's servants were comeinto the house, they said to the woman: Where
is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman an-

swered them: They passed on in haste, after they

had tasted a little water. But they that sought

them, when they found them not, returned into

Jerusalem.

21And when they were gone, they came up

out of the well, and going on told king David,

and said: Arise, and pass quickly over the river:

for this manner of counsel has Achitophel given

against you.

22So David arose, and all the people that

were with him, and they passed over the Jordan,

until it grew light, and not one of them was left

that was not gone ever the river.

23But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was

not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went

home to his house and to his city, and putting his

house in order, hanged himself, and was buried

in the sepulchre of his father.

24But David came to the camp, and Absalom

passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of

Israel with him.

25Now Absalom appointed Amasa in Joab's

stead over the army: and Amasa was the son of a

man who was called Jethra, of Jezrael, who went

in to Abigail the daughter of Naas, the sister of

Sarvia who was the mother of Joab.

26And Israel camped with Absalom in the

land of Galaad.

27And when David was come to the camp,

Sobi the son of Naas of Rabbath of the children

of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammihel of

Lodabar and Berzellai the Galaadite of Rogelim,

28Brought him beds, and tapestry, and

earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and

meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils,

and fried pulse,

29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat

calves, and they gave to David and the people388 Second Book of Samuel

that were with him, to eat: for they suspected

that the people were faint with hunger and thirst

in the wilderness.

Chapter 18

And David, having reviewed his people, ap-

pointed over them captains of thousands and of

hundreds,

2And sent forth a third part of the people un-

der the hand of Joab, and a third part under the

hand of Abisai the son of Sarvia Joab's brother,

and a third part under the hand of Ethai, who

was of Geth: and the king said to the people: I

also will go forth with you.

3And the people answered: Thou shalt not

go forth: for if we

ee away, they will not much

mind us: or if half of us should fall, they will

not greatly care: for thou alone art accounted

for ten thousand: it is better therefore that thou

shouldst be in the city to succour us.

4And the king said to them: What seemeth

good to you, that will I do. And the king stood

by the gate: and all the people went forth by

their troops, by hundreds and by thousands.

5And the king commanded Joab, and Abisai,

and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom.

And all the people heard the king giving charge

to all the princes concerning Absalom.

6So the people went out into the eld against

Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of

Ephraim.

7And the people of Israel were defeated there

by David's army, and a great slaughter was made

that day of twenty thousand men.

8And the battle there was scattered over the

face of all the country, and there were many more

of the people whom the forest consumed, than

whom the sword devoured that day.9And it happened that Absalom met the ser-

vants of David, riding on a mule: and as the

mule went under a thick and large oak, his head

stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the

heaven and the earth, the mule on which he rode

passed on.

10And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I

saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.

11And Joab said to the man that told him:

If thou sawest him, why didst thou not stab him

to the ground, and I would have given thee ten

sicles of silver, and a belt?

12And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have

paid down in my hands a thousand pieces of sil-

ver, I would not lay my hands upon the king's

son for in our hearing the king charged thee, and

Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Ab-

salom.

13Yea and if I should have acted boldly

against my own life, this could not have been

hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood

by me?

14And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I

will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three

lances in his hand, and thrust them into the

heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for

life, sticking on the oak,

15Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab,

ran up, and striking him slew him.

16And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept

back the people from pursuing after Israel in

their

ight, being willing to spare the multitude.

17And they took Absalom, and cast him into

a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceed-

ing great heap of stones upon him: but all Israel

ed to their own dwellings.

18Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in

his lifetime, a pillar, which is in the king's valley:

for he said: I have no son, and this shall be the

monument of my name. And he called the pillarSecond Book of Samuel 389

by his own name, and it is called the hand of

Absalom, to this day.

19And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will

run and tell the king, that the Lord hath done

judgment for him from the hand of his enemies.

20And Joab said to him: Thou shalt not be

the messenger this day, but shalt bear tidings

another day: this day I will not have thee bear

tidings, because the king's son is dead.

21And Joab said to Chusai: Go, and tell the

king what thou hast seen. Chusai bowed down

to Joab, and ran.

22Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to

Joab again: Why might not I also run after Chu-

sai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run,

my son? thou wilt not be the bearer of good

tidings.

23He answered: But what if I run? And he

said to him: Run. Then Achimaas running by a

nearer way passed Chusai.

24And David sat between the two gates: and

the watchman that was on the top of the gate

upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man

running alone.

25And crying out he told the king: and the

king said: If he be alone, there are good tidings

in his mouth. And as he was coming apace, and

drawing nearer,

26The watchman saw another man running,

and crying aloud from above, he said: I see an-

other man running alone. And the king said: He

also is a good messenger.

27And the watchman said: The running of

the foremost seemeth to me like the running of

Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said:

He is a good man: and cometh with good news.

28And Achimaas crying out, said to the king:

God save thee, O king. And falling down before

the king with his face to the ground, he said:

Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath shut upthe men that have lifted up their hands against

the lord my king.

29And the king said: Is the young man Ab-

salom safe? And Achimaas said: I saw a great

tumult, O king, when thy servant Joab sent me

thy servant: I know nothing else.

30And the king said to him: Pass, and stand

here.

31And when he had passed, and stood still,

Chusai appeared and coming up he said: I bring

good tidings, my lord, the king, for the Lord

hath judged for thee this day from the hand of

all that have risen up against thee.

32And the king said to Chusai: Is the young

man Absalom safe? And Chusai answering him,

said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and

all that rise against him unto evil, be as the

young man is.

33The king therefore being much moved,

went up to the high chamber over the gate, and

wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner:

My son Absalom, Absalom my son: would to

God that I might die for thee, Absalom my son,

my son Absalom.

Chapter 19
And it was told Joab, that the king wept and

mourned for his son:

2And the victory that day was turned into

mourning unto all the people: for the people

heard say that day: The king grieveth for his

son.

3And the people shunned the going into the

city that day as a people would do that hath

turned their backs, and

ed away from the bat-

tle.

4And the king covered his head, and cried

with a loud voice: O my son Absalom, O Absa-390 Second Book of Samuel

lom my son, O my son.

5Then Joab going into the house to the king,

said: Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all

thy servants, that have saved thy life, and the

lives of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the

lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines.

6Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou

hatest them that love thee: and thou hast shewn

this day that thou carest not for thy nobles, nor

for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that

if Absalom had lived, and all we had been slain,

then it would have pleased thee.

7Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak

to the satisfaction of thy servants: for I swear to

thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go forth,

there will not tarry with thee so much as one this

night: and that will be worse to thee, than all

the evils that have befallen thee from thy youth

until now.

8Then the king arose and sat in the gate:

and it was told to all the people that the king

sat in the gate: and all the people came before

the king, but Israel

ed to their own dwellings.

9And all the people were at strife in all the

tribes of Israel, saying: The king delivered us out

of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out

of the hand of the Philistines: and now he is

ed

out of the land for Absalom.

10But Absalom, whom we anointed over us,

is dead in the battle: how long are you silent,

and bring not back the king?

11And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abi-

athar the priests, saying: Speak to the ancients

of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring

the king back to his house? (For the talk of all

Israel was come to the king in his house.)

12You are my brethren, you are my bone, and

my

esh, why are you the last to bring back the

king?

13And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou mybone, and my

esh? So do God to me and add

more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army

before me always in the place of Joab.

14And he inclined the heart of all the men of

Juda, as it were of one man: and they sent to the

king, saying: Return thou, and all thy servants.

15And the king returned and came as far as

the Jordan, and all Juda came as far as Galgal to

meet the king, and to bring him over the Jordan.

16And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jem-

ini of Bahurim, made haste and went down with

the men of Juda to meet king David,

17With a thousand men of Benjamin, and

Siba the servant of the house of Saul: and his

fteen sons, and twenty servants were with him:

and going over the Jordan,

18They passed the fords before the king, that

they might help over the king's household, and

do according to his commandment. And Semei

the son of Gera falling down before the king,

when he was come over the Jordan,

19Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord,

the iniquity, nor remember the injuries of thy

servant on the day that thou, my lord, the king,

wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy

heart, O king.

20For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and

therefore I am come this day the rst of all the

house of Joseph, and am come down to meet my

lord the king.

21But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering,

said: Shall Semei for these words not be put to

death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?

22And David said: What have I to do with

you, ye sons of Sarvia? why are you a satan this

day to me? shall there any man be killed this

day in Israel? do not I know that this day I am

made king over Israel?

23And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt

not die. And he swore unto him.Second Book of Samuel 391

24And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came

down to meet the king, and he had neither

washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor

washed his garments from the day that the king

went out, until the day of his return in peace.

25And when he met the king at Jerusalem,

the king said to him: Why camest thou not with

me, Miphiboseth?
26And he answering, said: My lord, O king,

my servant despised me: for I thy servant spoke

to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on

and go with the king: for I thy servant am lame.

27Moreover he hath also accused me thy ser-

vant to thee, my lord the king: but thou my lord

the king art as an angel of God, do what pleaseth

thee.

28For all of my father's house were no better

than worthy of death before my lord the king;

and thou hast set me thy servant among the

guests of thy table: what just complaint there-

fore have I? or what right to cry any more to the

king?

29Then the king said to him: Why speakest

thou any more? what I have said is determined:

thou and Siba divide the possessions.

30And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea,

let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king

is returned peaceably into his house.

31Berzellai also the Galaadite coming down

from Rogelim, brought the king over the Jordan,

being ready also to wait on him beyond the river.

32Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great

age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and

he provided the king with sustenance when he

abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding

rich.

33And the king said to Berzellai: Come with

me that thou mayest rest secure with me in

Jerusalem.

34And Berzellai said to the king: How manyare the days of the years of my life, that I should

go up with the king to Jerusalem?

35I am this day fourscore years old, are my

senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can

meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear

any more the voice of singing men and singing

women? why should thy servant be a burden to

my lord, the king?

36I thy servant will go on a little way from the

Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.

37But I beseech thee let thy servant return,

and die in my own city, and be buried by the

sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But

there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with

thee, my lord, the king, and do to him whatso-

ever seemeth good to thee.

38Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam

go over with me, and I will do for him whatsoever

shall please thee, and all that thou shalt ask of

me, thou shalt obtain.

39And when all the people and the king had

passed over the Jordan, the king kissed Berzellai,

and blessed him: and he returned to his own

place.

40So the king went on to Galgal, and

Chamaam with him. Now all the people of Juda

had brought the king over, and only half of the

people of Israel were there.

41Therefore all the men of Israel running to-

gether to the king, said to him: Why have our

brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away, and

have brought the king and his household over the

Jordan, and all the men of David with him?

42And all the men of Juda answered the men

of Israel: Because the king is nearer to me: why

art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten

any thing of the king's, or have any gifts been

given us?

43And the men of Israel answered the men of

Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more392 Second Book of Samuel

than thou, and David belongeth to me more than

to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and

why was it not told me rst, that I might bring

back my king? And the men of Juda answered

more harshly than the men of Israel.

Chapter 20

And there happened to be there a man of Be-

lial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri,

a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet,

and said: We have no part in David, nor inheri-

tance in the son of Isai: return to thy dwellings,

O Israel.

2And all Israel departed from David, and fol-

lowed Seba the son of Bochri: but the men of

Juda stuck to their king from the Jordan unto

Jerusalem.

3And when the king was come into his house

at Jerusalem, he took the ten women his concu-

bines, whom he had left to keep the house, and

put them inward, allowing them provisions: and

he went not in unto them, but they were shut up

unto the day of their death living in widowhood.

4And the king said to Amasa: Assemble to

me all the men of Juda against the third day,

and be thou here present.

5So Amasa went to assemble the men of Juda,

but he tarried beyond the set time which the king

had appointed him.

6And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba

the son of Bochri do us more harm than did Ab-

salom: take thou therefore the servants of thy

lord, and pursue after him, lest he nd fenced

cities, and escape us.

7So Joab's men went out with him, and the

Cerethi and the Phelethi: and all the valiant men

went out of Jerusalem to pursue after Seba the

son of Bochri.8And when they were at the great stone which

is in Gabaon, Amasa coming met them. And

Joab had on a close coat of equal length with

his habit, and over it was girded with a sword

hanging down to his

ank, in a scabbard, made

in such manner as to come out with the least

motion and strike.

9And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my

brother. And he took Amasa by the chin with

his right hand to kiss him.

10But Amasa did not take notice of the

sword, which Joab had, and he struck him in

the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground,

and gave him not a second wound, and he died.

And Joab, and Abisai his brother pursued after

Seba the son of Bochri.

11In the mean time some men of Joab's com-

pany stopping at the dead body of Amasa, said:

Behold he that would have been in Joab's stead

the companion of David.

12And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay in the

midst of the way. A certain man saw this that

all the people stood still to look upon him, so

he removed Amasa out of the highway into the

eld, and covered him with a garment, that they

who passed might, not stop on his account.

13And when he was removed out of the way,

all the people went on following Joab to pursue

after Seba the son of Bochri.

14Now he had passed through all the tribes of

Israel unto Abela and Bethmaacha: and all the

chosen men were gathered together unto him.

15And they came, and besieged him in Abela,

and in Bethmaacha, and they cast up works

round the city, and the city was besieged: and

all the people that were with Joab, laboured to

throw down the walls.

16And a wise woman cried out from the city:

Hear, hear, and say to Joab: Come near hither,

and I will speak with thee.Second Book of Samuel 393

17And when he was come near to her, she said

to him: Art thou Joab? And he answered: I am.

And she spoke thus to him: Hear the words of

thy handmaid. He answered: I do hear.

18And she again said: A saying was used

in the old proverb: They that inquire, let them

inquire in Abela: and so they made an end.

19Am not I she that answer truth in Israel,

and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to over-

throw a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw

down the inheritance of the Lord?

20And Joab answering said: God forbid, God

forbid that I should, I do not throw down, nor

destroy.

21The matter is not so, but a man of mount

Ephraim, Seba the son of Bochri by name, hath

lifted up his hand against king David: deliver

him only, and we will depart from the city. And

the woman said to Joab: Behold his head shall

be thrown to thee from the wall.

22So she went to all the people, and spoke

to them wisely: and they cut o the head of

Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab.

And he sounded the trumpet, and they departed

from the city, every one to their home: and Joab

returned to Jerusalem to the king.

23So Joab was over all the army of Israel: and

Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethites

and Phelethites,

24But Aduram over the tributes: and Jos-

aphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.

25And Siva was scribe: and Sadoc and Abi-

athar, priests.

26And Ira the Jairite was the priest of David.

Chapter 21

And there was a famine in the days of David

for three years successively: and David consultedthe oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is

for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow

the Gabaonites.

2Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites,

said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of

the children of Israel, but the remains of the Am-

orrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to

them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal,

as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)

3David therefore said to the Gabaonites:

What shall I do for you? and what shall be

the atonement or you, that you may bless the

inheritance of the Lord?

4And the Gabaonites said to him: We have no

contest about silver and gold, but against Saul

and against his house: neither do we desire that

any man be slain of Israel. And the king said to

them: What will you then that I should do for

you?

5And they said to the king: The man that

crushed us and oppressed us unjustly, we must

destroy in such manner that there be not so

much as one left of his stock in all the coasts

of Israel.
6Let seven men of his children be delivered

unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord

in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord.

And the king said: I will give them.

7And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of

Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath

of the Lord, that had been between David and

Jonathan the son of Saul.

8So the king took the two sons of Respha the

daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni,

and Miphiboseth: and the ve sons of Michol the

daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the

son of Berzellai, that was of Molathi:

9And gave them into the hands of the

Gabaonites: and they crucied them on a hill

before the Lord: and these seven died together394 Second Book of Samuel

in the rst days of the harvest, when the barley

began to be reaped.

10And Respha the daughter of Aia took hair-

cloth, and spread it under her upon the rock from

the beginning of the harvest, till water dropped

upon them out of heaven: and suered neither

the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by

night.

11And it was told David, what Respha the

daughter of Aia, the concubine of Saul, had done.

12And David went, and took the bones of

Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from

the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them

from the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines

had hanged them when they had slain Saul in

Gelboe.

13And he brought from thence the bones of

Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and

they gathered up the bones of them that were

crucied,

14And they buried them with the bones of

Saul, and of Jonathan his son in the land of Ben-

jamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his

father: and they did all that the king had com-

manded, and God shewed mercy again to the

land after these things.

15And the Philistines made war again against

Israel, and David went down, and his servants

with him, and fought against the Philistines.

And David growing faint,

16Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Ara-

pha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hun-

dred ounces, being girded with a new sword, at-

tempted to kill David.

17And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him,

and striking the Philistine killed him. Then

David's men swore unto him saying: Thou shalt

go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put

out the lamp of Israel.

18There was also a second battle in Gobagainst the Philistines: then Sobochai of Husathi

slew Saph of the race of Arapha of the family of

the giants.

19And there was a third battle in Gob against

the Philistines, in which Adeodatus the son of

the Forrest an embroiderer of Bethlehem slew

Goliath the Gethite, the shaft of whose spear

was like a weaver's beam.

20A fourth battle was in Geth: where there

was a man of great stature, that had six ngers

on each hand, and six toes on each foot, four and

twenty in all, and he was of the race of Arapha.

21And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan

the son of Samae the brother of David slew him.

22These four were born of Arapha in Geth,

and they fell by the hand of David, and of his

servants.

Chapter 22

And David spoke to the Lord the words of this

canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him

out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the

hand of Saul,

2And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my

strength, and my saviour.

3God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my

shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth

me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt

deliver me from iniquity.

4I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be

praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

5For the pangs of death have surrounded me:

the

oods of Belial have made me afraid.

6The cords of hell compassed me: the snares

of death prevented me.

7In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and

I will cry to my God: and he will hear my voice

out of his temple, and my cry shall come to hisSecond Book of Samuel 395

ears.

8The earth shook and trembled, the founda-

tions of the mountains were moved, and shaken,

because he was angry with them.

9A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a de-

vouring re out of his mouth: coals were kindled

by it.

10He bowed the heavens, and came down:

and darkness was under his feet.

11And he rode upon the cherubims, and

ew:
and slid upon the wings of the wind.

12He made darkness a covering round about

him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the

heavens.

13By the brightness before him, the coals of

re were kindled.

14The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and

the most high shall give forth his voice.

15He shot arrows and scattered them: light-

ning, and consumed them.

16And the over

owings of the sea appeared,

and the foundations of the world were laid open

at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the

spirit of his wrath.

17He sent from on high, and took me, and

drew me out of many waters.

18He delivered me from my most mighty en-

emy, and from them that hated me: for they

were too strong for me.

19He prevented me in the day of my aiction,

and the Lord became my stay.

20And he brought me forth into a large place,

he delivered me, because I pleased him.

21The Lord will reward me according to my

justice: and according to the cleanness of my

hands he will render to me.

22Because I have kept the ways of the Lord,

and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23For all his judgments are in my sight: and

his precepts I have not removed from me.24And I shall be perfect with him: and shall

keep myself from my iniquity.

25And the Lord will recompense me accord-

ing to my justice: and according to the cleanness

of my hands in the sight of his eyes.

26With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and

with the valiant perfect.

27With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with

the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

28And the poor people thou wilt save: and

with thy eyes thou shalt humble the haughty.

29For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou,

O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.

30For in thee I will run girded: in my God I

will leap over the wall.

31God, his way is immaculate, the word of

the Lord is tried by re: he is the shield of all

that trust in him.

32Who is God but the Lord: and who is

strong but our God?

33God who hath girded me with strength,

and made my way perfect.

34Making my feet like the feet of harts, and

setting me upon my high places.

35He teacheth my hands to war: and maketh

my arms like a bow of brass.

36Thou hast given me the shield of my sal-

vation: and thy mildness hath multiplied me.

37Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and

my ankles shall not fail.

38I will pursue after my enemies, and crush

them: and will not return again till I consume

them.

39I will consume them and break them in

pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall

under my feet.

40Thou hast girded me with strength to bat-

tle: thou hast made them that resisted me to

bow under me.396 Second Book of Samuel

41My enemies thou hast made to turn their

back to me: them that hated me, and I shall

destroy them.

42They shall cry, and there shall be none to

save: to the Lord, and he shall not hear them.

43I shall beat them as small as the dust of

the earth: I shall crush them and spread them

abroad like the mire of the streets.

44Thou wilt save me from the contradictions

of my people: thou wilt keep me to be the head

of the Gentiles: the people which I know not,

shall serve me,

45The sons of the stranger will resist me, at

the hearing of the ear they will obey me.

46The strangers are melted away, and shall

be straitened in their distresses.

47The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed:

and the strong God of my salvation shall be ex-

alted:

48God who giveth me revenge, and bringest

down people under me,

49Who bringest me forth from my enemies,

and liftest me up from them that resist me: from

the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.

50Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O

Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy

name.

51Giving great salvation to his king, and

shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his

seed for ever.

Chapter 23

Now these are David's last words. David the son

of Isai said: The man to whom it was appointed

concerning the Christ of the God of Jacob, the

excellent psalmist of Israel said:

2The spirit of the Lord hath spoken by me

and his word by my tongue.3The God of Israel said to me, the strong one

of Israel spoke, the ruler of men, the just ruler

in the fear of God.

4As the light of the morning, when the sun

riseth, shineth in the morning without clouds,

and as the grass springeth out of the earth by

rain.

5Neither is my house so great with God, that

he should make with me an eternal covenant,

rm in all things and assured. For he is all my

salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought

thereof that springeth not up.

6But transgressors shall all of them be

plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away

with hands.

7And if a man will touch them, he must be

armed with iron and with the sta of a lance: but

they shall be set on re and burnt to nothing.

8These are the names of the valiant men of

David: Jesbaham sitting in the chair was the

wisest chief among the three, he was like the

most tender little worm of the wood, who killed

eight hundred men at one onset.

9After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the

Ahohite, one of the three valiant men that were

with David when they deed the Philistines, and

they were there gathered together to battle.

10And when the men of Israel were gone

away, he stood and smote the Philistines till his

hand was weary, and grew sti with the sword:

and the Lord wrought a great victory that day:

and the people that were

ed away, returned to

take spoils of them that were slain.

11And after him was Semma the son of Age

of Arari. And the Philistines were gathered to-

gether in a troop: for there was a eld full of

lentils. And when the people were

ed from the

face of the Philistines,

12He stood in the midst of the eld, and de-

fended it, and defeated the Philistines: and theSecond Book of Samuel 397

Lord gave a great victory.

13Moreover also before this the three who

were princes among the thirty, went down and

came to David in the harvest time into the cave

of Odollam: and the camp of the Philistines was

in the valley of the giants.

14And David was then in a hold: and there

was a garrison of the Philistines then in Bethle-

hem.
15And David longed, and said: O that some

man would get me a drink of the water out of

the cistern, that is in Bethlehem, by the gate.

16And the three valiant men broke through

the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out

of the cistern of Bethlehem, that was by the gate,

and brought it to David: but he would not drink,

but oered it to the Lord,

17Saying: The Lord be merciful to me, that

I may not do this: shall I drink the blood of

these men that went, and the peril of their lives?

therefore he would not drink. These things did

these three mighty men.

18Abisai also the brother of Joab, the son of

Sarvia, was chief among three: and he lifted up

his spear against three hundred whom he slew,

and he was renowned among the three,

19And the noblest of three, and was their

chief, but to the three rst he attained not.

20And Banaias the son of Joiada a most

valiant man, of great deeds, of Cabseel: he slew

the two lions of Moab, and he went down, and

slew a lion in the midst of a pit, in the time of

snow.

21He also slew an Egyptian, a man worthy

to be a sight, having a spear in his hand: but

he went down to him with a rod, and forced the

spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slew

him with his own spear.

22These things did Banaias the son of Joiada.

23And he was renowned among the threevaliant men, who were the most honourable

among the thirty: but he attained not to the rst

three: and David made him of his privy council.

24Asael the brother of Joab was one of the

thirty, Elehanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem.

25Semma of Harodi, Elica of Harodi,

26Heles of Phalti, Hira the son of Acces of

Thecua,

27Abiezer of Anathoth, Mobonnai of Husati,

28Selmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Ne-

tophathite,

29Heled the son of Baana, also a Ne-

tophathite, Ithai the son of Ribai of Gabaath

of the children of Benjamin,

30Banaia the Pharathonite, Heddai of the

torrent Gaas,

31Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of

Beromi,

32Eliaba of Salaboni. The sons of Jassen,

Jonathan,

33Semma of Orori, Aliam the son of Sarar

the Arorite,
34Eliphelet the son of Aasbai the son

of Machati, Eliam the son of Achitophel the

Gelonite,

35Hesrai of Carmel, Pharai of Arbi,

36Igaal the son of Nathan of Soba, Bonni of

Gadi,

37Selec of Ammoni, Naharai the Berothite,

armourbearer of Joab the son of Sarvia,

38Ira the Jethrite, Gareb also a Jethrite;

39Urias the Hethite, thirty and seven in all.

Chapter 24

And the anger of the Lord was again kindled

against Israel, and stirred up David among them,

saying: Go, number Israel and Juda.398 Second Book of Samuel

2And the king said to Joab the general of his

army: Go through all the tribes of Israel from

Dan to Bersabee, and number ye the people that

I may know the number of them.

3And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy

God increase thy people, and make them as

many more as they are now, and again multi-

ply them a hundredfold in the sight of my lord

the king: but what meaneth my lord the king by

this kind of thing?

4But the king's words prevailed over the

words of Joab, and of the captains of the army:

and Joab, and the captains of the soldiers went

out from the presence of the king, to number the

people of Israel.

5And when they had passed the Jordan, they

came to Aroer to the right side of the city, which

is in the vale of Gad.

6And by Jazer they passed into Galaad, and

to the lower land of Hodsi, and they came into

the woodlands of Dan. And going about by

Sidon,

7They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all

the land of the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and

they came to the south of Juda into Bersabee:

8And having gone through the whole land,

after nine months and twenty days, they came

to Jerusalem.

9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of

the people to the king, and there were found of

Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that

drew the sword: and of Juda ve hundred thou-

sand ghting men.

10But David's heart struck him, after the

people were numbered: and David said to the

Lord: I have sinned very much in what I have

done: but I pray thee, O Lord, to take away

the iniquity of thy servant, because I have done

exceeding foolishly.

11And David arose in the morning, and theword of the Lord came to Gad the prophet and

the seer of David, saying:

12Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord:

I give thee thy choice of three things, choose one

of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee.

13And when Gad was come to David, he told

him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall

come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt

ee three

months before thy adversaries, and they shall

pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a

pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate,

and see what answer I shall return to him that

sent me.

14And David said to Gad: I am in a great

strait: but it is better that I should fall into the

hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many)

than into the hands of men.

15And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel,

from the morning unto the time appointed, and

there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee

seventy thousand men.

16And when the angel of the Lord had

stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy

it, the Lord had pity on the aiction, and said to

the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now

hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was

by the thrashing

oor of Areuna the Jebusite.

17And David said to the Lord, when he saw

the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that

have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are

the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I

beseech thee, be turned against me, and against

my father's house.

18And Gad came to David that day, and said:

Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the

thrashing

oor of Areuna the Jebusite.

19And David went up according to the word

of Gad which the Lord had commanded him.

20And Areuna looked, and saw the king and

his servants coming towards him:Second Book of Samuel 399

21And going out he worshipped the king,

bowing with his face to the earth, and said:

Wherefore is my lord the king come to his ser-

vant? And David said to him: To buy the

thrashing

oor of thee, and build an altar to the

Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the

people, may cease.

22And Areuna said to David: Let my lord

the king take, and oer, as it seemeth good to

him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and

the wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.

23All these things Areuna as a king gave to

the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord

thy God receive thy vow.

24And the king answered him, and said: Nay,

but I will buy it of thee, at a price, and I will

not oer to the Lord my God holocausts free

cost. So David bought the

oor, and the oxen,

for fty sicles of silver:

25And David built there an altar to the Lord,

and oered holocausts and peace oerings: and

the Lord became merciful to the land, and the

plague was stayed from Israel.Third Book of Kings

Chapter 1

Now king David was old, and advanced in years:

and when he was covered with clothes he was not

warm.

2His servants therefore, said to him: Let us

seek for our Lord the king, a young virgin, and

let her stand before the king, and cherish him,

and sleep in his bosom and warm our lord the

king.
3So they sought a beautiful young woman, in

all the coasts of Israel and they found Abisag, a

Sunamitess, and brought her to the king.

4And the damsel was exceedingly beautiful,

and she slept with the king, and served him, but

the king did not know her.

5And Adonias, the son of Haggith, exalted

himself, saying: I will be king. And he made

himself chariots and horsemen, and fty men to

run before him.

6Neither did his father rebuke him at any

time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he

also was very beautiful, the next in birth after

Absalom.

7And he conferred with Joab, the son of

Sarvia, and with Abiathar, the priest, who fur-

thered Adonias's side.

8But Sadoc, the priest, and Banaias, the son

of Joiada, and Nathan, the prophet, and Semei,

and Rei, and the strength of David's army, was

not with Adonias.9And Adonias having slain rams and calves,

and all fat cattle, by the stone of Zoheleth,

which was near the fountain Rogel, invited all

his brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of

Juda, the king's servants:

10But Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, and

all the valiant men, and Solomon, his brother, he

invited not.

11And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother

of Solomon: Hast thou not heard that Adonias,

the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord David

knoweth it not?

12Now then, come, take my counsel, and save

thy life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

13Go, and get thee in to king David, and

say to him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king,

swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon,

thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on

my throne? why then doth Adonias reign?

14And while thou art yet speaking there with

the king, I will come in after thee, and will ll

up thy words.

15So Bethsabee went in to the king into

the chamber. Now the king was very old, and

Abisag, the Sunamitess, ministered to him.

16Bethsabee bowed herself, and worshipped

the king. And the king said to her: What is thy

will?

17She answered, and said: My lord, thou

didst swear to thy handmaid, by the Lord thy

God, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign afterThird Book of Kings 401

me, and he shall sit on my throne.

18And behold, now Adonias reigneth, and

thou, my lord the king, knowest nothing of it.

19He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle, and

many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and

Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the general of

the army: but Solomon, thy servant, he invited

not.

20And now, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Is-

rael are upon thee, that thou shouldst tell them,

who shall sit on thy throne, my lord the king,

after thee.

21Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my

lord the king sleepeth with his fathers, that I,

and my son, Solomon, shall be accounted oend-

ers.

22As she was yet speaking with the king,

Nathan, the prophet, came.

23And they told the king, saying: Nathan,

the prophet, is here. And when he was come

in before the king, and had worshipped, bowing

down to the ground,

24Nathan said: My lord, O king, hast thou

said: Let Adonias reign after me, and let him sit

upon my throne?

25Because he is gone down to day, and hath

killed oxen, and fatlings, and many rams, and

invited all the king's sons, and the captains of

the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are

eating and drinking before him, and saying: God

save king Adonias:

26But me, thy servant, and Sadoc, the priest,

and Banaias, the son of Joiada, and Solomon,

thy servant, he hath not invited.

27Is this word come out from my lord the

king, and hast thou not told me, thy servant,

who should sit on the throne of my lord the king

after him?

28And king David answered, and said: Call

to me Bethsabee. And when she was come in tothe king, and stood before him,

29The king swore, and said: As the Lord

liveth, who hath delivered my soul out of all dis-

tress,

30Even as I swore to thee, by the Lord, the

God of Israel, saying: Solomon thy son, shall

reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne

in my stead, so will I do this day.

31And Bethsabee, bowing with her face to

the earth, worshipped the king, saying: May my

lord David live for ever.

32King David also said: Call me Sadoc, the

priest, and Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias,

the son of Joiada. And when they were come in

before the king,

33He said to them: Take with you the ser-

vants of your lord, and set my son Solomon upon

my mule: and bring him to Gihon:

34And let Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the

prophet, anoint him there king over Israel: and

you shall sound the trumpet, and shall say: God

save king Solomon.

35And you shall come up after him, and he

shall come, and shall sit upon my throne, and he

shall reign in my stead: and I will appoint him

to be ruler over Israel, and over Juda.

36And Banaias, the son of Joiada, answered

the king, saying: Amen: so say the Lord, the

God of my lord the king.

37As the Lord hath been with my lord the

king, so be he with Solomon, and make his

throne higher than the throne of my lord king

David.

38So Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the

prophet, went down, and Banaias, the son of

Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi: and they

set Solomon upon the mule of king David, and

brought him to Gihon.

39And Sadoc, the priest, took a horn of oil

out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon:402 Third Book of Kings

and they sounded the trumpet, and all the peo-

ple said: God save king Solomon.

40And all the multitude went up after him,

and the people played with pipes, and rejoiced

with a great joy, and the earth rang with the

noise of their cry.

41And Adonias, and all that were invited

by him, heard it, and now the feast was at an

end. Joab also, hearing the sound of the trum-

pet, said: What meaneth this noise of the city

in an uproar?

42While he yet spoke, Jonathan, the son of

Abiathar, the priest, came: and Adonias said to

him: Come in, because thou art a valiant man,

and bringest good news.

43And Jonathan answered Adonias: Not

so: for our lord, king David, hath appointed

Solomon king;

44And hath sent with him Sadoc, the priest,

and Nathan, the prophet, and Banaias, the son

of Joiada, and the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and

they have set him upon the king's mule:

45And Sadoc, the priest, and Nathan, the

prophet, have anointed him king, in Gihon: and

they are gone up from thence rejoicing, so that

the city rang again: this is the noise that you

have heard.

46Moreover, Solomon sitteth upon the throne

of the kingdom.

47And the king's servants going in, have

blessed ouur lord king David, saying: May God

make the name of Solomon greater than thy

name, and make his throne greater than thy

throne. And the king adored in his bed:

48And he said: Blessed be the Lord, the God

of Israel, who hath given this day one to sit on

my throne, my eyes seeing it.

49Then all the guests of Adonias were afraid,

and they all arose, and every man went his way.50And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose and

went, and took hold of the horn of the altar.

51And they told Solomon, saying: Behold

Adonias fearing king Solomon, hath taken hold

of the horn of the altar, saying: Let king

Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not

kill his servant with the sword.

52And Solomon said: If he be a good man,

there shall not so much as one hair of his head

fall to the ground: but if evil be found in him,

he shall die.

53Then king Solomon sent, and brought him

out from the altar: and going in, he worshipped

king Solomon: and Solomon said to him: Go to

thy house.

Chapter 2

And the days of David drew nigh that he should

die, and he charged his son Solomon, saying:

2I am going the way of all

esh: take thou

courage and shew thyself a man.

3And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to

walk in his ways, and observe his ceremonies, and

his precepts, and judgments, and testimonies,

as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou

mayst understand all thou dost, and whitherso-

ever thou shalt turn thyself:

4That the Lord may conrm his words, which

he hath spoken of me, saying: If thy children

shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk be-

fore me in truth, with all their heart, and with

all their soul, there shall not be taken away from

thee a man on the throne of Israel.

5Thou knowest also what Joab, the son of

Sarvia, hath done to me, what he did to the two

captains of the army of Israel, to Abner, the son

of Ner, and to Amasa, the son of Jether: whom

he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, andThird Book of Kings 403

put the blood of war on his girdle that was about

his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

6Do, therefore, according to thy wisdom, and

let not his hoary head go down to hell in peace.

7But shew kindness to the sons of Berzellai,

the Galaadite, and let them eat at thy table:

for they met me when I

ed from the face of

Absalom, thy brother.

8Thou hast also with thee Semei, the son of

Gera, the son of Jemini, of Bahurim, who cursed

me with a grievous curse, when I went to the

camp: but because he came down to meet me

when I passed over the Jordan, and I swore to

him by the Lord, saying: I will not kill thee with

the sword:

9Do not thou hold him guiltless. But thou

art a wise man, and knowest what to do with

him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs

with blood to the grave.

10So David slept with his fathers, and was

buried in the city of David.

11And the days that David reigned in Israel,

were forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven

years, in Jerusalem thirty-three.

12And Solomon sat upon the throne of his

father David, and his kingdom was strengthened

exceedingly.
13And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to

Bethsabee the mother of Solomon. And she said

to him: Is thy coming peaceable? He answered:

It is peaceable.

14And he added: I have a word to speak with

thee. She said to him: Speak. And he said:

15Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine,

and all Israel had preferred me to be their king:

but the kingdom is transferred, and is become

my brother's: for it was appointed him by the

Lord.

16Now therefore, I ask one petition of thee;

turn not away my face. And she said to him:Say on.

17And he said I pray thee speak to king

Solomon (for he cannot deny thee any thing) to

give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife.

18And Bethsabee said: Well, I will speak for

thee to the king.

19Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to

speak to him for Adonias: and the king arose to

meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon

his throne: and a throne was set for the king's

mother, and she sat on his right hand.

20And she said to him: I desire one small

petition of thee; do not put me to confusion. And

the king said to her: My mother ask, for I must

not turn away thy face.

21And she said: Let Abisag, the Sunamitess,

be given to Adonias, thy brother, to wife.

22And king Solomon answered, and said to

his mother: Why dost thou ask Abisag, the

Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask for him also the

kingdom; for he is my elder brother, and hath

Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the son of Sarvia.

23Then king Solomon swore by the Lord, say-

ing: So and so may God do to me, and add more,

if Adonias hath not spoken this word against his

own life.

24And now, as the Lord liveth, who hath

established me, and placed me upon the throne

of David, my father, and who hath made me a

house, as he promised, Adonias shall be put to

death this day.

25And king Solomon sent by the hand of Ba-

naias, the son of Joiada, who slew him, and he

died.

26And the king said also to Abiathar, the

priest: Go to Anathoth, to thy lands, for indeed

thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this

time put thee to death, because thou didst carry

the ark of the Lord God before David, my father,

and hast endured trouble in all the troubles my404 Third Book of Kings
father endured.

27So Solomon cast out Abiathar from being

the priest of the Lord, that the word of the Lord

might be fullled, which he spoke concerning the

house of Heli in Silo.

28And the news came to Joab, because Joab

had turned after Adonias, and had not turned

after Solomon: and Joab

ed into the tabernacle

of the Lord, and took hold on the horn of the

altar.

29And it was told king Solomon, that Joab

was

ed into the tabernacle of the Lord, and was

by the altar: and Solomon sent Banaias, the son

of Joiada, saying. Go, kill him.

30And Banaias came to the tabernacle of

the Lord, and said to him: Thus saith the king:

Come forth. And he said: I will not come forth,

but here I will die. Banaias brought word back

to the king, saying: Thus saith Joab, and thus

he answered me.

31And the king said to him: Do as he hath

said; and kill him, and bury him, and thou shalt

remove the innocent blood which hath been shed

by Joab, from me, and from the house of my

father:

32And the Lord shall return his blood upon

his own head; because he murdered two men,

just and better than himself: and slew them with

the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Ab-

ner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel,

and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army

of Juda;

33And their blood shall return upon the head

of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever.

But to David and his seed, and his house, and

to his throne, be peace for ever from the Lord.

34So Banaias, the son of Joiada, went up, and

setting upon him slew him, and he was buried in

his house in the desert.

35And the king appointed Banaias, the sonof Joiada in his room over the army; and Sadoc,

the priest, he put in the place of Abiathar.

36The king also sent, and called for Se-

mei, and said to him: Build thee a house in

Jerusalem, and dwell there: and go not out from

thence any where.

37For on what day soever thou shalt go out,

and shalt pass over the brook Cedron, know that

thou shalt be put to death: thy blood shall be

upon thy own head.

38And Semei said to the king: The saying is

good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy

servant do. And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem many

days.

39And it came to pass after three years, that

the servants of Semei ran away to Achis, the son

of Maacha, the king of Geth: and it was told

Semei that his servants were gone to Geth.

40And Semei arose, and saddled his ass, and

went to Achis, to Geth, to seek his servants, and

he brought them out of Geth.

41And it was told Solomon, that Semei had

gone from Jerusalem to Geth, and was come

back.

42And sending he called for him, and said to

him: Did I not protest to thee by the Lord, and

tell thee before: On what day soever thou shalt

go out and walk abroad any where, know that

thou shalt die? And thou answeredst me: The

word that I have heard is good.

43Why then hast thou not kept the oath of

the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon

thee?

44And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest

all the evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which

thou didst to David, my father: the Lord hath

returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.

45And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the

throne of David shall be established before the

Lord for ever.Third Book of Kings 405

46So the king commanded Banaias, the son

of Joiada: and he went out and struck him; and

he died.

Chapter 3

And the kingdom was established in the hand

of Solomon, and he made anity with Pharao,

the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter, and

brought her into the city of David: until he had

made an end of building his own house, and the

house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem

round about.

2But yet the people sacriced in the high

places: for there was no temple built to the name

of the Lord until that day.

3And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the

precepts of David, his father; only he sacriced

in the high places, and burnt incense.

4He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrice

there: for that was the great high place: a thou-

sand victims for holocausts, did Solomon oer

upon that altar, in Gabaon.

5And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a

dream by night, saying: Ask what thou wilt that

I should give thee.

6And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great

mercy to thy servant David, my father, even as

he walked before thee in truth, and justice, and

an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept

thy great mercy for him, and hast given him a

son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

7And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy

servant king instead of David, my father: and I

am but a child, and know not how to go out and

come in;

8And thy servant is in the midst of the peo-

ple which thou hast chosen, an immense people,

which cannot be numbered nor counted for mul-titude.

9Give therefore to thy servant an understand-

ing heart, to judge thy people, and discern be-

tween good and evil. For who shall be able to

judge this people, thy people, which is so numer-

ous?

10And the word was pleasing to the Lord,

that Solomon had asked such a thing.

11And the Lord said to Solomon: Because

thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked

for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of

thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom

to discern jndgment;
12Behold I have done for thee according to

thy words, and have given thee a wise and un-

derstanding heart, in so much that there hath

been no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise

after thee.

13Yea, and the things also which thou didst

not ask, I have given thee; to wit, riches and

glory: so that no one hath been like thee among

the kings in all days heretofore.

14And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep

my precepts and my commandments, as thy fa-

ther walked, I will lengthen thy days.

15And Solomon awaked, and perceived that

it was a dream: and when he was come to

Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the

covenant of the Lord, and oered holocausts, and

sacriced victims of peace oerings, and made a

great feast for all his servants.

16Then there came two women that were har-

lots, to the king, and stood before him.

17And one of them said: I beseech thee, my

lord, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I

was delivered of a child with her in the chamber.

18And the third day after I was delivered, she

also was delivered; and we were together, and no

other person with us in the house; only we two.406 Third Book of Kings
19And this woman's child died in the night:

for in her sleep she overlaid him.

20And rising in the dead time of the night,

she took my child from my side, while I, thy

handmaid, was asleep, and laid it in her bosom:

and laid her dead child in my bosom.

21And when I arose in the morning, to give

my child suck, behold it was dead: but consider-

ing him more diligently, when it was clear day, I

found that it was not mine which I bore.

22And the other woman answered: It is not

so as thou sayst, but thy child is dead, and mine

is alive. On the contrary, she said; Thou liest:

for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And

in this manner they strove before the king.

23Then said the king: The one saith, My

child is alive, and thy child is dead. And the

other answereth: Nay; but thy child is dead, and

mine liveth.

24The king therefore said: Bring me a sword.

And when they had brought a sword before the

king,

25Divide, said he, the living child in two, and

give half to the one and half to the other.

26But the woman, whose child was alive, said

to the king; (for her bowels were moved upon her

child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child

alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let

it be neither mine nor thine; but divide it.

27The king answered, and said: Give the liv-

ing child to this woman, and let it not be killed;

for she is the mother thereof.

28And all Israel heard the judgment which

the king had judged, and they feared the king,

seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do

judgment.Chapter 4

And king Solomon reigned over all Israel:

2And these were the princes which he had:

Azarias, the son of Sadoc, the priest:

3Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa,

scribes: Josaphat, the son of Ahilud, recorder:

4Banaias, the son of Joiada, over the army:

and Sadoc, and Abiathar, priests.

5Azarias, the son of Nathan, over them that

were about the king: Zabud, the son of Nathan,

the priest, the king's friend:

6And Ahisar, governor of the house: and

Adoniram, the son of Abda, over the tribute.

7And Solomon had twelve governors over all

Israel, who provided victuals for the king and

for his house hold: for every one provided neces-

saries, each man his month in the year.

8And these are their names: Benhur, in

mount Ephraim.

9Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim, and

in Bethsames, and in Elon, and in Bethanan.

10Benhesed, in Aruboth: his was Socho, and

all the land of Epher.

11Benabinadab, to whom belonged all

Nephath-Dor: he had Tapheth, the daughter of

Solomon, to wife.

12Bana, the son of Ahilud, who governed

Thanac, and Mageddo, and all Bethsan, which

is by Sarthana, beneath Jezrael, from Bethsan

unto Abelmehula, over against Jecmaan.

13Bengaber, in Ramoth Galaad: he had the

town of Jair, the son of Manasses, in Galaad: he

was chief in all the country of Argob, which is

in Basan, threescore great cities with walls, and

brazen bolts.

14Ahinadab, the son of Addo, was chief in

Manaim.

15Achimaas, in Nephthali: he also had Base-

math, the daughter of Solomon, to wife.Third Book of Kings 407

16Baana, the son of Husi, in Aser, and in

Baloth.

17Josaphat, the son of Pharue, in Issachar.

18Semei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin.

19Gaber, the son of Uri, in the land of

Galaad, in the land of Sehon, the king of the

Amorrhites, and of Og, the king of Basan, over

all that were in that land.

20Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the

sand of the sea in multitude; eating and drinking,

and rejoicing.

21And Solomon had under him all the

kingdoms, from the river to the land of the

Philistines, even to the border of Egypt: and

they brought him presents, and served him all

the days of his life.

22And the provision of Solomon, for each day,

was thirty measures of ne

our, and threescore

measures of meal;

23Ten fat oxen, and twenty out of the pas-

tures, and a hundred rams; besides venison of

harts, roes, and bues, and fatted fowls.

24For he had all the country which was be-

yond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan, and all

the kings of those countries: and he had peace

on every side round about.

25And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any

fear, every one under his vine, and under his

g tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of

Solomon.

26And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of

chariot horses, and twelve thousand for the sad-

dle.

27And the foresaid governors of the king fed

them; and they furnished the necessaries also for

king Solomon's table, with great care, in their

time.

28They brought barley also, and straw for

the horses and beasts, to the place where the

king was, according as it was appointed them.29And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and

understanding exceeding much, and largeness of

heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore.

30And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the

wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyp-

tians;

31And he was wiser than all men: wiser

than Ethan, the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chal-

col, and Dorda, the sons of Mahol, and he was

renowned in all nations round about.

32Solomon also spoke three thousand para-

bles: and his poems were a thousand and ve.

33And he treated about trees, from the cedar

that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh

out of the wall: and he discoursed of beasts, and

of fowls, and of creeping things, and of shes.

34And they came from all nations to hear the

wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the

earth, who heard of his wisdom.

Chapter 5

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to

Solomon: for he heard that they had anointed

him king in the room of his father: for Hiram

had always been David's friend.

2Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

3Thou knowest the will of David, my father,

and that he could not build a house to the name

of the Lord his God, because of the wars that

were round about him, until the Lord put them

under the soles of his feet.

4But now the Lord my God hath given me

rest round about; and there is no adversary nor

evil occurrence.

5Wherefore I purpose to build a temple to the

name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to

David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will

set upon the throne, in thy place, he shall build408 Third Book of Kings

a house to my name.

6Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut

me down cedar trees, out of Libanus, and let

my servants be with thy servants: and I will

give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever

thou wilt ask: for thou knowest how there is not

among my people a man that has skill to hew

wood like to the Sidonians.

7Now when Hiram had heard the words

of Solomon, he rejoiced exceedingly, and said:

Blessed be the Lord God this day, who hath

given to David a very wise son over this numer-

ous people.

8And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have

heard all thou hast desired of me; and I will do all

thy desire concerning cedar trees, and r trees.

9My servants shall bring them down from

Libanus to the sea: and I will put them together

in

oats, on the sea, and convey them to the

place, which thou shalt signify to me, and will

land them there, and thou shalt receive them:

and thou shalt allow me necessaries to furnish

food for my household.

10So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees, and

r trees, according to all his desire.

11And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty thou-

sand measures of wheat, for provision for his

house, and twenty measures of the purest oil:

thus gave Solomon to Hiram every year.

12And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, as

he promised him: and there was peace between

Hiram and Solomon, and they two made a league

together.

13And king Solomon chose workmen out of

all Israel, and the levy was of thirty thousand

men.

14And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand

every month, by turns, so that two months they

were at home: and Adoniram was over this levy.

15And Solomon had seventy thousand tocarry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew

stones in the mountain:

16Besides the overseers who were over every

work, in number three thousand and three hun-

dred, that ruled over the people, and them that

did the work.

17And the king commanded that they should

bring great stones, costly stones, for the founda-

tion of the temple, and should square them:

18And the masons of Solomon, and the ma-

sons of Hiram, hewed them: and the Giblians

prepared timber and stones to build the house.

Chapter 6

And it came to pass in the four hundred and

eightieth year after the children of Israel came

out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of

the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month

Zio, (the same is the second month) he began to

build a house to the Lord.

2And the house, which king Solomon built to

the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and

twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in

height.

3And there was a porch before the temple, of

twenty cubits in length, according to the measure

of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten

cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.

4And he made in the temple oblique windows.

5And upon the wall of the temple, he built

oors round about, in the walls of the house,

round about the temple and the oracle, and he

made chambers in the sides round about.

6The

oor that was underneath was ve cu-

bits in breadth, and the middle

oor was six cu-

bits in breadth, and the third

oor was seven cu-

bits in breadth. And he put beams in the house

round about on the outside, that they might notThird Book of Kings 409

be fastened in the walls of the temple.

7And the house, when it was in building, was

built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that

there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool

of iron heard in the house when it was in build-

ing.

8The door, for the middle side, was on the

right hand of the house: and by winding stairs

they went up to the middle room, and from the

middle to the third.

9So he built the house, and nished it: and

he covered the house with roofs of cedar.

10And he built a

oor over all the house, ve

cubits in height, and he covered the house with

timber of cedar.

11And the word of the Lord came to Solomon,

12As for this house, which thou art building,

if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute

my judgments, and keep all my commandments,

walking in them, I will full my word to thee,

which I spoke to David thy father.

13And I will dwell in the midst of the children

of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.

14So Solomon built the house, and nished

it.

15And he built the walls of the house on the

inside, with boards of cedar, from the

oor of the

house to the top of the walls, and to the roofs,

he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside:

and he covered the

oor of the house with planks

of r.

16And he built up twenty cubits with boards

of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from

the

oor to the top: and made the inner house

of the oracle to be the holy of holies.

17And the temple itself, before the doors of

the oracle, was forty cubits long.

18And all the house was covered within with

cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof

artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out:all was covered with boards of cedar: and no

stone could be seen in the wall at all.

19And he made the oracle in the midst of the

house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of

the covenant of the Lord.

20Now the oracle was twenty cubits in length,

and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits

in height. And he covered it, and overlaid it with

most pure gold. And the altar also he covered

with cedar.

21And the house before the oracle he overlaid

with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates

with nails of gold.

22And there was nothing in the temple that

was not covered with gold: the whole altar of the

oracle he covered also with gold.

23And he made in the oracle two cherubims

of olive tree, of ten cubits in height.

24One wing of the cherub was ve cubits,

and the other wing of the cherub was ve cubits:

that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity of

one wing to the extremity of the other wing.

25The second cherub also was ten cubits: and

the measure, and the work was the same in both

the cherubims:

26That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits

high, and in like manner the other cherub.

27And he set the cherubims in the midst of

the inner temple: and the cherubims stretched

forth their wings, and the wing of the one

touched one wall, and the wing of the other

cherub touched the other wall: and the other

wings in the midst of the temple touched one

another.

28And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

29And all the walls of the temple round about

he carved with divers gures and carvings: and

he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and

divers representations, as it were standing out,

and coming forth from the wall.410 Third Book of Kings

30And the

oor of the house he also overlaid

with gold within and without.

31And in the entrance of the oracle, he made

little doors of olive tree, snd posts of ve corners,

32And two doors of olive tree: and he carved

upon them gures of cherubims, and gures of

palm trees, and carvings very much projecting;

and he overlaid them with gold: and he covered

both the cherubims and the palm trees, and the

other things, with gold.

33And he made in the entrance of the temple

posts of olive tree foursquare:

34And two doors of r tree, one of each side:

and each door was double, and so opened with

folding leaves.

35And he carved cherubims, and palm trees,

and carved work standing very much out: and

he overlaid all with golden plates in square work

by rule.

36And he built the inner court with three

rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of

cedar.
37In the fourth year was the house of the

Lord founded, in the month Zio:

38And in the eleventh year, in the month

Bul. (which is the eighth month) the house was

nished in all the works thereof, and in all the

appurtenances thereof: and he was seven years

in building it.

Chapter 7

And Solomon built his own house in thirteen

years, and brought it to perfection.

2He built also the house of the forest of

Libanus; the length of it was a hundred cu-

bits, and the breadth fty cubits, and the height

thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars

of cedar: for he had cut cedar trees into pillars.3And he covered the whole vault with boards

of cedar, and it was held up with ve and forty

pillars. And one row had fteen pillars,

4Set one against another,

5And looking one upon another, with equal

space between the pillars, and over the pillars

were square beams in all things equal.

6And he made a porch of pillars of fty cubits

in length, and thirty cubits in breadth: and an-

other porch before the greater porch, and pillars,

and chapiters upon the pillars.

7He made also the porch of the throne

wherein is the seat of judgment; and covered it

with cedar wood from the

oor to the top.

8And in the midst of the porch, was a small

house, where he sat in judgment of the like work.

He made also a house for the daughter of Pharao

(whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same

work, as this porch;

9All of costly stones, which were sawed by a

certain rule and measure, both within and with-

out: from the foundation to the top of the walls,

and without, unto the great court.

10And the foundations were of costly stones,

great stones of ten cubits or eight cubits.

11And above there were costly stones of equal

measure hewed, and in like manner planks of

cedar.

12And the great court was made round with

three rows of hewed stones, and one row of

planks of cedar, which also was observed in the

inner court of the house of the Lord, and in the

porch of the house.

13And king Solomon sent, and brought Hi-

ram from Tyre,

14The son of a widow woman, of the tribe of

Nephthali, whose father was a Tyrian, an arti-

cer in brass, and full of wisdom, and understand-

ing, and skill to work all work in brass. And

when he was come to king Solomon, he wroughtThird Book of Kings 411

all his work.

15And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar

was eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve

cubits compassed both the pillars.

16He made also two chapiters of molten brass,

to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height

of one chapiter was ve cubits, and the height of

the other chapiter was ve cubits:

17And a kind of network, and chain work

wreathed together with wonderful art. Both the

chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows of

nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the

other chapiter.

18And he made the pillars, and two rows

round about each network to cover the chapiters,

that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and

in like manner did he to the other chapiter.

19And the chapiters that were upon the top

of the pillars, were of lily work, in the porch of

four cubits.

20And again there were other chapiters on

the top of the pillars above, according to the

measure of the pillar over against the network:

and of pomegranates there were two hundred, in

rows round about the other chapiter.

21And he set up the two pillars in the porch

of the temple: and when he had set up the pil-

lar on the right hand, he called the name thereof

Jachin: in like manner he set up the second pil-

lar, and called the name thereof Booz.

22And upon the tops of the pillars he made

lily work: so the work of the pillars was nished.

23He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits,

from brim to brim, round all about; the height

of it was ve cubits, and a line of thirty cubits

compassed it round about.

24And a graven work, under the brim of it,

compassed it for ten cubits going about the sea:

there were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures.

25And it stood upon twelve oxen, of whichthree looked towards the north, and three to-

wards the west, and three towards the south, and

three towards the east: and the sea was above

upon them, and their hinder parts were all hid

within.

26And the laver was a hand breadth thick:

and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup,

or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two

thousand bates.

27And he made ten bases of brass, every

base was four cubits in length, and four cubits

in breadth, and three cubits high.

28And the work itself of the bases, was in-

tergraven: and there were gravings between the

joinings.

29And between the little crowns and the

ledges, were lions, and oxen, and cherubims; and

in the joinings likewise above: and under the li-

ons and oxen, as it were bands of brass hanging

down.

30And every base had four wheels, and axle-

trees of brass: and at the four sides were un-

dersetters, under the laver molten, looking one

against another.

31The mouth also of the laver within, was in

the top of the chapiter: and that which appeared

without, was of one cubit all round, and together

it was one cubit and a half: and in the corners of

the pillars were divers engravings: and the spaces

between the pillars were square, not round.

32And the four whee]s, which were at the four

corners of the base, were joined one to another

under the base: the height of a wheel was a cubit

and a half.

33And they were such wheels as are used to

be made in a chariot: and their axletrees, and

spokes, and strakes, and naves, were all cast.

34And the four undersetters, that were at

every corner of each base, were of the base itself,

cast and joined together.412 Third Book of Kings

35And on the top of the base, there was a

round compass of half a cubit, so wrought that

the laver might be set thereon, having its grav-

ings, and divers sculptures of itself.

36He engraved also in those plates, which

were of brass, and in the corners, cherubims, and

lions, and palm trees, in likeness of a man stand-

ing, so that they seemed not to be engraven, but

added round about.

37After this manner, he made ten bases, of

one casting and measure, and the like graving.

38He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver

contained four bates, and was of four cubits:

and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many

lavers.

39And he set the ten bases, ve on the right

side of the temple, and ve on the left: and the

sea he put on the right side of the temple, over

against the east southward.

40And Hiram made cauldrons, and shovels,

and basins, and nished all the work of king

Solomon in the temple of the Lord.

41The two pillars and the two cords of the

chapiters, upon the chapiters of the pillars: and

the two networks, to cover the two cords, that

were upon the top of the pillars.

42And four hundred pomegranates for the

two networks: two rows of pomegranates for

each network, to cover the cords of the chapiters,

which were upon the tops of the pillars.

43And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on

the bases.

44And one sea, and twelve oxen under the

sea.

45And the cauldrons, and the shovels, and

the basins. All the vessels that Hiram made for

king Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of

ne brass.

46In the plains of the Jordan, did the king

cast them in a clay ground, between Socoth andSartham.

47And Solomon placed all the vessels: but

for its exceeding great multitude the brass could

not be weighed.

48And Solomon made all the vessels for the

house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the ta-

ble of gold, upon which the loaves of proposition

should be set:

49And the golden candlesticks, ve on the

right hand, and ve on the left, over against the

oracle, of pure gold: and the

owers like lilies,

and the lamps over them of gold: and golden

snuers,

50And pots, and

eshhooks, and bowls, and

mortars, and censers, of most pure gold: and the

hinges for the doors of the inner house of the holy

of holies, and for the doors of the house of the

temple, were of gold.

51And Solomon nished all the work that he

made in the house of the Lord, and brought in

the things that David, his father, had dedicated,

the silver and the gold, and the vessels, and laid

them up in the treasures of the house of the Lord.

Chapter 8

Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes

of the tribes, and the heads of the families of

the children of Israel, were assembled to king

Solomon, in Jerusalem: that they might carry

the ark of the covenant of the Lord, out of the

city of David, that is, out of Sion.

2And all Israel assembled themselves to king

Solomon, on the festival day, in the month of

Ethanim, the same is the seventh month.

3And a]l the ancients of Israel came, and the

priests took up the ark,

4And carried the ark of the Lord, and the

tabernacle of the covenant, and all the vessels ofThird Book of Kings 413

the sanctuary, that were in the tabernacle: and

the priests and the Levites carried them.

5And king Solomon, and all the multitude of

Israel, that were assembled unto him, went with

him before the ark, and they sacriced sheep and

oxen, that could not be counted or numbered.

6And tbe priests brought in the ark of the

covenant of the Lord into its place, into the or-

acle of the temple, into the holy of holies, under

the wings of the cherubims.

7For the cherubims spread forth their wings

over the place of the ark, and covered the ark,

and the staves thereof above.

8And whereas the staves stood out, the ends

of them were seen without, in the sanctuary be-

fore the oracle, but were not seen farther out,

and there they have been unto this day.

9Now in the ark there was nothing else but

the two tables of stone, which Moses put there

at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with

the children of Israel, when they came out of the

land of Egypt.
10And it came to pass, when the priests were

come out of the sanctuary, that a cloud lled the

house of the Lord,

11And the priests could not stand to minister

because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord

had lled the house of the Lord.

12Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he

would dwell in a cloud.

13Building, I have built a house for thy

dwelling, to be thy most rm throne for ever.

14And the king turned his face, and blessed

all the assembly of Israel: for all the assembly of

Israel stood.

15And Solomon said: Blessed be the Lord

the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to

David, my father, and with his own hands hath

accomplished it, saying:

16Since the day that I brought my peopleIsrael, out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the

tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my

name might be there: but I chose David to be

over my people Israel.

17And David, my father, would have built a

house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel:

18And the Lord said to David, my father:

Whereas, thou hast thought in thy heart to build

a house to my name, thou hast done well in hav-

ing this same thing in thy mind.

19Nevertheless, thou shalt not build me a

house, but thy son, that shall come forth out of

thy loins, he shall build a house to my name.

20The Lord hath performed his word which

he spoke. And I stand in the room of David, my

father, and sit upon the throne of Israel, as the

Lord promised: and have built a house to the

name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

21And I have set there a place for the ark,

wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he

made with our fathers, when they came out of

the land of Egypt.

22And Solomon stood before the altar of the

Lord, in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and

spread forth his hands towards heaven,

23And said: Lord God of Israel, there is no

God like thee, in heaven above, or on the earth

beneath: who keepest covenant and mercy with

thy servants, that have walked before thee with

all their heart:

24Who hast kept with thy servant David,

my father, what thou hast promised him: with

thy mouth thou didst speak, and with thy hands

thou hast performed, as this day proveth.

25Now, therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep

with thy servant David, my father, what thou

hast spoken to him, saying: There shall not be

taken away of thee a man in my sight, to sit on

the throne of Israel: yet so that thy children take

heed to their way, that they walk before me as414 Third Book of Kings

thou hast walked in my sight.

26And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy words

be established, which thou hast spoken to thy

servant David, my father.

27Is it then to be thought that God should

indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the

heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how

much less this house which I have built?

28But have regard to the prayer of thy ser-

vant, and to his supplications, O Lord, my God:

hear the hymn and the prayer, which thy servant

prayeth before thee this day:

29That thy eyes may be open upon this

house, night and day: upon the house of which

thou hast said: My name shall be there: that

thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy ser-

vant prayeth, in this place to thee:

30That thou mayst hearken to the suppli-

cation of thy servant, and of thy people Israel,

whatsoever they shall pray for in this place, and

hear them in the place of thy dwelling in heaven;

and when thou hearest, shew them mercy.

31If any man trespass against his neighbour,

and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is

bound, and come, because of the oath, before

thy altar, to thy house,

32Then hear thou in heaven: and do and

judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, and

bringing his way upon his own head, and justi-

fying the just, and rewarding him according to

his justice.

33If thy people Israel shall

y before their

enemies (because they will sin against thee) and

doing penance, and confessing to thy name, shall

come and pray, and make supplications to thee

in this house:

34Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the

sin of thy people Israel, and bring them back to

the land which thou gavest to their fathers.

35If heaven shall be shut up, and there shallbe no rain, because of their sins, and they, pray-

ing in this place, shall do penance to thy name,

and shall be converted from their sins, by occa-

sion of their aictions:

36Then hear thou them in heaven, and for-

give the sins of thy servants, and of thy people Is-

rael: and shew them the good way wherein they

should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which

thou hast given to thy people in possession.

37If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence,

or corrupt air, or blasting, or locust, or mildew;

if their enemy aict them, besieging the gates,

whatsoever plague, whatsoever inrmity,

38Whatsoever curse or imprecation shall hap-

pen to any man of thy people Israel: when a man

shall know the wound of his own heart, and shall

spread forth his hands in this house;

39Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of

thy dwelling, and forgive, and do so as to give

to every one according to his ways, as thou shalt

see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of

all the children of men)

40That they may fear thee all the days that

they live upon the face of the land, which thou

hast given to our fathers.

41Moreover also the stranger, who is not of

thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far

conntry for thy name's sake, (for they shall hear

every where of thy great name, and thy mighty

hand,

42And thy stretched out arm) so when he

shall come, and shall pray in this place,

43Then hear thou in heaven, in the rmament

of thy dwelling place, and do all those things, for

which that stranger shall call upon thee: that

all the people of the earth may learn to fear thy

name, as do thy people Israel, and may prove

that thy name is called upon on this house, which

I have built.

44If thy people go out to war against their en-Third Book of Kings 415

emies, by what way soever thou shalt send them,

they shall pray to thee towards the way of the

city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the

house, which I have built to thy name:

45And then hear thou in heaven their prayers,

and their supplications, and do judgment for

them.

46But if they sin against thee, (for there is

no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry,

deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be

led away captives into the land of their enemies,

far or near;

47Then if they do penance in their heart, in

the place of captivity, and being converted, make

supplication to thee in their captivity, saying:

We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have

committed wickedness:

48And return to thee with all their heart,

and all their soul, in the land of their enemies,

to which they have been led captives: and pray

to thee towards the way of their land, which thou

gavest to their fathers, and of the city which thou

hast chosen, and of the temple which I have built

to thy name:

49Then hear thou in heaven, in the rmament

of thy throne, their prayers, and their supplica-

tions, and do judgment for them:

50And forgive thy people, that have sinned

against thee, and all their iniquities, by which

they have transgressed against thee: and give

them mercy before them that have made them

captives, that they may have compassion on

them.

51For they are thy people, and thy inheri-

tance, whom thou hast brought out of the land

of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.

52That thy eyes may be open to the suppli-

cation of thy servant, and of thy people Israel,

to hear them in all things for which they shall

call upon thee.53For thou hast separated them to thyself

for an inheritance, from amongst all the people

of the earth, as thou hast spoken by Moses, thy

servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of

Egypt, O Lord God.

54And it came to pass, when Solomon had

made an end of praying all this prayer and sup-

plication to the Lord, that he rose from before

the altar of the Lord: for he had xed both knees

on the ground, and had spread his hands towards

heaven.

55And he stood, and blessed all the assembly

of Israel with a loud voice, saying:

56Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest

to his people Israel, according to all that he

promised: there hath not failed so much as one

word of all the good things that he promised by

his servant Moses.

57The Lord our God be with us, as he was

with our fathers, and not leave us, nor cast us

o:

58But may he incline our hearts to himself,

that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his

commandments, and his ceremonies, and all his

judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

59And let these my words, wherewith I have

prayed before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord

our God day and night, that he may do judgment

for his servant, and for his people Israel, day by

day:

60That all the people of the earth may know,

that the Lord he is God, and there is no other

besides him.

61Let our hearts also be perfect with the Lord

our God, that we may walk in his statutes, and

keep his commandments, as at this day.

62And the king, and all Israel with him, of-

fered victims before the Lord.

63And Solomon slew victims of peace of-

ferings, which he sacriced to the Lord, two416 Third Book of Kings

and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and

twenty thousand sheep so the king, and all the

children of Israel, dedicated the temple of the

Lord.

64In that day the king sanctied the middle

of the court, that was before the house of the

Lord for there he oered the holocaust, and sac-

rice, and the fat of the peace oerings: because

the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was

too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrice,

and the fat of the peace oerings.

65And Solomon made at the same time a

solemn feast, and all Israel with him, a great

multitude, from the entrance of Emath to the

river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven

days and seven days, that is, fourteen days.

66And on the eighth day, he sent away the

people: and they blessed the king, and went to

their dwellings, rejoicing, and glad in heart, for

all the good things that the Lord had done for

David, his servant, and for Israel, his people.

Chapter 9

And it came to pass when Solomon had nished

the building of the house of the Lord, and the

king's house, and all that he desired and was

pleased to do,

2That the Lord appeared to him the second

time, as he had appeared to him in Gabaon.

3And the Lord said to him: I have heard

thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast

made before me: I have sanctied this house,

which thou hast built, to put my name there for

ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be there

always.

4And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy fa-

ther walked, in simplicity of heart, and in up-

rightness: and wilt do all that I have commandedthee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judg-

ments,

5I will establish the throne of thy kingdom

over Israel for ever, as I promised David, thy

father, saying: There shall not fail a man of thy

race upon the throne of Israel.

6But if you and your children, revolting, shall

turn away from following me, and will not keep

my commandments, and my ceremonies, which

I have set before you, but will go and worship

strange gods, and adore them:

7I will take away Israel from the face of the

land which I have given them; and the temple

which I have sanctied to my name, I will cast

out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb,

and a byword among all people.

8And this house shall be made an example

of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be as-

tonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the

Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

9And they shall answer: Because they forsook

the Lord their God, who brought their fathers

out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange

gods, and adored them, and worshipped them:

therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all

this evil.

10And when twenty years were ended, after

Solomon had built the two houses; that is, the

house of the Lord, and the house of the king,

11(Hiram, the king of Tyre, furnishing

Solomon with cedar trees, and r trees, and gold,

according to all he had need of) then Solomon

gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the

towns which Solomon had given him, and they

pleased him not;

13And he said: Are these the cities which

thou hast given me, brother? And he called them

the land of Chabul, unto this day.

14And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundredThird Book of Kings 417

and twenty talents of gold.

15This is the sum of the expenses, which king

Solomon oered to build the house of the Lord,

and his own house, and Mello, and the wall of

Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer.

16Pharao, the king of Egypt, came up and

took Gazer, and burnt it with re: and slew the

Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it

for a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

17So Solomon built Gazer, and Bethhoron

the nether,

18And Baalath, and Palmira, in the land of

the wilderness.

19And all the towns that belonged to him-

self, and were not walled, he fortied; the cities

also of the chariots, and the cities of the horse-

men, and whatsoever he had a mind to build in

Jerusalem, and in Libanus, and in all the land of

his dominion.

20All the people that were left of the Am-

orrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and

Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the chil-

dren of Israel:

21Their children, that were left in the land; to

wit, such as the children of Israel had not been

able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto

this day.

22But of the children of Israel, Solomon made

not any to be bondmen, but they were warriors,

and his servants, and his princes, and captains,

and overseers of the chariots and horses.

23And there were ve hundred and fty chief

ocers set over all the works of Solomon, and

they had people under them, and had charge

over the appointed works.

24And the daughter of Pharao came up out

of the city of David to her house, which Solomon

had built for her: then did he build Mello.

25Solomon also oered three times every year

holocausts, and victims of peace oerings, uponthe altar which he had built to the Lord, and he

burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple

was nished.

26And king Solomon made a

eet in

Asiongaber, which is by Ailath, on the shore of

the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

27And Hiram sent his servants in the

eet,

sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the

servants of Solomon.

28And they came to Ophir; and they brought

from thence to king Solomon four hundred and

twenty talents of gold.

Chapter 10

And the queen of Saba having heard of the fame

of Solomon in the name of the Lord, came to try

him with hard questions.

2And entering into Jerusalem with a great

train, and riches, and camels that carried spices,

and an immense quantity of gold, and precious

stones, she came to king Solomon, and spoke to

him all that she had in her heart.

3And Solomon informed her of all the things

she proposed to him: there was not any word

the king was ignorant of, and which he could

not answer her.

4And when the queen of Saba saw all the

wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had

built,

5And the meat of his table, and the apart-

ments of his servants, and the order of his minis-

ters, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and

the holocausts, which he oered in the house of

the Lord, she had no longer any spirit in her;

6And she said to the king: The report is true,

which I heard in my own country,

7Concerning thy words, and concerning thy

wisdom. And I did not believe them that told418 Third Book of Kings

me, till I came myself, and saw with my own eyes,

and have found that the half hath not been told

me: thy wisdom and thy works exceed the fame

which I heard.

8Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy

servants, who stand before thee always, and hear

thy wisdom.

9Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou

hast pleased, and who hath set thee upon the

throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Is-

rael for ever, and hath appointed thee king, to

do judgment and justice.

10And she gave the king a hundred and

twenty talents of gold, and of spices a very great

store, and precious stones: there was brought no

more such abundance of spices as these which

the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.

11(The navy also of Hiram, which brought

gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir great

plenty of thyine trees, and precious stones.

12And the king made of the thyine trees the

rails of the house of the Lord, and of the king's

house: and citterns and harps for singers: there

were no such thyine trees as these brought nor

seen unto this day.)

13And king Solomon gave the queen of Saba

all that she desired, and asked of him: besides

what he oered her of himself of his royal bounty.

And she returned, and went to her own country,

with her servants.

14And the weight of the gold that was

brought to Solomon every year, was six hundred

and sixty-six talents of gold:

15Besides that which the men brought him

that were over the tributes, and the merchants,

and they that sold by retail, and all the kings of

Arabia, and the governors of the country.

16And Solomon made two hundred shields of

the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of

gold for the plates of one shield.17And three hundred targets of ne gold:

three hundred pounds of gold covered one tar-

get: and the king put them in the house of the

forest of Libanus.

18King Solomon also made a great throne of

ivory: and overlaid it with the nest gold.

19It had six steps: and the top of the throne

was round behind: and there were two hands on

either side holding the seat: and two lions stood,

one at each hand,

20And twelve little lions stood upon the six

steps, on the one side and on the other: there

was no such work made in any kingdom.

21Moreover, all the vessels out of which king

Solomon drank, were of gold: and all the furni-

ture of the house of the forest of Libanus was of

most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any

account made of it in the days of Solomon:

22For the king's navy, once in three years,

went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tharsis,

and brought from thence gold, and silver, and

elephants' teeth, and apes, and peacocks.

23And king Solomon exceeded all the kings

of the earth in riches and wisdom.

24And all the earth desired to see Solomon's

face, to hear his wisdom, which God had given

in his heart.

25And every one brought him presents, ves-

sels of silver and of gold, garments, and armour,

and spices, and horses, and mules, every year.

26And Solomon gathered together chariots

and horsemen, and he had a thousand four hun-

dred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen:

and he bestowed them in fenced cities, and with

the king in Jerusalem.

27And he made silver to be as plentiful in

Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as com-

mon as sycamores which grow in the plains.

28And horses were brought for Solomon out

of Egypt, and Coa: for the king's merchantsThird Book of Kings 419

bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a

set price.

29And a chariot of four horses came out of

Egypt, for six hundred sicles of silver, and a horse

for a hundred and fty. And after this manner

did all the kings of the Hethites, and of Syria,

sell horses.

Chapter 11

And king Solomon loved many strange women,

besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of

Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of

Sidon, and of the Hethites:

2Of the nations concerning which the Lord

said to the children of Israel: You shall not go in

unto them, neither shall any of them come into

yours: for they will most certainly turn away

your hearts to follow their gods. And to these

was Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

3And he had seven hundred wives as queens,

and three hundred concubines: and the women

turned away his heart.

4And when he was now old, his heart was

turned away by women to follow strange gods:

and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his

God, as was the heart of David, his father.

5But Solomon worshipped Astarthe, the god-

dess of the Sidonians, and Moloch, the idol of the

Ammonites.

6And Solomon did that which was not pleas-

ing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the

Lord, as David, his father.

7Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos,

the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against

Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the chil-

dren of Ammon.

8And he did in this manner for all his wives

that were strangers, who burnt incense, and of-fered sacrice to their gods.

9And the Lord was angry with Solomon, be-

cause his mind was turned away from the Lord,

the God of Israel, who had appeared to him

twice;

10And had commanded him concerning this

thing, that he should not follow strange gods:

but he kept not the things which the Lord com-

manded him.
11The Lord therefore said to Solomon: Be-

cause thou hast done this, and hast not kept my

covenant, and my precepts, which I have com-

manded thee, I will divide and rend thy king-

dom, and will give it to thy servant.

12Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it,

for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out

of the hand of thy son.

13Neither will I take away the whole king-

dom; but I will give one tribe to thy son, for the

sake of David, my servant, and Jerusalem, which

I have chosen.

14And the Lord raised up an adversary to

Solomon, Adad, the Edomite, of the king's seed,

in Edom.

15For when David was in Edom, and Joab,

the general of the army, was gone up to bury

them that were slain, and had killed every male

in Edom,

16(For Joab remained there six months with

all Israel, till he had slain every male in Edom,)

17Then Adad

ed, he and certain Edomites of

his father's servants, with him, to go into Egypt:

and Adad was then a Iittle boy.

18And they arose out of Madian, and came

into Pharan, and they took men with them from

Pharan, and went into Egypt, to Pharao, the

king of Egypt: who gave him a house, and ap-

pointed him victuals, and assigned him land.

19And Adad found great favour before

Pharao, insomuch that he gave him to wife the420 Third Book of Kings

own sister of his wife, Taphnes, the queen.

20And the sister of Taphnes bore him his

son, Genubath; and Taphnes brought him up in

the house of Pharao: and Genubath dwelt with

Pharao among his children.

21And when Adad heard in Egypt that David

slept with his fathers, and that Joab, the general

of the army, was dead, he said to Pharao: Let

me depart, that I may go to my own country.

22And Pharao said to him: Why, what is

wanting to thee with me, that thou seekest to go

to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing;

yet I beseech thee to let me go.

23God also raised up against him an adver-

sary, Razon, the son of Eliada, who had

ed from

his master, Adarezer, the king of Soba.

24And he gathered men against him, and he

became a captain of robbers, when David slew

them of Soba: and they went to Damascus, and

dwelt there, and they made him king in Damas-

cus.

25And he was an adversary to Israel all the

days of Solomon: and this is the evil of Adad,

and his hatred against Israel; and he reigned in

Syria.

26Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an

Ephrathite, of Sareda, a servant of Solomon,

whose mother was named Sarua, a widow

woman, lifted up his hand against the king.

27And this is the cause of his rebellion against

him; for Solomon built Mello, and lled up the

breach of the city of David, his father.

28And Jeroboam was a valiant and mighty

man: and Solomon seeing him a young man in-

genious and industrious, made him chief over the

tributes of all the house of Joseph.

29So it came to pass at that time, that Jer-

oboam went out of Jerusalem, and the prophet

Ahias, the Silonite, clad with a new garment,

found him in the way: and they two were alonein the eld.

30And Ahias taking his new garment, where-

with he was clad, divided it into twelve parts:

31And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten

pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel:

Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand

of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.

32But one tribe shall remain to him for the

sake of my servant, David, and Jerusalem, the

city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of

Israel:

33Because he hath forsaken me, and hath

adored Astarthe, the goddess of the Sidonians,

and Chamos, the god of Moab, and Moloch,

the god of the children of Ammon: and hath

not walked in my ways, to do justice before me,

and to keep my precepts, and judgments, as did

David, his father.

34Yet I will not take away all the kingdom

out of his hand, but I will make him prince all

the days of his life, for David my servant's sake,

whom I chose, who kept my commandments, and

my precepts.

35But I will take away the kingdom out of

his son's hand, and will give thee ten tribes:

36And to his son I will give one tribe, that

there may remain a lamp for my servant, David,

before me always in Jerusalem, the city which I

have chosen, that my name might be there.

37And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign

over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be

king over Israel.

38If then thou wilt hearken to all that I shall

command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do

what is right before me, keeping my command-

ments and my precepts, as David, my servant,

did: I will be with thee, and will build thee up a

faithful house, as I built a house for David, and

I will deliver Israel to thee:

39And I will for this aict the seed of David,Third Book of Kings 421

but yet not for ever.

40Solomon, therefore, sought to kill Jer-

oboam: but he arose, and

ed into Egypt, to

Sesac, the king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till

the death of Solomon.

41And the rest of the words of Solomon, and

all that he did and his wisdom: behold they are

all written in the book of the words of the days

of Solomon.

42And the days that Solomon reigned in

Jerusalem, over all Israel, were forty years.

43And Solomon slept with his fathers, and

was buried in the city of David, his father; and

Roboam, his son, reigned in his stead.

Chapter 12

And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither were

all Israel come together to make him king.

2But Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who was

yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the face of king

Solomon, hearing of his death, returned out of

Egypt.

3And they sent and called him: and Jer-

oboam came, and all the multitude of Israel, and

they spoke to Roboam, saying:

4Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us:

now, therefore, do thou take o a little of the

grievous service of thy father, and of his most

heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will

serve thee.

5And he said to them: Go till the third day,

and come to me again. And when the people was

gone,

6King Roboam took counsel with the old

men, that stood before Solomon, his father,

while he yet lived, and he said: What counsel

do you give me, that I may answer this people?

7They said to him: If thou wilt yield tothis people to day, and condescend to them, and

grant their petition, and wilt speak gentle words

to them, they will be thy servants always.

8But he left the counsel of the old men,

which they had given him, and consulted with

the young men that had been brought up with

him, and stood before him.

9And he said to them: What counsel do you

give me, that I may answer this people, who have

said to me: Make the yoke, which thy father put

upon us, lighter?

10And the young men that had been brought

up with him, said: Thus shalt thou speak to

this people, who have spoken to thee, saying:

Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease

us. Thou shalt say to them: My little nger is

thicker than the back of my father.

11And now my father put a heavy yoke upon

you, but I will add to your yoke: my father beat

you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpi-

ons.

12So Jeroboam, and all the people, came

to Roboam the third day, as the king had ap-

pointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.

13And the king answered the people roughly,

leaving the counsel of the old men, which they

had given him,

14And he spoke to them according to the

counsel of the young men, saying: My father

made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your

yoke: My father beat you with whips, but I will

beat you with scorpions.

15And the king condescended not to the peo-

ple: for the Lord was turned away from him, to

make good his word, which he had spoken in the

hand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son

of Nabat.

16Then the people, seeing that the king

would not hearken to them, answered him, say-

ing: What portion have we in David? or what422 Third Book of Kings

inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy

dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own

house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.

17But as for all the children of Israel that

dwelt in the cities of Juda, Roboam reigned over

them.

18Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was

over the tribute: and all Israel stoned him, and

he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste

to get him up into his chariot, and he

ed to

Jerusalem:

19And Israel revolted from the house of

David, unto this day.

20And it came to pass when all Israel heard

that Jeroboam was come again, that they gath-

ered an assembly, and sent and called him, and

made him king over all Israel, and there was none

that followed the house of David but the tribe of

Juda only.

21And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and gath-

ered together all the house of Juda, and the tribe

of Benjamin, a hundred fourscore thousand cho-

sen men for war, to ght against the house of

Israel, and to bring the kingdom again under

Roboam, the son of Solomon.

22But the word of the Lord came to Semeias,

the man of God, saying:

23Speak to Roboam, the son of Solomon, the

king of Juda, and to all the house of Juda, and

Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying:

24Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up,

nor ght against your brethren, the children of

Israel: let every man return to his house, for this

thing is from me. They hearkened to the word

of the Lord, and returned from their journey, as

the Lord had commanded them.

25And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount

Ephraim, and dwelt there, and going out from

thence, he built Phanuel.

26And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shallthe kingdom return to the house of David,

27If this people go up to oer sacrices in the

house of the Lord at Jerusalem: and the heart of

this people will turn to their lord Roboam, the

king of Juda, and they will kill me, and return

to him.

28And nding out a device, he made two

golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no

more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel,

who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

29And he set the one in Bethel, and the other

in Dan:

30And this thing became an occasion of sin:

for the people went to adore the calf as far as

Dan.

31And he made temples in the high places,

and priests of the lowest of the people, who were

not of the sons of Levi.

32And he appointed a feast in the eighth

month, on the fteenth day of the month, af-

ter the manner of the feast that was celebrated

in Juda. And going up to the altar, he did in

like manner in Bethel, to sacrice to the calves,

which he had made: and he placed in Bethel

priests of the high places, which he had made.

33And he went up to the altar, which he had

built in Bethel, on the fteenth day of the eighth

month, which he had devised of his own heart:

and he ordained a feast to the children of Israel,

and went up on the altar to burn incense.

Chapter 13
And behold there came a man of God out of

Juda, by the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when

Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and

burning incense.

2And he cried out against the altar in the

word of the Lord, and said: O altar, altar, thusThird Book of Kings 423

saith the Lord: Behold a child shall be born

to the house of David, Josias by name, and he

shall immolate upon thee the priests of the high

places, who now burn incense upon thee, and he

shall burn men's bones upon thee.

3And he gave a sign the same day, saying:

This shall be the sign, that the Lord hath spoken:

Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that

are upon it, shall be poured out.

4And when the king had heard the word of

the man of God, which he had cried out against

the altar in Bethel, he stretched forth his hand

from the altar, saying: Lay hold on him. And

his hand which he stretched forth against him,

withered: and he was not able to draw it back

again to him.

5The altar also was rent, and the ashes were

poured out from the altar, according to the sign

which the man of God had given before in the

word of the Lord.

6And the king said to the man of God: En-

treat the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for

me, that my hand may be restored to me. And

the man of God besought the face of the Lord,

and the king's hand was restored to him, and it

became as it was before.

7And the king said to the man of God: Come

home with me to dine, and I will make thee

presents.

8And the man of God answered the king: If

thou wouldst give me half thy house, I will not

go with thee, nor eat bread, nor drink water in

this place:

9For so it was enjoined me by the word of

the Lord commanding me: Thou shalt not eat

bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same

way that thou camest.

10So he departed by another way, and re-

turned not by the way that he came into Bethel.

11Now a certain old prophet dwelt in Bethel,and his sons came to him, and told him all the

works that the man of God had done that day

in Bethel: and they told their father the words

which he had spoken to the king.

12And their father said to them: What way

went he? His sons shewed him the way by which

the man of God went, who came out of Juda.

13And he said to his sons: Saddle me the ass.

And when they had saddled it, he got up,

14And went after the man of God, and found

him sitting under a turpentine tree: and he said

to him: Art thou the man of God who camest

from Juda? He answered: I am.

15And he said to him: Come home with me

to eat bread.

16But he said: I must not return, nor go with

thee, neither will I eat bread, or drink water in

this place:

17Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word

of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread,

and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return

by the way thou wentest.

18He said to him: I also am a prophet like

unto thee: and an angel spoke to me, in the word

of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee

into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink

water. He deceived him,

19And brought him back with him: so he ate

bread, and drank water in his house.

20And as they sat at table, the word of the

Lord came to the prophet that brought him back:

21And he cried out to the man of God who

came out of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord:

Because thou hast not been obedient to the Lord,

and hast not kept the commandment which the

Lord thy God commanded thee,

22And hast returned, and eaten bread, and

drunk water in the place wherein he commanded

thee that thou shouldst not eat bread, nor drink

water, thy dead body shall not be brought into424 Third Book of Kings

the sepulchre of thy fathers.

23And when he had eaten and drunk, he

saddled his ass for the prophet, whom he had

brought back.

24And when he was gone, a lion found him in

the way, and killed him, and his body was cast

in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the

lion stood by the dead body.

25And behold, men passing by, saw the dead

body cast in the way, and the lion standing by

the body. And they came and told it in the city,

wherein that old prophet dwelt.

26And when that prophet, who had brought

him back out of the way, heard of it, he said: It

is the man of God, that was disobedient to the

mouth of the Lord, and the Lord hath delivered

him to the lion, and he hath torn him, and killed

him, according to the word of the Lord, which

he spoke to him.
27And he said to his sons: Saddle me an ass.

And when they had saddled it,

28And he was gone, he found the dead body

cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing

by the carcass: the lion had not eaten of the dead

body, nor hurt the ass.

29And the prophet took up the body of the

man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and going

back brought it into the city of the old prophet,

to mourn for him.

30And he laid his dead body in his own sepul-

chre: and they mourned over him, saying: Alas!

alas, my brother.

31And when they had mourned over him, he

said to his sons: When I am dead, bury me in

the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried:

lay my bones beside his bones.

32For assuredly the word shall come to pass

which he hath foretold in the word of the Lord,

against the altar that is in Bethel: and against

all the temples of the high places, that are in thecities of Samaria.

33After these words, Jeroboam came not

back from his wicked way: but on the contrary,

he made of the meanest of the people priests

of the high places: whosoever would, he lled

his hand, and he was made a priest of the high

places.

34And for this cause did the house of Jer-

oboam sin, and was cut o, and destroyed from

the face of the earth.

Chapter 14

At that time Abia, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.

2And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and

change thy dress, that thou be not known to

be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where

Ahias, the prophet is, who told me that I should

reign over this people.

3Take also with thee ten loaves, and crack-

nels, and a pot of honey, and go to him: for he

will tell thee what will become of this child.

4Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and ris-

ing up, went to Silo, and came to the house of

Ahias; but he could not see, for his eyes were

dim by reason of his age.

5And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife

of Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concern-

ing her son, that is sick: thus and thus shalt thou

speak to her. So when she was coming in, and

made as if she were another woman,

6Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming

in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of

Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be an-

other? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

7Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord,

the God of Israel: For as much as I exalted thee

from among the people, and made thee prince

over my people Israel;Third Book of Kings 425

8And rent the kingdom away from thc house

of David, and gave it to thee, and thou hast not

been as my servant, David, who kept my com-

mandments, and followed me with all his heart,

doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:

9But hast done evil above all that were be-

fore thee, and hast made thee strange gods, and

molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast

cast me behind thy back:

10Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon

the house of Jeroboam, and will cut o from

Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and

him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I

will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jer-

oboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

11Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the

city, the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die

in the eld, the birds of the air shall devour: for

the Lord hath spoken it.

12Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house:

and when thy feet shall be entering into the city,

the child shall die,

13And all Israel shall mourn for him, and

shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be

laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard there

is found a good word from the Lord, the God of

Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

14And the Lord hath appointed himself a

king over Israel, who shall cut o the house of

Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:

15And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a

reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root

up Israel out of this good land, which he gave

to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond

the river: because they have made to themselves

groves, to provoke the Lord.

16And the Lord shall give up Israel for the

sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made

Israel to sin.

17And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and de-parted, and came to Thersa: and when she was

coming in to the threshold of the house, the child

died,

18And they buried him. And all Israel

mourned for him, according to the word of the

Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant

Ahias, the prophet.

19And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how

he fought, and how he reigned, behold they are

written in the book of the words of the days of

the kings of Israel.

20And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were

two and twenty years: and he slept with his fa-

thers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his stead.

21And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned

in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old

when he began to reign: and he reigned seven-

teen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord

chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his

name there. And his mother's name was Naama,

an Ammonitess.

22And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord,

and provoked him above all that their fathers

had done, in their sins which they committed.

23For they also built them altars, and stat-

ues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under

every green tree:

24There were also the eeminate in the land,

and they did according to all the abominations of

the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before

the face of the children of Israel.

25And in the fth year of the reign of

Roboam, Sesac, king of Egypt, came up against

Jerusalem.
26And he took away the treasures of the

house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and

carried all o: as also the shields of gold which

Solomon had made:

27And Roboam made shields of brass instead

of them, and delivered them into the hand of the426 Third Book of Kings

captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that

kept watch before the gate of the king's house.

28And when the king went into the house of

the Lord, they whose oce it was to go before

him, carried them: and afterwards they brought

them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

29Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all

that he did, behold they are written in the book

of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.

30And there was war between Roboam and

Jeroboam always.

31And Roboam slept with his fathers, and

was buried with them, in the city of David: and

his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess:

and Abiam, his son, reigned in his stead.

Chapter 15

Now in the eighteenth year of the reign of Jer-

oboam, the son of Nabat, Abiam reigned over

Juda.

2He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the

name of his mother was Maacha, the daughter

of Abessalom.

3And he walked in all the sins of his father,

which he had done before him: and his heart

was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was

the heart of David, his father.

4But for David's sake the Lord his God gave

him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after

him, and to establish Jerusalem:

5Because David had done that which was

right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned

aside from any thing that he commanded him, all

the days of his life, except the matter of Urias,

the Hethite.

6But there was war between Roboam and Jer-

oboam all the time of his life.

7And the rest of the words of Abiam, and allthat he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And

there was war between Abiam and Jeroboam.

8And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they

buried him in the city of David: and Asa, his

son, reigned in his stead.

9So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, king

of Israel, reigned Asa, king of Juda,

10And he reigned one and forty years in

Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the

daughter of Abessalom.

11And Asa did that which was right in the

sight of the Lord, as did David, his father:

12And he took away the eeminate out of the

land, and removed all the lth of the idols, which

his fathers had made.

13Moreover, he also removed his mother,

Maacha, from being the princess in the sacri-

ces of Priapus, and in the grove which she had

consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den,

and broke in pieces the lthy idol, and burnt it

by the torrent Cedron:

14But the high places he did not take away.

Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect with

the Lord all his days:

15And he brought in the things which his

father had dedicated, and he had vowed, into the

house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels.

16And there was war between Asa, and

Baasa, king of Israel, all their days.

17And Baasa, king of Israel, went up against

Juda, and built Rama, that no man might go out

or come in of the side of Asa, king of Juda.

18Then Asa took all the silver and gold that

remained in the treasures of the house of the

Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house,

and delivered it into the hands of his servants:

and sent them to Benadad, son of Tabremon,

the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in

Damascus, saying:Third Book of Kings 427

19There is a league between me and thee,

and between my father and thy father: therefore

I have sent thee presents of silver and gold: and

I desire thee to come, and break thy league with

Baasa, king of Israel, that he may depart from

me.

20Benadad, hearkening to king Asa, sent the

captains of his army against the cities of Israel,

and they smote Ahion, and Dan, and Abeldo-

mum Maacha, and all Cenneroth; that is all the

land of Nephthali.

21And when Baasa had heard this, he left o

building Rama, and returned into Thersa.

22But king Asa sent word into all Juda, say-

ing: Let no man be excused: and they took away

the stones from Rama, and the timber thereof,

wherewith Baasa had been building, and with

them king Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and

Maspha.

23But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all

his strength, and all that he did, and the cities

that he built, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But

in the time of his old age he was diseased in his

feet.

24And he slept with his fathers, and was

buried with them in the city of David, his father.

And Josaphat, his son, reigned in his place.

25But Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned

over Israel the second year of Asa, king of Juda:

and he reigned over Israel two years.

26And he did evil in the sight of the Lord,

and walked in the ways of his father, and in his

sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

27And Baasa, the son of Ahias, of the house

of Issachar, conspired against him, and slew him

in Gebbethon, which is a city of the Philistines:

for Nadab and all Israel besieged Gebbethon.

28So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa,

king of Juda, and reigned in his place.29And when he was king, he cut o all the

house of Jeroboam: he left not so much as one

soul of his seed, till he had utterly destroyed him,

according to the word of the Lord, which he had

spoken in the hand of Ahias, the Silonite:

30Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he

had sinned, and wherewith he had made Israel

to sin, and for the oence wherewith he provoked

the Lord, the God of Israel.

31But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all

that he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

32And there was war between Asa and Baasa,

the king of Israel, all their days.

33In the third year of Asa, king of Juda,

Baasa, the son of Ahias, reigned over all Israel,

in Thersa, four and twenty years.

34And he did evil before the Lord, and walked

in the ways of Jeroboam, and in his sins, where-

with he made Israel to sin.

Chapter 16

Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son

of Hanani, against Baasa, saying:

2For as much as I have exalted thee out of

the dust and made thee prince over my people

Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jer-

oboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin,

to provoke me to anger with their sins:

3Behold I will cut down the posterity of

Baasa, and the posterity of his house, and I will

make thy house as the house of Jeroboam, the

son of Nabat.

4Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the

dogs shall eat: and him that dieth of his in the

country, the fowls of the air shall devour.

5But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all

that he did, and his battles, are they not written428 Third Book of Kings

in the book of the words of the days of the kings

of Israel?

6So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was

buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in

his stead.

7And when the word of the Lord came

in the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani, the

prophet, against Baasa, and against his house,

and against all the evil that he had done before

the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of

his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam:

for this cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu,

the son of Hanani, the prophet.

8In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of

Juda, Ela, the son of Baasa, reigned over Israel,

in Thersa, two years.

9And his servant Zambri, who was captain

of half the horsemen, rebelled against him: now

Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the

house of Arsa, the governor of Thersa.

10And Zambri rushing in, struck him, and

slew him, in the seven and twentieth year of Asa,

king of Juda and he reigned in his stead.

11And when he was king, and sat upon his

throne, he slew all the house of Baasa, and he

left not one thereof to piss against a wall and all

his kinsfolks and friends.

12And Zambri destroyed all the house of

Baasa, according to the word of the Lord, that

he had spoken to Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the

prophet,

13For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of

Ela, his son, who sinned, and made Israel to sin,

provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, with their

vanities.

14But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that

he did, are they not written in the book of the

words of the days of the kings of Israel?

15In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king

of Juda, Zambri reigned seven days in Thersa:now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a city

of the Philistines.

16And when they heard that Zambri had re-

belled, and slain the king, all Israel made Amri

their king, who was general over Israel in the

camp that day.

17And Amri went up, and all Israel with him,

from Gebbethon, and they besieged Thersa.

18And Zambri, seeing that the city was about

to be taken, went into the palace, and burnt him-

self with the king's house: and he died

19In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil

before the Lord, and walking in the way of Jer-

oboam, and in his sin, wherewith he made Israel

to sin.

20But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of

his conspiracy and tyranny, are they not written

in the book of the words of the days of the kings

of Israel?

21Then were the people of Israel divided

into two parts: one half of the people followed

Thebni, the son of Gineth, to make him king:

and one half followed Amri.

22But the people that were with Amri, pre-

vailed over the people that followed Thebni, the

son of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri

reigned.

23In the one and thirtieth year of Asa, king

of Juda, Amri reigned over Israel twelve years:

in Thersa he reigned six years.

24And he bought the hill of Samaria of Se-

mer, for two talents of silver: and he built upon

it, and he called the city which he built Samaria,

after the name of Semer, the owner of the hill.

25And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord,

and acted wickedly above all that were before

him.
26And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam,

the son of Nabat, and in his sins, wherewith he

made Israel to sin: to provoke the Lord, the GodThird Book of Kings 429

of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

27Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the

battles he fought, are they not written in the

book of the words of the days of the kings of

Israel?

28And Amri slept with his fathers, and was

buried in Samaria, and Achab, his son, reigned

in his stead.

29Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over

Israel in the eight and thirtieth year of Asa, king

of Juda. And Achab, the son of Amri, reigned

over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years.

30And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in

the sight of the Lord above all that were before

him.

31Nor was it enough for him to walk in the

sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also

took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king

of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal,

and adored him.

32And he set up an altar for Baal, in the

temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria;

33And he planted a grove: and Achab did

more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, than

all the kings of Israel that were before him.

34In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho:

in Abiram, his rstborn, he laid its foundations:

and in his youngest son, Segub, he set up the

gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord,

which he spoke in the hand of Josue, the son of

Nun.

Chapter 17

And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of

Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the

God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall

not be dew nor rain these years, but according

to the words of my mouth.2And the word of the Lord came to him, say-

ing:

3Get thee hence, and go towards the east,

and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which

is over against the Jordan;

4And there thou shalt drink of the torrent:

and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee

there.

5So he went, and did according to the word

of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent

Carith, which is over against the Jordan.

6And the ravens brought him bread and

esh in the morning, and bread and

esh in the

evening; and he drank of the torrent.

7But after some time the torrent was dried

up: for it had not rained upon the earth.

8Then the word of the Lord came to him,

saying:

9Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians,

and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow

woman there to feed thee.

10He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when

he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the

widow woman gathering sticks, and he called

her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a

vessel, that I may drink.

11And when she was going to fetch it, he

called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech

thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.

12And she answered: As the Lord thy God

liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of

meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold

I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and

dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it

and die.

13And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go,

and do as thou hast said but rst make for me

of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring

it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son.

14For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel:430 Third Book of Kings

The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise

of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the

Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.

15She went, and did according to the word of

Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and

from that day

16The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise

of oil was not diminished according to the word

of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.

17And it came to pass after this, that the son

of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick,

and the sickness was very grievous, so that there

was no breath left in him.

18And she said to Elias: What have I to do

with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to

me, that my iniquities should be remembered,

and that thou shouldst kill my son?

11And Elias said to her: Give me thy son.

And he took him out of her bosom, and carried

him into the upper chamber where he abode, and

laid him upon his own bed.

20And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord,

my God, hast thou aicted also the widow, with

whom I am after a sort maintained, so as to kill

her son?

21And he stretched, and measured himself

upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord,

and said: O Lord, my God, let the soul of this

child, I beseech thee, return into his body.

22And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and

the soul of the child returned into him, and he

revived.

23And Elias took the child, and brought him

down from the upper chamber to the house be-

low, and delivered him to his mother, and said

to her: Behold thy son liveth.

24And the woman said to Elias: Now by this

I know that thou art a man of God, and the word

of the Lord in thy mouth is true.Chapter 18

After many days, the word of the Lord came to

Elias, in the third year, saying: Go, and shew

thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon the

face of the earth.

2And Elias went to shew himself to Achab,

and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.

3And Achab called Abdias the governor of his

house: now Abdias feared the Lord very much.

4For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the

Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them

by fty and fty in caves, and fed them with

bread and water.

5And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land

unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys,

to see if we can nd grass, and save the horses

and mules, that the beasts may not utterly per-

ish.

6And they divided the countries between

them, that they might go round about them:

Achab went one way, and Abdias another way

by himself.

7And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met

him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and

said: Art thou my lord Elias?

8And he answered: I am. Go, and tell thy

master: Elias is here.

9And he said: What have I sinned, that thou

wouldst deliver me, thy servant, into the hand of

Achab, that he should kill me?

10As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no

nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not

sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is

not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and

nation, because thou wast not found.

11And now thou sayest to me: Go and tell

thy master: Elias is here.

12And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit

of the Lord will carry thee into a place that IThird Book of Kings 431

know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and

he, not nding thee, will kill me: but thy servant

feareth the Lord from his infancy.

13Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I

did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord;

how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the

Lord, by fty and fty in caves, and fed them

with bread and water?

14And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy mas-

ter: Elias is here: that he may kill me.

15And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth,

before whose face I stand, this day I will shew

myself unto him.

16Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and

told him: and Achab came to meet Elias.

17And when he had seen him, he said: Art

thou he that troublest Israel?

18And he said: I have not troubled Israel,

but thou and thy father's house, who have for-

saken the commandments of the Lord, and have

followed Baalim.

19Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me

all Israel, unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets

of Baal four hundred and fty, and the prophets

of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's

table.

20Achab sent to all the children of Israel,

and gathered together the prophets unto mount

Carmel.

21And Elias coming to all the people, said:

How long do you halt between two sides? If the

Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow

him. And the people did not answer him a word.

22And Elias said again to the people: I only

remain a prophet of the Lord: but the prophets

of Baal are four hundred and fty men.

23Let two bullocks be given us, and let them

choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in

pieces, and lay it upon wood, but put no re

under: and I will dress the other bullock, andlay it on wood, and put no re under it.

24Call ye on the names of your gods, and

I will call on the name of my Lord: and the

God that shall answer by re, let him be God.

And all the people answering, said: A very good

proposal.

25Then Elias said to the prophets of Baal:

Choose you one bullock and dress it rst, be-

cause you are many: and call on the names of

your gods; but put no re under.

26And they took the bullock, which he gave

them, and dressed it: and they called on the

name of Baal from morning even until noon, say-

ing: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice,

nor any that answered: and they leaped over the

altar that they had made.

27And when it was now noon, Elias jested at

them, saying: Cry with a louder voice: for he

is a god; and perhaps he is talking, or is in an

inn, or on a journey; or perhaps he is asleep, and

must be awaked.

28So they cried with a loud voice, and cut

themselves after their manner with knives and

lancets, till they were all covered with blood.

29And after midday was past, and while they

were prophesying, the time was come of oering

sacrice, and there was no voice heard, nor did

any one answer, nor regard them as they prayed.

30Elias said to all the people: Come ye unto

me. And the people coming near unto him, he

repaired the altar of the Lord, that was broken

down:

31And he took twelve stones, according to

the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to

whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel

shall be thy name.

32And he built with the stones an altar to

the name of the Lord: and he made a trench

for water, of the breadth of two furrows, round

about the altar.432 Third Book of Kings

33And he laid the wood in order, and cut the

bullock in pieces, and laid it upon the wood.

34And he said: Fill four buckets with water,

and pour it upon the burnt oering, and upon

the wood. And again he said: Do the same the

second time. And when they had done it the

second time, he said: Do the same also the third

time. And they did so the third time.

35And the water run round about the altar,

and the trench was lled with water.

36And when it was now time to oer the holo-

caust, Elias, the prophet, came near and said: O

Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel,

shew this day that thou art the God of Israel,

and I thy servant, and that according to thy com-

mandment I have done all these things.

37Dear me, O Lord, hear me: that this people

may learn that thou art the Lord God, and that

thou hast turned their heart again.

38Then the re of the Lord fell, and con-

sumed the holocaust, and the wood, and the

stones, and the dust, and licked up the water

that was in the trench.

39And when all the people saw this, they fell

on their faces, and they said: The Lord, he is

God; the Lord, he is God.

40And Elias said to them: Take the prophets

of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And

when they had taken them, Elias brought them

down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there.

41And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and

drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

42Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias

went up to the top of Carmel, and casting himself

down upon the earth, put his face between his

knees,

43And he said to his servant: Go up, and look

towards the sea. And he went up, and looked,

and said: There is nothing. And again he said

to him: Return seven times.44And at the seventh time: Behold a little

cloud arose out of the sea like a man's foot. And

he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy

chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee.

45And while he turned himself this way and

that way, behold the heavens grew dark, with

clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain. And

Achab getting up, went away to Jezrahel:

46And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias,

and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achab,

till he came to Jezrahel.

Chapter 19

And Achab told Jezabel all that Elias had done,

and how he had slain all the prophets with the

sword.

2And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, say-

ing: Such and such things may the gods do to

me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow

I make not thy life as the life of one of them.

3Then EIias was afraid, and rising up, he

went whithersoever he had a mind: and he came

to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,

4And he went forward, one day's journey into

the desert. And when he was there, and sat un-

der a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that

he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord;

take away my soul: for I am no better than my

fathers.

5And he cast himself down, and slept in the

shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel

of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise

and eat.

6He looked, and behold there was at his head

a hearth cake, and a vessel of water: and he ate

and drank, and he fell asleep again.

7And the angel of the Lord came again the

second time, and touched him, and said to him:Third Book of Kings 433

Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.

8And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked

in the strength of that food forty days and forty

nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

9And when he was come thither, he abode in

a cave. and behold the word of the Lord came

unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou

here, Elias?

10And he answered: With zeal have I been

zealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the chil-

dren of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: they

have thrown down thy altars, they have slain thy

prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and

they seek my life to take it away.

11And he said to him: Go forth, and stand

upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the

Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind be-

fore the Lord, overthrowing the mountains, and

breaking the rocks in pieces: but the Lord is not

in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake:

but the Lord is not in the earthquake.

12And after the earthquake, a re: but the

Lord is not in the re. And after the re, a

whistling of a gentle air.

13And when Elias heard it, he covered his

face with his mantle, and coming forth, stood in

the entering in of the cave, and behold a voice

unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias?

And he answered:

14With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord

God of hosts: because the children of Israel have

forsaken thy covenant: they have destroyed thy

altars, they have slain thy prophets with the

sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my

life to take it away.

15And the Lord said to him: Go, and re-

turn on thy way, through the desert, to Damas-

cus: and when thou art come thither, thou shalt

anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;

16And thou shalt anoint Jehu, the son ofNamsi, to be king over Israel: and Eliseus, the

son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint

to be prophet in thy room.

17And it shall come to pass, that whosoever

shall escape the sword of Hazael, shall be slain

by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword

of Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.

18And I will leave me seven thousand men in

Israel, whose knees have not been bowed before

Baal, and every mouth that hath not worshipped

him, kissing the hands.

19And Elias departing from thence, found

Eliseus, the son of Saphat, ploughing with twelve

yoke of oxen: and he was one of them that were

ploughing with, twelve yoke of oxen: and when

Elias came up to him, he cast his mantle upon

him.

20And he forthwith left the oxen, and run

after Elias, and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss

my father and my mother, and then I will follow

thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back:

for that which was my part, I have done to thee.

21And returning back from him, he took a

yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled the

esh with the plough of the oxen, and gave to

the people, and they ate: and rising up, he went

away, and followed Elias, and ministered to him.

Chapter 20

And Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together

all his host, and there were two and thirty kings

with him, and horses, and chariots: and going

up, he fought against Samaria, and besieged it.

2And sending messengers to Achab, king of

Israel, into the city,

3He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver

and thy gold is mine: and thy wives and thy

goodliest children are mine.434 Third Book of Kings

4And the king of Israel answered: According

to thy word, my lord, O king, I am thine, and

all that I have.

5And the messengers came again, and said:

Thus saith Benadad, who sent us unto thee: Thy

silver and thy gold, and thy wives and thy chil-

dren, thou shalt deliver up to me.

6To morrow, therefore, at this same hour,

I will send my servants to thee, and they shall

search thy house, and the houses of thy servants:

and all that pleaseth them, they shall put in their

hands, and take away.

7And the king of Israel called all the ancients

of the land, and said: Mark, and see that he

layeth snares for us. For he sent to me for my

wives, and for my children, and for my silver and

gold: and I said not nay.

8And all the ancients, and all the people said

to him: Hearken not to him, nor consent to him.

9Wherefore he answered the messengers of

Benadad: Tell my lord, the king: All that thou

didst send for to me, thy servant at rst, I will

do: but this thing I cannot do.

10And the messengers returning brought him

word. And he sent again, and said: Such and

such things may the gods do to me, and more

may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suce

for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

11And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell

him: Let not the girded boast himself as the

ungirded.

12And it came to pass, when Benadad heard

this word, that he and the kings were drinking

in pavilions, and he said to his servants: Beset

the city. And they beset it.

13And behold a prophet coming to Achab,

king of Israel, said to him: Thus saith the Lord:

Hast thou seen all this exceeding great multi-

tude? behold I will deliver them into thy hand

this day: that thou mayst know that I am theLord.

14And Achab said: By whom? And he said

to him: Thus saith the Lord: By the servants of

the princes of the provinces. And he said: Who

shall begin to ght? And he said: Thou.

15So he mustered the servants of the princes

of the provinces, and he found the number of two

hundred and thirty-two: and he mustered after

them the people, all the children of Israel, seven

thousand:

16And they went out at noon. But Benadad

was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and

the two and thirty kings with him, who were

come to help him.

17And the servants of the princes of the

provinces went out rst. And Benadad sent.

And they told him, saying: There are men come

out of Samaria.

18And he said: Whether they come for peace,

take them alive: or whether they come to ght,

take them alive.

19So the servants of the princes of the

provinces went out, and the rest of the army fol-

lowed:

20And every one slew the man that came

against him: and the Syrians

ed, and Israel pur-

sued after them. And Benadad, king of Syria,

ed away on horseback with his horsemen.

21But the king of Israel going out overthrew

the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians

with a great slaughter.

22(And a prophet coming to the king of Is-

rael, said to him: Go, and strengthen thyself,

and know, and see what thou dost: for the next

year the king of Syria will come up against thee.)

23But the servants of the king of Syria said to

him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore

they have overcome us: but it is better that we

should ght against them in the plains, and we

shall overcome them.Third Book of Kings 435

24Do thou, therefore, this thing: Remove all

the kings from thy army, and put captains in

their stead:

25And make up the number of soldiers that

have been slain of thine, and horses, according to

the former horses, and chariots, according to the

chariots which thou hadst before: and we will

ght against them in the plains, and thou shalt

see that we shall overcome them. He believed

their counsel, and did so.

26Wherefore, at the return of the year, Be-

nadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to

Aphec, to ght against Israel.

27And the children of Israel were mustered,

and taking victuals, went out on the other side,

and encamped over against them, like two little

ocks of goats: but the Syrians lled the land.

28(And a man of God coming, said to the

king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the

Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills,

but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all

this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall

know that I am the Lord.)

29And both sides set their armies in array one

against the other seven days, and on the seventh

day the battle was fought: and the children of

Israel slew, of the Syrians, a hundred thousand

footmen in one day.

30And they that remained

ed to Aphec, into

the city: and the wall fell upon seven and twenty

thousand men, that were left. And Benadad

ee-

ing, went into the city, into a chamber that was

within a chamber.

31And his servants said to him: Behold, we

have heard that the kings of the house of Israel

are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on our loins,

and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king

of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives.

32So they girded sackcloths on their loins,

and put ropes on their heads, and came to theking of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant,

Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my

life. And he said: If he be yet alive, he is my

brother.

33The men took this for good luck: and in

haste caught the word out of his mouth, and said:

Thy brother Benadad. And he said to them: Go,

and bring him to me. Then Benadad came out

to him, and he lifted him up into his chariot.

34And he said to him: The cities which my

father took from thy father, I will restore: and do

thou make thee streets in Damascus, as my fa-

ther made in Samaria and having made a league,

I will depart from thee. So he made a league with

him, and let him go.

35Then a certain man of the sons of the

prophets, said to his companion, in the word of

the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.

36Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst

not hearken to the word of the Lord, behold thou

shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay thee.

And when he was gone a little from him, a lion

found him, and slew him.

37Then he found another man, and said to

him: Strike me. And he struck him and wounded

him.

38So the prophet went, and met the king in

the way, and disguised himself by sprinkling dust

on his face and his eyes.

39And as the king passed by, he cried to the

king, and said: Thy servant went out to ght

hand to hand: and when a certain man was run

away, one brought him to me, and said: Keep

this man: and if he shall slip away, thy life shall

be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

40And whilst I, in the hurry, turned this way

and that, on a sudden he was not to be seen.

And the king of Israel said to him: This is thy

judgment, which thyself hast decreed.

41But he forthwith wiped o the dust from436 Third Book of Kings

his face, and the king of Israel knew him, that

he was one of the prophets.

42And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord.

Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man

worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life, and

thy people for his people.

43And the king of Israel returned to his

house, slighting to hear, and raging came into

Samaria.

Chapter 21

And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite,

who was in Jezrahel, had at that time a vineyard,

near the palace of Achab, king of Samaria.

2And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give

me thy vineyard, that I may make me a gar-

den of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining

to my house; and I will give thee for it a better

vineyard: or if thou think it more convenient for

thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

3Naboth answered him: The Lord be merciful

to me, and not let me give thee the inheritance

of my fathers.

4And Achab came into his house angry and

fretting, because of the word that Naboth, the

Jezrahelite, had spoken to him, saying: I will

not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And

casting himself upon his bed, he turned away his

face to the wall, and would eat no bread.

5And Jezabel, his wife, went in to him, and

said to him: What is the matter that thy soul is

so grieved? and why eatest thou no bread?

6And he answered her: I spoke to Naboth,

the Jezrahelite, and said to him: Give me thy

vineyard, and take money for it: or if it please

thee, I will give thee a better vineyard for it.

And he said: I will not give thee my vineyard.

7Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thouart of great authority indeed, and governest well

the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread, and

be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of

Naboth, the Jezrahelite.

8So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and

sealed them with his ring, and sent them to the

ancients, and the chief men that were in his city,

and that dwelt with Naboth.

9And this was the tenor of the letters: Pro-

claim a fast, and make Naboth sit among the

chief of the people;

10And suborn two men, sons of Belial,

against him. and let them bear false witness;

that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and

then carry him out, and stone him, and so let

him die.

11And the men of his city, the ancients and

nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as

Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was

written in the letters which she had sent to them;

12They proclaimed a fast, and made Naboth

sit among the chief of the people.

13And bringing two men, sons of the devil,

they made them sit against him: and they, like

men of the devil, bore witness against him before

the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed

God and the king. Wherefore they brought him

forth without the city, and stoned him to death.

14And they sent to Jezabel, saying: Naboth

is stoned, and is dead.

15And it came to pass, when Jezabel heard

that Naboth was stoned, and dead, that she said

to Achab: Arise, and take possession of the vine-

yard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, who would not

agree with thee, and give it thee for money: for

Naboth is not alive, but dead.

16And when Achab heard this, to wit, that

Naboth was dead, he arose, and went down into

the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite, to take

possession of it.Third Book of Kings 437

17And the word of the Lord came to Elias,

the Thesbite, saying:

18Arise, and go down to meet Achab, king

of Israel, who is in Samaria: behold he is going

down to the vineyard of Naboth, to take posses-

sion of it:

19And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus

saith the Lord: Thou hast slain: moreover also

thou hast taken possession. And after these

words thou shalt add: Thus saith the Lord: In

this place, wherein the dogs have licked the blood

of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

20And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found

me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee be-

cause thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the

Lord.

21Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I

will cut down thy posterity, and I will kill of

Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and

him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.

22And I will make thy house like the house of

Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of

Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast done

to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to

sin.

23And of Jezabel also, the Lord spoke, say-

ing: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the eld of

Jezrahel.

24If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat

him: but if he die in the eld, the birds of the

air shall eat him.

25Now, there was not such another as Achab,

who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord:

for his wife, Jezabel, set him on,

26And he became abominable, insomuch that

he followed the idols which the Amorrhites had

made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face

of the children of Israel.

27And when Achab had heard these words,

he rent his garments, and put haircloth uponhis

esh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth, and

walked with his head cast down.

28And the word of the Lord came to Elias,

the Thesbite, saying:

29Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before

me? therefore, because he hath humbled himself,

for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his days,

but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon

his house.

Chapter 22

And there passed three years without war be-

tween Syria and Israel.

2And in the third year, Josaphat, king of

Juda, came down to the king of Israel.

3(And the king of Israel said to his servants:

Know ye not that Ramoth Galaad is ours, and

we neglect to take it out of the hand of the king

of Syria?)

4And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come

with me to battle to Ramoth Galaad?

5And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: As

I am, so art thou: my people and thy people are

one: and my horsemen are thy horsemen. And

Josaphat said to the king of Israel: Inquire, I

beseech thee, this day the word of the Lord.

6Then the king of Israel assembled the

prophets, about four hundred men, and he said

to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to ght,

or shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and

the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.

7And Josaphat said: Is there not here some

prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire by

him?
8And the king of Israel said to Josaphat.

There is one man left, by whom we may inquire

of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I

hate him, for he doth not prophecy good to me,438 Third Book of Kings

but evil. And Josaphat said: Speak not so, O

king.

9Then the king of Israel called an eunuch,

and said to him: Make haste, and bring hither

Micheas, the son of Jemla.

10And the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king

of Juda, sat each on his throne, clothed with

royal robes, in a court, by the entrance of the

gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied

before them.

11And Sedecias, thc son of Chanaana, made

himself horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the

Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou

destroy it.

12And all the prophets prophesied in like

manner, saying: Go up to Ramoth Galaad, and

prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into the king's

hands.

13And the messenger that went to call

Micheas, spoke to him, saying: Behold the words

of the prophets with one mouth declare good

things to the king: let thy word, therefore, be

like to theirs, and speak that which is good.

14But Micheas said to him: As the Lord

liveth, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that

will I speak.

15So he came to the king, and the king said

to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad

to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him:

Go up, and prosper, and the Lord shall deliver

it into the king's hands.

16But the king said to him: I adjure thee

again and again, that thou tell me nothing but

that which is true, in the name of the Lord.

17And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon

the hills, like sheep that have no shepherd; and

the Lord said: These have no master: let every

man of them return to his house in peace.

18(Then the king of Israel said to Josaphat:

Did I not tell thee, that he prophesieth no goodto me, but always evil?)

19And he added and said: Hear thou, there-

fore, the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting

on his throne, and all the army of heaven stand-

ing by him on the right hand and on the left:

20And the Lord said: Who shall deceive

Achab, king of Israel, that he may go up, and

fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of

this manner, and another otherwise.

21And there came forth a spirit, and stood

before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him.

And the Lord said to him: By what means?

22And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying

spirit, in the mouth of all his prophets. And the

Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt

prevail: go forth, and do so.

23Now, therefore, behold the Lord hath given

a lying spirit in the mouth of all thy prophets

that are here, and the Lord hath spoken evil

against thee.

24And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came,

and struck Micheas on the cheek, and said: Hath

then the spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken

to thee?

25And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the

day when thou shalt go into a chamber within a

chamber to hide thyself.

26And the king of Israel said: Take Micheas

and let him abide with Amon, the governor of

the city, and with Joas, the son of Amalech;

27And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put

this man in prison, and feed him with bread of

aiction, and water of distress till I return in

peace.

28And Micheas said: If thou return in peace,

the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said:

Hear, all ye people.

29So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of

Juda, went up to Ramoth-Galaad.

30And the king of Israel said to Josaphat:Third Book of Kings 439

Take thy armour, and go into the battle, and

put on thy own garments. But the king of Israel

changed his dress, and went into the battle.

31And the king of Syria had commanded the

two and thirty captains of the chariots, saying:

You shall not ght against any, small or great,

but against the king of Israel only.

32So when the captains of the chariots saw

Josaphat, they suspected that he was the king of

Israel, and making a violent assault, they fought

against him: and Josaphat cried out.

33And the captains of the chariots perceived

that he was not the king of Israel, and they

turned away from him.

34And a certain man bent his bow, shooting

at a venture, and chanced to strike the king of

Israel, between the lungs and the stomach. But

he said to the driver of his chariot: Turn thy

hand, and carry me out of the army, for I am

grievously wounded.

35And the battle was fought that day, and

the king of Israel stood in his chariot against

the Syrians, and he died in the evening: and the

blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the

chariot.

36And the herald proclaimed through all the

army, before the sun set, saying: Let every man

return to his own city, and to his own country.

37And the king died, and was carried into

Samaria: and they buried the king in Samaria.

38And they washed his chariot in the pool of

Samaria and the dogs licked up his blood, and

they washed the reins according to the word of

the Lord which he had spoken.

39But the rest of the acts of Achab, and all

that he did, and the house of ivory that he made,

and all the cities that he built, are they not writ-

ten in the book of the words of the days of the

kings of Israel?

40So Achab slept with his fathers; andOchozias, his son, reigned in his stead.

41But Josaphat, the son of Asa, began to

reign over Juda, in the fourth year of Acbab,

king of Israel.

42He was ve and thirty years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned ve and twenty

years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was

Azuba, the daughter of Salai.

43And he walked in all the way of Asa, his

father, and he declined not from it: and he did

that which was right in the sight of the Lord.

44Nevertheless, he took not away the high

places for as yet the people oered sacrice, and

burnt incense in the high places.

45And Josaphat had peace with the king of

Israel.

46But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and

his works which he did, and his battles, are they

not written in the book of the words of the days

of the kings of Juda?

47And the remnant also of the eeminate,

who remained in the days of Asa, his father, he

took out of the land.

48And there was then no king appointed in

Edom.

49But king Josaphat made navies on the sea,

to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not

go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.

50Then Ochozias, the son of Achab, said to

Josaphat: Let my servants go with thy servants

in the ships. And Josaphat would not.

51And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and

was buried with them in the city of David, his

father: and Joram, his son, reigned in his stead.

52And Ochozias, the son of Achab, began to

reign over Israel, in Samaria, in the seventeenth

year of Josaphat, king of Juda, and he reigned

over Israel two years.

53And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and

walked in the way of his father and his mother,440 Third Book of Kings

and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat,

who made Israel to sin.

54He served also Baal, and worshipped him,

and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, ac-

cording to all that his father had done.Fourth Book of Kings

Chapter 1

And Moab rebelled against Israel, after thc death

of Achab.

2And Ochozias fell through the lattices of

his upper chamber, which he had in Samaria,

and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying

to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Ac-

caron, whether I shall recover of this my illness.

3And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the

Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go up to meet the

messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to

them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to

consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron?

4Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the

bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not

come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Elias

went away.

5And the messengers turned back to

Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you

come back?

6But they answered him: A man met us, and

said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent

you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the

Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel,

that thou sendest to Beelzebub, the god of Ac-

caron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from

the bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou

shalt surely die.

7And he said to them: What manner of man

was he who met you, and spoke these words?8But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of

leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias,

the Thesbite.

9And he sent to him a captain of fty, and

the fty men that were under him. And he went

up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a

hill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath

commanded that thou come down.

10And Elias answering, said to the captain of

fty: If I be a man of God, let re come down

from heaven and consume thee, and thy fty.

And there came down re from heaven and con-

sumed him, and the fty that were with him.

11And he again sent to him another captain

of fty men, and his fty with him. And he said

to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king: Make

haste and come down.

12Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God,

let re come down from heaven, and consume

thee, and thy fty. And re came down from

heaven, and consumed him and his fty.

13Again he sent a third captain of fty men,

and the fty that were with him. And when he

was come, he fell upon his knees before Elias, and

besought him, and said: Man of God, despise

not my life, and the lives of thy servants that

are with me.

14Behold re came down from heaven, and

consumed the two rst captains of fty men, and

the fties that were with them: but now I be-

seech thee to spare my life.442 Fourth Book of Kings

15And the angel of the Lord spoke to Elias,

saying: Go down with him, fear not. He arose

therefore, and went down with him to the king,

16And said to him: Thus saith the Lord:

Because thou hast sent messengers to consult

Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, as though there

were not a God in Israel, of whom thou might-

est inquire the word; therefore, from the bed on

which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come

down, but thou shalt surely die.

17So he died, according to the word of the

Lord, which Elias spoke; and Joram, his brother,

reigned in his stead, in the second year of Joram,

the son of Josaphat, king of Juda, because he had

no son.

18But the rest of the acts of Ochozias, which

he did, are they not written in the book of the

words of the days of the kings of Israel?

Chapter 2

And it came to pass, when the Lord would take

up Elias, into heaven, by a whirlwind, that Elias

and Eliseus were going from Galgal.

2And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here,

because the Lord hath sent me as far as Bethel.

And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth,

and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And

when they were come down to Bethel,

3The sons of the prophets, that were at

Bethel, came forth to Eliseus, and said to him:

Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will take

away thy master from thee? And he answered:

I also know it: hold your peace.

4And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here, because

the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said:

As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will

not leave thee. And when they were come to

Jericho,5The sons of the prophets, that were at Jeri-

cho, came to Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou

know that, this day, the Lord will take away thy

master from thee? And he said: I also know it:

hold your peace.

6And Elias said to him: Stay here, because

the Lord hath sent me as far as the Jordan. And

he said: as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth,

I will not leave thee. And they two went on

together.

7And fty men, of the sons of the prophets,

followed them, and stood in sight, at a distance:

but they two stood by the Jordan.

8And Elias took his mantle, and folded it to-

gether, and struck the waters, and they were di-

vided hither and thither, and they both passed

over on dry ground.

9And when they were gone over, Elias said

to Eliseus: Ask what thou wilt have me to do

for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And

Eliseus said: I beseech thee, that in me may be

thy double spirit.

10And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard

thing; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am

taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast

asked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not

have it.

11And as they went on, walking and talking

together, behold, a ery chariot and ery horses

parted them both asunder: and Elias went up

by a whirlwind into heaven.

12And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father,

my father, the chariot of Israel, and the driver

thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took

hold of his own garments, and rent them in two

pieces.

13And he took up the mantle of Elias, that

fell from him: and going back, he stood on the

bank of the Jordan;

14And he struck the waters with the mantleFourth Book of Kings 443

of Elias, that had fallen from him, and they were

not divided. And he said: Where is now the

God of Elias? And he struck the waters, and

they were divided hither and thither, and Eliseus

passed over.

15And the sons of the prophets, at Jeri-

cho, who were over against him, seeing it, said:

The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus.

And coming to meet him, they worshipped him,

falling to the ground.

16And they said to him: Behold, there are

with thy servants, fty strong men, that can go,

and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit of

the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon

some monntain, or into some valley. And he said:

Do not send.

17But they pressed him, till he consented,

and said: Send. And they sent fty men: and

they sought three days, bnt found him not.

18And they came back to him: for he abode

at Jericho, and he said to them: Did I not say

to you? Do not send.

20And he said: Bring me a new vessel, and

put salt into it. And when they had brought it,

21He went out to the spring of the waters,

and cast the salt into it, and said: Thus saith

the Lord: I have healed these waters, and there

shall be no more in them death or barrenness.

22And the waters were healed unto this day,

according to the word of Eliseus, which he spoke.

23And he went up from thence to Bethel: and

as he was going up by the way, little boys came

out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up,

thou bald head, go up, thou bald head.

24And looking back, he saw them, and cursed

them in the name of the Lord: and there came

forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of

them, two and forty boys.

25And from thence he went to mount Carmel,

and from thence he returned to Samaria.Chapter 3

And Joram the son of Achab, reigned over Israel,

in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Josaphat,

king of Juda. And he reigned twelve years.

2And he did evil before the Lord, but not like

his father and his mother: for he took away the

statues of Baal, which his father had made.

3Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jer-

oboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to

sin, nor did he depart from them.

4Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many

sheep, and he paid to the king of Israel a hundred

thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams,

with their

eeces.

5And when Achab was dead, he broke the

league which he had made with the king of Israel.

6And king Joram went out that day from

Samaria, and mustered all Israel.

7And he sent to Josaphat; king of Juda, say-

ing: The king of Moab is revolted from me: come

with me against him to battle. And he answered:

I will come up: he that is mine, is thine: my peo-

ple are thy people: and my horses, thy horses.

8And he said: Which way shall we go up?

But he answered: By the desert of Edom.

9So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda,

and the king of Edom, went, and they fetched

a compass of seven days journey, and there was

no water for the army, and for the beasts, that

followed them.

10And the king of Israel said: Alas, alas, alas,

the Lord hath gathered us three kings together,

to deliver us into the hands of Moab.

11And Josaphat said: Is there not here a

prophet of thc Lord, that we may beseech the

Lord by him? And one of the servants of the

king of Israel answered: Here is Eliseus, the son

of Saphat, who poured water on the hands of

Elias.444 Fourth Book of Kings

12And Josaphat said: The word of the Lord is

with him. And the king of Israel, and Josaphat,

king of Juda, and the king of Edom, went down

to him.

13And Eliseus said to the king of Israel:

What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets

of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of

Israel said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered

together these three kings, to deliver them into

the hands of Moab?

14And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord of

hosts liveth, in whose sight I stand, if I did not

reverence the face of Josaphat, king of Juda, I

would not have hearkened to thee, nor looked on

thee.

15But now bring me hither a minstrel. And

when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord

came upon him, and he said:

16Thus saith the Lord: Make the channel of

this torrent full of ditches.

17For thus saith the Lord: You shall not see

wind, nor rain: and yet this channel shall be

lled with waters, and you shall drink, you and

your families, and your beasts.

18And this is a small thing in the sight of the

Lord: moreover, he will deliver, also, Moab into

your hands.

19And you shall destroy every fenced city,

and every choice city, and shall cut down every

fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the springs of

waters, and every goodly eld you shall cover

with stones.

20And it came to pass, in the morning, when

the sacrices used to be oered, that behold, wa-

ter came by the way of Edom, and the country

was lled with water.

21And all the Moabites hearing that the kings

were come up to ght against them, gathered

together all that were girded with a belt upon

them, and stood in the borders.22And they rose early in the morning, and the

sun being now up, and shining upon the waters,

the Moabites saw the waters over against them

red, like blood,

23And they said: It is the blood of the sword:

the kings have fought among themselves, and

they have killed one another: go now, Moab, to

the spoils.

24And they went into the camp of Israel:

but Israel rising up, defeated Moab, who

ed

before them. And they being conquerors, went

and smote Moab.

25And they destroyed the cities: And they

lled every goodly eld, every man casting his

stone: and they stopt up all the springs of

waters: and cut down all the trees that bore

fruit, so that brick walls only remained: and the

city was beset by the slingers, and a great part

thereof destroyed.

26And when the king of Moab saw this, to

wit, that the enemies had prevailed, he took with

him seven hundred men that drew the sword, to

break in upon the king of Edom: but they could

not.

27Then he took his eldest son, that should

have reigned in his stead, and oered him for

a burnt oering upon the wall: and there was

great indignation in Israel, and presently they

departed from him, and returned into their own

country.

Chapter 4

Now a certain woman of the wives of the

prophets, cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant,

my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy

servant was one that feared God, and behold the

creditor is come to take away my two sons to

serve him.Fourth Book of Kings 445

2And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou

have me do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou

in thy house? And she answered: I, thy hand-

maid, have nothing in my house but a little oil,

to anoint me.

3And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy

neighbours empty vessels, not a few.

4And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art

within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into

all those vessels: and when they are full, take

them away.

5So the woman went, and shut the door upon

her, and upon her sons: they brought her the

vessels, and she poured in.

6And when the vessels were full, she said to

her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered:

I have no more. And the oil stood.

7And she came, and told the man of God.

And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy credi-

tor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.

8And there was a day when Eliseus passed

by Sunam: now there was a great woman there,

who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed

often that way, he turned into her house to eat

bread.

9And she said to her husband: I perceive that

this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by

us.

10Let us, therefore, make him a little cham-

ber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a

table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when

he cometh to us he may abide there.

11Now, there was a certain day, when he

came, and turned into the chamber, and rested

there.
12And he said to Giezi, his servant: Call this

Sunamitess. And when he had called her, and

she stood before him,

13He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold,

thou hast diligently served us in all things; whatwilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast thou any

business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king,

or to the general of the army? And she answered:

I dwell in the midst of my own people.

14And he said: What will she then that I

do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she

hath no son, and her husband is old.

15Then he bid him call her. And when she

was called, and stood before the door,

16He said to her: At this time, and this same

hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a

son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I

beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not

lie to thy handmaid.

17And the woman conceived, and brought

forth a son in the time, and at the same hour

that Eliseus had said.

18And the child grew. And on a certain day,

when he went out to his father to the reapers,

19He said to his father: My head acheth, my

head acheth. But he said to his servant. Take

him, and carry him to his mother.

20And when he had taken him, and brought

him to his mother, she sat him on her knees,

until noon, and then he died.

21And she went up, and laid him upon the

bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and

going out,

22She called her husband, and said: Send

with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and

an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and

come again.

23And he said to her: Why dost thou go to

him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath.

She answered: I will go.

24And she saddled an ass, and commanded

her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no

stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.

25So she went forward, and came to the man

of God, to mount Carmel: and when the man of446 Fourth Book of Kings

God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi,

his servant: Behold that Sunamitess.

26Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her:

Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and

with thy son? And she answered: Well.

27And when she came to the man of God,

to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and

Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God

said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and

the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told

me.

28And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my

lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?

29Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins,

and take my sta in thy hand, and go. If any

man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man

salute thee, answer him not: and lay my sta

upon the face of the child.

30But the mother of the child said: As the

Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not

leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed her.

31But Giezi was gone before them, and laid

the sta upon the face of the child, and there

was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet

him, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.

32Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and

behold the child lay dead on his bed:

33And going in, he shut the door upon him,

and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord.

34And he went up, and lay upon the child:

and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes

upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands:

and he bowed himself upon him, and the child's

esh grew warm.

35Then he returned and walked in the house,

once to and fro: and he went up, and lay upon

him: and the child gaped seven times, and

opened his eyes.

36And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call

this Sunamitess. And she being called, went into him: and he said: Take up thy son.

37She came and fell at his feet, and wor-

shipped upon the ground: and took up her son,

and went out.

38And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there

was a famine in the land, and the sons of the

prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one

of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil

pottage for the sons of the prophets.

39And one went out into the eld to gather

wild herbs: and he found something like a wild

vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the eld,

and lled his mantle, and coming back, he shred

them into the pot of pottage; for he knew not

what it was.

40And they poured it out for their compan-

ions to eat: and when they had tasted of the

pottage, they cried out, saying: Death is in the

pot, O man of God. And they could not eat

thereof.
41But he said: Bring some meal. And when

they had brought it, he cast it into the pot, and

said: Pour out for the people, that they may eat.

And there was now no bitterness in the pot.

42And a certain man came from Baalsalisa,

bringing to the man of God, bread of the rst-

fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in

his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that

they may eat.

43And his servant answered him: How much

is this, that I should set it before a hundred men?

He said again: Give to the people, that they may

eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and

there shall be left.

44So he set it before them: and they ate, and

there was left, according to the word of the Lord.Fourth Book of Kings 447

Chapter 5

Naaman, general of the army, of the king of

Syria, was a great man with his master, and hon-

ourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to

Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but

a leper.

2Now there had gone out robbers from Syria,

and had led away captive out of the land of Is-

rael, a little maid, and she waited upon Naa-

man's wife.
3And she said to her mistress: I wish my mas-

ter had been with the prophet that is in Samaria:

he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy

which he hath.

4Then Naaman went in to his lord, and told

him, saying: Thus and thus said the girl from

the land of Israel.

5And the king of Syria said to him: Go; and

I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And

he departed, and took with him ten talents of

silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten

changes of raiment;

6And brought the letter to the king of Israel,

in these words: When thou shalt receive this let-

ter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman, my

servant, that thou mayst heal him of his leprosy.

7And when the king of Israel had read the

letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God,

to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath

sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark,

and see how he seeketh occasions against me.

8And when Eliseus, the man of God, had

heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel had

rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why

hast thou rent thy garments? let him come to

me, and let him know that there is a prophet in

Israel.

9So Naaman came with his horses and chari-

ots, and stood at the door of the house of Eliseus:10And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, say-

ing: Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and

thy

esh shall recover health, and thou shalt be

clean.

11Naaman was angry, and went away, saying:

I thought he would have come out to me, and

standing, would have invoked the name of the

Lord his God, and touched with his hand the

place of the leprosy, and healed me.

12Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar,

rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters

of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made

clean? So as he turned, and was going away with

indignation,

13His servants came to him, and said to him:

Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some

great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it:

how much rather what he now hath said to thee:

Wash, and thou shalt be clean?

14Then he went down, and washed in the

Jordan seven times, according to the word of the

man of God; and his

esh was restored, like the

esh of a little child: and he was made clean.

15And returning to the man of God, with all

his train, he came, and stood before him, and

said: In truth, I know there is no other God, in

all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee,

therefore, take a blessing of thy servant.

16But he answered: As the Lord liveth, be-

fore whom I stand, I will receive none. And when

he pressed him, he still refused.

17And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I

beseech thee, grant to me, thy servant, to take

from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy

servant will not henceforth oer holocaust, or

victim, to other gods, but to the Lord.

18But there is only this, for which thou shalt

entreat the Lord for thy servant; when my mas-

ter goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship

there, and he leaneth on my hand: if I bow down448 Fourth Book of Kings

in the temple of Remmon, when he boweth down

in the same place, that the Lord pardon me, thy

servant, for this thing.

19And he said to him: Go in peace. So he de-

parted from him, in the spring time of the earth.

20But Giezi, the servant of the man of

God, said: My master hath spared Naaman this

Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he

brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him,

and take something of him.

21And Giezi followed after Naaman: and

when he saw him running after him, he leapt

down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is

all well?

22And he said: Well: my master hath sent

me to thee, saying: Just now there are come to

me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the

sons of the prophets: give them a talent of silver,

and two changes of garments.

23And Naaman said: It is better that thou

take two talents. And he forced him, and bound

two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes

of garments, and laid them upon two of his ser-

vants, and they carried them before him.

24And when he was come, and now it was the

evening, he took them from their hands, and laid

them up in the house, and sent the men away,

and they departed.

25But he went in, and stood before his mas-

ter. And Eliseus said: Whence comest thou,

Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no

whither.

26But he said: Was not my heart present,

when the man turned back, from his char-

iot, to meet thee? So now thou hast received

money, and received garments, to buy oliveyards

and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-

servants, and maid-servants.

27But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick

to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he wentout from him a leper, as white as snow.

Chapter 6

And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus:

Behold, the place where we dwell with thee is

too strait for us.

2Let us go as far as the Jordan, and take out

of the wood every man a piece of timber, that

we may build us there a place to dwell in. And

he said: Go.

3And one of them said: But come thou also

with thy servants. He answered: I will come.

4So he went with them. And when they were

come to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

5And it happened, as one was felling some

timber, that the head of the ax fell into the wa-

ter: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas,

my lord, for this same was borrowed.

6And the man of God said: Where did it fall?

and he shewed him the place: Then he cut o a

piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the

iron swam.

7And he said: Take it up. And he put out

his hand, and took it.

8And the king of Syria warred against Israel,

and took counsel with his servants, saying: In

such and such a place, let us lay an ambush.

9And the man of God sent to the king of

Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such

a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.

11And the heart of the king of Syria, was

troubled for this thing. And calling together his

servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who

it is that betrays me to the king of Israel?

12And one of his servants said: No one, my

lord, O king: but Eliseus, the prophet, that is

in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words,

that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.Fourth Book of Kings 449

13And he said to them: Go, and see where

he is: that I may send and take him. And they

told him: saying: Behold he is in Dothan.

14Therefore, he sent thither horses, and char-

iots, and the strength of an army: and they came

by night, and beset the city.

15And the servant of the man of God, rising

early went out, and saw an army round about the

city, and horses and chariots: and he told him,

saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we

do?

16But he answered: Fear not: for there are

more with us than with them.

17And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open

his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened

the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and behold,

the mountain was fu]l of horses, and chariots of

re round about Eliseus.

18And the enemies came down to him: but

Eliseus prayed to the Lord, saying: Strike, I be-

seech thee, this people with blindness: and the

Lord struck them with blindness, according to

the word of Eliseus.

19And Eliseus said to them: This is not the

way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I

will shew you the man whom you seek. So he

led them into Samaria.

20And when they were come into Samaria,

Eliseus said: Lord, open the eyes of these men,

that they may see. And the Lord opened their

eyes, and they saw themselves to be in the midst

of Samaria.

21And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when

he saw them: My father, shall I kill them?

22And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for

thou didst not take them with thy sword, or thy

bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set bread

and water before them, that they may eat and

drink, and go to their master.

23And a great provision of meats was set be-fore them, and they ate and drank; and he let

them go: and they went away to their master:

and the robbers of Syria came no more into the

land of Israel.

24And it came to pass, after these things,

that Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together

all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

25And there was a great famine in Samaria:

and so long did the siege continue, till the head

of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver,

and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung,

for ve pieces of silver.

26And as the king of Israel was passing by the

wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying:

Save me, my lord, O king.

27And he said: If the Lord doth not save

thee, how can I save thee? out of the barn

oor,

or out of the winepress? And the king said to

her: What aileth thee? And she answered:

28This woman said to me: Give thy son, that

we may eat him today, and we will eat my son

tomorrow.

29So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I

said to her on the next day: Give thy son, that

we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.

30When the king heard this, he rent his gar-

ments, and passed by upon the wall. And all the

people saw the haircloth which he wore within

next to his

esh.

31And the king said: May God do so and

so to me, and may he add more, if the head of

Eliseus, the son of Saphat, shall stand on him

this day.

32But Eliseus sat in his house, and the an-

cients sat with him. So he sent a man before:

and before that messenger came, he said to the

ancients: Do you know that this son of a mur-

derer hath sent to cut o my head? Look then

when the messenger shall come, shut the door,

and suer him not to come in: for behold the450 Fourth Book of Kings

sound of his master's feet is behind him.

33While he was yet speaking to them, the

messenger appeared, who was coming to him.

And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the

Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?

Chapter 7
And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord:

Thus saith the Lord: Tomorrow, about this time,

a bushel of ne

our shall be sold for a stater,

and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate

of Samaria.

2Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the

king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If

the Lord should make

ood-gates in heaven, can

that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said:

Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat

thereof.

3Now there were four lepers, at the entering

in of the gate: and they said one to another:

What mean we to stay here till we die?

4If we will enter into the city, we shall die

with the famine: and if we will remain here, we

must also die: come therefore, and let us run

over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare

us, we shall live: but if they kill us, we shall but

die.

5So they arose in the evening, to go to the

Syrian camp. And when they were come to the

rst part of the camp of the Syrians, they found

no man there.
6For the Lord had made them hear, in the

camp of Syria, the noise of chariots, and of

horses, and of a very great army: and they said

one to another: Behold, the king of Israel hath

hired against us the kings of the Hethites, and

of the Egyptians; and they are come upon us.

7Wherefore they arose, and

ed away in thedark, and left their tents, and their horses and

asses in the camp, and

ed, desiring to save their

lives.

8So when these lepers were come to the be-

ginning of the camp, they went into one tent,

and ate and drank: and they took from thence

silver, and gold, and raiment, and went, and hid

it: and they came again, and went into another

tent, and carried from thence in like manner, and

hid it.

9Then they said one to another: We do not

well: for this is a day of good tidings. If we hold

our peace, and do not tell it till the morning, we

shall be charged with a crime: come, let us go,

and tell it in the king's court.

10So they came to the gate of the city, and

told them, saying: We went to the camp of the

Syrians, and we found no man there, but horses,

and asses tied, and the tents standing.

11Then the guards of the gate went, and told

it within in the king's palace.

12And he arose in the night, and said to his

servants: I tell you what the Syrians have done to

us: They know that we suer great famine, and

therefore they are gone out of the camp, and lie

hid in the elds, saying: When they come out of

the city, we shall take them alive, and then we

may get into the city.

13And one of his servants answered: Let us

take the ve horses that are remaining in the city

(because there are no more in the whole multi-

tude of Israel, for the rest are consumed), and

let us send and see.

14They brought therefore two horses, and the

king sent into the camp of the Syrians, saying:

Go, and see.

15And they went after them, as far as the

Jordan: and behold, all the way was full of gar-

ments, and vessels, which the Syrians had cast

away, in their fright, and the messengers re-Fourth Book of Kings 451

turned, and told the king.

16And the people going out, pillaged the

camp of the Syrians: and a bushel of ne

our
was sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley

for a stater, according to the word of the Lord.

17And the king appointed that lord on whose

hand he leaned, to stand at the gate: and the

people trod upon him in the entrance of the gate;

and he died, as the man of God had said, when

the king came down to him.

18And it came to pass, according to the word

of the man of God, which he spoke to the king,

when he said: Two bushels of barley shall be for

a stater, and a bushel of ne

our for a stater, at

this very time tomorrow, in the gate of Samaria.

19When that lord answered the man of God,

and said: Although the Lord should make

ood-

gates in heaven, could this come to pass which

thou sayestP And he said to him: Thou shalt see

it with thy eyes, and shalt not eat thereof.

20And so it fell out to him, as it was foretold,

and the people trod upon him in the gate, and

he died.

Chapter 8

And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son

he had restored to life, saying: Arise, and go

thou, and thy household, and sojourn whereso-

ever thou canst nd: for the Lord hath called a

famine, and it shall come upon the land seven

years.

2And she arose, and did according to the word

of the man of God: and going with her house-

hold, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines

many days.

3And when the seven years were ended,

the woman returned out of the land of the

Philistines, and she went forth to speak to theking for her house and for her lands.

4And the king talked with Giezi, the servant

of the man of God, saying: Tell me all the great

things that Eliseus hath done.

5And when he was telling the king how he

had raised one dead to life, the woman appeared,

whose son he had restored to life, crying to the

king for her house, and her lands. And Giezi

said: My lord, O king, this is the woman, and

this is her son, whom Eliseus raised to life.

6And the king asked the woman: and she told

him. And the king appointed her an eunuch,

saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all the

revenues of the lands, from the day that she left

the land to this present.

7Eliseus also came to Damascus, and Be-

nadad, king of Syria was sick; and they told him,

saying: The man of God is come hither.

8And the king said to Hazael: Take with thee

presents, and go to meet the man of God, and

consult the Lord by him, saying: Can I recover

of this my illness?

9And Hazael went to meet him, taking with

him presents, and all the good things of Damas-

cus, the burdens of forty camels. And when he

stood before him, he said: Thy son, Benadad,

the king of Syria, hath sent me to thee, saying:

Can I recover of this my illness?

10And Eliseus said to him: Go tell him: Thou

shalt recover: but the Lord hath shewed me that

he shall surely die.

11And he stood with him, and was troubled

so far as to blush: and the man of God wept.

12And Hazael said to him: Why doth my

lord weep? And he said: Because I know the

evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel.

Their strong cities thou wilt burn with re, and

their young men thou wilt kill with the sword,

and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up

their pregnant women.452 Fourth Book of Kings

13And Hazael said: But what am I, thy ser-

vant, a dog, that I should do this great thing?

And Eliseus said: The Lord hath shewed me that

thou shalt be king of Syria.

14And when he was departed from Eliseus he

came to his master, who said to him: What said

Eliseus to thee? And he answered: He told me:

Thou shalt recover.

15And on the next day, he took a blanket, and

poured water on it, and spread it upon his face:

and he died, and Hazael reigned in his stead.

16In the fth year of Joram, son of Achab,

king of Israel, and of Josaphat, king of Juda,

reigned Joram, son of Josaphat, king of Juda.

17He was two and thirty years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned eight years in

Jerusalem.

18And he walked in the ways of the kings of

Israel, as the house of Achab had walked: for the

daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did that

which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

19But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for

David his servant's sake, as he had promised him,

to give him a light, and to his children always.

20In his days Edom revolted from being un-

der Juda, and made themselves a king.

21And Joram came to Seira, and all the char-

iots with him: and he arose in the night, and de-

feated the Edomites that had surrounded him,

and the captains of the chariots, but the people

ed into their tents.

23But the rest of the acts of Joram, and all

that he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

24And Joram slept with his fathers, and

was buried with them in the city of David, and

Ochozias, his son, reigned in his stead.

25In the twelfth year of Joram, the son of

Achab, king of Israel, reigned Ochozias, son of

Joram, king of Juda.26Ochozias was two and twenty years old

when he began to reign, and he reigned one

year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was

Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel.

27And he walked in the ways of the house of

Achab: and he did evil before the Lord, as did

the house of Achab: for he was the son in law of

the house of Achab.

28He went also with Joram, son of Achab, to

ght against Hazael, king of Syria, in Ramoth

Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram:

29And he went back to be healed, in Jezra-

hel: because the Syrians had wounded him in

Ramoth, when he fought against Hazael, king

of Syria And Ochozias, the son of Joram, king

of Juda, went down to visit Joram, the son of

Achab, in Jezrahel, because he was sick there.

Chapter 9

And Eliseus the prophet, called one of the sons

of the prophets, and said to him: Gird up thy

loins, and take this little bottle of oil in thy hand,

and go to Ramoth Galaad.

2And when thou art come thither, thou shalt

see Jehu the son of Josaphat the son of Namsi:

and going in, thou shalt make him rise up from

amongst his brethren, and carry him into an in-

ner chamber.

3Then taking the little bottle of oil, thou shalt

pour it on his head, and shalt say: Thus saith

the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel.

And thou shalt open the door and

ee, and shalt

not stay there.

4So the young man, the servant of the

prophet, went away to Ramoth Galaad,

5And went in thither: and behold, the cap-

tains of the army were sitting, and he said: I

have a word to thee, O prince. And Jehu said:Fourth Book of Kings 453

Unto whom of us all? And he said: To thee, O

prince.

6And he arose, and went into the cham-

ber: and he poured the oil upon his head, and

said: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: I have

anointed thee king over Israel, the people of the

Lord.

7And thou shalt cut o the house of Achab,

thy master, and I will revenge the blood of my

servants, the prophets, and the blood of all the

servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel.

8And I will destroy all the house of Achab,

and I will cut o from Achab, him that pisseth

against the wall, and him that is shut up, and

the meanest in Israel.

9And I will make the house of Achab, like

the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, and

like the house of Baasa, the son of Ahias.

10And the dogs shall eat Jezabel, in the eld

of Jezrahel, and there shall be no one to bury

her. And he opened the door and

ed.

11Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his

Lord: and they said to him: Are all things well?

why came this madman to thee? And he said to

them: You know the man, and what he said.

12But they answered: It is false; but rather

do thou tell us. And he said to them: Thus and

thus did he speak to me: and he said: Thus saith

the Lord: I have anointed thee king over Israel.

13Then they made haste, and taking every

man his garment, laid it under his feet, after the

manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded

the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.

14So Jehu, the son of Josaphat, the son of

Namsi, conspired against Joram. Now Joram

had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he, and all Israel,

ghting with Hazael, king of Syria:

15And was returned to be healed in Jezrahel

of his wounds; for the Syrians had wounded him,

when he fought with Hazael, king of Syria. AndJehu said: If it please you, let no man go forth or

ee out of the city, lest he go, and tell in Jezrahel.

16And he got up, and went into Jezrahel for

Joram was sick there, and Ochozias king of Juda,

was come down to visit Joram.

17The watchman therefore, that stood upon

the tower of Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu com-

ing, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said:

Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let

him that goeth say: Is all well?

18So there went one in a chariot to meet him,

and said: Thus saith the king: Are all things

peaceable? And Jehu said: What hast thou to

do with peace? go behind and follow me. And

the watchman told, saying: The messenger came

to them, but he returneth not.

19And he sent a second chariot of horses: and

he came to them, and said: Thus saith the king:

Is there peace? And Jehu said: What hast thou

to do with peace? pass, and follow me.

20And the watchman told, saying: He came

even to them, but returneth not: and the driving

is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Namsi; for

he drives furiously.

21And Joram said: Make ready the chariot.

And they made ready his chariot: and Joram,

king of Israel, and Ochozias, king of Juda, went

out, each in his chariot, and they went out to

meet Jehu, and met him in the eld of Naboth,

the Jezrahelite.

22And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is

there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What

peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel,

thy mother, and her many sorceries, are in their

vigour.

23And Joram turned his hand, and

eeing,

said to Ochozias: There is treachery, Ochozias.

24But Jehu bent his bow with his hand, and

shot Joram between the shoulders: and the ar-

row went out through his heart, and immediately454 Fourth Book of Kings

he fell in his chariot.

25And Jehu said to Badacer, his captain:

Take him, and cast him into the eld of Naboth,

the Jezrahelite: for I remember, when I and

thou, sitting in a chariot, followed Achab, this

man's father, that the Lord laid this burden

upon him, saying:

26If I do not requite thee in this eld, saith

the Lord, for the blood of Naboth, and for the

blood of his children, which I saw yesterday,

saith the Lord. So now take him, and cast him

into the eld, according to the word of the Lord.

27But Ochozias, king of Juda, seeing this,

ed by the way of the garden house: and Jehu

pursued him, and said: Strike him also in his

chariot. And they struck him in the going up

to Gaver, which is by Jeblaam: and he

ed into

Mageddo, and died there.

28And his servants laid him upon his chariot,

and carried him to Jerusalem: and they buried

him in his sepulchre with his fathers, in the city

of David.

29In the eleventh year of Joram, the son of

Achab, Ochozias reigned over Juda;

30And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But Jezabel,

hearing of his coming in, painted her face with

stibic stone, and adorned her head, and looked

out of a window.

31At Jehu coming in at the gate, and said:

Can there be peace for Zambri, that hath killed

his master?

32And Jehu lifted up his face to the window,

and said: Who is this? And two or three eunuchs

bowed down to him.

33And he said to them: Throw her down

headlong; And they threw her down, and the

wall was sprinkled with her blood, and the hoofs

of the horses trod upon her.

34And when he was come in to eat, and to

drink, he said: Go, and see after that cursedwoman, and bury her; because she is a king's

daughter.

35And when they went to bury her, they

found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and

the extremities of her hands.

36And coming back they told him. And Jehu

said: It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke

by his servant Elias, the Thesbite, saying: In the

eld of Jezrahel the dogs shall eat the

esh of
Jezabel.

37And the

esh of Jezabel shall be as dung

upon the face of the earth in the eld of Jezrahel;

so that they who pass by shall say: Is this that

same Jezabel?

Chapter 10

And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria: so Jehu

wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the chief

men of the city, and to the ancients, and to them

that brought up Achab's children, saying:

2As soon as you receive these letters, ye

that have your master's sons, and chariots, and

horses, and fenced cities, and armour,

3Choose the best, and him that shall please

you most of your master's sons, and set him on

his father's throne, and ght for the house of

your master.

4But they were exceedingly afraid, and said:

Behold two kings could not stand before him,

and how shall we be able to resist?

5Therefore they that were over the king's

house, and the rulers of the city, and the an-

cients, and the bringers up of the children, sent

to Jehu, saying: We are thy servants: whatso-

ever thou shalt command us we will do; we will

not make us any king: do thou all that pleaseth

thee.

6And he wrote letters the second time toFourth Book of Kings 455

them, saying: If you be mine, and will obey me,

take the heads of the sons of your master, and

come to me to Jezrahel by tomorrow at this time.

Now the king's sons, being seventy men, were

brought up with the chief men of the city.

7And when the letters came to them, they

took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons,

and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to

him to Jezrahel.

8And a messenger came, and told him, saying:

They have brought the heads of the king's sons.

And he said: Lay ye them in two heaps by the

entering in of the gate until the morning.

9And when it was light, he went out, and

standing, said to all the people: You are just:

if I conspired against my master, and slew him;

who hath slain all these?

10See therefore now that there hath not fallen

to the ground any of the words of the Lord, which

the Lord spoke concerning the house of Achab,

and the Lord hath done that which he spoke in

the hand of his servant Elias.

11So Jehu slew all that were left of the honse

of Achab in Jezrahel, and all his chief men, and

his friends, and his priests, till there were no

remains left of him.

12And he arose, and went to Samaria: and

when he was come to the shepherds' cabin in the

way,

13He met with the brethren of Ochozias, king

of Juda, and he said to them: Who are you? And

they answered: We are the brethren of Ochozias,

and are come down to salute the sons of the king,

and the sons of the queen.

14And he said: Take them alive. And they

took them alive, and killed them at the pit by

the cabin, two and forty men, and he left not

any of them.

15And when he was departed thence, he

found Jonadab, the son of Rechab, coming tomeet him, and he blessed him. And he said to

him: Is thy heart right as my heart is with thy

heart? And Jonadab said: It is. If it be, said he,

give me thy hand. He gave him his hand. And

he lifted him up to him into the chariot,

16And said to him: Come with me, and see

my zeal for the Lord. So he made him ride in his

chariot,

17And brought him into Samaria. And he

slew all that were left of Achab, in Samaria, to

a man, according to the word of the Lord which

he spoke by Elias.

18And Jehu gathered together all the peo-

ple, and said to them: Achab worshipped Baal

a little, but I will worship him more.

19Now therefore call to me all the prophets

of Baal, and all his servants, and all his priests:

let none be wanting, for I have a great sacrice

to oer to Baal: whosoever shall be wanting,

shall not live. Now Jehu did this craftily, that

he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

20And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal.

And he called,

21And he sent into all the borders of Israel;

and all the servants of Baal came: there was not

one left that did not come. And they went into

the temple of Baal: and the house of Baal was

lled, from one end to the other.

22And he said to them that were over the

wardrobe: Bring forth garments for all the ser-

vants of Baal. And they brought them forth gar-

ments.

23And Jehu, and Jonadab, the son of Rechab,

went to the temple of Baal, and said to the wor-

shippers of Baal: Search, and see that there be

not any with you of the servants of the Lord, but

that there be the servants of Baal only.

24And they went in to oer sacrices and

burnt oerings: but Jehu had prepared him

fourscore men without, and said to them: If any456 Fourth Book of Kings

of the men escape, whom I have brought into

your hands, he that letteth him go, shall answer

life for life.

25And it came to pass, when the burnt oer-

ing was ended, that Jehu commanded his soldiers

and captains, saying: Go in, and kill them: let

none escape. And the soldiers and captains slew

them with the edge of the sword, and cast them

out: and they went into the city of the temple of

Baal,

26And brought the statue out of Baal's tem-

ple, and burnt it,

27And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also

the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place

unto this day.

28So Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel:

29But yet he departed not from the sins of

Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel

to sin, nor did he forsake the golden calves that

were in Bethel, and Dan.

30And the Lord said to Jehu: because thou

hast diligently executed that which was right and

pleasing in my eyes, and hast done to the house

of Achab according to all that was in my heart:

thy children shall sit upon the throne of Israel to

the fourth generation.

31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law

of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart:

for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam,

who had made Israel to sin.

32In those days the Lord began to be weary

of Israel: and Hazael ravaged them in all the

coasts of Israel,

33From the Jordan eastward, all the land of

Galaad, and Gad, and Ruben, and Manasses,

from Aroer, which is upon the torrent Arnon,

and Galaad, and Basan.

34But the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that

he did, and his strength, are they not written in

the book of the words of the days of the kings ofIsrael?

35And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they

buried him in Samaria: and Joachaz, his son,

reigned in his stead.

36And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel,

in Samaria, was eight and twenty years.

Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing

that her son was dead, arose and slew all the

royal seed.
2But Josaba the daughter of king Joram, sis-

ter of Ochozias, took Joas, the son of Ochozias,

and stole him from among the king's sons that

were slain, out of the bedchamber with his nurse:

and hid him from the face of Athalia; so that he

was not slain.

3And he was with her six years, hid in the

house of the Lord. And Athalia reigned over the

land.

4And in the seventh year Joiada sent, and

taking the centurions and soldiers, brought them

in to him into the temple of the Lord, and made

a covenant with them: and taking an oath of

them in the house of the Lord, shewed them the

king's son:

5And he commanded them, saying: This is

the thing that you must do.

6Let a third part of you go in on the sabbath,

and keep the watch of the king's house. And let a

third part be at the gate of Sur; and let a third

part be at the gate behind the dwelling of the

shieldbearers; and you shall keep the watch of

the house of Messa.

7But let two parts of you all that go forth on

the sabbath, keep the watch of the house of the

Lord about the king.

8And you shall compass him round about,

having weapons in your hands: and if any man

shall enter the precinct of the temple, let him be

slain: and you shall be with the king, coming in

and going out.Fourth Book of Kings 457

9And the centurions did according to all

things that Joiada the priest, had commanded

them: and takiug every one their men, that went

in on the sabbath, with them that went out in

the sabbath, came to Joiada, the priest.

10And he gave them the spears, and the arms

of king David, which were in the house of the

Lord.

11And they stood, having every one their

weapons in their hands, from the right side of

the temple, unto the left side of the altar, and of

the temple, about the king.

12And he brought forth the king's son, and

put the diadem upon him, and the testimony:

and they made him king, and anointed him: and

clapping their hands, they said: God save the

king.

13And Athalia heard the noise of the peo-

ple running: and going in to the people into the

temple of the Lord,

14She saw the king standing upon a tribunal,

as the manner was, and the singers, and the

trumpets near him, and all the people of the

land rejoicing, and sounding the trumpets: and

she rent her garments, and cried: A conspiracy,

a conspiracy.

15But Joiada commanded the centurions that

were over the army, and said to them: Have her

forth without the precinct of the temple, and

whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with

the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not

be slain in the temple of the Lord.

16And they laid hands on her: and thrust her

out by the way by which the horses go in, by the

palace, and she was slain there.

17And Joiada made a covenant between the

Lord, and the king, and the people, that they

should be the people of the Lord; and between

the king and the people.

18And all the people of the land went intothe temple of Baal, and broke down his altars,

and his images they broke in pieces thoroughly:

they slew also Mathan the priest of Baal before

the altar. And the priest set guards in the house

of the Lord.

19And he took the centurions, and the bands

of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi, and all the peo-

ple of the land, and they brought the king from

the house of the Lord: and they came by the way

of the gate of the shieldbearers into the palace,

and he sat on the throne of the kings.

20And all the people of the land rejoiced, and

the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the

sword in the king's house.

21Now Joas was seven years old when he be-

gan to reign.

Chapter 12

In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign:

and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The

name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee.

2And Joas did that which was right before the

Lord all the days that Joiada, the priest, taught

him.

3But yet he took not away the high places:

for the people still sacriced and burnt incense

in the high places.

4And Joas said to the priests: all the money

of the sanctied things, which is brought into the

temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is

oered for the price of a soul, and which of their

own accord, and of their own free heart, they

bring into the temple of the Lord:

5Let the priests take it according to their or-

der and repair the house, wheresoever they shall

see any thing that wanteth repairing.

6Now till the three and twentieth year of king

Joas the priests did not make the repairs of the458 Fourth Book of Kings

temple.

7And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest,

and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not

repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money

no more according to your order, but restore it

for the repairing of the temple.

8And the priests were forbidden to take any

more money of the people, and to make the re-

pairs of the house.

9And Joiada, the high priest, took a chest,

and bored a hole in the top, and set it by the

altar at the right hand of them that came into

the house of the Lord; and the priests that kept

the doors, put therein all the money that was

brought to the temple of the Lord.

10And when they saw that there was very

much money in the chest, the king's scribe, and

the high priest, came up, and poured it out, and

counted the money that was found in the house

of the Lord.

11And they gave it out by number and mea-

sure into the hands of them that were over the

builders of the house of the Lord: and they laid

it out to the carpenters, and the masons, that

wrought in the house of the Lord,

12And made the repairs: and to them that

cut stones, and to buy timber, and stones to be

hewed, that the repairs of the house of the Lord

might be completely nished, and wheresoever

there was need of expenses to uphold the house.

13But there were not made of the same

money for the temple of the Lord, bowls, or

esh-

hooks, or censers, or trumpets, or any vessel of

gold and silver, of the money that was brought

into the temple of the Lord:

14For it was given to them that did the work,

that the temple of the Lord might be repaired.

15And they reckoned not with the men that

received the money to distribute it to the work-

men, but they bestowed it faithfully.16But the money for trespass, and the money

for sins, they brought not into the temple of the

Lord, because it was for the priests.

17Then Hazael, king of Syria, went up, and

fought against Geth, and took it, and set his face

to go up to Jerusalem.

18Wherefore Joas, king of Juda, took all the

sanctied things, which Josaphat, and Joram,

and Ochozias, his fathers, the kings of Juda, had

dedicated to holy uses, and which he himself had

oered: and all the silver that could be found in

the treasures of the temple of the Lord, and in

the king's palace: and sent it to Hazael, king of

Syria, and he went o from Jerusalem.

19And the rest of the acts of Joas, and all

that he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

20And his servants arose, and conspired

among themselves, and slew Joas, in the house

of Mello, in the descent of Sella.

21For Josachar the son of Semaath, and Joz-

abad the son of Somer his servant, struck him,

and he died: and they buried him with his fa-

thers in the city of David; and Amasias, his son,

reigned in his stead.

Chapter 13

In the three and twentieth year of Joas son of

Ochozias, king of Juda, Joachaz, the son of Jehu,

reigned over Israel, in Samaria, seventeen years.

2And he did evil before the Lord, and fol-

lowed the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat,

who made Israel to sin; and he departed not from

them.

3And the wrath of the Lord was kindled

against Israel, and he delivered them into the

hand of Hazael, the king of Syria, and into the

hand of Benadad, the son of Hazael, all days.Fourth Book of Kings 459

4But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord,

and the Lord heard him: for he saw the distress

of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed

them:

5And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, and they

were delivered out of the hand of the king of

Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their

pavilions as yesterday and the day before.

6But yet they departed not from the sins of

the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin,

but walked in them: and there still remained a

grove also in Samaria.

7And Joachaz had no more left of the peo-

ple than fty horsemen, and ten chariots, and

ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had

slain them, and had brought them low as dust

by threshing in the barn

oor.

8But thc rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all

that he did, and his valour, are they not written

in the book of the words of the days of the kings

of Israel?

9And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and

they buried him in Samaria: and Joas, his son,

reigned in his stead.

10In the seven and thirtieth year of Joas, king

of Juda, Joas the son of Joachaz reigned over

Israel, in Samaria, sixteen years.

11And he did that which is evil in the sight

of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of

Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to

sin; but he walked in them.

12But the rest of the acts of Joas, and all

that he did, and his valour wherewith he fought

against Amasias, king of Juda, are they not writ-

ten in the book of the words of the days of the

kings of Israel?

13And Joas slept with his fathers; and Jer-

oboam sat upon his throne. But Joas was buried

in Samaria, with the kings of Israel.

14Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereofhe died: and Joas, king of Israel, went down to

him, and wept before him, and said: O my fa-

ther, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the

guider thereof.

15And Eliseus said to him: Bring a bow and

arrows. And when he had brought him a bow

and arrows,

16He said to the king of Israel: Put thy hand

upon the bow. And when he had put his hand,

Eliseus put his hands over the king's hands,

17And said: Open the window to the east.

And when he had opened it, Eliseus said: Shoot

an arrow. And he shot. And Eliseus said: The

arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of

the deliverance from Syria: and thou shalt strike

the Syrians in Aphec, till thou consume them.

18And he said: Take the arrows. And when

he had taken them, he said to him: Strike with

an arrow upon the ground. And he struck three

times, and stood still.

19And the man of God was angry with him,

and said: If thou hadst smitten ve or six or

seven times, thou hadst smitten Syria even to ut-

ter destruction: but now three times shalt thou

smite it.

20And Eliseus died, and they buried him.

And the rovers from Moab came into the land

the same year.

21And some that were burying a man, saw

the rovers, and cast the body into the sepulchre

of Eliseus. And when it had touched the bones

of Eliseus, the man came to life and stood upon

his feet.

22Now Hazael, king of Syria, aicted Israel

all the days of Joachaz.

23And the Lord had mercy on them, and re-

turned to them, because of his covenant, which

he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Ja-

cob: and he would not destroy them, nor utterly

cast them away, unto this present time.460 Fourth Book of Kings

24And Hazael, king of Syria, died; and Be-

nadad, his son, reigned in his stead.

25Now Joas the son of Joachaz, took the cities

out of the hand of Benadad, the son of Hazael,

which he had taken out of the hand of Joachaz,

his father, by war; three times did Joas beat him,

and he restored the cities to Israel.

Chapter 14

In the second year of Joas son of Joachaz, king

of Israel, reigned Amasias son of Joas, king of

Juda.

2He was ve and twenty years old when he

began to reign; and nine and twenty years he

reigned in Jerusalem; the name of his mother

was Joadan, of Jerusalem.

3And he did that which was right before the

Lord, but yet not like David his father. He did

according to all things that Joas his father, did:

4But this only, that he took not away the

high places; for yet the people sacriced, and

burnt incense in the high places:

5And when he had possession of the kingdom,

he put his servants to death that had slain the

king, his father.

6But the children of the murderers he did not

put to death, according to that which is written

in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the

Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not

be put to death for the children, neither shall

the children be put to death for the fathers: but

every man shall die for his own sin.

7He slew of Edom in the valley of the Saltpits,

ten thousand men, and took the rock by war, and

called the name thereof Jectehel, unto this day.

8Then Amasias sent messengers to Joas, son

of Joachaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying:

Come, let us see one another.9And Joas, king of Israel, sent again to

Amasias, king of Juda, saying: A thistle of

Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is in Libanus,

saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife.

And the beasts of the forest, that are in Libanus,

passed, and trod down the thistle.

10Thou hast beaten and prevailed over

Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up; be

content with this glory, and sit at home; why

provokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and

Juda with thee?

11But Amasias did not rest satised. So Joas,

king of Israel, went up; and he and Amasias, king

of Juda, saw one another in Bethsames, a town

in Juda.

12And Juda was put to the worse before Is-

rael, and they

ed every man to their dwellings.

13But Joas, king of Israel, took Amasias, king

of Juda, the son of Joas, the son of Ochozias,

in Bethsames, and brought him into Jerusalem;

and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem, from

the gate of Ephraim to the gate of the corner,

four hundred cubits.

14And he took all the gold and silver, and all

the vessels that were found in the house of the

Lord, and in the king's treasures, and hostages,

and returned to Samaria.

15But the rest of the acts of Joas, which he

did, and his valour, wherewith he fought against

Amasias, king of Juda, are they not written in

the book of the words of the days of the kings of

Israel?

16And Joas slept with his fathers, and was

buried in Samaria, with the kings of Israel: and

Jeroboam, his son, reigned in his stead.

17And Amasias, the son of Joas, king of Juda,

lived after the death of Joas, son of Joachaz, king

of Israel, fteen years.

18And the rest of the acts of Amasias, are

they not written in the book of the words of theFourth Book of Kings 461

days of the kings of Juda?

19Now they made a conspiracy against him

in Jerusalem: and he

ed to Lachis. And they

sent after him to Lachis, and killed him there.

20And they brought him away upon horses,

and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers,

in the city of David.

21And all the people of Juda took Azarias,

who was sixteen years old, and made him king

instead of his father, Amasias.

22He built Elath, and restored it to Juda,

after that the king slept with his fathers.

23In the fteenth year of Amasias, son of

Joas, king of Juda, reigned Jeroboam, the son

of Joas, king of Israel, in Samaria, one and forty

years:

24And he did that which is evil before the

Lord. He departed not from all the sins of Jer-

oboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to

sin.

25He restored the borders of Israel from the

entrance of Emath, unto the sea of the wilder-

ness, according to the word of the Lord, the God

of Israel, which he spoke by his servant, Jonas,

the son of Amathi, the prophet, who was of Geth,

which is in Opher.

26For the Lord saw the aiction of Israel,

that it was exceedingly bitter, and that they were

consumed even to them that were shut up in

prison, and the lowest persons, and that there

was no one to help Israel.

27And the Lord did not say that he would

blot out the name of Israel from under heaven;

but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam, the

son of Joas.

28But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam,

and all that he did, and his valour, wherewith

he fought, and how he restored Damascus and

Emath to Juda, in Israel, are they not written in

the book of the words of the days of the kings ofIsrael?

29And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the

kings of Israel; and Zacharias, his son, reigned in

his stead.

Chapter 15

In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam,

king of Israel, reigned Azarias, son of Amasias,

king of Juda.

2He was sixteen years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned two and fty years in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia,

of Jerusalem.

3And he did that which was pleasing be-

fore the Lord, according to all that his father,

Amasias, had done.

4But the high places he did not destroy, for

the people sacriced, and burnt incense in the

high places.

5And the Lord struck the king, so that he was

a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt

in a free house apart: but Joatham, the king's

son, governed the palace, and judged the people

of the land.

6And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all

that he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

7And Azarias slept with his fathers: and

they buried him with his ancestors in the city

of David, and Joatham, his son, reigned in his

stead.

8In the eight and thirtieth year of Azarias,

king of Juda, reigned Zacharias, son of Jer-

oboam, over Israel, in Samaria, six months:

9And he did that which is evil before the

Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not

from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who

made Israel to sin.462 Fourth Book of Kings

10And Sellum, the son of Jabes, conspired

against him: and struck him publicly, and killed

him, and reigned in his place.

11Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias, are

they not written in the book of the words of the

days of the kings of Israel?

12This was the word of the Lord, which he

spoke to Jehu, saying: Thy children, to the

fourth generation, shall sit upon the throne of

Israel. And so it came to pass.

13Sellum, the son of Jabes, began to reign

in the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias, king of

Juda: and reigned one month in Samaria.

14And Manahem, the son of Gadi, went up

from Thersa, and he came into Samaria, and

struck Sellum, the son of Jabes, in Samaria, and

slew him, and reigned in his stead.

15And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his

conspiracy which he made, are they not written

in the book of the words of the days of the kings

of Israel?

16Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa and all

that were in it, and the borders thereof from

Thersa, because they would not open to him:

and he slew all the women thereof that were with

child, and ripped them up.

17In the nine and thirtieth year of Azarias,

king of Juda, reigned Manahem, son of Gadi,

over Israel, ten years, in Samaria.

18And he did that which was evil before the

Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jer-

oboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to

sin, all his days.

19And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into

the land, and Manahem gave Phul a thousand

talents of silver to aid him and to establish him

in the kingdom.

20And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on

all that were mighty and rich, to give the king of

the Assyrians, each man fty sicles of silver: sothe king of the Assyrians turned back, and did

not stay in the land.

21And the rest of the acts of Manahem, and

all that he did, are they not written in the book

of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

22And Manahem slept with his fathers: and

Phaceia, his son, reigned in his stead.

23In the ftieth year of Azarias, king of Juda,

reigned Phaceia, the son of Manahem, over Is-

rael, in Samaria, two years.

24And he did that which was evil before the

Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jer-

oboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to

sin.

25And Phacee the son of Romelia, his cap-

tain, conspired against him, and smote him in

Samaria, in the tower of the king's house, near

Argob, and near Arie, and with him fty men of

the sons of the Galaadites, and he slew him, and

reigned in his stead.

26And the rest of the acts of Phaceia, and all

that he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

27In the two and ftieth year of Azarias, king

of Juda, reigned Phacee, the son of Romelia, over

Israel, in Samaria, twenty years.

28And he did that which was evil before the

Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jer-

oboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to

sin.

29In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came

Theglathphalasar, king of Assyria, and took

Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and

Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and

all the land of Nephthali: and carried them cap-

tives into Assyria.

30Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and

formed a plot against Phacee, the son of

Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and

reigned in his stead in the twentieth year ofFourth Book of Kings 463

Joatham, the son of Ozias.

31But the rest of the acts of Phacee, and all

that he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Israel?

32In the second year of Phacee, the son of

Romelia king of Israel, reigned Joatham, son of

Ozias, king of Juda.

33He was ve and twenty years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa,

the daughter of Sadoc.

34And he did that which was right before the

Lord: according to all that his father Ozias had

done, so did he.

35But the high places he took not away: the

people still sacriced, and burnt incense in the

high places: he built the highest gate of the

house of the Lord.

36But the rest of the acts of Joatham, and

all that he did, are they not written in the book

of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

37In those days the Lord began to send into

Juda, Rasin king of Syria, and Phacee the son of

Romelia.

38And Joatham slept with his fathers, and

was buried with them in the city of David, his

father; and Achaz, his son, reigned in his stead.

Chapter 16

In the seventeenth year of Phacee, the son of

Romelia reigned Achaz, the son of Joatham, king

of Juda.

2Achaz was twenty years old when he be-

gan to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in

Jerusalem: he did not that which was pleasing

in the sight of the Lord, his God, as David, his

father.3But he walked in the way of the kings of Is-

rael: moreover, he consecrated also his son, mak-

ing him pass through the re, according to the

idols of the nations which the Lord destroyed be-

fore the children of Israel.

4He sacriced also, and burnt incense in the

high places, and on the hills, and under every

green tree.

5Then Rasin, king of Syria, and Phacee, son

of Romelia, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem

to ght: and they besieged Achaz, but were not

able to overcome him.

6At that time Rasin, king of Syria, restored

Aila to Syria, and drove the men of Juda out

of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and

dwelt there unto this day.

7And Achaz sent messengers to Theglathpha-

lasar, king of the Assyrians, saying: I am thy

servant, and thy son: come up, and save me out

of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the

hand of the king of Israel, who are risen up to-

gether against me.

8And when he had gathered together the sil-

ver and gold that could be found in the house of

the Lord, and in the king's treasures, he sent it

for a present to the king of the Assyrians.

9And he agreed to his desire: for the king

of the Assyrians went up against Damascus, and

laid it waste: and he carried away the inhabi-

tants thereof to Cyrene; but Rasin he slew.

10And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet

Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, and

when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king

Achaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of

it, and its likeness, according to all the work

thereof.

11And Urias, the priest, built an altar ac-

cording to all that king Achaz had commanded

from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until

king Achaz came from Damascus.464 Fourth Book of Kings

12And when the king was come from Dam-

ascus, he saw the altar and worshipped it: and

went up and oered holocausts, and his own sac-

rice;

13And he oered libations, and poured the

blood of the peace oerings, which he had of-

fered, upon the altar.

14But the altar of brass that was before the

Lord, he removed from the face of the temple,

and from the place of the altar, and from the

place of the temple of the Lord: and he set it at

the side of the altar towards the north.

15And king Achaz commanded Urias, the

priest, saying: Upon the great altar oer the

morning holocaust, and the evening sacrice,

and the king's holocaust, and his sacrice, and

the holocaust of the whole people of the land,

and their sacrices, and their libations: and all

the blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of

the victim, thou shalt pour out upon it: but the

altar of brass shall be ready at my pleasure.

16So Urias, thc priest, did according to all

that king Achaz had commanded him.

17And king Achaz took away the graven

bases, and the laver that was upon them: and

he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that

held it up, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

18The Musach also for the sabbath, which

he had built in the temple, and the king's entry

from without, he turned into the temple of the

Lord, because of the king of the Assyrians.

19Now the rest of the acts of Achaz which

he did, are they not written in the book of the

words of the of the days of the kings of Juda?

20And Achaz slept with his fathers, and

was buried with them in the city of David, and

Ezechias, his son, reigned in his stead.Chapter 17

In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee

the son of Ela reigned in Samaria, over Israel,

nine years.

2And he did evil before the Lord: but not as

the kings of Israel that had been before him.

3Against him came up Salmanasar, king of

the Assyrians; and Osee became his servant, and

paid him tribute.

4And when the king of the Assyrians found

that Osee, endeavouring to rebel, had sent mes-

sengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might

not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as

he had done every year, he besieged him, bound

him, and cast him into prison.

5And he went through all the land: and going

up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.

6And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of

the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel

away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala,

and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities

of the Medes.

7For so it was that the children of Israel had

sinned against the Lord, their God, who brought

them out of the land of Egypt, from under the

hand of Pharao, king of Egypt; and they wor-

shipped strange gods.

8And they walked according to the way of

the nations which the Lord had destroyed in the

sight of the children of Israel, and of the kings of

Israel: because they had done in like manner.

9And the children of Israel oended the Lord,

their God, with things that were not right: and

built them high places in all their cities, from the

tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

10And they made them statues and groves

on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

11And they burnt incense there upon al-

tars, after the manner of the nations which theFourth Book of Kings 465

Lord had removed from their face: and they did

wicked things, provoking the Lord.

12And they worshipped abominations, con-

cerning which the Lord had commanded them

that they should not do this thing.

13And the Lord testied to them in Israel,

and in Juda, by the hand of all the prophets and

seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways,

and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according

to all the law which I commanded your fathers:

and as I have sent to you in the hand of my

servants the prophets.

14And they hearkened not, but hardened

their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who

would not obey the Lord, their God.

15And they rejected his ordinances, and the

covenant that he made with their fathers, and

the testimonies which he testied against them:

and they followed vanities, and acted vainly:

and they followed the nations that were round

about them, concerning which the Lord had

commanded them that they should not do as

they did.

16And they forsook all the precepts of the

Lord, their God: and made to themselves two

molten calves, and groves, and adored all the

host of heaven: and they served Baal,

17And consecrated their sons, and their

daughters, through re: and they gave them-

selves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they

delivered themselves up to do evil before the

Lord, to provoke him.

18And the Lord was very angry with Israel,

and removed them from his sight, and there re-

mained only the tribe of Juda.

19But neither did Juda itself keep the com-

mandments of the Lord, their God: but they

walked in the errors of Israel, which they had

wrought.

20And the Lord cast o all the seed of Israel,and aicted them, and delivered them into the

hand of spoilers, till he cast them away from his

face:

21Even from that time, when Israel was rent

from thc house of David, and made Jeroboam,

son of Nabat, their king: for Jeroboam separated

Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a

great sin.

22And the children of Israel walked in all the

sins of Jeroboam, which he had done: and they

departed not from them,

23Till the Lord removed Israel from his face,

as he had spoken in the hand of all his servants,

the prophets: and Israel was carried away out of

their land to Assyria, unto this day.

24And the king of the Assyrians brought peo-

ple from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from

Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim:

and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead

of the children of Israel: and they possessed

Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

25And when they began to dwell there, they

feared not the Lord: and the Lord sent lions

among them, which killed them.

26And it was told the king of the Assyri-

ans, and it was said: The nations which thou

hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of

Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of

the land: and the Lord hath sent lions among

them: and behold they kill them, because they

know not the manner of the God of the land.

27And the king of the Assyrians commanded,

saying: Carry thither one of the priests whom

you brought from thence captive, and let him go,

and dwell with them: and let him teach them the

ordinances of the God of the land.

28So one of the priests, who had been carried

away captive from Samaria, came and dwelt in

Bethel, and taught them how they should wor-

ship the Lord.466 Fourth Book of Kings

29And every nation made gods of their own

and put them in the temples of the high places,

which the Samaritans had made, every nation in

their cities where they dwelt.

30For the men of Babylon made Sochoth-

benoth: and the Cuthites made Nergel: and the

men of Emath made Asima.

31And the Hevites made Nebahaz, and

Tharthac. And they that were of Sepharvaim

burnt their children in re, to Adramelech and

Anamelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

32And nevertheless they worshipped the

Lord. And they made to themselves, of the

lowest of the people, priests of the high places,

and they placed them in the temples of the high

places.

33And when they worshipped the Lord, they

served also their own gods, according to the

custom of the nations out of which they were

brought to Samaria:

34Unto this day they follow the old manner:

they fear not the Lord, neither do they keep his

ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the

commandment, which the Lord commanded the

children of Jacob, whom he surnamed Israel:

35With whom he made a covenant, and

charged them, saying: You shall not fear strange

gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship

them, nor sacrice to them.

36But the Lord, your God, who brought you

out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and

a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him

shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrice.

37And the ceremonies, and judgments, and

law, and the commandment, which he wrote for

you, you shall observe to do them always: and

you shall not fear strange gods.

38And the covenant that he made with you,

you shall not forget: neither shall ye worship

strange Gods,39But fear the Lord, your God, and he shall

deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

40But they did not hearken to them, but did

according to their old custom.

41So these nations feared the Lord, but nev-

ertheless served also their idols: their children

also, and grandchildren, as their fathers did, so

do they unto this day.

Chapter 18

In the third year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of

Israel, reigned Ezechias, the son of Achaz, king

of Juda.

2He was ve and twenty years old when he

began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty

years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was

Abi, the daughter of Zacharias.

3And he did that which was good before the

Lord, according to all that David, his father, had

done

4He destroyed the high places, and broke

the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves,

and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had

made: for till that time the children of Israel

burnt incense to it: and he called its name No-

hestan.

5He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel:

so that after him there was none like him among

all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were

before him:

6And he stuck to the Lord, and departed

not from his steps, but kept his commandments,

which the Lord commanded Moses.

7Wherefore the Lord also was with him, and

in all things, to which he went forth, he behaved

himself wisely. And he rebelled against the king

of the Assyrians, and served him not.

8He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, andFourth Book of Kings 467

all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen

to the fenced city.

9In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which

was the seventh vear of Osee, the son of Ela,

king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians,

came up to Samaria, and besieged it,

11And the king of the Assyrians carried away

Israel into Assyria, and placed them in Hala, and

in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the cities of

the Medes.

12Because they hearkened not to the voice

of the Lord, their God, but transgressed his

covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord,

commanded, they would not hear, nor do.

13In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias,

Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up

against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.

14Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent mes-

sengers to the king of the Assyrians, to Lachis,

saying: I have oended, depart from me: and

all that thou shalt put upon me, I will bear.

And the king of the Assyrians put a tax upon

Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents

of silver, and thirty talents of gold.

15And Ezechias gave all the silver that was

found in the house of the Lord, and in the king's

treasures.

16At that time Ezechias broke the doors of

the temple of the Lord, and the plates of gold

which he had fastened on them, and gave them

to the king of the Assyrians.

17And the king of the Assyrians sent

Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces, from

Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army,

to Jerusalem: and they went up and came to

Jerusalem, and they stood by the conduit of the

upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's

eld.

18And they called for the king: and there

went out to them Eliacim, the son of Helcias,who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe,

and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

19And Rabsaces said to them: Speak to

Ezechias: Thus saith the great king, the king of

the Assyrians: What is this condence, wherein

thou trustest?

20Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to pre-

pare thyself for battle. On whom dost thou trust,

that thou darest to rebel?

21Dost thou trust in Egypt a sta of a broken

reed, upon which if a man lean, it will break and

go into his hand, and pierce it? so is Pharao,

king of Egypt, to all that trust in him.

22But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord,

our God: is it not he, whose high places and al-

tars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath com-

manded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship

before this altar in Jerusalem?

23Now therefore come over to my master, the

king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two

thousand horses, and see whether you be able to

have riders for them.

24And how can you stand against one lord

of the least of my master's servants? Dost thou

trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

25Is it without the will of the Lord that I am

come up to this place to destroy it? The Lord

said to me: Go up to this land, and destroy it.

26Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and

Sobna, and Joahe, said to Rabsaces: We pray

thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we

understand that tongue: and speak not to us in

the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people

that are upon the wall.

27And Rabsaces answered them, saying:

Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to

thee, to speak these words, and not rather to the

men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat

their own dung, and drink their urine with you?

28Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a468 Fourth Book of Kings

loud voice in the Jews' language, and said: Hear

the word of the great king, the king of the As-

syrians.
29Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias de-

ceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you

out of my hand.

30Neither let him make you trust in the Lord,

saying: The Lord will surely deliver us, and this

city shall not be given into the hand of the king

of the Assyrians.

31Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus saith

the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which

is for your advantage, and come out to me: and

every man of you shall eat of his own vineyard,

and of his own g tree: and you shall drink water

of your own cisterns,

32Till I come, and take you away, to a land,

like to your own land, a fruitful land, and plen-

tiful in wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a

land of olives, and oil, and honey, and you shall

live, and not die. Hearken not to Ezechias, who

deceiveth you, saying: The Lord will deliver us.

33Have any of the gods of the nations de-

livered their land from the hand of the king of

Assyria?

34Where is the god of Emath, and of Arphad?

where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of

Ava? have they delivered Samaria out of my

hand?
35Who are they among all the gods of the

nations that have delivered their country out of

my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem

out of my hand?

36But the people held their peace, and an-

swered him not a word: for they had received

commandment from the king that they should

not answer him.

37And Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was

over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and Joahe,

the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Ezechias,with their garments rent, and told him the words

of Rabsaces.

Chapter 19

And when king Ezechias heard these words, he

rent his garments, and covered himself with sack-

cloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

2And he sent Eliacim, who was over the

house, and Sobna, the scribe, and the ancients

of the priests, covered with sackcloths, to Isaias,

the prophet, the son of Amos.

3And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias:

This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke,

and of blasphemy: the children are come to

the birth, and the woman in travail hath not

strength.

4It may be the Lord, thy God, will hear all

the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the

Assyrians, his master, hath sent to reproach the

living God, and to reprove with words, which

the Lord, thy God, hath heard: and do thou

oer prayer for the remnants that are found.

5So the servants of king Ezechias came to

Isaias.

6And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say

to your master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not

afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with

which the servants of the king of the Assyrians

have blasphemed me.

7Behold I will send a spirit upon him, and

he shall hear a message, and shall return into

his own country, and I will make him fall by the

sword in his own country.

8And Rabsaces returned, and found the king

of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had

heard that he was departed from Lachis.

9And when he heard of Tharaca, king of

Ethiopia: Behold, he is come out to ght withFourth Book of Kings 469

thee: and was going against him, he sent mes-

sengers to Ezechias, saying:

10Thus shall you say to Ezechias, king of

Juda: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom

thou trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall

not be delivered into the hands of the king of the

Assyrians.

11Behold, thou hast heard what the kings

of the Assyrians have done to all countries, how

they have laid them waste: and canst thou alone

be delivered?

12Have the gods of the nations delivered any

of them, whom my fathers have destroyed, to

wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the

children of Eden, that were in Thelassar?

13Where is the king of Emath, and the king of

Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,

and of Ana, and of Ava?

14And when Ezechias had received the letter

of the hand of the messengers, and had read it,

he went up to the house of the Lord, and spread

it before the Lord,

15And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord

God of Israel, who sittest upon the cherubims,

thou alone art the God of all the kings of the

earth: thou madest heaven and earth:

16Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord,

thy eyes and see: and hear all the words of Sen-

nacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the

living God.

17Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the As-

syrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of

them all.

18And they have cast their gods into the re:

for they were not gods, but the work of men's

hands, of wood and stone, and they destroyed

them.

19Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us

from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth

may know that thou art the Lord, the only God.20And Isaias, the son of Amos, sent to

Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord, the God

of Israel: I have heard the prayer thou hast made

to me concerning Sennacherib, king of the Assyr-

ians.

21This is the word that the Lord hath spo-

ken of him: The virgin, the daughter of Sion,

hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn:

the daughtor of Jerusalem hath wagged her head

behind thy back.

22Whom hast thou reproached, and whom

hast thou blasphemed? against whom hast thou

exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high?

against the holy one of Israel.

23By the hand of thy servants thou hast re-

proached the Lord, and hast said: With the mul-

titude of my chariots I have gone up to the height

of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and

have cut down its tall cedars, and its choice r

trees. And I have entered into the furthest parts

thereof, and the forest of its Carmel.

24I have cut down, and I have drunk strange

waters, and have dried up with the soles of my

feet all the shut up waters.

25Hast thou not heard what I have done

from the beginning? from the days of old I

have formed it, and now I have brought it to

eect: that fenced cities of ghting men should

be turned to heaps of ruins:

26And the inhabitants of them were weak of

hand, they trembled and were confounded, they

became like the grass of the eld, and the green

herb on the tops of houses, which withered before

it came to maturity.

27Thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy

coming in, and thy way I knew before, and thy

rage against me.

28Thou hast been mad against me, and thy

pride hath come up to my ears: therefore I will

put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips,470 Fourth Book of Kings

and I will turn thee back by the way by which

thou camest.

29And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a

sign: Eat this year what thou shalt nd: and in

the second year, such things as spring of them-

selves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant

vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

30And whatsoever shall be left of the house of

Juda, shall take root downward, and bear fruit

upward.

31For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a rem-

nant, and that which shall be saved out of mount

Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

32Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning

the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into

this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come

before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

33By the way that he came he shall return:

and into this city he shall not come, saith the

Lord.

34And I will protect this city, and will save

it for my own sake, and for David, my servant's

sake.

35And it came to pass that night, that an

angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp

of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-ve thou-

sand. And when he arose early in the morning,

he saw all the bodies of the dead.

36And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians,

departing, went away, and he returned and

abode in Ninive.

37And as he was worshipping in the temple

of Nesroch, his god, Adramelech and Sarasar, his

sons, slew him with the sword, and they

ed into

the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon, his

son, reigned in his stead.Chapter 20

In those days Ezechias was sick unto death: and

Isaias, the son of Amos, the prophet, came and

said to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Give

charge concerning thy house, for thou shalt die,

and not llve.

2And he turned his face to the wall, and

prayed to the Lord, saying:

3I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have

walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect

heart, and have done that which is pleasing be-

fore thee. And Ezechias wept with much weep-

ing.

4And before Isaias was gone out of the middle

of the court, the word of the Lord came to him,

saying:

5Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my

people: Thus saith the Lord, the God of David,

thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have

seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee:

on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple

of the Lord.

6And I will add to thy days fteen years: and

I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand

of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect

this city for my own sake, and for David, my

servant's sake.

7And Isaias said: Bring me a lump of gs.

And when they had brought it, and laid it upon

his boil, he was healed.

8And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall

be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that

I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third

day?

9And Isaias said to him: This shall be the

sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the

word which he hath spoken: Wilt thou that the

shadow go forward ten lines, or that it go back

so many degrees?Fourth Book of Kings 471

10And Ezechias said: It is an easy matter for

the shadow to go forward ten lines: and I do not

desire that this be done, but let it return back

ten degrees.

11And Isaias, the prophet, called upon the

Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees

backwards by the lines, by which it had already

gone down on the dial of Achaz.

12At that time Berodach Baladan, the son

of Baladan, king of the Babylonians, sent letters

and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that

Ezechias had been sick.

13And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming,

and he shewed them the house of his aromatical

spices, and the gold, and the silver, and divers

precious odours, and ointments, and the house

of his vessels, and all that he had in his trea-

sures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all

his dominions, that Ezechias shewed them not.

14And Isaias, the prophet, came to king

Ezechias, and said to him: What said these

men? or from whence came they to thee? And

Ezechias said to him: From a far country, they

came to me out of Babylon.

15And he said: What did they see in thy

house? Ezechias said: They saw all the things

that are in my house: There is nothing among

my treasures that I have not shewed them.

16And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word

of the Lord.

17Behold the days shall come, that all that

is in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid

up in store unto this day, shall be carried into

Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

18And of thy sons also that shall issue from

thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take

away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace

of the king of Babylon.

19Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the

Lord, which thou hast spoken, is good: let peaceand truth be in my days.

20And the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and

all his might, and how he made a pool, and a

conduit, and brought waters into the city, are

they not written in the book of the words of the

days of the kings of Juda?

21And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and

Manasses, his son reigned in his stead.

Chapter 21

Manasses was twelve years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned ve and fty years in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haph-

siba.

2And he did evil in the sight of the Lord,

according to the idols of the nations, which the

Lord destroyed from before the face of the chil-

dren of Israel.

3And he turned, and built up the high places,

which Ezechias, his father, had destroyed: and

he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as

Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he

adored all the host of heaven, and served them.

4And he built altars in the house of the Lord,

of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put

my name.

5And he built altars for all the host of heaven,

in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

6And he made his son pass through re: and

he used divinations, and observed omens, and

appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers,

to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.

7He set also an idol of the grove, which he

had made, in the temple of the Lord: concerning

which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon

his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which

I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will

put my name for ever.472 Fourth Book of Kings

8And I will no more make the feet of Israel to

be moved out of the land, which I gave to their

fathers: only if they will observe to do all that

I have commanded them, according to the law

which my servant Moses commanded them.

9But they hearkened not: but were seduced

by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations

which the Lord destroyed before the children of

Israel.
10And the Lord spoke in the hand of his ser-

vants, the prophets, saying:

11Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done

these most wicked abominations, beyond all that

the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made

Juda also to sin with his lthy doings:

12Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God

of Israel: Behold, I will bring on evils upon

Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear

of them, both his ears shall tingle.

13And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of

Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab:

and I will eace Jerusalem, as writings tables are

wont to be eaced, and I will erase and turn it,

and draw the pencil often over the face thereof.

14And I will leave the remnants of my inher-

itance, and will deliver them into the hands of

their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and

a spoil to all their enemies.

15Because they have done evil before me, and

have continued to provoke me, from the day that

their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this

day.

16Moreover, Manasses shed also very much

innocent blood, till he lled Jerusalem up to

the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made

Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

17Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and

all that he did, and his sin, which he sinned, are

they not written in the book of the words of the

days of the kings of Juda?18And Manasses slept with his fathers, and

was buried in the garden of his own house, in

the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned

in his stead.

19Two and twenty years old was Amon when

he began to reign, and he reigned two years in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Mes-

salemeth, the daughter of Harus, of Jeteba.

20And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as

Manasses, his father, had done.

21And he walked in all the way in which his

father had walked: and he served the abomina-

tions which his father had served, and he adored

them.

22And forsook the Lord, the God of his fa-

thers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.

23And his servants plotted against him, and

slew the king in his own house.

24But the people of the land slew all them

that had conspired against king Amon: and

made Josias, his son, their king in his stead.

25But the rest of the acts of Amon, which

he did, are they not written in the book of the

words of the days of the kings of Juda?

26And they buried him in his sepulchre, in

the garden of Oza: and his son, Josias, reigned

in his stead.

Chapter 22

Josias was eight years old when he began to

reign: he reigned one and thirty years in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida,

the daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.

2And he did that which was right in the sight

of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David,

his father: he turned not aside to the right hand,

or to the left.

3And in the eighteenth year of king Josias,Fourth Book of Kings 473

the king sent Saphan, the son of Assia, the son of

Messulam, the scribe of the temple of the Lord,

saying to him:

5And let it be given to the workmen by the

overseers of the house of the Lord: and let them

distribute it to those that work in the temple of

the Lord, to repair the temple:

6That is, to carpenters and masons, and to

such as mend breaches: and that timber may be

bought, and stones out of the quarries, to repair

the temple of the Lord.

7But let there be no reckoning made with

them of the money which they receive, but let

them have it in their power, and in their trust.

8And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan,

the scribe: I have found the book of the law in

the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the book

to Saphan, and he read it.

9And Saphan, the scribe, came to the king,

and brought him word again concerning that

which he had commanded, and said: Thy ser-

vants have gathered together the money that was

found in the house of the Lord: and they have

given it to be distributed to the workmen, by the

overseers of the works of the temple of the Lord.

10And Saphan, the scribe, told the king, say-

ing: Helcias, the priest, hath delivered to me a

book. And when Saphan had read it before the

king,

11And the king had heard the words of the

law of the Lord, he rent his garments.

12And he commanded Helcias, the priest, and

Ahicam, the son of Saphan, and Achobor, the

son of Micha, and Saphan, the scribe, and Asaia,

the king's servant, saying:

13Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the

people, and for all Juda, concerning the words

of this book which is found: for the great wrath

of the Lord is kindled against us, because our

fathers have not hearkened to the words of thisbook, to do all that is written for us.

14So Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, and

Achobor, and Sapham, and Asaia, went to

Holda, the prophetess, the wife of Sellum, the

son of Thecua, the son of Araas, keeper of the

wardrobe, who dwelt in Jerusalem, in the Sec-

ond: and they spoke to her.

15And she said to them: Thus saith the Lord,

the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent you to

me:

16Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring

evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants

thereof, all the words of the law which the king

of Juda hath read:

17Because they have forsaken me, and have

sacriced to strange gods, provoking me by all

the works of their hands: therefore my indigna-

tion shall be kindled against this place, and shall

not be quenched.

18But to the king of Juda, who sent you to

consult the Lord, thus shall you say: Thus saith

the Lord, the God of Israel: for as much as thou

hast heard the words of the book,

19And thy heart hath been moved to fear,

and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord,

hearing the words against this place, and the in-

habitants thereof, to wit, that they should be-

come a wonder and a curse: and thou hast rent

thy garments, and wept before me; I also have

heard thee; saith the Lord.

20Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers,

and thou shalt be gathered to thy sepulchre in

peace; that thy eyes may not see all the evils

which I will bring upon this place.

Chapter 23

And they brought the king word again what she

had said. And he sent: and all the ancients of474 Fourth Book of Kings

Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him.

2And the king went up to the temple of the

Lord, and all the men of Juda, and all the inhab-

itants of Jerusalem with him, the priests, and

the prophets, and all the people, both little and

great: and in the hearing of them all he read all

the words of the book of the covenant, which was

found in the house of the Lord.

3And the king stood upon the step: and he

made a covenant with the Lord, to walk after the

Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his

testimonies, and his ceremonies, with all their

heart, and with all their soul, and to perform

the words of this covenant, which were writ-

ten in that book: and the people agreed to the

covenant.

4And the king commanded Helcias, the high

priest, and the priests of the second order, and

the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of the

Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal,

and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven:

and he burnt them without Jerusalem, in the val-

ley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them

to Bethel.

5And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the

kings of Juda had appointed to sacrice in the

high places in the cities of Juda, and round about

Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal,

and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the

twelve signs, and to all the host of heaven.

6And he caused the grove to be carried out

from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem,

to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there,

and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon

the graves of the common people.

7He destroyed also the pavilions of the eem-

inate, which were in the house of the Lord, for

which the women wove as it were little dwellings

for the grove.

8And he gathered together all the priests outof the cities of Juda: and he deled the high

places, where the priests oered sacrice, from

Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down thc al-

tars of the gates that were in the entering in of

the gate of Josue, governor of the city, which was

on the left hand of the gate of the city.

9However, the priests of the high places came

not up to the altar of the Lord, in Jerusalem:

but only eat of the unleavened bread among their

brethren.

10And he deled Topheth, which is in the val-

ley of the son of Ennom: that no man should con-

secrate there his son, or his daughter, through

re, to Moloch.

11And he took away the horses which the

kings of Juda had given to the sun, at the en-

tering in of the temple of the Lord, near the

chamber of Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was

in Pharurim: and he burnt the chariots of the

sun with re.

12And the altars that were upon the top of

the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings

of Juda had made, and the altars which Man-

asses had made in the two courts of the temple

of the Lord, the king broke down: and he ran

from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the

torrent Cedron.

13The high places also that were at

Jerusalem, on the right side of the Mount of Of-

fence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built

to Astaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to

Chamos, the scandal of Moab, and to Melchom,

the abomination of the children of Ammon, the

king deled.

14And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut

down the groves: and he lled their places with

the bones of dead men.

15Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel,

and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of

Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: bothFourth Book of Kings 475

the altar, and the high place, he broke down and

burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the

grove.

16And as Josias turned himself, he saw there

the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he

sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres,

and burnt them upon the altar, and deled it ac-

cording to the word of the Lord, which the man

of God spoke, who had foretold these things.

17And he said: What is that monument

which I see? And the men of that city answered:

It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came

from Juda, and foretold these things which thou

hast done upon the altar of Bethel.

18And he said: Let him alone, let no man

move his bones. So his bones were left untouched

with the bones of the prophet, that came out of

Samaria.

19Moreover all the temples of the high places

which were in the cities of Samaria, which the

kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord,

Josias took away: and he did to them according

to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

20And he slew all the priests of the high

places, that were there, upon the altars; and he

burnt men's bones upon them: and returned to

Jerusalem.

21And he commanded all the people, saying:

Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according

as it is written in the book of this covenant.

22Now there was no such a Phase kept from

the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor

in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the

kings of Juda,

23As was this Phase, that was kept to the

Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king

Josias.

24Moreover the diviners by spirits, and sooth-

sayers, and the gures of idols, and the unclean-

nesses, and the abominations, that had beenin the land of Juda and Jerusalem, Josias took

away: that he might perform the words of the

law, that were written in the book, which Hel-

cias the priest had found in the temple of the

Lord.

25There was no king before him like unto

him, that returned to the Lord with all his heart,

and with all his soul, and with all his strength,

according to all the law of Moses: neither after

him did there arise any like unto him.

26But yet the Lord turned not away from

the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his

anger was kindled against Juda: because of the

provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked

him.

27And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also

from before my face, as I have removed Israel:

and I will cast o this city Jerusalem, which I

chose, and the house, of which I said: My name

shall be there.

28Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all

that he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

29In his days Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt,

went up against the king of Assyria to the river

Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet him:

and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen

him.

30And his servants carried him dead from

Mageddo: and they brought him to Jerusalem,

and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the

people of the land took Joachaz, the son of

Josias: and they anointed him, and made him

king in his father's stead.

31Joachaz was three and twenty years old

when he began to reign, and he reigned three

months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother

was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.

32And he did evil before the Lord, according

to all that his fathers had done.476 Fourth Book of Kings

33And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla,

which is in the land of Emath, that he should

not reign in Jerusalem: and he set a ne upon

the land, of a hundred talents of silver, and a

talent of gold.

34And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim, the son

of Josias, king in the room of Josias his father:

and turned his name to Joakim. And he took

Joachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and

he died there.

35And Joakim gave the silver and the gold

to Pharao, after he had taxed the land for every

man, to contribute according to the command-

ment of Pharao: and he exacted both the silver

and the gold of the people of the land, of every

man according to his ability: to give to Pharao

Nechao.

36Joakim was ve and twenty years old when

he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Zebida,

the daughter of Phadaia, of Ruma.

37And he did evil before the Lord according

to all that his fathers had done.

Chapter 24

In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon

came up, and Joakim became his servant three

years: then again he rebelled against him.

2And the Lord sent against him the rovers of

the Chaldees, and the rovers of Syria, and the

rovers of Moab, and the rovers of the children of

Ammon: and he sent them against Juda, to de-

stroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which

he had spoken by his servants, the prophets.

3And this came by the word of the Lord

against Juda, to remove them from before him

for all the sins of Manasses which he did;

4And for the innocent blood that he shed,lling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and there-
fore the Lord would not be appeased.

5But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and all

that he did, are they not written in the book of

the words of the days of the kings of Juda? And

Joakim slept with his fathers:

6And Joachin, his son, reigned in his stead.

7And the king of Egypt came not again any

more out of his own country: for the king of

Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the

king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the

river Euphrates.

8Joachin was eighteen years old when he be-

gan to reign, and he reigned three months in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta,

the daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem.

9And he did evil before the Lord, according

to all that his father had done.

10At that time the servants of Nabu-

chodonosor, king of Babylon, came up against

Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with

their forts.

11And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon,

came to the city, with his servants, to assault

it.

12And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to

the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his

servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and

the king of Babylon received him in the eighth

year of his reign.

13And he brought out from thence all the

treasures of the house of the Lord, and the trea-

sures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces all

the vessels of gold which Solomon, king of Israel,

had made in the temple of the Lord, according

to the word of the Lord.

14And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all

the princes, and all the valiant men of the army,

to the number of ten thousand, into captivity:

and every articer and smith: and none wereFourth Book of Kings 477

left, but the poor sort of the people of the land.

15And he carried away Joachin into Babylon,

and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and

his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he car-

ried into captivity, from Jerusalem, into Baby-

lon.

16And all the strong men, seven thousand,

and the articers, and the smiths, a thousand, all

that were valiant men, and t for war: and the

king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.

17And he appointed Matthanias, his uncle,

in his stead: and called his name Sedecias.

18Sedecias was one and twenty years old

when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven

years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was

Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna.

19And he did evil before the Lord, according

to all that Joakim had done.

20For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem

and against Juda, till he cast them out from

his face: and Sedecias revolted from the king of

Babylon.

Chapter 25

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign,

in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month,

that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he

and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they

surrounded it: and raised works round about it.

2And the city was shut up and besieged till

the eleventh year of king Sedecias,

3The ninth day of the month: and a famine

prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for

the people of the land.

4And a breach was made into the city: and

all the men of war

ed in the night between the

two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees

besieged the city round about), and Sedecias

edby the way that leadeth to the plains of the

wilderness.

5And the army of the Chaldees pursued af-

ter the king, and overtook him in the plains of

Jericho: and all the warriors that were with him

were scattered, and left him:

6So they took the king, and brought him to

the king of Babylon, to Reblatha, and he gave

judgment upon him.

7And he slew the sons of Sedecias before his

face, and he put out his eyes, and bound him

with chains, and brought him to Babylon.

8In the fth month, the seventh day of the

month, the same is the nineteenth year of the

king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan, commander

of the army, a servant of the king of Babylon,

into Jerusalem.

9And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the

king's house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and

every great house he burnt with re.

10And all the army of the Chaldees, which

was with the commander of the troops, broke

down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

11And Nabuzardan, the commander of the

army, carried away the rest of the people, that

remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had

gone over to the king of Babylon, and the rem-

nant of the common people.

12But of the poor of the land he left some

dressers of vines and husbandmen.

13And the pillars of brass that were in the

temple of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea

of brass, which was in the house of the Lord,

the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the

brass of them to Babylon.

14They took away also the pots of brass, and

the mazers, and the forks, and the cups, and the

mortars, and all the vessels of brass, with which

they ministered.

15Moreover also the censers, and the bowls,478 Fourth Book of Kings

such as were of gold in gold: and such as were

of silver in silver, the general of the army took

away.

16That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases

which Solomon had made in the temple of the

Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without

weight.

17One pillar was eighteen cubits high: and

the chapiter of brass, which was upon it, was

three cubits high: and the network, and the

pomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the

pillar, were all of brass: and the second pillar had

the like adorning.

18And the general of the army took Sera-

ias, the chief priest, and Sophonias, the second

priest, and three doorkeepers:

19And out of the city one eunuch, who was

captain over the men of war: and ve men of

them who had stood before the king, whom he

found in the city, and Sopher, the captain of the

army, who exercised the young soldiers of the

people of the land: and threescore men of the

common people, who were found in the city:

20These Nabuzardan, the general of the

army, took away, and carried them to the king

of Babylon, to Reblatha.

21And the king of Babylon smote them, and

slew them at Reblatha, in the land of Emath: so

Juda was carried away out of their land.

22But over the people that remained in the

land of Juda, which Nabuchodonosor, king of

Babylon, had left, he gave the government to

Godolias, the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan.

23And when all the captains of the soldiers

had heard this, they and the men that were

with them, to wit, that the king of Babylon had

made Godolias governor they came to Godolias

to Maspha, Ismael, the son of Nathanias, and Jo-

hanan, the son of Caree, and Saraia, the son of

Thanehumeth, the Netophathite, and Jezonias,the son of Maachathi, they and their men.

24And Godolias swore to them and to their

men, saying: Be not afraid to serve the Chaldees:

stay in the land, and serve the king of Babylon,

and it shall be well with you.

25But it came to pass in the seventh month,

that Ismael, the son of Nathanias, the son of

Elisama, of the seed royal came, and ten men

with him, and smote Godolias; so that he died:

and also the Jews and the Chaldees that were

with him in Maspha.

26And all the people, both little and great,

and the captains of the soldiers, rising up, went

to Egypt, fearing the Chaldees.

27And it came to pass in the seven and thirti-

eth year of the captivity of Joachin, king of Juda,

in the twelfth month, the seven and twentieth

day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Baby-

lon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up

the head of Joachin, king of Juda, out of prison.

28And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his

throne above the throne of the kings that were

with him in Babylon.

29And he changed his garments which he had

in prison, and he ate bread always before him,

all the days of his life.

30And he appointed him a continual al-

lowance, which was also given him by the king,

day by day, all the days of his life.First Book of Paralipomenon

Chapter 1

Adam, Seth, Enos,

2Cainan, Malaleel, Jared,

3Henoc, Mathusale, Lamech,

4Noe, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

5The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog,

and Madai, and Javan, Thubal, Mosoch, Thiras.

6And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez, and

Riphath, and Thogorma.

7And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis,

Cethim and Dodanim.

8The sons of Cham: Chus, and Mesrai, and

Phut, and Chanaan.

9And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila,

Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabathaca. And the

sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.

10Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be

mighty upon earth.

11But Mesraim begot Ludim, and Anamim,

and Laabim, and Nephtuim,

12Phetrusim also, and Casluim: from whom

came the Philistines, and Caphtorim.

13And Chanaan begot Sidon his rstborn,

and the Hethite,

14And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and

the Gergesite,

15And the Hevite, and the Aracite, and the

Sinite,

16And the Aradian, and the Samarite, and

the Hamathite.17The sons of Sem: Elam and Asur, and

Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Hus, and

Hul, and Gether, and Mosoch.

18And Arphaxad begot Sale, and Sale begot

Heber.

19And to Heber were born two sons, the name

of the one was Phaleg, because in his days the

earth was divided; and the name of his brother

was Jectan.

20And Jectan begot Elmodad, and Saleph,

and Asarmoth, and Jare,

21And Adoram, and Usal, and Decla,

22And Hebal, and Abimael, and Saba,

23And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All

these are the sons of Jectan.

24Sem, Arphaxad, Sale,

25Heber, Phaleg, Ragau,

26Serug, Nachor, Thare,

27Abram, this is Abraham.

28And the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Isma-

hel.

29And these are the generations of them. The

rstborn of Ismahel, Nabajoth, then Cedar, and

Adbeel, and Mabsam,

30And Masma, and Duma, Massa, Hadad,

and Thema,

31Jetur, Naphis, Cedma: these are the sons

of Ismahel.

32And the sons of Cetura, Abraham's concu-

bine, whom she bore: Zamran, Jecsan, Madan,

Madian, Jesboc, and Sue. And the sons of Jec-480 First Book of Paralipomenon

san, Saba, and Dadan. And the sons of Dadan:

Assurim, and Latussim, and Laomin.

33And the sons of Madian: Epha, and Epher,

and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa. All these

are the sons of Cetura.

34And Abraham begot Isaac: and his sons

were Esau and Israel.

35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Rahuel, Jehus,

Ihelom, and Core.

36The sons of Eliphaz: Theman, Omar,

Sephi, Gathan, Cenez, and by Thamna, Amalec.

37The sons of Rahuel: Nahath, Zara, Samma,

Meza.

38The sons of Seir: Lotan, Sobal, Sebeon,

Ana, Dison, Eser, Disan.

39The sons of Lotan: Hori, Homam. And the

sister of Lotan was Thamna.

40The sons of Sobal: Alian, and Manahath,

and Ebal, Sephi, and Onam. The sons of Sebeon:

Aia, and Ana. The son of Ana: Dison.

41The sons of Dison: Hamram, and Eseban,

and Jethran, and Charan.

42The sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and

Jacan. The sons of Disan: Hus and Aran.

43Now these are the kings that reigned in the

land of Edom, before there was a king over the

children of Israel: Bale the son of Beor: and the

name of his city was Denaba.

44And Bale died, and Jobab the son of Zare

of Bosra, reigned in his stead.

45And when Jobab also was dead, Husam of

the land of the Themanites reigned in his stead.

46And Husam also died, and Adad the son of

Badad reigned in his stead, and he defeated the

Madianites in the land of Moab: the name of his

city was Avith.

47And when Adad also was dead, Semla of

Masreca reigned in his stead.

48Semla also died, and Saul of Rohoboth,

which is near the river, reigned in his stead.49And when Saul was dead, Balanan the son

of Achobor reigned in his stead.

50He also died, and Adad reigned in his stead:

and the name of his city was Phau, and his wife

was called Meetabel the daughter of Matred, the

daughter of Mezaab.

51And after the death of Adad, there be-

gan to be dukes in Edom instead of kings: duke

Thamna, duke Alva, duke Jetheth,

52Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phinon,

53Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,

54Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram. These are the

dukes of Edom.

Chapter 2

And these are the sons of Israel: Ruben, Simeon,

Levi, Juda, Issachar, and Zabulon,

2Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephtali, Gad, and

Aser.

3The sons of Juda: Her, Onan and Sela.

These three were born to him of the Chanaan-

itess the daughter of Sue. And Her the rstborn

of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and

he slew him.

4And Thamar his daughter in law bore him

Phares and Zara. So all the sons of Juda were

ve.

5And the sons of Phares, were Hesron and

Hamul.
6And the sons also of Zare: Zamri, and

Ethan, and Eman, and Chalchal, and Dara, ve

in all.

7And the sons of Charmi: Achar, who trou-

bled Israel, and sinned by the theft of the anath-

ema.

8The sons of Ethan: Azarias,

9And the sons of Hesron that were born to

him: Jerameel, and Ram, and Calubi.First Book of Paralipomenon 481

10And Ram begot Aminadab, and Aminadab

begot Nahasson, prince of the children of Juda.

11And Nahasson begot Salma, the father of

Booz.

12And Booz begot Obed, and Obed begot

Isai.

13And Isai begot Eliab his rstborn, the sec-

ond Abinadab, the third Simmaa,

14The fourth, Nathanael, the fth Raddai,

15The sixth Asom, the seventh David.

16And their sisters were Sarvia, and Abigail.

The sons of Sarvia: Abisai, Joab, and Asael,

three.

17And Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was

Jether the Ismahelite.

18And Caleb the son of Hesron took a wife

named Azuba, of whom he had Jerioth: and her

sons were Jaser, and Sobab, and Ardon.

19And when Azuba was dead, Caleb took to

wife Ephrata: who bore him Hur.

20And Hur begot Uri: and Uri begot

Bezeleel.

21And afterwards Hesron went in to the

daughter of Machir the father of Galaad, and

took her to wife when he was threescore years

old: and she bore him Segub.

22And Segub begot Jair, and he had three

and twenty cities in the land of Galaad.

23And he took Gessur, and Aram the towns

of Jair, and Canath, and the villages thereof,

threescore cities. All these, the sons of Machir

father of Galaad.

24And when Hesron was dead, Caleb went in

to Ephrata. Hesron also had to wife Abia who

bore him Ashur the father of Thecua.

25And the sons of Jerameel the rstborn of

Hesron, were Ram his rstborn, and Buna, and

Aram, and Asom, and Achia.

26And Jerameel married another wife, named

Atara, who was the mother of Onam.27And the sons of Ram the rstborn of Jer-

ameel, were Moos, Jamin, and Achar.

28And Onam had sons Semei, and Jada. And

the sons of Semei: Nadab, and Abisur.

29And the name of Abisur's wife was Abihail,

who bore him Ahobban, and Molid.

30And the sons of Nadab were Saled and Ap-

phaim. And Saled died without children.

31But the son of Apphaim was Jesi: and Jesi

begot Sesan. And Sesan begot Oholai.

32And the sons of Jada the brother of Se-

mei: Jether and Jonathan. And Jether also died

without children.

33But Jonathan begot Phaleth, and Ziza.

These were the sons of Jerameel.

34And Sesan had no sons, but daughters and

a servant an Egyptian, named Jeraa.

35And he gave him his daughter to wife: and

she bore him Ethei.

36And Ethei begot Nathan, and Nathan be-

got Zabad.

37And Zabad begot Ophlal, and Ophlal begot

Obed.

38Obed begot Jehu, Jehu begot Azarias.

39Azarias begot Helles, and Helles begot

Elasa.

40Elasa begot Sisamoi, Sisamoi begot Sellum,

41Sellum begot Icamia, and Icamia begot

Elisama.

42Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jer-

ameel were Mesa his rstborn, who was the fa-

ther of Siph: and the sons of Maresa father of

Hebron.

43And the sons of Hebron, Core, and Tha-

phua, and Recem, and Samma.

44And Samma begot Raham, the father of

Jercaam, and Recem begot Sammai.

45The son of Sammai, Maon: and Maon the

father of Bethsur.482 First Book of Paralipomenon

46And Epha the concubine of Caleb bore Ha-

ran, and Mosa, and Gezez. And Haran begot

Gezez.

47And the sons of Jahaddai, Rogom, and

Joathan, and Gesan, and Phalet, and Epha, and

Saaph.

48And Maacha the concubine of Caleb bore

Saber, and Tharana.

49And Saaph the father of Madmena begot

Sue the father of Machbena, and the father of

Gabaa. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.

50These were the sons of Caleb, the son of

Hur the rstborn of Ephrata, Sobal the father of

Cariathiarim.

51Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hariph the

father of Bethgader.

52And Sobal the father of Cariathiarim had

sons: he that saw half of the places of rest.

53And of the kindred of Cariathiarim, the

Jethrites, and Aphuthites, and Semathites, and

Maserites. Of them came the Saraites, and Es-

thaolites.

54The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and Ne-

tophathi, the crowns of the house of Joab, and

half of the place of rest of Sarai.

55And the families of the scribes that dwell in

Jabes, singing and making melody, and abiding

in tents. These are the Cinites, who came of

Calor (Chamath) father of the house of Rechab.

Chapter 3

Now these were the sons of David that were born

to him in Hebron: the rstborn Amnon of Achi-

noam the Jezrahelitess, the second Daniel of Abi-

gail the Carmelitess.

2The third Absalom the son of Maacha the

daughter of Tolmai king of Gessur, the fourth

Adonias the son of Aggith,3The fth Saphatias of Abital, the sixth

Jethrahem of Egla his wife.

4So six sons were born to him in Hebron,

where he reigned seven years and six months.

And in Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty

years.

5And these sons were born to him in

Jerusalem: Simmaa, and Sobab, and Nathan,

and Solomon, four of Bethsabee the daughter of

Ammiel.

6Jebaar also and Elisama,

7And Eliphaleth, and Noge, and Nepheg, and

Japhia,

8And Elisama, and Eliada, and Elipheleth,

nine:

9All these the sons of David, beside the sons

of the concubines: and they had a sister Thamar.

10And Solomon's son was Roboam: whose

son Abia begot Asa. And his son was Josaphat,

11The father of Joram: and Joram begot

Ochozias, of whom was born Joas:

12And his son Amasias begot Azarias. And

Joathan the son of Azarias

13Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias, of

whom was born Manasses.

14And Manasses begot Amon the father of

Josias.

15And the sons of Josias were, the rstborn

Johanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedecias,

the fourth Sellum.

16Of Joakim was born Jechonias, and Sede-

cias.

17The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Salathiel,

18Melchiram, Phadaia, Senneser and Je-

cemia, Sama, and Nadabia.

19Of Phadaia were born Zorobabel and Se-

mei. Zorobabel begot Mosollam, Hananias, and

Salomith their sister:

20Hasaba also, and Ohol, and Barachias, and

Hasadias, Josabhesed, ve.First Book of Paralipomenon 483

21And the son of Hananias was Phaltias the

father of Jeseias, whose son was Raphaia. And

his son was Arnan, of whom was born Obdia,

whose son was Sechenias.

22The son of Sechenias was Semeia, whose

sons were Hattus, and Jegaal, and Baria, and

Naaria, and Saphat, six in number.

23The sons of Naaria, Elioenai, and Ezechias,

and Ezricam, three.

24The sons of Elioenai, Oduia, and Elia-

sub, and Pheleia, and Accub, and Johanan, and

Dalaia, and Anani, seven.

Chapter 4

The sons of Juda: Phares, Hesron, and Charmi

and Hur, and Sobal.

2And Raia the son of Sobal begot Jahath, of

whom were born Ahumai, and Laad. These are

the families of Sarathi.

3And this is the posterity of Etam: Jezrahel,

and Jesema, And Jedebos: and the name of their

sister was Asalelphuni.

4And Phanuel the father of Gedor, and Ezar

the father of Hosa, these are the sons of Hur the

rstborn of Ephratha the father of Bethlehem.

5And Assur the father of Thecua had two

wives, Halaa and Naara:

6And Naara bore him Ozam, and Hepher,

and Themani, and Ahasthari: these are the sons

of Naara.

7And the sons of Halaa, Sereth, Isaar, and

Ethnan.

8And Cos begot Anob, and Soboba, and the

kindred of Aharehel the son of Arum.

9And Jabes was more honourable than any

of his brethren, and his mother called his name

Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow.

10And Jabes called upon the God of Israel,saying: If blessing thou wilt bless me, and wilt

enlarge my borders, and thy hand be with me,

and thou save me from being oppressed by evil.

And God granted him the things he prayed for.

11And Caleb the brother of Sua begot Mahir,

who was the father of Esthon.

12And Esthon begot Bethrapha, and Phesse,

and Tehinna father of the city of Naas: these are

the men of Recha.

13And the sons of Cenez were Othoniel, and

Saraia. And the sons of Othoniel, Hathath, and

Maonathi.

14Maonathi begot Ophra, and Saraia begot

Joab the father of the Valley of articers: for

articers were there.

15And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephone,

were Hir, and Ela, and Naham. And the sons of

Ela: Cenez.

16The sons also of Jaleleel: Ziph, and Zipha,

Thiria and Asrael.

17And the sons of Esra, Jether, and Mered,

and Epher, and Jalon, and he begot Mariam,

and Sammai, and Jesba the father of Esthamo.

18And his wife Judaia, bore Jared the father

of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and

Icuthiel the father of Zanoe. And these are the

sons of Bethia the daughter of Pharao, whom

Mered took to wife.

19And the sons of his wife Odaia the sister of

Naham the father of Celia, Garmi, and Esthamo,

who was of Machathi.

20The sons also of Simon, Amnon, and Rinna

the son of Hanan, and Thilon. And the sons of

Jesi Zoheth, and Benzoheth.

21The sons of Sela the son of Juda: Her

the father of Lecha, and Laada the father of

Maresa, and the families of the house of them

that wrought ne linen in the House of oath.

22And he that made the sun to stand, and

the men of Lying, and Secure, and Burning, who484 First Book of Paralipomenon

were princes in Moab, and who returned into

Lahem. Now these are things of old.

23These are the potters, and they dwelt in

Plantations, and Hedges, with the king for his

works, and they abode there.

24The sons of Simeon: Namuel and Jamin,

Jarib, Zara, Saul:

25Sellum his son, Mapsam his son, Masma

his son.

26The sons of Masma: Hamuel his son,

Zachur his son, Semei his son.

27The sons of Semei were sixteen, and six

daughters: but his brethren had not many sons,

and the whole kindred could not reach to the

sum of the children of Juda.

28And they dwelt in Bersabee, and Molada,

and Hasarsuhal,

29And in Bala, and in Asom, and in Tholad,

30And in Bathuel, and in Horma, and in Sice-

leg,

31And in Bethmarchaboth, and in Hasar-

susim, and in Bethberai, and in Saarim. These

were their cities unto the reign of David.

32Their towns also were Etam, and Aen,

Remmon, and Thochen, and Asan, ve cities.

33And all their villages round about these

cities as far as Baal. This was their habitation,

and the distribution of their dwellings.

34And Mosabab and Jemlech, and Josaphat,

the son of Amasias,

35And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josabia the

son of Saraia, the son of Asiel,

36And Elioenai, and Jacoba, and Isuhaia,

and Asaia, and Adiel, and Ismiel, and Banaia,

37Ziza also the son of Sephei the son of Al-

lon the son of Idaia the son of Semri the son of

Samaia.

38These were named princes in their kin-

dreds, and in the houses of their families were

multiplied exceedingly.39And they went forth to enter into Gador

as far as to the east side of the valley, to seek

pastures for their

ocks.

40And they found fat pastures, and very

good, and a country spacious, and quiet, and

fruitful, in which some of the race of Cham had

dwelt before.
41And these whose names are written above,

came in the days of Ezechias king of Juda: and

they beat down their tents, and slew the inhab-

itants that were found there, and utterly de-

stroyed them unto this day: and they dwelt in

their place, because they found there fat pas-

tures.

42Some also of the children of Simeon, ve

hundred men, went into mount Seir, having for

their captains Phaltias and Naaria and Raphaia

and Oziel the sons of Jesi:

43And they slew the remnant of the Amale-

cites, who had been able to escape, and they

dwelt there in their stead unto this day.

Chapter 5

Now the sons of Ruben the rstborn of Israel,

(for he was his rstborn: but forasmuch as he

deled his father's bed, his rst birthright was

given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and

he was not accounted for the rstborn.

2But of the race of Juda, who was the

strongest among his brethren, came the princes:

but the rst birthright was accounted to Joseph.)

3The sons then of Ruben the rstborn of Is-

rael were Enoch, and Phallu, Esron, and Charmi.

4The sons of Joel: Samaia his son, Gog his

son, Semei his son,

5Micha his son, Reia his son, Baal his son,

6Beera his son, whom Thelgathphalnasar

king of the Assyrians carried away captive, andFirst Book of Paralipomenon 485

he was prince in the tribe of Ruben.

7And his brethren, and all his kindred, when

they were numbered by their families, had for

princes Jehiel, and Zacharias.

8And Bala the son of Azaz, the son of Samma,

the son of Joel, dwelt in Aroer as far as Nebo,

and Beelmeon.

9And eastward he had his habitation as far

as the entrance of the desert, and the river Eu-

phrates. For they possessed a great number of

cattle in the land of Galaad.

10And in the days of Saul they fought against

the Agarites, and slew them, and dwelt in their

tents in their stead, in all the country, that

looketh to the east of Galaad.

11And the children of Gad dwelt over against

them in the land of Basan, as far as Selcha:

12Johel the chief, and Saphan the second:

and Janai, and Saphat in Basan.

13And their brethren according to the houses

of their kindreds, were Michael and Mosollam,

and Sebe, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zie, and

Heber, seven.

14These were the sons of Abihail, the son of

Huri, the son of Jara, the son of Galaad, the son

of Michael, the son of Jesisi, the son of Jeddo,

the son of Buz.

15And their brethren the sons of Abdiel, the

son of Guni, chief of the house in their families,

16And they dwelt in Galaad, and in Basan

and in the towns thereof, and in all the suburbs

of Saron, unto the borders.

17All these were numbered in the days of

Joathan king of Juda, and in the days of Jer-

oboam king of Israel.

18The Sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of

the half tribe of Manasses, ghting men, bearing

shields, and swords, and bending the bow, and

trained up to battles, four and forty thousandseven hundred and threescore that went out to

war.

19They fought against the Agarites: but the

Itureans, and Naphis, and Nodab,

20Gave them help. And the Agarites were de-

livered into their hands, and all that were with

them, because they called upon God in the bat-

tle: and he heard them, because they had put

their faith in him.

21And they took all that they possessed, of

camels fty thousand, and of sheep two hundred

and fty thousand, and of asses two thousand,

and of men a hundred thousand souls.

22And many fell down slain: for it was the

battle of the Lord. And they dwelt in their stead

till the captivity.

23And the children of the half tribe of Man-

asses possessed the land, from the borders of

Basan unto Baal, Hermon, and Sanir, and mount

Hermon, for their number was great.

24And these were the heads of the house of

their kindred, Epher, and Jesi, and Eliel, and

Esriel, and Jeremia, and Odoia, and Jediel, most

valiant and powerful men, and famous chiefs in

their families.

25But they forsook the God of their fathers,

and went astray after the gods of the people of

the land, whom God destroyed before them.

26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit

of Phul king of the Assyrians. and the spirit of

Thelgathphalnasar king of Assur: and he car-

ried away Ruben, and Gad, and the half tribe of

Manasses, and brought them to Lahela, and to

Habor, and to Ara, and to the river of Gozan,

unto this day.486 First Book of Paralipomenon

Chapter 6
The sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath, and Mer-

ari.

2The Sons of Caath: Amram, Isaar, Hebron,

and Oziel.

3The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and

Mary. The Sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abiu,

Eleazar and Ithamar.

4Eleazar begot Phinees, and Phinees begot

Abisue,

5And Abisue begot Bocci, and Bocci begot

Ozi.

6Ozi begot Zaraias, and Zaraias begot

Maraioth.

7And Maraioth begot Amarias, and Amarias

begot Achitob.

8Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot Achi-

maas.

9Achimaas begot Azarias, Azarias begot Jo-

hanan,

10Johanan begot Azarias. This is he that

executed the priestly oce in the house which

Solomon built in Jerusalem.

11And Azarias begot Amarias, and Amarias

begot Achitob.

12And Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc begot

Sellum,
13Sellum begot Helcias, and Helcias begot

Azarias,

14Azarias begot Saraias, and Saraias begot

Josedec.

15Now Josedec went out, when the Lord car-

ried away Juda, and Jerusalem, by the hands of

Nabuchodonosor.

16So the sons of Levi were Gerson, Caath,

and Merari.

17And these are the names of the sons of

Gerson: Lobni and Semei.18The sons of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, and

Hebron, and Oziel.

19The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. And

these are the kindreds of Levi according to their

families.

20Of Gerson: Lobni his son, Jahath his son,

Zamma his son,

21Joah his son, Addo his son, Zara his son,

Jethrai his son.

22The sons of Caath, Aminadab his son, Core

his son, Asir his son,

23Elcana his son, Abiasaph his son, Asir his

son,

24Thahath his son, Uriel his son, Ozias his

son, Saul his son.

25The sons of Elcana: Amasai, and Achi-

moth.

26And Elcana. The sons of Elcana: Sophai

his son, Nahath his son,

27Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elcana his

son.

28The sons of Samuel: the rstborn Vasseni,

and Abia.

29And the sons of Merari, Moholi: Lobni his

son, Semei his son, Oza his son,

30Sammaa his son, Haggia his son, Asaia his

son.

31These are they, whom David set over the

singing men of the house of the Lord, after that

the ark was placed.

32And they ministered before the taberna-

cle of the testimony, with singing, until Solomon

built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and

they stood according to their order in the min-

istry.

33And these are they that stood with their

sons, of the sons of Caath, Hemam a singer, the

son of Joel, the son of Sammuel,

34The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the

son of Eliel, the son of Thohu,First Book of Paralipomenon 487

35The son of Suph, the son of Elcana, the

son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

36The son of Elcana, the son of Johel, the

son of Azarias, the son of Sophonias,

37The son of Thahath, the son of Asir, the

son of Abiasaph, the son of Core,

38The son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son

of Levi, the son of Israel.

39And his brother Asaph, who stood on his

right hand, Asaph the son of Barachias, the son

of Samaa.

40The son of Michael, the son of Basaia, the,

son of Melchia.

41The son of Athanai, the son of Zara, the

son of Adaia.

42The son of Ethan, the son of Zamma, the

son of Semei.

43The son of Jeth, the son of Gerson, the son

of Levi.

44And the sons of Merari their brethren, on

the left hand, Ethan the son of Cusi, the son of

Abdi, the son of Meloch,

45The son of Hasabia, the son of Amasai, the

son of Helcias,

46The son of Amasai, the son of Boni, the

son of Somer,

47The son of Moholi, the son of Musi, the son

of Merari, the son of Levi.

48Their brethren also the Levites, who were

appointed for all the ministry of the tabernacle

of the house of the Lord.

49But Aaron and his sons oered burnt of-

ferings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon

the altar of incense, for every work of the holy

of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all

that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

50And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar

his son, Phinees his son, Abisue his son,

51Bocci his son, Ozi his son, Zarahia his son,52Meraioth his son, Amarias his son, Achitob

his son,

53Sadoc his son, Achimaas his son.

54And these are their dwelling places by the

towns and connes, to wit, of the sons of Aaron,

of the families of the Caathites: for they fell to

them by lot.

55And they gave them Hebron in the land of

Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about:

56But the elds of the city, and the villages

to Caleb son of Jephone.

57And to the sons of Aaron they gave the

cities for refuge Hebron, and Lobna, and the sub-

urbs thereof,

58And Jether and Esthemo, with their sub-

urbs, and Helon, and Dabir with their suburbs:

59Asan also, and Bethsames, with their sub-

urbs.

60And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gabee

and its suburbs, Almath with its suburbs,

Anathoth also with its suburbs: all their cities

throughout their families were thirteen.

61And to the sons of Caath that remained of

their kindred they gave out of the half tribe of

Manasses ten cities in possession.

62And to the sons of Gerson by their families

out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe

of Aser, and out of the tribe of Nephtali, and out

of the tribe Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.

63And to the sons of Merari by their families

out of the tribe of Ruben, and out of the tribe of

Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon, they gave

by lot twelve cities.

64And the children of Israel gave to the

Levites the cities, and their suburbs.

65And they gave them by lot, out of the tribe

of the sons of Juda, and out of the tribe of the

sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the sons

of Benjamin, these cities which they called by

their names.488 First Book of Paralipomenon

66And to them that were of the kindred of

the sons of Caath, and the cities in their borders

were of the tribe of Ephraim.

67And they gave the cities of refuge Sichem

with its suburbs in mount Ephraim, and Gazer

with its suburbs,

68Jecmaan also with its suburbs, and Beth-

horon in like manner,

69Helon also with its suburbs, and Gethrem-

mon in like manner,

70And out of the half tribe of Manasses, Aner

and its suburbs, Baalam and its suburbs, to wit,

to them that were left of the family of the sons

of Caath.

71And to the sons of Gersom, out the kindred

of the half tribe of Manasses, Gaulon, in Basan,

and its suburbs, and Astharoth with its suburbs.

72Out of the tribe of Issachar, Cedes and its

suburbs, and Dabereth with its suburbs;

73Ramoth also and its suburbs, and Anem

with its suburbs.

74And out of the tribe of Aser: Masal with

its suburbs, and Abdon in like manner;

75Hucac also and its suburbs, and Rohol with

its suburbs.

76And out of the tribe of Nephtali, Cedes in

Galilee and its suburbs, Hamon with its suburbs,

and Cariathaim, and its suburbs.

77And to the sons of Merari that remained:

out of the tribe of Zabulon, Remmono and its

suburbs, and Thabor with its suburbs.

78Beyond the Jordan also over against Jeri-

cho, on the east side of the Jordan and out of

the tribe of Ruben, Bosor in the wilderness with

its suburbs, and Jassa with its suburbs;

79Cademoth also and its suburbs, and

Mephaath with its suburbs;

80Moreover also out of the tribe of Gad,

Ramoth in Galaad and its suburbs, and Man-

aim with its suburbs;81Hesebon also with its suburbs, and Jazer

with its suburbs.

Chapter 7

Now the sons of Issachar were Thola, and Phua,

Jasub and Simeron, four.

2The sons of Thola: Ozi and Raphaia, and

Jeriel, and Jemai, and Jebsem, and Samuel,

chiefs of the houses of their kindreds. Of the

posterity of Thola were numbered in the days

of David, two and twenty thousand six hundred

most valiant men.

3The sons of Ozi: Izrahia, of whom were born

Michael, and Obadia, and Joel, and Jesia, ve all

great men.

4And there were with them by their fami-

lies and peoples, six and thirty thousand most

valiant men ready for war: for they had many

wives and children.

5Their brethren also throughout all the house

of Issachar, were numbered fourscore and seven

thousand most valiant men for war.

6The sons of Benjamin were Bela, and Be-

chor, and Jadihel, three.

7The sons of Bela: Esbon, and Ozi, and Ozial,

and Jerimoth and Urai, ve chiefs of their fami-

lies, and most valiant warriors, and their number

was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

8And the sons of Bechor were Zamira, and

Joas, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Amai, and

Jerimoth, and Abia, and Anathoth, and Almath:

all these were the sons of Bechor.

9And they were numbered by the families,

heads of their kindreds, most valiant men for

war, twenty thousand and two hundred.

10And the son of Jadihel: Balan. And the

sons of Balan: Jehus and Benjamin, and Aod,

and Chanana, and Zethan and Tharsis, andFirst Book of Paralipomenon 489

Ahisahar.

11All these were sons of Jadihel, heads

of their kindreds, most valiant men, seventeen

thousand and two hundred fty to go out to war.

12Sepham also and Hapham the sons of Hir:

and Hasim the sons of Aher.

13And the sons of Nephtali were Jasiel, and

Guni, and Jezer, and Sellum, sons of Bala.

14And the son of Manasses, Ezriel: and his

concubine the Syrian bore Machir the father of

Galaad.

15And Machir took wives for his sons Hap-

phim, and Saphan: and he had a sister named

Maacha: the name of the second was Salphaad,

and Salphaad had daughters.

16And Maacha the wife of Machir bore a son,

and she called his name Phares: and the name

of his brother was Sares: and his sons were Ulam

and Recen.

17And the son of Ulam, Baden. These are

the sons of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of

Manasses.

18And his sister named Queen bore Goodly-

man, and Abiezer, and Mohola.

19And the sons of Semida were Ahiu, and

Sechem, and Leci and Aniam.

20And the sons of Ephraim were Suthala,

Bared his son, Thahath his son, Elada his son,

Thahath his son, and his son Zabad,

21And his son Suthala, and his son Ezer, and

Elad: and the men of Geth born in the land slew

them, because they came down to invade their

possessions.

22And Ephraim their father mourned many

days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

23And he went in to his wife: and she con-

ceived and bore a son, and he called his name

Beria, because he was born when it went evil

with his house:24And his daughter was Sara, who built

Bethoron, the nether and the upper, and Ozen-

sara.

25And Rapha was his son, and Reseph, and

Thale, of whom was born Thaan,

26Who begot Laadan: and his son was Am-

miud, who begot Elisama,

27Of whom was born Nun, who had Josue for

his son.

28And their possessions and habitations were

Bethel with her daughters, and eastward Noran,

and westward Gazer and her daughters, Sichem

also with her daughters, as far as Asa with her

daughters.

29And by the borders of the sons of Man-

asses Bethsan and her daughters, Thanach and

her daughters, Mageddo and her daughters: Dor

and her daughters: in these dwelt the children

of Joseph, the son of Israel.

30The children of Aser were Jemna, and Je-

sua, and Jessui, and Baria, and Sara their sister.

31And the sons of Baria: Haber, and

Melchiel: he is the father of Barsaith.

32And Heber begot Jephlat, and Somer, and

Hotham, and Suaa their sister.

33The sons of Jephlat: Phosech, and

Chamaal, and Asoth: these are the sons of

Jephlat.

34And the sons of Somer: Ahi, and Roaga

and Haba, and Aram.

35And the sons of Helem his brother: Supha,

and Jemna, and Selles, and Amal.

36The sons of Supha: Sue, Hernapher, and

Sual, and Beri, and Jamra.

37Bosor and Hod, and Samma, and Salusa,

and Jethran, and Bera.

38The sons of Jether: Jephone, and Phaspha,

and Ara.

39And the sons of Olla: Aree, and Haniel,

and Resia.490 First Book of Paralipomenon

40All these were sons of Aser, heads of their

families, choice and most valiant captains of cap-

tains: and the number of them that were of the

age that was t for war, was six and twenty thou-
sand.

Chapter 8

Now Benjamin begot Bale his rstborn, Asbel

the second, Ahara the third,

2Nohaa the fourth, and Rapha the fth.

3And the sons of Bale were Addar, and Gera,

and Abiud,

4And Abisue, and Naaman, and Ahoe,

5And Gera, and Sephuphan, and Huram.

6These are the sons of Abed, heads of fami-

lies that dwelt in Gabaa, who were removed into

Manahath.

7And Naaman, and Achia, and Gera he re-

moved them, and begot Oza, and Ahiud.

8And Saharim begot in the land of Moab,

after he sent away Husim and Bara his wives.

9And he begot of Hodes his wife Jobab, and

Sebia, and Mosa, and Molchom,

10And Jehus and Sechia, and Marma. These

were his sons heads of their families.

11And Mehusim begot Abitob, and Elphaal.

12And the sons of Elphaal were Heber, and

Misaam, and Samad: who built Ono, and Lod,

and its daughters.

13And Baria, and Sama were heads of their

kindreds that dwelt in Aialon: these drove away

the inhabitants of Geth.

14And Ahio, and Sesac, and Jerimoth,

15And Zabadia, and Arod, and Heder,

16And Michael, and Jespha, and Joha, the

sons of Baria.

17And Zabadia, and Mosollam, Hezeci, and

Heber,18And Jesamari, and Jezlia, and Jobab, sons

of Elphaal,

19And Jacim, and Zechri, and Zabdi,

20And Elioenai, and Selethai, and Elial,

21And Adaia, and Baraia, and Samareth, the

sons of Semei.

22And Jespham, and Heber, and Eliel,

23And Abdon, and Zechri, and Hanan,

24And Hanania, and Elam, and Anathothia.

25And Jephdaia, and Phanuel the sons of

Sesac.

26And Samsari, and Sohoria and Otholia,

27And Jersia, and Elia, and Zechri, the sons

of Jeroham.

28These were the chief fathers, and heads of

their families who dwelt in Jerusalem.

29And at Gabaon dwelt Abigabaon, and the

name of his wife was Maacha:

30And his rstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and

Cis, and Baal, and Nadab,

31And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher, and

Macelloth:

32And Macelloth begot Samaa: and they

dwelt over against their brethren in Jerusalem

with their brethren.

33And Ner begot Cis and Cis begot Saul.

And Saul begot Jonathan and Melchisua, and

Abinadab, and Esbaal.

34And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal:

and Meribbaal begot Micha.

35And the sons of Micha were Phithon, and

Melech, and Tharaa, and Ahaz.

36And Ahaz begot Joada: and Joada begot

Alamath, and Azmoth, and Zamri: and Zamri

begot Mosa,

37And Mosa begot Banaa, whose son was

Rapha, of whom was born Elasa, who begot Asel.

38And Asel had six sons whose names were

Ezricam, Bochru, Ismahel, Saris, Obdia, and

Hanan. All these were the sons of Asel.First Book of Paralipomenon 491

39And the sons of Esec, his brother, were

Ulam the rstborn, and Jehus the second, and

Eliphalet the third.

40And the sons of Ulam were most valiant

men, and archers of great strength: and they had

many sons and grandsons, even to a hundred and

fty. All these were children of Benjamin.

Chapter 9

And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of

them was written in the book of the kings of

Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away to

Babylon for their transgression.

2Now the rst that dwelt in their possessions,

and in their cities, were the Israelites, and the

priests, and the Levites, and the Nathineans.

3And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of

Juda, and of the children of Benjamin, and of

the children of Ephraim, and of Manasses.

4Othei the son of Ammiud, the son of Amri,

the son of Omrai, the son of Bonni of the sons

of Phares the son of Juda.

5And of Siloni: Asaia the rstborn, and his

sons.

6And of the sons of Zara: Jehuel and their

brethren, six hundred and ninety.

7And of the sons of Benjamin: Salo the son

of Mosollam, the son of Oduia, the son of Asana:

8And Jobania the son of Jeroham: and Ela

the son of Ozi, the son of Mochori and Mosallam

the son of Saphatias, the son of Rahuel, the son

of Jebania:

9And their brethren by their families, nine

hundred and fty-six. All these were heads of

their families, by the houses of their fathers.

10And of the priests: Jedaia, Joiarib, and

Jachin:

11And Azarias the son of Helcias, the son ofMosollam, the son of Sadoc, the son of Maraioth,

the son of Achitob, high priest of the house of

God.

12And Adaias the son of Jeroham, the son of

Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Maasai the son

of Adiel, the son of Jezra, the son of Mosollam,

the son of Mosollamith, the son of Emmer.

13And their brethren heads in their families

a thousand seven hundred and threescore, very

strong and able men for the work of the ministry

in the house of God.

14And of the Levites: Semeia the son of Has-

sub the son of Ezricam, the son of Hasebia of the

sons of Merari.

15And Bacbacar the carpenter, and Galal,

and Mathania the son of Micha, the son of Zechri

the son of Asaph:

16And Obdia the son of Semeia, the son of

Galal, the son of Idithum: and Barachia the son

of Asa, the son of Elcana, who dwelt in the sub-

urbs of Netophati.

17And the porters were Sellum, and Accub,

and Telmon, and Ahiman: and their brother Sel-

lum was the prince,

18Until that time, in the king's gate eastward,

the sons of Levi waited by their turns.

19But Sellum the son of Core, the son of Abi-

asaph, the son of Core, with his brethren and his

father's house, the Corites were over the works

of the service, keepers of the gates of the taber-

nacle: and their families in turns were keepers of

the entrance of the camp of the Lord.

20And Phinees the son of Eleazar, was their

prince before the Lord,

21And Zacharias the son of Mosollamia, was

porter of the gate of the tabernacle of the testi-

mony:

22All these that were chosen to be porters at

the gates, were two hundred and twelve: the they

were registered in their proper towns: whom492 First Book of Paralipomenon

David and Samuel the seer appointed in their

trust.

23As well them as their sons, to keep the

gates of the house of the Lord, and the taberna-

cle by their turns.

24In four quarters were the porters: that is

to say, toward the east, and west, and north, and

south.
25And their brethren dwelt in village, and

came upon their sabbath days from time to time.

26To these four Levites were committed the

whole number of the porters, and they were over

the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the

Lord.

27And they abode in their watches round

about the temple of the Lord: that when it was

time, they might open the gates in the morning.

28And some of their stock had the charge of

the vessels for the ministry: for the vessels were

both brought in and carried out by number.

29Some of them also had the instruments

of the sanctuary committed unto them, and the

charge of the ne

our, and wine, and oil, and

frankincense, and spices.

30And the sons of the priests made the oint-

ments of the spices.

31And Mathathias a Levite, the rstborn of

Sellum the Corite, was overseer of such things as

were fried the fryingpan.

32And some of the sons of Caath their

brethren, were over the loaves of proposition, to

prepare always new for every sabbath.

33These are the chief of the singing men of the

families of the Levites, who dwelt in the cham-

bers, by the temple, that they might serve con-

tinually day and night in their ministry.

34The heads of the Levites, princes in their

families, abode in Jerusalem.

35And in Gabaon dwelt Jehiel the father of

Gabaon, and the name of his wife was Maacha:36His rstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and Cis,

and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

37Gedor also, and Ahio, and Zacharias, and

Macelloth.

38And Macelloth begot Samaan: these dwelt

over against their brethren in Jerusalem, with

their brethren.

39Now Ner begot Cis: and Cis begot Saul:

and Saul begot Jonathan and Melchisua, and

Abinadab, and Esbaal.

40And the son of Jonathan, was Meribbaal:

and Meribbaal begot Micha.

41And the sons of Micha, were Phithon, and

Melech, and Tharaa, and Ahaz.

42And Ahaz begot Jara, and Jara begot Ala-

math, and Azmoth, and Zamri. And Zamri be-

got Mosa.

43And Mosa begot Banaa: whose son

Raphaia begot Elasa: of whom was born Asel.

44And Asel had six sons whose names are,

Ezricam Bochru, Ismahel, Saria, Obdia, Hanan:

these are the sons of Asel.

Chapter 10

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and

the men of Israel

ed from before the Philistines,

and fell down wounded in mount Gelboe.

2And the Philistines drew near pursuing after

Saul, and his sons, and they killed Jonathan, and

Abinadab, and Melchisua the sons of Saul.

3And the battle grew hard against Saul and

the archers reached him, and wounded him with

arrows.

4And Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw

thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircum-

cised come, and mock me. But his armourbearer

would not, for he was struck with fear: so Saul

took his sword, and fell upon it.First Book of Paralipomenon 493

5And when his armourbearer saw it, to wit,

that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword

and died.

6So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his

house fell together.

7And when the men of Israel, that dwelt in

the plains, saw this, they

ed: and Saul and his

sons being dead, they forsook their cities, and

were scattered up and down: and the Philistines

came, and dwelt in them.

8And the next day the Philistines taking away

the spoils of them that were slain, found Saul and

his sons lying on mount Gelboe.

9And when they had stripped him, and out o

his head, and taken away his armour, they sent

it into their land, to be carried about, and shewn

in the temples of the idols and to the people.

10And his armour they dedicated in the tem-

ple of their god, and his head they fastened up

in the temple of Dagon.

11And when the men of Jabes Galaad had

heard this, to wit, all that the Philistines had

done to Saul,

12All the valiant men of them arose, and took

the bodies of Saul and of his sons, and brought

them to Jabes, and buried their bones under the

oak that was in Jabes, and they fasted seven

days.

13So Saul died for his iniquities, because

he transgressed the commandment of the Lord,

which he had commanded, and kept it not: and

moreover consulted also a witch,

14And trusted not in the Lord: therefore he

slew him, and transferred his kingdom to David

the son of Isai.Chapter 11

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in

Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy

esh.

2Yesterday also, and the day before when

Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and

broughtest in Israel: for the Lord thy God said

to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and

thou shalt be ruler over them.

3So all the ancients of Israel came to the king

to Hebron, and David made a covenant with

them before the Lord: and they anointed him

king over Israel according to the word of the Lord

which he spoke in the hand of Samuel.

4And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem,

which is Jebus, where the Jebusites were the in-

habitants of the land.

5And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David:

Thou shalt not come in here. But David took

the castle of Sion, which is the city of David.

6And he said: Whosoever shall rst strike the

Jebusites, shall be the head and chief captain.

And Joab the son of Sarvia went up rst, and

was made the general.

7And David dwelt in the castle, and therefore

it was called the city of David,

8And he built the city round about from

Mello all round, and Joab built the rest of the

city.

9And David went on growing and increasing,

and the Lord of hosts was with him.

10These are the chief of the valiant man of

David, who helped him to be made king over all

Israel, according to the word of the Lord, which

he spoke to Israel.

11And this is the number of the heroes of

David: Jesbaam the son of Hachamoni the chief

among the thirty: he lifted up his spear against

three hundred wounded by him at one time.494 First Book of Paralipomenon

12And after him was Eleazar his uncle's son

the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.

13He was with David in Phesdomim, when

the Philistines were gathered to that place to

battle: and the eld of that country was full

of barley, and the people

ed from before the

Philistines.

14But these men stood in the midst of

the eld, and defended it: and they slew the

Philistines, and the Lord gave a great deliver-

ance to his people.

15And three of the thirty captains went down

to the rock, wherein David was, to the cave of

Odollam, when the Philistines encamped in the

valley of Raphaim.

16And David was in a hold, and the garrison

of the Philistines in Bethlehem.

17And David longed, and said: O that some

man would give me water of the cistern of Beth-

lehem, which is in the gate.

18And these three broke through the midst

of the camp of the Philistines, and drew water

out of the cistern of Bethlehem, which was in the

gate, and brought it to David to drink: and he

would not drink of it, but rather oered it to the

Lord,

19Saying: God forbid that I should do this in

the sight of my God, and should drink the blood

of these men: for with the danger of their lives

they have brought me the water. And therefore

he would not drink. These things did the three

most valiant.

20And Abisai the brother of Joab, he was

chief of three, and he lifted up his spear against

three hundred whom he slew, and he was

renowned among the three,

21And illustrious among the second three,

and their captain: but yet he attained not to

the rst three.

22Banaias the son of Joiada a most valiantman, of Cabseel, who had done many acts: he

slew the two ariels of Moab: and he went down,

and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in the time

of snow.

23And he slew an Egyptian, whose stature

was of ve cubits, and who had a spear like a

weaver's beam: and he went down to him with a

sta, and plucked away the spear, that he held

in his hand, and slew him with his own spear.

24These things did Banaias the son of Joiada,

who was renowned among the three valiant ones,

25And the rst among the thirty, but yet to

the three he attained not: and David made him

of his council.

26Moreover the most valiant men of the army,

were Asahel brother of Joab, and Elchanan the

son of his uncle of Bethlehem,

27Sammoth an Arorite, Helles a Phalonite,

28Ira the son of Acces a Thecuite, Abiezer an

Anathothite,

29Sobbochai a Husathite, Ilai an Ahohite,

30Maharai a Netophathite, Heled the son of

Baana a Netophathite,

31Ethai the son of Ribai of Gabaath of the

sons of Benjamin, Banai a Pharathonite,

32Hurai of the torrent Gaas, Abiel an Ar-

bathite, Azmoth a Bauramite, Eliaba a Sal-

abonite,

33The sons of Assem a Gezonite, Jonathan

the son of Sage an Ararite,

34Ahiam the son of Sachar an Ararite,

35Eliphal the son of Ur,

36Hepher a Mecherathite, Ahia a Phelonite,

37Hesro a Carmelite, Naarai the son of Azbai,

38Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibahar the

son of Agarai.

39Selec an Ammonite, Naharai a Berothite,

the armourbearer of Joab the son of Sarvia.

40Ira a Jethrite, Gareb a Jethrite,

41Urias a Hethite, Zabad the son of Oholi,First Book of Paralipomenon 495

42Adina the son of Siza a Rubenite the prince

of the Rubenites, and thirty with him:

43Hanan the son of Maacha, and Josaphat a

Mathanite,

44Ozia an Astarothite, Samma, and Jehiel

the sons of Hotham an Arorite,

45Jedihel the son of Zamri, and Joha his

brother a Thosaite,

46Eliel a Mahumite, and Jeribai, and Josaia

the sons of Elnaim, and Jethma a Moabite, Eliel,

and Obed, and Jasiel of Masobia.

Chapter 12

Now these are they that came to David to Sice-

leg, while he yet

ed from Saul the son of Cis,

and they were most valiant and excellent war-

riors,

2Bending the bow, and using either hand in

hurling stones with slings, and shooting arrows:

of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin.

3The chief was Ahiezer, and Joas, the sons

of Samoa of Gabaath, and Jaziel, and Phallet

the sons of Azmoth, and Beracha, and Jehu an

Anathothite.

4And Samaias of Gabaon, the stoutest

amongst the thirty and over the thirty; Jeremias,

and Jeheziel and Johanan, and Jozabad of

Gaderoth;

5And Eluzai, and Jerimuth, and Baalia, and

Samaria, and Saphatia the Haruphite;

6Elcana, and Jesia, and Azareel, and Joezer,

and Jesbaam of Carehim:

7And Joela, and Zabadia the sons of Jeroham

of Gedor.

8From Gaddi also there went over to David,

when he lay hid in the wilderness most valiant

men, and excellent warriors, holding shield and

spear: whose faces were like the faces of a lion,and they were swift like the roebucks on the

mountains.

9Ezer the chief, Obdias the second, Eliab the

third,

10Masmana the fourth, Jeremias the fth,

11Ethi the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

12Johanan the eighth, Elzebad the ninth,

13Jerenias the tenth, Machbani the eleventh,

14These were of the sons of Gad, captains of

the army: the least of them was captain over a

hundred soldiers, and the greatest over a thou-

sand.

15These are they who passed over the Jordan

in the rst month, when it is used to

ow over

its banks: and they put to

ight all that dwelt

in the valleys both toward the east and toward

the west.

16And there came also of the men of Ben-

jamin, and of Juda to the hold, in which David

abode.

17And David went out to meet them, and

said: If you are come peaceably to me to help

me, let my heart be joined to you: but if you

plot against me for my enemies whereas I have no

iniquity in my hands, let the God of our fathers

see, and judge.

18But the spirit came upon Amasai the chief

among thirty, and he said: We are thine, O

David, and for thee, O son of Isai: peace, peace

be to thee, and peace to thy helpers. For thy

God helpeth thee. So David received them, and

made them captains of the band.

19And there were some of Manasses that went

over to David, when he came with the Philistines

against Saul to ght: but he did not ght with

them: because the lords of the Philistines taking

counsel sent him back, saying: With the danger

of our heads he will return to his master Saul.

20So when he went back to Siceleg, there

ed

to him of Manasses, Ednas and Jozabad, and496 First Book of Paralipomenon

Jedihel, and Michael, and Ednas, and Jozabad,

and Eliu, and Salathi, captains of thousands in

Manasses.

21These helped David against the rovers: for

they were all most valiant men, and were made

commanders in the army.

22Moreover day by day there came some to

David to help him till they became a great num-

ber, like the army of God.

23And this is the number of the chiefs of the

army who came to David, when he was in He-

bron, to transfer to him the kingdom of Saul,

according to the word of the Lord.

24The sons of Juda bearing shield and spear,

six thousand eight hundred well appointed to

war.

25Of the sons of Simeon valiant men for war,

seven thousand one hundred.

26Of the sons of Levi, four thousand six hun-

dred.

27And Joiada prince of the race of Aaron,

and with him three thousand seven hundred.

28Sadoc also a young man of excellent dis-

position, and the house of his father, twenty-two

principal men.

29And of the sons of Benjamin the brethren

of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto a great part

of them followed the house of Saul.

30And of the sons of Ephraim twenty

thousand eight hundred, men of great valour

renowned in their kindreds.

31And of the half tribe of Manasses, eigh-

teen thousand, every one by their names, came

to make David king.

32Also of the sons of Issachar men of under-

standing, that knew all times to order what Is-

rael should do, two hundred principal men: and

all the rest of the tribe followed their counsel.

33And of Zabulon such as went forth to bat-

tle, and stood in array well appointed with ar-mour for war, there came fty thousand to his

aid, with no double heart.

34And of Nephtali, a thousand leaders: and

with them seven and thirty thousand, furnished

with shield and spear.

35Of Dan also twenty-eight thousand six hun-

dred prepared for battle.

36And of Aser forty thousand going forth to

ght, and challenging in battle.

37And on the other side of the Jordan of the

sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half of the

tribe of Manasses a hundred and twenty thou-

sand, furnished with arms for war.

38All these men of war well appointed to

ght, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to

make David king over all Israel: and all the rest

also of Israel, were of one heart to make David

king.

39And they were there with David three days

eating and drinking: for their brethren had pre-

pared for them.

40Moreover they that were near them even

as far as Issachar, and Zabulon, and Nephtali,

brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on

mules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, gs, raisins,

wine, oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance, for

there was joy in Israel.

Chapter 13

David consulted with the captains of thousands,

and of hundreds, and with all the commanders.

2And he said to all the assembly of Israel: If it

please you; and if the words which I speak come

from the Lord our God, let us send to the rest of

our brethren into all the countries of Israel, and

to the priests, and the Levites, that dwell in the

suburbs of the cities, to gather themselves to us,First Book of Paralipomenon 497

3And let us bring again the ark of our God

to us: for we sought it not in the days of Saul.

4And all the multitude answered that it

should be so: for the word pleased all the people.

5So David assembled all Israel from Sihor of

Egypt, even to the entering into Emath, to bring

the ark of God from Cariathiarim.

6And David went up with all the men of Is-

rael to the hill of Cariathiarim which is in Juda,

to bring thence the ark of the Lord God sitting

upon the cherubims, where his name is called

upon.

7And they carried the ark of God upon a new

cart out of the house of Abinadab. And Oza and

his brother drove the cart.

8And David and all Israel played before God

with all their might with hymns, and with harps,

and with psalteries, and timbrels, and cymbals,

and trumpets,

9And when they came to the

oor of Chidon,

Oza put forth his hand, to hold up the ark: for

the ox being wanton had made it lean a little on

one side.

10And the Lord was angry with Oza, and

struck him, because he had touched the ark; and

he died there before the Lord.

11And David was troubled because the Lord

had divided Oza: and he called that place the

Breach of Oza to this day.

12And he feared God at that time, saying:

How can I bring in the ark of God to me?

13And therefore he brought it not home to

himself, that is, into the city of David, but car-

ried it aside into the house of Obededom the

Gethite.

14And the ark of God remained in the

house of Obededom three months: and the Lord

blessed his house, and all that he had.Chapter 14

And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to

David, and cedar trees, and masons, and car-

penters, to build him a house.

2And David perceived that the Lord had con-

rmed him king over Israel, and that his king-

dom was exalted over his people Israel.

3And David took other wives in Jerusalem:

and he begot sons, and daughters.

4Now these are the names of them that were

born to him in Jerusalem: Samua, and Sobad,

Nathan, and Solomon,

5Jebahar, and Elisua, and Eliphalet,

6And Noga, and Napheg, and Japhia,

7Elisama, and Baaliada, and Eliphalet.

8And the Philistines hearing that David was

anointed king over all Israel, went all up to seek

him: and David heard of it, and went out against

them.

9And the Philistines came and spread them-

selves in the vale of Raphaim.

10And David consulted the Lord, saying:

Shall I go up against the Philistines, and wilt

thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord

said to him: Go up, and I will deliver them into

thy hand.

11And when they were come to Baalpha-

rasim, David defeated them there, and he said:

God hath divided my enemies by my hand, as

waters are divided: and therefore the name of

that place was called Baalpharasim.

12And they left there their gods, and David

commanded that they should be burnt.

13Another time also the Philistines made an

irruption, and spread themselves abroad in the

valley.

14And David consulted God again, and God

said to him: Go not up after them, turn away498 First Book of Paralipomenon

from them, and come upon them over against

the pear trees.

15And when thou shalt hear the sound of

one going in the tops of the pear trees, then shalt

thou go out to battle. For God is gone out before

thee to strike the army of the Philistines.

16And David did as God had commanded

him, and defeated the army of the Philistines,

slaying them from Gabaon to Gazera.

17And the name of David became famous in

all countries, and the Lord made all nations fear

aim.

Chapter 15
He made also houses for himself in the city of

David: and built a place for the ark of God, and

pitched a tabernacle for it.

2Then David said: No one ought to carry the

ark of God, but the Levites, whom the Lord hath

chosen to carry it, and to minister unto himself

for ever.

3And he gathered all Israel together into

Jerusalem, that the ark of God might be brought

into its place, which he had prepared for it.

4And the sons of Aaron also, and the Levites.

5Of the children of Caath, Uriel was the chief,

and his brethren a hundred and twenty.

6Of the sons of Merari, Asaia the chief, and

his brethren two hundred and twenty.

7Of the sons of Gersom, Joel the chief, and

his brethren a hundred and thirty.

8Of the sons of Elisaphan, Semeias the chief:

and his brethren two hundred.

9Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief: and

his brethren eighty.

10Of the sons of Oziel, Aminadab the chief:

and his brethren a hundred and twelve.11And David called Sadoc, and Abiathar the

priests, and the Levites, Uriel, Asaia, Joel, Se-

meia, Eliel, and Aminadab:

12And he said to them: You that are the

heads of the Levitical families, be sanctied with

your brethren, and bring the ark of the Lord the

God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for

it:

13Lest as the Lord at rst struck us, because

you were not present, the same should now also

come to pass, by our doing some thing against

the law.

14So the priests and the Levites were sanc-

tied, to carry the ark of the Lord the God of

Israel.

15And the sons of Levi took the ark of God as

Moses had commanded, according to the word of

the Lord, upon their shoulders, with the staves.

16And David spoke to the chiefs of the

Levites, to appoint some of their brethren to

be singers with musical instruments, to wit, on

psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, that the joy-

ful noise might resound on high.

17And they appointed Levites, Hemam the

son of Joel, and of his brethren Asaph the son

of Barachias: and of the sons of Merari, their

brethren: Ethan the son of Casaia.

18And with them their brethren: in the sec-

ond rank, Zacharias, and Ben, and Jaziel, and

Semiramoth, and Jahiel, and Ani, and Eliab,

and Banaias, and Maasias, and Mathathias, and

Eliphalu, and Macenias, and Obededom, and Je-

hiel, the porters.

19Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and

Ethan, sounded with cymbals of brass.

20And Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semi-

ramoth, and Jehiel, and Ani, and Eliab, and

Maasias, and Banaias, sung mysteries upon

psalteries.

21And Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Mace-First Book of Paralipomenon 499

nias and Obededom, and Jehiel and Ozaziu, sung

a song of victory for the octave upon harps.

22And Chonenias chief of the Levites,

presided over the prophecy, to give out the tunes:

for he was very skilful.

23And Barachias, and Elcana, were door-

keepers of the ark.

24 And Sebenias, and Josaphat, and

Nathanael, and Amasai, and Zacharias, and Ba-

naias, and Eliezer the priests, sounded with

trumpets, before the ark of God: and Obede-

dom and Jehias were porters of the ark.

25So David and all the ancients of Israel, and

the captains over thousands, went to bring the

ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house

of Obededom with joy.

26And when God had helped the Levites who

carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they

oered in sacrice seven oxen, and seven rams.

27And David was clothed with a robe of ne

linen, and all the Levites that carried the ark,

and the singing men, and Chonenias the ruler of

the prophecy among the singers: and David also

had on him an ephod of linen.

28And all Israel brought the ark of the

covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and

sounding with the sound of the cornet, and

with trumpets, and cymbals, and psalteries, and

harps.

29And when the ark of the covenant of the

Lord was come to the city of David, Michol the

daughter of Saul looking out at a window, saw

king David dancing and playing, and she de-

spised him in her heart.

Chapter 16

So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the

midst of the tent, which David had pitched for it:and they oered holocausts, and peace oerings

before God.

2And when David had made an end of oering

holocausts, and peace oerings, he blessed the

people in the name of the Lord.

3And he divided to all and every one, both

men and women, a loaf of bread, and a piece of

roasted beef, and

our fried with oil.

4And he appointed Levites to minister before

the ark of the Lord, and to remember his works,

and to glorify, and praise the Lord God of Israel.

5Asaph the chief, and next after him

Zacharias: moreover Jahiel, and Semiramoth,

and Jehiel, and Mathathias, and Eliab, and Ba-

naias, and Obededom: and Jehiel over the in-

struments of psaltery, and harps: and Asaph

sounded with cymbals:

6But Banaias, and Jaziel the priests, to sound

the trumpet continually before the ark of the

covenant of the Lord.

7In that day David made Asaph the chief to

give praise to the Lord with his brethren.

8Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name:

make known his doings among the nations.

9Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: and

relate all his wondrous works.

10Praise ye his holy name: let the heart of

them rejoice, that seek the Lord.

11Seek ye the Lord, and his power: seek ye

his face evermore.

12Remember his wonderful works, which he

hath done: his signs, and the judgments of his

mouth.

13O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children

of Jacob his chosen.

14He is the Lord our God: his judgments are

in all the earth.

15Remember for ever his covenant: the word,

which he commanded to a thousand generations.500 First Book of Paralipomenon

16The covenant which he made with Abra-

ham: and his oath to Isaac.

17And he appointed the same to Jacob

for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting

covenant:

18Saying: To thee will I give the land of

Chanaan: the lot of your inheritance.

19When they were but a small number: very

few and sojourners in it.

20And they passed from nation to nation:

and from a kingdom to another people.

21He suered no man to do them wrong: and

reproved kings for their sake.

22Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to

my prophets.

23Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth: shew

forth from day to day his salvation.

24Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his

wonders among all people.

25For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be

praised: and he is to be feared above all gods.

26For all the gods of the nations are idols:

but the Lord made the heavens.

27Praise and magnicence are before him:

strength and joy in his place.

28Bring ye to the Lord, O ye families of the

nations: bring ye to the Lord glory and empire.

29Give to the Lord glory to his name, bring

up sacrice, and come ye in his sight: and adore

the Lord in holy becomingness.

30Let all the earth be moved at his presence:

for he hath founded the world immoveable.

31Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth be

glad: and let them say among the nations: The

Lord hath reigned.

32Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof:

let the elds rejoice, and all things that are in

them.

33Then shall the trees of the wood give praise

before the Lord: because he is come to judge theearth.

34Give ye glory to the Lord, for he is good:

for his mercy endureth for ever.

35And say ye: Save us, O God our savior: and

gather us together, and deliver us from the na-

tions, that we may give glory to thy holy name,

and may rejoice in singing thy praises.

36Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from

eternity to eternity: and let all the people say

Amen, and a hymn to God.

37So he left there before the ark of the

covenant of the Lord, Asaph and his brethren

to minister in the presence of the ark continu-

ally day by day, and in their courses.

38And Obededom, with his brethren sixty-

eight: and Obededom the son of Idithun, and

Hosa he appointed to be porters.

39And Sadoc the priest, and his brethren

priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the

high place, which was in Gabaon.

40That they should oer holocausts to the

Lord upon the altar of holocausts continually,

morning and evening, according to all that is

written in the law of the Lord, which he com-

manded Israel.

41And after him Heman, and Idithun, and

the rest that were chosen, every one by his name

to give praise to the Lord: because his mercy

endureth for ever.

42And Heman and Idithun sounded the trum-

pet, and played on the cymbals, and all kinds of

musical instruments to sing praises to God: and

the sons of Idithun he made porters.

43And all the people returned to their houses:

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Chapter 17

Now when David was dwelling in his house, he

said to Nathan the prophet: Behold I dwell in a

house of cedar: and the ark of the covenant of

the Lord is under skins.

2And Nathan said to David: Do all that is in

thy heart: for God is with thee.

3Now that night the word of God came to

Nathan, saying:

4Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus

saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house

to dwell in.

5For I have not remained in a house from the

time that I brought up Israel, to this day: but I

have been always changing places in a taberna-

cle, and in a tent,

6Abiding with all Israel. Did I ever speak

to any one, of all the judges of Israel whom I

charged to feed my people, saying: Why have

you not built me a house of cedar?

7Now therefore thus shalt thou say to my

servant David: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I

took thee from the pastures, from following the

ock, that thou shouldst be ruler of my people

Israel.

8And I have been with thee whithersoever

thou hast gone: and have slain all thy enemies

before thee, and have made thee a name like that

of one of the great ones that are renowned in the

earth.

9And I have given a place my people Israel:

they shall be planted, and shall dwell therein,

and shall be moved no more, neither shall the

children of iniquity waste them, as at the begin-

ning,

10Since the days that I gave judges to my

people Israel, and have humbled all thy enemies.

And I declare to thee, that the Lord will build

thee a house.11And when thou shalt have ended thy days

to go to thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed af-

ter thee, which shall be of thy sons: and I will

establish his kingdom.

12He shall build me a house, and I will es-

tablish his throne for ever.

13I will be to him a father, and he shall be

to me a son: and I will not take my mercy away

from him, as I took it from him that was before

thee.

14But I will settle him in my house, and in

my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be

most rm for ever.

15According to all these words, and according

to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

16And king David came and sat before the

Lord, and said: Who am I, O Lord God, and

what is my house, that thou shouldst give such

things to me?

17But even this hath seemed little in thy

sight, and therefore thou hast also spoken con-

cerning the house of thy servant for the time to

come: and hast made me remarkable above all

men, O Lord God.

18What can David add more, seeing thou

hast thus gloried thy servant, and known him?

19O Lord, for thy servant's sake, according

to thy own heart, thou hast shewn all this mag-

nicence, and wouldst have all the great things

to be known.

20O Lord there is none like thee: and here is

no other God beside thee, of all whom we have

heard of with our ears.

21For what other nation is there upon earth

like thy people Israel, whom God went to deliver,

and make a people for himself, and by his great-

ness and terrors cast out nations before their face

whom he had delivered out of Egypt?

22And thou hast made thy people Israel to

be thy own people for ever, and thou, O Lord,502 First Book of Paralipomenon

art become their God.

23Now therefore, O Lord, let the word which

thou hast spoken to thy servant, and concerning

his house, be established for ever, and do as thou

hast said.

24And let thy name remain and be magnied

for ever: and let it be said: The Lord of hosts is

God of Israel, and the house of David his servant

remaineth before him.

25For thou, O Lord my God, hast revealed to

the ear of thy servant, that thou wilt build him

a house: and therefore thy servant hath found

condence to pray before thee.

26And now O Lord, thou art God: and thou

hast promised to thy servant such great benets.

27And thou hast begun to bless the house of

thy servant, that it may be always before thee:

for seeing thou blessest it, O Lord, it shall be

blessed for ever.

Chapter 18

And it came to pass after this, that David de-

feated the Philistines, and humbled them, and

took away Geth, and her daughters out of the

hands of the Philistines,

2And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites

were made David's servants, and brought him

gifts.

3At that time David defeated also Adarezer

king of Soba of the land of Hemath, when he

went to extend his dominions as far as the river

Euphrates.

4And David took from him a thousand char-

iots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty

thousand footmen, and he houghed all the char-

iot horses, only a hundred chariots, which he re-

served for himself.

5And the Syrians of Damascus came also tohelp Adarezer king of Soba: and David slew of

them likewise two and twenty thousand men.

6And he put a garrison in Damascus, that

Syria also should serve him, and bring gifts. And

the Lord assisted him in all things to which he

went.

7And David took the golden quivers which

the servants of Adarezer had, and he brought

them to Jerusalem.

8Likewise out of Thebath and Chun, cities of

Adarezer, he brought very much brass, of which

Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars,

and the vessels of brass.

9Now when Thou king of Hemath heard that

David had defeated all the army of Adarezer king

of Soba,

10He sent Adoram his son to king David to

desire peace of him, and to congratulate him that

he had defeated and overthrown Adarezer: for

Thou was an enemy to Adarezer.

11And all the vessels of gold, and silver and

brass king David consecrated to the Lord, with

the silver and gold which he had taken from

all the nations, as well from Edom, and from

Moab, and from the sons of Ammon, as from

the Philistines, and from Amalec.

12And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of the

Edomites in the vale of the saltpits, eighteen

thousand:

13And he put a garrison in Edom, that Edom

should serve David: and the Lord preserved

David in all things to which he went.

14So David reigned over all Israel, and exe-

cuted judgment and justice among all his people.

15And Joab the son of Sarvia was over the

army, and Josaphat the son of Ahilud recorder.

16And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achim-

elech the son of Abiathar, were the priests: and

Susa, scribe.

17And Banaias the son of Joiada was overFirst Book of Paralipomenon 503

the bands of the Cerethi, and the Phelethi: and

the sons of David were chief about the king.

Chapter 19

Now it came to pass that Naas the king of the

children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in

his stead.

2And David said: I will shew kindness to

Hanon the son of Naas: for his father did a favour

tome. And David sent messengers to comfort

him upon the death of his father. But when

they were come into the land of the children of

Ammon, to comfort Hanon,

3The princes of the children of Ammon said

to Hanon: Thou thinkest perhaps that David

to do honour to thy father hath sent comforters

to thee: and thou dost not take notice, that his

servants are come to thee to consider, and search,

and spy out thy land.

4Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and

beards of the servants of David, and cut away

their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and

sent them away.

5And when they were gone, they sent word to

David, who sent to meet them (for they had suf-

fered a great aront) and ordered them to stay at

Jericho till their beards grew and then to return.

6And when the children of Ammon saw that

they had done an injury to David, Hanon and

the rest of the people sent a thousand talents of

silver, to hire them chariots and horsemen out of

Mesopotamia and out of Syria Maacha, and out

of Soba.

7And they hired two and thirty thousand

chariots, and the king of Maacha, with his peo-

ple. And they came and camped over against

Medaba. And the children of Ammon gathered

themselves together out of their cities, and cameto battle.

8And when David heard of it, he sent Joab,

and all the army of valiant men:

9And the children of Ammon came out and

put their army in array before the gate of the

city: and the kings, that were come to their aid,

stood apart in the eld.

10Wherefore Joab understanding that the

battle was set against him before and behind,

chose out the bravest men of all Israel, and

marched against the Syrians,

11And the rest of the people he delivered into

the hand of Abisai his brother, and they went

against the children of Ammon.

12And he said: If the Syrians be too strong

for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the chil-

dren of Ammon be too strong for thee, I will help

thee.

13Be of good courage and let us behave our-

selves manfully for our people, and for the cities

of our God: and the Lord will do that which is

good in his sight.

14So Joab and the people that were with him,

went against the Syrians to the battle: and he

put them to

ight.

15And the children of Ammon seeing that the

Syrians were

ed, they likewise

ed from Abisai

his brother, and went into the city: and Joab

also returned to Jerusalem.

16But the Syrians seeing that they had fallen

before Israel, sent messengers, and brought to

them the Syrians that were beyond the river:

and Sophach, general of the army of Adarezer,

was their leader.

17And it was told David, and he gathered

together all Israel, and passed the Jordan, and

came upon them, and put his army in array

against them, and they fought with him.

18But the Syrian

ed before Israel: and

David slew of the Syrians seven thousand char-504 First Book of Paralipomenon

iots, and forty thousand footmen, and Sophach

the general of the army.

19And when the servants of Adarezer saw

themselves overcome by Israel, they went over

to David, and served him: and Syria would not

help the children of Ammon any more.

Chapter 20

And it came to pass after the course of a year, at

the time that kings go out to battle, Joab gath-

ered together an army and the strength of the

troops, and wasted the land of the children of

Ammon: and went and besieged Rabba. But

David stayed at Jerusalem, when Joab smote

Rabba, and destroyed it.

2And David took the crown of Melchom from

his head, and found in it a talent weight of gold,

and most precious stones, and he made himself

a diadem of it: he took also the spoils of the city

which were very great.

3And the people that were therein he brought

out: and made harrows, and sleds, and chariots

of iron to go over them, so that they were cut

and bruised to pieces: in this manner David dealt

with all the cities of the children of Ammon: and

he returned with all his people to Jerusalem.

4After this there arose a war at Gazer against

the Philistines: in which Sabachai the Husathite

slew Saphai of the race of Raphaim, and humbled

them.

5Another battle also was fought against the

Philistines, in which Adeodatus the son of Saltus

a Bethlehemite slew the brother of Goliath the

Gethite, the sta of whose spear was like a

weaver's beam.

6There was another battle also in Geth, in

which there was a man of great stature, whose

ngers and toes were four and twenty, six on eachhand and foot: who also was born of the stock

of Rapha.

7He reviled Israel: but Jonathan the son of

Samaa the brother of David slew him. These

were the sons of Rapha in Geth, who fell by the

hand of David and his servants.

Chapter 21

And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved

David to number Israel.

2And David said to Joab, and to the rulers

of the people: Go, and number Israel from

Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the number

of them that I may know it.

3And Joab answered: The Lord make his peo-

ple a hundred times more than they are: but, my

lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why

doth my lord seek this thing, which may be im-

puted as a sin to Israel?

4But the king's word rather prevailed: and

Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and

returned to Jerusalem.

5And he gave David the number of them,

whom he had surveyed: and all the number of

Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand

men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hun-

dred and seventy thousand ghting men.

6But Levi and Benjamin he did not number:

for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders.

7And God was displeased with this thing that

was commanded: and he struck Israel.

8And David said to God: I have sinned ex-

ceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee take away

the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done fool-

ishly.

9And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of

David, saying:

10Go, and speak to David, and tell him: ThusFirst Book of Paralipomenon 505
saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three

things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will

do it to thee.

11And when Gad was come to David, he said

to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou

wilt:

12Either three years famine: or three months

to

ee from thy enemies, and not to be able to

escape their sword: or three days to have the

sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land,

and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the

coasts of Israel: now therefore see what I shall

answer him who sent me.

13And David said to Gad: I am on every side

in a great strait: but it is better for me to fall

into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are

many, than into the hands of men.

14So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel.

And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

15And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike

it: and as he was striking it, the Lord beheld, and

took pity for the greatness of the evil: and said

to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now

stop thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood

by the thrashing
oor of Ornan the Jebusite.

16And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel

of the Lord standing between heaven and earth,

with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against

Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed

in haircloth, fell down

at on the ground.

17And David said to God: Am not I he that

commanded the people to be numbered? It is I

that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil:

but as for this

ock, what hath it deserved? O

Lord my God, let thy hand be turned, I beseech

thee, upon me, and upon my father's house: and

let not thy people be destroyed.

18And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad

to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to

the Lord God in the thrashing

oor of Ornan theJebusite.

19And David went up, according to the word

of Gad, which he spoke to him in the name of

the Lord.

20Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the

angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for

at that time he was thrashing wheat in the

oor.
21And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan

saw him, and went out of the thrashing

oor to

meet him, and bowed down to him with his face

to the ground.

22And David said to him: Give me this place

of thy thrashing

oor, that I may build therein

an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me

as much money as it is worth, that the plague

may cease from the people.

23And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let

my lord the king do all that pleaseth him: and

moreover the oxen also I give for a holocaust,

and the drays for wood, and the wheat for the

sacrice: I will give it all willingly.

24And king David said to him: It shall not

be so, but I will give thee money as much as it

is worth: for I must not take it from thee, and

so oer to the Lord holocausts free cost.

25So David gave to Ornan for the place, six

hundred sicles of gold of just weight.

26And he built there an altar to the Lord:

and he oered holocausts, and peace oerings,

and he called upon the Lord, and he heard him

by sending re from heaven upon the altar of the

holocaust.

27And the Lord commanded the angel: and

he put up his sword again into the sheath.

28And David seeing that the Lord had heard

him in the thrashing

oor of Ornan the Jebusite,

forthwith oered victims there.

29But the tabernacle of the Lord, which

Moses made in the desert, and the altar of holo-

causts, was at that time in the high place of506 First Book of Paralipomenon

Gabaon.

30And David could not go to the altar there

to pray to God: for he was seized with an ex-

ceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel

of the Lord.

Chapter 22

Then David said: This is the house of God, And

this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.

2And he commanded to gather together all

the proselytes of the land of Israel, and out of

them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones

and polish them, to build the house of God.

3And David prepared in abundance iron for

the nails of the gates, and for the closures and

joinings: and of brass an immense weight.

4And the cedar trees were without number,

which the Sidonians, and Tyrians brought to

David.

5And David said: Solomon my son is very

young and tender, and the house which I would

have to be built to the Lord, must be such as

to be renowned in all countries: therefore I will

prepare him necessaries. And therefore before

his death he prepared all the charges.

6And he called for Solomon his son: and com-

manded him to build a house to the Lord the

God of Israel.

7And David said to Solomon: My son, it was

my desire to have built a house to the name of

the Lord my God.

8But the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Thou hast shed much blood, and fought many

battles, so thou cannot not build house to my

name, after shedding so much blood before me:

9The son, that shall be born to thee, shall be

a most quiet man: for I will make him rest from

all his enemies round about: and therefore heshall be called Peaceable: and I will give peace

and quietness to Israel all his days.

10He shall build a house to my name, and

he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father

to him: and I will establish the throne of his

kingdom over Israel for ever.

11Now then, my son, the Lord be with thee,

and do thou prosper, and build the house to the

Lord thy God, as he hath spoken of thee.

12The Lord also give thee wisdom and under-

standing, that thou mayest be able to rule Israel,

and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.

13For then thou shalt be able to prosper, if

thou keep the commandments, and judgments,

which the Lord commanded Moses to teach Is-

rael: take courage and act manfully, fear not,

nor be dismayed.

14Behold I in my poverty have prepared the

charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hun-

dred thousand talents, and of silver a million

of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is

no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all ac-

count: timber also and stones I have prepared

for all the charges.

15Thou hast also workmen in abundance,

hewers of stones, and masons, and carpenters,

and of all trades the most skilful in their work,

16In gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in

iron, whereof there is no number. Arise then,

and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

17David also charged all the princes of Israel,

to help Solomon his son,

18Saying: You see, that the Lord your God is

with you, and hath given you rest round about,

and hath delivered all your enemies into your

hands, and the land is subdued before the Lord,

and before his people.

19Give therefore your hearts and your souls,

to seek the Lord your God and arise, and build

a sanctuary to the Lord God, that the ark ofFirst Book of Paralipomenon 507

the covenant of the Lord, and the vessels con-

secrated to the Lord, may be brought into the

house, which is built to the name of the Lord.

Chapter 23

David being old and full of days, made Solomon

his son king over Israel.

2And he gathered together all the princes of

Israel, and the priests and Levites.

3And the Levites were numbered from the

age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were

found of them thirty-eight thousand men.

4Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen,

and distributed unto the ministry of the house

of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers

and judges.

5Moreover four thousand were porters: and

as many singers singing to the Lord with the

instruments, which he had made to sing with.

6And David distributed them into courses by

the families of the sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson,

and of Caath, and of Merari.

7The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.

8The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and

Zethan, and Joel, three.

9The sons of Semei: Salomith, and Hosiel,

and Aran, three: these were the heads of the

families of Leedan.

10And the sons of Semei were Leheth, and

Ziza, and Jaus, and Baria: these were the sons

of Semei, four.

11And Leheth was the rst, Ziza the second:

but Jaus and Baria had not many children, and

therefore they were counted in one family, and

in one house.

12The sons of Caath were Amram, and Isaar,

Hebron, and Oziel, four.

13The sons of Amram, Aaron, and Moses.And Aaron was separated to minister in the holy

of holies, he and his sons for ever, and to burn

incense before the Lord, according to his cere-

monies, and to bless his name for ever.

14The sons also of Moses, the man of God,

were numbered in the tribe of Levi.

15The sons of Moses were Gersom and

Eliezer:
16The sons of Gersom: Subuel the rst.

17And the sons of Eliezer were: Rohobia the

rst: and Eliezer had no more sons. But the sons

of Rohobia were multiplied exceedingly.

18The sons of Isaar: Salomith the rst.

19The sons of Hebron: Jeriau the rst,

Amarias the second, Jahaziel the third, Jec-

maam the fourth.

20The sons of Oziel: Micha the rst, Jesia

the second.

21The sons of Merari: Moholi, and Musi. The

sons of Moholi: Eleazar and Cis.

22And Eleazar died, and had no sons but

daughters: and the sons of Cis their brethren

took them.

23The sons of Musi: Moholi, and Eder, and

Jerimoth, three.

24These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds

and families, princes by their courses, and the

number of every head that did the works of the

ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty

years old and upward.

25For David said: The Lord the God of Israel

hath given rest to his people, and a habitation

in Jerusalem for ever.

26And it shall not be the oce of the Levites

to carry any more the tabernacle, and all the

vessels for the service thereof.

27So according to the last precepts of David,

the sons of Levi are to be numbered from twenty

years old and upward.508 First Book of Paralipomenon

28And they are to be under the hand of the

sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the

Lord, in the porches, and in the chambers, and

in the place of purication, and in the sanctuary,

and in all the works of the ministry of the temple

of the Lord.

29And the priests have the charge of the

loaves of proposition, and of the sacrice of ne

our, and of the unleavened cakes, and of the fry-

ingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight

and measure.

30And the Levites are to stand in the morning

to give thanks, and to sing praises to the Lord:

and in like manner in the evening,

31As well in the oblation of the holocausts

of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new

moons, and the rest of the solemnities, accord-

ing to the number and ceremonies prescribed for

every thing, continually before the Lord.

32And let them keep the observances of the

tabernacle of the covenant, and the ceremonies

of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of

Aaron their brethren, that they may minister in

the house of the Lord.

Chapter 24

Now these were the divisions of the sons of

Aaron: The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abiu,

and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

2But Nadab and Abiu died before their fa-

ther, and had no children: so Eleazar, and

Ithamar did the oce of the priesthood.

3And David distributed them, that is, Sadoc

of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons

of Ithamar, according to their courses and min-

istry.

4And there were found many more of the sons

of Eleazar among the principal men, than of thesons of Ithamar. And he divided them so, that

there were of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief

men by their families: and of the sons of Ithamar

eight by their families and houses.

5And he divided both the families one with

the other by lot: for there were princes of the

sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons

of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

6And Semeias the son of Nathanael the scribe

a Levite, wrote them down before the king and

the princes, and Sadoc the priest, and Ahimelech

the son of Abiathar, and the princes also of the

priestly and Levitical families: one house, which

was over the rest, of Eleazar: and another house,

which had the rest under it, of Ithamar.

7Now the rst lot came forth to Joiarib, the

second to Jedei,

8The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

9The fth to Melchia, the sixth to Maiman,

10The seventh to Accos, the eighth to Abia,

11The ninth to Jesua, the tenth to Sechenia,

12The eleventh to Eliasib, the twelfth to

Jacim,

13The thirteenth to Hoppha, the fourteenth

to Isbaab,

14The fteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Em-

mer,

15The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth

to Aphses,

16The nineteenth to Pheteia, the twentieth

to Hezechiel,

17The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two

and twentieth to Gamul,

18The three and twentieth to Dalaiau, the

four and twentieth to Maaziau.

19These are their courses according to their

ministries, to come into the house of the Lord,

and according to their manner under the hand

of Aaron their father: as the Lord the God of

Israel had commanded.First Book of Paralipomenon 509

20Now of the rest of the sons of Levi, there

was of the sons of Amram, Subael: and of the

sons of Subael, Jehedeia.

21Also of the sons of Rohobia the chief Jesias.

22And the son of Isaar Salemoth, and the son

of Salemoth Jahath:

23And his son Jeriau the rst, Amarias the

second, Jahaziel the third, Jecmaan the fourth.

24The son of Oziel, Micha: the son of Micha,

Samir.

25The brother of Micha, Jesia: and the son

of Jesia, Zacharias.

26The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi: the

son of Oziau: Benno.

27The son also of Merari Oziau, and Soam,

and Zacchur, and Hebri.

28And the son of Moholi: Eleazar, who had

no sons.

29And the son of Cis, Jeramael.

30The sons of Musi: Moholi, Eder, and Jer-

imoth. These are the sons of Levi according to

the houses of their families.

31And they also cast lots over against their

brethren the sons of Aaron before David the

king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes

of the priestly and Levitical families, both the el-

der and the younger. The lot divided all equally.

Chapter 25

Moreover David and the chief ocers of the army

separated for the ministry the sons of Asaph,

and of Heman, and of Idithun: to prophesy with

harps, and with psalteries, and with cymbals

according to their number serving in their ap-

pointed oce.

2Of the sons of Asaph: Zacchur, and Joseph,

and Nathania, and Asarela, sons of Asaph: un-

der the hand of Asaph prophesying near theking.

3And of Idithun: the sons of Idithun,

Godolias, Sori, Jeseias, and Hasabias, and

Mathathias, under the hand of their father

Idithun, who prophesied with a harp to give

thanks and to praise the Lord.

4Of Heman also: the sons of Heman,

Bocciau, Mathaniau, Oziel, Subuel, and Jer-

imoth, Hananias, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddelthi,

and Romemthiezer, and Jesbacassa, Mellothi,

Othir, Mahazioth:

5All these were the sons of Heman the seer of

the king in the words of God, to lift up the horn:

and God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three

daughters.

6All these under their father's hand were dis-

tributed to sing in the temple of the Lord, with

cymbals, and psalteries and harps, for the ser-

vice of the house of the Lord near the king: to

wit, Asaph, and Idithun, and Heman.

7And the number of them with their brethren,

that taught the song of the Lord, all the teachers,

were two hundred and eighty-eight.

8And they cast lots by their courses, the elder

equally with the younger, the learned and the

unlearned together.

9And the rst lot came forth to Joseph, who

was of Asaph. The second to Godolias, to him

and his sons, and his brethren twelve.

10The third to Zachur, to his sons and his

brethren twelve.

11The fourth to Isari, to his sons and his

brethren twelve.

12The fth to Nathania, to his sons and his

brethren twelve.

13The sixth to Bocciau, to his sons and his

brethren twelve.

14The seventh to Isreela, to his sons and his

brethren twelve.510 First Book of Paralipomenon

15The eighth to Jesaia, to his sons and his

brethren twelve.

16The ninth to Mathanaias, to his sons and

his brethren twelve.

17The tenth to Semeias, to his sons and his

brethren twelve.

18The eleventh to Azareel, to his sons and

his brethren twelve.

19The twelfth to Hasabia, to his sons and his

brethren twelve.

20The thirteenth to Subael, to his sons and

his brethren twelve.

21The fourteenth to Mathathias, to his sons

and his brethren twelve.

22The fteenth to Jerimoth, to his sons and

his brethren twelve.

23The sixteenth to Hananias, to his sons and

his brethren twelve.

24The seventeenth to Jesbacassa, to his sons

and his brethren twelve.

25The eighteenth to Hanani, to his sons and

his brethren twelve.

26The nineteenth to Mellothi, to his sons and

his brethren twelve.

27The twentieth to Eliatha, to his sons and

his brethren twelve.

28The one and twentieth to Othir, to his sons

and his brethren twelve.

29The two and twentieth to Geddelthi, to his

sons and his brethren twelve.

30The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, to

his sons and his brethren twelve.

31The four and twentieth to Romemthiezer,

to his sons and his brethren twelve.

Chapter 26

And the divisions of the porters: of the Corites

Meselemia, the son of Core, of the sons of Asaph.2The sons of Meselemia: Zacharias the rst-

born, Jadihel the second, Zabadias the third,

Jathanael the fourth,

3Elam the fth, Johanan the sixth, Elioenai

the seventh.

4And the sons of Obededom, Semeias the

rstborn, Jozabad the second, Joaha the third,

Sachar the fourth, Nathanael the fth,

5Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh,

Phollathi the eighth: for the Lord had blessed

him.

6And to Semei his son were born sons, heads

of their families: for they were men of great val-

our.

7The sons then of Semeias were Othni, and

Raphael, and Obed, Elizabad, and his brethren

most valiant men: and Eliu, and Samachias.

8All these of the sons of Obededom: they, and

their sons, and their brethren most able men for

service, sixty-two of Obededom.

9And the sons of Meselemia, and their

brethren strong men, were eighteen.

10And of Hosa, that is, of the sons of Merari:

Semri the chief, (for he had not a rstborn, and

therefore his father made him chief.)

11Helcias the second, Tabelias the third,

Zacharias the fourth: all these the sons, and the

brethren of Hosa, were thirteen.

12Among these were the divisions of the

porters, so that the chiefs of the wards, as well

as their brethren, always ministered in the house

of the Lord.

13And they cast lots equally, both little and

great, by their families for every one of the gates.

14And the lot of the east fell to Selemias.

But to his son Zacharias, a very wise and learned

man, the north gate fell by lot.

15And to Obededom and his sons that to-

wards the south: in which part of the house was

the council of the ancients.First Book of Paralipomenon 511

16To Sephim, and Hosa towards the west, by

the gate which leadeth to the way of the ascent:

ward against ward.

17Now towards the east were six Levites: and

towards the north four a day: and towards the

south likewise four a day: and where the council

was, two and two.

18In the cells also of the porters toward the

west four in the way: and two at every cell.

19These are the divisions of the porters of the

sons of Core, and of Merari.

20Now Achias was over the treasures of the

house of God, and the holy vessels.

21The sons of Ledan, the sons of Gersonni:

of Ledan were heads of the families, of Ledan,

and Gersonni, Jehieli.

22The sons of Jehieli: Zathan and Joel, his

brethren over the treasures of the house of the

Lord,

23With the Amramites, and Isaarites, and

Hebronites, and Ozielites.

24And Subael the son of Gersom, the son of

Moses, was chief over the treasures.

25His brethren also, Eliezer, whose son Ro-

hobia, and his son Isaias, and his son Joram, and

his son Zechri, and his son Selemith.

26Which Selemith and his brethren were over

the treasures of the holy things, which king

David, and the heads of families, and the cap-

tains over thousands and over hundreds, and the

captains of the host had dedicated,

27Out of the wars, and the spoils won in bat-

tles, which they had consecrated to the building

and furniture of the temple of the Lord.

28And all these things that Samuel the seer

and Saul the son of Cis, and Abner the son

of Ner, and Joab the son of Sarvia had sancti-

ed: and whosoever had sanctied those things,

they were under the hand of Selemith and his

brethren.29But Chonenias and his sons were over the

Isaarites, for the business abroad over Israel to

teach them and judge them.

30And of the Hebronites Hasabias, and his

brethren most able men, a thousand seven hun-

dred had the charge over Israel beyond the Jor-

dan westward, in all the works of the Lord, and

for the service of the king.

31And the chief of the Hebronites was Je-

ria according to their families and kindreds. In

the fortieth year of the reign of David they were

numbered, and there were found most valiant

men in Jazer Galaad,

32And his brethren of stronger age, two thou-

sand seven hundred chiefs of families. And king

David made them rulers over the Rubenites and

the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses, for

all the service of God, and the king.

Chapter 27

Now the children of Israel according to their

number, the heads of families, captains of thou-

sands and of hundreds, and ocers, that served

the king according to their companies, who came

in and went out every month in the year, under

every chief were four and twenty thousand.

2Over the rst company the rst month Jes-

boam, the son of Zabdiel was chief, and under

him were four and twenty thousand.

3Of the sons of Phares, the chief of all the

captains in the host in the rst month.

4The company of the second month was under

Dudia, an Ahohite, and after him was another

named Macelloth, who commanded a part of the

army of four and twenty thousand.

5And the captain of the third company for the

third month, was Banaias the son of Joiada the

priest: and in his division were four and twenty512 First Book of Paralipomenon

thousand.

6This is that Banaias the most valiant among

the thirty, and above the thirty. And Amizabad

his son commanded his company.

7The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asa-

hel the brother of Joab, and Zabadias his son

after him: and in his company were four and

twenty thousand.

8The fth captain for the fth month, was

Samaoth a Jezerite: and his company were four

and twenty thousand.

9The sixth, for the sixth month, was Hira the

son of Acces a Thecuite: and in his company

were four and twenty thousand.

10The seventh, for the seventh month, was

Helles a Phallonite of the sons of Ephraim: and

in his company were four and twenty thousand.

11The eighth, for the eighth month, was

Sobochai a Husathite of the race of Zarahi: and

in his company were four and twenty thousand.

12The ninth, for the ninth month, was

Abiezer an Anathothite of the sons of Jemini,

and in his company were four and twenty thou-

sand.

13The tenth, for the tenth month, was Marai,

who was a Netophathite of the race of Zarai: and

in his company were four and twenty thousand.

14The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was

Banaias, a Pharathonite of the sons of Ephraim:

and in his company were four and twenty thou-

sand.

15The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was

Holdai a Netophathite, of the race of Gothoniel:

and in his company were four and twenty thou-

sand.

16Now the chiefs over the tribes of Israel were

these: over the Rubenites, Eliezer the son of

Zechri was ruler: over the Simeonites, Saphatias

the son of Maacha:17Over the Levites, Hasabias the son of Ca-

muel: over the Aaronites, Sadoc:

18Over Juda, Eliu the brother of David over

Issachar, Amri the son of Michael:

19Over the Zabulonites, Jesmaias the son of

Adias: over the Nephtalites, Jerimoth the son of

Ozriel:

20Over the sons of Ephraim, Osee the son of

Ozaziu: over the half tribe of Manasses, Joel the

son of Phadaia:

21And over the half tribe of Manasses in

Galaad, Jaddo the son of Zacharias: and over

Benjamin, Jasiel the son of Abner.

22And over Dan, Ezrihel the son of Jeroham:

these were the princes of the children of Israel.

23But David would not number them from

twenty years old and under: because the lord

had said that he would multiply Israel like the

stars of heaven.

24Joab the son of Sarvia began to number,

but he nished not: because upon this there fell

wrath upon Israel: and therefore the number of

them that were numbered, was not registered in

the chronicles of king David.

25And over the king's treasures was Azmoth

the son of Adiel: and over those stores which

were in the cities, and in the villages, and, in the

castles, was Jonathan the son of Ozias.

26And over the tillage, and the husband-

men, who tilled the ground, was Ezri the son

of Chelub:

27And over the dressers of the vine yards, was

Semeias a Romathite: and over the wine cellars,

Zabdias an Aphonite.

28And over the oliveyards and the g groves,

which were in the plains, was Balanam a

Gederite: and over the oil cellars, Joas.

29And over the herds that fed in Saron, was

Setrai a Saronite: and over the oxen in the val-

leys, Saphat the son of Adli:First Book of Paralipomenon 513

30And over the camels, Ubil an Ishmahelite

and over the asses, Jadias a Meronathite:

31And over the sheep Jaziz an Agarene. All

these were the rulers of the substance of king

David.

32And Jonathan David's uncle, a counsellor,

a wise and learned man: he and Jahiel the son

of Hachamoni were with the king's sons.

33And Achitophel was the king's counsellor,

and Chusai the Arachite, the king's friend.

34And after Achitophel was Joiada the son of

Banaias, and Abiathar. And the general of the

king's army was Joab.

Chapter 28

And David assembled all the chief men of Is-

rael, the princes of the tribes, and the captains

of the companies, who waited on the king: and

the captains over thousands, and over hundreds,

and them who had the charge over the substance

and possessions of the king, and his sons with the

ocers of the court, and the men of power, and

all the bravest of the army at Jerusalem.

2And the king rising up, and standing said:

Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a

thought to have built a house, in which the ark

of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might

rest: and prepared all things for the building.

3And God said to me: Thou shalt not build

a house to my name: because thou art a man of

war, and hast shed blood.

4But the Lord God of Israel chose me of all

the house of my father, to be king over Israel for

ever: for of Juda he chose the princes: and of the

house of Juda, my father's house: and among the

sons of my father, it pleased him to choose me

king over all Israel.

5And among my sons (for the Lord hath givenme many sons) he hath chosen Solomon my son,

to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord

over Israel.

6And he said to me: Solomon thy son shall

build my house, and my courts: for I have chosen

him to be my son, and I will be a father to him.

7And I will establish his kingdom for ever, it

he continue to keep my commandments, and my

judgments, as at this day.

8Now then before all the assembly of Israel,

in the hearing of our God, keep ye, and seek all

the commandments of the Lord our God: that

you may possess the good land, and may leave

it to your children after you for ever.

9And thou my son Solomon, know the God of

thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart,

and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all

hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of

minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt nd him:

but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee o for

ever.

10Now therefore seeing the Lord hath chosen

thee to build the house of the sanctuary, take

courage, and do it.

11And David gave to Solomon his son a de-

scription of the porch, and of the temple, and of

the treasures, and of the upper

oor, and of the

inner chambers, and of the house for the mercy

seat,

12As also of all the courts, which he had in

his thought, and of the chambers round about,

for the treasures of the house of the Lord, and

for the treasures of the consecrated things,

13And of the divisions of the priests and of

the Levites, for all the works of the house of the

Lord, and for all the vessels of the service of the

temple of the Lord.

14Gold by weight for every vessel for the min-

istry. And silver by weight according to the di-

versity of the vessels and uses.514 First Book of Paralipomenon

15He gave also gold for the golden candle-

sticks, and their lamps, according to the dimen-

sions of every candlestick, and the lamps thereof.

In like manner also he gave silver by weight

for the silver candlesticks, and for their lamps

according to the diversity of the dimensions of

them.

16He gave also gold for the tables of proposi-

tion, according to the diversity of the tables: in

like manner also silver for other tables of silver.

17For

eshhooks also, and bowls, and censors

of ne gold, and for little lions of gold, according

to the measure he gave by weight, for every lion.

In like manner also for lions of silver he set aside

a dierent weight of silver.

18And for the altar of incense, he gave the

purest gold: and to make the likeness of the char-

iot of the cherubims spreading their wings, and

covering the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

19All these things, said he, came to me writ-

ten by the hand of the Lord that I might under-

stand all the works of the pattern.

20And David said to Solomon his son: Act

like a man, and take courage, and do: fear not,

and be not dismayed: for the Lord my God will

be with thee, and will not leave thee, nor forsake

thee, till thou hast nished all the work for the

service of the house of the Lord.

21Behold the courses of the priests and the

Levites, for every ministry of the house of the

Lord, stand by thee, and are ready, and both

the princes, and the people know how to execute

all thy commandments.

Chapter 29

And king David said to all the assembly:

Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen,

is as yet young and tender: and the work is great,for a house is prepared not for man, but for God.

2And I with all my ability have prepared the

expenses for the house of my God. Gold for ves-

sels of gold, and silver for vessels of silver, brass

for things of brass, iron for things of iron, wood

for things of wood: and onyx stones, and stones

like alabaster, and of divers colours, and all man-

ner of precious stones, and marble of Paros in

great abundance.

3Now over and above the things which I have

oered into the house of my God I give of my

own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple

of my God, beside what things I have prepared

for the holy house.

4Three thousand talents of gold of the gold

of Ophir: and seven thousand talents of rened

silver, to overlay the walls of the temple.

5And gold for wheresoever there is need of

gold: and silver for wheresoever there is need of

silver, for the works to be made by the hands of

the articers: now if any man is willing to oer,

let him ll his hand to day, and oer what he

pleaseth to the Lord.

6Then the heads of the families, and the

princes of the tribes of Israel and the captains of

thousands, and of hundreds, and the overseers of

the king's possessions promised,

7And they gave for the works of the house of

the Lord, of gold, ve thousand talents, and ten

thousand solids: of silver ten thousand talents:

and of brass eighteen thousand talents: and of

iron a hundred thousand talents.

8And all they that had stones, gave them to

the treasures of the house of the Lord, by the

hand of Jahiel the Gersonite.

9And the people rejoiced, when they

promised their oerings willingly: because they

oered them to the Lord with all their heart: and

David the king rejoiced also with a great joy.

10And he blessed the Lord before all the mul-First Book of Paralipomenon 515

titude, and he said: Blessed art thou, O Lord the

God of Israel, our father from eternity to eter-

nity.

11Thine, O Lord, is magnicence, and power,

and glory, and victory: and to thee is praise: for

all that is in heaven, and in earth, is thine: thine

is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art above all

princes.

12Thine are riches, and thine is glory, thou

hast dominion over all, in thy hand is power and

might: in thy hand greatness, and the empire of

all things.

13Now therefore our God we give thanks to

thee, and we praise thy glorious name.

14Who am I, and what is my people, that we

should be able to promise thee all these things?

all things are thine: and we have given thee what

we received of thy hand.

15For we are sojourners before thee, and

strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days

upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

16O Lord our God, all this store that we have

prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name,

is from thy hand, and all things are thine.

17I know my God that thou provest hearts,

and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the sim-

plicity of my heart, have joyfully oered all these

things: and I have seen with great joy thy people,

which are here present, oer thee their oerings.

18O Lord God of Abraham, and of Isaac,

and of Israel our fathers, keep for ever this will

of their heart, and let this mind remain always

for the worship of thee.

19And give to Solomon my son a perfect

heart, that he may keep thy commandments,

thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all

things: and build the house, for which I have

provided the charges.

20And David commanded all the assembly:

Bless ye the Lord our God. And all the assemblyblessed the Lord the God of their fathers: and

they bowed themselves and worshipped God,

and then the king.

21And they sacriced victims to the Lord:

and they oered holocausts the next day, a thou-

sand bullocks, a thousand rams, a thousand

lambs, with their libations, and with every thing

prescribed most abundantly for all Israel.

22And they ate, and drank before the Lord

that day with great joy. And they anointed the

second time Solomon the son of David. And they

anointed him to the Lord to be prince, and Sadoc

to be high priest.

23And Solomon sat on the throne of the

Lord as king instead of David his father, and

he pleased all: and all Israel obeyed him.

24And all the princes, and men of power, and

all the sons of king David gave their hand, and

were subject to Solomon the king.

25And the Lord magnied Solomon over all

Israel: and gave him the glory of a reign, such

as no king of Israel had before him.

26So David the son of Isai reigned over all

Israel.

27And the days that he reigned over Israel,

were forty years: in Hebron he reigned seven

years, and in Jerusalem three and thirty years.

28And he died in a good age, full of days, and

riches, and glory. And Solomon his son reigned

in his stead.

29Now the acts of king David rst and last

are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and

in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the

book of Gad the seer:

30And of all his reign, and his valour, and of

the times that passed under him, either in Israel,

or in all the kingdoms of the countries.Second Book of Paralipomenon

Chapter 1

And Solomon the son of David was strengthened

in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with

him, and magnied him to a high degree.

2And Solomon gave orders to all Israel, to the

captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and to

the rulers, and to the judges of all Israel, and the

heads of the families:

3And he went with all the multitude to the

high place of Gabaon, where was the tabernacle

of the covenant of the Lord, which Moses the

servant of God made, in the wilderness.

4For David had brought the ark of God from

Cariathiarim to the place, which he had prepared

for it, and where he had pitched a tabernacle for

it, that is, in Jerusalem.

5And the altar of brass, which Beseleel the

son of Uri the son of Hur had made, was there

before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon

and all the assembly sought it:

6And Solomon went up thither to the brazen

altar, before the tabernacle of the covenant of the

Lord, and oered up on it a thousand victims.

7And behold that night God appeared to him,

saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give

thee.

8And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn

great kindness to my father David: and hast

made me king in his stead.

9Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy wordbe fullled, which thou hast promised to David

my father: for thou hast made me king over thy

great people, which is as innumerable as the dust

of the earth.
10Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may

come in and go out before thy people: for who

can worthily judge this thy people, which is so

great?

11And God said to Solomon: Because this

choice hath pleased thy heart, and thou hast not

asked riches, and wealth, and glory, nor the lives

of them that hate thee, nor many days of life: but

hast asked wisdom and knowledge, to be able to

judge my people, over which I have made thee

king,

12Wisdom and knowledge are granted to

thee: and I will give thee riches, and wealth,

and glory, so that none of the kings before thee,

nor after thee, shall be like thee.

13Then Solomon came from the high place

of Gabaon to Jerusalem before the tabernacle of

the covenant, and reigned over Israel.

14And he gathered to himself chariots and

horsemen, and he had a thousand four hundred

chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he

placed them in the cities of the chariots, and with

the king in Jerusalem.

15And the king made silver and gold to

be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees as

sycamores, which grow in the plains in great mul-

titude.Second Book of Paralipomenon 517

16And there were horses brought him from

Egypt, and from Coa by the king's merchants,

who went, and bought at a price,

17A chariot of four horses for six hundred

pieces of silver, and a horse for a hundred and

fty: in like manner market was made in all the

kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of

Syria.

Chapter 2

And Solomon determined to build a house to the

name of the Lord, and a palace for himself.

2And he numbered out seventy thousand men

to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew

stones in the mountains, and three thousand six

hundred to oversee them.

3He sent also to Hiram king of Tyre, saying:

As thou didst with David my father, and didst

send him cedars, to build him a house, in which

he dwelt:

4So do with me that I may build a house to

the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to

burn incense before him, and to perfume with

aromatical spices, and for the continual setting

forth of bread, and for the holocausts, morning

and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on the

new moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our

God for ever, which are commanded for Israel.

5For the house which I desire to build, is

great: for our God is great above all gods.

6Who then can be able to build him a worthy

house? if heaven, and the heavens of heavens

cannot contain him: who am I that I should be

able to build him a house? but to this end only,

that incense may be burnt before him.

7Send me therefore a skilful man, that

knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, in

brass, and in iron, in purple, in scarlet and inblue, and that hath skill in engraving, with the

articers, which I have with me in Judea and

Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

8Send me also cedars, and r trees, and pine

trees from Libanus: for I know that thy servants

are skilful in cutting timber in Libanus, and my

servants shall be with thy servants,

9To provide me timber in abundance. For the

house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding

great, and glorious.

10And I will give thy servants the workmen

that are to cut down the trees, for their food

twenty thousand cores of wheat, and as many

cores of barley, and twenty thousand measures

of wine, and twenty thousand measures of oil.

11And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter to

Solomon, saying: Because the Lord hath loved

his people, therefore he hath made thee king over

them.

12And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord

the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth,

who hath given to king David a wise and know-

ing son, endued with understanding and pru-

dence, to build a house to the Lord, and a palace

for himself.

13I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram,

a wise and most skilful man,

14The son of a woman of the daughters of

Dan, whose father was a Tyrian, who knoweth

how to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, and

in iron, and in marble, and in timber, in pur-

ple also, and violet, and silk and scarlet: and

who knoweth to grave all sort of graving, and

to devise ingeniously all that there may be need

of in the work with thy articers, and with the

articers of my lord David thy father.

15The wheat therefore, and the barley and

the oil, and the wine, which thou, my lord, hast

promised, send to thy servants.

16And we will cut down as many trees out518 Second Book of Paralipomenon

of Libanus, as thou shalt want, and will convey

them in

oats by sea to Joppe: and it will be thy

part to bring them thence to Jerusalem.

17And Solomon numbered all the proselytes

in the land of Israel, after the numbering which

David his father had made, and they were found

a hundred and fty-three thousand and six hun-

dred.

18And he set seventy thousand of them to

carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty

thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and

three thousand and six hundred to be overseers

of the work of the people.

Chapter 3

And Solomon began to build the house of the

Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had

been shewn to David his father, in the place

which David had prepared in the thrashing

oor

of Ornan the Jebusite.

2And he began to build in the second month,

in the fourth year of his reign.

3Now these are the foundations, which

Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the

length by the rst measure sixty cubits, the

breadth twenty cubits.

4And the porch in the front, which was ex-

tended in length according to the measure of the

breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the

height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and

he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5And the greater house he ceiled with deal

boards, and overlaid them with plates of ne gold

throughout: and he graved in them palm trees,

and like little chains interlaced with one another.

6He paved also the

oor of the temple with

most precious marble, of great beauty.

7And the gold of the plates with which heoverlaid the house, and the beams thereof, and

the posts, and the walls, and the doors was of the

nest: and he graved cherubims on the walls.

8He made also the house of the holy of holies:

the length of it according to the breadth of the

temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in

like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it

with plates of gold, amounting to about six hun-

dred talents.

9He made also nails of gold, and the weight

of every nail was fty sicles: the upper chambers

also he overlaid with gold.

10He made also in the house of the holy of

holies two cherubims of image work: and he over-

laid them with gold.

11The wings of the cherubims were extended

twenty cubits, so that one wing was ve cubits

long, and reached to the wall of the house: and

the other was also ve cubits long, and reached

to the wing of the other cherub.

12In like manner the wing of the other

cherub, was ve cubits long, and reached to the

wall: and his other wing was ve cubits long,

and touched the wing of the other cherub.

13So the wings of the two cherubims were

spread forth, and were extended twenty cubits:

and they stood upright on their feet, and their

faces were turned toward the house without.

14He made also a veil of violet, purple, scar-

let, and silk: and wrought in it cherubims.

15He made also before the doors of the tem-

ple two pillars, which were ve and thirty cubits

high: and their chapiters were ve cubits.

16He made also as it were little chains in

the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the

pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he

put between the little chains.

17These pillars he put at the entrance of the

temple, one on the right hand, and the other on

the left: that which was on the right hand, heSecond Book of Paralipomenon 519
called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.

Chapter 4

He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits

long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits

high.

2Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to

brim, round in compass: it was ve cubits high,

and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round

about.

3And under it there was the likeness of oxen,

and certain engravings on the outside of ten cu-

bits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were

with two rows.

4And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself

was set upon the twelve oxen, three of which

looked toward the north, and other three toward

the west: and other three toward the south, and

the other three that remained toward the east,

and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder

parts of the oxen were inward under the sea.

5Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth,

and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup,

or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand

measures.

6He made also ten lavers: and he set ve on

the right hand, and ve on the left, to wash in

them all such things as they were to oer for

holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to

wash in.

7And he made ten golden candlesticks, ac-

cording to the form which they were commanded

to be made by: and he set them in the temple,

ve on the right hand, and ve on the left.

8Moreover also ten tables: and he set them

in the temple, ve on the right side, and ve on

the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.

9He made also the court of the priests, and agreat hall, and doors in the hall, which he cov-

ered with brass.

10And he set the sea on the right side over

against the east toward the south.

11And Hiram made caldrons, and

eshhooks,

and bowls: and nished all the king's work the

house of God:

12That is to say, the two pillars, and the

pommels, and the chapiters, and the network,

to cover the chapiters over the pommels.

13And four hundred pomegranates, and

two wreaths of network, so that two rows of

pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to

cover the pommels, and the chapiters of the pil-

lars.
14He made also bases, and lavers, which he

set upon the bases:

15One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

16And the caldrons, and

eshhooks, and

bowls. All the vessels did Hiram his father make

for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the nest

brass.

17In the country near the Jordan did the king

cast them, in a clay ground between Sochot and

Saredatha.

18And the multitude of vessels was innumer-

able, so that the weight of the brass was not

known.

19And Solomon made all the vessels for the

house of God, and the golden altar, and the ta-

bles, upon which were the loaves of proposition,

20The candlesticks also of most pure gold

with their lamps to give light before the oracle,

according to the manner.

21And certain

owers, and lamps, and golden

tongs: all were made of the nest gold.

22The vessels also for the perfumes, and the

censers, and the bowls, and the mortars, of pure

gold. And he graved the doors of the inner tem-

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of the temple without were of gold. And thus

all the work was nished which Solomon made

in the house of the Lord.

Chapter 5

Then Solomon brought in all those things that

David his father had vowed, the silver, and the

gold, and all the vessels he put among the trea-

sures of the house of God.

2And after this he gathered together the an-

cients of Israel and all the princes of the tribes,

and the heads of the families, of the children

of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the

covenant of the Lord out of the city of David,

which is Sion.

3And all the men of Israel came to the king

in the solemn day of the seventh month.

4And when all the ancients of Israel were

come, the Levites took up the ark,

5And brought it in, together with all the fur-

niture of the tabernacle. And the priests with

the Levites carried the vessels of the sanctuary,

which were in the tabernacle.

6And king Solomon and all the assembly of

Israel and all that were gathered together before

the ark, sacriced rams, and oxen without num-

ber: so great was the multitude of the victims.

7And the priests brought in the ark of the

covenant of the Lord into its place, that is, to

the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies

under the wings of the cherubims:

8So that the cherubims spread their wings

over the place, in which the ark was set, and

covered the ark itself and its staves.

9Now the ends of the staves wherewith the

ark was carried, because they were some thing

longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man

were a little outward, he could not see them. Sothe ark has been there unto this day.

10And there was nothing else in the ark but

the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb

when the Lord gave the law to the children of

Israel, at their coming out of Egypt.

11Now when the priests were come out of the

sanctuary, for all the priests that could be found

there, were sanctied: and as yet at that time

the courses and orders of the ministries were not

divided among them,

12Both the Levites and the singing men, that

is, both they that were under Asaph, and they

that were under Heman, and they that were un-

der Idithun, with their sons, and their brethren,

clothed with ne linen, sounded with cymbals,

and psalteries, and harps, standing on the east

side of the altar, and with them a hundred and

twenty priests, sounding with trumpets.

13So when they all sounded together, both

with trumpets, and voice, and cymbals, and or-

gans, and with divers kind of musical instru-

ments, and lifted up their voice on high: the

sound was heard afar o, so that when they be-

gan to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to

the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth

for ever: the house of God was lled with a cloud.

14Nor could the priests stand and minister

by reason of the cloud. For the glory of the Lord

had lled the house of God.

Chapter 6

Then Solomon said: The Lord promised that he

would dwell in a cloud.

2But I have built a house to his name, that

he might dwell there for ever.

3And the king turned his face, and blessed

all the multitude of Israel for all the multitude

stood attentive and he said:Second Book of Paralipomenon 521

4Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who

hath accomplished in deed that which he spoke

to David my father, saying:

5From the day that I brought my people out

of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all

the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in it

to my name: neither chose I any other man, to

be the ruler of my people Israel.

6But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might

be there: and I chose David to set him over my

people Israel.

7And whereas David my father had a mind to

build a house to the name of the Lord the God

of Israel,

8The Lord said to him: Forasmuch as it was

thy will to build a house to my name, thou hast

done well indeed in having such a will:

9But thou shalt not build the house, but thy

son, who shall come out of thy loins, he shall

build a house to my name.

10The Lord therefore hath accomplished his

word which he spoke: and I am risen up in the

place of David my father, and sit upon the throne

of Israel, as the Lord promised: and have built

a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.

11And I have put in it the ark, wherein is the

covenant of the Lord, which he made with the

children of Israel.

12And he stood before the altar of the Lord,

in presence of all the multitude of Israel, and

stretched forth his hands.

13For Solomon had made a brazen scaold,

and had set it in the midst of the temple, which

was ve cubits long, and ve cubits broad, and

three cubits high: and he stood upon it: then

kneeling down in the presence of all the multi-

tude of Israel, and lifting up his hands towards

heaven,

14He said: O Lord God of Israel, there is

no God like thee in heaven nor in earth: whokeepest covenant and mercy with thy servants,

that walk before thee with all their hearts:

15Who hast performed to thy servant David

my father all that thou hast promised him: and

hast accomplished in fact, what thou hast spoken

with thy mouth, as also the present time proveth.

16Now then, O Lord God of Israel, full to

thy servant David my father, whatsoever thou

hast promised him, saying: There shall not fail

thee a man in my sight, to sit upon the throne of

Israel: yet so that thy children take heed to their

ways, and walk in my law, as thou hast walked

before me.

17And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy word

be established which thou hast spoken to thy

servant David.

18Is it credible then that God should dwell

with men on the earth? If heaven and the heav-

ens of heavens do not contain thee, how much

less this house, which I have built?

19But to this end only it is made, that thou

mayest regard the prayer of thy servant and his

supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest hear

the prayers which thy servant poureth out before

thee.

20That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this

house day and night, upon the place wherein

thou hast promised that thy name should be

called upon,

21And that thou wouldst hear the prayer

which thy servant prayeth in it: hearken then

to the prayers of thy servant, and of thy peo-

ple Israel. Whosoever shall pray in its place,

hear thou from thy dwelling place, that is, from

heaven, and shew mercy.

22If any man sin against his neighbour, and

come to swear against him, and bind himself

with a curse before the altar in this house:

23Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice

to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by mak-522 Second Book of Paralipomenon

ing his wickedness fall upon his own head, and

to revenge the just, rewarding him according to

his justice.
24If thy people Israel be overcome by their

enemies, (for they will sin against thee,) and be-

ing converted shall do penance, and call upon

thy name, and pray to thee in this place,

25Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive

the sin of thy people Israel and bring them back

into the land which thou gavest to them, and

their fathers.

26If the heavens be shut up, and there fall

no rain by reason of the sin of the people, and

they shall pray to thee in this place, and confess

to thy name, and be converted from their sins,

where thou dost aict them,

27Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and

forgive the sins of thy servants and of thy people

Israel and teach them the good way in which

they may walk: and give rain to thy land which

thou hast given to thy people to possess.

28If a famine arise in the land, or a pestilence

or blasting, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars:

or if their enemies waste the country, and besiege

the cities, whatsoever scourge or inrmity shall

be upon them:

29Then if any of thy people Israel, knowing

his own scourge and inrmity shall pray, and

shall spread forth his hands in this house,

30Hear thou from heaven, from thy high

dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every

one according to his ways, which thou knowest

him to have in his heart: for thou only knowest

the hearts of the children of men:

31That they may fear thee, and walk in thy

ways all the days that they live upon the face of

the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.

32If the stranger also, who is not of thy people

Israel, come from a far country, for the sake of

thy great name, and thy strong hand, and thystretched out arm, and adore in this place:

33Hear thou from heaven thy rm dwelling

place, and do all that which that stranger shall

call upon thee for: that all the people of the earth

may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy

people Israel, and may know, that thy name is

invoked upon this house, which I have built.

34If thy people go out to war against their en-

emies, by the way that thou shalt send them, and

adore thee towards the way of this city, which

thou hast chosen, and the house which I have

built to thy name:

35Then hear thou from heaven their prayers,

and their supplications, and revenge them.

36And if they sin against thee (for there is no

man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with

them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and

they lead them away captive to a land either afar

o, or near at hand,

37And if they be converted in their heart in

the land to which they were led captive, and do

penance, and pray to thee in the land of their

captivity saying: We have sinned, we have done

wickedly, we have dealt unjustly:

38And return to thee with all their heart,

and with all their soul, in the land of their cap-

tivity, to which they were led away, and adore

thee towards the way of their own land which

thou gavest their fathers, and of the city, which

thou hast chosen, and the house which I have

built to thy name:

39Then hear thou from heaven, that is, from

thy rm dwelling place, their prayers, and do

judgment, and forgive thy people, although they

have sinned:

40For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I be-

seech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive

to the prayer, that is made in this place.

41Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy

resting place, thou and the ark of thy strength:Second Book of Paralipomenon 523

let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation,

and thy saints rejoice in good things.

42O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy

anointed: remember the mercies of David thy

servant.

Chapter 7

And when Solomon had made an end of his

prayer, re came down from heaven, and con-

sumed the holocausts and the victims: and the

majesty of the Lord lled the house.

2Neither could the priests enter into the tem-

ple of the Lord, because the majesty of the Lord

had lled the temple of the Lord.

3Moreover all the children of Israel saw the

re coming down, and the glory of the Lord upon

the house: and falling down with their faces

to the ground, upon the stone pavement, they

adored and praised the Lord: because he is good,

because his mercy endureth for ever.

4And the king and all the people sacriced

victims before the Lord.

5And king Solomon oered a sacrice of

twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and

twenty thousand rams: and the king and all the

people dedicated the house of God.

6And the priests stood in their oces: and

the Levites with the instruments of music of the

Lord, which king David made to praise the Lord:

because his mercy endureth for ever, singing

the hymns of David by their ministry: and the

priests sounded with trumpets before them, and

all Israel stood.

7Solomon also sanctied the middle of the

court before the temple of the Lord: for he of-

fered there the holocausts, and the fat of the

peace oerings: because the brazen altar, which

he had made, could not hold the holocausts andthe sacrices and the fat:

8And Solomon kept the solemnity at that

time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very

great congregation, from the entrance of Emath

to the torrent of Egypt.

9And he made on the eighth day a solemn as-

sembly, because he had kept the dedication of the

altar seven days, and had celebrated the solem-

nity seven days.

10So on the three and twentieth day of the

seventh month he sent away the people to their

dwellings, joyful and glad for the good that the

Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and

to all Israel his people.

11And Solomon nished the house of the

Lord, and the king's house, and all that he had

designed in his heart to do, in the house of the

Lord, and in his own house, and he prospered.

12And the Lord appeared to him by night,

and said: I have heard thy prayer, and I have

chosen this place to myself for a house of sacri-

ce.

13If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain,

or if I give orders, and command the locust to

devour the land, or if I send pestilence among

my people:

14And my people, upon whom my name is

called, being converted, shall make supplication

to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for

their most wicked ways: then will I hear from

heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal

their land.

15My eyes also shall be open, and my ears

attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in

this place.

16For I have chosen, and have sanctied this

place, that my name may be there for ever, and

my eyes and my heart may remain there perpet-

ually.

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as David thy father walked, and do according to

all that I have commanded thee, and keep my

justices and my judgments:

18I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom,

as I promised to David thy father, saying: There

shall not fail thee a man of thy stock to be ruler

in Israel.

19But if you turn away, and forsake my jus-

tices, and my commandments which I have set

before you, and shall go and serve strange gods,

and adore them,

20I will pluck you up by the root out of my

land which I have given you: and this house

which I have sanctied to my name, I will cast

away from before my face, and will make it a

byword, and an example among all nations.

21And this house shall be for a proverb to all

that pass by, and they shall be astonished and

say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land,

and to this house?

22And they shall answer: Because they for-

sook the Lord the God of their fathers, who

brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid

hold on strange gods, and adored them, and wor-

shipped them: therefore all these evils are come

upon them.

Chapter 8

And at the end of twenty years after Solomon

had built the house of the Lord and his own

house:
2He built the cities which Hiram had given

to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to

dwell there.

3He went also into Emath Suba, and pos-

sessed it.

4And he built Palmira in the desert, and he

built other strong cities in Emath.5And he built Beth-horon the upper, and

Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with gates

and bars and locks.

6Balaath also and all the strong cities that

were Solomon's, and all the cities of the char-

iots, and the cities of the horsemen. All that

Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in

Jerusalem and in Libanus, and in all the land of

his dominion.

7All the people that were left of the Hethites,

and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the

Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of the

stock of Israel:

8Of their children, and of the posterity, whom

the children of Israel had not slain, Solomon

made to be the tributaries, unto this day.

9But of the children of Israel he set none to

serve in the king's works: for they were men of

war, and chief captains, and rulers of his chariots

and horsemen.
10And all the chief captains of king Solomon's

army were two hundred and fty, who taught the

people.

11And he removed the daughter of Pharao

from the city of David, to the house which he had

built for her. For the king said: My wife shall

not dwell in the house of David king of Israel,

for it is sanctied: because the ark of the Lord

came into it.

12Then Solomon oered holocausts to the

Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had

built before the porch,

13That every day an oering might be made

on it according to the ordinance of Moses, in the

sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the

festival days three times a year, that is to say, in

the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of

weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

14And he appointed according to the order of

David his father the oces of the priests in theirSecond Book of Paralipomenon 525

ministries: and the Levites in their order to give

praise, and minister before the priests according

to the duty of every day: and the porters in their

divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man

of God had commanded.

15And the priests and Levites departed not

from the king's commandments, as to any thing

that he had commanded, and as to the keeping

of the treasures.

16Solomon had all charges prepared, from the

day that he founded the house of the Lord, until

the day wherein he nished it.

17Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to

Ailath, on the coast of the Red Sea, which is in

the land of Edom.

18And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of

his servants, and skilful mariners, and they went

with Solomon's servants to Ophir, and they took

thence four hundred and fty talents of gold, and

brought it to king Solomon.

Chapter 9

And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame

of Solomon, she came to try him with hard ques-

tions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and camels,

which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and

precious stones. And when she was come to

Solomon, she proposed to him all that was in

her heart.

2And Solomon explained to her all that she

proposed: and there was not any thing that he

did not make clear unto her.

3And when she had seen these things, to wit,

the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he

had built,

4And the meats of his table, and the dwelling

places of his servants, and the attendance of his

ocers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also,and their garments, and the victims which he

oered in the house of the Lord: there was no

more spirit in her, she was so astonished.

5And she said to the king: The word is true

which I heard in my country of thy virtues and

wisdom.

6I did not believe them that told it, until I

came, and my eyes had seen, and I had proved

that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been

told me: thou hast exceeded the same with thy

virtues.

7Happy are thy men, and happy are thy ser-

vants, who stand always before thee, and hear

thy wisdom.

8Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been

pleased to set thee on his throne, king of the Lord

thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and will

preserve them forever: therefore hath he made

thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

9And she gave to the king a hundred and

twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abun-

dance, and most precious stones: there were no

such spices as these which the queen of Saba gave

to king Solomon.

10And the servants also of Hiram, with the

servants of Solomon, brought gold from Ophir,

and thyine trees, and most precious stones:

11And the king made of the thyine trees stairs

in the house of the Lord, and in the king's house,

and harps and psalteries for the singing men:

never were there seen such trees in the land of

Juda.

12And king Solomon gave to the queen of

Saba all that she desired, and that she asked,

and many more things than she brought to him:

so she returned, and went to her own country

with her servants.

13And the weight of the gold, that was

brought to Solomon every year, was six hundred

and sixty-six talents of gold:526 Second Book of Paralipomenon

14Beside the sum which the deputies of divers

nations, and the merchants were accustomed to

bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and the lords

of the lands, who brought gold and silver to

Solomon.

15And king Solomon made two hundred

golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces

of gold, which went to every spear:

16And three hundred golden shields of three

hundred pieces of gold, which went to the cover-

ing of every shield: and the king put them in the

armoury, which was compassed with a wood.

17The king also made a great throne of ivory,

and overlaid it with pure gold.

18And six steps to go up to the throne, and

a footstool of gold, and two arms one on either

side, and two lions standing by the arms:

19Moreover twelve other little lions standing

upon the steps on both sides: there was not such

a throne in any kingdom.

20And all the vessels of the king's table were

of gold, and the vessels of the house of the for-

est of Libanus were of the purest gold. For no

account was made of silver in those days.

21For the king's ships went to Tharsis with

the servants of Hiram, once in three years: and

they brought thence gold and silver, and ivory,

and apes, and peacocks.

22And Solomon was magnied above all the

kings of the earth for riches and glory.

23And all the kings of the earth desired to

see the face of Solomon, that they might hear

the wisdom which God had given in his heart.

24And every year they brought him presents,

vessels of silver and of gold, and garments, and

armour, and spices, and horses, and mules.

25And Solomon had forty thousand horses in

the stables, and twelve thousand chariots, and

horsemen, and he placed them in the cities of the

chariots and where the king was in Jerusalem.26And he exercised authority over all the

kings from the river Euphrates to the land of

the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.

27And he made silver as plentiful in

Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as

the sycamores, which grow in the plains.

28And horses were brought to him out of

Egypt, and out of all countries.

29Now the rest of the acts of Solomon rst

and last are written in the words of Nathan the

prophet, and in the books of Ahias the Silonite,

and in the vision of Addo the seer, against Jer-

oboam the son of Nabat.

30And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all

Israel forty years.

31And he slept with his fathers: and they

buried him in the city of David: and Roboam

his son reigned in his stead.

Chapter 10

And Roboam went to Sichem: for thither all Is-

rael were assembled, to make him king.

2And when Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who

was in Egypt, (for he was

ed thither from

Solomon,) heard it, forthwith he returned.

3And they sent for him, and he came with all

Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:

4Thy father oppressed with a most grievous

yoke, do thou govern us with a lighter hand than

thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude,

and ease some thing of the burden, that we may

serve thee.

5And he said to them: Come to me again af-

ter three days. And when the people were gone,

6He took counsel with the ancients, who had

stood before his father Solomon, while he yet

lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that

I may answer the people?Second Book of Paralipomenon 527

7And they said to him: If thou please this

people, and soothe them with kind words, they

will be thy servants for ever.

8But he forsook the counsel of the ancients,

and began to treat with the young men, that had

been brought up with him, and were in his train.

9And he said to them: What seemeth good

to you? or what shall I answer this people, who

have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father

laid upon us?

10But they answered as young men, and

brought up with him in pleasures, and said:

Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to

thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou

ease it: thus shalt thou answer them: My little

nger is thicker than the loins of my father.

11My father laid upon you a heavy yoke, and

I will add more weight to it: my father beat you

with scourges, but I will beat you with scorpions.

12So Jeroboam, and all the people came to

Roboam the third day, as he commanded them.

13And the king answered roughly, leaving the

counsel of the ancients.

14And he spoke according to the advice of

the young men: My father laid upon you a heavy

yoke, which I will make heavier: my father beat

you with scourges, but I will beat you with scor-

pions.

15And he condescended not to the people's

requests: for it was the will of God, that his

word might be fullled which he had spoken by

the hand of Ahias the Silonite to Jeroboam the

son of Nabat.

16And all the people upon the king's speaking

roughly, said thus unto him: We have no part in

David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai. Return

to thy dwellings, O Israel, and do thou, O David

feed thy own house. And Israel went away to

their dwellings.

17But Roboam reigned over the children ofIsrael that dwelt in the cities of Juda.

18And king Roboam sent Aduram, who was

over the tributes, and the children of Israel

stoned him, and he died: and king Roboam made

haste to get up into his chariot, and

ed into

Jerusalem.

19And Israel revolted from the house of David

unto this day.

Chapter 11

And Roboam came to Jerusalem, and called to-

gether all the house of Juda and of Benjamin,

a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men

and warriors, to ght against Israel, and to bring

back his kingdom to him.

2And the word of the Lord came to Semeias

the man of God, saying:

3Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon the

king of Juda, and to all Israel, in Juda and Ben-

jamin:

4Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go up,

nor ght against your brethren: let every man

return to his own house, for by my will this thing

has been done. And when they heard the word of

the Lord, they returned, and did not go against

Jeroboam,

5And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built

walled cities in Juda.

6And he built Bethlehem, and Etam, and

Thecue,

7And Bethsur, and Socho, and Odollam,

8And Geth, and Maresa, and Ziph,

9And Aduram, and Lachis, and Azecha,

10Saraa also, and Aialon, and Hebron, which

are in Juda and Benjamin, well fenced cities.

11And when he had enclosed them with walls,

he put in them governors and storehouses of pro-

visions, that is, of oil and of wine.528 Second Book of Paralipomenon

12Moreover in every city he made an armoury

of shields and spears, and he fortied them with

great diligence, and he reigned over Juda, and

Benjamin,

13And the priests and Levites, that were in

all Israel, came to him out of all their seats,

14Leaving their suburbs, and their posses-

sions, and passing over to Juda, and Jerusalem,

because Jeroboam and his sons had cast them

o, from executing the priestly oce to the Lord.

15And he made to himself priests for the

high places, and for the devils, and for the calves

which he had made.

16Moreover out of all the tribes of Israel,

whosoever gave their heart to seek the Lord the

God of Israel, came into Jerusalem to sacrice

their victims before the Lord the God of their

fathers.

17And they strengthened the kingdom of

Juda, and established Roboam the son of

Solomon for three years: for they walked in the

ways of David and of Solomon, only three years.

18And Roboam took to wife Mahalath, the

daughter of Jerimoth the son of David: and Abi-

hail the daughter of Eliab the son of Isai.

19And they bore him sons Jehus, and Somo-

rias, and Zoom.

20And after her he married Maacha the

daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abia, and

Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.

21And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of

Absalom above all his wives and concubines: for

he had married eighteen wives, and threescore

concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons,

and threescore daughters.

22But he put at the head of them Abia the

son of Maacha to be the chief ruler over all his

brethren: for he meant to make him king,

23Because he was wiser and mightier than

all his sons, and in all the countries of Juda, andof Benjamin, and in all the walled cities: and

he gave them provisions in abundance, and he

sought many wives.

Chapter 12

And when the kingdom of Roboam was strength-

ened and fortied, he forsook the law of the Lord,

and all Israel with him.

2And in the fth year of the reign of Roboam,

Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

(because they had sinned against the Lord)

3With twelve hundred chariots and threescore

thousand horsemen: and the people were with-

out number that came with him out of Egypt, to

wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.

4And he took the strongest cities in Juda,

and came to Jerusalem.

5And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam,

and to the princes of Juda, that were gathered

together in Jerusalem,

eeing from Sesac, and he

said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left

me, and I have left you in the hand of Sesac.

6And the princes of Israel, and the king, being

in a consternation, said: The Lord is just.

7And when the Lord saw that they were hum-

bled, the word of the Lord came to Semeias, say-

ing: Because they are humbled, I will not destroy

them, and I will give them a little help, and my

wrath shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the hand

of Sesac.

8But yet they shall serve him, that they may

know the dierence between my service, and the

service of a kingdom of the earth.

9So Sesac king of Egypt departed from

Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the

king's house, and he took all with him, and the

golden shields that Solomon had made,

10Instead of which the king made brazenSecond Book of Paralipomenon 529

ones, and delivered them to the captains of the

shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the

palace.

11And when the king entered into the house

of the Lord, the shieldbearers came and took

them, and brought them back again to their ar-

moury.

12But yet because they were humbled, the

wrath of the Lord turned away from them, and

they were not utterly destroyed: for even in Juda

there were found good works.

13King Roboam therefore was strengthened

in Jerusalem, and reigned: he was one and forty

years old when he began to reign, and he reigned

seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the

Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to estab-

lish his name there: and the name of his mother

was Naama an Ammonitess.

14But he did evil, and did not prepare his

heart to seek the Lord.

15Now the acts of Roboam rst and last are

written in the books of Semeias the prophet, and

of Addo the seer, and diligently recorded: and

there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam

all their days.

16And Roboam slept with his fathers, and

was buried in the city of David. And Abia his

son reigned in his stead.

Chapter 13

In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abia

reigned over Juda.

2Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and

his mother's name was Michaia, the daughter of

Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia

and Jeroboam.

3And when Abia had begun battle, and had

with him four hundred thousand most valiantand chosen men, Jeroboam put his army in array
against him, eight hundred thousand men, who

were also chosen and most valiant for war.

4And Abia stood upon mount Semeron,

which was in Ephraim, and said: Hear me, O

Jeroboam, and all Israel:

5Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel

gave to David the kingdom over Israel for ever,

to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

6And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the ser-

vant of Solomon the son of David, rose up: and

rebelled against his lord.

7And there were gathered to him vain men,

and children of Belial: and they prevailed against

Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was

unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could

not resist them.

8And now you say that you are able to with-

stand the kingdom of the Lord, which he posses-

seth by the sons of David, and you have a great

multitude of people, and golden calves, which

Jeroboam hath made you for gods.

9And you have cast out the priests of the

Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites: and

you have made you priests, like all the nations of

the earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth

his hand with a bullock of the herd, and with

seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no

gods.

10But the Lord is our God, whom we forsake

not, and the priests who minister to the Lord are

the sons of Aaron, and the Levites are in their

order.

11And they oer holocausts to the Lord,

every day, morning and evening, and incense

made according to the ordinance of the law, and

the loaves are set forth on a most clean table,

and there is with us the golden candlestick, and

the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the

evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord530 Second Book of Paralipomenon

our God, whom you have forsaken.

12Therefore God is the leader in our army,

and his priests who sound with trumpets, and

resound against you: O children of Israel, ght

not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for

it is not good for you.

13While he spoke these things, Jeroboam

caused an ambushment to come about behind

him. And while he stood facing the enemies, he

encompassed Juda, who perceived it not, with

his army.

14And when Juda looked back, they saw the

battle coming upon them both before and be-

hind, and they cried to the Lord: and the priests

began to sound with the trumpets.

15And all the men of Juda shouted: and

behold when they shouted, God terried Jer-

oboam, and all Israel that stood against Abia

and Juda.

16And the children of Israel

ed before Juda,

and the Lord delivered them into their hand.

17And Abia and his people slew them with a

great slaughter, and there fell wounded of Israel

ve hundred thousand valiant men.

18And the children of Israel were brought

down, at that time, and the children of Juda

were exceedingly strengthened, because they had

trusted in the Lord the God of their fathers.

19And Abia pursued after Jeroboam, and

took cities from him, Bethel and her daughters,

and Jesana with her daughters, Ephron also and

her daughters.

20And Jeroboam was not able to resist any

more, in the days of Abia: and the Lord struck

him, and he died.

21But Abia, being strengthened in his king-

dom, took fourteen wives: and begot two and

twenty sons, and sixteen daughters.

22And the rest of the acts of Abia, and of

his ways and works, are written diligently in thebook of Addo the prophet.

Chapter 14

And Abia slept with his fathers, and they buried

him in the city of David: an Asa his son reigned

in his stead: in his days the land was quiet ten

years.

2And Asa did that which was good and pleas-

ing in the sight of his God, and he destroyed the

altars of foreign worship, and the high places.

3And broke the statues, and cut down the

groves.

4And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord

the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and

all the commandments.

5And he took away out of all the cities of Juda

the altars, and temples, and reigned in peace.

6He built also strong cities in Juda, for he was

quiet, and there had no wars risen in his time,

the Lord giving peace.

7And he said to Juda: Let us build these

cities, and compass them with walls, and fortify

them with towers, and gates, and bars, while all

is quiet from wars, because we have sought the

Lord the God of our fathers, and he hath given

us peace round about. So they built, and there

was no hinderance in building.

8And Asa had in his army of men that bore

shields and spears of Juda three hundred thou-

sand, and of Benjamin that bore shields and

drew bows, two hundred and eighty thousand,

all these were most valiant men.

9And Zara the Ethiopian came out against

them with his army of ten hundred thousand

men, and with three hundred chariots: and he

came as far as Maresa.

10And Asa went out to meet him, and set his

army in array for battle in the vale of Sephata,Second Book of Paralipomenon 531

which is near Maresa:

11And he called upon the Lord God, and said:

Lord, there is no dierence with thee, whether

thou help with few, or with many: help us, O

Lord our God: for with condence in thee, and

in thy name we are come against this multitude.

O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail

against thee.

12And the Lord terried the Ethiopians be-

fore Asa and Juda: and the Ethiopians

ed.

13And Asa and the people that were with

him pursued them to Gerara: and the Ethiopians

fell even to utter destruction, for the Lord slew

them, and his army fought against them, and

they were destroyed. And they took abundance

of spoils,

14And they took all the cities round about

Gerara: for a great fear was come upon all men:

and they pillaged the cities, and carried o much

booty.

15And they destroyed the sheepcotes, and

took an innite number of cattle, and of camels:

and returned to Jerusalem.

Chapter 15

And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the

son of Oded,

2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to

him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Ben-

jamin: The Lord is with you, because you have

been with him. If you seek him, you shall nd:

but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

3And many days shall pass in Israel, without

the true God, and without a priest a teacher,

and without the law.

4And when in their distress they shall return

to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall seek him,

they shall nd him.5At that time there shall be no peace to him

that goeth out and cometh in, but terrors on

every side among all the inhabitants of the earth.

6For nation shall ght against nation, and

city against city, for the Lord will trouble them

with all distress.

7Do you therefore take courage, and let not

your hands be weakened: for there shall be a

reward for your work.

8And when Asa had heard the words, and the

prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet,

he took courage, and took away the idols out of

all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and

out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had

taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord,

which was before the porch of the Lord.

9And he gathered together all Juda and Ben-

jamin, and the strangers with them of Ephraim,

and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come

over to him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord

his God was with him.

10And when they were come to Jerusalem in

the third month, in the fteenth year of the reign

of Asa,

11They sacriced to the Lord in that day

of the spoils, and of the prey, that they had

brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thou-

sand rams.

12And he went in to conrm as usual the

covenant, that they should seek the Lord the

God of their fathers with all their heart, and

with all their soul.

13And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord

the God of Israel, let him die, whether little or

great, man or woman.

14And they swore to the Lord with a loud

voice with joyful shouting, and with sound of

trumpet, and sound of cornets,

15All that were in Juda with a curse: for with

all their heart they swore, and with all their will532 Second Book of Paralipomenon

they sought him, and they found him, and the

Lord gave them rest round about.

16Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa

he deposed from the royal authority, because she

had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he

entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces,

burnt it at the torrent Cedron.

17But high places were left in Israel: never-

theless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

18And the things which his father had vowed,

and he himself had vowed, he brought into the

house of the Lord, gold and silver, and vessels of

divers uses.

19And there was no war unto the ve and

thirtieth year of the kingdom of Asa.

Chapter 16

And in the six and thirtieth year of his kingdom,

Baasa the king of Israel came up against Juda,

and built a wall about Rama, that no one might

safely go out or come in of the kingdom of Asa.

2Then Asa brought out silver and gold out

of the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of

the king's treasures, and sent to Benadad king

of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying:

3There is a league between me and thee, as

there was between my father and thy father,

wherefore I have sent thee silver and gold, that

thou mayst break thy league with Baasa king of

Israel, and make him depart from me.

4And when Benadad heard this, he sent the

captains of his armies against the cities of Israel:

and they took Ahion, and Dan, and Abelmaim,

and all the walled cities of Nephtali.

5And when Baasa heard of it, he left o the

building of Rama, and interrupted his work.

6Then king Asa took all Juda, and they car-

ried away from Rama the stones, and the timberthat Baasa had prepared for the building: and

he built with them Gabaa, and Maspha.

7At that time Hanani the prophet came to

Asa king of Juda, and said to him: Because thou

hast had condence in the king of Syria, and not

in the Lord thy God, therefore hath the army of

the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.

8Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans

much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen,

and an exceeding great multitude: yet because

thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them

into thy hand?

9For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth,

and give strength to those who with a perfect

heart trust in him. Wherefore thou hast done

foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars

shall arise against thee.

10And Asa was angry with the seer, and com-

manded him to be put in prison: for he was

greatly enraged because of this thing: and he

put to death many of the people at that time.

11But the works of Asa the rst and last are

written in the book of the kings of Juda and

Israel.

12And Asa fell sick in the nine and thirtieth

year of his reign, of a most violent pain in his

feet, and yet in his illness he did not seek the

Lord, but rather trusted in the skill of physicians.

13And he slept with his fathers: and he died

in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

14And they buried him in his own sepulchre,

which he had made for himself in the city of

David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices

and odoriferous ointments, which were made by

the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them

over him with very great pomp.Second Book of Paralipomenon 533

Chapter 17

And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and

grew strong against Israel.

2And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the

fortied cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in

the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim,

which Asa his father had taken.

3And the Lord was with Josaphat, because

he walked in the rst ways of David his father:

and trusted not in Baalim,

4But in the God of his father, and walked

in his commandments, and not according to the

sins of Israel.

5And the Lord established the kingdom in his

hand, and all Juda brought presents to Josaphat:

and he acquired immense riches, and much glory.

6And when his heart had taken courage for

the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high

places and the groves out of Juda.

7And in the third year of his reign, he sent of

his princes Benhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias,

and Nathanael, and Micheas, to teach in the cites

of Juda:

8And with them the Levites, Semeias, and

Nathanias, and Zabadias, and Asael, and Semi-

ramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and To-

bias, and Thobadonias Levites, and with them

Elisama, and Joram priests.

9And they taught the people in Juda, hav-

ing with them the book of the law of the Lord:

and they went about all the cities of Juda, and

instructed the people.

10And the fear of the Lord came upon all the

kingdoms of the lands that were round about

Juda, and they durst not make war against Jos-

aphat.

11The Philistines also brought presents to

Josaphat, and tribute in silver, and the Arabians

brought him cattle, seven thousand seven hun-dred rams, and as many he goats.

12And Josaphat grew, and became exceeding

great: and he built in Juda houses like towers,

and walled cities.

13And he prepared many works in the cities

of Juda: and he had warriors, and valiant men

in Jerusalem.

14Of whom this is the number of the houses

and families of every one: in Juda captains of

the army, Ednas the chief, and with him three

hundred thousand most valiant men.

15After him Johanan the captain, and with

him two hundred and eighty thousand.

16And after him was Amasias the son of

Zechri, consecrated to the Lord, and with him

were two hundred thousand valiant men.

17After him was Eliada valiant in battle, and

with him two hundred thousand armed with bow

and shield.

18After him also was Jozabad, and with him

a hundred and eighty thousand ready for war.

19All these were at the hand of the king, be-

side others, whom he had put in the walled cities,

in all Juda.

Chapter 18

Now Josaphat was rich and very glorious, and

was joined by anity to Achab.

2And he went down to him after some years to

Samaria: and Achab at his coming killed sheep

and oxen in abundance for him and the people

that came with him: and he persuaded him to

go up to Ramoth Galaad.

3And Achab king of Israel said to Josaphat

king of Juda: Come with me to Ramoth Galaad.

And he answered him: Thou art as I am, and my

people as thy people, and we will be with thee

in the war.534 Second Book of Paralipomenon

4And Josaphat said to the king of Israel: In-

quire, I beseech thee, at present the word of the

Lord.

5So the king of Israel gathered together of

the prophets four hundred men, and he said to

them: Shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to ght,

or shall we forbear? But they said: Go up, and

God will deliver into the king's hand.

6And Josaphat said: Is there not here a

prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire also

of him?

7And the king of Israel said to Josaphat:

There is one man, of whom we may ask the will

of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never proph-

esieth good to me, but always evil: and it is

Micheas the son of Jemla. And Josaphat said:

Speak not thus, O king.

8And the king of Israel called one of the eu-

nuchs, and said to him: Call quickly Micheas the

son of Jemla.

9Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat king of

Juda, both sat on their thrones, clothed in royal

robes, and they sat in the open court by the

gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied

before them.

10And Sedecias the son of Chanaana made

him horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord:

With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou de-

stroy it.

11And all the prophets prophesied in like

manner, and said: Go up to Ramoth Galaad,

and thou shalt prosper, and the Lord will de-

liver them into the king's hand.

12And the messenger that went to call

Micheas, said to him: Behold the words of all

the prophets with one mouth declare good to the

king: I beseech thee therefore let not thy word

disagree with them, and speak thou also good

success.

13And Micheas answered him: As the Lordliveth, whatsoever my God shall say to me, that

will I speak.

14So he came to the king: and the king said

to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad

to ght, or forbear? And he answered him: Go

up, for all shall succeed prosperously, and the

enemies shall be delivered into your hands.

15And the king said: I adjure thee again and

again to say nothing but the truth to me, in the

name of the Lord.

16Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in

the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd:

and the Lord said: These have no masters: let

every man return to his own house in peace.

17And the king of Israel said to Josaphat:

Did I not tell thee that this man would not

prophesy me any good, but evil?

18Then he said: Hear ye therefore the word

of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne,

and all the army of heaven standing by him on

the right hand and on the left,

19And the Lord said: Who shall deceive

Achab king of Israel, that he may go up and

fall in Ramoth Galaad? And when one spoke in

this manner, and another otherwise:

20There came forth a spirit, and stood before

the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And

the Lord said to him: By what means wilt thou

deceive him?

21And he answered: I will go out, and be

a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.

And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and shalt

prevail: go out, and do so.

22Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a

spirit of lying in the mouth of all thy prophets,

and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.

23And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came,

and struck Micheas on the cheek and said:

Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me,

to speak to thee?Second Book of Paralipomenon 535

24And Micheas said: Thou thyself shalt see

in that day, when thou shalt go in from chamber

to chamber, to hide thyself.

25And the king of Israel commanded, saying:

Take Micheas, and carry him to Amon the gov-

ernor of the city, and to Joas the son of Amelech,

26And say: Thus saith the king: Put this

fellow in prison, and give him bread and water

in a small quantity till I return in peace.

27And Micheas said: If thou return in peace,

the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said:

Hear, all ye people.

28So the king of Israel and Josaphat king of

Juda went up to Ramoth Galaad.

29And the king of Israel said to Josaphat:

I will change my dress, and so I will go to the

battle, but put thou on thy own garments. And

the king of Israel having changed his dress, went

to the battle.

30Now the king of Syria had commanded the

captains of his cavalry, saying: Fight ye not with

small, or great, but with the king of Israel only.

31So when the captains of the cavalry saw

Josaphat, they said: This is the king of Israel.

And they surrounded him to attack him: but he

cried to the Lord, and he helped him, and turned

them away from him.

32For when the captains of the cavalry saw,

that he was not the king of Israel, they left him.

33And it happened that one of the people

shot an arrow at a venture, and struck the king

of Israel between the neck and the shoulders, and

he said to his chariot man: Turn thy hand, and

carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.

34And the ght was ended that day: but

the king of Israel stood in his chariot against the

Syrians until the evening, and died at the sunset.Chapter 19

And Josaphat king of Juda returned to his house

in peace to Jerusalem.

2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met

him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly,

and thou art joined in friendship with them that

hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve

indeed the wrath of the Lord:

3But good works are found in thee, because

thou hast taken away the groves out of the land

of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the

Lord the God of thy fathers.

4And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he

went out again to the people from Bersabee to

mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the

Lord the God of their fathers.

5And he set judges of the land in all the

fenced cities of Juda, in every place.

6And charging the judges, he said: Take heed

what you do: for you exercise not the judgment

of man, but of the Lord: and whatsoever you

judge, it shall redound to you.

7Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do

all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity

with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons,

nor desire of gifts.

8In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed

Levites, and priests and chiefs of the families of

Israel, to judge the judgment and the cause of

the Lord for the inhabitants thereof.

9And he charged them, saying, Thus shall you

do in the fear of the Lord faithfully, and with a

perfect heart.

10Every cause that shall come to you of

your brethren, that dwell in their cities, be-

tween kindred and kindred, wheresoever there

is question concerning the law, the command-

ment, the ceremonies, the justications: shew it

them, that they may not sin against the Lord,536 Second Book of Paralipomenon
and that wrath may not come upon you and your

brethren: and so doing you shall not sin.

11And Amarias the priest your high priest

shall be chief in the things which regard God:

and Zabadias the son of Ismahel, who is ruler in

the house of Juda, shall be over those matters

which belong to the king's oce: and you have

before you the Levites for masters, take courage

and do diligently, and the Lord will be with you

in good things.

Chapter 20

After this the children of Moab, and the children

of Ammon, and with them of the Ammonites,

were gathered together to ght against Josaphat.

2And there came messengers, and told Jos-

aphat, saying: There cometh a great multitude

against thee from beyond the sea, and out of

Syria, and behold they are in Asasonthamar,

which is Engaddi.

3And Josaphat being seized with fear betook

himself wholly to pray to the Lord, and he pro-

claimed a fast for all Juda.

4And Juda gathered themselves together to

pray to the Lord: and all came out of their cities

to make supplication to him.

5And Josaphat stood in the midst of the as-

sembly of Juda, and Jerusalem, in the house of

the Lord before the new court,

6And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou

art God in heaven, and rulest over all the king-

doms and nations, in thy hand is strength and

power, and no one can resist thee.

7Didst not thou our God kill all the inhab-

itants of this land before thy people Israel, and

gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for

ever?8And they dwelt in it, and built in it a sanc-

tuary to thy name, saying:

9If evils fall upon us, the sword of judgment,

or pestilence, or famine, we will stand in thy

presence before this house, in which thy name

is called upon: and we will cry to thee in our

aictions, and thou wilt hear, and save us.

10Now therefore behold the children of Am-

mon, and of Moab, and mount Seir, through

whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass,

when they came out of Egypt, but they turned

aside from them, and slew them not,

11Do the contrary, and endeavour to cast us

out of the possession which thou hast delivered

to us.

12O our God, wilt thou not then judge them?

as for us we have not strength enough, to be able

to resist this multitude, which cometh violently

upon us. But as we know not what to do, we

can only turn our eyes to thee.

13And all Juda stood before the Lord with

their little ones, and their wives, and their chil-

dren.

14And Jahaziel the son of Zacharias, the son

of Banaias, the son of Jehiel, the son of Math-

anias, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, was there,

upon whom the spirit of the Lord came in the

midst of the multitude,

15And he said: Attend ye, all Juda, and you

that dwell in Jerusalem, and thou king Josaphat:

Thus saith the Lord to you: Fear ye not, and be

not dismayed at this multitude: for the battle is

not yours, but God's.

16To morrow you shall go down against them:

for they will come up by the ascent named Sis,

and you shall nd them at the head of the tor-

rent, which is over against the wilderness of

Jeruel.

17It shall not be you that shall ght, but only

stand with condence, and you shall see the helpSecond Book of Paralipomenon 537

of the Lord over you, O Juda, and Jerusalem:

fear ye not, nor be you dismayed: to morrow

you shall go out against them, and the Lord will

be with you.

18Then Josaphat, and Juda, and all the in-

habitants of Jerusalem fell

at on the ground

before the Lord, and adored him.

19And the Levites of the sons of Caath, and

of the sons of Core praised the Lord the God of

Israel with a loud voice, on high.

20And they rose early in the morning, and

went out through the desert of Thecua: and as

they were marching, Josaphat standing in the

midst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda,

and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in

the Lord your God, and you shall be secure: be-

lieve his prophets, and all things shall succeed

well.

21And he gave counsel to the people, and

appointed the singing men of the Lord, to praise

him by their companies, and to go before the

army, and with one voice to say: Give glory to

the Lord, for his mercy endureth for ever.

22And when they began to sing praises,

the Lord turned their ambushments upon them-

selves, that is to say, of the children of Ammon,

and of Moab, and of mount Seir, who were come

out to ght against Juda, and they were slain.

23For the children of Ammon, and of Moab,

rose up against the inhabitants of mount Seir,

to kill and destroy them: and when they had

made an end of them, they turned also against

one another, and destroyed one another.

24And when Juda came to the watch tower,

that looketh toward the desert, they saw afar o

all the country, for a great space, full of dead

bodies, and that no one was left that could es-

cape death.

25Then Josaphat came, and all the people

with him to take away the spoils of the dead,and they found among the dead bodies, stu of

various kinds, and garments, and most precious

vessels: and they took them for themselves, inso-

much that they could not carry all, nor in three

days take away the spoils, the booty was so great.

26And on the fourth day they were assembled

in the valley of Blessing: for there they blessed

the Lord, and therefore they called that place

the valley of Blessing until this day.

27And every man of Juda, and the inhab-

itants of Jerusalem returned, and Josaphat at

their head, into Jerusalem with great joy, be-

cause the Lord had made them rejoice over their

enemies.

28And they came into Jerusalem with

psalteries, and harps, and trumpets into the

house of the Lord.

29And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the

kingdoms of the lands when they heard that the

Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.

30And the kingdom of Josaphat was quiet,

and God gave him peace round about.

31And Josaphat reigned over Juda, and he

was ve and thirty years old, when he began

to reign: and he reigned ve and twenty years

in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was

Azuba the daughter of Selahi.

32And he walked in the way of his father Asa

and departed not from it, doing the things that

were pleasing before the Lord.

33But yet he took not away the high places,

and the people had not yet turned their heart to

the Lord the God of their fathers.

34But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, rst

and last, are written in the words of Jehu the

son of Hanani, which he digested into the books

of the kings of Israel.

35After these things Josaphat king of Juda

made friendship with Ochozias king of Israel,

whose works were very wicked.538 Second Book of Paralipomenon

36And he was partner with him in making

ships, to go to Tharsis: and they made the ships

in Asiongaber.

37And Eliezer the son of Dodau of Maresa

prophesied to Josaphat, saying: Because thou

hast made a league with Ochozias, the Lord hath

destroyed thy works, and the ships are broken,

and they could not go to Tharsis.

Chapter 21

And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was

buried with them in the city of David: and Jo-

ram his son reigned in his stead.

2And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat,

Azarias, and Jahiel, and Zacharias, and Azaria,

and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were the

sons of Josaphat king of Juda.

3And their father gave them great gifts of sil-

ver, and of gold, and pensions, with strong cities

in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to Joram, be-

cause he was the eldest.

4So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his

father: and when he had established himself, he

slew all his brethren with the sword, and some

of the princes of Israel.

5Joram was two and thirty years old when

he began to reign: and he reigned eight years in

Jerusalem.
6And he walked in the ways of the kings of

Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his

wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in

the sight of the Lord.

7But the Lord would not destroy the house

of David: because of the covenant which he had

made with him: and because he had promised to

give a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.

8In those days Edom revolted, from being

subject to Juda, and made themselves a king.9And Joram went over with his princes, and

all his cavalry with him, and rose in the night,

and defeated the Edomites who had surrounded

him, and all the captains of his cavalry.

10However Edom revolted, from being un-

der the dominion of Juda unto this day: at that

time Lobna also revolted, from being under his

hand. For he had forsaken the Lord the God of

his fathers.

11Moreover he built also high places in the

cities of Juda, and he made the inhabitants of

Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to

transgress.

12And there was a letter brought him from

Eliseus the prophet, in which it was written:

Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy fa-

ther: Because thou hast not walked in the ways

of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa

king of Juda,

13But hast walked in the ways of the kings

of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhab-

itants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, im-

itating the fornication of the house of Achab,

moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the

house of thy father, better men than thyself,

14Behold the Lord will strike thee with a

great plague, with all thy people, and thy chil-

dren, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

15And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous

disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come

out by little and little every day.

16And the Lord stirred up against Joram the

spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who

border on the Ethiopians.

17And they came up into the land of Juda,

and wasted it, and they carried away all the sub-

stance that was found in the king's house, his

sons also, and his wives: so that there was no

son left him but Joachaz, who was the youngest.

18And besides all this the Lord struck himSecond Book of Paralipomenon 539

with an incurable disease in his bowels.

19And as day came after day, and time rolled

on, two whole years passed: then after being

wasted with a long consumption, so as to void

his very bowels, his disease ended with his life.

And he died of a most wretched illness, and the

people did not make a funeral for him according

to the manner of burning, as they had done for

his ancestors.

20He was two and thirty years old when he

began his reign, and he reigned eight years in

Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they

buried him in the city of David: but not in the

sepulchres of the kings.

Chapter 22

And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias

his youngest son king in his place: for the rovers

of the Arabians, who had broke in upon the

camp, had killed all that were his elder broth-

ers. So Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda

reigned.

2Ochozias was forty-two years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned one year in

Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was

Athalia the daughter of Amri.

3He also walked in the ways of the house

of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do

wickedly.

4So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the

house of Achab did: for they were his counsellors

after the death of his father, to his destruction.

5And he walked after their counsels. And he

went with Joram the son of Achab king of Israel,

to ght against Hazael king of Syria, at Ramoth

Galaad: and the Syrians wounded Joram.

6And he returned to be healed in Jezrahel: for

he received many wounds in the foresaid battle.And Ochozias the son of Joram king of Juda,

went down to visit Joram the son of Achab in

Jezrahel where he lay sick.

7For it was the will of God against Ochozias

that he should come to Joram: and when he was

come should go out also against Jehu the son of

Namsi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy

the house of Achab.

8So when Jehu was rooting out the house of

Achab, he found the princes of Juda, and the

sons of the brethren of Ochozias, who served

him, and he slew them.

9And he sought for Ochozias himself, and

took him lying hid in Samaria: and when he was

brought to him, he killed him, and they buried

him: because he was the son of Josaphat, who

had sought the Lord with all his heart. And

there was no more hope that any one should

reign of the race of Ochozias.

10For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son

was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family

of the house of Joram.

11But Josabeth the king's daughter took Joas

the son of Ochozias, and stole him from among

the king's sons that were slain. And she hid him

with his nurse in a bedchamber: now Josabeth

that hid him, was daughter of king Joram, wife

of Joiada the high priest, and sister of Ochozias,

and therefore Athalia did not kill him.

12And he was with them hid in the house of

God six years, during which Athalia reigned over

the land.

Chapter 23

And in the seventh year Joiada being encour-

aged, took the captains of hundreds, to wit,

Azarias the son of Jeroham, and Ismahel the son

of Johanan, and Azarias the son of Obed, and540 Second Book of Paralipomenon

Maasias the son of Adaias, and Elisaphat the

son of Zechri: and made a covenant with them.

2And they went about Juda, and gathered

together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda,

and the chiefs of the families of Israel, and they

came to Jerusalem.

3And all the multitude made a covenant with

the king in the house of God: and Joiada said to

them: Behold the king's son shall reign, as the

Lord hath said of the sons of David.

4And this is the thing that you shall do:

5A third part of you that come to the sab-

bath, of the priests, and of the Levites, and of

the porters shall be at the gates: and a third

part at the king's house: and a third at the gate

that is called the Foundation: but let all the rest

of the people be in the courts of the house of the

Lord.

6And let no one come into the house of the

Lord, but the priests, and they that minister of

the Levites: let them only come in, because they

are sanctied: and let all the rest of the people

keep the watches of the Lord.

7And let the Levites be round about the king,

every man with his arms; and if any other come

into the temple, let him be slain; and let them

be with the king, both coming in, and going out.

8So the Levites, and all Juda did according to

all that Joiada the high priest had commanded:

and they took every one his men that were under

him, and that came in by the course of the sab-

bath, with those who had fullled the sabbath,

and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest

permitted not the companies to depart, which

were accustomed to succeed one another every

week.

9And Joiada the priest gave to the captains

the spears, and the shields, and targets of king

David, which he had dedicated in the house of

the Lord.10And he set all the people with swords in

their hands from the right side of the temple, to

the left side of the temple, before the altar, and

the temple, round about the king.

11And they brought out the king's son, and

put the crown upon him, and the testimony, and

gave him the law to hold in his hand, and they

made him king: and Joiada the high priest and

his sons anointed him: and they prayed for him,

and said: God save the king.

12Now when Athalia heard the noise of the

people running and praising the king, she came

in to the people, into the temple of the Lord.

13And when she saw the king standing upon

the step in the entrance, and the princes, and

the companies about him, and all the people of

the land rejoicing, and sounding with trumpets,

and playing on instruments of divers kinds, and

the voice of those that praised, she rent her gar-

ments, and said: Treason, treason.

14And Joiada the high priest going out to

the captains, and the chiefs of the army, said to

them: Take her forth without the precinct of the

temple, and when she is without let her be killed

with the sword. For the priest commanded that

she should not be killed in the house of the Lord.

15And they laid hold on her by the neck: and

when she was come within the horse gate of the

palace, they killed her there.

16And Joiada made a covenant between him-

self and all the people, and the king, that they

should be the people of the lord.

17And all the people went into the house of

Baal, and destroyed it: and they broke down his

altars and his idols: and they slew Mathan the

priest of Baal before the altars.

18And Joiada appointed overseers in the

house of the Lord, under the hands of the priests,

and the Levites, whom David had distributed in

the house of the Lord: to oer holocausts to theSecond Book of Paralipomenon 541

Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with

joy and singing, according to the disposition of

David.

19He appointed also porters in the gates of

the house of the Lord, that none who was un-

clean in any thing should enter in.

20And he took the captains of hundreds, and

the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the peo-

ple, and all the people of the land, and they

brought down the king from the house of the

Lord, and brought him through the upper gate

into the king's house, and set him on the royal

throne.

21And all the people of the land rejoiced, and

the city was quiet: but Athalia was slain with the

sword.

Chapter 24

Joas was seven years old when he began to reign:

and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: the

name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee.

2And he did that which is good before the

Lord all the days of Joiada the priest.

3And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom

he had sons and daughters.

4After this Joas had a mind to repair the

house of the Lord.

5And he assembled the priests, and the

Levites, and said to them: Go out to the cities of

Juda, and gather of all Israel money to repair the

temple of your God, from year to year: and do

this with speed: but the Levites were negligent.

6And the king called Joiada the chief, and

said to him: Why hast thou not taken care

to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda

and Jerusalem the money that was appointed by

Moses the servant of the Lord for all the multi-

tude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of thetestimony?

7For that wicked woman Athalia, and her

children have destroyed the house of God, and

adorned the temple of Baal with all the things

that had been dedicated in the temple of the

Lord.

8And the king commanded, and they made a

chest: and set it by the gate of the house of the

Lord on the outside.

9And they made a proclamation in Juda and

Jerusalem, that every man should bring to the

Lord the money which Moses the servant of God

appointed for all Israel, in the desert.

10And all the princes, and all the people re-

joiced: and going in they contributed and cast

so much into the chest of the Lord, that it was

lled.

11And when it was time to bring the chest

before the king by the hands of the Levites, (for

they saw there was much money,) the king's

scribe, and he whom the high priest had ap-

pointed went in: and they poured out the money

that was in the chest: and they carried back the

chest to its place: and thus they did from day to

day, and there was gathered an immense sum of

money.

12And the king and Joiada gave it to those

who were over the works of the house of the Lord:

but they hired with it stonecutters, and articers

of every kind of work to repair the house of the

Lord: and such as wrought in iron and brass, to

uphold what began to be falling.

13And the workmen were diligent, and the

breach of the walls was closed up by their hands,

and they set up the house of the Lord in its for-

mer state, and made it stand rm.

14And when they had nished all the works,

they brought the rest of the money before the

king and Joiada: and with it were made vessels

for the temple for the ministry, and for holo-542 Second Book of Paralipomenon

causts and bowls, and other vessels of gold and

silver: and holocausts were oered in the house

of the Lord continually all the days of Joiada.

15But Joiada grew old and was full of days,

and died when he was a hundred and thirty years

old.

16And they buried him in the city of David

among the kings, because he had done good to

Israel, and to his house.

17And after the death of Joiada, the princes

of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and

he was soothed by their services and hearkened

to them.

18And they forsook the temple of the Lord

the God of their fathers, and served groves and

idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem

for this sin.

19And he sent prophets to them to bring

them back to the Lord, and they would not give

ear when they testied against them.

20The spirit of God then came upon

Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he

stood in the sight of the people, and said to them:

Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you

the commandment of the Lord which will not be

for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to

make him forsake you?

21And they gathered themselves together

against him, and stoned him at the king's com-

mandment in the court of the house of the Lord.

22And king Joas did not remember the kind-

ness that Joiada his father had done to him, but

killed his son. And when he died, he said: The

Lord see, and require it.

23And when a year was come about, the army

of Syria came up against him: and they came to

Juda and Jerusalem, and killed all the princes

of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the

king of Damascus.

24And whereas there came a very small num-ber of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their

hands an innite multitude, because they had

forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and

on Joas they executed shameful judgments.

25And departing they left him in great dis-

eases: and his servants rose up against him, for

revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the

priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died:

and they buried him in the city of David, but not

in the sepulchres of the kings.

26Now the men that conspired against him

were Zabad the son of Semmaath an Am-

monitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a

Moabitess.

27And concerning his sons, and the sum

of money which was gathered under him, and

the repairing the house of God, they are writ-

ten more diligently in the book of kings: and

Amasias his son reigned in his stead.

Chapter 25

Amasias was ve and twenty years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned nine and twenty

years in Jerusalem, the name of his mother was

Joadan of Jerusalem.

2And he did what was good in the sight of

the Lord: but yet not with a perfect heart.

3And when he saw himself strengthened in

his kingdom, he put to death the servants that

had slain the king his father.

4But he slew not their children, as it is writ-

ten in the book of the law of Moses, where the

Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not

be slain for the children, nor the children for

their fathers, but every man shall die for his own

sin.

5Amasias therefore gathered Juda together,

and appointed them by families, and captainsSecond Book of Paralipomenon 543

of thousands and of hundreds in all Juda, and

Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty

years old and upwards, and found three hundred

thousand young men that could go out to battle,

and could hold the spear and shield.

6He hired also of Israel a hundred thousand

valiant men, for a hundred talents of silver.

7But a man of God came to him, and said:

O king, let not the army of Israel go out with

thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the

children of Ephraim:
8And if thou think that battles consist in

the strength of the army, God will make thee

to be overcome by the enemies: for it belongeth

to God both to help, and to put to

ight.

9And Amasias said to the man of God: What

will then become of the hundred talents which I

have given to the soldiers of Israel? and the man

of God answered him: The Lord is rich enough

to be able to give thee much more than this.

10Then Amasias separated the army, that

came to him out of Ephraim, to go home again:

but they being much enraged against Juda, re-

turned to their own country.

11And Amasias taking courage led forth his

people, and went to the vale of saltpits, and slew

of the children of Seir ten thousand.

12And other ten thousand men the sons of

Juda took, and brought to the steep of a certain

rock, and cast them down headlong from the top,

and they all were broken to pieces.

13But that army which Amasias had sent

back, that they should not go with him to bat-

tle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda,

from Samaria to Beth-horon, and having killed

three thousand took away much spoil.

14But Amasias after he had slain the

Edomites, set up the gods of the children of Seir,

which he had brought thence, to be his gods, and

adored them, and burnt incense to them.15Wherefore the Lord being angry against

Amasias, sent a prophet to him, to say to him:

Why hast thou adored gods that have not deliv-

ered their own people out of thy hand?

16And when he spoke these things, he an-

swered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be

quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet depart-

ing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee,

because thou hast done this evil, and moreover

hast not hearkened to my counsel.

17Then Amasias king of Juda taking very bad

counsel, sent to Joas the son of Joachaz the son

of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: Come, let us see

one another.

18But he sent back the messengers, saying:

The thistle that is in Libanus, sent to the cedar

in Libanus, saying: Give thy daughter to my son

to wife: and behold the beasts that were in the

wood of Libanus passed by and trod down the

thistle.

19Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom,

and therefore thy heart is lifted up with pride:

stay at home, why dost thou provoke evil against

thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with

thee.

20Amasias would not hearken to him, be-

cause it was the Lord's will that he should be

delivered into the hands of enemies, because of

the gods of Edom.

21So Joas king of Israel went up, and they

presented themselves to be seen by one another:

and Amasias king of Juda was in Bethsames of

Juda:

22And Juda fell before Israel, and they

ed

to their dwellings.

23And Joas king of Israel took Amasias king

of Juda, the son of Joas, the son of Joachaz, in

Bethsames, and brought him to Jerusalem: and

broke down the walls thereof from the gate of

Ephraim, to the gate of the corner, four hundred544 Second Book of Paralipomenon

cubits.

24And he took all the gold, and silver, and

all the vessels, that he found in the house of

God, and with Obededom, and in the treasures

of the king's house, moreover also the sons of the

hostages, he brought back to Samaria.

25And Amasias the son of Joas king of Juda

lived, after the death of Joas the son of Joachaz

king of Israel, fteen years.

26Now the rest of the acts of Amasias, the

rst and last, are written in the book of the kings

of Juda and Israel.

27And after he revolted from the Lord, they

made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem.

And he

ed into Lachis, and they sent, and killed

him there.

28And they brought him back upon horses,

and buried him with his fathers in the city of

David.

Chapter 26

And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias,

who was sixteen years old, and made him king

in the room of Amasias his father.

2He built Ailath, and restored it to the do-

minion of Juda, after that the king slept with his

fathers.

3Ozias was sixteen years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned two and fty years in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia

of Jerusalem.

4And he did that which was right in the eyes

of the Lord, according to all that Amasias his

father had done.

5And he sought the Lord in the days of

Zacharias that understood and saw God: and

as long as he sought the Lord, he directed him

in all things.6Moreover he went forth and fought against

the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Geth,

and the wall of Jabnia, and the wall of Azotus:

and he built towns in Azotus, and among the

Philistines.

7And God helped him against the Philistines,

and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal,

and against the Ammonites.

8And the Ammonites gave gifts to Ozias: and

his name was spread abroad even to the entrance

of Egypt for his frequent victories.

9And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over

the gate of the corner, and over the gate of the

valley, and the rest, in the same side of the wall,

and fortied them.

10And he built towers in the wilderness, and

dug many cisterns, for he had much cattle both

in the plains, and in the waste of the desert: he

had also vineyards and dressers of vines in the

mountains, and in Carmel: for he was a man

that loved husbandry.

11And the army of his ghting men, that

went out to war, was under the hand of Jehiel

the scribe, and Maasias the doctor, and under

the hand of Henanias, who was one of the king's

captains.

12And the whole number of the chiefs by the

families of valiant men were two thousand six

hundred.

13And the whole army under them three hun-

dred and seven thousand ve hundred: who were

t for war, and fought for the king against the

enemy.

14And Ozias prepared for them, that is, for

the whole army, shields, and spears, and helmets,

and coats of mail, and bows, and slings to cast

stones.

15And he made in Jerusalem engines of di-

verse kinds, which he placed in the towers, and

in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows,Second Book of Paralipomenon 545

and great stones: and his name went forth

far abroad, for the Lord helped him, and had

strengthened him.

16But when he was made strong, his heart

was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected

the Lord his God: and going into the temple of

the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon

the altar of incense.

17And immediately Azarias the priest going

in after him, and with him fourscore priests of

the Lord, most valiant men,

18Withstood the king and said: It doth not

belong to thee, Ozias, to burn incense to the

Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons of

Aaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go

out of the sanctuary, do not despise: for this

thing shall not be accounted to thy glory by the

Lord God.

19And Ozias was angry, and holding in his

hand the censer to burn incense, threatened the

priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in his

forehead before the priests, in the house of the

Lord at the altar of incense.

20And Azarias the high priest, and all the

rest of the priests looked upon him, and saw the

leprosy in his forehead, and they made haste to

thrust him out. Yea himself also being fright-

ened, hasted to go out, because he had quickly

felt the stroke of the Lord.

21And Ozias the king was a leper unto the

day of his death, and he dwelt in a house apart

being full of the leprosy, for which he had been

cast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham

his son governed the king's house, and judged

the people of the land.

22But the rest of the acts of Ozias rst and

last were written by Isaias the son of Amos, the

prophet.

23And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they

buried him in the eld of the royal sepulchres,because he was a leper: and Joatham his son

reigned in his stead.

Chapter 27

Joatham was ve and twenty years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in

Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa

the daughter of Sadoc.

2And he did that which was right before the

Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had

done, only that he entered not into the temple

of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.

3He built the high gate of the house of the

Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of

Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.

5He fought against the king of the children of

Ammon, and overcame them, and the children of

Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents

of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat,

and as many measures of barley: so much did

the children of Ammon give him in the second

and third year.

6And Joatham was strengthened, because he

had his way directed before the Lord his God.

7Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all

his wars, and his works, are written in the book

of the kings of Israel and Juda.

8He was ve and twenty years old when he

began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in

Jerusalem.

9And Joatham slept with his fathers, and

they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz

his son reigned in his stead.546 Second Book of Paralipomenon

Chapter 28

Achaz was twenty years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem:

he did not that which was right in the sight of

the Lord as David his father had done,

2But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel;

moreover also he cast statues for Baalim.

3It was he that burnt incense in the valley of

Benennom, and consecrated his sons in the re

according to the manner of the nations, which

the Lord slew at the coming of the children of

Israel.

4He sacriced also, and burnt incense in the

high places, and on the hills, and under every

green tree.
5And the Lord his God delivered him into the

hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him,

and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and

carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered

into the hands of the king of Israel, who over-

threw him with a great slaughter.

6For Phacee the son of Romelia slew of Juda

a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all

valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord

the God of their fathers.

7At the same time Zechri a powerful man

of Ephraim, slew Maasias the king's son, and

Ezricam the governor of his house, and Elcana

who was next to the king.

8And the children of Israel carried away of

their brethren two hundred thousand women,

boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they

brought it to Samaria.

9At that time there was a prophet of the Lord

there, whose name was Oded: and he went out

to meet the army that came to Samaria, and

said to them: Behold the Lord the God of your

fathers being angry with Juda, hath delivered

them into your hands, and you have butcheredthem cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached

up to heaven.

10Moreover you have a mind to keep un-

der the children of Juda and Jerusalem for your

bondmen and bondwomen, which ought not to

be done: for you have sinned in this against the

Lord your God.

11But hear ye my counsel, and release the

captives that you have brought of your brethren,

because a great indignation of the Lord hangeth

over you.

12Then some of the chief men of the sons of

Ephraim, Azarias the son of Johanan, Barachias

the son of Mosollamoth, Ezechias the son of Sel-

lum, and Amasa the son of Adali, stood up

against them that came from the war.

13And they said to them: You shall not bring

in the captives hither, lest we sin against the

Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and heap

up upon our former oences? for the sin is great,

and the erce anger of the Lord hangeth over

Israel.

14So the soldiers left the spoils, and all that

they had taken, before the princes and all the

multitude.

15And the men, whom we mentioned above,

rose up and took the captives, and with the

spoils clothed all them that were naked: and

when they had clothed and shod them, and re-

freshed them with meat and drink, and anointed

them because of their labour, and had taken

care of them, they set such of them as could not

walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought

them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their

brethren, and they returned to Samaria.

16At that time king Achaz sent to the king

of the Assyrians asking help.

17And the Edomites came and slew many of

Juda, and took a great booty.

18The Philistines also spread themselvesSecond Book of Paralipomenon 547

among the cities of the plains, and to the south

of Juda: and they took Bethsames, and Aialon,

and Gaderoth, and Socho, and Thamnan, and

Gamzo, with their villages, and they dwelt in

them.

19For the Lord had humbled Juda because of

Achaz the king of Juda, for he had stripped it of

help, and had contemned the Lord.

20And he brought against him Thelgathphal-

nasar king of the Assyrians, who also aicted

him, and plundered him without any resistance.

21And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord,

and the house of the kings, and of the princes,

and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and

yet it availed him nothing.

22Moreover also in the time of his distress

he increased contempt against the Lord: king

Achaz himself by himself,

23Sacriced victims to the gods of Damascus

that struck him, and he said: The gods of the

kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them

with victims, and they will help me; whereas on

the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of

all Israel.

24Then Achaz having taken away all the ves-

sels of the house of God, and broken them, shut

up the doors of the temple of God, and made

himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.

25And in all the cities of Juda he built altars

to burn frankincense, and he provoked the Lord

the God of his fathers to wrath.

26But the rest of his acts, and all his works

rst and last are written in the book of the kings

of Juda and Israel.

27And Achaz slept with his fathers, and they

buried him in the city of Jerusalem: for they

received him not into the sepulchres of the kings

of Israel. And Ezechias his son reigned in his

stead.Chapter 29

Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was ve

and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and

twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his

mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.

2And he did that which was pleasing in the

sight of the Lord, according to all that David his

father had done.

3In the rst year and month of his reign he

opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and

repaired them.

4And he brought the priests and the Levites,

and assembled them in the east street.

5And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites,

and be sanctied, purify the house of the Lord

the God of your fathers, and take away all lth

out of the sanctuary.

6Our fathers have sinned and done evil in the

sight of the Lord God, forsaking him: they have

turned away their faces from the tabernacle of

the Lord, and turned their backs.

7They have shut up the doors that were in

the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not

burnt incense, nor oered holocausts in the sanc-

tuary of the God of Israel.

8Therefore the wrath of the Lord hath been

stirred up against Juda and Jerusalem, and he

hath delivered them to trouble, and to destruc-

tion, and to be hissed at, as you see with your

eyes.

9Behold, our fathers are fallen by the sword,

our sons, and our daughters, and wives are led

away captives for this wickedness.

10Now therefore I have a mind that we make

a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and

he will turn away the wrath of his indignation

from us.

11My sons, be not negligent: the Lord hath

chosen you to stand before him, and to minister548 Second Book of Paralipomenon

to him, and to worship him, and to burn incense

to him.

12Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of

Amasai, and Joel the son of Azarias, of the sons

of Caath: and of the sons of Merari, Cis the son

of Abdi, and Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of

the sons of Gerson, Joah the son of Zemma, and

Eden the son of Joah.

13And of the sons of Elisaphan, Samri, and

Jahiel. Also of the sons of Asaph, Zacharias, and

Mathanias.

14And of the sons of Heman, Jahiel, and Se-

mei: and of the sons of Idithun, Semeias, and

Oziel.

15And they gathered together their brethren,

and sanctied themselves, and went in according

to the commandment of the king, and the pre-

cept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.

16And the priests went into the temple of the

Lord to sanctify it, and brought out all the un-

cleanness that they found within to the entrance

of the house of the Lord, and the Levites took

it away, and carried it out abroad to the torrent

Cedron.

17And they began to cleanse on the rst day

of the rst month, and on the eighth day of the

same month they came into the porch of the tem-

ple of the Lord, and they puried the temple in

eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the same

month they nished what they had begun.

18And they went in to king Ezechias, and

said to him: We have sanctied all the house

of the Lord, and the altar of holocaust, and the

vessels thereof, and the table of proposition with

all its vessels,

19And all the furniture of the temple, which

king Achaz in his reign had deled, after his

transgression; and behold they are all set forth

before the altar of the Lord.

20And king Ezechias rising early, assembledall the rulers of the city, and went up into the

house of the Lord:

21And they oered together seven bullocks,

and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he

goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the sanctuary,

for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of

Aaron, to oer them upon the altar of the Lord.

22Therefore they killed the bullocks, and the

priests took the blood, and poured it upon the

altar; they killed also the rams, and their blood

they poured also upon the altar, and they killed

the lambs, and poured the blood upon the altar.

23And they brought the he goats for sin be-

fore the king, and the whole multitude, and they

laid their hand upon them:

24And the priests immolated them, and

sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expi-

ation of all Israel: for the king had commanded

that the holocaust and the sin oering should be

made for all Israel.

25And he set the Levites in the house of the

Lord with cymbals, and psalteries, and harps ac-

cording to the regulation of David the king, and

of Gad the seer, and of Nathan the prophet: for

it was the commandment of the Lord by the hand

of his prophets.

26And the Levites stood, with the instru-

ments of David, and the priests with trumpets.

27And Ezechias commanded that they should

oer holocausts upon the altar: and when the

holocausts were oered, they began to sing

praises to the Lord, and to sound with trumpets,

and divers instruments which David the king of

Israel had prepared.

28And all the multitude adored, and the

singers, and the trumpeters, were in their oce

till the holocaust was nished.

29And when the oblation was ended, the

king, and all that were with him bowed down

and adored.Second Book of Paralipomenon 549

30And Ezechias and the princes commanded

the Levites to praise the Lord with the words

of David, and Asaph the seer: and they praised

him with great joy, and bowing the knee adored.

31And Ezechias added, and said: You have

lled your hands to the Lord, come and oer vic-

tims, and praises in the house of the Lord. And

all the multitude oered victims, and praises,

and holocausts with a devout mind.

32And the number of the holocausts which

the multitude oered, was seventy bullocks, a

hundred rams, and two hundred lambs.

33And they consecrated to the Lord six hun-

dred oxen, and three thousand sheep.

34But the priests were few, and were not

enough to

ay the holocausts: wherefore the

Levites their brethren helped them, till the work

was ended, and priests were sanctied, for the

Levites are sanctied with an easier rite than

the priests.

35So there were many holocausts, and the

fat of peace oerings, and the libations of holo-

causts: and the service of the house of the Lord

was completed.

36And Ezechias, and all the people rejoiced

because the ministry of the Lord was accom-

plished. For the resolution of doing this thing

was taken suddenly.

Chapter 30

And Ezechias sent to all Israel and Juda: and

he wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasses, that

they should come to the house of the Lord in

Jerusalem, and keep the phase to the Lord the

God of Israel,

2For the king, taking counsel, and the princes,

and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to

keep the phase the second month.3For they could not keep it in its time; be-

cause there were not priests enough sanctied,

and the people was not as yet gathered together

to Jerusalem.
4And the thing pleased the king, and all the

people.

5And they decreed to send messengers to

all Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, that they

should come, and keep the phase to the Lord

the God of Israel in Jerusalem: for many had

not kept it as it is prescribed by the law.

6And the posts went with letters by com-

mandment of the king, and his princes, to all

Israel and Juda, proclaiming according to the

king's orders: Ye children of Israel, turn again

to the Lord the God of Abraham, and of Isaac,

and of Israel: and he will return to the remnant

of you that have escaped the hand of the king of

the Assyrians.

7Be not like your fathers, and brethren, who

departed from the Lord the God of their fathers,

and he hath given them up to destruction, as you

see.

8Harden not your necks, as your fathers

did: yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to

his sanctuary, which he hath sanctied forever:

serve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the

wrath of his indignation shall be turned away

from you.

9For if you turn again to the Lord, your

brethren, and children shall nd mercy before

their masters, that have led them away captive,

and they shall return into this land: for the Lord

your God is merciful, and will not turn away his

face from you, if you return to him.

10So the posts went speedily from city to city,

through the land of Ephraim, and of Manasses,

even to Zabulon, whilst they laughed at them

and mocked them.

11Nevertheless some men of Aser, and of550 Second Book of Paralipomenon

Manasses, and of Zabulon, yielding to the coun-

sel, came to Jerusalem.

12But the hand of God was in Juda, to give

them one heart to do the word of the Lord, ac-

cording to the commandment of the king, and of

the princes.

13And much people were assembled to

Jerusalem to celebrate the solemnity of the un-

leavened bread in the second month:

14And they arose and destroyed the altars

that were in Jerusalem, and took away all things

in which incense was burnt to idols and cast them

into the torrent Cedron.

15And they immolated the phase on the four-

teenth day of the second month. And the priests

and the Levites being at length sanctied oered

holocausts in the house of the Lord.

16And they stood in their order according to

the disposition and law of Moses the man of God:

but the priests received the blood which was to

be poured out, from the hands of the Levites,

17Because a great number was not sanctied:

and therefore the Levites immolated the phase

for them that came not in time to be sanctied

to the Lord.

18For a great part of the people from

Ephraim, and Manasses, and Issachar, and Zab-

ulon, that had not been sanctied, ate the phase

otherwise than it is written: and Ezechias prayed

for them, saying: The Lord who is good will shew

mercy,

19To all them, who with their whole heart,

seek the Lord the God of their fathers: and will

not impute it to them that they are not sancti-

ed.

20And the Lord heard him, and was merciful

to the people.

21And the children of Israel, that were found

at Jerusalem, kept the feast of unleavened bread

seven days with great joy, praising the Lord ev-ery day. the Levites also, and the priests, with

instruments that agreed to their oce.

22And Ezechias spoke to the heart of all the

Levites, that had good understanding concern-

ing the Lord: and they ate during the seven days

of the solemnity, immolating victims of peace of-

ferings, and praising the Lord the God of their

fathers.

23And it pleased the whole multitude to keep

other seven days: which they did with great joy.

24For Ezechias the king of Juda had given

to the multitude a thousand bullocks, and seven

thousand sheep: and the princes had given the

people a thousand bullocks, and ten thousand

sheep: and a great number of priests was sanc-

tied.

25And all the multitude of Juda with the

priests and Levites, and all the assembly, that

came out of Israel; and the proselytes of the land

of Israel, and that dwelt in Juda were full of joy.

26And there was a great solemnity in

Jerusalem, such as had not been in that city

since the time of Solomon the son of David king

of Israel.

27And the priests and the Levites rose up and

blessed the people: and their voice was heard:

and their prayer came to the holy dwelling place

of heaven.

Chapter 31
And when these things had been duly celebrated,

all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda,

went out, and they broke the idols, and cut down

the groves, demolished the high places, and de-

stroyed the altars, not only out of all Juda and

Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also and Man-

asses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then

all the children of Israel returned to their pos-Second Book of Paralipomenon 551

sessions and cities.

2And Ezechias appointed companies of the

priests, and the Levites, by their courses, every

man in his own oce, to wit, both of the priests,

and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace

oerings, to minister, and to praise, and to sing

in the gates of the camp of the Lord.

3And the king's part was, that of his proper

substance the holocaust should be oered always

morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and

the new moons and the other solemnities, as it

is written in the law of Moses.

4He commanded also the people that dwelt in

Jerusalem, to give to the priests, and the Levites

their portion, that they might attend to the law

of the Lord.

5Which when it was noised abroad in the ears

of the people, the children of Israel oered in

abundance the rstfruits of corn, wine, and oil,

and honey: and brought the tithe of all things

which the ground bringeth forth.

6Moreover the children of Israel and Juda,

that dwelt in the cities of Juda, brought in the

tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the tithes of holy

things, which they had vowed to the Lord their

God: and carrying them all, made many heaps.

7In the third month they began to lay the

foundations of the heaps, and in the seventh

month, they nished them.

8And when Ezechias and his princes came in,

they saw the heaps, and they blessed the Lord

and the people of Israel.

9And Ezechias asked the priests and the

Levites, why the heaps lay so.

10Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc

answered him, saying: Since the rstfruits began

to be oered in the house of the Lord, we have

eaten, and have been lled, and abundance is

left, because the Lord hath blessed his people:

and of that which is left is this great store whichthou seest.

11Then Ezechias commanded to prepare

storehouses in the house of the Lord. And when

they had done so,

12They brought in faithfully both the rst-

fruits, and the tithes, and all they had vowed.

And the overseer of them was Chonenias the

Levite, and Semei his brother was the second,

13And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Na-

hath, and Asael, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad,

and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and Ba-

naias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias,

and Semei his brother, by the commandment of

Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest

of the house of God, to whom all things apper-

tained.

14But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the

porter of the east gate, was overseer of the things

which were freely oered to the Lord, and of the

rstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy

of holies.

15And under his charge were Eden, and Ben-

jamin, Jesue, and Semeias, and Amarias, and

Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to dis-

tribute faithfully portions to their brethren, both

little and great:

16Besides the males from three years old

and upward, to all that went into the temple of

the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in

the ministry, and their oces according to their

courses, day by day.

17To the priests by their families, and to the

Levites from the twentieth year and upward, by

their classes and companies.

18And to all the multitude, both to their

wives, and to their children of both sexes, vict-

uals were given faithfully out of the things that

had been sanctied.

19Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the

elds and in the suburbs of each city, there were552 Second Book of Paralipomenon

men appointed, to distribute portions to all the

males, among the priests and the Levites.

20So Ezechias did all things which we have

said in all Juda, and wrought that which was

good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his

God,

21In all the service of the house of the Lord

according to the law and the ceremonies, desiring

to seek his God with all his heart, and he did it

and prospered.

Chapter 32

And when these things had been duly celebrated,

all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda,

went out, and they broke the idols, and cut down

the groves, demolished the high places, and de-

stroyed the altars, not only out of all Juda and

Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also and Man-

asses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then

all the children of Israel returned to their pos-

sessions and cities.

2And Ezechias appointed companies of the

priests, and the Levites, by their courses, every

man in his own oce, to wit, both of the priests,

and of the Levites, for holocausts, and for peace

oerings, to minister, and to praise, and to sing

in the gates of the camp of the Lord.

3And the king's part was, that of his proper

substance the holocaust should be oered always

morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and

the new moons and the other solemnities, as it

is written in the law of Moses.

4He commanded also the people that dwelt in

Jerusalem, to give to the priests, and the Levites

their portion, that they might attend to the law

of the Lord.

5Which when it was noised abroad in the ears

of the people, the children of Israel oered inabundance the rstfruits of corn, wine, and oil,

and honey: and brought the tithe of all things

which the ground bringeth forth.

6Moreover the children of Israel and Juda,

that dwelt in the cities of Juda, brought in the

tithes of oxen, and sheep, and the tithes of holy

things, which they had vowed to the Lord their

God: and carrying them all, made many heaps.

7In the third month they began to lay the

foundations of the heaps, and in the seventh

month, they nished them.

8And when Ezechias and his princes came in,

they saw the heaps, and they blessed the Lord

and the people of Israel.

9And Ezechias asked the priests and the

Levites, why the heaps lay so.

10Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc

answered him, saying: Since the rstfruits began

to be oered in the house of the Lord, we have

eaten, and have been lled, and abundance is

left, because the Lord hath blessed his people:

and of that which is left is this great store which

thou seest.

11Then Ezechias commanded to prepare

storehouses in the house of the Lord. And when

they had done so,

12They brought in faithfully both the rst-

fruits, and the tithes, and all they had vowed.

And the overseer of them was Chonenias the

Levite, and Semei his brother was the second,

13And after him Jehiel, and Azarias, and Na-

hath, and Asael, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad,

and Eliel, and Jesmachias, and Mahath, and Ba-

naias, overseers under the hand of Chonenias,

and Semei his brother, by the commandment of

Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high priest

of the house of God, to whom all things apper-

tained.

14But Core the son of Jemna the Levite, the

porter of the east gate, was overseer of the thingsSecond Book of Paralipomenon 553

which were freely oered to the Lord, and of the

rstfruits and the things dedicated for the holy

of holies.

15And under his charge were Eden, and Ben-

jamin, Jesue, and Semeias, and Amarias, and

Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to dis-

tribute faithfully portions to their brethren, both

little and great:

16Besides the males from three years old

and upward, to all that went into the temple of

the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in

the ministry, and their oces according to their

courses, day by day.

17To the priests by their families, and to the

Levites from the twentieth year and upward, by

their classes and companies.

18And to all the multitude, both to their

wives, and to their children of both sexes, vict-

uals were given faithfully out of the things that

had been sanctied.

19Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the

elds and in the suburbs of each city, there were

men appointed, to distribute portions to all the

males, among the priests and the Levites.

20So Ezechias did all things which we have

said in all Juda, and wrought that which was

good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his

God,

21In all the service of the house of the Lord

according to the law and the ceremonies, desiring

to seek his God with all his heart, and he did it

and prospered.

Chapter 33

Manasses was twelve years old when he be-

gan to reign, and he reigned fty-ve years in

Jerusalem.

2And he did evil before the Lord, accordingto all the abominations of the nations, which the

Lord cast out before the children of Israel:

3And he turned, and built again the high

places which Ezechias his father had destroyed:

and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves,

and he adored all the host of heaven, and wor-

shipped them.

4He built also altars in the house of the Lord,

whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall

my name be for ever.

5And he built them for all the host of heaven

in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

6And he made his sons to pass through the

re in the valley of Benennom: he observed

dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to

magic arts, had with him magicians, and en-

chanters: and he wrought many evils before the

Lord, to provoke him to anger.

7He set also a graven, and a molten statue

in the house of God, of which God had said to

David, and to Solomon his son: In this house,

and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all

the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever.

8And I will not make the foot of Israel to be

removed out of the land which I have delivered

to their fathers: yet so if they will take heed to

do what I have commanded them, and all the

law, and the ceremonies, and judgments by the

hand of Moses.

9So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabi-

tants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the na-

tions, which the Lord had destroyed before the

face of the children of Israel.

10And the Lord spoke to his people, and they

would not hearken.

11Therefore he brought upon them the cap-

tains of he army of the king of the Assyrians:

and they took Manasses, and carried him bound

with chains and fetters to Babylon.

12And after that he was in distress he prayed554 Second Book of Paralipomenon

to the Lord his God: and did penance exceed-

ingly before the God of his fathers.

13And he entreated him, and besought him

earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought

him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and

Manasses knew that the Lord was God.

14After this he built a wall without the city

of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley,

from the entering in of the gate round about to

Ophel, and raised it up to a great height: and he

appointed captains of the army in all the fenced

cities of Juda:

15And he took away the strange gods, and

the idol out of the house of the Lord: the al-

tars also which he had made in the mount of the

house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast

them all out of the city.

16And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and

sacriced upon it victims, and peace oerings,

and praise: and he commanded Juda to serve

the Lord the God of Israel.

17Nevertheless the people still sacriced in

the high places to the Lord their God.

18But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and

his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers

that spoke to him in the name of the Lord the

God of Israel, are contained in the words of the

kings of Israel.

19His prayer also, and his being heard and

all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he

built high places, and set up groves, and statues

before he did penance, are written in the words

of Hozai.

20And Manasses slept with his fathers, and

they buried him in his house: and his son Amon

reigned in his stead.

21Amon was two and twenty years old when

he began to reign, and he reigned two years in

Jerusalem.

22And he did evil in the sight of the Lord,as Manasses his father had done: he sacriced

to all the idols which Manasses his father had

made, and served them.

23And he did not humble himself before the

lord, as Manasses his father had humbled him-

self, but committed far greater sin.

24And his servants conspired against him,

and slew him in his own house.

25But the rest of the multitude of the peo-

ple slew them that had killed Amon, and made

Josias his son king in his stead.

Chapter 34

Josias was eight years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in

Jerusalem.

2And he did that which was right in the sight

of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David

his father: he declined not, neither to the right

hand, nor to the left.

3And in the eighth year of his reign, when he

was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his

father David: and in the twelfth year after he

began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem

from the high places, and the groves, and the

idols, and the graven things.

4And they broke down before him the altars

of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had

been set upon them: and he cut down the groves

and the graven things, and broke them in pieces:

and strewed the fragments upon the graves of

them that had sacriced to them.

5And he burnt the bones of the priests on

the altars of the idols, and he cleansed Juda and

Jerusalem.
6And in the cities of Manasses, and of

Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he

demolished all.Second Book of Paralipomenon 555

7And when he had destroyed the altars,

and the groves, and had broken the idols in

pieces, and had demolished all profane temples

throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to

Jerusalem.

8Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when

he had cleansed the land, and the temple of the

Lord, he sent Saphan the son of Elselias, and

Maasias the governor of the city, Joha the son of

Joachaz the recorder, to repair the house of the

Lord his God.

9And they came to Helcias the high priest:

and received of him the money which had been

brought into the house of the Lord, and which

the Levites and porters had gathered together

from Manasses, and Ephraim, and all the rem-

nant of Israel, and from all Juda, and Benjamin,

and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

10Which they delivered into the hands of

them that were over the workmen in the house

of the Lord, to repair the temple, and mend all

that was weak.

11But they gave it to the articers, and to the

masons, to buy stones out of the quarries, and

timber for the couplings of the building, and to

rafter the houses, which the kings of Juda had

destroyed.

12And they did all faithfully. Now the over-

seers of the workmen were Jahath and Abdias of

the sons of Merari, Zacharias and Mosollam of

the sons of Caath, who hastened the work: all

Levites skilful to play on instruments.

13But over them that carried burdens for

divers uses, were scribes, and masters of the

number of the Levites, and porters.

14Now when they carried out the money that

had been brought into the temple of the Lord,

Helcias the priest found the book of the law of

the Lord, by the hand of Moses.

15And he said to Saphan the scribe: I havefound the book of the law in the house of the

Lord: and he delivered it to him.

16But he carried the book to the king, and

told him, saying: Lo, all that thou hast commit-

ted to thy servants, is accomplished.

17They have gathered together the silver that

was found in the house of the Lord: and it is

given to the overseers of the articers, and of

the workmen, for divers works.

18Moreover Helcias the priest gave me this

book. And he read it before the king.

19And when he had heard the words of the

law, he rent his garments:

20And he commanded Helcias, and Ahicam

the son of Saphan, and Abdon the son of Micha,

and Saphan the scribe, and Asaa the king's ser-

vant, saying:

21Go, and pray to the Lord for me, and for

the remnant of Israel, and Juda, concerning all

the words of this book, which is found: for the

great wrath of the Lord hath fallen upon us, be-

cause our fathers have not kept the words of the

Lord, to do all things that are written in this

book.

22And Helcias and they that were sent with

him by the king, went to Olda the prophetess,

the wife of Sellum the son of Thecuath, the son

of Hasra keeper of the wardrobe: who dwelt in

Jerusalem in the Second part: and they spoke to

her the words above mentioned.

23And she answered them: Thus saith the

Lord the God of Israel: Tell the man that sent

you to me:

24Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring

evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants

thereof, and all the curses that are written in this

book which they read before the king of Juda.

25Because they have forsaken me, and have

sacriced to strange gods, to provoke me to

wrath with all the works of their hands, therefore556 Second Book of Paralipomenon

my wrath shall fail upon this place, and shall not

be quenched.

26But as to the king of Juda that sent you

to beseech the Lord, thus shall you say to him:

Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Because

thou hast heard the words of this book,

27And thy heart was softened, and thou hast

humbled thyself in the sight of God for the things

that are spoken against this place, and the in-

habitants of Jerusalem, and reverencing my face,

hast rent thy garments, and wept before me: I

also have heard thee, saith the Lord.

28For now I will gather thee to thy fathers,

and thou shalt be brought to thy tomb in peace:

and thy eyes shall not see all the evil that I

will bring upon this place, and the inhabitants

thereof. They therefore reported to the king all

that she had said.

29And he called together all the ancients of

Juda and Jerusalem.

30And went up to the house of the Lord,

and all the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites, and all

the people from the least to the greatest. And

the king read in their hearing, in the house of

the Lord, all the words of the book.

31And standing up in his tribunal, he made a

covenant before the Lord to walk after him, and

keep his commandments, and testimonies, and

justications with all his heart, and with all his

soul, and to do the things that were written in

that book which he had read.

32And he adjured all that were found in

Jerusalem and Benjamin to do the same: and

the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the

covenant of the Lord the God of their fathers.

33And Josias took away all the abominations

out of all the countries of the children of Israel

and made all that were left in Israel, to serve

the Lord their God. As long as he lived theydeparted not from the Lord the God of their fa-

thers.

Chapter 35

And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in

Jerusalem, and it was sacriced on the four-

teenth day of the rst month.

2And he set the priests in their oces, and

exhorted them to minister in the house of the

Lord.
3And he spoke to the Levites, by whose in-

struction all Israel was sanctied to the Lord,

saying: Put the ark in the sanctuary of the tem-

ple, which Solomon the son of David king of Is-

rael built: for you shall carry it no more: but

minister now to the Lord your God, and to his

people Israel.

4And prepare yourselves by your houses, and

families according to your courses, as David king

of Israel commanded, and Solomon his son hath

written.

5And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families

and companies of Levi.

6And being sanctied kill the phase, and pre-

pare your brethren, that they may do according

to the words which the Lord spoke by the hand

of Moses.

7And Josias gave to all the people that were

found there in the solemnity of the phase, of

lambs and of kids of the

ocks, and of other small

cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thou-

sand, all these were of the king's substance.

8And his princes willingly oered what they

had vowed, both to the people and to the

priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and

Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the

Lord, gave to the priests to keep the phase two

thousand six hundred small cattle, and threeSecond Book of Paralipomenon 557

hundred oxen.

9And Chonenias, and Semeias and

Nathanael, his brethren, and Hasabias, and

Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the Levites, gave

to the rest of the Levites to celebrate the phase

ve thousand small cattle, and ve hundred

oxen.

10And the ministry was prepared, and the

priests stood in their oce: the Levites also in

their companies, according to the king's com-

mandment.

11And the phase was immolated: and the

priests sprinkled the blood with their hand, and

the Levites

ayed the holocausts:

12And they separated them, to give them

by the houses and families of every one, and to

be oered to the Lord, as it is written in the

book of Moses, and with the oxen they did in

like manner.

13And they roasted the phase with re, ac-

cording to that which is written in the law:

but the victims of peace oerings they boiled in

caldrons, and kettles, and pots, and they dis-

tributed them speedily among all the people.

14And afterwards they made ready for them-

selves, and for the priests: for the priests were

busied in oering of holocausts and the fat until

night, wherefore the Levites prepared for them-

selves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron last.

15And the singers the sons of Asaph stood in

their order, according to the commandment of

David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Idithun, the

prophets of the king: and the porters kept guard

at every gate, so as not to depart one moment

from their service, and therefore their brethren

the Levites prepared meats for them.

16So all the service of the Lord was duly ac-

complished that day, both in keeping the phase

and oering holocausts upon the altar of the

Lord, according to the commandment of kingJosias.

17And the children of Israel that were found

there, kept the phase at that time, and the feast

of unleavened seven days.

18There was no phase like to this in Israel,

from the days of Samuel the prophet: neither did

any of all the kings of Israel keep such a phase

as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites,

and all Juda, and Israel that were found, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.

19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias

was this phase celebrated.

20After that Josias had repaired the temple,

Nechao king of Egypt came up to ght in Char-

camis by the Euphrates: and Josias went out to

meet him.

21But he sent messengers to him, saying:

What have I to do with thee, O king of Juda? I

come not against thee this day, but I ght against

another house, to which God hath commanded

me to go in haste: forbear to do against God,

who is with me, lest he kill thee.

22Josias would not return, but prepared to

ght against him, and hearkened not to the

words of Nechao from the mouth of God, but

went to ght in the eld of Mageddo.

23And there he was wounded by the archers,

and he said to his servants: Carry me out of the

battle, for I am grievously wounded.

24And they removed him from the char-

iot into another, that followed him after the

manner of kings, and they carried him away

to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in

the monument of his fathers, and all Juda and

Jerusalem mourned for him,

25Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations

for Josias all the singing men and singing women

repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in

Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamen-

tations.558 Second Book of Paralipomenon

26Now the rest of the acts of Josias and of

his mercies, according to what was commanded

by the law of the Lord:

27And his works rst and last, are written in

the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

Chapter 36

Then the people of the land took Joachaz the

son of Josias, and made him king instead of his

father in Jerusalem.

2Joachaz was three and twenty years old

when he began to reign, and he reigned three

months in Jerusalem.

3And the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem,

and deposed him, and condemned the land in a

hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

4And he made Eliakim his brother king in his

stead, over Juda and Jerusalem: and he turned

his name to Joakim: but he took Joachaz with

him and carried him away into Egypt.

5Joakim was ve and twenty years old when

he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in

Jerusalem: and he did evil before the Lord his

God.

6Against him came up Nabuchodonosor king

of the Chaldeans, and led him bound in chains

into Babylon.

7And he carried also thither the vessels of the

Lord, and put them in his temple.

8But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and

his abominations, which he wrought, and the

things that were found in him, are contained in

the book of the kings of Juda and Israel. And

Joachin his son reigned in his stead.

9Joachin was eight years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned three months and ten

days in Jerusalem, and he did evil in the sight of

the Lord.10And at the return of the year, king Nabu-

chodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon,

carrying away at the same time the most pre-

cious vessels of the house of the Lord: and he

made Sedecias his uncle king over Juda and

Jerusalem.

11Sedecias was one and twenty years old

when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven

years in Jerusalem.

12And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his

God, and did not reverence the face of Jeremias

the prophet speaking to him from the mouth of

the Lord.

13 He also revolted from king Nabu-

chodonosor, who had made him swear by God:

and he hardened his neck and his heart, from

returning to the Lord the God of Israel.

14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and

the people wickedly transgressed according to all

the abominations of the Gentiles: and they de-

led the house of the Lord, which he had sanc-

tied to himself in Jerusalem.

15And the Lord the God of their fathers sent

to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising

early, and daily admonishing them: because he

spared his people and his dwelling place.

16But they mocked the messengers of

God, and despised his words, and misused the

prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose

against his people, and there was no remedy.

17For he brought upon them the king of the

Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with

the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had

no compassion on young man, or maiden, old

man or even him that stooped for age, but he

delivered them all into his hands.

18And all the vessels of the house of Lord,

great and small, and the treasures of the temple

and of the king, and of the princes he carried

away to Babylon.Second Book of Paralipomenon 559

19And the enemies set re to the house of

God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem,

burnt all the towers, and what soever was pre-

cious they destroyed.

20Whosoever escaped the sword, was led into

Babylon, and there served the king and his sons,

till the reign of the king of Persia,

21That the word of the Lord by the mouth of

Jeremias might be fullled, and the land might

keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the deso-

lation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years

were expired.

22But in the rst year of Cyrus king of the

Persians, to full the word of the Lord, which

he had spoken by the mouth of Jeremias, the

Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus, king of the

Persians: who commanded it to be proclaimed

through all his kingdom, and by writing also,

saying:

23Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: All

the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God

of heaven given to me, and he hath charged me

to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in

Judea: who is there among you of all his people?

The Lord his God be with him, and let him go

up.First Book of Esdras

Chapter 1

In the rst year of Cyrus king of the Persians,

that the word of the Lord by the mouth of

Jeremias might be fullled, the Lord stirred up

the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he

made a proclamation throughout all his king-

dom, and in writing also, saying:

2Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The

Lord the God of heaven hath given to me all the

kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me

to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in

Judea.

3Who is there among you of all his peo-

ple? His God be with him. Let him go up

to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the

house of the Lord the God of Israel: he is the

God that is in Jerusalem.

4And let all the rest in all places wheresoever

they dwell, help him every man from his place,

with silver and gold, and goods, and cattle, be-

sides that which they oer freely to the temple

of God, which is in Jerusalem.

5Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda

and Benjamin, and the priests, and Levites, and

every one whose spirit God had raised up, to go

up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in

Jerusalem.

6And all they that were round about, helped

their hands with vessels of silver, and gold, with

goods, and with beasts, and with furniture, be-

sides what they had oered on their own accord.7And king Cyrus brought forth vessels of the

temple of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had

taken from Jerusalem, and had put them in the

temple of his god.

8Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them

forth by the hand of Mithridates the son of

Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar the

prince of Juda.

9And this is the number of them: thirty bowls

of gold, a thousand bowls of silver, nine and

twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,

10Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred

and ten: other vessels a thousand.

11All the vessels of gold and silver, ve thou-

sand four hundred: all these Sassabasar brought

with them that came up from the captivity of

Babylon to Jerusalem.

Chapter 2

Now these are the children of the province, that

went out of the captivity, which Nabuchodonosor

king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon,

and who returned to Jerusalem and Juda, every

man to his city.

2Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Nehemia,

Saraia, Rahelaia, Mardochai, Belsan, Mesphar,

Beguai, Rehum, Baana. The number of the men

of the people of Israel:

3The children of Pharos two thousand one

hundred seventy-two.First Book of Esdras 561

4The children of Sephatia, three hundred

seventy-two.

5The children of Area, seven hundred

seventy-ve.

6The children of Phahath Moab, of the chil-

dren of Josue: Joab, Two thousand eight hun-

dred twelve.

7The children of Elam, a thousand two hun-

dred fty-four.

8The children of Zethua, nine hundred forty-

ve.

9The children of Zachai, seven hundred sixty.

10The children of Bani, six hundred forty-

two.

11The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-

three.
12The children of Azgad, a thousand two

hundred twenty-two.

13The children of Adonicam, six hundred

sixty-six.

14The children of Beguai, two thousand fty-

six.

15The children of Adin, four hundred fty-

four.

16The children of Ather, who were of

Ezechias, ninety-eight.

17The children of Besai, three hundred and

twenty-three.

18The children of Jora, a hundred and twelve.

19The children of Hasum, two hundred

twenty-three.

20The children of Gebbar, ninety-ve.

21The children of Bethlehem, a hundred

twenty-three.

22The men of Netupha, fty-six.

23The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-

eight.

24The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.

25The children of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and

Beroth, seven hundred forty-three.26The children of Rama and Gabaa, six hun-

dred twenty-one.

27The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-

two.

28The men of Bethel and Hai, two hundred

twenty-three.

29The children of Nebo, fty-two.

30The children of Megbis, a hundred fty-six.

31The children of the other Elam, a thousand

two hundred fty-ve.

32The children of Harim, three hundred and

twenty.

33The children of Lod, Hadid and Ono, seven

hundred twenty-ve.

34The children of Jericho, three hundred

forty-ve.

35The children of Senaa, three thousand six

hundred thirty.

36The priests: the children of Jadaia of the

house of Josue, nine hundred seventy-three.

37The children of Emmer, a thousand fty-

two.

38The children of Pheshur, a thousand two

hundred forty-seven.

39The children of Harim, a thousand and sev-

enteen.

40The Levites: the children of Josue and of

Cedmihel, the children of Odovia, seventy-four.

41The singing men: the children of Asaph, a

hundred twenty-eight.

42The children of the porters: the children

of Sellum, the children of Ater, the children of

Telmon, the children of Accub, the children of

Hatita, the children of Sobai: in all a hundred

thirty-nine.

43The Nathinites: the children of Siha, the

children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

44The children of Ceros, the children of Sia,

the children of Phadon,562 First Book of Esdras

45The children of Lebana, the children of

Hegaba, the children of Accub,

46The children of Hagab, the children of Sem-

lai, the children of Hanan,

47The children of Gaddel, the children of Ga-

her, the children of Raaia,

48The children of Rasin, the children of

Necoda, the children of Gazam,

49The children of Asa, the children of Phasea,

the children of Besee,

50The children of Asena, the children of Mu-

nim, the children of Nephusim,

51The children of Bacbuc, the children of

Hacupha, the children of Harhur,

52The children of Besluth, the children of

Mahida, the children of Harsa,

53The children of Bercos, the children of Sis-

ara, the children of Thema,

54The children of Nasia, the children of

Hatipha,

55The children of the servants of Solomon,

the children of Sotai, the children of Sopheret,

the children of Pharuda,

56The children of Jala, the children of Der-

con, the children of Geddel,

57The children of Saphatia, the children of

Hatil, the children of Phochereth, which were of

Asebaim, the children of Ami,

58All the Nathinites, and the children of the

servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.

59And these are they that came up from

Thelmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, and Adon, and

Emer. And they could not shew the house of

their fathers and their seed, whether they were

of Israel.

60The children of Dalaia, the children of To-

bia, the children of Necoda, six hundred fty-

two.

61And of the children of the priests: the chil-

dren of Hobia, the children of Accos, the childrenof Berzellai, who took a wife of the daughters of

Berzellai, the Galaadite, and was called by their

name:
62These sought the writing of their genealogy,

and found it not, and they were cast out of the

priesthood.

63And Athersatha said to them, that they

should not eat of the holy of holies, till there

arose a priest learned and perfect.

64All the multitudes as one man, were forty-

two thousand three hundred and sixty:

65Besides their menservants, and womenser-

vants, of whom there were seven thousand three

hundred and thirty-seven: and among them

singing men, and singing women two hundred.

66Their horses seven hundred thirty-six, their

mules two hundred forty-ve,

67Their camels four hundred thirty-ve, their

asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

68And some of the chief of the fathers, when

they came to the temple of the Lord, which is

in Jerusalem, oered freely to the house of the

Lord to build it in its place.

69According to their ability, they gave to-

wards the expenses of the work, sixty-one thou-

sand solids of gold, ve thousand pounds of sil-

ver, and a hundred garments for the priests.

70So the priests and the Levites, and some of

the people, and the singing men, and the porters,

and the Nathinites dwelt in their cities, and all

Israel in their cities.

Chapter 3

And now the seventh month was come, and the

children of Israel were in their cities: and the

people gathered themselves together as one man

to Jerusalem.

2And Josue the son of Josedec rose up, andFirst Book of Esdras 563

his brethren the priests, and Zorobabel the son

of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they built the

altar of the God of Israel that they might oer

holocausts upon it, as it is written in the law of

Moses the man of God.

3And they set the altar of God upon its bases,

while the people of the lands round about put

them in fear, and they oered upon it a holocaust

to the Lord morning and evening.

4And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as

it is written, and oered the holocaust every

day orderly according to the commandment, the

duty of the day in its day.

5And afterwards the continual holocaust,

both on the new moons, and on all the solem-

nities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on

all in which a freewill oering was made to the

Lord.
6From the rst day of the seventh month they

began to oer holocausts to the Lord: but the

temple of God was not yet founded.

7And they gave money to hewers of stones

and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to

the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees

from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to

the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had

given them.

8And in the second year of their coming to the

temple of God in Jerusalem, the second month,

Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Josue the

son of Josedec, and the rest of their brethren the

priests, and the Levites, and all that were come

from the captivity to Jerusalem began, and they

appointed Levites from twenty years old and up-

ward, to hasten forward the work of the Lord.

9Then Josue and his sons and his brethren,

Cedmihel, and his sons, and the children of Juda,

as one man, stood to hasten them that did the

work in the temple of God: the sons of Henadad,

and their sons, and their brethren the Levites.10And when the masons laid the foundations

of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in

their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites

the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God

by the hands of David king of Israel.

11And they sung together hymns, and praise

to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy

endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the

people shouted with a great shout, praising the

Lord, because the foundations of the temple of

the Lord were laid.

12But many of the priests and the Levites,

and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that

had seen the former temple; when they had the

foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept

with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy,

lifted up their voice.

13So that one could not distinguish the voice

of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping

of the people: for one with another the people

shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was

heard afar o.

Chapter 4

Now the enemies of Juda and Benjamin heard

that the children of the captivity were building

a temple to the Lord the God of Israel.

2And they came to Zorobabel, and the chief

of the fathers, and said to them: Let us build

with you, for we seek your God as ye do: behold

we have sacriced to him, since the days of Asor

Haddan king of Assyria, who brought us hither.

3But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest of

the chief of the fathers of Israel said to them:

You have nothing to do with us to build a house

to our God, but we ourselves alone will build to

the Lord our God, as Cyrus king of the Persians

hath commanded us.564 First Book of Esdras

4Then the people of the land hindered the

hands of the people of Juda, and troubled them

in building.

5And they hired counsellors against them, to

frustrate their design all the days of Cyrus king

of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of

the Persians.

6And in the reign of Assuerus, in the be-

ginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation

against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.

7And in the days of Artaxerxes, Beselam,

Mithridates, and Thabeel, and the rest that were

in the council wrote to Artaxerxes king of the

Persians: and the letter of accusation was writ-

ten in Syrian, and was read in the Syrian tongue.

8Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe

wrote a letter from Jerusalem to king Artax-

erxes, in this manner:

9Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe and

the rest of their counsellors, the Dinites, and the

Apharsathacites, the Therphalites, the Aphar-

sites, the Erchuites, the Babylonians, the Su-

sanechites, the Dievites, and the Elamites,

10And the rest of the nations, whom the great

and glorious Asenaphar brought over: and made

to dwell in the cities of Samaria and in the rest

of the countries of this side of the river in peace.

11(This is the copy of the letter, which they

sent to him:) To Artaxerxes the king, thy ser-

vants, the men that are on this side of the river,

send greeting.

12Be it known to the king, that the Jews, who

came up from thee to us, are come to Jerusalem a

rebellious and wicked city, which they are build-

ing, setting up the ramparts thereof and repair-

ing the walls.

13And now be it known to the king, that

if this city be built up, and the walls thereof

repaired, they will not pay tribute nor toll, nor

yearly revenues, and this loss will fall upon thekings.

14But we remembering the salt that we have

eaten in the palace, and because we count it a

crime to see the king wronged, have therefore

sent and certied the king,

15That search may be made in the books of

the histories of thy fathers, and thou shalt nd

written in the records: and shalt know that this

city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to the kings

and provinces, and that wars were raised therein

of old time: for which cause also the city was

destroyed.

16We certify the king, that if this city be

built, and the walls thereof repaired, thou shalt

have no possession on this side of the river.

17The king sent word to Reum Beelteem and

Samsai the scribe, and to the rest that were

in their council, inhabitants of Samaria, and to

the rest beyond the river, sending greeting and

peace.

18The accusation, which you have sent to us,

hath been plainly read before me,

19And I commanded: and search hath been

made, and it is found, that this city of old time

hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and

wars have been raised therein.

20For there have been powerful kings in

Jerusalem, who have had dominion over all the

country that is beyond the river: and have re-

ceived tribute, and toll and revenues.

21Now therefore hear the sentence: Hinder

those men, that this city be not built, till further

orders be given by me.

22See that you be not negligent in executing

this, lest by little and little the evil grow to the

hurt of the kings.

23Now the copy of the edict of king Artax-

erxes was read before Reum Beelteem, and Sam-

sai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they

went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, andFirst Book of Esdras 565

hindered them with arm and power.

24Then the work of the house of the Lord

in Jerusalem was interrupted, and ceased till the

second year of the reign of Darius king of the

Persians.

Chapter 5

Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son

of Addo, prophesied to the Jews that were in

Judea and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of

Israel.

2Then rose up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel,

and Josue the son of Josedec, and began to build

the temple of God in Jerusalem, and with them

were the prophets of God helping them.

3And at the same time came to them

Thathanai, who was governor beyond the river,

and Stharbuzanai, and their counsellors: and

said thus to them: Who hath given you coun-

sel to build this house, and to repair the walls

thereof?

4In answer to which we gave them the names

of the men who were the promoters of that build-

ing.

5But the eye of their God was upon the an-

cients of the Jews, and they could not hinder

them. And it was agreed that the matter should

be referred to Darius, and then they should give

satisfaction concerning that accusation.

6The copy of the letter that Thathanai gover-

nor of the country beyond the river, and Sthar-

buzanai, and his counsellors the Arphasachites,

who dwelt beyond the river, sent to Darius the

king.

7The letter which they sent him, was written

thus: To Darius the king all peace.

8Be it known to the king, that we went to the

province of Judea, to the house of the great God,which they are building with unpolished stones,

and timber is laid in the walls: and this work

is carried on diligently and advanceth in their

hands.

9And we asked those ancients, and said to

them thus: Who hath given you authority to

build this house, and to repair these walls?

10We asked also of them their names,that we

might give thee notice: and we have written the

names of the men that are the chief among them.

11And they answered us in these words, say-

ing: We are the servants of the God of heaven

and earth, and we are building a temple that was

built these many years ago, and which a great

king of Israel built and set up.

12But after that our fathers had provoked

the God of heaven to wrath, he delivered them

into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of

Babylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this

house, and carried away the people to Babylon.

13But in the rst year of Cyrus the king of

Babylon, king Cyrus set forth a decree, that this

house of God should be built.

14And the vessels also of gold and silver of

the temple of God, which Nabuchodonosor had

taken out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem,

and had brought them to the temple of Babylon,

king Cyrus brought out of the temple of Babylon,

and they were delivered to one Sassabasar, whom

also he appointed governor,

15And said to him: Take these vessels, and

go, and put them in the temple that is in

Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in

its place.

16Then came this same Sassabasar, and

laid the foundations of the temple of God in

Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is

in building, and is not yet nished.

17Now therefore if it seem good to the king,

let him search in the king's library, which is in566 First Book of Esdras

Babylon, whether it hath been decreed by Cyrus

the king, that the house of God in Jerusalem

should be built, and let the king send his pleasure

to us concerning this matter.

Chapter 6

Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched

in the library of the books that were laid up in

Babylon,

2And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a

castle in the province of Media, a book in which

this record was written.

3In the rst year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus

the king decreed, that the house of God should

be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place

where they may oer sacrices, and that they

lay the foundations that may support the height

of threescore cubits, and the breadth of three-

score cubits,

4Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows

of new timber: and the charges shall be given out

of the king's house.

5And also let the golden and silver vessels of

the temple of God, which Nabuchodonosor took

out of the temple of Jerusalem, and brought to

Babylon, be restored, and carried back to the

temple of Jerusalem to their place, which also

were placed in the temple of God.

6Now therefore Thathanai, governor of the

country beyond the river, Stharbuzanai, and

your counsellors the Apharsachites, who are be-

yond the river, depart far from them,

7And let that temple of God be built by the

governor of the Jews, and by their ancients, that

they may build that house of God in its place.

8I also have commanded what must be done

by those ancients of the Jews, that the house

of God may be built, to wit, that of the king'schest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of

the country beyond the river, the charges be dili-

gently given to those men, lest the work be hin-

dered.

9And if it shall be necessary, let calves also,

and lambs, and kids, for holocausts to the God of

heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to

the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem,

be given them day by day, that there be no com-

plaint in any thing.

10And let them oer oblations to the God of

heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of

his children.

11And I have made a decree: That if any

whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a

beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he

be nailed upon it, and his house be conscated.

12And may the God, that hath caused his

name to dwell there, destroy all kingdoms, and

the people that shall put out their hand to re-

sist, and to destroy the house of God, that is in

Jerusalem. I Darius have made the decree, which

I will have diligently complied with.

13So then Thathanai, governor of the coun-

try beyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his

counsellors diligently executed what Darius the

king had commanded.

14And the ancients of the Jews built, and

prospered according to the prophecy of Aggeus

the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo:

and they built and nished, by the command-

ment of the God of Israel, and by the command-

ment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings

of the Persians.

15And they were nishing this house of God,

until the third day of the month of Adar, which

was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.

16And the children of Israel, the priests and

the Levites, and the rest of the children of the

captivity kept the dedication of the house of GodFirst Book of Esdras 567

with joy.

17And they oered at the dedication of the

house of God, a hundred calves, two hundred

rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin oering

for all Israel twelve he goats, according to the

number of the tribes of Israel.

18And they set the priests in their divisions,

and the Levites in their courses over the works

of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book

of Moses.

19And the children of Israel of the captivity

kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the rst

month.

20For all the priests and the Levites were

puried as one man: all were clean to kill the

phase for all the children of the captivity, and

for their brethren the priests, and themselves.

21And the children of Israel that were re-

turned from captivity, and all that had separated

themselves from the lthiness of the nations of

the earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of

Israel, did eat.

22And they kept the feast of unleavened

bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made

them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king

of Assyria to them, that he should help their

hands in the work of the house of the Lord the

God of Israel.

Chapter 7

Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes

king of the Persians, Esdras the son of Saraias,

the son of Azarias, the son of Helcias,

2The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son

of Achitob,

3The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the

son of Maraioth,4The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son

of Bocci,

5The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the

son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest from

the beginning.

6This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he

was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which

the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king

granted him all his request, according to the

hand of the Lord his God upon him.

7And there went up some of the children of

Israel, and of the children of the priests, and of

the children of the Levites, and of the singing

men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites

to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes

the king.

8And they came to Jerusalem in the fth

month, in the seventh year of the king.

9For upon the rst day of the rst month

he began to go up from Babylon, and on the

rst day of the fth month he came to Jerusalem

according to the good hand of his God upon him.

10For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek

the law of the Lord, and to do and to teach in

Israel the commandments and judgment.

11And this is the copy of the letter of the

edict, which king Artaxerxes gave to Esdras the

priest, the scribe instructed in the words and

commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies

in Israel.

12Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the

priest, the most learned scribe of the law of the

God of heaven, greeting.

13It is decreed by me, that all they of the

people of Israel, and of the priests and of the

Levites in my realm, that are minded to go into

Jerusalem, should go with thee.

14For thou art sent from before the king,

and his seven counsellors, to visit Judea and

Jerusalem according to the law of thy God,568 First Book of Esdras

which is in thy hand.

15And to carry the silver and gold, which the

king and his counsellors have freely oered to the

God of Israel, whose tabernacle is in Jerusalem.

16And all the silver and gold that thou shalt

nd in all the province of Babylon, and that the

people is willing to oer, and that the priests

shall oer of their own accord to the house of

their God, which is in Jerusalem,

17Take freely, and buy diligently with this

money, calves, rams, lambs, with the sacrices

and libations of them, and oer them upon the

altar of the temple of your God, that is in

Jerusalem.

18And if it seem good to thee, and to thy

brethren to do any thing with the rest of the

silver and gold, do it according to the will of

your God.

19The vessels also, that are given thee for the

sacrice of the house of thy God, deliver thou in

the sight of God in Jerusalem.

20And whatsoever more there shall be need of

for the house of thy God, how much soever thou

shalt have occasion to spend, it shall be given

out of the treasury, and the king's exchequer,

and by me.
21I Artaxerxes the king have ordered and de-

creed to all the keepers of the public chest, that

are beyond the river, that whatsoever Esdras the

priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven,

shall require of you, you give it without delay,

22Unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto

a hundred cores of wheat, and unto a hundred

bates of wine, and unto a hundred bates of oil,

and salt without measure.

23All that belongeth to the rites of the God

of heaven, let it be given diligently in the house

of the God of heaven: lest his wrath should be

enkindled against the realm of the king, and of

his sons.24We give you also to understand concerning

all the priests, and the Levites, and the singers,

and the porters, and the Nathinites, and min-

isters of the house of this God, that you have

no authority to impose toll or tribute, or custom

upon them.

25And thou Esdras according to the wisdom

of thy God, which is in thy hand, appoint judges

and magistrates, that may judge all the people,

that is beyond the river, that is, for them who

know the law of thy God, yea and the ignorant

teach ye freely.

26And whosoever will not do the law of thy

God, and the law of the king diligently, judgment

shall be executed upon him, either unto death, or

unto banishment, or to the conscation of goods,

or at least to prison.

27Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers,

who hath put this in the king's heart, to glorify

the house of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem,

28And hath inclined his mercy toward me

before the king and his counsellors, and all the

mighty princes of the king: and I being strength-

ened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was

upon me, gathered together out of Israel chief

men to go up with me.

Chapter 8

Now these are the chief of families, and the ge-

nealogy of them, who came up with me from

Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

2Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of the sons

of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hat-

tus.

3Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Pharos,

Zacharias, and with him were numbered a hun-

dred and fty men.

4Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai theFirst Book of Esdras 569

son of Zareha, and with him two hundred men.

5Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of Ezechiel,

and with him three hundred men.

6Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of

Jonathan, and with him fty men.

7Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of

Athalias, and with him seventy men.

8Of the sons of Saphatia: Zebodia the son of

Michael, and with him eighty men.

9Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of Jahiel,

and with him two hundred and eighteen men.

10Of the sons of Selomith, the son of Josphia,

and with him a hundred and sixty men.

11Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the son of

Bebai: and with him eight and twenty men.

12Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son of

Eccetan, and with him a hundred and ten men.

13Of the sons of Adonicam, who were the

last: and these are their names: Eliphelet, and

Jehiel, and Samaias, and with them sixty men.

14Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Zachur,

and with them seventy men.

15And I gathered them together to the river,

which runneth down to Ahava, and we stayed

there three days: and I sought among the people

and among the priests for the sons of Levi, and

found none there.

16So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Semeias,

and Elnathan, and Jarib, and another Elnathan,

and Nathan, and Zacharias, and Mosollam, chief

men: and Joiarib, and Elnathan, wise men.

17And I sent them to Eddo, who is chief in the

place of Chasphia, and I put in their mouth the

words that they should speak to Eddo, and his

brethren the Nathinites in the place of Chasphia,

that they should bring us ministers of the house

of our God.

18And by the good hand of our God upon us,

they brought us a most learned man of the sonsof Moholi the son of Levi the son of Israel, and

Sarabias and his sons, and his brethren eighteen,

19And Hasabias, and with him Isaias of the

sons of Merari, and his brethren, and his sons

twenty.

20And of the Nathinites, whom David, and

the princes gave for the service of the Levites,

Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these

were called by their names.

21And I proclaimed there a fast by the river

Ahava, that we might aict ourselves before the

Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way

for us and for our children, and for all our sub-

stance.

22For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid

and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy

in the way: because we had said to the king: The

hand of our God is upon all them that seek him

in goodness: and his power and strength, and

wrath upon all them that forsake him.

23And we fasted, and besought our God for

this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.

24And I separated twelve of the chief of the

priests, Sarabias, and Hasabias, and with them

ten of their brethren,

25And I weighed unto them the silver and

gold, and the vessels consecrated for the house

of our God, which the king and his counsellors,

and his princes, and all Israel, that were found

had oered.

26And I weighed to their hands six hundred

and fty talents of silver, and a hundred vessels

of silver, and a hundred talents of gold,

27And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand

solids, and two vessels of the best shining brass,

beautiful as gold.

28And I said to them: You are the holy ones

of the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the

silver and gold, that is freely oered to the Lord

the God of our fathers.570 First Book of Esdras

29Watch ye and keep them, till you deliver

them by weight before the chief of the priests,

and of the Levites, and the heads of the families

of Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasure of the

house of the Lord.

30And the priests and the Levites received

the weight of the silver and gold, and the vessels,

to carry them to Jerusalem to the house of our

God.

31Then we set forward from the river Ahava

on the twelfth day of the rst month to go to

Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon

us, and delivered us from the hand of the enemy,

and of such as lay in wait by the way.

32And we came to Jerusalem, and we stayed

there three days.

33And on the fourth day the silver and the

gold, and the vessels were weighed in the house

of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of

Urias the priest, and with him was Eleazar the

son of Phinees, and with them Jozabad the son

of Josue, and Noadaia the son of Benoi, Levites.

34According to the number and weight of ev-

erything: and all the weight was written at that

time.

35Moreover the children of them that had

been carried away that were come out of the

captivity, oered holocausts to the God of Is-

rael, twelve calves for all the people of Israel,

ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve

he goats for sin: all for a holocaust to the Lord.

36And they gave the king's edicts to the lords

that were from the king's court, and the gover-

nors beyond the river, and they furthered the

people and the house of God.Chapter 9

And after these things were accomplished, the

princes came to me, saying: The people of

Israel, and the priests and Levites have not

separated themselves from the people of the

lands, and from their abominations, namely,

of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the

Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Am-

monites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians,

and the Amorrhites.

2For they have taken of their daughters for

themselves and for their sons, and they have

mingled the holy seed with the people of the

lands. And the hand of the princes and mag-

istrates hath been rst in this transgression.

3And when I had heard this word, I rent my

mantle and my coat, and plucked o the hairs of

my head and my beard, and I sat down mourn-

ing.

4And there were assembled to me all that

feared the God of Israel, because of the trans-

gression of those that were come from the cap-

tivity, and I sat sorrowful, until the evening sac-

rice.

5And at the evening sacrice I rose up from

my aiction, and having rent my mantle and my

garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread out

my hands to the Lord my God,

6And said: My God I am confounded and

ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniq-

uities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins

are grown up even unto heaven,

7From the days of our fathers: and we our-

selves also have sinned grievously unto this day,

and for our iniquities we and our kings, and our

priests have been delivered into the hands of the

kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to cap-

tivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as

it is at this day.First Book of Esdras 571

8And now as a little, and for a moment has

our prayer been made before the Lord our God,

to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his

holy place, and that our God would enlighten

our eyes, and would give us a little life in our

bondage.

9For we are bondmen, and in our bondage

our God hath not forsaken us, but hath extended

mercy upon us before the king of the Persians,

to give us life, and to set up the house of our

God, and to rebuild the desolations thereof, and

to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.

10And now, O our God, what shall we say

after this? for we have forsaken thy command-

ments,

11Which thou hast commanded by the hand

of thy servants the prophets, saying: The land

which you go to possess, is an unclean land, ac-

cording to the uncleanness of the people, and of

other lands, with their abominations, who have

lled it from mouth to mouth with their lth.

12Now therefore give not your daughters to

their sons, and take not their daughters for your

sons, and seek not their peace, nor their prosper-

ity for ever: that you may be strengthened, and

may eat the good things of the land, and may

have your children your heirs for ever.

13And after all that is come upon us, for our

most wicked deeds, and our great sin, seeing that

thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity,

and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,

14That we should not turn away, nor break

thy commandments, nor join in marriage with

the people of these abominations. Art thou an-

gry with us unto utter destruction, not to leave

us a remnant to be saved?

15O Lord God of Israel, thou art just: for we

remain yet to be saved as at this day. Behold

we are before thee in our sin, for there can be no

standing before thee in this matter.Chapter 10

Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseech-

ing, and weeping, and lying before the temple of

God, there was gathered to him of Israel an ex-

ceeding great assembly of men and women and

children, and the people wept with much lamen-

tation.

2And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons

of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have

sinned against our God, and have taken strange

wives of the people of the land: and now if there

be repentance in Israel concerning this,

3Let us make a covenant with the Lord our

God, to put away all the wives, and such as are

born of them, according to the will of the Lord,

and of them that fear the commandment of the

Lord our God: let it be done according to the

law.

4Arise, it is thy part to give orders, and we

will be with thee: take courage, and do it.

5So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs of the

priests and of the Levites, and all Israel, to swear

that they would do according to this word, and

they swore.

6And Esdras rose up from before the house

of God, and went to the chamber of Johanan the

son of Eliasib, and entered in thither: he ate no

bread, and drank no water: for he mourned for

the transgression of them that were come out of

the captivity.

7And proclamation was made in Juda and

Jerusalem to all the children of the captiv-

ity, that they should assemble together into

Jerusalem.

8And that whosoever would not come within

three days, according to the counsel of the

princes and the ancients, all his substance should

be taken away, and he should be cast out of the

company of them that were returned from cap-572 First Book of Esdras

tivity.

9Then all the men of Juda, and Ben-

jamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem

within three days, in the ninth month, the twen-

tieth day of the month: and all the people sat in

the street of the house of God, trembling because

of the sin, and the rain.

10And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to

them: You have transgressed, and taken strange

wives, to add to the sins of Israel.

11And now make confession to the Lord the

God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and

separate yourselves from the people of the land,

and from your strange wives.

12And all the multitude answered and said

with a loud voice: According to thy word unto

us, so be it done.

13But as the people are many, and it is time

of rain, and we are not able to stand without,

and it is not a work of one day or two, (for we

have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)

14Let rulers be appointed in all the multi-

tude: and in all our cities, let them that have

taken strange wives come at the times appointed,

and with them the ancients and the judges of

every city, until the wrath of our God be turned

away from us for this sin.

15Then Jonathan the son of Azahel, and

Jaasia the son of Thecua were appointed over

this, and Mesollam and Sebethai, Levites, helped

them:

16And the children of the captivity did so.

And Esdras the priest, and the men heads of the

families in the houses of their fathers, and all by

their names, went and sat down in the rst day

of the tenth month to examine the matter.

17And they made an end with all the men

that had taken strange wives by the rst day of

the rst month.

18And there were found among the sons ofthe priests that had taken strange wives: Of

the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his

brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and

Godolia.

19And they gave their hands to put away

their wives, and to oer for their oence a ram

of the

ock.

20And of the sons of Emmer, Hanani, and

Zebedia.

21And of the sons of Harim, Maasia, and Elia,

and Semeia, and Jehiel, and Ozias.

22And of the sons of Pheshur, Elioenai, Maa-

sia, Ismael, Nathanael, Jozabed, and Elasa.

23And of the sons of the Levites, Jozabed,

and Semei, and Celaia, the same is Calita,

Phataia, Juda, and Eliezer.

24And of the singing men, Elisiab: and of the

porters, Sellum, and Telem, and Uri.

25And of Israel, of the sons of Pharos, Re-

meia, and Jezia, and Melchia, and Miamin, and

Eliezer, and Melchia, and Banea.

26And of the sons of Elam, Mathania,

Zacharias, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jerimoth,

and Elia.

27And of the sons of Zethua, Elioenai, Elia-

sib, Mathania, Jerimuth, and Zabad, and Azi-

aza.

28And of the sons of Babai, Johanan, Hana-

nia, Zabbai, Athalai:

29And of the sons of Bani, Mosollam, and

Melluch, and Adaia, Jasub, and Saal, and

Ramoth.

30And of the sons of Phahath, Moab, Edna,

and Chalal, Banaias, and Maasias, Mathanias,

Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.

31And of the sons of Herem, Eliezer, Josue,

Melchias, Semeias, Simeon,

32Benjamin, Maloch, Samarias.

33And of the sons of Hasom, Mathanai,

Mathatha, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jermai, Manasse,First Book of Esdras 573

Semei.

34Of the sons of Bani, Maaddi, Amram, and

Uel,

35Baneas, and Badaias, Cheliau,

36Vania, Marimuth, and Eliasib,

37Mathanias, Mathania, and Jasi,

38And Bani, and Bennui, Semei,

39And Salmias, and Nathan, and Adaias,

40And Mechnedebai, Sisai, Sarai,

41Ezrel, and Selemiau, Semeria,

42Sellum, Amaria, Joseph.

43Of the sons of Nebo, Jehiel, Mathathias,

Zabad, Zabina, Jeddu, and Joel, and Banaia.

44All these had taken strange wives, and

there were among them women that had borne

children.Book of Nehemias

Chapter 1

The words of Nehemias the son of Helchias. And

it came to pass in the month of Casleu, in the

twentieth year, as I was in the castle of Susa,

2That Hanani one of my brethren came, he

and some men of Juda; and I asked them con-

cerning the Jews, that remained and were left of

the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

3And they said to me: They that have re-

mained, and are left of the captivity there in the

province, are in great aiction, and reproach:

and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and

the gates thereof are burnt with re.

4And when I had heard these words, I sat

down, and wept, and mourned for many days:

and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the

God of heaven.

5And I said: I beseech thee, O Lord God of

heaven, strong, great, and terrible, who keepest

covenant and mercy with those that love thee,

and keep thy commandments:

6Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open,

to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray

before thee now, night and day, for the chil-

dren of Israel thy servants: and I confess the

sins of the children of Israel, by which they have

sinned against thee: I and my father's house have

sinned.

7We have been seduced by vanity, and have

not kept thy commandments, and ceremonies

and judgments, which thou hast commanded thyservant Moses.

8Remember the word that thou command-

edst to Moses thy servant, saying: If you shall

transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the

nations:

9But if you return to me, and keep my com-

mandments, and do them, though you should be

led away to the uttermost parts of the world, I

will gather you from thence, and bring you back

to the place which I have chosen for my name to

dwell there.
10And these are thy servants, and thy people:

whom thou hast redeemed by thy great strength,

and by thy mighty hand.

11I beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be at-

tentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the

prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy

name: and direct thy servant this day, and give

him mercy before this man. For I was the king's

cupbearer.

Chapter 2

And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in

the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king: that

wine was before him, and I took up the wine, and

gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing

away before his face.

2And the king said to me: Why is thy coun-

tenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be

sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, IBook of Nehemias 575

know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized

with an exceeding great fear:

3And I said to the king: O king, live for ever:

why should not my countenance be sorrowful,

seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of

my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are

burnt with re?

4Then the king said to me: For what dost

thou make request? And I prayed to the God of

heaven,

5And I said to the king: If it seem good to

the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in

thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into Judea

to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I

will build it.

6And the king said to me, and the queen that

sat by him: For how long shall thy journey be,

and when wilt thou return? And it pleased the

king, and he sent me: and I xed him a time.

7And I said to the king: If it seem good to the

king, let him give me letters to the governors of

the country beyond the river, that they convey

me over, till I come into Judea:

8And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the

king's forest, to give me timber that I may cover

the gates of the tower of the house, and the walls

of the city, and the house that I shall enter into.

And the king gave me according to the good

hand of my God with me.

9And I came to the governors of the country

beyond the river, and gave them the king's let-

ters. And the king had sent with me captains of

soldiers, and horsemen.

10And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias

the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it

grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come,

who sought the prosperity of the children of Is-

rael.

11And I came to Jerusalem, and was there

three days.12And I arose in the night, I and some few

men with me, and I told not any man what God

had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and

there was no beast with me, but the beast that

I rode upon.

13And I went out by night by the gate of the

valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to

the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem

which was broken down, and the gates thereof

which were consumed with re.

14And I passed to the gate of the fountain,

and to the king's aqueduct, and there was no

place for the beast on which I rode to pass.

15And I went up in the night by the torrent,

and viewed the wall, and going back I came to

the gate of the valley, and returned.

16But the magistrates knew not whither I

went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told

any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to

the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest

that did the work.

17Then I said to them: You know the aic-

tion wherein we are, because Jerusalem is deso-

late, and the gates thereof are consumed with

re: come, and let us build up the walls of

Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.

18And I shewed them how the hand of my

God was good with me, and the king's words,

which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let

us rise up, and build. And their hands were

strengthened in good.

19But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias

the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the

Arabian heard of it, and they scoed at us, and

despised us, and said: What is this thing that

you do? are you going to rebel against the king?

20And I answered them, and said to them:

The God of heaven he helpeth us, and we are

his servants: let us rise up and build: but you

have no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in576 Book of Nehemias

Jerusalem.

Chapter 3

Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his

brethren the priests, and they built the

ock

gate: they sanctied it, and set up the doors

thereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits

they sanctied it unto the tower of Hananeel.

2And next to him the men of Jericho built:

and next to them built Zachur the son of Amri.

3But the sh gate the sons of Asnaa built:

they covered it, and set up the doors thereof, and

the locks, and the bars. And next to them built

Marimuth the son of Urias the son of Accus.

6And Joiada the son of Phasea, and Mosol-

lam the son of Besodia built the old gate: they

covered it and set up the doors thereof, and the

locks, and the bars.

7And next to them built Meltias the

Gabaonite, and Jadon the Meronathite, the men

of Gabaon and Maspha, for the governor that

was in the country beyond the river.

8And next to him built Eziel the son of Araia

the goldsmith: and next to him built Ananias

the son of the perfumer: and they left Jerusalem

unto the wall of the broad street.

9And next to him built Raphaia the son of

Hur, lord of the street of Jerusalem.

10And next to him Jedaia the son of

Haromaph over against his own house: and next

to him built Hattus the son of Hasebonia.

11Melchias the son of Herem, and Hasub the

son of Phahath Moab, built half the street, and

the tower of the furnaces.

12And next to him built Sellum the son of

Alohes, lord of half the street of Jerusalem, he

and his daughters.

13And the gate of the valley Hanun built,and the inhabitants of Zanoe: they built it, and

set up the doors thereof, and the locks, and the

bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall unto the

gate of the dunghill.

14And the gate of the dunghill Melchias

the son of Rechab built, lord of the street of

Bethacharam: he built it, and set up the doors

thereof, and the locks, and the bars.

15And the gate of the fountain, Sellum, the

son of Cholhoza, built, lord of the street of Mas-

pha: he built it, and covered it, and set up the

doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars, and

the walls of the pool of Siloe unto the king's

guard, and unto the steps that go down from

the city of David.

16After him built Nehemias the son of Azboc,

lord of half the street of Bethsur, as far as over

against the sepulchre of David, and to the pool,

that was built with great labour, and to the

house of the mighty.

17After him built the Levites, Rehum the son

of Benni. After him built Hasebias, lord of half

the street of Ceila in his own street.

18After him built their brethren Bavai the

son of Enadad, lord of half Ceila.

19And next to him Aser the son of Josue, lord

of Maspha, built another measure, over against

the going up of the strong corner.

20After him in the mount Baruch the son of

Zachai built another measure, from the corner to

the door of the house of Eliasib the high priest.

21After him Merimuth the son of Urias the

son of Haccus, built another measure, from the

door of the house of Eliasib, to the end of the

house of Eliasib.

22And after him built the priests, the men of

the plains of the Jordan.

23After him built Benjamin and Hasub, over

against their own house: and after him built

Azarias the son of Maasias the son of AnaniasBook of Nehemias 577

over against his house.

24After him built Bennui the son of Hanadad

another measure, from the house of Azarias unto

the bending, and unto the corner.

25Phalel, the son of Ozi, over against the

bending and the tower, which lieth out from the

king's high house, that is, in the court of the

prison: after him Phadaia the son of Pharos.

26And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far

as over against the water gate toward the east,

and the tower that stood out.

27After him the Thecuites built another mea-

sure over against, from the great tower that

standeth out unto the wall of the temple.

28And upward from the horse gate the priests

built, every man over against his house.

29After them built Sadoc the son of Emmer

over against his house. And after him built Se-

maia the son of Sechenias, keeper of the east

gate.

30After him built Hanania the son of Se-

lemia, and Hanun the sixth son of Seleph, an-

other measure: after him built Mosollam the

son of Barachias over against his treasury. Af-

ter him Melcias the goldsmith's son built unto

the house of the Nathinites, and of the sellers of

small wares, over against the judgment gate, and

unto the chamber of the corner.

31And within the chamber of the corner of

the

ock gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants

built.

Chapter 4

And it came to pass, that when Sanaballat heard

that we were building the wall he was angry: and

being moved exceedingly he scoed at the Jews.

2And said before his brethren, and the multi-

tude of the Samaritans: What are the silly Jewsdoing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will

they sacrice and make an end in a day? are

they able to raise stones out of the heaps of the

rubbish, which are burnt?

3Tobias also the Ammonite who was by him

said: Let them build: if a fox go up, he will leap

over their stone wall.

4Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn

their reproach upon their own head, and give

them to be despised in a land of captivity.

5Cover not their iniquity, and let not their

sin be blotted out from before thy face, because

they have mocked thy builders.

6So we built the wall, and joined it all to-

gether unto the half thereof: and the heart of

the people was excited to work.

7And it came to pass, when Sanaballat,

and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the Am-

monites, and the Azotians heard that the walls

of Jerusalem were made up, and the breaches

began to be closed, that they were exceedingly

angry.

8And they all assembled themselves together,

to come, and to ght against Jerusalem, and to

prepare ambushes.

9And we prayed to our God, and set watch-

men upon the wall day and night against them.

10And Juda said: The strength of the bearer

of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very

much, and we shall not be able to build the wall.

11And our enemies said: Let them not know,

nor understand, till we come in the midst of

them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

12And it came to pass, that when the Jews

that dwelt by them came and told us ten times,

out of all the places from whence they came to

us,

13I set the people in the place behind the

wall round about in order, with their swords,

and spears, and bows.578 Book of Nehemias

14And I looked and rose up: and I said to the

chief men and the magistrates, and to the rest

of the common people: be not afraid of them.

Remember the Lord who is great and terrible,

and ght for your brethren, your sons, and your

daughters, and your wives, and your houses.

15And it came to pass, when our enemies

heard that the thing had been told us, that God

defeated their counsel. And we returned all of

us to the walls, every man to his work.

16And it came to pass from that day forward,

that half of their young men did the work, and

half were ready for to ght, with spears, and

shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the

rulers were behind them in all the house of Juda.

17Of them that built on the wall and that

carried burdens, and that laded: with one of his

hands he did the work, and with the other he

held a sword.

18For every one of the builders was girded

with a sword about his reins. And they built,

and sounded with a trumpet by me.

19And I said to the nobles, and to the mag-

istrates, and to the rest of the common people:

The work is great and wide, and we are separated

on the wall one far from another:

20In what place soever you shall hear the

sound of the trumpet, run all thither unto us:

our God will ght for us.

21And let us do the work: and let one half of

us hold our spears from the rising of the morning,

till the stars appear.

22At that time also I said to the people: Let

every one with his servant stay in the midst of

Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the night,

and by day, to work.

23Now I and my brethren, and my servants,

and the watchmen that followed me, did not put

o our clothes: only every man stripped himself

when he was to be washed.Chapter 5

Now there was a great cry of the people, and of

their wives against their brethren the Jews.

2And there were some that said: Our sons

and our daughters are very many: let us take up

corn for the price of them, and let us eat and

live.

3And there were some that said: Let us

mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our

houses, and let us take corn because of the

famine.

4And others said: Let us borrow money for

the king's tribute, and let us give up our elds

and vineyards:

5And now our

esh is as the

esh of our

brethren: and our children as their children. Be-

hold we bring into bondage our sons and our

daughters, and some of our daughters are bond-

women already, neither have we wherewith to

redeem them, and our elds and our vineyards

other men possess.

6And I was exceedingly angry when I heard

their cry according to these words.

7And my heart thought with myself: and I

rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said

to them: Do you every one exact usury of your

brethren? And I gathered together a great as-

sembly against them,

8And I said to them: We, as you know, have

redeemed according to our ability our brethren

the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and

will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem

them? And they held their peace, and found not

what to answer.

9And I said to them: The thing you do is not

good: why walk you not in the fear of our God,

that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the

Gentiles our enemies?

10Both I and my brethren, and my servants,Book of Nehemias 579

have lent money and corn to many: let us all

agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the

debt that is owing to us.

11Restore ye to them this day their elds, and

their vineyards, and their oliveyards, and their

houses: and the hundredth part of the money,

and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you
were wont to exact of them, give it rather for

them.

12And they said: We will restore, and we will

require nothing of them: and we will do as thou

sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath

of them, to do according to what I had said.

13Moreover I shook my lap, and said: So

may God shake every man that shall not accom-

plish this word, out of his house, and out of his

labours, thus may he be shaken out, and become

empty. And all the multitude said: Amen. And

they praised God. And the people did according

to what was said.

14And from the day, in which the king com-

manded me to be governor in the land of Juda,

from the twentieth year even to the two and

thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve

years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly

allowance that was due to the governors.

15But the former governors that had been be-

fore me, were chargeable to the people, and took

of them in bread, and wine, and in money every

day forty sicles: and their ocers also oppressed

the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

16Moreover I built in the work of the wall,

and I bought no land, and all my servants were

gathered together to the work.

17The Jews also and the magistrates to the

number of one hundred and fty men, were at my

table, besides them that came to us from among

the nations that were round about us.

18And there was prepared for me day be day

one ox, and six choice rams, besides fowls, andonce in ten days I gave store of divers wines,

and many other things: yet I did not require my

yearly allowance as governor: for the people were

very much impoverished.

19Remember me, O my God, for good ac-

cording to all that I have done for this people.

Chapter 6

And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and To-

bias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of

our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and

that there was no breach left in it, (though at

that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,)

2Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me, saying:

Come, and let us make a league together in the

villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought

to do me mischief.

3And I sent messengers to them, saying: I

am doing a great work, and I cannot come down,

lest it be neglected whilst I come, and go down

to you.
4And they sent to me according to this word,

four times: and I answered them after the same

manner.

5And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the

fth time according to the former word, and he

had a letter in his hand written in this manner:

6It is reported amongst the Gentiles, and

Gossem hath said it, that thou and the Jews

think to rebel, and therefore thou buildest the

wall, and hast a mind to set thyself king over

them: for which end

7Thou hast also set up prophets, to preach

of thee at Jerusalem, saying: There is a king

in Judea. The king will hear of these things:

therefore come now, that we may take counsel

together.

8And I sent to them, saying: There is no580 Book of Nehemias

such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest

these things out of thy own heart.

9For all these men thought to frighten us,

thinking that our hands would cease from the

work, and that we would leave o. Wherefore I

strengthened my hands the more:

10And I went into the house of Samaia the

son of Delaia, the son of Metabeel privately. And

he said: Let us consult together in the house of

God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut

the doors of the temple, for they will come to

kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay

thee.

11And I said: Should such a man as I

ee?

and who is there that being as I am, would go

into the temple, to save his life? I will not go in.

12And I understood that God had not sent

him, but that he had spoken to me as if he had

been prophesying, and Tobias, and Sanaballat

had hired him.

13For he had taken money, that I being afraid

should do this thing, and sin, and they might

have some evil to upbraid me withal.

14Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and San-

aballat, according to their works of this kind:

and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the

prophets that would have put me in fear.

15But the wall was nished the ve and twen-

tieth day of the month of Elul, in two and fty

days.

16And it came to pass when all our enemies

heard of it, that all nations which were round

about us, were afraid, and were cast down within

themselves, for they perceived that this work was

the work of God.

17Moreover in those days many letters were

sent by the principal men of the Jews to Tobias,

and from Tobias there came letters to them.

18For there were many in Judea sworn to

him, because he was the son in law of Seche-nias the son of Area, and Johanan his son had

taken to wife the daughter of Mosollam the son

of Barachias.

19And they praised him also before me, and

they related my words to him: And Tobias sent

letters to put me in fear.

Chapter 7

Now after the wall was built, and I had set up

the doors, and numbered the porters and singing

men, and Levites:

2I commanded Hanani my brother, and

Hananias ruler of the house of Jerusalem, (for

he seemed as a sincere man, and one that feared

God above the rest,)

3And I said to them: Let not the gates of

Jerusalem be opened till the sun be hot. And

while they were yet standing by the gates were

shut, and barred: and I set watchmen of the

inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one by their

courses, and every man over against his house.

4And the city was very wide and great, and

the people few in the midst thereof, and the

houses were not built.

5But God had put in my heart, and I assem-

bled the princes and magistrates, and common

people, to number them: and I found a book of

the number of them who came up at rst and

therein it was found written:

6These are the children of the province, who

came up from the captivity of them that had

been carried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the

king of Babylon had carried away, and who re-

turned into Judea, every one into his own city.

7Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Ne-

hemias, Azarias, Raamias, Nahamani, Mar-

dochai, Belsam, Mespharath, Begoia, Nahum,

Baana. The number of the men of the peopleBook of Nehemias 581

of Israel:

8The children of Pharos, two thousand one

hundred seventy-two.

9The children of Sephatia, three hundred

seventy-two.

10The children of Area, six hundred fty-two.

11The children of Phahath Moab of the chil-

dren of Josue and Joab, two thousand eight hun-

dred eighteen.

12The children of Elam, one thousand two

hundred fty-four.

13The children of Zethua, eight hundred

forty-ve.

14The children of Zachai, seven hundred

sixty.

15The children of Bannui, six hundred forty-

eight.

16The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-

eight.

17The children of Azgad, two thousand three

hundred twenty-two.

18The children of Adonicam, six hundred

sixty-seven.

19The children of Beguai, two thousand

sixty-seven.

20The children of Adin, six hundred fty-ve.

21The children of Ater, children of Hezechias,

ninety-eight.

22The children of Hasem, three hundred

twenty-eight.

23The children of Besai, three hundred

twenty-four.

24The children of Hareph, a hundred and

twelve.

25The children of Gabaon, ninety-ve.

26The children of Bethlehem, and Netupha,

a hundred eighty-eight.

27The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty-

eight.

28The men of Bethazmoth, forty-two.29The men of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and

Beroth, seven hundred forty-three.

30The men of Rama and Geba, six hundred

twenty-one.

31The men of Machmas, a hundred twenty-

two.

32The men of Bethel and Hai, a hundred

twenty-three.

33The men of the other Nebo, fty-two.

34The men of the other Elam, one thousand

two hundred fty-four.

35The children of Harem, three hundred and

twenty.

36The children of Jericho, three hundred

forty-ve.

37The children of Lod, of Hadid and Ono,

seven hundred twenty-one.

38The children of Senaa, three thousand nine

hundred thirty.

39The priests: the children of Idaia in the

house of Josue, nine hundred and seventy-three.

40The children of Emmer, one thousand fty-

two.
41The children of Phashur, one thousand two

hundred forty-seven.

42The children of Arem, one thousand and

seventeen. The Levites:

43The children of Josue and Cedmihel, the

sons

44Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing men:

45The children of Asaph, a hundred forty-

eight.

46The porters: the children of Sellum, the

children of Ater, the children of Telmon, the chil-

dren of Accub, the children of Hatita, the chil-

dren of Sobai: a hundred thirty-eight.

47The Nathinites: the children of Soha, the

children of Hasupha, the children of Tebbaoth,

48The children of Ceros, the children os Siaa,

the children of Phadon, the children of Lebana,582 Book of Nehemias

the children of Hagaba, the children of Selmai,

49The children of Hanan, the children of Ged-

del, the children of Gaher,

50The children of Raaia, the children of

Rasin, the children of Necoda,

51The children of Gezem, the children of Asa,

the children of Phasea,

52The children of Besai, the children of Mu-

nim, the children of Nephussim,

53The children of Bacbuc, the children of

Hacupha, the children of Harhur,

54The children of Besloth, the children of

Mahida, the children of Harsa,

55The children of Bercos, the children of Sis-

ara, the children of Thema,

56The children of Nasia, the children of

Hatipha,

57The children of the servants of Solomon,

the children of Sothai, the children of Sophereth,

the children of Pharida,

58The children of Jahala, the children of Dar-

con, the children of Jeddel,

59The children of Saphatia, the children of

Hatil, the children of Phochereth, who was born

of Sabaim, the son of Amon.

60All the Nathinites, and the children of the

servants of Solomon, three hundred ninety-two.

61And these are they that came up from

Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, Addon, and Em-

mer: and could not shew the house of their fa-

thers, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

62The children of Dalaia, the children of To-

bia, the children of Necoda, six hundred forty-

two.

63And of the priests, the children of Habia,

the children of Accos, the children of Berzellai,

who took a wife of the daughters of Berzellai the

Galaadite, and he was called by their name.

64These sought their writing in the record,

and found it not: and they were cast out of thepriesthood.

65And Athersatha said to them, that they

should not eat of the holies of holies, until there

stood up a priest learned and skilful.

66All the multitude as it were one man, forty-

two thousand three hundred sixty,

67Beside their menservants and womenser-

vants, who were seven thousand three hundred

thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and

singing women, two hundred forty-ve.

68Their horses, seven hundred thirty-six:

their mules two hundred forty-ve.

69Their camels, four hundred thirty-ve,

their asses, six thousand seven hundred and

twenty.

70And some of the heads of the families gave

unto the work. Athersatha gave into the treasure

a thousand drams of gold, fty bowls, and ve

hundred and thirty garments for priests.

71And some of the heads of families gave to

the treasure of the work, twenty thousand drams

of gold, and two thousand two hundred pounds

of silver.

72And that which the rest of the people gave,

was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two

thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven gar-

ments for priests.

73And the priests, and the Levites, and the

porters, and the singing men, and the rest of

the common people, and the Nathinites, and all

Israel dwelt in their cities.

Chapter 8

And the seventh month came: and the children

of Israel were in their cities. And all the people

were gathered together as one man to the street

which is before the water gate, and they spoke

to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of theBook of Nehemias 583

law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded

to Israel.

2Then Esdras the priest brought the law be-

fore the multitude of men and women, and all

those that could understand, in the rst day of

the seventh month.

3And he read it plainly in the street that was

before the water gate, from the morning until

midday, before the men, and the women, and all

those that could understand: and the ears of all

the people were attentive to the book.

4And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step

of wood, which he had made to speak upon, and

there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and

Ania, and Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his

right hand: and on the left, Phadaia, Misael, and

Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia

and Mosollam.

5And Esdras opened the book before all the

people: for he was above all the people: and

when he had opened it, all the people stood.

6And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God:

and all the people answered, Amen, amen: lift-

ing up their hands: and they bowed down, and

adored God with their faces to the ground.

7Now Josue, and Bani, and Serebia, Jamin,

Accub, Sephtai, Odia, Maasia, Celtia, Azarias,

Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, the Levites, made si-

lence among the people to hear the law: and the

people stood in their place.

8And they read in the book of the law of God

distinctly and plainly to be understood: and

they understood when it was read.

9And Nehemias (he is Athersatha) and Es-

dras the priest and scribe, and the Levites who

interpreted to all the people, said: This is a holy

day to the Lord our God: do not mourn, nor

weep: for all the people wept, when they heard

the words of the law.

10And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats,and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them

that have not prepared for themselves: because

it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad:

for the joy of the Lord is our strength.

11And the Levites stilled all the people, say-

ing: Hold your peace, for the day is holy, and be

not sorrowful.

12So all the people went to eat and drink,

and to send portions, and to make great mirth:

because they understood the words that he had

taught them.

13And on the second day the chiefs of the

families of all the people, the priests, and the

Levites were gathered together to Esdras the

scribe, that he should interpret to them the

words of the law.

14And they found written in the law, that the

Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses, that

the children of Israel should dwell in tabernacles,

on the feast, in the seventh month:

15And that they should proclaim and publish

the word in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, say-

ing: Go forth to the mount, and fetch branches of

olive, and branches of beautiful wood, branches

of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of

thick trees, to make tabernacles, as it is written.

16And the people went forth, and brought.

And they made themselves tabernacles every

man on the top of his house, and in their courts,

and in the courts of the house of God, and in the

street of the water gate, and in the street of the

gate of Ephraim.

17And all the assembly of them that were

returned from the captivity, made tabernacles,

and dwelt in tabernacles: for since the days of

Josue the son of Nun the children of Israel had

not done so, until that day: and there was ex-

ceeding great joy.

18And he read in the book of the law of God

day by day, from the rst day till the last, and584 Book of Nehemias

they kept the solemnity seven days, and in the

eighth day a solemn assembly according to the

manner.

Chapter 9

And in the four and twentieth day of the month

the children of Israel came together with fasting

and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

2And the seed of the children of Israel sepa-

rated themselves from every stranger: and they

stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities

of their fathers.

3And they rose up to stand: and they read in

the book of the law of the Lord their God, four

times in the day, and four times they confessed,

and adored the Lord their God.

4And there stood up upon the step of the

Levites, Josue, and Bani, and Cedmihel, Saba-

nia, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and

they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their

God.

5And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel,

Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Oduia, Sebnia, and

Phathahia, said: Arise, bless the Lord your God

from eternity to eternity: and blessed be the high

name of thy glory with all blessing and praise.

6Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast made

heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all the

host thereof: the earth and all things that are in

it: the seas and all that are therein: and thou

givest life to all these things, and the host of

heaven adoreth thee.

7Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest

Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the re

of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of

Abraham.

8And thou didst nd his heart faithful before

thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, togive him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Het-

hite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite,

and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give

it to his seed: and thou hast fullled thy words,

because thou art just.

9And thou sawest the aiction of our fathers

in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the

Red Sea.

10And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon

Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the

people of his land: for thou knewest that they

dealt proudly against them: and thou madest

thyself a name, as it is at this day.

11And thou didst divide the sea before them,

and they passed through the midst of the sea on

dry land: but their persecutors thou threwest

into the depth, as a stone into mighty waters.

12And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their

leader by day, and in a pillar of re by night, that

they might see the way by which they went.

13Thou camest down also to mount Sinai,

and didst speak with them from heaven, and

thou gavest them right judgments, and the law

of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts.

14Thou madest known to them thy holy sab-

bath, and didst prescribe to them command-

ments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand

of Moses thy servant.

15And thou gavest them bread from heaven

in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for

them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou

saidst to them that they should go in, and pos-

sess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up

thy hand to give it them.

16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and

hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy

commandments.

17And they would not hear, and they remem-

bered not thy wonders which thou hadst done

for them. And they hardened their necks, andBook of Nehemias 585

gave the head to return to their bondage, as it

were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God,

gracious, and merciful, longsuering, and full of

compassion, didst not forsake them.

18Yea when they had made also to them-

selves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy

God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had

committed great blasphemies:

19Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not

leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud

departed not from them by day to lead them in

the way, and the pillar of re by night to shew

them the way by which they should go.

20And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to

teach them, and thy manna thou didst not with-

hold from their mouth, and thou gavest them

water for their thirst.

21Forty years didst thou feed them in the

desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their

garments did not grow old, and their feet were

not worn.

22And thou gavest them kingdoms, and na-

tions, and didst divide lots for them: and they

possessed the land of Sehon, and the land of

the king of Hesebon, and the land of Og king

of Basan.

23And thou didst multiply their children as

the stars of heaven, and broughtest them to the

land concerning which thou hadst said to their

fathers, that they should go in and possess it.

24And the children came and possessed the

land, and thou didst humble before them the

inhabitants of the land, the Chanaanites, and

gavest them into their hands, with their kings,

and the people of the land, that they might do

with them as it pleased them.

25And they took strong cities and a fat land,

and possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns

made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards, and

fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and werelled, and became fat, and abounded with de-

light in thy great goodness.

26But they provoked thee to wrath, and de-

parted from thee, and threw thy law behind their

backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admon-

ished them earnestly to return to thee: and they

were guilty of great blasphemies.

27And thou gavest them into the hands of

their enemies, and they aicted them. And in

the time of their tribulation they cried to thee,

and thou heardest from heaven, and according to

the multitude of thy tender mercies thou gavest

them saviours, to save them from the hands of

their enemies.

28But after they had rest, they returned to

do evil in thy sight: and thou leftest them in

the hand of their enemies, and they had domin-

ion over them. Then they returned, and cried to

thee: and thou heardest from heaven, and deliv-

eredst them many times in thy mercies.

29And thou didst admonish them to return to

thy law. But they dealt proudly, and hearkened

not to thy commandments, but sinned against

thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live

in them: and they withdrew the shoulder, and

hardened their neck, and would not hear.

30And thou didst forbear with them for many

years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit

by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not,

and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the

people of the lands.

31Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst

not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: be-

cause thou art a merciful and gracious God.

32Now therefore our God, great, strong, and

terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn

not away from thy face all the labour which hath

come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes,

and our priests, and our prophets, and our fa-

thers, and all the people from the days of the586 Book of Nehemias

king of Assur, until this day.

33And thou art just in all things that have

come upon us: because thou hast done truth,

but we have done wickedly.

34Our kings, our princes, our priests, and

our fathers have not kept thy law, and have not

minded thy commandments, and thy testimonies

which thou hast testied among them.

35And they have not served thee in their

kingdoms, and in thy manifold goodness, which

thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land,

which thou deliveredst before them, nor did they

return from their most wicked devices.

36Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen:

and the land, which thou gavest our fathers,

to eat the bread thereof, and the good things

thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.

37And the fruits thereof grow up for the

kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins,

and they have dominion over our bodies, and

over our beasts, according to their will, and we

are in great tribulation.

38And because of all this we ourselves make

a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our

Levites, and our priests sign it.

Chapter 10

And the subscribers were Nehemias, Athersatha

the son of Hachelai, and Sedecias,

2Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,

3Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,

4Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,

5Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,

6Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,

7Mosollam, Abia, Miamin,

8Maazia, Belgia, Semeia: these were priests.

9And the Levites, Josue the son of Azanias,

Bennui of the sons of Henadad, Cedmihel,10And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia, Celita,
Phalaia, Hanan,

11Micha, Rohob, Hasebia,

12Zachur, Serebia, Sabania,

13Odaia, Bani, Baninu.

14The heads of the people, Pharos, Phahath

Moab, Elam, Zethu, Bani,

15Bonni, Azgad, Bebai,

16Adonia, Begoai, Adin,

17Ater, Hezecia, Azur,

18Odaia, Hasum, Besai,

19Hareph, Anathoth, Nebai,

20Megphias, Mosollam, Hazir,

21Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,

22Pheltia, Hanan, Anaia,

23Osee, Hanania, Hasub,

24Alohes, Phalea, Sobec,

25Rehum, Hasebna, Maasia,

26Echaia, Hanan, Anan,

27Melluch, Haran, Baana:

28And the rest of the people, priests, Levites,

porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all

that had separated themselves from the people

of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their

sons, and their daughters.

29All that could understand, promising for

their brethren, with their chief men, and they

came to promise, and swear that they would walk

in the law of God, which he gave in the hand of

Moses the servant of God, that they would do

and keep all the commandments of the Lord our

God, and his judgments and his ceremonies.

30And that we would not give our daughters

to the people of the land, nor take their daugh-

ters for our sons.

31And if the people of the land bring in things

to sell, or any things for use, to sell them on the

sabbath day, that we would not buy them on the

sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we wouldBook of Nehemias 587

leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every

hand.

32And we made ordinances for ourselves, to

give the third part of a sicle every year for the

work of the house of our God,

33For the loaves of proposition, and for the

continual sacrice, and for a continual holocaust

on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the set

feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin of-

fering: that atonement might be made for Israel,

and for every use of the house of our God.

34And we cast lots among the priests, and

the Levites, and the people for the oering of

wood, that it might be brought into the house

of our God by the houses of our fathers at set

times, from year to year: to burn upon the altar

of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law

of Moses:

35And that we would bring the rstfruits of

our land, and the rstfruits of all fruit of every

tree, from year to year, in the house of our Lord.

36And the rstborn of our sons, and of

our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the

rstlings of our oxen, and of our sheep, to be of-

fered in the house of our God, to the priests who

minister in the house of our God.

37And that we would bring the rstfruits of

our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of

every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the

priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the

tithes of our ground to the Levites. The Levites

also shall receive the tithes of our works out of

all the cities.

38And the priest the son of Aaron shall be

with the Levites in the tithes of the Levites, and

the Levites shall oer the tithe of their tithes in

the house of our God, to the storeroom into the

treasure house.

39For the children of Israel and the children

of Levi shall carry to the treasury the rstfruitsof corn, of wine, and of oil: and the sanctied
vessels shall be there, and the priests, and the

singing men, and the porters, and ministers, and

we will not forsake the house of our God.

Chapter 11

And the princes of the people dwelt at

Jerusalem: but the rest of the people cast lots,

to take one part in ten to dwell in Jerusalem the

holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

2And the people blessed all the men that will-

ingly oered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

3These therefore are the chief men of the

province, who dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the

cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his pos-

session, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the

Levites, the Nathinites, and the children of the

servants of Solomon.

4And in Jerusalem there dwelt some of the

children of Juda, and some of the children of

Benjamin: of the children of Juda, Athaias the

son of Aziam, the son of Zacharias, the son

of Amarias, the son of Saphatias, the son of

Malaleel: of the sons of Phares,

5Maasia the son of Baruch, the son of Chol-

hoza, the son of Hazia, the son of Adaia, the son

of Joiarib, the son of Zacharias, the son of the

Silonite:
6All these the sons of Phares, who dwelt in

Jerusalem, were four hundred sixty-eight valiant

men.

7And these are the children of Benjamin: Sel-

lum the son of Mosollam, the son of Joed, the son

of Phadaia, the son of Colaia, the son of Masia,

the son of Etheel, the son of Isaia.

8And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hundred

twenty-eight.

9And Joel the son of Zechri their ruler, and588 Book of Nehemias

Judas the son of Senua was second over the city.

10And of the priests Idaia the son of Joarib,

Jachin,

11Saraia the son of Helcias, the son of Mosol-

lam, the son of Sadoc, the son of Meraioth, the

son of Achitob the prince of the house of God,

12And their brethren that do the works of the

temple: eight hundred twenty-two. And Adaia

the son of Jeroham, the son of Phelelia, the son

of Amsi, the son of Zacharias, the son of Pheshur,

the son of Melchias,

13And his brethren the chiefs of the fathers:

two hundred forty-two. And Amassai the son of

Azreel, the son of Ahazi, the son of Mosollamoth,

the son of Emmer,

14And their brethren who were very mighty,

a hundred twenty-eight: and their ruler Zabdiel

son of the mighty.

15And of the Levites Semeia the son of Ha-

sub, the son of Azaricam, the son of Hasabia, the

son of Boni,

16And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over

all the outward business of the house of God, of

the princes of the Levites,

17And Mathania the son of Micha, the son

of Zebedei, the son of Asaph, was the principal

man to praise, and to give glory in prayer, and

Becbecia, the second, one of his brethren, and

Abda the son of Samua, the son of Galal, the

son of Idithun.

18All the Levites in the holy city were two

hundred eighty-four.

19And the porters, Accub, Telmon, and

their brethren, who kept the doors: a hundred

seventy-two.

20And the rest of Israel, the priests and the

Levites were in all the cities of Juda, every man

in his possession.

21And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel,

and Siaha, and Gaspha of the Nathinites.22And the overseer of the Levites in

Jerusalem, was Azzi the son of Bani, the son of

Hasabia, the son of Mathania, the son of Micha.

Of the sons of Asaph, were the singing men in

the ministry of the house of God.

23For the king's commandment was concern-

ing them, and an order among the singing men

day by day.

24And Phathahia the son of Mesezebel of the

children of Zara the son of Juda was at the hand

of the king, in all matters concerning the people,

25And in the houses through all their coun-

tries. Of the children of Juda some dwelt at

Cariath-Arbe, and in the villages thereof: and

at Dibon, and in the villages thereof: and at

Cabseel, and in the villages thereof.

26And at Jesue, and at Molada, and at Beth-

phaleth,

27And at Hasersuel, and at Bersabee, and in

the villages thereof,

28And at Siceleg, and at Mochona, and in

the villages thereof,

29And at Remmon, and at Saraa, and at Jer-

imuth,

30Zanoa, Odollam, and in their villages,

at Lachis and its dependencies, and at Azeca

and the villages thereof. And they dwelt from

Bersabee unto the valley of Ennom.

31And the children of Benjamin, from Geba,

at Mechmas, and at Hai, and at Bethel, and in

the villages thereof,

32At Anathoth, Nob, Anania,

33Asor, Rama, Gethaim,

34Hadid, Seboim, and Neballat, Lod,

35And Ono the valley of craftsmen.

36And of the Levites were portions of Juda

and Benjamin.Book of Nehemias 589

Chapter 12

Now these are the priests and the Levites, that

went up with Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and

Josue: Saraia, Jeremias, Esdras,

2Amaria, Melluch, Hattus,

3Sebenias, Rheum, Merimuth,

4Addo, Genthon, Abia,

5Miamin, Madia, Belga,

6Semeia, and Joiarib, Idaia, Sellum Amoc,

Helcias,

7Idaia. These were the chief of the priests,

and of their brethren in the days of Josue.

8And the Levites, Jesua, Bennui, Cedmi-

hel, Sarebia, Juda, Mathanias, they and their

brethren were over the hymns:

9And Becbecia, and Hanni, and their

brethren every one in his oce.

10And Josue begot Joacim, and Joacim begot

Eliasib, and Eliasib begot Joiada,

11And Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan

begot Jeddoa.

12And in the days of Joacim the priests and

heads of the families were: Of Saraia, Maraia: of

Jeremias, Hanania:

13Of Esdras, Mosollam: and of Amaria, Jo-

hanan:

14Of Milicho, Jonathan: of Sebenia, Joseph:

15Of Haram, Edna: of Maraioth, Helci:

16Of Adaia, Zacharia: of Genthon, Mosol-

lam:

17Of Abia, Zechri: of Miamin and Moadia,

Phelti:

18Of Belga, Sammua of Semaia, Jonathan:

19Of Joiarib, Mathanai: of Jodaia, Azzi:

20Of Sellai, Celai: of Amoc, Heber:

21Of Helcias, Hasebia: of Idaia, Nathanael.

22The Levites the chiefs of the families in

the days of Eliasib, and Joiada, and Johanan,and Jeddoa, were recorded, and the priests in

the reign of Darius the Persian.

23The sons of Levi, heads of the families were

written in the book of Chronicles, even unto the

days of Jonathan the son of Eliasib.

24Now the chief of the Levites were Hase-

bia, Serebia, and Josue the son of Cedmihel: and

their brethren by their courses, to praise and to

give thanks according to the commandment of

David the man of God, and to wait equally in

order.

25Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and

Mosollam, Telmon, Accub, were keepers of the

gates and of the entrances before the gates.

26These were in the days of Joacim the son

of Josue, the son of Josedec, and in the days of

Nehemias the governor, and of Esdras the priest

and scribe.

27And at the dedication of the wall of

Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their

places, to bring them to Jerusalem, and to keep

the dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving,

and with singing, and with cymbals, and psalter-

ies and harps.

28And the sons of the singing men were gath-

ered together out of the plain country about

Jerusalem, and out of the villages of Nethuphati,

29And from the house of Galgal, and from the

countries of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singing

men had built themselves villages round about

Jerusalem.

30And the priests and the Levites were puri-

ed, and they puried the people, and the gates,

and the wall.

31And I made the princes of Juda go up upon

the wall, and I appointed two great choirs to give

praise. And they went on the right hand upon

the wall toward the dung gate.

32And after them went Osaias, and half of

the princes of Juda,590 Book of Nehemias

33And Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam, Ju-

das, and Benjamin, and Semeia, and Jeremias.

34And of the sons of the priests with trum-

pets, Zacharias the son of Jonathan, the son of

Semeia, the son of Mathania, the son of Michaia,

the son of Zechur, the son of Asaph,

35And his brethren Semeia, and Azareel,

Malalai, Galalai, Maai, Nathanael, and Judas,

and Hanani, with the musical instruments of

David the man of God: and Esdras the scribe

before them at the fountain gate.

36And they went up over against them by

the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of

the wall of the house of David, and to the water

gate eastward:

37And the second choir of them that gave

thanks went on the opposite side, and I after

them, and the half of the people upon the wall,

and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the

broad wall,

38And above the gate of Ephraim, and above

the old gate, and above the sh gate and the

tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Emath, and

even to the

ock gate: and they stood still in the

watch gate.

39And the two choirs of them that gave praise

stood still at the house of God, and I and the half

of the magistrates with me.

40And the priests, Eliachim, Maasia, Mi-

amin, Michea, Elioenai, Zacharia, Hanania with

trumpets,

41And Maasia, and Semeia, and Eleazar, and

Azzi, and Johanan, and Melchia, and Elam, and

Ezer. And the singers sung loud, and Jezraia

was their overseer:

42And they sacriced on that day great sacri-

ces, and they rejoiced: for God had made them

joyful with great joy: their wives also and their

children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was

heard afar o.43They appointed also in that day men over

the storehouses of the treasure, for the libations,

and for the rstfruits, and for the tithes, that the

rulers of the city might bring them in by them

in honour of thanksgiving, for the priests and

Levites: for Juda was joyful in the priests and

Levites that assisted.

44And they kept the watch of their God, and

the observance of expiation, and the singing men,

and the porters, according to the commandment

of David, and of Solomon his son.

45For in the days of David and Asaph from

the beginning there were chief singers appointed,

to praise with canticles, and give thanks to God.

46And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel,

and in the days of Nehemias gave portions to

the singing men, and to the porters, day by day,

and they sanctied the Levites, and the Levites

sanctied the sons of Aaron.

Chapter 13

And on that day they read in the book of Moses

in the hearing of the people: and therein was

found written, that the Ammonites and the

Moabites should not come in to the church of

God for ever:

2Because they met not the children of Israel

with bread and water: and they hired against

them Balaam, to curse them, and our God

turned the curse into blessing.

3And it came to pass, when they had heard

the law, that they separated every stranger from

Israel.

4And over this thing was Eliasib the priest,

who was set over the treasury of the house of our

God, and was near akin to Tobias.

5And he made him a great storeroom, where

before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense,Book of Nehemias 591

and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the

wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites,

and of the singing men, and of the porters, and

the rstfruits of the priests.

6But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem,

because in the two and thirtieth year of Artax-

erxes king of Babylon, I went to the king, and

after certain days I asked the king:

7And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood

the evil that Eliasib had done for Tobias, to make

him a storehouse in the courts of the house of

God.

8And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I

cast forth the vessels of the house of Tobias out

of the storehouse.

9And I commanded and they cleansed again

the vessels of the house of God, the sacrice, and

the frankincense.

10And I perceived that the portions of the

Levites had not been given them: and that the

Levites, and the singing men, and they that min-

istered were

ed away every man to his own

country:

11And I pleaded the matter against the mag-

istrates, and said: Why have we forsaken the

house of God? And I gathered them together,

and I made them to stand in their places.

12And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn,

and the wine, and the oil into the storehouses.

13And we set over the storehouses Selemias

the priest, and Sadoc the scribe, and of the

Levites Phadaia, and next to them Hanan the

son of Zachur, the son of Mathania: for they were

approved as faithful, and to them were commit-

ted the portions of their brethren.

14Remember me, O my God, for this thing,

and wipe not out my kindnesses, which I have

done relating to the house of my God and his

ceremonies.

15In those days I saw in Juda some treadingthe presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves,

and lading asses with wine, and grapes, and

gs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing

them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. And I

charged them that they should sell on a day on

which it was lawful to sell.

16Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who

brought sh, and all manner of wares: and they

sold them on the sabbaths to the children of Juda

in Jerusalem.

17And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and

said to them: What is this evil thing that you

are doing, profaning the sabbath day:

18Did not our fathers do these things, and

our God brought all this evil upon us, and upon

this city? And you bring more wrath upon Israel

by violating the sabbath.

19And it came to pass, that when the gates

of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day,

I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I com-

manded that they should not open them till af-

ter the sabbath: and I set some of my servants

at the gates, that none should bring in burthens

on the sabbath day.

20So the merchants, and they that sold all

kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem, once

or twice.

21And I charged them, and I said to them:

Why stay you before the wall? if you do so an-

other time, I will lay hands on you. And from

that time they came no more on the sabbath.

22I spoke also to the Levites that they should

be puried, and should come to keep the gates,

and to sanctify the sabbath day: for this also re-

member me, O my God, and spare me according

to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

23In those days also I saw Jews that married

wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of

Moab.

24And their children spoke half in the speech592 Book of Nehemias

of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' lan-

guage, but they spoke according to the language

of this and that people.

25And I chid them, and laid my curse upon

them. And I beat some of them, and shaved o

their hair, and made them swear by God that

they would not give their daughters to their sons,

nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for

themselves, saying:

26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this

kind of thing: and surely among many nations,

there was not a king like him, and he was beloved

of his God, and God made him king over all Is-

rael: and yet women of other countries brought

even him to sin.

27And shall we also be disobedient and do

all this great evil to transgress against our God,

and marry strange women:

28And one of the sons of Joiada the son of

Eliasib the high priest, was son in law to Sana-

ballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me.

29Remember them, O Lord my God, that

dele the priesthood, and the law of priests and

Levites.

30So I separated from them all strangers, and

I appointed the courses of the priests and the

Levites, every man in his ministry:

31And for the oering of wood at times ap-

pointed, and for the rstfruits: remember me, O

my God, unto good. Amen.Book of Tobias

Chapter 1

Tobias of the tribe and city of Nephtali, (which

is in the upper parts of Galilee above Naasson,

beyond the way that leadeth to the west, having

on the right hand the city of Sephet,)

2When he was made captive in the days of

Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, even in his

captivity, forsook not the way of truth,

3But every day gave all he could get to his

brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kin-

dred.

4And when he was younger than any of the

tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in

his work.
5Moreover when all went to the golden calves

which Jeroboam king of Israel had made, he

alone

ed the company of all,

6And went to Jerusalem to the temple of

the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Is-

rael, oering faithfully all his rstfruits, and his

tithes,

7So that in the third year he gave all his tithes

to the proselytes, and strangers.

8These and such like things did he observe

when but a boy according to the law of God.

9But when he was a man, he took to wife

Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her,

whom he called after his own name,

10And from his infancy he taught him to fear

God, and to abstain from all sin.

11And when by the captivity he with his wifeand his son and all his tribe was come to the city

of Ninive,

12(When all ate of the meats of the Gentiles)

he kept his soul and never was deled with their

meats.

13And because he was mindful of the Lord

with all his heart, God gave him favour in the

sight of Salmanasar the king.

14And he gave him leave to go whithersoever

he would, with liberty to do whatever he had a

mind.

15He therefore went to all that were in cap-

tivity, and gave them wholesome admonitions.

16And when he was come to Rages a city of

the Medes, and had ten talents of silver of that

with which he had been honoured by the king:

17And when amongst a great multitude of his

kindred, he saw Gabelus in want, who was one

of his tribe, taking a note of his hand he gave

him the aforesaid sum of money.

18But after a long time, Salmanasar the

king being dead, when Sennacherib his son, who

reigned in his place, had a hatred for the children

of Israel:

19Tobias daily went among all his kindred

and comforted them, and distributed to every

one as he was able, out of his goods:

20He fed the hungry, and gave clothes to the

naked, and was careful to bury the dead, and

they that were slain.

21And when king Sennacherib was come

back,

eeing from Judea by reason of the slaugh-594 Book of Tobias

ter that God had made about him for his blas-

phemy, and being angry slew many of the chil-

dren of Israel, Tobias buried their bodies.

22But when it was told the king, he com-

manded him to be slain, and took away all his

substance.

23But Tobias

eeing naked away with his son

and with his wife, lay concealed, for many loved

him.

24But after forty-ve days, the king was

killed by his own sons.

25And Tobias returned to his house, and all

his substance was restored to him.

Chapter 2

But after this, when there was a festival of the

Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's

house,

2He said to his son: Go, and bring some of

our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.

3And when he had gone, returning he told

him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain

in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from

his place at the table, and left his dinner, and

came fasting to the body.

4And taking it up carried it privately to his

house, that after the sun was down, he might

bury him cautiously.

5And when he had hid the body, he ate bread

with mourning and fear,

6Remembering the word which the Lord

spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days

shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.

7So when the sun was down, he went and

buried him.

8Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying:

once already commandment was given for thee to

be slain because of this matter, and thou didstscarce escape the sentence of death, and dost

thou again bury the dead?

9But Tobias fearing God more than the king,

carried o the bodies of them that were slain,

and hid them in his house, and at midnight

buried them.

10Now it happened one day that being wea-

ried with burying, he came to his house, and cast

himself down by the wall and slept,

11And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of

a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was

made blind.

12Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted

to happen to him, that an example might be

given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy

Job.

13For whereas he had always feared God from

his infancy, and kept his commandments, he re-

pined not against God because the evil of blind-

ness had befallen him,

14But continued immoveable in the fear of

God, giving thanks to God all the days of his

life.

15For as the kings insulted over holy Job:

so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life,

saying:

16Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest

alms, and buriedst the dead?

17But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak

not so:

18For we are the children of saints, and look

for that life which God will give to those that

never change their faith from him.

19Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving

work, and she brought home what she could get

for their living by the labour of her hands.

20Whereby it came to pass, that she received

a young kid, and brought it home:

21And when her husband heard it bleating,

he said: Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen:Book of Tobias 595

restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful

for us either to eat or to touch any thing that

cometh by theft.
22At these words his wife being angry an-

swered: It is evident the hope is come to nothing,

and thy alms now appear.

23And with these and other, such like words

she upbraided him.

Chapter 3

Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with

tears,

2Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy

judgments are just, and all thy ways mercy, and

truth, and judgment:

3And now, O Lord, think of me, and take

not revenge of my sins, neither remember my

oences, nor those of my parents.

4For we have not obeyed thy commandments,

therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captiv-

ity, and death, and are made a fable, and a re-

proach to all nations, amongst which thou hast

scattered us.

5And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments,

because we have not done according to thy pre-

cepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.

6And now, O Lord, do with me according to

thy will, and command my spirit to be received

in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to

live.
7Now it happened on the same day, that Sara

daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes,

received a reproach from one of her father's ser-

vant maids,

8Because she had been given to seven hus-

bands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed

them, at their rst going in unto her.

9So when she reproved the maid for her fault,she answered her, saying: May we never see son,

or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou mur-

derer of thy husbands.

10Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already

killed seven husbands? At these words, she went

into an upper chamber of her house: and for

three days and three nights did neither eat nor

drink:

11But continuing in prayer with tears be-

sought God, that he would deliver her from this

reproach.

12And it came to pass on the third day when

she was making an end of her prayer, blessing

the Lord,

13She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of

our fathers, who when thou hast been angry, wilt

shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation for-

givest the sins of them that call upon thee.

14To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I

direct my eyes.

15I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the

bond of this reproach, or else take me away from

the earth.

16Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never cov-

eted a husband, and have kept my soul clean

from all lust.

17Never have I joined myself with them that

play: neither have I made myself partaker with

them that walk in lightness.

18But a husband I consented to take, with

thy fear, not with my lust.

19And either I was unworthy of them, or they

perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps

thou hast kept me for another man,

20For thy counsel is not in man's power.

21But this every one is sure of that worship-

peth thee, that his life, if it be under trial, shall

be crowned and if it be under tribulation, it shall

be delivered: and if it be under correction, it

shall be allowed to come to thy mercy.596 Book of Tobias

22For thou art not delighted in our being lost,

because after a storm thou makest a calm, and

after tears and weeping thou pourest in joyful-

ness.

23Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for

ever,

24At that time the prayers of them both were

heard in the sight of the glory of the most high

God:

25And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael

was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one

time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.

Chapter 4

Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer

was heard that he might die, he called to him

Tobias his son,

2And said to him: Hear, my son, the words

of my mouth, and lay them as a foundation in

thy heart.

3When God shall take my soul, thou shalt

bury my body: and thou shalt honour thy

mother all the days of her life:

4For thou must be mindful what and how

great perils she suered for thee in her womb.

5And when she also shall have ended the time

of her life, bury her by me.

6And all the days of thy life have God in thy

mind: and take heed thou never consent to sin,

nor transgress the commandments of the Lord

our God.

7Give alms out of thy substance, and turn

not away thy face from any poor person: for so

it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord

shall not be turned from thee.

8According to thy ability be merciful.

9If thou have much give abundantly: if thou

have little, take care even so to bestow willinglya little.

10For thus thou storest up to thyself a good

reward for the day of necessity.

11For alms deliver from all sin, and from

death, and will not suer the soul to go into

darkness.

12Alms shall be a great condence before the

most high God, to all them that give it.

13Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all

fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to

know a crime.

14Never suer pride to reign in thy mind, or

in thy words: for from it all perdition took its

beginning.

15If any man hath done any work for thee,

immediately pay him his hire, and let not the

wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.

16See thou never do to another what thou

wouldst hate to have done to thee by another.

17Eat thy bread with the hungry and the

needy, and with thy garments cover the naked,

18Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the

burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink

thereof with the wicked.

19Seek counsel always of a wise man.

20Bless God at all times: and desire of him

to direct thy ways, and that all thy counsels may

abide in him.

21I tell thee also, my son, that I lent ten

talents of silver, while thou wast yet a child, to

Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes, and I have

a note of his hand with me:

22Now therefore inquire how thou mayst go

to him, and receive of him the foresaid sum of

money, and restore to him the note of his hand.

23Fear not, my son: we lead indeed a poor

life, but we shall have many good things if we

fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that

which is good.Book of Tobias 597

Chapter 5

Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I

will do all things, father, which thou hast com-

manded me.

2But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell;

he knoweth not me, and I know not him: what

token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the

way which leadeth thither.

3Then his father answered him, and said: I

have a note of his hand with me, which when

thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.

4But go now, and seek thee out some faith-

ful man, to go with thee for his hire: that thou

mayst receive it, while I yet live.

5Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful

young man, standing girded, and as it were ready

to walk.

6And not knowing that he was an angel of

God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art

thou, good young man?

7But he answered: Of the children of Israel.

And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way

that leadeth to the country of the Medes?

8And he answered: I know it: and I have

often walked through all the ways thereof, and

I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who

dwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which

is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.

9And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I be-

seech thee, till I tell these same things to my

father.

10Then Tobias going in told all these things

to his father. Upon which his father being in

admiration, desired that he would come in unto

him.

11So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy

be to thee always.

12And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall

be to me, who sit in darkness and see not thelight of heaven?

13And the young man said to him: Be of

good courage, thy cure from God is at hand.

14And Tobias said to him: Canst thou con-

duct my son to Gabelus at Rages, a city of the

Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay

thee thy hire.

15And the angel said to him: I will conduct

him thither, and bring him back to thee.

16And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell

me, of what family, or what tribe art thou?

17And Raphael the angel answered: Dost

thou seek the family of him thou hirest, or the

hired servant himself to go with thy son?

18But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am

Azarias the son of the great Ananias.

19And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great

family. But I pray thee be not angry that I de-

sired to know thy family.

20And the angel said to him: I will lead thy

son safe, and bring him to thee again safe.

21And Tobias answering, said: May you have

a good journey, and God be with you in your

way, and his angel accompany you.

22Then all things being ready, that were to be

carried in their journey, Tobias bade his father

and his mother farewell, and they set out both

together.

23And when they were departed, his mother

began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the

sta of our old age, and sent him away from us.

24I wish the money for which thou hast sent

him, had never been.

25For our poverty was sucient for us, that

we might account it as riches, that we saw our

son.

26And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son

will arrive thither safe, and will return safe to

us, and thy eyes shall see him.598 Book of Tobias

27For I believe that the good angel of God

doth accompany him, and doth order all things

well that are done about him, so that he shall

return to us with joy.

28At these words his mother ceased weeping,

and held her peace.

Chapter 6

And Tobias went forward, and the dog followed

him, and he lodged the rst night by the river of

Tigris.

2And he went out to wash his feet, and behold

a monstrous sh came up to devour him.

3And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out

with a loud voice, saying: Sir, he cometh upon

me.

4And the angel said to him: Take him by the

gill, and draw him to thee. And when he had

done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he

began to pant before his feet.

5Then the angel said to him: Take out the

entrails of this sh, and lay up his heart, and his

gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary

for useful medicines.

6And when he had done so, he roasted the

esh thereof, and they took it with them in the

way: the rest they salted as much as might serve

them, till they came to Rages the city of the

Medes.

7Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to

him: I beseech thee, brother Azarias, tell me

what remedies are these things good for, which

thou hast bid me keep of the sh?

8And the angel, answering, said to him: If

thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals,

the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils,

either from man or from woman, so that they

come no more to them.9And the gall is good for anointing the eyes,

in which there is a white speck, and they shall

be cured.

10And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou

that we lodge?

11And the angel answering, said: Here is one

whose name is Raguel, a near kinsman of thy

tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but

he hath no son nor any other daughter beside

her.

12All his substance is due to thee, and thou

must take her to wife.

13Ask her therefore of her father, and he will

give her thee to wife.

14Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear

that she hath been given to seven husbands, and

they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil

killed them.

15Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should

happen to me also: and whereas I am the only

child of my parents, I should bring down their

old age with sorrow to hell.

16Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear

me, and I will shew thee who they are, over

whom the devil can prevail.

17For they who in such manner receive mat-

rimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and

from their mind, and to give themselves to their

lust, as the horse and mule, which have not un-

derstanding, over them the devil hath power.

18But thou when thou shalt take her, go into

the chamber, and for three days keep thyself con-

tinent from her, and give thyself to nothing else

but to prayers with her.

19And on that night lay the liver of the sh

on the re, and the devil shall be driven away.

20But the second night thou shalt be admit-

ted into the society of the holy Patriarchs.

21And the third night thou shalt obtain a

blessing that sound children may be born of you.Book of Tobias 599

22And when the third night is past, thou

shalt take the virgin with the fear of the Lord,

moved rather for love of children than for lust,

that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain

a blessing in children.

Chapter 7

And they went in to Raguel, and Raguel received

them with joy.

2And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said to

Anna his wife: How like is this young man to

my cousin?

3And when he had spoken these words, he

said: Whence are ye young men our brethren?

4But they said: We are of the tribe of Neph-

tali, of the captivity of Ninive.

5And Raguel said to them: Do you know To-

bias my brother? And they said: We know him.

6And when he was speaking many good

things of him, the angel said to Raguel: Tobias

concerning whom thou inquirest is this young

man's father.

7And Raguel went to him, and kissed him

with tears and weeping upon his neck, said: A

blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art

the son of a good and most virtuous man.

8And Anna his wife, and Sara their daughter

wept.

9And after they had spoken, Raguel com-

manded a sheep to be killed, and a feast to be

prepared. And when he desired them to sit down

to dinner,

10Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here

this day, unless thou rst grant me my petition,

and promise to give me Sara thy daughter.

11Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid,

knowing what had happened to those seven hus-

bands, that went in unto her: and he began tofear lest it might happen to him also in like man-

ner: and as he was in suspense, and gave no an-

swer to his petition,

12The angel said to him: Be not afraid to give

her to this man, for to him who feareth God is

thy daughter due to be his wife: therefore an-

other could not have her.

13Then Raguel said: I doubt not but God

hath regarded my prayers and tears in his sight.

14And I believe he hath therefore made you

come to me, that this maid might be married to

one of her own kindred, according to the law of

Moses: and now doubt not but I will give her to

thee.

15And taking the right hand of his daughter,

he gave it into the right hand of Tobias, saying:

The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and

the God of Jacob be with you, and may he join

you together, and full his blessing in you.

16And taking paper they made a writing of

the marriage.

17And afterwards they made merry, blessing

God.

18And Raguel called to him Anna his wife,

and bade her to prepare another chamber.

19And she brought Sara her daughter in

thither, and she wept.

20And she said to her: Be of good cheer, my

daughter: the Lord of heaven give thee joy for

the trouble thou hast undergone.

Chapter 8

And after they had supped, they brought in the

young man to her.

2And Tobias remembering the angel's word,

took out of his bag part of the liver, and laid it

upon burning coals.600 Book of Tobias

3Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and

bound him in the desert of upper Egypt.

4Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said

to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to

day, and to morrow, and the next day: because

for these three nights we are joined to God: and

when the third night is over, we will be in our

own wedlock.

5For we are the children of saints, and we

must not be joined together like heathens that

know not God.

6So they both arose, and prayed earnestly

both together that health might be given them,

7And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers,

may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and

the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy crea-

tures that are in them, bless thee.

8Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth,

and gavest him Eve for a helper.

9And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for

eshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only

for the love of posterity, in which thy name may

be blessed for ever and ever.

10Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord,

have mercy on us, and let us grow old both to-

gether in health.

11And it came to pass about the cockcrowing,

Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and

they went with him together to dig a grave.

12For he said: Lest perhaps it may have hap-

pened to him, in like manner as it did to the

other seven husbands, that went in unto her.

13And when they had prepared the pit,

Raguel went back to his wife, and said to her:

14Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he

be dead, that I may bury him before it be day.

15So she sent one of her maidservants, who

went into the chamber, and found them safe and

sound, sleeping both together.16And returning she brought the good news:

and Raguel and Anna his wife blessed the Lord,

17And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of

Israel, because it hath not happened as we sus-

pected.

18For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and

hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted

us.

19And thou hast taken pity upon two only

children. Make them, O Lord, bless thee more

fully: and to oer up to thee a sacrice of thy

praise, and of their health, that all nations may

know, that thou alone art God in all the earth.

20And immediately Raguel commanded his

servants, to ll up the pit they had made, before

it was day.

21And he spoke to his wife to make ready a

feast, and prepare all kind of provisions that are

necessary for such as go a journey.

22He caused also two fat kine, and four

wethers to be killed, and a banquet to be pre-

pared for all his neighbours, and all his friends,

23And Raguel adjured Tobias, to abide with

him two weeks.

24And of all things which Raguel possessed,

he gave one half to Tobias, and made a writing,

that the half that remained should after their

decease come also to Tobias.

Chapter 9
Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he

took to be a man, and said to him: Brother

Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words:

2If I should give myself to be thy servant I

should not make a worthy return for thy care.

3However, I beseech thee, to take with thee

beasts and servants, and to go to Gabelus to

Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore toBook of Tobias 601

him his note of hand, and receive of him the

money, and desire him to come to my wedding.

4For thou knowest that my father numbereth

the days: and if I stay one day more, his soul

will be aicted.

5And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath ad-

jured me, whose adjuring I cannot despise.

6Then Raphael took four of Raguel's servants,

and two camels, and went to Rages the city of

the Medes: and nding Gabelus, gave him his

note of hand, and received of him all the money.

7And he told him concerning Tobias the son

of Tobias, all that had been done: and made him

come with him to the wedding.

8And when he was come into Raguel's house

he found Tobias sitting at the table: and he

leaped up, and they kissed each other: and

Gabelus wept, and blessed God,

9And said: The God of Israel bless thee, be-

cause thou art the son of a very good and just

man, and that feareth God, and doth almsdeeds:

10And may a blessing come upon thy wife

and upon your parents.

11And may you see your children, and your

children's children, unto the third and fourth

generation: and may your seed be blessed by the

God of Israel, who reigneth for ever and ever.

12And when all had said, Amen, they went to

the feast: but the marriage feast they celebrated

also with the fear of the Lord.

Chapter 10

But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion

of the marriage, Tobias his father was solicitous,

saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son tarry,

or why is he detained there?

2Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no man

will pay him the money?3And he began to be exceeding sad, both he

and Anna his wife with him: and they began

both to weep together, because their son did not

return to them on the day appointed.

4But his mother wept and was quite discon-

solate, and said: Woe, woe is me, my son; why

did we send thee to go to a strange country, the

light of our eyes, the sta of our old age, the

comfort of our life, the hope of our posterity?

5We having all things together in thee alone,

ought not to have let thee go from us.

6And Tobias said to her: Hold thy peace, and

be not troubled, our son is safe: that man with

whom we sent him is very trusty.

7But she could by no means be comforted,

but daily running out looked round about, and

went into all the ways by which there seemed any

hope he might return, that she might if possible

see him coming afar o.

8But Raguel said to his son in law: Stay here,

and I will send a messenger to Tobias thy father,

that thou art in health.

9And Tobias said to him: I know that my

father and mother now count the days, and their

spirit is grievously aicted within them.

10And when Raguel had pressed Tobias with

many words, and he by no means would hearken

to him, he delivered Sara unto him, and half of

all his substance in menservants, and womenser-

vants, in cattle, in camels, and in kine, and in

much money, and sent him away safe and joyful

from him,

11Saying: The holy angel of the Lord be with

you in your journey, and bring you through safe,

and that you may nd all things well about your

parents, and my eyes may see your children be-

fore I die.

12And the parents taking their daughter

kissed her, and let her go:

13Admonishing her to honour her father and602 Book of Tobias

mother in law, to love her husband, to take care

of the family, to govern the house, and to behave

herself irreprehensibly.

Chapter 11

And as they were returning they came to Cha-

ran, which is in the midway to Ninive, the

eleventh day.

2And the angel said: Brother Tobias, thou

knowest how thou didst leave thy father.

3If it please thee therefore, let us go before,

and let the family follow softly after us, together

with thy wife, and with the beasts.

4And as this their going pleased him, Raphael

said to Tobias: Take with thee of the gall of the

sh, for it will be necessary. So Tobias took some

of that gall and departed.

5But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the

top of a hill, from whence she might see afar o.

6And while she watched his coming from that

place, she saw him afar o, and presently per-

ceived it was her son coming: and returning

she told her husband, saying: Behold thy son

cometh.

7And Raphael said to Tobias: As soon as

thou shalt come into thy house, forthwith adore

the Lord thy God: and giving thanks to him, go

to thy father, and kiss him.

8And immediately anoint his eyes with this

gall of the sh, which thou carriest with thee.

For be assured that his eyes shall be presently

opened, and thy father shall see the light of

heaven, and shall rejoice in the sight of thee.

9Then the dog, which had been with them

in the way, ran before, and coming as if he had

brought the news, shewed his joy by his fawning

and wagging his tail.

10And his father that was blind, rising up,began to run stumbling with his feet: and giving

a servant his hand, went to meet his son.

11And receiving him kissed him, as did also

his wife, and they began to weep for joy.

12And when they had adored God, and given

him thanks, they sat down together.

13Then Tobias taking of the gall of the sh,

anointed his father's eyes.

14And he stayed about half an hour: and a

white skin began to come out of his eyes, like the

skin of an egg.

15And Tobias took hold of it, and drew it

from his eyes, and recovered his sight.

16And they gloried God, both he and his

wife and all that knew him.

17And Tobias said: I bless thee, O Lord God

of Israel, because thou hast chastised me, and

thou hast saved me and behold I see Tobias my

son.

18And after seven days Sara his son's wife

and all the family arrived safe, and the cattle,

and the camels, and an abundance of money of

his wife's: and that money also which he had

received of Gabelus,

19And he told his parents all the benets of

God, which he had done to him by the man that

conducted him.

20And Achior and Nabath the kinsmen of

Tobias came, rejoicing for Tobias, and congratu-

lating with him for all the good things that God

had done for him.

21And for seven days they feasted and re-

joiced all with great joy.

Chapter 12

Then Tobias called to him his son and said to

him: What can we give to this holy man, that is

come with thee?Book of Tobias 603

2Tobias answering, said to his father: Father,

what wages shall we give him? or what can be

worthy of his benets?

3He conducted me and brought me safe again,

he received the money of Gabelus, he caused me

to have my wife, and he chased from her the

evil spirit, he gave joy to her parents, myself he

delivered from being devoured by the sh, thee

also he hath made to see the light of heaven, and

we are lled with all good things through him.

What can we give him sucient for these things?

4But I beseech thee, my father, to desire him,

that he would vouchsafe to accept of one half of

all things that have been brought.

5So the father and the son calling him, took

him aside: and began to desire him that he would

vouchsafe to accept of half of all things that they

had brought,

6Then he said to them secretly, Bless ye the

God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of

all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to

you.

7For it is good to hide the secret of a king:

to reveal and confess the works of God.

8Prayer is good with fasting and alms more

than to lay up treasures of gold.

9For alms delivereth from death, and the

same is that which purgeth away sins, and

maketh to nd mercy and life everlasting.

10But they that commit sin and iniquity, are

enemies to their own soul.

11I discover then the truth unto you, and I

will not hide the secret from you.

12When thou didst pray with tears, and didst

bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and

hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury

them by night, I oered thy prayer to the Lord.

13And because thou wast acceptable to God,

it was necessary that temptation should prove

thee.14And now the Lord hath sent me to heal

thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the

devil.

15For I am the angel Raphael, one of the

seven, who stand before the Lord.

16And when they had heard these things,

they were troubled, and being seized with fear

they fell upon the ground on their face.

17And the angel said to them: Peace be to

you, fear not.

18For when I was with you, I was there by

the will of God: bless ye him, and sing praises

to him.

19I seemed indeed to eat and to drink with

you but I use an invisible meat and drink, which

cannot be seen by men.

20It is time therefore that I return to him

that sent me: but bless ye God, and publish all

his wonderful works.

21And when he had said these things, he was

taken from their sight, and they could see him

no more.

22Then they lying prostrate for three hours

upon their face, blessed God, and rising up, they

told all his wonderful works.

Chapter 13

And Tobias the elder opening his mouth, blessed

the Lord, and said: Thou art great O Lord, for

ever, and thy kingdom is unto all ages.

2For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou

leadest down to hell, and bringest up again: and

there is none that can escape thy hand.

3Give glory to the Lord, ye children of Israel,

and praise him in the sight of the Gentiles:

4Because he hath therefore scattered you

among the Gentiles, who know not him, that

you may declare his wonderful works, and make604 Book of Tobias

them know that there is no other almighty God

besides him.

5He hath chastised us for our iniquities: and

he will save us for his own mercy.

6See then what he hath done with us, and

with fear and trembling give ye glory to him: and

extol the eternal King of worlds in your works.

7As for me, I will praise him in the land of

my captivity: because he hath shewn his majesty

toward a sinful nation,

8Be converted therefore, ye sinners, and do

justice before God, believing that he will shew

his mercy to you.

9And I and my soul will rejoice in him.

10Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep days

of joy, and give glory to him.

11Jerusalem, city of God, the Lord hath chas-

tised thee for the works of thy hands.

12Give glory to the Lord for thy good things,

and bless the God eternal that he may rebuild

his tabernacle in thee, and may call back all the

captives to thee, and thou mayst rejoice for ever

and ever.

13Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and

all the ends of the earth shall worship thee,

14Nations from afar shall come to thee: and

shall bring gifts, and shall adore the Lord in thee,

and shall esteem thy land as holy.

15For they shall call upon the great name in

thee,

16They shall be cursed that shall despise

thee: and they shall be condemned that shall

blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that

shall build thee up,

17But thou shalt rejoice in thy children, be-

cause they shall all be blessed, and shall be gath-

ered together to the Lord.

18Blessed are all they that love thee, and that

rejoice in thy peace,19My soul, bless thou the Lord, because the

Lord our God hath delivered Jerusalem his city

from all her troubles.

20Happy shall I be if there shall remain of

my seed, to see the glory of Jerusalem.

21The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sap-

phire, and of emerald, and all the walls thereof

round about of precious stones.

22All its streets shall be paved with white

and clean stones: and Alleluia shall be sung in

its streets,

23Blessed be the Lord, who hath exalted it,

and may he reign over it for ever and ever, Amen.

Chapter 14

And the words of Tobias were ended. And after

Tobias was restored to his sight, he lived two and

forty years, and saw the children of his grandchil-

dren.

2And after he had lived a hundred and two

years, he was buried honorably in Ninive.

3For he was six and fty years old when he

lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he re-

covered it again.

4And the rest of his life was in joy, and with

great increase of the fear of God he departed in

peace.

5And at the hour of his death he called unto

him his son Tobias and his children, seven young

men, his grandsons, and said to them:

6The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for

the word of the Lord must be fullled: and

our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the

land of Israel, shall return to it.

7And all the land thereof that is desert shall

be lled with people, and the house of God which

is burnt in it, shall again be rebuilt: and all that

fear God shall return thither.Book of Tobias 605

8And the Gentiles shall leave their idols, and

shall come into Jerusalem, and shall dwell in it.

9And all the kings of the earth shall rejoice

in it, adoring the King of Israel.

10Hearken therefore, my children, to your fa-

ther: serve the Lord in truth, and seek to do the

things that please him:

11And command your children that they do

justice and almsdeeds, and that they be mindful

of God, and bless him at all times in truth, and

with all their power.

12And now, children, hear me, and do not

stay here: but as soon as you shall bury your

mother by me in one sepulchre, without delay

direct your steps to depart hence:

13For I see that its iniquity will bring it to

destruction.

14And it came to pass that after the death of

his mother, Tobias departed out of Ninive with

his wife, and children, and children's children,

and returned to his father and mother in law.

15And he found them in health in a good old

age: and he took care of them, and he closed

their eyes: and all the inheritance of Raguel's

house came to him: and he saw his children's

children to the fth generation.

16And after he had lived ninety-nine years in

the fear of the Lord, with joy they buried him.

17And all his kindred, and all his generation

continued in good life, and in holy conversation,

so that they were acceptable both to God, and

to men, and to all that dwelt in the land.Book of Judith

Chapter 1

Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought

many nations under his dominions, and he built

a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana,

2Of stones squared and hewed: he made the

walls thereof seventy cubits broad, and thirty cu-

bits high, and the towers thereof he made a hun-

dred cubits high. But on the square of them,

each side was extended the space of twenty feet.

3And he made the gates thereof according to

the height of the towers:

4And he gloried as a mighty one in the force

of his army and in the glory of his chariots.

5Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabu-

chodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in

Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad

and overcame him,

6In the great plain which is called Ragua,

about the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the

Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the

Elicians.

7Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor

exalted, and his heart was elevated: and he sent

to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and

Libanus,

8And to the nations that are in Carmelus,

and Cedar, and to the inhabitants of Galilee in

the great plain of Asdrelon,

9And to all that were in Samaria, and be-

yond the river Jordan even to Jerusalem, and all

the land of Jesse till you come to the borders ofEthiopia.

10To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the

Assyrians, sent messengers:

11But they all with one mind refused, and

sent them back empty, and rejected them with-

out honour.

12Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry

against all that land, swore by his throne and

kingdom that he would revenge himself of all

those countries.

Chapter 2

In the thirteenth year of the reign of Nabu-

chodonosor, the two and twentieth day of the

rst month, the word was given out in the house

of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that

he would revenge himself.

2And he called all the ancients, and all the

governors, and his ocers of war, and communi-

cated to them the secret of his counsel:

3And he said that his thoughts were to bring

all the earth under his empire.

4And when this saying pleased them all,

Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holofernes the

general of his armies,

5And said to him: Go out against all the

kingdoms of the west, and against them espe-

cially that despised my commandment.

6Thy eye shall not spare any kingdom, and

all the strong cities thou shalt bring under myBook of Judith 607

yoke.

7Then Holofernes called the captains, and

ocers of the power of the Assyrians: and he

mustered men for the expedition, and the king

commanded him, a hundred and twenty thou-

sand ghting men on foot, and twelve thousand

archers, horsemen.

8And he made all his warlike preparations

to go before with a multitude of innumerable

camels, with all provisions sucient for the

armies in abundance, and herds of oxen, and

ocks of sheep, without number.

9He appointed corn to be prepared out of all

Syria in his passage.

10But gold and silver he took out of the king's

house in great abundance.

11And he went forth he and all the army,

with the chariots, and horsemen, and archers,

who covered the face of the earth, like locusts.

12And when he had passed through the bor-

ders of the Assyrians, he came to the great

mountains of Ange, which are on the left of Cili-

cia: and he went up to all their castles, and took

all the strong places.

13And he took by assault the renowned city

of Melothus, and pillaged all the children of

Tharsis, and the children of Ismahel, who were

over against the face of the desert, and on the

south of the land of Cellon.

14And he passed over the Euphrates and

came into Mesopotamia: and he forced all the

stately cities that were there, from the torrent of

Mambre, till one comes to the sea:

15And he took the borders thereof, from Cili-

cia to the coasts of Japheth, which are towards

the south.

16And he carried away all the children of Ma-

dian, and stripped them of all their riches, and

all that resisted him he slew with the edge of the

sword.17And after these things he went down into

the plains of Damascus in the days of the har-

vest, and he set all the corn on re, and he caused

all the trees and vineyards to be cut down.

18And the fear of them fell upon all the in-

habitants of the land.

Chapter 3

Then the kings and the princes of all the cities

and provinces, of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Syria

Sobal, and Libya, and Cilicia sent their ambas-

sadors, who coming to Holofernes, said:

2Let thy indignation towards us cease, for it

is better for us to live and serve Nabuchodonosor

the great king, and be subject to thee, than to

die and to perish, or suer the miseries of slavery.

3All our cities and our possessions, all moun-

tains and hills, and elds, and herds of oxen,

and

ocks of sheep, and goats, and horses, and

camels, and all our goods, and families are in thy

sight:

4Let all we have be subject to thy law,

5Both we and our children are thy servants.

6Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our

service as it shall please thee,

7Then he came down from the mountains

with horsemen, in great power, and made him-

self master of every city, and all the inhabitants

of the land.
8And from all the cities he took auxiliaries

valiant men, and chosen for war,

9And so great a fear lay upon all those

provinces, that the inhabitants of all the cities,

both princes and nobles, as well as the people,

went out to meet him at his coming.

10And received him with garlands, and lights,

and dances, and timbrels, and

utes.

11And though they did these things, they608 Book of Judith

could not for all that mitigate the erceness of

his heart:

12For he both destroyed their cities, and cut

down their groves.

13For Nabuchodonosor the king had com-

manded him to destroy all the gods of the earth,

that he only might be called God by those na-

tions which could be brought under him by the

power of Holofernes.

14And when he had passed through all Syria

Sobal, and all Apamea, and all Mesopotamia, he

came to the Idumeans into the land of Gabaa,

15And he took possession of their cities, and

stayed there for thirty days, in which days he

commanded all the troops of his army to be

united.
Chapter 4

Then the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land

of Juda, hearing these things, were exceedingly

afraid of him.

2Dread and horror seized upon their minds,

lest he should do the same to Jerusalem and to

the temple of the Lord, that he had done to other

cities and their temples.

3And they sent into all Samaria round about,

as far as Jericho, and seized upon all the tops of

the mountains:

4And they compassed their towns with walls

and gathered together corn for provision for war.

5And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that

were over against Esdrelon, which faceth the

great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom

there might be a passage of way, that they should

take possession of the ascents of the mountains,

by which there might be any way to Jerusalem,

and should keep watch where the way was nar-

row between the mountains.6And the children of Israel did as the priests

of the Lord Eliachim had appointed them.

7And all the people cried to the Lord with

great earnestness, and they humbled their souls

in fastings, and prayers, both they and their

wives.
8And the priests put on haircloths, and they

caused the little children to lie prostrate before

the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord

they covered with haircloth.

9And they cried to the Lord the God of Is-

rael with one accord, that their children might

not be made a prey, and their wives carried o,

and their cities destroyed, and their holy things

profaned, and that they might not be made a

reproach to the Gentiles.

10Then Eliachim the high priest of the Lord

went about all Israel and spoke to them,

11Saying: Know ye that the Lord will hear

your prayers, if you continue with perseverance

in fastings and prayers in the sight of the Lord.

12Remember Moses the servant of the

Lord overcame Amalec that trusted in his own

strength, and in his power, and in his army, and

in his shields, and in his chariots, and in his

horsemen, not by ghting with the sword, but

by holy prayers:

13So all the enemies of Israel be, if you per-

severe in this work which you have begun.

14So they being moved by this exhortation

of his, prayed to the Lord, and continued in the

sight of the Lord.

15So that even they who oered the holo-

causts to the Lord, oered the sacrices to the

Lord girded with haircloths, and with ashes upon

their head.

16And they all begged of God with all their

heart, that he would visit his people Israel.Book of Judith 609

Chapter 5

And it was told Holofernes the general of the

army of the Assyrians, that the children of Israel

prepared themselves to resist, and had shut up

the ways of the mountains.

2And he was transported with exceeding

great fury and indignation, and he called all the

princes of Moab and the leaders of Ammon.

3And he said to them: Tell me what is this

people that besetteth the mountains: or what

are their cities, and of what sort, and how great:

also what is their power, or what is their multi-

tude: or who is the king over their warfare:

4And why they above all that dwell in the

east, have despised us, and have not come out to

meet us, that they might receive us with peace?

5Then Achior captain of all the children of

Ammon answering, said; If thou vouchsafe, my

lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight con-

cerning this people, that dwelleth in the moun-

tains, and there shall not a false word come out

of my mouth.

6This people is of the ospring of the

Chaldeans.

7They dwelt rst in Mesopotamia, because

they would not follow the gods of their fathers,

who were in the land of the Chaldeans.

8Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their

fathers, which consisted in the worship of many

gods,

9They worshipped one God of heaven, who

also commanded them to depart from thence,

and to dwell in Charan. And when there was

a famine over all the land, they went down into

Egypt, and there for four hundred years were so

multiplied, that the army of them could not be

numbered.

10And when the king of Egypt oppressed

them, and made slaves of them to labour in clayand brick, in the building of his cities, they cried

to their Lord, and he struck the whole land of

Egypt with divers plagues.

11And when the Egyptians had cast them

out from them, and the plague had ceased from

them, and they had a mind to take them again,

and bring them back to their service,

12The God of heaven opened the sea to them

in their

ight, so that the waters were made to

stand rm as a wall on either side, and they

walked through the bottom of the sea and passed

it dry foot.

13And when an innumerable army of the

Egyptians pursued after them in that place, they

were so overwhelmed with the waters, that there

was not one left, to tell what had happened to

posterity.

14After they came out of the Red Sea, they

abode in the deserts of mount Sina, in which

never man could dwell, or son of man rested.

15There bitter fountains were made sweet for

them to drink, and for forty years they received

food from heaven.

16Wheresoever they went in without bow and

arrow, and without shield and sword, their God

fought for them and overcame.

17And there was no one that triumphed over

this people, but when they departed from the

worship of the Lord their God.

18But as often as beside their own God, they

worshipped any other, they were given to spoil

and to the sword, and to reproach.

19And as often as they were penitent for hav-

ing revolted from the worship of their God, the

God of heaven gave them power to resist.

20So they overthrew the king of the Chanaan-

ites, and of the Jebusites, and of the Pherezites,

and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and of

the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hes-

ebon, and they possessed their lands, and their610 Book of Judith

cities:

21And as long as they sinned not in the sight

of their God, it was well with them: for their

God hateth iniquity.

22And even some years ago when they had

revolted from the way which God had given them

to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles

by many nations and very many of them were

led away captive into a strange land.

23But of late returning to the Lord their God,

from the dierent places wherein they were scat-

tered, they are come together and are gone up

into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem

again, where their holies are.

24Now therefore, my lord, search if there be

any iniquity of theirs in the sight of their God:

let us go up to them, because their God will

surely deliver them to thee, and they shall be

brought under the yoke of thy power:

25But if there be no oence of this people

in the sight of their God, we cannot resist them

because their God will defend them: and we shall

be a reproach to the whole earth.

26And it came to pass, when Achior had

ceased to speak these words, all the great men

of Holofernes were angry, and they had a mind

to kill him, saying to each other:

27Who is this, that saith the children of Israel

can resist king Nabuchodonosor, and his armies,

men unarmed, and without force, and without

skill in the art of war?

28That Achior therefore may know that he

deceiveth us, let us go up into the mountains:

and when the bravest of them shall be taken,

then shall he with them be stabbed with the

sword,

29That every nation may know that Nabu-

chodonosor is god of the earth, and besides him

there is no other.Chapter 6

And it came to pass when they had left o speak-

ing, that Holofernes being in a violent passion,

said to Achior:

2Because thou hast prophesied unto us, say-

ing: That the nation of Israel is defended by

their God, to shew thee that there is no God,

but Nabuchodonosor:

3When we shall slay them all as one man,

then thou also shalt die with them by the sword

of the Assyrians, and all Israel shall perish with

thee:

4And thou shalt nd that Nabuchodonosor

is lord of the whole earth: and then the sword

of my soldiers shall pass through thy sides,

and thou shalt be stabbed and fall among the

wounded of Israel, and thou shalt breathe no

more till thou be destroyed with them.

5But if thou think thy prophecy true, let not

thy countenance sink, and let the paleness that

is in thy face, depart from thee, if thou imaginest

these my words cannot be accomplished.

6And that thou mayst know that thou shalt

experience these things together with them, be-

hold from this hour thou shalt be associated to

their people, that when they shall receive the

punishment they deserve from my sword, thou

mayst fall under the same vengeance.

7Then Holofernes commanded his servants to

take Achior, and to lead him to Bethulia, and

to deliver him into the hands of the children of

Israel.

8And the servants of Holofernes taking him,

went through the plains: but when they came

near the mountains, the slingers came out

against them.

9Then turning out of the way by the side of

the mountain, they tied Achior to a tree hand

and foot, and so left him bound with ropes, andBook of Judith 611

returned to their master.

10And the children of Israel coming down

from Bethulia, came to him, and loosing him

they brought him to Bethulia, and setting him in

the midst of the people, asked him what was the

matter that the Assyrians had left him bound.

11In those days the rulers there, were Ozias

the son of Micha of the tribe of Simeon, and

Charmi, called also Gothoniel.

12And Achior related in the midst of the an-

cients, and in the presence of all the people, all

that he had said being asked by Holofernes: and

how the people of Holofernes would have killed

him for this word,

13And how Holofernes himself being angry

had commanded him to be delivered for this

cause to the Israelites: that when he should over-

come the children of Israel, then he might com-

mand Achior also himself to be put to death by

diverse torments, for having said: The God of

heaven is their defender.

14And when Achior had declared all these

things, all the people fell upon their faces, ador-

ing the Lord, and all of them together mourning

and weeping poured out their prayers with one

accord to the Lord,

15Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth,

behold their pride, and look on our low condi-

tion, and have regard to the face of thy saints,

and shew that thou forsakest not them that

trust on thee, and that thou humblest them that

presume of themselves, and glory in their own

strength.

16So when their weeping was ended, and the

people's prayer, in which they continued all the

day, was concluded, they comforted Achior,

17Saying: The God of our fathers, whose

power thou hast set forth, will make this return

to thee, that thou rather shalt see their destruc-

tion.18And when the Lord our God shall give this

liberty to his servants, let God be with thee also

in the midst of us: that as it shall please thee,

so thou with all thine mayst converse with us.

19Then Ozias, after the assembly was broken

up, received him into his house, and made him

a great supper.
20And all the ancients were invited, and they

refreshed themselves together after their fast was

over.

21And afterwards all the people were called

together, and they prayed all the night long

within the church, desiring help of the God of

Israel.

Chapter 7

But Holofernes on the next day gave orders to

his army, to go up against Bethulia.

2Now there were in his troops a hundred and

twenty thousand footmen, and two and twenty

thousand horsemen, besides the preparations of

those men who had been taken, and who had

been brought away out of the provinces and cities

of all the youth.

3All these prepared themselves together to

ght against the children of Israel, and they came

by the hillside to the top, which looketh toward

Dothain, from the place which is called Belma,

unto Chelmon, which is over against Esdrelon.

4But the children of Israel, when they saw the

multitude of them, prostrated themselves upon

the ground, putting ashes upon their heads,

praying with one accord, that the God of Israel

would shew his mercy upon his people.

5And taking their arms of war, they posted

themselves at the places, which by a narrow

pathway lead directly between the mountains,

and they guarded them all day and night.612 Book of Judith

6Now Holofernes, in going round about,

found that the fountain which supplied them

with water, ran through an aqueduct without

the city on the south side: and he commanded

their aqueduct to be cut o.

7Nevertheless there were springs not far from

the walls, out of which they were seen secretly to

draw water, to refresh themselves a little rather

than to drink their ll.

8But the children of Ammon and Moab came

to Holofernes, saying: The children of Israel

trust not in their spears, nor in their arrows, but

the mountains are their defence, and the steep

hills and precipices guard them.

9Wherefore that thou mayst overcome them

without joining battle, set guards at the springs

that they may not draw water out of them, and

thou shalt destroy them without sword, or at

least being wearied out they will yield up their

city, which they suppose, because it is situate in

the mountains, to be impregnable.

10And these words pleased Holofernes, and

his ocers, and he placed all round about a hun-

dred men at every spring.

11And when they had kept this watch for full

twenty days, the cisterns, and the reserve of wa-

ters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia,

so that there was not within the city, enough to

satisfy them, no not for one day, for water was

daily given out to the people by measure.

12Then all the men and women, young men,

and children, gathering themselves together to

Ozias, all together with one voice,

13Said: God be judge between us and thee,

for thou hast done evil against us, in that thou

wouldst not speak peaceably with the Assyrians,

and for this cause God hath sold us into their

hands.

14And therefore there is no one to help us,

while we are cast down before their eyes in thirst,and sad destruction.

15And now assemble ye all that are in the

city, that we may of our own accord yield our-

selves all up to the people of Holofernes.

16For it is better, that being captives we

should live and bless the Lord, than that we

should die, and be a reproach to all

esh, af-

ter we have seen our wives and our infants die

before our eyes.

17We call to witness this day heaven and

earth, and the God of our fathers, who taketh

vengeance upon us according to our sins, con-

juring you to deliver now the city into the hand

of the army of Holofernes, that our end may be

short by the edge of the sword, which is made

longer by the drought of thirst.

18And when they had said these things, there

was great weeping and lamentation of all in the

assembly, and for many hours with one voice

they cried to God, saying:

19We have sinned with our fathers, we have

done unjustly, we have committed iniquity:

20Have thou mercy on us, because thou art

good, or punish our iniquities by chastising us

thyself, and deliver not them that trust in thee

to a people that knoweth not thee,

21That they may not say among the Gentiles:

Where is their God?

22And when being wearied with these cries,

and tired with these weepings, they held their

peace,

23Ozias rising up all in tears, said: Be of good

courage, my brethren, and let us wait these ve

days for mercy from the Lord.

24For perhaps he will put a stop to his indig-

nation, and will give glory to his own name.

25But if after ve days be past there come no

aid, we will do the things which you have spoken.Book of Judith 613

Chapter 8

Now it came to pass, when Judith a widow had

heard these words, who was the daughter of Mer-

ari, the son of Idox, the son of Joseph, the son

of Ozias, the son of Elai, the son of Jamnor, the

son of Gedeon, the son of Raphaim, the son of

Achitob, the son of Melchias, the son of Enan,

the son of Nathanias, the son of Salathiel, the

son of Simeon, the son of Ruben:

2And her husband was Manasses, who died

in the time of the barley harvest:

3For he was standing over them that bound

sheaves in the eld; and the heat came upon his

head, and he died in Bethulia his own city, and

was buried there with his fathers.

4And Judith his relict was a widow now three

years and six months.

5And she made herself a private chamber in

the upper part of her house, in which she abode

shut up with her maids.

6And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and

fasted all the days of her life, except the sab-

baths, and new moons, and the feasts of the

house of Israel.

7And she was exceedingly beautiful, and her

husband left her great riches, and very many ser-

vants, and large possessions of herds of oxen, and

ocks of sheep.

8And she was greatly renowned among all,

because she feared the Lord very much, neither

was there any one that spoke an ill word of her.

9When therefore she had heard that Ozias

had promised that he would deliver up the city

after the fth day, she sent to the ancients

Chabri and Charmi.

10And they came to her, and she said to

them: What is this word, by which Ozias hath

consented to give up the city to the Assyrians, if

within ve days there come no aid to us?11And who are you that tempt the Lord?

12This is not a word that may draw down

mercy, but rather that may stir up wrath, and

enkindle indignation.

13You have set a time for the mercy of the

Lord, and you have appointed him a day, accord-

ing to your pleasure.

14But forasmuch as the Lord is patient, let us

be penitent for this same thing, and with many

tears let us beg his pardon:

15For God will not threaten like man, nor be

in

amed to anger like the son of man.

16And therefore let us humble our souls be-

fore him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in

his service:

17Let us ask the Lord with tears, that accord-

ing to his will so he would shew his mercy to us:

that as our heart is troubled by their pride, so

also we may glorify in our humility.

18For we have not followed the sins of our

fathers, who forsook their God, and worshipped

strange gods.

19For which crime they were given up to their

enemies, to the sword, and to pillage, and to

confusion: but we know no other God but him.

20Let us humbly wait for his consolation, and

the Lord our God will require our blood of the

aictions of our enemies, and he will humble all

the nations that shall rise up against us, and

bring them to disgrace.

21And now, brethren, as you are the ancients

among the people of God, and their very soul

resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your

speech, that they may be mindful how our fa-

thers were tempted that they might be proved,

whether they worshipped their God truly.

22They must remember how our father Abra-

ham was tempted, and being proved by many

tribulations, was made the friend of God.

23So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that614 Book of Judith

have pleased God, passed through many tribula-

tions, remaining faithful.

24But they that did not receive the trials with

the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience

and the reproach of their murmuring against the

Lord,

25Were destroyed by the destroyer, and per-

ished by serpents.

26As for us therefore let us not revenge our-

selves for these things which we suer.

27But esteeming these very punishments to

be less than our sins deserve, let us believe that

these scourges of the Lord, with which like ser-

vants we are chastised, have happened for our

amendment, and not for our destruction.

28And Ozias and the ancients said to her:

All things which thou hast spoken are true, and

there is nothing to be reprehended in thy words.

29Now therefore pray for us, for thou art a

holy woman, and one fearing God.

30And Judith said to them: As you know

that what I have been able to say is of God:

31So that which I intend to do prove ye if it

be of God, and pray that God may strengthen

my design.

32You shall stand at the gate this night, and

I will go out with my maidservant: and pray ye,

that as you have said, in ve days the Lord may

look down upon his people Israel.

33But I desire that you search not into what

I am doing, and till I bring you word let nothing

else be done but to pray for me to the Lord our

God.

34And Ozias the prince of Juda said to her:

Go in peace, and the Lord be with thee to take

revenge of our enemies. So returning they de-

parted.Chapter 9

And when they were gone, Judith went into her

oratory: and putting on haircloth, laid ashes on

her head: and falling down prostrate before the

Lord, she cried to the Lord, saying:

2Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest

him a sword to execute vengeance against

strangers, who had deled by their uncleanness,

and uncovered the virgin unto confusion:

3And who gavest their wives to be made a

prey, and their daughters into captivity: and all

their spoils to be divided to the servants, who

were zealous with thy zeal: assist, I beseech thee,

O Lord God, me a widow.

4For thou hast done the things of old, and

hast devised one thing after another: and what

thou hast designed hath been done.

5For all thy ways are prepared, and in thy

providence thou hast placed thy judgments.

6Look upon the camp of the Assyrians now,

as thou wast pleased to look upon the camp of

the Egyptians, when they pursued armed after

thy servants, trusting in their chariots, and in

their horsemen, and in a multitude of warriors.

7But thou lookedst over their camp, and

darkness wearied them.

8The deep held their feet, and the waters

overwhelmed them.

9So may it be with these also, O Lord, who

trust in their multitude, and in their chariots,

and in their pikes, and in their shields, and in

their arrows, and glory in their spears,

10And know not that thou art our God, who

destroyest wars from the beginning, and the Lord

is thy name.

11Lift up thy arm as from the beginning, and

crush their power with thy power: let their power

fall in their wrath, who promise themselves to vi-

olate thy sanctuary, and dele the dwelling placeBook of Judith 615

of thy name, and to beat down with their sword

the horn of thy altar.

12Bring to pass, O Lord, that his pride may

be cut o with his own sword.

13Let him be caught in the net of his own

eyes in my regard, and do thou strike him by

the graces of the words of my lips.

14Give me constancy in my mind, that I may

despise him: and fortitude that I may overthrow

him.

15For this will be a glorious monument for

thy name, when he shall fall by the hand of a

woman.

16For thy power, O Lord, is not in a mul-

titude, nor is thy pleasure in the strength of

horses, nor from the beginning have the proud

been acceptable to thee: but the prayer of the

humble and the meek hath always pleased thee.

17O God of the heavens, creator of the wa-

ters, and Lord of the whole creation, hear me a

poor wretch, making supplication to thee, and

presuming of thy mercy.

18Remember, O Lord, thy covenant, and put

thou words in my mouth, and strengthen the res-

olution in my heart, that thy house may continue

in thy holiness:

19And all nations may acknowledge that thou

art God, and there is no other besides thee.

Chapter 10

And it came to pass, when she had ceased to cry

to the Lord, that she rose from the place wherein

she lay prostrate before the Lord.

2And she called her maid, and going down

into her house she took o her haircloth, and

put away the garments of her widowhood,

3And she washed her body, and anointed her-

self with the best ointment, and plaited the hairof her head, and put a bonnet upon her head,

and clothed herself with the garments of her

gladness, and put sandals on her feet, and took

her bracelets, and lilies, and earlets, and rings,

and adorned herself with all her ornaments.

4And the Lord also gave her more beauty: be-

cause all this dressing up did not proceed from

sensuality, but from virtue: and therefore the

Lord increased this her beauty, so that she ap-

peared to all men's eyes incomparably lovely.

5And she gave to her maid a bottle of wine to

carry, and a vessel of oil, and parched corn, and

dry gs, and bread and cheese, and went out.

6And when they came to the gate of the city,

they found Ozias, and the ancients of the city

waiting.

7And when they saw her they were aston-

ished, and admired her beauty exceedingly.

8But they asked her no question, only they

let her pass, saying: The God of our fathers give

thee grace, and may he strengthen all the coun-

sel of thy heart with his power, that Jerusalem

may glory in thee, and thy name may be in the

number of the holy and just.

9And they that were there said, all with one

voice: So be it, so be it.

10But Judith praying to the Lord, passed

through the gates, she and her maid.

11And it came to pass, when she went down

the hill, about break of day, that the watchmen

of the Assyrians met her, and stopped her, say-

ing: Whence comest thou or whither goest thou?

12And she answered: I am a daughter of the

Hebrews, and I am

ed from them, because I

knew they would be made a prey to you, be-

cause they despised you, and would not of their

own accord yield themselves, that they might

nd mercy in your sight.

13For this reason I thought with myself, say-

ing: I will go to the presence of the prince616 Book of Judith

Holofernes, that I may tell him their secrets, and

shew him by what way he may take them, with-

out the loss of one man of his army.

14And when the men had heard her words,

they beheld her face, and their eyes were amazed,

for they wondered exceedingly at her beauty.

15And they said to her: Thou hast saved thy

life by taking this resolution, to come down to

our lord.

16And be assured of this, that when thou

shalt stand before him, he will treat thee well,

and thou wilt be most acceptable to his heart.

And they brought her to the tent of Holofernes,

telling him of her.

17And when she was come into his presence,

forthwith Holofernes was caught by his eyes.

18And his ocers said to him: Who can de-

spise the people of the Hebrews, who have such

beautiful women, that we should not think it

worth our while for their sakes to ght against

them?

19And Judith seeing Holofernes sitting under

a canopy, which was woven of purple and gold,

with emeralds and precious stones:

20After she had looked on his face, bowed

down to him, prostrating herself to the ground.

And the servants of Holofernes lifted her up, by

the command of their master.

Chapter 11

Then Holofernes said to her: Be of good comfort,

and fear not in thy heart: for I have never hurt

a man that was willing to serve Nabuchodonosor

the king.

2And if thy people had not despised me,

I would never have lifted up my spear against

them.

3But now tell me, for what cause hast thouleft them, and why it hath pleased thee to come

to us?

4And Judith said to him: Receive the words

of thy handmaid, for if thou wilt follow the words

of thy handmaid, the Lord will do with thee a

perfect thing.

5For as Nabuchodonosor the king of the earth

liveth, and his power liveth which is in thee for

chastising of all straying souls: not only men

serve him through thee, but also the beasts of

the eld obey him.

6For the industry of thy mind is spoken of

among all nations, and it is told through the

whole world, that thou only art excellent, and

mighty in all his kingdom, and thy discipline is

cried up in all provinces.

7It is known also what Achior said, nor are

we ignorant of what thou hast commanded to be

done to him.

8For it is certain that our God is so oended

with sins, that he hath sent word by his prophets

to the people, that he will deliver them up for

their sins.

9And because the children of Israel know they

have oended their God, thy dread is upon them.

10Moreover also a famine hath come upon

them, and for drought of water they are already

to be counted among the dead.

11And they have a design even to kill their

cattle, and to drink the blood of them.

12And the consecrated things of the Lord

their God which God forbade them to touch, in

corn, wine, and oil, these have they purposed

to make use of, and they design to consume the

things which they ought not to touch with their

hands: therefore because they do these things, it

is certain they will be given up to destruction.

13And I thy handmaid knowing this, am

ed

from them, and the Lord hath sent me to tell

thee these very things.Book of Judith 617

14For I thy handmaid worship God even now

that I am with thee, and thy handmaid will go

out, and I will pray to God,

15And he will tell me when he will repay

them for their sins, and I will come and tell thee,

so that I may bring thee through the midst of

Jerusalem, and thou shalt have all the people of

Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd, and there

shall not so much as one dog bark against thee:

16Because these things are told me by the

providence of God.

17And because God is angry with them, I am

sent to tell these very things to thee.

18And all these words pleased Holofernes,

and his servants, and they admired her wisdom,

and they said one to another:

19There is not such another woman upon

earth in look, in beauty, and in sense of words.

20And Holofernes said to her: God hath done

well who sent thee before the people, that thou

mightest give them into our hands:

21And because thy promise is good, if thy

God shall do this for me, he shall also be my God,

and thou shalt be great in the house of Nabu-

chodonosor, and thy name shall be renowned

through all the earth.

Chapter 12

Then he ordered that she should go in where his

treasures were laid up, and bade her tarry there,

and he appointed what should be given her from

his own table.

2And Judith answered him and said: Now I

cannot eat of these things which thou comman-

dest to be given me, lest sin come upon me: but

I will eat of the things which I have brought.

3And Holofernes said to her: If these things

which thou hast brought with thee fail thee,what shall we do for thee?

4And Judith said: As thy soul liveth, my lord,

thy handmaid shall not spend all these things till

God do by my hand that which I have purposed.

And his servants brought her into the tent which

he had commanded.

5And when she was going in, she desired that

she might have liberty to go out at night and

before day to prayer, and to beseech the Lord.

6And he commanded his chamberlains, that

she might go out and in, to adore her God as she

pleased, for three days.

7And she went out in the nights into the val-

ley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain

of water.
8And as she came up, she prayed to the Lord

the God of Israel, that he would direct her way

to the deliverance of his people.

9And going in, she remained pure in the tent,

until she took her own meat in the evening.

10And it came to pass on the fourth day, that

Holofernes made a supper for his servants, and

said to Vagao his eunuch: Go, and persuade that

Hebrew woman, to consent of her own accord to

dwell with me.

11For it is looked upon as shameful among

the Assyrians, if a woman mock a man, by doing

so as to pass free from him.

12Then Vagao went in to Judith, and said:

Let not my good maid be afraid to go in to my

lord, that she may be honoured before his face,

that she may eat with him and drink wine and

be merry.

13And Judith answered him: Who am I, that

I should gainsay my lord?

14All that shall be good and best before his

eyes, I will do. And whatsoever shall please him,

that shall be best to me all the days of my life.

15And she arose and dressed herself out with

her garments, and going in she stood before his618 Book of Judith

face.
16And the heart of Holofernes was smitten,

for he was burning with the desire of her.

17And Holofernes said to her: Drink now,

and sit down and be merry; for thou hast found

favour before me.

18And Judith said: I will drink my lord, be-

cause my life is magnied this day above all my

days.

19And she took and ate and drank before him

what her maid had prepared for her.

20And Holofernes was made merry on her oc-

casion, and drank exceeding much wine, so much

as he had never drunk in his life.

Chapter 13

And when it was grown late, his servants made

haste to their lodgings, and Vagao shut the

chamber doors, and went his way.

2And they were all overcharged with wine.

3And Judith was alone in the chamber.

4But Holofernes lay on his bed, fast asleep,

being exceedingly drunk.

5And Judith spoke to her maid to stand with-

out before the chamber, and to watch:

6And Judith stood before the bed praying

with tears, and the motion of her lips in silence,

7Saying: Strengthen me, O Lord God of Is-

rael, and in this hour look on the works of my

hands, that as thou hast promised, thou mayst

raise up Jerusalem thy city: and that I may bring

to pass that which I have purposed, having a be-

lief that it might be done by thee.

8And when she had said this, she went to the

pillar that was at his bed's head, and loosed his

sword that hung tied upon it.

9And when she had drawn it out, she took

him by the hair of his head, and said: Strengthenme, O Lord God, at this hour.

10And she struck twice upon his neck, and

cut o his head, and took o his canopy from

the pillars, and rolled away his headless body.

11And after a while she went out, and de-

livered the head of Holofernes to her maid, and

bade her put it into her wallet.

12And they two went out according to their

custom, as it were to prayer, and they passed

the camp, and having compassed the valley, they

came to the gate of the city.

13And Judith from afar o cried to the watch-

men upon the walls: Open the gates for God is

with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel.

14And it came to pass, when the men had

heard her voice, that they called the ancients of

the city.
15And all ran to meet her from the least to

the greatest: for they now had no hopes that she

would come.

16And lighting up lights they all gathered

round about her: and she went up to a higher

place, and commanded silence to be made. And

when all had held their peace,

17Judith said: Praise ye the Lord our God,

who hath not forsaken them that hope in him.

18And by me his handmaid he hath fullled

his mercy, which he promised to the house of

Israel: and he hath killed the enemy of his people

by my hand this night.

19Then she brought forth the head of

Holofernes out of the wallet, and shewed it them,

saying: Behold the head of Holofernes the gen-

eral of the army of the Assyrians, and behold

his canopy, wherein he lay in his drunkenness,

where the Lord our God slew him by the hand

of a woman.

20But as the same Lord liveth, his angel hath

been my keeper both going hence, and abiding

there, and returning from thence hither: and theBook of Judith 619

Lord hath not suered me his handmaid to be

deled, but hath brought me back to you without

pollution of sin, rejoicing for his victory, for my

escape, and for your deliverance.

21Give all of you glory to him, because he is

good, because his mercy endureth for ever.

22And they all adored the Lord, and said to

her: The Lord hath blessed thee by his power,

because by thee he hath brought our enemies to

nought.

23And Ozias the prince of the people of Israel,

said to her: Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the

Lord the most high God, above all women upon

the earth.

24Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and

earth, who hath directed thee to the cutting o

the head of the prince of our enemies.

25Because he hath so magnied thy name

this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of

the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the

power of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast

not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and

tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our

ruin in the presence of our God.

26And all the people said: So be it, so be it.

27And Achior being called for came, and Ju-

dith said to him: The God of Israel, to whom

thou gavest testimony, that he revengeth him-

self of his enemies, he hath cut o the head of

all the unbelievers this night by my hand.

28And that thou mayst nd that it is so,

behold the head of Holofernes, who in the con-

tempt of his pride despised the God of Israel:

and threatened them with death, saying: When

the people of Israel shall be taken, I will com-

mand thy sides to be pierced with a sword.

29Then Achior seeing the head of Holofernes,

being seized with a great fear he fell on his face

upon the earth, and his soul swooned away.

30But after he had recovered his spirits he felldown at her feet, and reverenced her, and said:

31Blessed art thou by thy God in every taber-

nacle of Jacob, for in every nation which shall

hear thy name, the God of Israel shall be mag-

nied on occasion of thee.

Chapter 14

And Judith said to all the people: Hear me, my

brethren, hang ye up this head upon our walls.

2And as soon as the sun shall rise, let every

man take his arms, and rush ye out, not as going

down beneath, but as making an assault.

3Then the watchmen must needs run to awake

their prince for the battle.

4And when the captains of them shall run to

the tent of Holofernes, and shall nd him without

his head wallowing in his blood, fear shall fall

upon them.

5And when you shall know that they are

ee-

ing, go after them securely, for the Lord will de-

stroy them under your feet.

6Then Achior seeing the power that the God

of Israel had wrought, leaving the religion of the

Gentiles, he believed God, and circumcised the

esh of his foreskin, and was joined to the people

of Israel, with all the succession of his kindred

until this present day.

7And immediately at break of day, they hung

up the head of Holofernes upon the walls, and

every man took his arms, and they went out with

a great noise and shouting.

8And the watchmen seeing this, ran to the

tent of Holofernes.

9And they that were in the tent came, and

made a noise, before the door of the chamber

to awake him, endeavouring by art to break his

rest, that Holofernes might awake, not by their

calling him, but by their noise.620 Book of Judith

10For no man durst knock, or open and go

into the chamber of the general of the Assyrians.

11But when his captains and tribunes were

come, and all the chiefs of the army of the king

of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlains:

12Go in, and awake him, for the mice, coming

out of their holes, have presumed to challenge us

to ght.

13Then Vagao going into his chamber, stood

before the curtain, and made a clapping with his

hands: for he thought that he was sleeping with

Judith.

14But when with hearkening, he perceived

no motion of one lying, he came near to the cur-

tain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body of

Holofernes, lying upon the ground, without the

head, weltering in his blood, he cried out with a

loud voice, with weeping, and rent his garments.

15And he went into the tent of Judith, and

not nding her, he ran out to the people,

16And said: One Hebrew woman hath made

confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor:

for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and

his head is not upon him.

17Now when the chiefs of the army of the

Assyrians had heard this, they all rent their gar-

ments, and an intolerable fear and dread fell

upon them, and their minds were troubled ex-

ceedingly.
18And there was a very great cry in the midst

of their camp.

Chapter 15

And when all the army heard that Holofernes

was beheaded, courage and counsel

ed from

them, and being seized with trembling and fear

they thought only to save themselves by

ight.

2So that no one spoke to his neighbour, buthanging down the head, leaving all things be-

hind, they made haste to escape from the He-

brews, who, as they heard, were coming armed

upon them, and

ed by the ways of the elds,

and the paths of the hills.

3So the children of Israel seeing them

eeing,

followed after them. And they went down sound-

ing with trumpets and shouting after them.

4And because the Assyrians were not united

together, they went without order in their

ight;

but the children of Israel pursuing in one body,

defeated all that they could nd.

5And Ozias sent messengers through all the

cities and countries of Israel.

6And every country, and every city, sent their

chosen young men armed after them, and they

pursued them with the edge of the sword until

they came to the extremities of their connes.

7And the rest that were in Bethulia went into

the camp of the Assyrians, and took away the

spoils which the Assyrians in their

ight had left

behind them, and they were laden exceedingly,

8But they that returned conquerors to Bethu-

lia, brought with them all things that were

theirs, so that there was no numbering of their

cattle, and beasts, and all their moveables, inso-

much that from the least to the greatest all were

made rich by their spoils.

9And Joachim the high priest came from

Jerusalem to Bethulia with all his ancients to

see Judith.

10And when she was come out to him, they

all blessed her with one voice, saying: Thou art

the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel,

thou art the honour of our people:

11For thou hast done manfully, and thy heart

has been strengthened, because thou hast loved

chastity, and after thy husband hast not known

any other: therefore also the hand of the Lord

hath strengthened thee, and therefore thou shaltBook of Judith 621

be blessed for ever.

12And all the people said: So be it, so be it.

13And thirty days were scarce sucient for

the people of Israel to gather up the spoils of the

Assyrians.

14But all those things that were proved to

be the peculiar goods of Holofernes, they gave

to Judith in gold, and silver, and garments and

precious stones, and all household stu, and they

all were delivered to her by the people.

15And all the people rejoiced, with the

women, and virgins, and young men, playing on

instruments and harps.

Chapter 16

Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord, say-

ing:

2Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye

to the Lord with cymbals, tune unto him a new

psalm, extol and call upon his name.

3The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord

is his name.

4He hath set his camp in the midst of his

people, to deliver us from the hand of all our

enemies.

5The Assyrian came out of the mountains

from the north in the multitude of his strength:

his multitude stopped up the torrents, and their

horses covered the valleys.

6He bragged that he would set my borders on

re, and kill my young men with the sword, to

make my infants a prey, and my virgins captives.

7But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and

hath delivered him into the hands of a woman,

and hath slain him.

8For their mighty one did not fall by young

men, neither did the sons of Titan strike him, nor

tall giants oppose themselves to him, but Judiththe daughter of Merari weakened him with the

beauty of her face.

9For she put o her the garments of widow-

hood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give

joy to the children of Israel.

10She anointed her face with ointment, and

bound up her locks with a crown, she took a new

robe to deceive him.

11Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty

made his soul her captive, with a sword she cut

o his head.

12The Persians quaked at her constancy, and

the Medes at her boldness.

13Then the camp of the Assyrians howled,

when my lowly ones appeared, parched with

thirst.

14The sons of the damsels have pierced them

through, and they have killed them like children

eeing away: they perished in battle before the

face of the Lord my God.

15Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing

a new hymn to our God.

16O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glori-

ous in thy power, and no one can overcome thee.

17Let all thy creatures serve thee: because

thou hast spoken, and they were made: thou

didst send forth thy spirit, and they were cre-

ated, and there is no one that can resist thy

voice.

18The mountains shall be moved from the

foundations with the waters: the rocks shall melt

as wax before thy face.

19But they that fear thee, shall be great with

thee in all things.

20Woe be to the nation that riseth up against

my people: for the Lord almighty will take re-

venge on them, in the day of judgment he will

visit them.

21For he will give re, and worms into their

esh, that they may burn, and may feel for ever.622 Book of Judith

22And it came to pass after these things,

that all the people, after the victory, came to

Jerusalem to adore the Lord: and as soon as

they were puried, they all oered holocausts,

and vows, and their promises.

23And Judith oered for an anathema of

oblivion all the arms of Holofernes, which the

people gave her, and the canopy that she had

taken away out of his chamber.

24And the people were joyful in the sight of

the sanctuary, and for three months the joy of

this victory was celebrated with Judith.

25And after those days every man returned to

his house, and Judith was made great in Bethu-

lia, and she was most renowned in all the land

of Israel.

26And chastity was joined to her virtue, so

that she knew no man all the days of her life,

after the death of Manasses her husband.

27And on festival days she came forth with

great glory.

28And she abode in her husband's house a

hundred and ve years, and made her handmaid

free, and she died, and was buried with her hus-

band in Bethulia.
29And all the people mourned for seven days.

30And all the time of her life there was none

that troubled Israel, nor many years after her

death.

31But the day of the festivity of this vic-

tory is received by the Hebrews in the number

of holy days, and is religiously observed by the

Jews from that time until this day.Book of Esther

Chapter 1

In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from In-

dia to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty seven

provinces:

2When he sat on the throne of his kingdom,

the city Susan was the capital of his kingdom.

3Now in the third year of his reign he made

a great feast for all the princes, and for his ser-

vants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and

the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of

the provinces in his sight,

4That he might shew the riches of the glory of

his kingdom, and the greatness, and boasting of

his power, for a long time, to wit, for a hundred

and fourscore days.

5And when the days of the feast were expired,

he invited all the people that were found in Su-

san, from the greatest to the least: and com-

manded a feast to be made seven days in the

court of the garden, and of the wood, which was

planted by the care and the hand of the king.

6And there were hung up on every side sky

coloured, and green, and violet hangings, fas-

tened with cords of silk, and of purple, which

were put into rings of ivory, and were held up

with marble pillars. The beds also were of gold

and silver, placed in order upon a

oor paved

with porphyry and white marble: which was em-

bellished with painting of wonderful variety.

7And they that were invited, drank in golden

cups, and the meats were brought in divers ves-sels one after another. Wine also in abundance

and of the best was presented, as was worthy of

a king's magnicence.

8Neither was there any one to compel them

to drink that were not willing, but as the king

had appointed, who set over every table one of

his nobles, that every man might take what he

would.

9Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the

women in the palace, where king Assuerus was

used to dwell.

10Now on the seventh day, when the king was

merry, and after very much drinking was well

warmed with wine, he commanded Mauman,

and Bazatha, and Harbona, and Bagatha, and

Abgatha, and Zethar, and Charcas, the seven

eunuchs that served in his presence,

11To bring in queen Vasthi before the king,

with the crown set upon her head, to shew her

beauty to all the people and the princes: for she

was exceeding beautiful.

12But she refused, and would not come at the

king's commandment, which he had signied to

her by the eunuchs. Whereupon the king, being

angry, and in

amed with a very great fury,

13Asked the wise men, who according to the

custom of the kings, were always near his person,

and all he did was by their counsel, who knew

the laws, and judgments of their forefathers:

14(Now the chief and nearest him were,

Charsena, and Sethar, and Admatha, and Thar-

sis, and Mares, and Marsana, and Mamuchan,624 Book of Esther

seven princes of the Persians and of the Medes,

who saw the face of the king, and were used to

sit rst after him:)

15What sentence ought to pass upon Vasthi

the queen, who had refused to obey the com-

mandment of king Assuerus, which he had sent

to her by the eunuchs?

16And Mamuchan answered, in the hearing

of the king and the princes: Queen Vasthi hath

not only injured the king, but also all the people

and princes that are in all the provinces of king

Assuerus.

17For this deed of the queen will go abroad

to all women, so that they will despise their hus-

bands, and will say: King Assuerus commanded

that queen Vasthi should come in to him, and

she would not.

18And by this example all the wives of the

princes of the Persians and the Medes will slight

the commandments of their husbands: wherefore

the king's indignation is just.

19If it please thee, let an edict go out from

thy presence, and let it be written according to

the law of the Persians and of the Medes, which

must not be altered, that Vasthi come in no more

to the king, but another, that is better than her,

be made queen in her place.

20And let this be published through all the

provinces of thy empire, (which is very wide,)

and let all wives, as well of the greater as of the

lesser, give honour to their husbands.

21His counsel pleased the king, and the

princes: and the king did according to the coun-

sel of Mamuchan.

22And he sent letters to all the provinces

of his kingdom, as every nation could hear and

read, in divers languages and characters, that

the husbands should be rulers and masters in

their houses: and that this should be published

to every people.Chapter 2

After this, when the wrath of king Assuerus was

appeased, he remembered Vasthi, and what she

had done and what she had suered:

2And the king's servants and his ocers said:

Let young women be sought for the king, virgins

and beautiful,

3And let some persons be sent through all

the provinces to look for beautiful maidens and

virgins: and let them bring them to the city of

Susan, and put them into the house of the women

under the hand of Egeus the eunuch, who is the

overseer and keeper of the king's women: and

let them receive women's ornaments, and other

things necessary for their use.

4And whosoever among them all shall please

the king's eyes, let her be queen instead of

Vasthi. The word pleased the king: and he com-

manded it should be done as they had suggested.

5There was a man in the city of Susan, a

Jew, named Mardochai, the son of Jair, the son

of Semei, the son of Cis, of the race of Jemini,

6Who had been carried away from Jerusalem

at the time that Nabuchodonosor king of Baby-

lon carried away Jechonias king of Juda,

7And he had brought up his brother's daugh-

ter Edissa, who by another name was called Es-

ther: now she had lost both her parents: and was

exceeding fair and beautiful. And her father and

mother being dead, Mardochai adopted her for

his daughter.

8And when the king's ordinance was noised

abroad, and according to his commandment

many beautiful virgins were brought to Susan,

and were delivered to Egeus the eunuch: Esther

also among the rest of the maidens was delivered

to him to be kept in the number of the women.

9And she pleased him, and found favour in his

sight. And he commanded the eunuch to hastenBook of Esther 625

the women's ornaments, and to deliver to her her

part, and seven of the most beautiful maidens of

the king's house, and to adorn and deck out both

her and her waiting maids.

10And she would not tell him her people nor

her country. For Mardochai had charged her to

say nothing at all of that:

11And he walked every day before the court

of the house, in which the chosen virgins were

kept, having a care for Esther's welfare, and de-

siring to know what would befall her.

12Now when every virgin's turn came to go

in to the king, after all had been done for setting

them o to advantage, it was the twelfth month:

so that for six months they were anointed with

oil of myrrh, and for other six months they used

certain perfumes and sweet spices.

13And when they were going in to the king,

whatsoever they asked to adorn themselves they

received: and being decked out, as it pleased

them, they passed from the chamber of the

women to the king's chamber.

14And she that went in at evening, came out

in the morning, and from thence she was con-

ducted to the second house, that was under the

hand of Susagaz the eunuch, who had the charge

over the king's concubines: neither could she re-

turn any more to the king, unless the king de-

sired it, and had ordered her by name to come.

15And as the time came orderly about, the

day was at hand, when Esther, the daughter of

Abihail the brother of Mardochai, whom he had

adopted for his daughter, was to go in to the

king. But she sought not women's ornaments,

but whatsoever Egeus the eunuch the keeper of

the virgins had a mind, he gave her to adorn her.

For she was exceeding fair, and her incredible

beauty made her appear agreeable and amiable

in the eyes of all.

16So she was brought to the chamber ofking Assuerus the tenth month, which is called

Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

17And the king loved her more than all the

women, and she had favour and kindness before

him above all the women, and he set the royal

crown on her head, and made her queen instead

of Vasthi.

18And he commanded a magnicent feast to

be prepared for all the princes, and for his ser-

vants, for the marriage and wedding of Esther,

And he gave rest to all the provinces, and be-

stowed gifts according to princely magnicence.

19And when the virgins were sought the

second time, and gathered together, Mardochai

stayed at the king's gate,

20Neither had Esther as yet declared her

country and people, according to his command-

ment. For whatsoever he commanded, Esther

observed: and she did all things in the same

manner as she was wont at that time when he

brought her up a little one.

21At that time, therefore, when Mardochai

abode at the king's gate, Bagathan and Thares,

two of the king's eunuchs, who were porters, and

presided in the rst entry of the palace, were

angry: and they designed to rise up against the

king, and to kill him.

22And Mardochai had notice of it, and im-

mediately he told it to queen Esther: and she to

the king in Mardochai's name, who had reported

the thing unto her.

23It was inquired into, and found out: and

they were both hanged on a gibbet. And it was

put in the histories, and recorded in the chroni-

cles before the king.626 Book of Esther

Chapter 3

After these things, king Assuerus advanced

Aman, the son of Amadathi, who was of the

race of Agag: and he set his throne above all

the princes that were with him.

2And all the king's servants, that were at

the doors of the palace, bent their knees, and

worshipped Aman: for so the emperor had com-

manded them, only Mardochai did not bend his

knee, nor worship him.

3And the king's servants that were chief at the

doors of the palace, said to him: Why dost thou

alone not observe the king's commandment?

4And when they were saying this often, and

he would not hearken to them, they told Aman,

desirous to know whether he would continue in

his resolution: for he had told them that he was

a Jew.

5Now when Aman had heard this, and had

proved by experience that Mardochai did not

bend his knee to him, nor worship him, he was

exceeding angry.

6And he counted it nothing to lay his hands

upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that

he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose

rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that

were in the kingdom of Assuerus.

7In the rst month (which is called Nisan)

in the twelfth year of the reign of Assuerus,

the lot was cast into an urn, which in Hebrew

is called Phur, before Aman, on what day and

what month the nation of the Jews should be de-

stroyed: and there came out the twelfth month,

which is called Adar.

8And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is

a people scattered through all the provinces of

thy kingdom, and separated one from another,

that use new laws and ceremonies, and moreover

despise the king's ordinances: and thou knowestvery well that it is not expedient for thy kingdom

that they should grow insolent by impunity.

9If it please thee, decree that they may be

destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents to

thy treasurers.

10And the king took the ring that he used,

from his own hand, and gave it to Aman, the son

of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy of

the Jews,

11And he said to him: As to the money which

thou promisest, keep it for thyself: and as to the

people, do with them as seemeth good to thee.

12And the king's scribes were called in the

rst month Nisan, on the thirteenth day of the

same mouth: and they wrote, as Aman had com-

manded, to all the king's lieutenants, and to the

judges of the provinces, and of divers nations,

as every nation could read, and hear according

to their dierent languages, in the name of king

Assuerus: and the letters, sealed with his ring,

13Were sent by the king's messengers to all

provinces, to kill and destroy all the Jews, both

young and old, little children, and women, in

one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth

month, which is called Adar, and to make a spoil

of their goods.

14And the contents of the letters were to

this eect, that all provinces might know and

be ready against that day.

15The couriers that were sent made haste

to full the king's commandment. And imme-

diately the edict was hung up in Susan, the king

and Aman feasting together, and all the Jews

that were in the city weeping.

Chapter 4

Now when Mardochai had heard these things, he

rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, strewingBook of Esther 627

ashes on his head and he cried with a loud voice

in the street in the midst of the city, shewing the

anguish of his mind.

2And he came lamenting in this manner even

to the gate of the palace: for no one clothed with

sackcloth might enter the king's court.

3And in all provinces, towns, and places, to

which the king's cruel edict was come, there was

great mourning among the Jews, with fasting,

wailing, and weeping, many using sackcloth and

ashes for their bed.

4Then Esther's maids and her eunuchs went

in, and told her. And when she heard it she was
in a consternation and she sent a garment, to

clothe him, and to take away the sackcloth: but

he would not receive it.

5And she called for Athach the eunuch, whom

the king had appointed to attend upon her, and

she commanded him to go to Mardochai, and

learn of him why he did this.

6And Athach going out went to Mardochai,

who was standing in the street of the city, before

the palace gate:

7And Mardochai told him all that had hap-

pened, how Aman had promised to pay money

into the king's treasures, to have the Jews de-

stroyed.

8He gave him also a copy of the edict which

was hanging up in Susan, that he should shew it

to the queen, and admonish her to go in to the

king, and to entreat him for her people.

9And Athach went back and told Esther all

that Mardochai had said.

10She answered him, and bade him say to

Mardochai:

11All the king's servants, and all the

provinces that are under his dominion, know,

that whosoever, whether man or woman, cometh

into the king's inner court, who is not called for,

is immediately to be put to death without anydelay: except the king shall hold out the golden

sceptre to him, in token of clemency, that so he

may live. How then can I go in to the king, who

for these thirty days now have not been called

unto him?

12And when Mardochai had heard this,

13He sent word to Esther again, saying:

Think not that thou mayst save thy life only,

because thou art in the king's house, more than

all the Jews:

14For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the

Jews shall be delivered by some other occasion:

and thou, and thy father's house shall perish.

And who knoweth whether thou art not there-

fore come to the kingdom, that thou mightest be

ready in such a time as this?

15And again Esther sent to Mardochai in

these words:

16Go, and gather together all the Jews whom

thou shalt nd in Susan, and pray ye for me.

Neither eat nor drink for three days and three

nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like

manner, and then I will go in to the king, against

the law, not being called, and expose myself to

death and to danger.

17So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther

had commanded him.

Chapter 5

And on the third day Esther put on her royal ap-

parel, and stood in the inner court of the king's

house, over against the king's hall: now he sat

upon his throne in the hall of the palace, over

against the door of the house.

2And when he saw Esther the queen standing,

she pleased his eyes, and he held out toward her

the golden sceptre, which he held in his hand and

she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.628 Book of Esther

3And the king said to her: What wilt thou,

queen Esther? what is thy request? if thou

shouldst even ask one half of the kingdom, it

shall be given to thee.

4But she answered: If it please the king, I

beseech thee to come to me this day, and Aman

with thee to the banquet which I have prepared.

5And the king said forthwith: Call ye Aman

quickly, that he may obey Esther's will. So the

king and Aman came to the banquet which the

queen had prepared for them.

6And the king said to her, after he had drunk

wine plentifully: What dost thou desire should

be given thee? and for what thing askest thou?

although thou shouldst ask the half of my king-

dom, thou shalt have it.

7And Esther answered: My petition and re-

quest is this:

8If I have found favour in the king's sight, and

if it please the king to give me what I ask, and to

full my petition: let the king and Aman come

to the banquet which I have prepared them, and

to morrow I will open my mind to the king.

9So Aman went out that day joyful and

merry. And when he saw Mardochai sitting be-

fore the gate of the palace, and that he not only

did not rise up to honour him, but did not so

much as move from the place where he sat, he

was exceedingly angry:

10But dissembling his anger, and returning

into his house, he called together to him his

friends, and Zares his wife:

11And he declared to them the greatness of

his riches, and the multitude of his children, and

with how great glory the king had advanced him

above all his princes and servants.

12And after this he said: Queen Esther also

hath invited no other to the banquet with the

king, but me: and with her I am also to dine to

morrow with the king:13And whereas I have all these things, I think

I have nothing, so long as I see Mardochai the

Jew sitting before the king's gate.

14Then Zares his wife, and the rest of his

friends answered him: Order a great beam to

be prepared, fty cubits high, and in the morn-

ing speak to the king, that Mardochai may be

hanged upon it, and so thou shalt go full of

joy with the king to the banquet. The counsel

pleased him, and he commanded a high gibbet

to be prepared.

Chapter 6

That night the king passed without sleep, and he

commanded the histories and chronicles of for-

mer times to be brought him. And when they

were reading them before him,

2They came to that place where it was writ-

ten, how Mardochai had discovered the trea-

son of Bagathan and Thares the eunuchs, who

sought to kill king Assuerus.

3And when the king heard this, he said:

What honour and reward hath Mardochai re-

ceived for this delity? His servants and min-

isters said to him: He hath received no reward

at all.

4And the king said immediately: Who is in

the court? for Aman was coming in to the inner

court of the king's house, to speak to the king,

that he might order Mardochai to be hanged

upon the gibbet, which was prepared for him.

5The servants answered: Aman standeth in

the court, and the king said: Let him come in.

6And when he was come in, he said to him:

What ought to be done to the man whom the

king is desirous to honour? But Aman thinking

in his heart, and supposing that the king would

honour no other but himself,Book of Esther 629

7Answered: The man whom the king desireth

to honour,

8Ought to be clothed with the king's apparel,

and to be set upon the horse that the king rideth

upon, and to have the royal crown upon his head,

9And let the rst of the king's princes and

nobles hold his horse, and going through the

street of the city, proclaim before him and say:

Thus shall he be honoured, whom the king hath

a mind to honour.

10And the king said to him: Make haste and

take the robe and the horse, and do as thou hast

spoken to Mardochai the Jew, who sitteth before

the gates of the palace. Beware thou pass over

any of those things which thou hast spoken.

11So Aman took the robe and the horse, and

arraying Mardochai in the street of the city, and

setting him on the horse, went before him, and

proclaimed: This honour is he worthy of, whom

the king hath a mind to honour.

12But Mardochai returned to the palace gate:

and Aman made haste to go to his house, mourn-

ing and having his head covered:

13And he told Zares his wife, and his friends,

all that had befallen him. And the wise men

whom he had in counsel, and his wife answered

him: If Mardochai be of the seed of the Jews,

before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou canst

not resist him, but thou shalt fall in his sight.

14As they were yet speaking, the king's eu-

nuchs came, and compelled him to go quickly to

the banquet which the queen had prepared.

Chapter 7

So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the

queen.

2And the king said to her again the second

day, after he was warm with wine: What is thypetition, Esther, that it may be granted thee?

and what wilt thou have done: although thou

ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.

3Then she answered: If I have found favour

in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give

me my life for which I ask, and my people for

which I request.
4For we are given up, I and my people, to be

destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would

God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen:

the evil might be borne with, and I would have

mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy,

whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.

5And king Assuerus answered and said: Who

is this, and of what power, that he should do

these things?

6And Esther said: It is this Aman that is

our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman

hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being

able to bear the countenance of the king and of

the queen.

7But the king being angry rose up, and went

from the place of the banquet into the garden set

with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther

the queen for his life, for he understood that evil

was prepared for him by the king.

8And when the king came back out of the

garden set with trees, and entered into the place

of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon

the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He

will force the queen also in my presence, in my

own house. The word was not yet gone out of

the king's mouth, and immediately they covered

his face.

9And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood

waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet

which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who

spoke for the king, standeth in Aman's house,

being fty cubits high. And the king said to

him: Hang him upon it.630 Book of Esther

10So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which

he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's

wrath ceased.

Chapter 8

On that day king Assuerus gave the house of

Aman, the Jews' enemy, to queen Esther, and

Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther

had confessed to him that he was her uncle.

2And the king took the ring which he had

commanded to be taken again from Aman, and

gave it to Mardochai. And Esther set Mardochai

over her house.

3And not content with these things, she fell

down at the king's feet and wept, and speak-

ing to him besought him, that he would give or-

ders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and

his most wicked devices which he had invented

against the Jews, should be of no eect.

4But he, as the manner was, held out the

golden sceptre with his hand, which was the sign

of clemency: and she arose up and stood before

him,

5And said: If it please the king, and if I have

found favour in his sight, and my request be not

disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that the for-

mer letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the

Jews, by which he commanded that they should

be destroyed in all the king's provinces, may be

reversed by new letters.

6For how can I endure the murdering and

slaughter of my people?

7And king Assuerus answered Esther the

queen, and Mardochai the Jew: I have given

Aman's house to Esther, and I have commanded

him to be hanged on a gibbet, because he durst

lay hands on the Jews.

8Write ye therefore to the Jews, as it pleasethyou in the king's name, and seal the letters with

my ring. For this was the custom, that no man

durst gainsay the letters which were sent in the

king's name, and were sealed with his ring.

9Then the king's scribes and secretaries were

called for (now it was the time of the third month

which is called Siban) the three and twentieth

day of the month, and letters were written, as

Mardochai had a mind, to the Jews, and to the

governors, and to the deputies, and to the judges,

who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-

seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to

province and province, to people and people, ac-

cording to their languages and characters, and

to the Jews, according as they could read and

hear.

10And these letters which were sent in the

king's name, were sealed with his ring, and

sent by posts: who were to run through all the

provinces, to prevent the former letters with new

messages.

11And the king gave orders to them, to speak

to the Jews in every city, and to command them

to gather themselves together, and to stand for

their lives, and to kill and destroy all their ene-

mies with their wives and children and all their

houses, and to take their spoil.

12And one day of revenge was appointed

through all the provinces, to wit, the thirteenth

of the twelfth month Adar.

13And this was the content of the letter, that

it should be notied in all lands and peoples that

were subject to the empire of king Assuerus, that

the Jews were ready to be revenged of their en-

emies.
14So the swift posts went out carrying the

messages, and the king's edict was hung up in

Susan.

15And Mardochai going forth out of the

palace, and from the king's presence, shone inBook of Esther 631

royal apparel, to wit, of violet and sky colour,

wearing a golden crown on his head, and clothed

with a cloak of silk and purple. And all the city

rejoiced, and was glad.

16But to the Jews, a new light seemed to rise,

joy, honour, and dancing.

17And in all peoples, cities, and provinces,

whithersoever the king's commandments came,

there was wonderful rejoicing, feasts and ban-

quets, and keeping holy day: Insomuch that

many of other nations and religion, joined them-

selves to their worship and ceremonies. For a

great dread of the name of the Jews had fallen

upon all.

Chapter 9

So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,

which as we have said above is called Adar, when

all the Jews were designed to be massacred, and

their enemies were greedy after their blood, the

case being altered, the Jews began to have the

upper hand, and to revenge themselves of their

adversaries.

2And they gathered themselves together in

every city, and town, and place, to lay their

hands on their enemies, and their persecutors.

And no one durst withstand them, for the fear

of their power had gone through every people.

3And the judges of the provinces, and the

governors, and lieutenants, and every one in dig-

nity, that presided over every place and work,

extolled the Jews for fear of Mardochai:

4For they knew him to be prince of the palace,

and to have great power: and the fame of his

name increased daily, and was spread abroad

through all men's mouths.

5So the Jews made a great slaughter of their

enemies, and killed them, repaying according towhat they had prepared to do to them:

6Insomuch that even in Susan they killed ve

hundred men, besides the ten sons of Aman the

Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names

are these:

7Pharsandatha, and Delphon, and Esphatha

8And Phoratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

9And Phermesta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and

Jezatha.

10And when they had slain them, they would

not touch the spoils of their goods.

11And presently the number of them that

were killed in Susan was brought to the king.

12And he said to the queen: The Jews have

killed ve hundred men in the city of Susan, be-

sides the ten sons of Aman: how many dost thou

think they have slain in all the provinces? What

askest thou more, and what wilt thou have me

to command to be done?

13And she answered: If it please the king,

let it be granted to the Jews, to do to morrow

in Susan as they have done to day, and that the

ten sons of Aman may be hanged upon gibbets.

14And the king commanded that it should be

so done. And forthwith the edict was hung up in

Susan, and the ten sons of Aman were hanged.

15And on the fourteenth day of the month

Adar the Jews gathered themselves together,

and they killed in Susan three hundred men: but

they took not their substance.

16Moreover through all the provinces which

were subject to the king's dominion the Jews

stood for their lives, and slew their enemies and

persecutors: insomuch that the number of them

that were killed amounted to seventy-ve thou-

sand, and no man took any of their goods.

17Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar

was the rst day with them all of the slaugh-

ter, and on the fourteenth day they left o.

Which they ordained to be kept holy day, so that632 Book of Esther

all times hereafter they should celebrate it with

feasting, joy, and banquets.

18But they that were killing in the city of Su-

san, were employed in the slaughter on the thir-

teenth and fourteenth day of the same month:

and on the fteenth day they rested. And there-

fore they appointed that day to be a holy day of

feasting and gladness.

19But those Jews that dwelt in towns not

walled and in villages, appointed the fourteenth

day of the month Adar for banquets and glad-

ness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one

another portions of their banquets and meats.

20And Mardochai wrote all these things, and

sent them comprised in letters to the Jews that

abode in all the king's provinces, both those that

lay near and those afar o,

21That they should receive the fourteenth

and fteenth day of the month Adar for holy

days, and always at the return of the year should

celebrate them with solemn honour:

22Because on those days the Jews revenged

themselves of their enemies, and their mourning

and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, and

that these should be days of feasting and glad-

ness, in which they should send one to another

portions of meats, and should give gifts to the

poor.

23And the Jews undertook to observe with

solemnity all they had begun to do at that time,

which Mardochai by letters had commanded to

be done.

24For Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race

of Agag, the enemy and adversary of the Jews,

had devised evil against them, to kill them and

destroy them; and had cast Phur, that is, the

lot.

25And afterwards Esther went in to the king,

beseeching him that his endeavours might be

made void by the king's letters: and the evil thathe had intended against the Jews, might return

upon his own head. And so both he and his sons

were hanged upon gibbets.

26And since that time these days are called

Phurim, that is, of lots: because Phur, that is,

the lot, was cast into the urn. And all things

that were done, are contained in the volume of

this epistle, that is, of this book:

27And the things that they suered, and that

were afterwards changed, the Jews took upon

themselves and their seed, and upon all that had

a mind to be joined to their religion, so that it

should be lawful for none to pass these days with-

out solemnity: which the writing testieth, and

certain times require, as the years continually

succeed one another.

28These are the days which shall never be for-

got: and which all provinces in the whole world

shall celebrate throughout all generations: nei-

ther is there any city wherein the days of Phurim,

that is, of lots, must not be observed by the Jews,

and by their posterity, which is bound to these

ceremonies.

29And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abi-

hail, and Mardochai the Jew, wrote also a second

epistle, that with all diligence this day should be

established a festival for the time to come.

30And they sent to all the Jews that were in

the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of king

Assuerus, that they should have peace, and re-

ceive truth,

31And observe the days of lots, and celebrate

them with joy in their proper time: as Mardochai

and Esther had appointed, and they undertook

them to be observed by themselves and by their

seed, fasts, and cries, and the days of lots,

32And all things which are contained in the

history of this book, which is called Esther.Book of Esther 633

Chapter 10

And king Assuerus made all the land, and all the

islands of the sea tributary.

2And his strength and his empire, and the

dignity and greatness wherewith he exalted Mar-

dochai, are written in the books of the Medes,

and of the Persians:

3And how Mardochai of the race of the Jews,

was next after king Assuerus: and great among

the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his

brethren, seeking the good of his people, and

speaking those things which were for the welfare

of his seed.

4Then Mardochai said: God hath done these

things.

5I remember a dream that I saw, which signi-

ed these same things: and nothing thereof hath

failed.

6The little fountain which grew into a river,

and was turned into a light, and into the sun, and

abounded into many waters, is Esther, whom the

king married, and made queen.

7But the two dragons are I and Aman.

8The nations that were assembled are they

that endeavoured to destroy the name of the

Jews.

9And my nation is Israel, who cried to the

Lord, and the Lord saved his people: and he de-

livered us from all evils, and hath wrought great

signs and wonders among the nations:

10And he commanded that there should be

two lots, one of the people of God, and the other

of all the nations.

11And both lots came to the day appointed

already from that time before God to all nations:

12And the Lord remembered his people, and

had mercy on his inheritance.

13And these days shall be observed in the

month of Adar on the fourteenth, and fteenthday of the same month, with all diligence, and

joy of the people gathered into one assembly,

throughout all the generations hereafter of the

people of Israel.

Chapter 11

In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and

Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest,

and of the Levitical race, and Ptolemy his son

brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said

Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy had interpreted

in Jerusalem.

2In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes

the great, in the rst day of the month Nisan,

Mardochai the son of Jair, the son of Semei, the

son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin:

3A Jew who dwelt in the city of Susan, a great

man and among the rst of the king's court, had

a dream.

4Now he was of the number of the captives,

whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had car-

ried away from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of

Juda:

5And this was his dream: Behold there were

voices, and tumults, and thunders, and earth-

quakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.

6And behold two great dragons came forth

ready to ght one against another.

7And at their cry all nations were stirred up

to ght against the nation of the just.

8And that was a day of darkness and danger,

of tribulation and distress, and great fear upon

the earth.

9And the nation of the just was troubled fear-

ing their own evils, and was prepared for death.

10And they cried to God: and as they were

crying, a little fountain grew into a very great

river, and abounded into many waters.634 Book of Esther

11The light and the sun rose up, and the

humble were exalted, and they devoured the glo-

rious.

12And when Mardochai had seen this, and

arose out of his bed, he was thinking what God

would do: and he kept it xed in his mind, de-

sirous to know what the dream should signify.

Chapter 12

And he abode at that time in the king's court

with Bagatha and Thara the king's eunuchs, who

were porters of the palace.

2And when he understood their designs, and

had diligently searched into their projects, he

learned that they went about to lay violent hands

on king Artaxerxes, and he told the king thereof.

3Then the king had them both examined, and

after they had confessed, commanded them to be

put to death.

4But the king made a record of what was

done: and Mardochai also committed the mem-

ory of the thing to writing.

5And the king commanded him, to abide in

the court of the palace, and gave him presents

for the information.

6But Aman the son of Amadathi the Bugite

was in great honour with the king, and sought

to hurt Mardochai and his people, because of the

two eunuchs of the king who were put to death.

Chapter 13

And this was the copy of the letter: Artax-

erxes the great king who reigneth from India to

Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of the

hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are

subject to his empire, greeting.2Whereas I reigned over many nations, and

had brought all the world under my dominion,

I was not willing to abuse the greatness of my

power, but to govern my subjects with clemency

and that they might live quietly without any ter-

ror, and might enjoy peace, which is desired by

all men,

3But when I asked my counsellors how this

might be accomplished, one that excelled the rest

in wisdom and delity, and was second after the

king, Aman by name,

4Told me that there was a people scattered

through the whole world, which used new laws,

and acted against the customs of all nations, de-

spised the commandments of kings, and violated

by their opposition the concord of all nations.

5Wherefore having learned this, and seeing

one nation in opposition to all mankind using

perverse laws, and going against our command-

ments, and disturbing the peace and concord of

the provinces subject to us,

6We have commanded that all whom Aman

shall mark out, who is chief over all the

provinces, and second after the king, and whom

we honour as a father, shall be utterly destroyed

by their enemies, with their wives and children,

and that none shall have pity on them, on the

fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this

present year:

7That these wicked men going down to hell

in one day, may restore to our empire the peace

which they had disturbed.

8But Mardochai besought the Lord, remem-

bering all his works,

9And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for

all things are in thy power, and there is none

that can resist thy will, if thou determine to save

Israel.

10Thou hast made heaven and earth and all

things that are under the cope of heaven.Book of Esther 635

11Thou art Lord of all, and there is none that

can resist thy majesty.

12Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest

that it was not out of pride and or any desire of

glory, that I refused to worship the proud Aman,

13(For I would willingly and readily for the

salvation of Israel have kissed even the steps of

his feet,)

14But I feared lest I should transfer the hon-

our of my God to a man, and lest I should adore

any one except my God.

15And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abra-

ham, have mercy on thy people, because our en-

emies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy

inheritance.

16Despise not thy portion, which thou hast

redeemed for thyself out of Egypt.

17Hear my supplication, and be merciful to

thy lot and inheritance, and turn our mourning

into joy, that we may live and praise thy name,

O Lord, and shut not the mouths of them that

sing to thee.

18And all Israel with like mind and supplica-

tion cried to the Lord, because they saw certain

death hanging over their heads.

Chapter 14

Queen Esther also, fearing the danger that was

at hand, had recourse to the Lord.

2And when she had laid away her royal ap-

parel, she put on garments suitable for weep-

ing and mourning: instead of divers precious

ointments, she covered her head with ashes and

dung, and she humbled her body with fasts: and

all the places in which before she was accustomed

to rejoice, she lled with her torn hair.

3And she prayed to the Lord the God of Is-

rael, saying: O my Lord, who alone art our king,help me a desolate woman, and who have no

other helper but thee.

4My danger is in my hands.

5I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord,

didst take Israel from among all nations, and

our fathers from all their predecessors, to pos-

sess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou

hast done to them as thou hast promised.

6We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore

thou hast delivered us into the hands of our en-

emies:

7For we have worshipped their gods. Thou

art just, O Lord.

8And now they are not content to oppress

us with most hard bondage, but attributing the

strength of their hands to the power of their

idols.

9They design to change thy promises, and

destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of

them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory

of thy temple and altar,

10That they may open the mouths of Gen-

tiles, and praise the strength of idols, and mag-

nify for ever a carnal king.

11Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that

are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn

their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him

that hath begun to rage against us.

12Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself to

us in the time of our tribulation, and give me

boldness, O Lord, king of gods, and of all power:

13Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth

in the presence of the lion, and turn his heart to

the hatred of our enemy, that both he himself

may perish, and the rest that consent to him.

14But deliver us by thy hand, and help me,

who have no other helper, but thee, O Lord, who

hast the knowledge of all things.

15And thou knowest that I hate the glory of

the wicked, and abhor the bed of the uncircum-636 Book of Esther

cised, and of every stranger.

16Thou knowest my necessity, that I abom-

inate the sign of my pride and glory, which is

upon my head in the days of my public appear-

ance, and detest it as a menstruous rag, and wear

it not in the days of my silence,

17And that I have not eaten at Aman's table,

nor hath the king's banquet pleased me, and that

I have not drunk the wine of the drink oerings:

18And that thy handmaid hath never re-

joiced, since I was brought hither unto this day

but in thee, O Lord, the God of Abraham.

19O God, who art mighty above all, hear the

voice of them, that have no other hope, and de-

liver us from the hand of the wicked, and deliver

me from my fear.

Chapter 15

And he commanded her (no doubt but he was

Mardochai) to go to the king, and petition for

her people, and for her country.

2Remember, (said he,) the days of thy low

estate, how thou wast brought up by my hand,

because Aman the second after the king hath

spoken against us unto death.

3And do thou call upon the Lord, and speak

to the king for us, and deliver us from death.

4And on the third day she laid away the gar-

ments she wore, and put on her glorious apparel.

5And glittering in royal robes, after she had

called upon God the ruler and Saviour of all, she

took two maids with her,

6And upon one of them she leaned, as if for

delicateness and overmuch tenderness she were

not able to bear up her own body.

7And the other maid followed her lady, bear-

ing up her train

owing on the ground.

8But she with a rosy colour in her face, andwith gracious and bright eyes hid a mind full of

anguish, and exceeding great fear.

9So going in she passed through all doors

in order, and stood before the king, where he

sat upon his royal throne, clothed with his royal

robes, and glittering with gold, and precious

stones, and he was terrible to behold.

10And when he had lifted up his countenance,

and with burning eyes had shewn the wrath of

his heart, the queen sunk down, and her colour

turned pale, and she rested her weary head upon

her handmaid.

11And God changed the king's spirit into

mildness, and all in haste and in fear he leaped

from his throne, and holding her up in his arms,

till she came to herself, caressed her with these

words:

12What is the matter, Esther? I am thy

brother, fear not.

13Thou shalt not die: for this law is not made

for thee, but for all others.

14Come near then, and touch the sceptre.

15And as she held her peace, he took the

golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck, and

kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak

to me?

16She answered: I saw thee, my lord, as an

angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear

of thy majesty.

17For thou, my lord, art very admirable, and

thy face is full of graces.

18And while she was speaking, she fell down

again, and was almost in a swoon.

19But the king was troubled, and all his ser-

vants comforted her.Book of Esther 637

Chapter 16

The great king Artaxerxes, from India to

Ethiopia, to the governors and princes of a hun-

dred and twenty-seven provinces, which obey our

command, sendeth greeting.

2Many have abused unto pride the goodness

of princes, and the honour that hath been be-

stowed upon them:

3And not only endeavour to oppress the

king's subjects, but not bearing the glory that is

given them, take in hand, to practise also against

them that gave it.

4Neither are they content not to return

thanks for benets received, and to violate in

themselves the laws of humanity, but they think

they can also escape the justice of God who seeth

all things.

5And they break out into so great madness,

as to endeavour to undermine by lies such as

observe diligently the oces committed to them,

and do all things in such manner as to be worthy

of all men's praise,

6While with crafty fraud they deceive the ears

of princes that are well meaning, and judge of

others by their own nature.

7Now this is proved both from ancient his-

tories, and by the things which are done daily,

how the good designs of kings are depraved by

the evil suggestions of certain men.

8Wherefore we must provide for the peace of

all provinces.

9Neither must you think, if we command dif-

ferent things, that it cometh of the levity of our

mind, but that we give sentence according to the

quality and necessity of times, as the prot of the

commonwealth requireth.

10Now that you may more plainly under-

stand what we say, Aman the son of Amadathi,

a Macedonian both in mind and country, andhaving nothing of the Persian blood, but with

his cruelty staining our goodness, was received

being a stranger by us:

11And found our humanity so great towards

him, that he was called our father, and was wor-

shipped by all as the next man after the king:

12But he was so far pued up with arrogancy,

as to go about to deprive us of our kingdom and

life.

13For with certain new and unheard of de-

vices he hath sought the destruction of Mar-

dochai, by whose delity and good services our

life was saved, and of Esther the partner of our

kingdom with all their nation:

14Thinking that after they were slain, he

might work treason against us left alone with-

out friends, and might transfer the kingdom of

the Persians to the Macedonians.

15But we have found that the Jews, who were

by that most wicked man appointed to be slain,

are in no fault at all, but contrariwise, use just

laws,

16And are the children of the highest and the

greatest, and the ever living God, by whose ben-

et the kingdom was given both to our fathers

and to us, and is kept unto this day.

17Wherefore know ye that those letters which

he sent in our name, are void and of no eect.

18For which crime both he himself that de-

vised it, and all his kindred hang on gibbets,

before the gates of this city Susan: not we, but

God repaying him as he deserved.

19But this edict, which we now send, shall be

published in all cities, that the Jews may freely

follow their own laws.

20And you shall aid them that they may kill

those who had prepared themselves to kill them,

on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,

which is called Adar.638 Book of Esther

21For the almighty God hath turned this day

of sadness and mourning into joy to them.

22Wherefore you shall also count this day

among other festival days, and celebrate it with

all joy, that it may be known also in times to

come,

23That all they who faithfully obey the Per-

sians, receive a worthy reward for their delity:

but they that are traitors to their kingdom, are

destroyed for their wickedness.

24And let every province and city, that will

not be partaker of this solemnity, perish by the

sword and by re, and be destroyed in such man-

ner as to be made unpassable, both to men and

beasts, for an example of contempt, and disobe-

dience.Book of Job

Chapter 1

There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name

was Job, and that man was simple and upright,

and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

2And there were born to him seven sons and

three daughters.

3And his possession was seven thousand

sheep, and three thousand camels, and ve hun-

dred yoke of oxen, and ve hundred she asses,

and a family exceedingly great: and this man

was great among all the people of the east.

4And his sons went, and made a feast by

houses, every one in his day. And sending, they

called their three sisters, to eat and drink with

them.

5And when the days of their feasting were

gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctied

them: and rising up early, oered holocausts for

every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my

sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their

hearts. So did Job all days.

6Now on a certain day, when the sons of God

came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was

present among them.

7And the Lord said to him: Whence comest

thou? And he answered and said: I have gone

round about the earth, and walked through it.

8And the Lord said to him: Hast thou con-

sidered my servant, Job, that there is none like

him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and

fearing God, and avoiding evil?9And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear

God in vain?

10Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his

house, and all his substance round about, blessed

the works of his hands, and his possession hath

increased on the earth?

11But stretch forth thy hand a little, and

touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee

not to thy face.

12Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all

that he hath is in thy hand: only put not forth

thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth

from the presence of the Lord.

13Now upon a certain day, when his sons and

daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the

house of their eldest brother,

14There came a messenger to Job, and said:

The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding

beside them,

15And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all

away, and slew the servants with the sword; and

I alone have escaped to tell thee.

16And while he was yet speaking, another

came, and said: The re of God fell from heaven,

and striking the sheep and the servants, hath

consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell

thee.

17And while he also was yet speaking, there

came another, and said: The Chaldeans made

three troops, and have fallen upon the camels,

and taken them; moreover, they have slain the

servants with the sword: and I alone have es-640 Book of Job

caped to tell thee.

18He was yet speaking, and behold another

came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were

eating and drinking wine in the house of their

eldest brother,

19A violent wind came on a sudden from the

side of the desert, and shook the four corners of

the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they

are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

20Then Job rose up, and rent his garments,

and having shaven his head, fell down upon the

ground, and worshipped,

21And said: Naked came I out of my mother's

womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord

gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath

pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the

name of the Lord.

22In all these things Job sinned not by his

lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.

Chapter 2

And it came to pass, when on a certain day the

sons of God came, and stood before the Lord,

and Satan came amongst them, and stood in his

sight,

2That the Lord said to Satan: Whence

comest thou? And he answered, and said: I have

gone round about the earth, and walked through

it.

3And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou con-

sidered my servant, Job, that there is none like

him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and

fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping

his innocence? But thou hast moved me against

him, that I should aict him without cause.

4And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin;

and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:

5But put forth thy hand, and touch his boneand his

esh, and then thou shalt see that he

will bless thee to thy face.

6And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is

in thy hand, but yet save his life.

7So Satan went forth from the presence of the

Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer,

from the sole of the foot even to the top of his

head:

8And he took a potsherd and scraped the

corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

9And his wife said to him: Dost thou still

continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

10And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like

one of the foolish women: If we have received

good things at the hand of God, why should we

not receive evil? In all these things Job did not

sin with his lips.

11Now when Job's three friends heard all the

evil that had befallen him, they came every one

from his own place, Eliphaz, the Themanite, and

Baldad, the Suhite, and Sophar, the Naamath-

ite. For they had made an appointment to come

together and visit him, and comfort him.

12And when they had lifted up their eyes

afar o, they knew him not, and crying out, they

wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled

dust upon their heads toward heaven.

13And they sat with him on the ground seven

day and seven nights and no man spoke to him a

word: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Chapter 3

After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his

day,

2And he said:

3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and

the night in which it was said: A man child is

conceived.Book of Job 641

4Let that day be turned into darkness, let not

God regard it from above, and let not the light

shine upon it.

5Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover

it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped

up in bitterness.

6Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that

night, let it not be counted in the days of the

year, nor numbered in the months.

7Let that night be solitary, and not worthy

of praise.

8Let them curse it who curse the day, who

are ready to raise up a leviathan:

9Let the stars be darkened with the mist

thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor

the rising of the dawning of the day:

10Because it shut not up the doors of the

womb that bore me, nor took away evils from

my eyes.
11Why did I not die in the womb? why did

I not perish when I came out of the belly?

12Why received upon the knees? why suckled

at the breasts?

13For now I should have been asleep and still,

and should have rest in my sleep:

14With kings and consuls of the earth, who

build themselves solitudes:

15Or with princes, that possess gold, and ll

their houses with silver:

16Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should

not be; or as they that, being conceived, have

not seen the light.

17There the wicked cease from tumult, and

there the wearied in strength are at rest.

18And they sometime bound together with-

out disquiet, have not heard the voice of the op-

pressor.

19The small and great are there, and the ser-

vant is free from his master.20Why is light given to him that is in misery,

and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

21That look for death, and it cometh not, as

they that dig for a treasure:

22And they rejoice exceedingly when they

have found the grave?

23To a man whose way is hidden, and God

hath surrounded him with darkness?

24Before I eat I sigh: and as over

owing wa-

ters, so is my roaring:

25For the fear which I feared, hath come upon

me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen

me.

26Have I not dissembled? have I not kept

silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation

is come upon me.

Chapter 4

Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and

said:

2If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou

wilt take it ill; but who can withhold the words

he hath conceived?

3Behold thou hast taught many, and thou

hast strengthened the weary hands:

4Thy words have conrmed them that were

staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trem-

bling knees:

5But now the scourge is come upon thee, and

thou faintest: It hath touched thee, and thou art

troubled.

6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy pa-

tience, and the perfection of thy ways?

7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished

being innocent? or when were the just de-

stroyed?

8On the contrary, I have seen those who work

iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,642 Book of Job

9Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed

by the spirit of his wrath.

10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of

the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions,

are broken:

11The tiger hath perished for want of prey,

and the young lions are scattered abroad.

12Now there was a word spoken to me in pri-

vate, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received

the veins of its whisper.

13In the horror of a vision by night, when

deep sleep is wont to hold men,

14Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and

all my bones were arighted:

15And when a spirit passed before me, the

hair of my

esh stood up.

16There stood one whose countenance I knew

not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the

voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

17Shall man be justied in comparison of

God, or shall a man be more pure than his

maker?

18Behold, they that serve him are not stead-

fast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

19How much more shall they that dwell in

houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation,

be consumed as with the moth?

20From morning till evening they shall be cut

down: and because no one understandeth, they

shall perish for ever.

21And they that shall be left, shall be taken

away from them: they shall die, and not in wis-

dom.

Chapter 5

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee,

and turn to some of the saints.2Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy

slayeth the little one.

3I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I

cursed his beauty immediately.

4His children shall be far from safety, and

shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be

none to deliver them.

5Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the

armed man shall take him by violence, and the

thirsty shall drink up his riches.

6Nothing upon earth is done without a cause,

and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.

7Man is born to labour, and the bird to

y.

8Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and ad-

dress my speech to God:

9Who doth great things, and unsearchable

and wonderful things without number:

10Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth,

and watereth all things with waters:

11Who setteth up the humble on high, and

comforteth with health those that mourn.

12Who bringeth to nought the designs of the

malignant, so that their hands cannot accom-

plish what they had begun:

13Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness,

and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:

14They shall meet with darkness in the day,

and grope at noonday as in the night.

15But he shall save the needy from the sword

of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of

the violent.

16And to the needy there shall be hope, but

iniquity shall draw in her mouth.

17Blessed is the man whom God correcteth:

refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

18For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh,

and his hands shall heal.

19In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in

the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.Book of Job 643

20In famine he shall deliver thee from death;

and in battle, from the hand of the sword.

21Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of

the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity

when it cometh.

22In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:

and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the

earth.

23But thou shalt have a covenant with the

stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth

shall be at peace with thee.

24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle

is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt

not sin.

25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall

be multiplied, and thy ospring like the grass of

the earth.

26Thou shalt enter into the grave in abun-

dance, as a heap of wheat is brought in in its

season.

27Behold, this is even so, as we have searched

out: which thou having heard, consider it thor-

oughly in thy mind.

Chapter 6

But Job answered, and said:

2O that my sins, whereby I have deserved

wrath, and the calamity that I suer, were

weighed in a balance.

3As the sand of the sea, this would appear

heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:

4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the

rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the ter-

rors of the Lord war against me.

5Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass?

or will the ox low when he standeth before a full

manger?

6Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that isnot seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that

which, when tasted, bringeth death?

7The things which before my soul would not

touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.

8Who will grant that my request may come:

and that God may give me what I look for?

9And that he that hath begun may destroy

me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me

o?

10And that this may be my comfort, that

aicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I

contradict the words of the Holy one.

11For what is my strength, that I can hold

out? or what is my end, that I should keep pa-

tience?

12My strength is not the strength of stones,

nor is my

esh of brass.

13Behold there is no help for me in myself,

and my familiar friends also are departed from

me.

14He that taketh away mercy from his friend,

for saketh the fear of the Lord.

15My brethren have passed by me, as the

torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.

16They that fear the hoary frost, the snow

shall fall upon them.

17At the time when they shall be scattered

they shall perish: and after it groweth hot, they

shall be melted out of their place.

18The paths of their steps are entangled:

they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.

19Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of

Saba, and wait a little while.

20They arc confounded, because I have

hoped: they are come also even unto me, and

are covered with shame.

21Now you are come: and now, seeing my

aiction, you are afraid.

22Did I say: Bring to me, and give me of your

substance?644 Book of Job

23Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy,

and rescue me out of the hand of the mighty?

24Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if

I have been ignorant of any thing, instruct me.

25Why have you detracted the words of truth,

whereas there is none of you that can reprove

me?

26You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and

you utter words to the wind.

27You rush in upon the fatherless, and you

endeavour to overthrow your friend.

28However, nish what you have begun: give

ear and see whether I lie.

29Answer, I beseech you, without contention:

and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

30And you shall not nd iniquity in my

tongue, neither shall folly sound in my mouth.

Chapter 7

The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his

days are like the days of a hireling.

2As a servant longeth for the shade, as the

hireling looketh for the end of his work;

3So I also have had empty months, and have

numbered to myself wearisome nights.

4If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall

I rise? and again, I shall look for the evening,

and shall be lled with sorrows even till darkness.

5My

esh is clothed with rottenness and the

lth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn to-

gether.

6My days have passed more swiftly than the

web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed with-

out any hope.

7Remember that my life is but wind, and my

eye shall not return to see good things.

8Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy

eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.9As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away:

so he that shall go down to hell shall not come

up.

10Nor shall he return any more into his house,

neither shall his place know him any more

11Wherefore, I will not spare my month, I

will speak in the aiction of my spirit: I will

talk with the bitterness of my soul.

12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast

inclosed me in a prison?

13If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and

I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my

couch:
14Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and

terrify me with visions.

15So that my soul rather chooseth hanging,

and my bones death.

16I have done with hope, I shall now live no

longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

17What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify

him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

18Thou visitest him early in the morning, and

thou provest him suddenly.

19How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suer

me to swallow down my spittle?

20I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O

keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to

thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?

21Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why

dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold

now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek

me in the morning, I shall not be.

Chapter 8

Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:

2How long wilt thou speak these things, and

how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a

strong wind?Book of Job 645

3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the

Almighty overthrow that which is just?

4Although thy children have sinned against

him, and he hath left them in the hand of their

iniquity:

5Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt

beseech the Almighty:

6If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will

presently awake unto thee, and will make the

dwelling of thy justice peaceable:

7In so much, that if thy former things were

small thy latter things would be multiplied ex-

ceedingly.

8For inquire of the former generation, and

search diligently into the memory of the fathers:

9(For we are but of yesterday, and are igno-

rant that our days upon earth are but a shadow

10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak

to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.

11Can the rush be green without moisture?

or sedge bush grow without water?

12When it is yet in

ower, and is not plucked

u with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

13Even so are the ways of all that forget God,

an the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

14His folly shall not please him, and his trust

shall be like the spider's web.

15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall

no stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not

rise:

16He seemeth to have moisture before the

sun cometh; and at his rising, his blossom shall

shoot forth.

17His roots shall be thick upon a heap of

stones; and among the stones he shall abide.

18If one swallow him up out of his place, he

shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.

19For this is the joy of his way, that others

may spring again out of the earth.20God will not cast away the simple, nor

reach out his hand to the evil doer:

21Until thy mouth be lled with laughter,

and thy lips with rejoicing.

22They that hate thee, shall be clothed with

confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall

not stand.

Chapter 9

And Job answered, and said:

2Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot

be justied, compared with God.

3If he will contend with him, he cannot an-

swer him one for a thousand.

4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:

who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

5Who hath removed mountains, and they

whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.

6Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and

the pillars thereof tremble.

7Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not:

and shutteth up the stars, as it were, under a

seal:

8Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and

walketh upon the waves of the sea

9Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and

Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.

10Who doth things great and incomprehensi-

ble, and wonderful, of which there is no number.

11If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he

depart, I shall not understand.

12If he examine on a sudden, who shall an-

swer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?

13God, whose wrath no man can resist, and

under whom they stoop that bear up the world.

14What am I then, that I should answer him,

and have words with him?646 Book of Job

15I, who although I should have any just

thing, would not answer, but would make sup-

plication to my judge.

16And if he should hear me when I call, I

should not believe that he had heard my voice.

17For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and

multiply my wounds even without cause.

18He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he

lleth me with bitterness.

19If strength be demanded, he is most strong:

if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness

for me.

20If I would justify myself, my own mouth

shall condemn me: if I would shew myself inno-

cent, he shall prove me wicked.

21Although I should be simple, even this my

soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of

my life.

22One thing there is that I have spoken, both

the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.

23If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not

laugh at the pains of the innocent.

24The earth is given into the hand of the

wicked, he covereth the face of the judges

thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

25My days have been swifter than a post:

they have

ed away and have not seen good.

26They have passed by as ships carrying

fruits, as an eagle

ying to the prey.

27If I say: I will not speak so: I change my

face, and am tormented with sorrow.

28I feared all my works, knowing that thou

didst not spare the oender.

29But if so also I am wicked, why have I

laboured in vain?

30If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters,

and my hands shall shine ever 80. clean:

31Yet thou shalt plunge me in lth, and my

garments shall abhor me.32For I shall not answer a man that is like my-

self: nor one that may be heard with me equally

in judgment.

33There is none that may be able to reprove

both, and to put his hand between both.

34Let him take his rod away from me, and

let not his fear terrify me.

35I will speak, and will not fear him: for I

cannot answer while I am in fear.

Chapter 10

My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my

speech against myself, I will speak in the bitter-

ness of my soul.

2I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell

me why thou judgest me so?

3Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst

calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy

own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

4Hast thou eyes of

esh: or, shalt thou see as

man seeth?

5Are thy days as the days of man, and are

thy years as the times of men:

6That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity,

and search after my sin?

7And shouldst know that I have done no

wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can

deliver out of thy hand?

8Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me

wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me

down headlong on a sudden?

9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast

made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me

into dust

10Hast thou not milked me as milk, and cur-

dled me like cheese?

11Thou hast clothed me with skin and

esh:

thou hast put me together with bones andBook of Job 647

sinews:

12Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and

thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

13Although thou conceal these things in thy

heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all

things.

14If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me

for an hour: why dost thou not suer me to be

clean from my iniquity?

15And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if

just, I shall not lift up my head, being lled with

aiction and misery.

16And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness,

and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.

17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me,

and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains

war against me.

18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the

womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye

might not see me l

19I should have been as if I had not been,

carried from the womb to the grave.

20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended

shortly? Suer me, therefore, that I may lament

my sorrow a little:

21Before I go and return no more, to a land

that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

22A land of misery and darkness, where the

shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting

horror dwelleth.
Chapter 11

Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and

said:

2Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also?

or shall a man full of talk be justied?

3Shall men hold their peace to thee only?

and when thou hast mocked others, shall no manconfute thee?

4For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I

am clean in thy sight.

5And I wish that God would speak with thee,

and would open his lips to thee,

6That he might shew thee the secrets of wis-

dom, and that his law is manifold, and thou

mightest understand that he exacteth much less

of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.

7Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the

steps of God, and wilt nd out the Almighty

perfectly?

8He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou

do? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou

know?

9The measure of him is longer than the earth,

and broader than the sea.

10If he shall overturn all things, or shall press

them together, who shall contradict him?

11For he knoweth the vanity of men, and

when he seeth iniquity, doth he not consider it?

12A vain man is lifted up into pride, and

thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

13But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast

spread thy hands to him.

14If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity

that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain

in thy tabernacle:

15Then mayst thou lift up thy face without

spot, and thou shalt be steadfast, and shalt not

fear.

16Thou shalt also forget misery, and remem-

ber it only as waters that are passed away.

17And brightness like that of the noonday,

shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou

shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as

the day star.

18And thou shalt have condence, hope being

set before thee, and being buried thou shalt sleep

secure.648 Book of Job

19Thou shalt rest, and there shall be none

to make thee afraid: and many shall entreat thy

face.

20But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and

the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope

the abomination of the soul.

Chapter 12

Then Job answered, and said:

2Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom

die with you?

3I also have a heart as well as you: for who

is ignorant of these things, which you know?

4He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall

call upon God and he will hear him: for the sim-

plicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

5The lamp despised in the thoughts of the

rich, is ready for the time appointed.

6The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they

provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath

given all into their hands:

7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach

thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell

thee.

8Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee:

and the shes of the sea shall tell.

9Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord

hath made all these things?

10In whose hand is the soul of every living

thing, and the spirit of all

esh of man.

11Doth not the ear discern words, and the

palate of him that eateth, the taste?

12In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of

days prudence.

13With him is wisdom and strength, he hath

counsel and understanding.

14If he pull down, there is no man that can

build up: if he shut up a man, there is none thatcan open.

15If he withhold the waters, all things shall

be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall

overturn the earth.

16With him is strength and wisdom: he

knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is de-

ceived.

17He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end,

and judges to insensibility.

18He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth

their loins with a cord.

19He leadeth away priests without glory, and

overthroweth nobles.

20He changeth the speech of the true speak-

ers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.

21He poureth contempt upon princes, and

relieveth them that were oppressed.

22He discovereth deep things out of darkness,

and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.

23He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth

them, and restoreth them again after they were

overthrown.

24He changeth the heart of the princes of

the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that

they walk in vain where there is no way.

25They shall grope as in the dark, and not

in the light, and he shall make them stagger like

men that are drunk.

Chapter 13

Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and

my ear hath heard them, and I have understood

them all.

2According to your knowledge I also know:

neither am I inferior to you.

3But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I

desire to reason with God.Book of Job 649

4Having rst shewn that you are forgers of

lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

5And I wish you would hold your peace, that

you might be thought to be wise men.

6Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to

the judgment of my lips.

7Hath God any need of your lie, that you

should speak deceitfully for him?

8Do you accept this person, and do you en-

deavour to judge for God?

9Or shall it please him, from whom nothing

can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a

man, with your deceitful dealings?

10He shall reprove you, because in secret you

accept his person.

11As soon as he shall move himself, he shall

trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.

12Your remembrance shall be compared to

ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

13Hold your peace a little while, that I may

speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

14Why do I tear my

esh with my teeth, and

carry my soul in my hands?

15Although he should kill me, I will trust in

him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

16And he shall be my saviour: for no hyp-

ocrite shall come before his presence.

17Hear ye my speech, and receive with your

ears hidden truths.

18If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be

found just.

19Who is he that will plead against me?

let him come: why am I consumed holding my

peace?

20Two things only do not to me, and then

from thy face I shall not be hid:

21Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let

not thy dread terrify me.

22Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I

will speak, and do thou answer me.23How many are my iniquities and sins?

make me know my crimes and oenses.

24Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me

thy enemy?

25Against a leaf, that is carried away with the

wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest

a dry straw.

26For thou writest bitter things against me,

and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.

27Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and

hast observed all my paths, and hast considered

the steps of my feet:

28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and

as a garment that is motheaten.

Chapter 14

Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is

lled with many miseries.

2Who cometh forth like a

ower, and is de-

stroyed, and

eeth as a shadow, and never con-

tinueth in the same state.

3And dost thou think it meet to open thy

eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into

judgment with thee?

4Who can make him clean that is conceived

of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

5The days of man are short, and the number

of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed

his bounds which cannot be passed.

6Depart a little from him, that he may rest

until his wished for day come, as that of the

hireling.

7A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth

green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.

8If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock

be dead in the dust:

9At the scent of water, it shall spring, and

bring forth leaves, as when it was rst planted.650 Book of Job

10But man when he shall be dead, and

stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

11As if the waters should depart out of the

sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;

12So man when he is fallen asleep shall not

rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall

not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.

13Who will grant me this, that thou mayst

protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath

pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt re-

member me?

14Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live

again? all the days in which I am now in warfare,

I expect until my change come.

15Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee:

to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out

thy right hand.

16Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but

spare my sins.

17Thou hast sealed up my oences as it were

in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.

18A mountain falling cometh to nought, and

a rock is removed out of its place.

19Waters wear away the stones, and with in-

undation the ground by little and little is washed

away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.

20Thou hast strengthened him for a little

while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt

change his face, and shalt send him away.

21Whether his children come to honour or

dishonour, he shall not understand.

22But yet his

esh, while he shall live, shall

have pain, and his soul shall mourn over him.

Chapter 15

And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:

2Will a wise man answer as if he were speak-

ing in the wind, and ll his stomach with burningheat?

3Thou reprovest him by words, who is not

equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is

not good for thee.

4As much as is in thee, thou hast made void

fear, and hast taken away prayers from before

God.

5For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and

thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.

6Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not

I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.

7Art thou the rst man that was born, or

wast thou made before the hills?

8Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his

wisdom be inferior to thee?

9What knowest thou that we are ignorant of?

what dost thou understand that we know not?

10There are with us also aged and ancient

men, much elder than thy fathers.

11Is it a great matter that God should com-

fort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

12Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why

dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were

thinking great things?

13Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to

utter such words out of thy mouth?

14What is man that he should be without

spot, and he that is born of a woman that he

should appear just?

15Behold among his saints none is unchange-

able, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.

16How much more is man abominable, and

unprotable, who drinketh iniquity like water?

17I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell

thee what I have seen.

18Wise men confess and hide not their fa-

thers.

19To whom alone the earth was given, and

no stranger hath passed among them.Book of Job 651

20The wicked man is proud all his days, and

the number of the years of his tyranny is uncer-

tain.

21The sound of dread is always in his ears:

and when there is peace, he always suspecteth

treason.

22He believeth not that he may return from

darkness to light, looking round about for the

sword on every side.

23When he moveth himself to seek bread, he

knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his

hand.
24Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress

shall surround him, as a king that is prepared

for the battle.

25For he hath stretched out his hand against

God, and hath strengthened himself against the

Almighty.

26He hath run against him with his neck

raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.

27Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat

hangeth down on his sides.

28He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in

desert houses that are reduced into heaps.

29He shall not be enriched, neither shall his

substance continue, neither shall he push his root

in the earth.

30He shall not depart out of darkness: the

ame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be

taken away by the breath of his own mouth.

31He shall not believe, being vainly deceived

by error, that he may be redeemed with any

price.

32Before his days be full he shall perish: and

his hands shall wither away.

33He shall be blasted as a vine when its

grapes are in the rst

ower, and as an olive

tree that casteth its

ower.

34For the congregation of the hypocrite is

barren, and re shall devour their tabernacles,who love to take bribes.

35He hath conceived sorrow, and hath

brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth

deceits.

Chapter 16

Then Job answered, and said:

2I have often heard such things as these: you

are all troublesome comforters.

3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any

trouble to thee to speak?

4I also could speak like you: and would God

your soul were for my soul.

5I would comfort you also with words, and

would wag my head over you.

6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and

would move my lips, as sparing you.

7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain

will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not

depart from me.

8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and

all my limbs are brought to nothing.

9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a

false speaker riseth up against my face, contra-

dicting me.

10He hath gathered together his fury against

me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with

his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me

with terrible eyes.

11They have opened their mouths upon me,

and reproaching me they have struck me on the

cheek, they are lled with my pains.

12God hath shut me up with the unjust man,

and hath delivered me into the hands of the

wicked.

13I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on

a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by652 Book of Job

my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me

up to be his mark.

14He hath compassed me round about with

his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath

not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on

the earth,

15He hath torn me with wound upon wound,

he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

16I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and

have covered my

esh with ashes.

17My face is swollen with weeping, and my

eyelids are dim.

18These things have I suered without the

iniquity of my hand, when I oered pure prayers

to God.

19O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither

let my cry nd a hiding place in thee.

20For behold my witness is in heaven, and he

that knoweth my conscience is on high.

21My friends are full of words: my eye

poureth out tears to God.

22And O that a man might so be judged with

God, as the son of man is judged with his com-

panion!

23For behold short years pass away, and I am

walking in a path by which I shall not return.

Chapter 17

My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be short-

ened and only the grave remaineth for me.

2I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in

bitterness.

3Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee,

and let any man's hand ght against me.

4Thou hast set their heart far from under-

standing, therefore they shall not be exalted.

5He promiseth a prey to his companions, and

the eyes of his children shall fail.6He hath made me as it were a byword of the
people, and I am an example before them.

7My eye is dim through indignation, and my

limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

8The just shall be astonished at this, and the

innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.

9And the just man shall hold on his way, and

he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and

stronger.

10Wherefore be you all converted, and come,

and I shall not nd among you any wise man.

11My days have passed away, my thoughts

are dissipated, tormenting my heart.

12They have turned night into day, and after

darkness I hope for light again.

13If I wait hell is my house, and I have made

my bed in darkness.

14I have said to rottenness: Thou art my

father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

15Where is now then my expectation, and

who considereth my patience?

16All that I have shall go down into the deep-

est pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall

have rest?

Chapter 18

Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

2How long will you throw out words? under-

stand rst, and so let us speak.

3Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted

vile before you?

4Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury,

shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall

rocks be removed out of their place?

5Shall not the light of the wicked be extin-

guished, and the

ame of his re not shine?

6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and

the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.Book of Job 653

7The step of his strength shall be straitened,

and his own counsel shall cast him down head-

long.

8For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and

walketh in its meshes.

9The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare,

and thirst shall burn against him.

10A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and

his trap upon the path.

11Fears shall terrify him on every side, and

shall entangle his feet.

12Let his strength be wasted with famine,

and let hunger invade his ribs.

13Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the

rstborn death consume his arms.

14Let his condence be rooted out of his

tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him

like a king.

15Let the companions of him that is not,

dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprin-

kled in his tent.

16Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his

harvest destroyed above.

17Let the memory of him perish from the

earth, and let not his name be renowned in the

streets.

18He shall drive him out of light into dark-

ness, and shall remove him out of the world.

19His seed shall not subsist, nor his ospring

among his people, nor any remnants in his coun-

try.

20They that come after him shall be aston-

ished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them

that went before.

21These then are the tabernacles of the

wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth

not God.Chapter 19

Then Job answered, and said:

2How long do you aict my soul, and break

me in pieces with words?

3Behold, these ten times you confound me,

and are not ashamed to oppress me.

4For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance

shall be with me.

5But you set yourselves up against me, and

reprove me with my reproaches.

6At least now understand, that God hath not

aicted me with an equal judgment, and com-

passed me with his scourges.

7Behold I shall cry suering violence, and no

one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none

to judge.

8He hath hedged in my path round about,

and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set

darkness.

9He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath

taken the crown from my head.

10He hath destroyed me on every side, and

I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as

from a tree that is plucked up.

11His wrath is kindled against me, and he

hath counted me as his enemy.

12His troops have come together, and have

made themselves a way by me, and have besieged

my tabernacle round about.

13He hath put my brethren far from me, and

my acquaintance like strangers have departed

from me.

14My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they

that knew me, have forgotten me.

15They that dwell in my house, and my maid-

servants have counted me as a stranger, and I

have been like an alien in their eyes.

16I called my servant, and he gave me no

answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.654 Book of Job

17My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I

entreated the children of my womb.

18Even fools despised me, and when I was

gone from them, they spoke against me.

19They that were sometime my counsellors,

have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is

turned against me.

20The

esh being consumed, my bone hath

cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left

about my teeth.

21Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least

you my friends, because the hand of the Lord

hath touched me.

22Why do you persecute me as God, and glut

yourselves with my

esh?

23Who will grant me that my words may be

written? who will grant me that they may be

marked down in a book?

24With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or

else be graven with an instrument in

int stone?

25For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and

in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

26And I shall be clothed again with my skin,

and in my

esh I shall see my God.

27Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall

behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up

in my bosom.

28Why then do you say now: Let us persecute

him, and let us nd occasion of word against

him?

29Flee then from the face of the sword, for

the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know

ye that there is a judgment.

Chapter 20

Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and

said:2Therefore various thoughts succeed one an-

other in me, and my mind is hurried away to

dierent things.

3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me,

I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding

shall answer for me.

4This I know from the beginning, since man

was placed upon the earth,

5That the praise of the wicked is short, and

the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

6If his pride mount up even to heaven, and

his head touch the clouds:

7In the end he shall be destroyed like a

dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say:

Where is he?

8As a dream that

eeth away he shall not be

found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him

no more, neither shall his place any more behold

him.

10His children shall be oppressed with want,

and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

11His bones shall be lled with the vices of

his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the

dust.

12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth,

he will hide it under his tongue.

13He will spare it, and not leave it, and will

hide it in his throat.

14His bread in his belly shall be turned into

the gall of asps within him,

15The riches which he hath swallowed, he

shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of

his belly.

16He shall suck the head of asps, and the

viper's tongue shall kill him.

17Let him not see the streams of the river,

the brooks of honey and of butter.

18He shall be punished for all that he did,

and yet shall not be consumed: according to theBook of Job 655

multitude of his devices so also shall he suer.

19Because he broke in and stripped the poor:

he hath violently taken away a house which he

did not build.

20And yet his belly was not lled: and when

he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be

able to possess them.

21There was nothing left of his meat, and

therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:

22When he shall be lled, he shall be strait-

ened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall

upon him.

23May his belly be lled, that God may send

forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and

rain down his war upon him.

24He shall
ee from weapons of iron, and shall

fall upon a bow of brass.

25The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth

from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitter-

ness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon

him.

26All darkness is hid in his secret places: a

re that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall

be aicted when left in his tabernacle.

27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and

the earth shall rise up against him.

28The ospring of his house shall be exposed,

he shall be pulled down in the day of God's

wrath.

29This is the portion of a wicked man from

God, and the inheritance of his doings from the

Lord.

Chapter 21

Then Job answered, and said:

2Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do

penance.3Suer me, and I will speak, and after, if you

please, laugh at my words.

4Is my debate against man, that I should not

have just reason to be troubled?

5Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay

your nger on your mouth.

6As for me, when I remember, I am afraid,

and trembling taketh hold on my

esh.

7Why then do the wicked live, are they ad-

vanced, and strengthened with riches?

8Their seed continueth before them, a mul-

titude of kinsmen, and of children's children in

their sight.

9Their houses are secure and peaceable, and

the rod of God is not upon them.

10Their cattle have conceived, and failed not:

their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her

fruit.

11Their little ones go out like a

ock, and

their children dance and play.

12They take the timbrel, and the harp, and

rejoice at the sound of the organ.

13They spend their days in wealth, and in a

moment they go down to hell.

14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we

desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve

him? and what doth it prot us if we pray to

him?

16Yet because their good things are not in

their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far

from me.

17How often shall the lamp of the wicked be

put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he

shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

18They shall be as cha before the face of

the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scat-

tereth.

19God shall lay up the sorrow of the father

for his children: and when he shall repay, then656 Book of Job

shall he know.

20His eyes shall see his own destruction, and

he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21For what is it to him what befalleth his

house after him: and if the number of his months

be diminished by one half?

22Shall any one teach God knowledge, who

judgeth those that are high?

23One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and

happy.

24His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are

moistened with marrow.

25But another dieth in bitterness of soul

without any riches:

26And yet they shall sleep together in the

dust, and worms shall cover them.

27Surely I know your thoughts, and your un-

just judgments against me.

28For you say: Where is the house of the

prince? and where are the dwelling places of the

wicked?

29Ask any one of them that go by the way,

and you shall perceive that he knoweth these

same things.

30Because the wicked man is reserved to the

day of destruction, and he shall be brought to

the day of wrath.

31Who shall reprove his way to his face? and

who shall repay him what he hath done?

32He shall be brought to the graves, and shall

watch in the heap of the dead.

33He hath been acceptable to the gravel of

Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him,

and there are innumerable before him.

34How then do ye comfort me in vain,

whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant

to truth?Chapter 22

Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

2Can man be compared with God, even

though he were of perfect knowledge?

3What doth it prot God if thou be just? or

what dost thou give him if thy way be unspot-

ted?

4Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with

thee into judgment:

5And not for thy manifold wickedness and

thy innite iniquities?

6For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy

brethren without cause, and stripped the naked

of their clothing.

7Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou

hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

8In the strength of thy arm thou didst pos-

sess the land, and being the most mighty thou

holdest it.

9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the

arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.

10Therefore art thou surrounded with shares,

and sudden fear troubleth thee.

11And didst thou think that thou shouldst

not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be

covered with the violence of over

owing waters?

12Dost not thou think that God is higher

than heaven, and is elevated above the height of

the stars?

13And thou sayst: What doth God know?

and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

14The clouds are his covert, and he doth not

consider our things, and he walketh about the

poles of heaven.

15Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages,

which wicked men have trodden?

16Who were taken away before their time,

and a

ood hath overthrown their foundation.Book of Job 657

17Who said to God: Depart from us: and

looked upon the Almighty as if he could do noth-

ing:

18Whereas he had lled their houses with

good things: whose way of thinking be far from

me.

19The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and

the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.

20Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath

not re devoured the remnants of them?

21Submit thyself then to him, and be at

peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best

fruits.

22Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up

his words in thy heart.

23If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou

shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far

from thy tabernacle.

24He shall give for earth

int, and for

int

torrents of gold.

25And the Almighty shall be against thy en-

emies, and silver shall be heaped together for

thee.

26Then shalt thou abound in delights in the

Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

27Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear

thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

28Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come

to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.

29For he that hath been humbled, shall be in

glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he

shall be saved.

30The innocent shall be saved, and he shall

be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

Chapter 23

Then Job answered, and said:2Now also my words are in bitterness, and

the hand of my scourge is more grievous than

my mourning.

3Who will grant me that I might know and

nd him, and come even to his throne?

4I would set judgment before him, and would

ll my mouth with complaints.

5That I might know the words that he would

answer me, and understand what he would say

to me.

6I would not that he should contend with me

with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the

weight of his greatness.

7Let him propose equity against me, and let

my judgment come to victory.

8But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if

to the west, I shall not understand him.

9If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall

not take hold on him: if I turn myself to the right

hand, I shall not see him.

10But he knoweth my way, and has tried me

as gold that passeth through the re:

11My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept

his way, and have not declined from it.

12I have not departed from the command-

ments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I

have hid in my bosom.

13For he is alone, and no man can turn away

his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath de-

sired, that hath he done.

14And when he shall have fullled his will in

me, many other like things are also at hand with

him.
15And therefore I am troubled at his pres-

ence, and when I consider him I am made pen-

sive with fear.

16God hath softened my heart, and the

Almighty hath troubled me.

17For I have not perished because of the dark-

ness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist658 Book of Job

covered my face.

Chapter 24

Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they

that know him, know not his days.

2Some have removed landmarks, have taken

away

ocks by force, and fed them.

3They have driven away the ass of the father-

less, and have taken away the widow's ox for a

pledge.

4They have overturned the way of the poor,

and have oppressed together the meek of the

earth.

5Others like wild asses in the desert go forth

to their work: by watching for a prey they get

bread for their children.

6They reap the eld that is not their own,

and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by

violence they have oppressed.

7They send men away naked, taking away

their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

8Who are wet, with the showers of the

mountains, and having no covering embrace the

stones.

9They have violently robbed the fatherless,

and stripped the poor common people.

10From the naked and them that go without

clothing, and from the hungry they have taken

away the ears of corn.

11They have taken their rest at noon among

the stores of them, who after having trodden the

winepresses suer thirst.

12Out of the cities they have made men to

groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried

out, and God doth not suer it to pass unre-

venged.

13They have been rebellious to the light, they

have not known his ways, neither have they re-turned by his paths.

14The murderer riseth at the very break of

day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but

in the night he will be as a thief.

15The eye of the adulterer observeth dark-

ness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will

cover his face.

16He diggeth through houses in the dark, as

in the day they had appointed for themselves,

and they have not known the light.

17If the morning suddenly appear, it is to

them the shadow of death: and they walk in

darkness as if it were in light.

18He is light upon the face of the water:

cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not

walk by the way of the vineyards.

19Let him pass from the snow waters to ex-

cessive heat, and his sin even to hell.

20Let mercy forget him: may worms be his

sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but

be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.

21For he hath fed the barren that beareth

not, and to the widow he hath done no good.

22He hath pulled down the strong by his

might: and when he standeth up, he shall not

trust to his life.

23God hath given him place for penance, and

he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon

his ways.

24They are lifted up for a little while and

shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all

things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops

of the ears of corn they shall be broken.

25And if it be not so, who can convince me

that I have lied, and set my words before God?Book of Job 659

Chapter 25

Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they

that know him, know not his days.

2Some have removed landmarks, have taken

away

ocks by force, and fed them.

3They have driven away the ass of the father-

less, and have taken away the widow's ox for a

pledge.

4They have overturned the way of the poor,

and have oppressed together the meek of the

earth.

5Others like wild asses in the desert go forth

to their work: by watching for a prey they get

bread for their children.

6They reap the eld that is not their own,

and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by

violence they have oppressed.

7They send men away naked, taking away

their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

8Who are wet, with the showers of the

mountains, and having no covering embrace the

stones.

9They have violently robbed the fatherless,

and stripped the poor common people.

10From the naked and them that go without

clothing, and from the hungry they have taken

away the ears of corn.

11They have taken their rest at noon among

the stores of them, who after having trodden the

winepresses suer thirst.

12Out of the cities they have made men to

groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried

out, and God doth not suer it to pass unre-

venged.

13They have been rebellious to the light, they

have not known his ways, neither have they re-

turned by his paths.

14The murderer riseth at the very break of

day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: butin the night he will be as a thief.

15The eye of the adulterer observeth dark-

ness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will

cover his face.

16He diggeth through houses in the dark, as

in the day they had appointed for themselves,

and they have not known the light.

17If the morning suddenly appear, it is to

them the shadow of death: and they walk in

darkness as if it were in light.

18He is light upon the face of the water:

cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not

walk by the way of the vineyards.

19Let him pass from the snow waters to ex-

cessive heat, and his sin even to hell.

20Let mercy forget him: may worms be his

sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but

be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.

21For he hath fed the barren that beareth

not, and to the widow he hath done no good.

22He hath pulled down the strong by his

might: and when he standeth up, he shall not

trust to his life.

23God hath given him place for penance, and

he abuseth it unto pride: but his eyes are upon

his ways.

24They are lifted up for a little while and

shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all

things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops

of the ears of corn they shall be broken.

25And if it be not so, who can convince me

that I have lied, and set my words before God?

Chapter 26

Then Job answered, and said:

2Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is

weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him

that has no strength?660 Book of Job

3To whom hast thou given counsel? per-

haps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast

shewn thy very great prudence.

4Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it

not him that made life?

5Behold the giants groan under the waters,

and they that dwell with them.

6Hell is naked before him, and there is no

covering for destruction.

7He stretched out the north over the empty

space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

8He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so

that they break not out and fall down together.

9He withholdeth the face of his throne, and

spreadeth his cloud over it.

10He hath set bounds about the waters, till

light and darkness come to an end.

11The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread

at his beck.

12By his power the seas are suddenly gath-

ered together, and his wisdom has struck the

proud one.

13His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and

his obstetric hand brought forth the winding ser-

pent.

14Lo, these things are said in part of his ways:

and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of

his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder

of his greatness?

Chapter 27

Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

2As God liveth, who hath taken away my

judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought

my soul to bitterness,

3As long as breath remaineth in me, and the

spirit of God in my nostrils,4My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall

my tongue contrive lying.

5God forbid that I should judge you to be

just: till I die I will not depart from my inno-

cence.

6My justication, which I have begun to hold,

I will not forsake: for my heart doth not repre-

hend me in all my life.

7Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my

adversary as the wicked one.

8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if

through covetousness he take by violence, and

God deliver not his soul?

9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall

come upon him?

10Or can he delight himself in the Almighty,

and call upon God at all times?

11I will teach you by the hand of God, what

the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

12Behold you all know it, and why do you

speak vain things without cause?

13This is the portion of a wicked man with

God, and the inheritance of the violent, which

they shall receive of the Almighty.

14If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for

the sword, and his grandsons shall not be lled

with bread.

15They that shall remain of him, shall be

buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

16If he shall heap together silver as earth,

and prepare raiment as clay,

17He shall prepare indeed, but the just man

shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall

divide the silver.

18He hath built his house as a moth, and as

a keeper he hath made a booth.

19The rich man when he shall sleep shall take

away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes

and nd nothing.Book of Job 661

20Poverty like water shall take hold on him,

a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

21A burning wind shall take him up, and

carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch

him from his place.

22And he shall cast upon him, and shall not

spare: out of his hand he would willingly

ee.

23He shall clasp his hands upon him, and

shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

Chapter 28

Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath

a place wherein it is melted.

2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone

melted with heat is turned into brass.

3He hath set a time for darkness, and the end

of all things he considereth, the stone also that

is in the dark and the shadow of death.

4The

ood divideth from the people that are

on their journey, those whom the food of the

needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be

come at.

5The land, out of which bread grew in its

place, hath been overturned with re.

6The stones of it are the place of sapphires,

and the clods of it are gold.

7The bird hath not known the path, neither

hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.

8The children of the merchants have not trod-

den it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.

9He hath stretched forth his hand to the

int,

he hath overturned mountains from the roots.

10In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his

eye hath seen every precious thing.

11The depths also of rivers he hath searched,

and hidden things he hath brought forth to light.

12But where is wisdom to be found, and

where is the place of understanding?13Man knoweth not the price thereof, nei-

ther is it found in the land of them that live in

delights.

14The depth saith: It is not in me: and the

sea saith: It is not with me.

15The nest gold shall not purchase it, nei-

ther shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.

16It shall not be compared with the dyed

colours of India, or with the most precious stone

sardonyx, or the sapphire.

17Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither

shall any vessels of gold be changed for it.

18High and eminent things shall not be men-

tioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn

out of secret places.

19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to

it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest

dyeing.
20Whence then cometh wisdom? and where

is the place of understanding?

21It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the

fowls of the air know it not.

22Destruction and death have said: With our

ears we have heard the fame thereof.

23God understandeth the way of it, and he

knoweth the place thereof.

24For he beholdeth the ends of the world:

and looketh on all things that are under heaven.

25Who made a weight for the winds, and

weighed the waters by measure.

26When he gave a law for the rain, and a way

for the sounding storms.

27Then he saw it, and declared, and pre-

pared, and searched it.

28And he said to man: Behold the fear of the

Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil,

is understanding.662 Book of Job

Chapter 29

Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

2Who will grant me, that I might be accord-

ing to the months past, according to the days in

which God kept me?

3When his lamp shined over my head, and I

walked by his light in darkness?

4As I was in the days of my youth, when God

was secretly in my tabernacle?

5When the Almighty was with me: and my

servants round about me?

6When I washed my feet with butter, and the

rock poured me out rivers of oil?

7When I went out to the gate of the city, and

in the street they prepared me a chair?

8The young men saw me, and hid themselves:

and the old men rose up and stood.

9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the

nger on their mouth.

10The rulers held their peace, and their

tongue cleaved to their throat.

11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the

eye that saw me gave witness to me:

12Because I had delivered the poor man that

cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

13The blessing of him that was ready to per-

ish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of

the widow.

14I was clad with justice: and I clothed my-

self with my judgment, as with a robe and a

diadem.

15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the

lame.
16I was the father of the poor: and the cause

which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and

out of his teeth I took away the prey.

18And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as

a palm tree shall multiply my days.19My root is opened beside the waters, and

dew shall continue in my harvest.

20My glory shall always be renewed, and my

bow in my hand shall be repaired.

21They that heard me, waited for my sen-

tence, and being attentive held their peace at

my counsel.

22To my words they durst add nothing, and

my speech dropped upon them.

23They waited for me as for rain, and they

opened their mouth as for a latter shower.

24If at any time I laughed on them, they

believed not, and the light of my countenance

fell not on earth.

25If I had a mind to go to them, I sat rst,

and when I sat as a king, with his army standing

about him, yet I was a comforter of them that

mourned.

Chapter 30

But now the younger in time scorn me, whose

fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my

ock:

2The strength of whose hands was to me as

nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life

itself.

3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed

in the wilderness, disgured with calamity and

misery.

4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and

the root of junipers was their food.

5Who snatched up these things out of the

valleys, and when they had found any of them,

they ran to them with a cry.

6They dwelt in the desert places of torrents,

and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

7They pleased themselves among these kind

of things, and counted it delightful to be underBook of Job 663

the briers.

8The children of foolish and base men, and

not appearing at all upon the earth.

9Now I am turned into their song, and am

become their byword.

10They abhor me, and

ee far from me, and

are not afraid to spit in my face.

11For he hath opened his quiver, and hath af-

icted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.

12At the right hand of my rising, my calami-

ties forthwith arose: they have overthrown my

feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths

as with waves.

13They have destroyed my ways, they have

lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed,

and there was none to help.

14They have rushed in upon me, as when

a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have

rolled themselves down to my miseries.

15I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou

hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity

hath passed away like a cloud.

16And now my soul fadeth within myself, and

the days of aiction possess me.

17In the night my bone is pierced with sor-

rows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.

18With the multitude of them my garment

is consumed, and they have girded me about, as

with the collar of my coat.

19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to

embers and ashes.

20I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I

stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

21Thou art changed to be cruel toward me,

and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against

me.

22Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as

it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily

dashed me.23I know that thou wilt deliver me to death,

where a house is appointed for every one that

liveth.

24But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand

to their consumption: and if they shall fall down

thou wilt save.

25I wept heretofore for him that was aicted,

and my soul had compassion on the poor.

26I expected good things, and evils are come

upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke

out.

27My inner parts have boiled without any

rest, the days of aiction have prevented me.

28I went mourning without indignation; I

rose up, and cried in the crowd.

29I was the brother of dragons, and compan-

ion of ostriches.

30My skin is become black upon me, and my

bones are dried up with heat.

31My harp is turned to mourning, and my

organ into the voice of those that weep.

Chapter 31

I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would

not so much as think upon a virgin.

2For what part should God from above have

in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from

on high?

3Is not destruction to the wicked, and aver-

sion to them that work iniquity?

4Doth not he consider my ways, and number

all my steps?

5If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath

made haste to deceit:

6Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let

God know my simplicity.

7If my step hath turned out of the way, and

if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot664 Book of Job

hath cleaved to my hands:

8Then let me sow and let another reap: and

let my ospring be rooted out.

9If my heart hath been deceived upon a

woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's

door:

10Let my wife be the harlot of another, and

let other men lie with her.

11For this is a heinous crime, and a most

grievous iniquity.
12It is a re that devoureth even to destruc-

tion, and rooteth up all things that spring.

13If I have despised to abide judgment with

my manservant, or my maidservant, when they

had any controversy against me:

14For what shall I do when God shall rise to

judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I

answer him?

15Did not he that made me in the womb make

him also: and did not one and the same form me

in the womb?

16If I have denied to the poor what they de-

sired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:

17If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the

fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

18(For from my infancy mercy grew up with

me: and it came out with me from my mother's

womb:)

19If I have despised him that was perishing

for want of clothing, and the poor man that had

no covering:

20If his sides have not blessed me, and if he

were not warmed with the

eece of my sheep:

21If I have lifted up my hand against the

fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in

the gate:

22Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let

my arm with its bones be broken.

23For I have always feared God as waves

swelling over me, and his weight I was unableto bear.

24If I have thought gold my strength, and

have said to ne gold: My condence:

25If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and

because my hand had gotten much.

26If I beheld the sun when it shined and the

moon going in brightness:

27And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and

I have kissed my hand with, my mouth:

28Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial

against the most high God.

29If I have been glad at the downfall of him

that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had

found him.

30For I have not given my mouth to sin, by

wishing a curse to his soul.

31If the men of my tabernacle have not said:

Who will give us of his

esh that we may be

lled?

32The stranger did not stay without, my door

was open to the traveller.

33If as a man I have hid my sin, and have

concealed my iniquity in my bosom.

34If I have been afraid at a very great multi-

tude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terried

me: and have not rather held my peace, and not

gone out of the door.

35Who would grant me a hearing, that the

Almighty may hear my desire: and that he him-

self that judgeth would write a book,

36That I may carry it on my shoulder, and

put it about me as a crown?

37At every step of mine I would pronounce

it, and oer it as to a prince.

38If my land cry against me, and with it the

furrows thereof mourn:

39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without

money, and have aicted the son of the tillers

thereof:Book of Job 665

40Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat,

and thorns instead of barley.

Chapter 32

So these three men ceased to answer Job, be-

cause he seemed just to himself.

2And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of

the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved

to indignation: now he was angry against Job,

because he said he was just before God.

3And he was angry with his friends, because

they had not found a reasonable answer, but only

had condemned Job.

4So Eliu waited while Job was speaking be-

cause they were his elders that were speaking.

5But when he saw that the three were not

able to answer, he was exceedingly angry.

6Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite

answered, and said: I am younger in days, and

you are more ancient, therefore hanging down

my head, I was afraid to shew you my opinion.

7For I hoped that greater age would speak,

and that a multitude of years would teach wis-

dom.

8But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the

inspiration of the Almighty giveth understand-

ing.

9They that are aged are not the wise men,

neither do the ancients understand judgment.

10Therefore I will speak: Hearken to me, I

also will shew you my wisdom.

11For I have waited for your words, I have

given ear to your wisdom, as long as you were

disputing in words.

12And as long as I thought you said some

thing, I considered: but, as I see, there is none

of you that can convince Job, and answer his

words.13Lest you should say: We have found wis-

dom, God hath cast him down, not man.

14He hath spoken nothing to me, and I will

not answer him according to your words.

15They were afraid, and answered no more,

and they left o speaking.

16Therefore because I have waited, and they

have not spoken: they stood, and answered no

more:

17I also will answer my part, and will shew

my knowledge.

18For I am full of matter to speak of, and the

spirit of my bowels straiteneth me.

19Behold, my belly is as new wine which wan-

teth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.

20I will speak and take breath a little: I will

open my lips, and will answer.

21I will not accept the person of man, and I

will not level God with man.

22For I know not how long I shall continue,

and whether after a while my Maker may take

me away.

Chapter 33

Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken

to all my words.

2Behold now I have opened my mouth, let

my tongue speak within my jaws.

3My words are from my upright heart, and

my lips shall speak a pure sentence.

4The spirit of God made me, and the breath

of the Almighty gave me life.

5If thou canst, answer me, and stand up

against my face.

6Behold God hath made me as well as thee,

and of the same clay I also was formed.

7But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and

let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.666 Book of Job

8Now thou hast said in my hearing, and I

have heard the voice of thy words:

9I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted,

and there is no iniquity in me.

10Because he hath found complaints against

me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.

11He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath

observed all my paths.

12Now this is the thing in which thou art not

justied: I will answer thee, that God is greater

than man.

13Dost thou strive against him, because he

hath not answered thee to all words?

14God speaketh once, and repeateth not the

selfsame thing the second time.

15By a dream in a vision by night, when deep

sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in

their beds:

16Then he openeth the ears of men, and

teaching instructeth them in what they are to

learn.

17That he may withdraw a man from the

things he is doing, and may deliver him from

pride.

18Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his

life from passing to the sword.

19He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and

he maketh all his bones to wither.

20Bread becometh abominable to him in his

life, and to his soul the meat which before he

desired.

21His

esh shall be consumed away, and his

bones that were covered shall be made bare.

22His soul hath drawn near to corruption,

and his life to the destroyers.

23If there shall be an angel speaking for him,

one among thousands, to declare man's upright-

ness,
24He shall have mercy on him, and shall say:

Deliver him, that he may not go down to corrup-tion: I have found wherein I may be merciful to

him.

25His

esh is consumed with punishments,

let him return to the days of his youth.

26He shall pray to God, and he will be gra-

cious to him: and he shall see his face with joy,

and he will render to man his justice.

27He shall look upon men, and shall say: I

have sinned, and indeed I have oended, and I

have not received what I have deserved.

28He hath delivered his soul from going into

destruction, that it may live and see the light.

29Behold, all these things God worketh three

times within every one.

30That he may withdraw their souls from cor-

ruption, and enlighten them with the light of the

living.

31Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold

thy peace, whilst I speak.

32But if thou hast any thing to say, answer

me, speak: for I would have thee to appear just.

33And if thou have not, hear me: hold thy

peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.

Chapter 34
And Eliu continued his discourse, and said:

2Hear ye, wise men, my words, and ye

learned, hearken to me:

3For the ear trieth words, and the mouth dis-

cerneth meats by the taste.

4Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see

among ourselves what is the best.

5For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath

overthrown my judgment.

6For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is

violent without any sin.

7What man is there like Job, who drinketh

up scorning like water?Book of Job 667

8Who goeth in company with them that work

iniquity, and walketh with wicked men?

9For he hath said: Man shall not please God,

although he run with him.

10Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear

me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity

from the Almighty.

11For he will render to a man his work, and

according to the ways of every one he will reward

them.

12For in very deed God will not condemn

without cause, neither will the Almighty pervert

judgment.
13What other hath he appointed over the

earth? or whom hath he set over the world which

he made?

14If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw

his spirit and breath unto himself.

15All

esh shall perish together, and man

shall return into ashes.

16If then thou hast understanding, hear what

is said, and hearken to the voice of my words.

17Can he be healed that loveth not judg-

ment? and how dost thou so far condemn him

that is just?

18Who saith to the king: Thou art an apos-

tate: who calleth rulers ungodly:

19Who accepteth not the persons of princes:

nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended

against the poor man: for all are the work of his

hands.

20They shall suddenly die, and the people

shall be troubled at midnight, and they shall

pass, and take away the violent without hand.

21For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and

he considereth all their steps.

22There is no darkness, and there is no

shadow of death, where they may be hid who

work iniquity.23For it is no longer in the power of man to

enter into judgment with God.

24He shall break in pieces many and innu-

merable, and shall make others to stand in their

stead.

25For he knoweth their works: and therefore

he shall bring night on them, and they shall be

destroyed.

26He hath struck them, as being wicked, in

open sight.

27Who as it were on purpose have revolted

from him, and would not understand all his

ways:

28So that they caused the cry of the needy

to come to him, and he heard the voice of the

poor.

29For when he granteth peace, who is there

that can condemn? When he hideth his coun-

tenance, who is there that can behold him,

whether it regard nations, or all men?

30Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to

reign for the sins of the people?

31Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will

not hinder thee in thy turn.

32If I have erred, teach thou me: if I have

spoken iniquity, I will add no more.

33Doth God require it of thee, because it hath

displeased thee? for thou begannest to speak,

and not I: but if thou know any thing better,

speak.

34Let men of understanding speak to me, and

let a wise man hearken to me.

35But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his

words sound not discipline.

36My father, let Job be tried even to the end:

cease not from the man of iniquity.

37Because he addeth blasphemy upon his

sins, let him be tied fast in the mean time

amongst us: and then let him provoke God to

judgment with his speeches.668 Book of Job

Chapter 35

Moreover Eliu spoke these words:

2Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that

thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

3For thou saidst: That which is right doth

not please thee: or what will it prot thee if I

sin?

4Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy

friends with thee.

5Look up to heaven and see, and behold the

sky, that it is higher than thee.

6If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and

if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou

do against him?

7And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give

him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

8Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like

thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

9By reason of the multitude of oppressors

they shall cry out: and shall wail for the vio-

lence of the arm of tyrants.

10And he hath not said: Where is God, who

made me, who hath given songs in the night?

11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of

the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls

of the air.

12There shall they cry, and he will not hear,

because of the pride of evil men.

13God therefore will not hear in vain, and

the Almighty will look into the causes of every

one.

14Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth

not: be judged before him, and expect him.

15For he doth not now bring on his fury, nei-

ther doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

16Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain,

and multiplieth words without knowledge.Chapter 36

Eliu also proceeded, and said:

2Suer me a little, and I will shew thee: for

I have yet somewhat to speak in God's behalf.

3I will repeat my knowledge from the begin-

ning, and I will prove my Maker just.

4For indeed my words are without a lie, and

perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.

5God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas

he himself also is mighty.

6But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth

judgment to the poor.

7He will not take away his eyes from the just,

and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and

they are exalted.

8And if they shall be in chains, and be bound

with the cords of poverty:

9He shall shew them their works, and their

wicked deeds, because they have been violent.

10He also shall open their ear, to correct

them: and shall speak, that they may return

from iniquity.

11If they shall hear and observe, they shall

accomplish their days in good, and their years in

glory.

12But if they hear not, they shall pass by the

sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

13Dissemblers and crafty men prove the

wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they

are bound.

14Their soul shall die in a storm, and their

life among the eeminate.

15He shall deliver the poor out of his distress,

and shall open his ear in aiction.

16Therefore he shall set thee at large out of

the narrow mouth, and which hath no founda-

tion under it: and the rest of thy table shall be

full of fatness.Book of Job 669

17Thy cause hath been judged as that of the

wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.

18Therefore let not anger overcome thee to

oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts

turn thee aside.

19Lay down thy greatness without tribula-

tion, and all the mighty of strength.

20Prolong not the night that people may

come up for them.

21Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for

this thou hast begun to follow after misery.

22Behold, God is high in his strength, and

none is like him among the lawgivers.

23Who can search out his ways? or who can

say to him: Thou hast wrought iniquity?

24Remember that thou knowest not his work,

concerning which men have sung.

25All men see him, every one beholdeth afar

o.

26Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowl-

edge: the number of his years is inestimable.

27He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth

out showers like

oods:

28Which

ow from the clouds that cover all

above.

29If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

30And lighten with his light from above, he

shall cover also the ends of the sea.

31For by these he judgeth people, and giveth

food to many mortals.

32In his hands he hideth the light, and com-

mandeth it to come again.

33He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it

is his possession, and that he may come up to it.

Chapter 37

At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of

its place.2Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice,

and the sound that cometh out of his mouth.

3He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his

light is upon the ends of the earth.

4After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder

with the voice of his majesty, and shall not be

found out, when his voice shall be heard.

5God shall thunder wonderfully with his

voice, he that doth great and unsearchable

things.

6He commandeth the snow to go down upon

the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower

of his strength.

7He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every

one may know his works.

8Then the beast shall go into his covert, and

shall abide in his den.

9Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come,

and cold out of the north.

10When God bloweth there cometh frost, and

again the waters are poured out abundantly.

11Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread

their light:

12Which go round about, whithersoever the

will of him that governeth them shall lead them,

to whatsoever he shall command them upon the

face of the whole earth:

13Whether in one tribe, or in his own land,

or in what place soever of his mercy he shall

command them to be found.

14Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and

consider the wondrous works of God.

15Dost thou know when God commanded the

rains, to shew his light of his clouds?

16Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds,

and the perfect knowledges?

17Are not thy garments hot, when the south

wind blows upon the earth?

18Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with

him, which are most strong, as if they were of670 Book of Job

molten brass.

19Shew us what we may say to him: or we

are wrapped up in darkness.

20Who shall tell him the things I speak? even

if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

21But now they see not the light: the air on

a sudden shall be thickened into clouds, and the

wind shall pass and drive them away.

22Cold cometh out of the north, and to God

praise with fear.

23We cannot nd him worthily: he is great

in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and

he is ineable.

24Therefore men shall fear him, and all that

seem to themselves to be wise, shall not dare to

behold him.
Chapter 38

Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind,

and said:

2Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in

unskilful words?

3Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee,

and answer thou me.

4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations

of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou

knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?

6Upon what are its bases grounded? or who

laid the corner stone thereof,

7When the morning stars praised me to-

gether, and all the sons of God made a joyful

melody?

8Who shut up the sea with doors, when it

broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

9When I made a cloud the garment thereof,

and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?10I set my bounds around it, and made it

bars and doors:

11And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and

shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break

thy swelling waves.

12Didst thou since thy birth command the

morning, and shew the dawning of the day its

place?

13And didst thou hold the extremities of the

earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the

ungodly out of it?

14The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall

stand as a garment.

15From the wicked their light shall be taken

away, and the high arm shall be broken.

16Hast thou entered into the depths of the

sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?

17Have the gates of death been opened to

thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?

18Hast thou considered the breadth of the

earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?

19Where is the way where light dwelleth, and

where is the place of darkness?

20That thou mayst bring every thing to its

own bounds, and understand the paths of the

house thereof.

21Didst thou know then that thou shouldst

be born? and didst thou know the number of

thy days?

22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of

the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of

the hail:

23Which I have prepared for the time of the

enemy, against the day of battle and war?

24By what way is the light spread, and heat

divided upon the earth?

25Who gave a course to violent showers, or a

way for noisy thunder:

26That it should rain on the earth without

man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:Book of Job 671

27That it should ll the desert and desolate

land, and should bring forth green grass?

28Who is the father of rain? or who begot

the drops of dew?

29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the

frost from heaven who hath gendered it?

30The waters are hardened like a stone, and

the surface of the deep is congealed.

31Shalt thou be able to join together the shin-

ing stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the

turning about of Arcturus?

32Canst thou bring forth the day star in its

time, and make the evening star to rise upon the

children of the earth?

33Dost thou know the order of heaven, and

canst thou set down the reason thereof on the

earth?

34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds,

that an abundance of waters may cover thee?

35Canst thou send lightnings, and will they

go, and will they return and say to thee: Here

we are?

36Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man?

or who gave the cock understanding?

37Who can declare the order of the heavens,

or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?

38When was the dust poured on the earth,

and the clods fastened together?

39Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and

satisfy the appetite of her whelps,

40When they couch in the dens and lie in

wait in holes?

41Who provideth food for the raven, when

her young ones cry to God, wandering about,

because they have no meat?

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats

bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou ob-

served the hinds when they fawn?

2Hast thou numbered the months of their

conceiving, or knowest thou the time when theybring forth?

3They bow themselves to bring forth young,

and they cast them, and send forth roarings.

4Their young are weaned and go to feed: they

go forth, and return not to them.

5Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and

who hath loosed his bonds?

6To whom I have given a house in the wilder-

ness, and his dwellings in the barren land.

7He scorneth the multitude of the city, he

heareth not the cry of the driver.

8He looketh round about the mountains of

his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing,

9Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee,

or will he stay at thy crib?

10Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy

thong to plough, or will he break the clods of

the valleys after thee?

11Wilt thou have condence in his great

strength, and leave thy labours to him?

12Wilt thou trust him that he will render

thee the seed, and gather it into thy barn

oor?

13The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of

the heron, and of the hawk.

14When she leaveth her eggs on the earth,

thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

15She forgetteth that the foot may tread

upon them, or that the beasts of the eld may

break them.

16She is hardened against her young ones, as

though they were not hers, she hath laboured in

vain, no fear constraining her.

17For God hath deprived her of wisdom, nei-

ther hath he given her understanding.

18When time shall be, she setteth up her

wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his

rider.

19Wilt thou give strength to the horse or

clothe his neck with neighing?672 Book of Job

20Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the

glory of his nostrils is terror.

21He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he

pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed

men.

22He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back

to the sword.

23Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear

and shield shall glitter.

24Chasing and raging he swalloweth the

ground, neither doth he make account when the

noise of the trumpet soundeth.

25When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha,

ha: he smelleth the battle afar o, the encour-

aging of the captains, and the shouting of the

army.

26Doth the hawk wax feathered by thy wis-

dom, spreading her wings to the south?

27Will the eagle mount up at thy command,

and make her nest in high places?

28She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth

among cragged

ints, and stony hills, where

there is no access.

29From thence she looketh for the prey, and

her eyes behold afar o.

30Her young ones shall suck up blood: and

wheresoever the carcass shall be, she is immedi-

ately there.

31And the Lord went on, and said to Job:

32Shall he that contendeth with God be so

easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God,

ought to answer him.

33Then Job answered the Lord, and said:

34What can I answer, who hath spoken in-

considerately? I will lay my hand upon my

mouth.

35One thing I have spoken, which I wish I

had not said: and another, to which I will add

no more.Chapter 40

And the Lord answering Job out of the whirl-

wind, said:

2Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee,

and do thou tell me.

3Wilt thou make void my judgment: and con-

demn me, that thou mayst be justied?

4And hast thou an arm like God, and canst

thou thunder with a voice like him?

5Clothe thyself with beauty, and set thyself

up on high, and be glorious, and put on goodly

garments.

6Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and

behold every arrogant man, and humble him.

7Look on all that are proud, and confound

them, and crush the wicked in their place,

8Hide them in the dust together, and plunge

their faces into the pit.

9Then I will confess that thy right hand is

able to save thee.

10Behold behemoth whom I made with thee,

he eateth grass like an ox.

11His strength is in his loins, and his force in

the navel of his belly.

12He setteth up his tail like a cedar, the

sinews of his testicles are wrapped together.

13His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle

like plates of iron.

14He is the beginning of the ways of God,

who made him, he will apply his sword.

15To him the mountains bring forth grass:

there all the beasts of the eld shall play.

16He sleepeth under the shadow, in the covert

of the reed, and in moist places.

17The shades cover his shadow, the willows

of the brook shall compass him about.

18Behold, he will drink up a river, and not

wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may

run into his mouth.Book of Job 673

19In his eyes as with a hook he shall take

him, and bore through his nostrils with stakes.

20Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a

hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

21Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore

through his jaw with a buckle?

22Will he make many supplications to thee,

or speak soft words to thee?

23Will he make a covenant with thee, and

wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever,

24Shalt thou play with him as with a bird,

or tie him up for thy handmaids?

25Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall mer-

chants divide him?

26Wilt thou ll nets with his skin, and the

cabins of shes with his head?

27Lay thy hand upon him: remember the

battle, and speak no more.

28Behold his hope shall fail him, and in the

sight of all he shall be cast down.

Chapter 41

I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for

who can resist my countenance?

2Who hath given me before that I should re-

pay him? All things that are under heaven are

mine.

3I will not spare him, nor his mighty words,

and framed to make supplication.

4Who can discover the face of his garment?

or who can go into the midst of his mouth?

5Who can open the doors of his face? his

teeth are terrible round about.

6His body is like molten shields, shut close

up with scales pressing upon one another.

7One is joined to another, and not so much

as any air can come between them:8They stick one to another and they hold one

another fast, and shall not be separated.

9His sneezing is like the shining of re, and

his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.

10Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like

torches of lighted re.

11Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like that

of a pot heated and boiling.

12His breath kindleth coals, and a

ame

cometh forth out of his mouth.

13In his neck strength shall dwell, and want

goeth before his face.

14The members of his

esh cleave one to an-

other: he shall send lightnings against him, and

they shall not be carried to another place.

15His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and

as rm as a smith's anvil,

16When he shall raise him up, the angels

shall fear, and being arighted shall purify them-

selves.

17When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not

be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.

18For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass

as rotten wood.

19The archer shall not put him to

ight, the

stones of the sling are to him like stubble.

20As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and

he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.

21The beams of the sun shall be under him,

and he shall strew gold under him like mire.

22He shall make the deep sea to boil like a

pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.

23A path shall shine after him, he shall es-

teem the deep as growing old.

24There is no power upon earth that can be

compared with him who was made to fear no

one,

25He beholdeth every high thing, he is king

over all the children of pride.674 Book of Job

Chapter 42

Then Job answered the Lord, and said:

2I know that thou canst do all things, and no

thought is hid from thee.

3Who is this that hideth counsel without

knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely,

and things that above measure exceeded my

knowledge.

4Hear, and I will speak: I will ask thee, and

do thou tell me.

5With the hearing of the ear, I have heard

thee, but now my eye seeth thee.

6Therefore I reprehend myself, and do

penance in dust and ashes.

7And after the Lord had spoken these words

to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My

wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy

two friends, because you have not spoken the

thing that is right before me, as my servant Job

hath.

8Take unto you therefore seven oxen and

seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and of-

fer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant

Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept,

that folly be not imputed to you: for you have

not spoken right things before me, as my servant

Job hath.

9So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the

Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite went, and

did as the Lord had spoken to them, and the

Lord accepted the face of Job.

10The Lord also was turned at the penance

of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the

Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11And all his brethren came to him, and all

his sisters, and all that knew him before, and

they ate bread with him in his house: and be-

moaned him, and comforted him upon all the

evil that God had brought upon him. And everyman gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold.

12And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job

more than his beginning. And he had fourteen

thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a

thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

13And he had seven sons, and three daugh-

ters.
14And he called the name of one Dies, and

the name of the second Cassia, and the name of

the third Cornustibii.

15And there were not found in all the earth

women so beautiful as the daughters of Job: and

their father gave them inheritance among their

brethren.

16And Job lived after these things, a hundred

and forty years, and he saw his children, and his

children's children, unto the fourth generation,

and he died an old man, and full of days.Book of Psalms

Chapter 1

Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the

counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of

sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and

on his law he shall meditate day and night.

3And he shall be like a tree which is planted

near the running waters, which shall bring forth

its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall

o: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

4Not so the wicked, not so: but like the

dust, which the wind driveth from the face of

the earth.

5Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in

judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

6For the Lord knoweth the way of the just:

and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Chapter 2

Why have the Gentiles raged, and the prople de-

vised vain things?

2The kings of the earth stood up, and the

princes met together, against the Lord, and

against his Christ.

3Let us break their bonds asunder: and let

us cast away their yoke from us.

4He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at

them: and the Lord shall deride them.

5Then shall he speak to them in his anger,

and trouble them in his rage.6But I am appointed king by him over Sion,

his holy mountain, preahing his comandment.

7The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son,

this day have I begotten thee.

8Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles

for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the

earth for thy possession.

9Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and

shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

10And now, O ye kings, understand: receive

instruction, you that judge the earth.

11Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice

unto him with trembling.

12Embrace discipline, lest at any time the

Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way.

13When his wrath shall be kindled in a short

time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Chapter 3

The psalm of David when he

ed from the face

of his son Absalom.

2Many say to my soul: There is no salavation

for him in his God.

4But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my

glory, and the lifter up of my head.

5I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and

he hath heard me from his holy hill.

6I have slept and have taken my rest: and I

have risen up, because the Lord hath protected

me.676 Book of Psalms

7I will not fear thousands of the people sur-

rounding me: arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.

8For thou hast struck all them who are my

adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the

teeth of sinners.

9Salvation is of the Lord: and thy blessing is

upon thy people.

Chapter 4

Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.

2When I called upon him, the God of my

justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou

hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear

my prayer.

3O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull

of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after

lying?

4Know ye also that the Lord hath made his

holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when

I shall cry unto him.

5Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you

say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your

beds.

6Oer up the sacrice of justice, and trust

in the Lord: many say, Who sheweth us good

things?

7The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is

signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my

heart.

8By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and

oil, they rest:

9In peace in the self same I will sleep, and I

will rest:

10For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled

me in hope.Chapter 5

Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheri-

tance. A psalm for David.

2Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand

my cry.

3Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my

King and my God.

4For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morn-

ing thou shalt hear my voice.

5In the morning I will stand before thee, and I

will see: because thou art not a God that willest

iniquity.

6Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor

shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.

7Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou

wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and

the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.

8But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy,

I will come into thy house; I will worship towards

thy holy temple, in thy fear.

9Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because

of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.

10For there is no truth in their mouth: their

heart is vain.

11Their throat is an open sepulchre: they

dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them,

O God. Let them fall from their devices: ac-

cording to the multitude of their wickednesses

cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O

Lord.

12But let all them be glad that hope in thee:

they shall rejoice for ever, and thou shalt dwell

in them. And all they that love thy name shall

glory in thee.

13For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou

hast crowned us, as with a shield of thy good

will.Book of Psalms 677

Chapter 6

Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for

the octave.

2O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation,

nor chastise me in thy wrath.

3Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak:

heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

4And my soul is troubled exceedingly: but

thou, O Lord, how long?

5Turn ot me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O

save me for thy mercy's sake.

5For there is no one indeath, that is mindful

of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?

7I have laboured in my groanings, every night

I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with

my tears.

8My eye is troubled through indignation: I

have grown old amongst all my enemies.

9Depart from em, all ye workers of iniquity:

for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

10The Lord hath heard my supplication: the

Lord hath received my prayer.

11Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be

very much troubled: let them be turned back,

and be ashamed very speedily.

Chapter 7

The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord,

for the words of Chusi, the son of Jemini.

2O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my

trust; same me from all them that persecute me,

and deliver me.

3Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like

a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor

to save.

4O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing,

if there be iniquity in my hands:5If I have rendered to them that repaid me

evils, let me deservedly fall empty before my en-

emies.

6Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it,

and tread down my life, on the earth, and bring

down my glory to the dust.

7Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou

exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise,

O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast

commanded:

8And a congregation of people shall surround

thee. And for their sakes return thou on high.

9The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O

Lord, according to my justice, and according to

my innocence in me.

10The wickedness of sinners shall be brought

to nought; and thou shalt direct the just: the

searcher of hearts and reins is God. Just

11Is my help from the Lord; who saveth the

upright of heart.

12God is a just judge, strong and patient: is

he angry every day?

13Except you will be converted, he will bran-

dish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made

it ready.

14And in it he hath prepared to instruments

of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them

that burn.

15Behold he hath been in labour iwht in-

justice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought

forth iniquity.

16He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he

is fallen into the hole he made.

17His sorrow shall be turned on his own head:

and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

18I will give glory to the Lord according to

his justice: and will sing to the name of the Lord

the most high.678 Book of Psalms

Chapter 8

Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David.

2O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy

name in the whole earth! For thy magnicence

is elevated above the heavens.

3Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings

thou hast perfected praise, because of thy en-

emies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and

the avenger.

4For I will behold thy heavens, the works of

thy ngers: the moon and the stars which thou

hast founded.

5What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

6Thou hast made him a little less than the

angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and

honour:

7And hast set him over the works of thy

hands.

8Thou hast subjected all things under his

feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover, the beasts

also of the elds.

9The birds of the air, and the shes of the

sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

10O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy

name in the whole earth!

Chapter 9

Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son.

A psalm for David.

2I will give lpraise to thee, O Lord, with my

whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.

3I will be glad, and rejoice inthee: I will sing

to thy name, O thou most high.

4When my enemy shall be turned back: they

shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.5For thou hast maintained my judgment and

my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who

judgest justice.

6Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and thw

wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out

their name for ever and ever.

7The swords of the enemy have failed unto

the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed.

Their memory hath perished with a noise:

8But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath

prepared his throne in judgment:

9And he shall judge the world in equity, he

shall judge the lpeople in justice.

10And the Lord is become a refuge for the

poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.

11And let them trust in thee who know thy

name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek

thee, O Lord.

12Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion:

declare his ways among the Gentiles:

13For requiring their blood, he hath remem-

bered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the

poor.

14Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humil-

iation which I suer from my enemies.

15Thou that liftest me up from the gates of

death, that I may declare all thy praises in the

gates of the daughter of Sion.

16I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles

have stuck fast in the destruction which they pre-

pared. Their foot hath been taken in the very

snare which they hid.

17The Lord shall be known when he exe-

cuteth judgments: the sinner hath been caught

in the works of his own hands.

18The wicked shall be turned into hell, all

the nations that forget God.

19For the poor man shall not be forgotten to

the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish

for ever.Book of Psalms 679

20Arise, O Lord, let not man be strength-

ened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.

21Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them:

that the Gentiles may know themselves to be

but men.

Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar o? why

dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of

trouble?

2Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is

set on re: they are caught in the counsels which

they devise.

3For the sinner is praised in the desires of his

soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

4The sinner hath provoked the Lord, accord-

ing to the multitude of his wrath, he will not

seek him:

5God is not before his eyes: his ways are lthy

at all times. Thy judgments are removed form

his sight: he shall rule over all his enemies.

6For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be

moved from generation to generation, and shall

be without evil.

7His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitter-

ness, and of deciet: under his tongue are labour

and sorrow.

8He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private

places, that he may kill the innocent.

9His eyes are upon the poor man: he lieth in

wait, in secret, like a lion in his den. He lieth

in ambush, that he may catch the poor man: so

catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.

10In his net he will bring him down, he will

crouch and fall, when he shall have power over

the poor.

11For he hath said in his heart: God hath

forgotten, he hath turned away his face, not to

see to the end.

12Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted:

forget not the poor.13Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God?

for he hath said in his heart: He will not require

it.

14Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour

and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into

thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou

wilt be a helper to the orphan.

15Break thou the arm of the sinner and of

the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall

not be found.

16The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for

ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his

land.

17The Lord hath heard the desire of the

poor: thy ear hath heard the preparatgion of

their heart.

18To judge for the fatherless and for the hum-

ble, that man may no more presume to magnify

himself upon earth.

Chapter 10

Unto the end. A psalm to David.

2In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you

say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the

mountain, like a sparrow.

3For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they

have prepared their arows in the quiver, to shoot

in the dark the upright of heart.

4For they have destroyed the things which

thou hast made: but what has the just man

done?

5The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's

throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor

man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.

6The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but

he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

7He shall rain snares upon sinners: re and

brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the por-680 Book of Psalms

tion of their cup.

8For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice:

his countenance hath beheld righteousness.

Chapter 11

Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David.

2Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint:

truths are decayed from among the children of

men.

3They have spoken vain things, every one to

his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a

double heart have they spoken.

4May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and

the tongue that speaketh proud things.

5Who have said: We will magnify our tongue:

our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?

6By reason of the misery of the needy, and

the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith

the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal

condently in his regard.

7The words of the Lord are pure words: as

silver tried by the re, purged from the earth,

rened seven times.

8Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us

from this generation for ever.

9The wicked walk round about: according to

thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children

of men.

Chapter 12

Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O

Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how

long dost thou turn away thy face from me?

2How long shall I take counsels in my soul,

sorrow in my heart all the day?

3How long shall my enemy be exalted over

Me?4Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God.

Enlighten my eyes, that I never sleep in death:

5Lest at any time my enemy say: I have pre-

vailed against him. They that trouble me, will

rejoice when I am moved:

6But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart

shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the

Lord, who giveth me good things: yea, I will sing

to the name of the Lord, the most high.

Chapter 13

Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath

said in his heart: There is no God. They are cor-

rupt, and are become abominable in their ways:

there is none that doth good, no not one.

2The Lord hath looked down from heaven

upon the children of men, to see if there be any

that understand and seek God.

3They are all gone aside, they are become un-

protable together: there is none that doth good:

no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre;

with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the

poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth

is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are

swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappi-

ness in their ways; and the way of peace they

have not known: there is no fear of God before

their eyes.

4Shall not all they know that work iniquity,

who devour my people as they eat bread?

5They have not called upon the Lord: there

have they trembled for fear, where there was no

fear.

6For the Lord is in the just generation: you

have confounded the counsel of the poor man;

but the Lord is his hope.

7Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of

Israel? when the Lord shall have turned awayBook of Psalms 681

the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice,

and Israel shall be glad.

Chapter 14

A psalm for David. Lord, who shall dwell in thy

tabernacle? or who shall rest in thy holy hill?

2He that walketh without blemish, and wor-

keth justice:

3He that speaketh truth in his heart, who

hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath

done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a re-

proach against his neighbours.

4In his sight the malignant is brought to noth-

ing: but he glorieth them that fear the Lord.

He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth

not;

5He that hath not put out his money to usury,

nortaken bribes against the innocent: He that

doth these things, chall not be moved for ever.

Chapter 15

The inscription of a title to David himself. Pre-

serve me, O Lord, for I have put my trust in

thee.

2I have said to the Lord, thou art my God,

for thou hast no need of my goods.

3To the saints, who are in his land, he hath

made wonderful all my desires in them.

4Their inrmities were multiplied: afterwards

they made haste. I will not gather together their

meetings for bloodoerings: nor will I be mindful

of their names by my lips.

5The Lord is the portion of my inheritance

and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my

inheritance to me.

6The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places:

for my inheritance is goodly to me.7I will bless the Lord, who hath given me un-

derstanding: moreover, my reins also have cor-

rected me even till night.

8I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is

at my right hand, that I be not moved.

9Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my

tongue hath rejoiced: moreover, my

esh also

shall rest in hope.

10Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;

nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.

11Thou hast made known to me the ways of

life, thou shalt ll me with joy with thy counte-

nance: at thy right hand are delights even to the

end.

Chapter 16

The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice:

attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my

prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.

2Let my judgment come forth from thy coun-

tenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are

equitable.

3Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it

by night, thou hast tried me by re: and iniquity

hath not been found in me.

4That my mouth may not speak the works of

men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have

kept hard ways.

5Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that

my footsteps be not moved.

6I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast

heard me: O incline thy ear unto me, and hear

my words.

7Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who

savest them that trust in thee.

8From them that resist thy right hand keep

me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under

the shadow of thy wings.682 Book of Psalms

9From the face of the wicked who have af-

icted me. My enemies have surrounded my

soul:

10They have shut up their fat: their mouth

hath spoken proudly.

11They have cast me forth, and now they

have surrounded me: they have set their eyes

bowing down to the earth.

12They have taken me, as a lion prepared for

the prey; and as a young lion dwelling in secret

places.

13Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and sup-

plant him; deliver my soul from the wicked one;

thy sword

14From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord,

divide them from the few of the earth in their

life: their belly is lled from thy hidden stores.

They are full of children: and they have left to

their little ones the rest of their substance.

15But as for me, I will appear before thy sight

in justice: I shall be satised when thy glory shall

appear.

Chapter 17

Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord,

who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle,

in the day that the Lord delivered him from the

hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of

Saul: and he said:

2I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:

3The Lord is my rmament, my refuge, and

my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him

will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn

of my salvation, and my support.

4Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I

shall be saved from my enemies.

5The sorrows of death surrounded me: and

the torrents of iniquity troubled me.6The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and

the snares of death prevented me.

7In my aiction I called upon the Lord, and

I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from

his holy temple: and my cry before him came

into his ears.

8The earth shook and trembled: the founda-

tions of the mountains were troubled and were

moved, because he was angry with them.

9There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a

re

amed from his face: coals were kindled by

it.

10He bowed the heavens, and came down,

and darkness was under his feet.

11And he ascended upon the cherubim, and

he

ew; he

ew upon the wings of the winds.

12And he made darkness his covert, his pavil-

ion round about him: dark waters in the clouds

of the air.

13At the brightness that was before him the

clouds passed, hail and coals of re.

14And the Lord thundered from heaven, and

the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of re.

15And he sent forth his arrows, and he scat-

tered them: he multiplied lightnings, and trou-

bled them.

16Then the fountains of waters appeared, and

the foundations of the world were discovered: At

thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of

thy wrath.

17He sent from on high, and took me: and

received me out of many waters.

18He delivered me from my strongest ene-

mies, and from them that hated me: for they

were too strong for me.

19They prevented me in the day of my aic-

tion: and the Lord became my rotector.

20And he brought me forth into a large place:

he saved me, because he was well pleased with

me.Book of Psalms 683

21And the Lord will reward me according to

my justice; and will repay me according to the

cleanness of my hands:

22Because I have kept the ways of the Lord;

and have not done wickedly against my God.

23For all his judgments are in my sight: and

his justices I have not put away from me.

24And I shall be spotless with him: and shall

keep myself from my iniquity.

25And the Lord will reward me according to

my justice: and according to the cleanness of my

hands before his eyes.

26With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with

the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:

27And withe the elect thou wilt be elect: and

with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

28For thou wilt save the humble people; but

wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

29For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my

God, enlighten my darkness.

30For by thee I shall be delivered from temp-

tation; and through my God I shall go over a

wall.

31As for my God, his way is undeled: the

words of the Lord are re-tried: he is the pro-

tector of all that trust in him.

32For who is God but the Lord? or who is

God but our God?

33God, who hath girt me with strength; and

made my way blameless.

34Who hath made my feet like the feet of

harts: and who setteth me upon high places.

35Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou

hast made my arms like a brazen bow.

36And thou hast given me the protection of

thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me

up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto

the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach

me.37Thou hast enlarged my steps under me;

and my feet are not weakened.

38I will pursue after my enemies, and over-

take them: and I will not turn again till they are

consumed.

39I will break them, and they shall not be

able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

40And thou hast girded me with strength

unto battle; and hast subdued under me them

that rose up against me.

41And thou hast made my enemies furn their

back upon me, and hast destroyed them that

hated me.

42They cried, but there was none to save

them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.

43And I shall beat them as small as the dust

before the wind; I shall bring them to nought,

like the dirt in the streets.

44Thou wilt deliver me from the contradic-

tions of the people; thou wilt make me head of

the Gentiles.

45A people which I knew not, hath seerved

me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed

me.

46The children that are strangers have lied to

me, strange children have faded away, and have

halted from their paths.

47The Lord liveth, and blessed by my God,

and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

48O God, who avengest me, and subduest the

people under me, my deliverer from my enraged

enemies.

49And thou wilt lift me up above them that

rise up against me: from the unjust man thou

wilt deliver me.

50Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord,

among the nations, and I will sing a psalm to

thy name.

51Giving great deliverance to his king, and

shewing mercy to David, his anointed: and to684 Book of Psalms

his seed for ever.

Chapter 18

Unto the end. APsalm Chapter for David.

2The heavens shew forth the glory of God,

and the rmament declareth the work of his

hands.

3Day to day uttereth speech, and night to

night sheweth knowledge.

4There are no speeches nor languages, where

their voices are not heard.

5Their sound hath gone forth into all the

earth: and their words unto the ends of the

world.

6He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he

as a bridegroom coming out of his bridechamber,

Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way:

7His going out is from the end of heaven, And

his circuit even to the end thereof: and ther is

no one that can hide himself from his heat.

8The law of the Lord is unspotted, convert-

ing souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful,

giving wisdom to little ones.

9The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing

hearts: the commandment of the Lord is light-

some, enlightening the eyes.

10The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for

ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are

true, justied in themselves.

11More to be desired than gold and many

precious stones: and sweeter than honey and the

honeycomb.

12For thy servant keepeth them, and in keep-

ing them there is a great reward.

13Who can understand sins? from my secret

ones cleanse me, O Lord:

14And from those of others spare thy servant.

If they shall have no dominion over me, thenshall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed

form the greatest sin.

15And the words of my mouth shall be such

as may please: and the meditation of my heart

always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my

Redeemer.

Chapter 19

Unto the end. A psalm for David.

2May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribula-

tion: may the name of the God of Jacob protect

thee.

3May he send thee help from the sanctuary:

and defend thee outof Sion.

4May he be mindful of all thy sacrices: and

may thy whole burntoering be made fat.

5May he give thee according to thy own heart;

and conrm all thy counsels.

6We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the

name of our God we shall be exalted.

7The Lord full all thy petitions: now have I

known that the Lord hath saved his anointed. He

will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation

of his right hand is in powers.

8Some trust in chariots, and some in horses:

but we will call upon the name of the Lord, our

God.

9They are bound, and have fallen: but we

are risen, and are set upright. O Lord, save the

king: and hear us in the day that we shall call

upon thee.
Chapter 20

Unto the end. A psalm for David.

2In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy;

and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.Book of Psalms 685

3Thou hast given him his heart's desire: and

hast not withholden from him the will of his lips.

4For thou hast prevented him with belssings

of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown

of precious stones.

5He asked life of thee: and thou hast given

him length of days for ever and ever.

6His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and

great beauty shalt thou lay upon hom.

7For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for

ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in

gladness with thy countenance.

8For the king hopeth in the Lord: andthrough

the mercy of the most High he whall not be

moved.

9Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies:

let thy right hand nd out all them that hate

thee.

10Thou shalt make them as an oven of re,

in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble

them in his wrath, and re shall devour them.

11Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the

earth: and their seed from among the children

of men.

12For they have intended evils against thee:

they have devised counsels which they have not

been able to establish.

13For thou shalt make them turn their back:

in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

14Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own

strength: we will sing and praise thy power.

Chapter 21

Unto the end, for the morning protection, a

psalm for David.

2O God my God, look upon me: why hast

thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are

the words of my sins.3O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou

wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be

reputed as folly in me.

4But thou dwellest in the holy place, the

praise of Israel.

5In thee have our fathers hoped: they have

hoped, and thou hast delivered them.

6They cried to thee, and they were saved:

they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

7Bukt I am a worm, and no man: the re-

proach of men, and the outcast of the prople.

8All they that saw me have laughed me

to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and

wagged the head.

9He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him:

let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.

10For thou art he that hast drawn me out

of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my

mother.

11I was cast upon thee from the womb. From

my mother's womb thou art my God,

12Depart not from me. For tribulation is very

near: for there is none to help me.

13Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls

have besieged me.

14They have opened their mouths against

me, as a lion ravening and roaring.

15I am poured out like water; and all my

bones are scattered. My heart is become like

wax melting in the midast of my bowels.

16My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and

my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou

hast brought me down into the dust of death.

17For many dogs have encompassed me: the

council of the malignant hath besieged me. They

have dug my hands and feet.

18They have numbered all my bones. And

they have looked and stared upon me.

19They lparted my garments amongst them;

and upon my vesture they cast lots.686 Book of Psalms

20But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to

a distance from me; look towards my defence.

21Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword:

my only one from the hand of the dog.

22Save me from the lion's mouth; and my

lowness from the horns of the unicorns.

23I will declare thy name to my brethren: in

the midst of the church will I praise thee.

24Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye

the seed of Jacob, glorify him.

25Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because

he hath not slighted nor despised the supplica-

tion of the poor man. Neither hath he turned

away his face form me: and when I cried to him

he heard me.

26With thee is my praise in a great church: I

will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear

him.

27The poor shall eat and shall be lled: and

they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their

hearts shall live for ever and ever.

28All the ends of the earth shall remember,

and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the

kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.

29For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall

have dominion over the nations.

30All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and

have adored: all they that go down to the earth

shall fall before him.

31And to him my soul shall live: and my seed

shall serve him.

32There shall be declared to the Lord a gener-

ation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth

his justice to a people that shall be born, which

the Lord hath made.Chapter 22

A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I

shall want nothing.

2He hath set me in a place of pasture. He

hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:

3He hath converted my soul. He hath led me

on the paths of justice, for his own name's sake.

4For though I should walk in the midst of the

shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou

art with me. Thy rod and thy sta, they have

comforted me.

5Thou hast prepared a table before me

against them that aict me. Thou hast anointed

my head with oil; and my chalice which ine-

breateth me, how goodly is it!

6And thy mercy will follow me all the days

of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of

the Lord unto length of days.

Chapter 23

On the rst day of the week, a psalm for David.

The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof:

the world, and all they that dwell therein.

2For he hath founded it upon the seas; and

hath prepared it upon the rivers.

3Who shall ascend into the mountain of the

Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place?

4The innocent in hands, and clean of heart,

who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn

deceitfully to his neighbour.

5He shall receive a blessing from the Lord,

and mercy from God his Saviour.

6This is the generation of them that seek him,

of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

7Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye

lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory

shall enter in.Book of Psalms 687

8Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is

strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.

9Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye

lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory

shall enter in.

10Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of

hosts, he is the King of Glory.

Chapter 24

Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O

Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

2In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me

not be ashamed.

3Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none

of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

4Let all them be confounded that act unjust

things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways

to me, and teach me thy paths.

5Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for

thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I

waited all the day long.

6Remember, O Lor, thy bowels of compas-

sion; and thy mercies that are from the begin-

ning of the world.

7The sins of my youth and my ignorances do

not remember. According to thy mercy remem-

ber thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

8The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore

he will give a law to sinners in the way.

9He will guide themild in judgment: he will

teach the meek his ways.

10All the ways of the Lord are mercy and

truth, to them that seek after his covenant and

his testimonies.

11For thy name's sake, O Lrod, thou wilt

pardon my sin: for it is great.

12Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He

hath appointed him a law in the way he hathchosen.

13His soul shall dwell in good things: and his

seed shall inherit the land.

14The Lord is a rmament to them that fear

him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to

them.

15My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he

shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

16Look thou upon me, and have mercy on

me; for I am alone and poor.

17The troubles of my heart are multiplied:

deliver me from my necessities.

18See my abjection and my labour; and for-

give me all my sins.

19Consider my enemies for they are multi-

plied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

20Deep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall

not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.

21The innocent and the upright have adhered

to me: because I have waited on thee.

22Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribula-

tions.
Chapter 25

Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O

Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I

have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be

weakened.

2Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my

reins and my heart.

3For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am

well pleased with thy truth.

4I have not sat with the council of vanity: nei-

ther will I go in with the doers of unjust things.

5I have hated the assembly of the malignant;

and with the wicked I will not sit.

6I will wash my hands among the innocent;

and will compass thy altar, O Lord:688 Book of Psalms

7That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and

tell of all thy wondrous works.

8I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy

house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

9Take not away my soul, O God, with the

wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

10In whose hands are iniquities: their right

hand is lled with gifts.

11But as for me, I have walked in my inno-

cence: redeem me, and have mercy on me.

12My foot hath stood in the direct way: in

the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.

Chapter 26

The psalm of David before he was anointed. The

Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall

I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of

whom shall I be afraid?

2Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to

eat my

esh. My enemies that trouble me, have

themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

3If armies in camp should stand to gether

against me, my heart shall not fear. If a bat-

tle should rise up against me, in this will I be

condent.

4One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will

I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the

Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the

delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

5For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle;

in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the

secret place of his tabernacle.

6He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now

he hath lifted up my head above my enemies.

I have gone round, and have oered up in his

tabernacle a sacrice of jubilation: I will sing,

and recite a psalm to the Lord.7Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have
cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me.

8My heart hath said to thee: My face hath

sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.

9Turn not away thy face from me; decline

not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my

helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me,

O God my Saviour.

10For my father and my mother have left me:

but the Lord hath taken me up.

11Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide

me in the right path, because of my enemies.

12Deliver me not over to the will of them

that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen

up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

13I believe to see the good things of the Lord

in the land of the living.

14Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy

heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Chapter 27

A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry,

O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me:

lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them

that go down into the pit.

2Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication,

when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to

thy holy temple.

3Draw me not away together with the wicked;

and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not:

Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils

are in their hearts.

4Give them according to their works, and

according to the wickedness of their inventions.

According to the works of their hands give thou

to them: render to them their reward.

5Because they have not understood the works

of the Lord, and the operations of his hands:Book of Psalms 689

thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build

them up.

6Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the

voice of my supplication.

7The Lord is my helper andmy protector: in

him hath my heart conded, and I have been

helped. And my

esh hath

ourished again, and

with my will I will give praise to him.

8The Lord is the strength of his people, and

the protector of the salvation of his anointed.

9Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy in-

heritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever.

Chapter 28

A psalm for David, at the nishing of the taber-

nacle. Bring to the Lord, O ye children of God:

bring to the Lord the ospring of rams.

2Bring to the Lord glory and honour: bring

to the Lord glory to his name: adore ye the Lord

in his holy court.

3The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;

the God of majesty hath thundered, The Lord is

upon many waters.

4The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice

of the Lord in magnicence.

5The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars:

yea, the Lord shall break the cedars of Libanus.

6And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of

Libanus, and as the beloved son of unicorns.

7The voice of the Lord divideth the

ame of

re:

8The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert:

and the Lord shall shake the desert of Cades.

9The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags:

and he will discover the thick woods: and in his

temple all shall speak his glory.

10The Lord maketh the

ood to dwell: and

the Lord shall sit king for ever. The Lord willgive strength to his people: the Lord will bless

his people with peace.

Chapter 29

A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of

David's house.

2I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast up-

held me: and hast not made my enemies to re-

joice over me.

3O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and

thou hast healed me.

4Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul

from hell: thou hast saved me from them that

go down into the pit.

5Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: and give

praise to the memory of his holiness.

6For wrath is in his indignation; and life in

his good will. In the evening weeping shall have

place, and in the morning gladness.

7And in my abundance I said: I shall never

be moved.

8O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength

to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from

me, and I became troubled.

9To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make

supplication to my God.

10What prot is there in my blood, whilst

I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to

thee, or declare thy truth?

11The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy

on me: the Lord became my helper.

12Thou hast turned for me my mourning into

joy: thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast com-

passed me with gladness:

13To the end that my glory may sing to thee,

and I may not regret: O Lord my God, I will

give praise to thee for ever.690 Book of Psalms

Chapter 30

Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.

2In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never

be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.

3Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to

deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector,

and a house of refuge, to save me.

4For thou art my strength and my refuge;

and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and

nourish me.

5Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which

they have hidden for me: for thou art my pro-

tector.

6Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou

hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

7Thou hast hated them that regard vanities,

to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:

8I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For

thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved

my soul out of distresses.

9And thou hast not shut me up in the hands

of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious

place.

10Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am af-

icted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul,

and my belly:

11For my life is wasted with grief: and my

years in sighs. My strength is weakened through

poverty and my bones are disturbed.

12I am become a reproach among all my en-

emies, and very much to my neighbours; and

a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me

without

ed from me.

13I am forgotten as one dead from the heart.

I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

14For I have heard the blame of many that

dwell round about. While they assembled to-

gether against me, they consulted to take away

my life.15But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord:

I said: Thou art my God.

16My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out

of the hands of my enemies; and from them that

persecute me.

17Make thy face to shine upon thy servant;

save me in thy mercy.

18Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for

I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be

ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

19Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which

speak iniquity against the just, with pride and

abuse.

20O how great is the multitude of thy sweet-

ness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them

that fear thee! Which thou hast wrougth for

them that hope inthee, in the sight of the sons

of men.

21Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy

face, from the disturbance of men. Thoushalt

protect them in thy tabernacle form the contra-

diction of tongues.

22Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his

wonderful mercy to me in a fortied city.

23But I said in the excess of my mind: I am

cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou

hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried

to thee.

24O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the

Lord will require truth, and will repay them

abundantly that act proudly.

25Do ye manfully, and let your heart be

strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Chapter 31

To David himself, understanding. Blessed are

they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose

sins are covered.Book of Psalms 691

2Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath

not inputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no

guile.

3Because I was silent my bones grew old;

whilst I cried out all the day long.

4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon

me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn

is fastened.

5I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and

my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will

confess against my self my injustice to the Lord:

and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.

6For this shall every one that is holy pray to

thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a

ood of

many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

7Thou art my fefuge from the trouble which

hath eencompassed me: my joy, deliver me from

them that surround me.

8I will give thee understanding, and I will

instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go:

I will x my eyes upon thee.

9Do not become like the horse and the mule,

who have no understanding. With bit and bridle

bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto

thee.

10Many are the scourges of the sinner, but

mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the

Lord.

11Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just,

and glory, all ye right of heart.

Chapter 32

A psalm for David. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye

just: praise becometh the upright.

2Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing

to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten

strings.3Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto

him with a loud noise.

4For the word of the Lord is right, and all his

works are done with faithfulness.

5He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is

full of the mercy of the Lord.

6By the word of the Lord the heavens were

established; and all the power of them by the

spirit of his mouth:

7Gathering together the waters of the sea, as

in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.

8Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all

the inhabitants of the world be in awe of him.

9For he spoke and they were made: he com-

manded and they were created.

10The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels

of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people,

and casteth away the counsels of princes.

11But the counsel of the Lord standeth for

ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

12Blessed is the nation whose God is the

Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his

inheritance.

13The Lord hath looked from heaven: he

hath beheld all the sons of men.

14From his habitation which he hath pre-

pared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the

earth.

15He who hath made the hearts of every one

of them: who understandeth all their works.

16The king is not saved by a great army:

nor shall the giant be saved by his own great

strength.

17Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall

he be saved by the abundance of his strength.

18Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them

that fear him: and on them that hope in his

mercy.

19To deliver their souls from death; and feed

them in famine.692 Book of Psalms

20Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our

helper and protector.

21For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in

his holy name we have trusted.

22Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we

have hooped in thee.

Chapter 33

For David, when he changed his countenance

before Achimelech, who dismissed him, and he

went his way. [1 Kings 21.]

2I will belss the Lord at all times, his praise

shall be always in my mouth.

3In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the

meek hear and rejoice.

4O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol

his name together.

5I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he

delivered me from all my troubles.

6Come ye to him and be enlightened: and

your faces shall not be confounded.

7This poor man cried, and the Lord heard

him: and saved him out of all his troubles.

8The angel of the Lord shall encamp round

about them that fear him: and shall deliver

them.

9O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet:

blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

10Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is

no want to them that fear him.

11The rich have wanted, and have suered

hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be

deprived of any good.

12Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach

you the fear of the Lord.

13Who is the man that desireth life: who

liveth to see good days?14Keep thy tongue form evil, and thy lips

from speaking guile.

15Tkurn away from evil and do good: seek

after peace and pursue it.

16The eyes of the Lord are upon the just:

and his ears unto their prayers.

17But the countenance of the Lord is against

them that do evil things: to cut o the remem-

brance of them from the earth.

18The just cried, and the Lord heard them:

and delivered them out of all their troubles.

19The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a

contrite heart: and he will save the humble of

spirit.

20Many are the aictions of the just; but out

of them all will the Lord deliver them.

21The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a

contrite heart: and he will save the humble of

spirit.

22The death of the wicked is very evil: and

they that hate the just shall be guilty.

23The Lord will redeem the souls of his ser-

vants: and none of them that trust in him shall

oend.

Chapter 34

For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them

that wrong me: overthrow them that ght

against me.

2Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to

help me.

3Bring out the sword, and shut up the way

against them that persecute me: say to my soul:

I am thy salvation.

4Let them be confounded and ashamed that

seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and

be confounded that devise evil against me.Book of Psalms 693

5Let them become as dust before the wind:

and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

6Let their way become dark and slippery; and

let the angel of the Lord pursue them.

7For without cause they have hidden their

net for me unto destruction: without cause they

have upbraided my soul.

8Let the snae which he knoweth not come

upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden

catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.

9But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and

shall be delighted in his salvation.

10All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to

thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of

them that are stronger than he; the needy and

the poor from them that strip him.

11Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me

things I knew not.

12They repaid me evil for good: to the de-

priving me of my soul.

13But as for me, when they were troublesome

to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled

my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be

turned into my bosom.

14As a neighbour and as an own brother, so

did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so

was I humbled.

15But they rejoiced against me, and came

together: scourges were gathered together upon

me, and I knew not.

16They were separated, and repented not:

they tempted me, they scoed at me with scorn:

they gnashed ukpon me with their teeth.

17Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? rescue

thou my soul from their malice: my only one

from the lions.

18I will give thanks to thee in a great church;

I will praise thee in a strong people.

19Let not them that are my enemies wrong-

fully rejoice over me: who have hated me withoutcause, and wink with the eyes.

20For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and

speaking in the anger of the earth they devised

guile.

21And they opened their mouth wide against

me; they said: Well done, well done, our eyes

have seen it.

22Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent:

O Lord, depart not from me.

23Arise, and be attentive to my judgment: to

my cause, my God, and my Lord.

24Judge me, O Lord my God according to

thy justice, and let them not rejoice over me.

25Let them not say in their hearts: It is well,

it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We

have swallowed him up.

26Let them blush: and be ashamed to gether,

who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed

with confusion and shame, who speak great

things against me.

27Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well

pleased with my justice, and let them say always:

The Lord be magnied, who delights in the peace

of his servant.

28And my tongue shall meditate thy justice,

thy praise all the day long.

Chapter 35

Unto the end, for the servant of God, David him-

self.

2The unjust hath said within himself, that

he would sin: there is no fear of God before his

eyes.

3For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that

his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

4The words of his mouth are iniquity and

guile: he would not understand that he might

do well.694 Book of Psalms

5He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath

set himself on every way that is not good: but

evil he hath not hated.

6O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy

truth reacheth even to the clouds.

7Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy

judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts

thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

8O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O

God! But the children of men shall put their

trust under the covert of thy wings.

9They shall be inebriated with the plenty of

thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of

the torrent of thy pleasure.

10For with thee is the fountain of life; and in

thy light we shall see light.

11Extend thy mercy to them that know thee,

and thy justice to them that are right in heart.

12Let not the foot of pride come to me, and

let not the hand of the sinner move me.

13There the workers of iniquity are fallen,

they are cast out, and could not stand.

Chapter 36

Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that

work iniquity.

2For they shall shortly wither away as grass,

and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

3Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell

in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.

4Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee

the requests of thy heart.

5Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in

him, and he will do it.

6And he will bring forth thy justice as the

light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

7Be subject to the Lord and pray to him.

Envy not the man who prospereth in his way;the man who doth unjust things.

8Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no

emulation to do evil.

9For evildoers shall be cut o: but they that

wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

10For yet a little while, and the wicked shall

not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt

not nd it.

11But the meek shall inherit the land, and

shall delight in abundance of peace.

12The sinner shall watch the just man: and

shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

13But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he

foreseeth that his day shall come.

14The wicked have drawn out the sword:

they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor

and needy, to kill the upright of heart.

15Let their sword enter into their own hearts,

andlet their bow be broken.

16Better is a little to the just, than the great

riches of the wicked.

17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken

in pieces; but the Lord strengtheneth the just.

18The Lord knoweth the days of the unde-

led; and their inheritance shall be for ever.

19They shall not be confounded in the evil

time; and in the days of famine they shall be

lled:

20Because the wicked shall perish. And the

enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall

be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing

and vanish like smoke.

21The sinner shall borrow, and not pay again;

but the just sheweth mercy and shall give.

22For such as bless him shall inherit the land:

but such as curse him shall perish.

23With the Lord shall the steps of a man be

directed, and he shall like well his way.

24When he shall fall he shall not be bruised,

for the Lord putteth his hand under him.Book of Psalms 695

25I have been young and now am old; and

I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed

seeking bread.

26He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day

long; and his seed shall be in blessing.

27Decline from evil and do good, and dwell

for ever and ever.

28For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not

forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for

ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed

of the wicked shall perish.

29But the just shall inherit the land, and shall

dwell therein for evermore.

30The mouth of the just shall meditate wis-

dom: and his tongue shall speak judgment.

31The law of his God is in his heart, and his

steps shall not be supplanted.

32The wicked watcheth the just man, and

seeketh to put him to death,

33But the Lord will not leave him in his

hands; nor condemn him when he shall be

judged.

34Expect the Lord and keep his way: and

he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the

sinners shall perish thou shalt see.

35I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and

lifted ukp like the cedars of Libanus.

36And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I

sought him and his place was not found.

37Keep innocence, and behold justice: for

there are remnants for the peaceable man.

38But the unjust shall be destroyed to gether:

the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

39But the salvation of the just is from the

Lord, and he is their protector in the time of

trouble.

40And the Lord will help them and deliver

them: and he will rescue them from the wicked,

and save them because they have hoped in him.Chapter 37

A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the

sabbath.

2Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation;

nor chastise me in thy wrath.

3For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy

hand hath been strong upon me.

4There is no health in my

esh, because of thy

wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because

of my sins.

5For my iniquities are gone over my head:

and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon

me.

6My sores are putried and corrupted, be-

cause of my foolishness.

7I am bcome miserable, and am bowed down

even to the end: I walked sorrowfull all the day

long.

8For my loins are lled with illusions; and

there isno health in my

esh.

9I am aicted and humbled exceedingly: I

roared with the groaning of my heart.

10Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my

groaning is not hidden from thee.

11My heart is troubled, my strength hath left

me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.

12My friends and my neighbours have drawn

near, and stood against me. And they that were

near me stood afar o:

13And they that sought my soul used vio-

lence. And they that sought evils to me spoke

vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

14But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a

dumb man not opening his mouth.

15And I became as a man that heareth not:

and that hath no reproofs in his mouth.

16For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou

wilt hear me, O Lord my God.696 Book of Psalms

17For I said: Lest at any time my enemies

rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved,

they speak great things against me.

18For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow

is continually before me.

19For I will declare my iniquity: and I will

think formy sin.

20But my enemies live, and are stronger than

I: and they that hate me wrongfully are ultiplied.

21They that render evil for good, have de-

tracted me, because I followed goodness.

22For sake me not, O Lord my God: do not

thou depart from me.

23Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of

my salvation.

Chapter 38

Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of

David.

2I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I

sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to

my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

3I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept

silence from good things: and my sorrow was

renewed.

4My heart grew hot within me: and in my

meditqation a re shall

ame out.

5I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me

know my end. And what is the number of my

days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

6Behold thou hast made my days measurable.

and my substance is as nothing before thee. And

indeed all things are vantiy: every man living.

7Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and

he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and

he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these

things.8And now what is my hope? is it not the

Lord? and my substance is with thee.

9Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou

hast made me a reproach to the fool.

10I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth,

because thou hast done it.

11Remove thy scourges from me. The

strength of thy hand hath made me faint in re-

bukes:

12Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And

thou hast made his soul to waste away like a

spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

13Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplica-

tion: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am

a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my

fathers were.

14O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, be-

fore I go hence, and be no more.

Chapter 39

Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

2With expectation I have waited for the Lord,

and he was attentive to me.

3And he heard my prayers, and brought me

out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs.

And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my

steps.

4And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a

song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear:

and they shall hope in the Lord.

5Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name

of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to

vanities, and lying follies.

6Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works,

O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is

no one like to thee. I have declared and I have

spoken they are multiplied above number.

7Sacrice and oblation thou didst not desire;Book of Psalms 697

but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt oering

and sin oering thou didst not require:

8Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of

the book it is written of me

9That I should do thy will: O my God, I have

desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

10I have declared thy justice in a great

church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord,

thou knowest it.

11I have not hid thy justice within my heart:

I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I

have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from

a great council.

12Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender

mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have

always upheld me.

13For evils without number have surrounded

me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was

not able to see. They are multiplied above the

hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken

me.

14Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. look

down, O Lord, to help me.

15Let them be confounded and ashamed to-

gether, that seek after my soul to take it away.

Let them be turned backward and be ashamed

that desire evils to me.

16Let them immediately bear their confusion,

that say to me: 'T is well, t' is well.

17Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad

in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say

always: The Lord be magnied.

18But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord

is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my

protector: O my God, be not slack.

Chapter 40

Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.2Blessed is he that understandeth concerning
the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver

him in the evil day.

3The Lord preserve him and give him life, and

make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver

him not up to the will of his enemies.

4The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow:

thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.

5I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal

my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

6My enemies have spoken evils against me:

when shall he die and his name perish?

7And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain

things: his heart gathered together iniquity to

itself. He went out and spoke to the same pur-

pose.

8All my enemies whispered together against

me: they devised evils to me.

9They determined against me an unjust word:

shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?

10For even the man of my peace, in whom

I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly sup-

planted me.

11But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and

raise my up again: and I will requite them.

12By this I know, that thou hast had a good

will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice

over me.

13But thou hast upheldme by reason of my

innocence: and hast established me in thy sight

for ever.

14Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from

eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.

Chapter 41

Unto the end, understanding for the sons of

Core.698 Book of Psalms

2As the hart panteth after the fountains of

water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God.

3My soul hath thirsted after the strong living

God; when shall I come and appear before the

face of God?

4My tears have been my bread day and night,

whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

5These things I remembered, and poured out

my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place

of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of

God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise

of one feasting.

6Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why

dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will

still give praise to him: the salvation of my coun-

tenance,

7And my God. My soul is troubled within

my self: therefore will I remember thee from the

land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little

hill.

8Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy

ood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have

passed over me.

9In the daytime the Lord hath commanded

hismercy; and a canticle to him in the night.

With me is prayer to the God of my life.

10I will say to God: Thou art my support.

Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I

mourning, whilst my enemy aicteth me?

11Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies

who troubleme have reproached me; Whilst they

say to me day be day: Where is thy God?

12Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and

why dost thou disquiet me? Hope thou in God,

for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of

my countenance, and my God.Chapter 42

A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and dis-

tinguish my cause from the nation that is not

holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful

man.

2For thou art God my strrength: why hast

thou cast me o? and why do I go sorrowful

whilst the enemy aicteth me?

3Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have

conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy

hill, and into thy tabernacles.

4And I will go in to the altar of God: to God

who giveth joy to my youth.

5To thee, O God my God, I will give praise

upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul?

and why dost thou disquiet me?

6Hope in God, for I will still give pralise to

him: the salvation of my countenance, and my

God.

Chapter 43

Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give un-

derstanding.

2We have heard, O God, with our ears: our

fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast

wrought in their days, and in the days of old.

3Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou

plantedst them: thou didst a

ict the people and

cast them out.

4For they got not the possession of the land

by their own sword: neither did their own arm

save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and

the light of thy countenance: because thou wast

pleased with them.

5Thou art thyself my king andmy God, who

commandest the saving of Jacob.

6Through thee we will push down our enemiesBook of Psalms 699

with the horn: and through thy name we will

despise them that rise up against us.

7For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall

my sword save me.

8But thou hast saved us from them that aict

us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.

9In God shall we glory all the day long: and

in thy name we will give praise for ever.

10But now thou hast cast us o, and put us

to shame: and thou , O God, wilt not go out

with our armies.

11Thou hast made kus turn our back to our

enemies: and they that hated us plundered for

themselves.

12Thou hast given us up like sheep to be

eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.

13Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and

there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.

14Thou hast made us a reproach to our neigh-

bours, a sco and derision to them that are

round about us.

15Thou hast made us a byword among the

Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the peo-

ple.

16All the day long myu shame is before me:

and the confusion of my face hath covered me,

17At the voice of him that reproacheth and

detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and per-

secutor.

18All these things have come upon us, yet we

have not forgotten thee: and we have not done

wickedly in thy covenant.

19And our heart hath not turned back: nei-

ther hast thou turned aside our steps from thy

way.

20For thou hast humbled us in the place of

aiction: and the shadow of death hath covered

us.

21If we have forgotten the name of our God,

and if we have spread forth our hands to astrange god:

22Shall not God search out thesethings: for

he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for

thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are

counted as sheep for the slaughter.

23Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise,

and cast us not o to the end.

24Why turnest thou thy face away? and for-

gettest our want and our trouble?

25For our soul is humbled down to the dust:

our belly cleaveth to the earth.

26Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for

thy name's sake.

Chapter 44

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for

the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle

for the Beloved.

2My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak

my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of

a scrivener that writeth swiftly.

3Thou art beautiful above the sons of men:

grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath

God blessed thee for ever.

4Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most

mighty.

5With thy comeliness and thy beauty set

out, proceed prosperously, and reign. Because

of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right

hand shall conduct thee wonderfully.

6Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall peo-

ple fall, into the hearts of the king's enemies.

7Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the

sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of upright-

ness.

8Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity:

therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with

the oil of gladness above thy fellows.700 Book of Psalms

9Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy

garments, from the ivory houses: out of which

10The daughters of kings have delighted thee

in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand,

in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.

11Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline

thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's

house.

12And the king shall greatly desire thy

beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him

they shall adore.

13And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea,

all the rich among the poeple, shall entreat thy

countenance.

14All the glory of the king's daughter is

within in golden borders,

15Clothed round about with varieties. Af-

ter her shall virgins be brought to the king: her

neighbours shall be brought to thee.

16They shall be brought with gladness and

rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple

of the king.

17Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to

thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the

earth.

18They shall remember thy name through-

out all generations. Therefore shall people praise

thee for ever; yea, for ever and ever.

Chapter 45

Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hid-

den.

2Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper

in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.

3Therefore we will not fear, when the earth

shall be troubled; and the mountains shall be

removed into the heart of the sea.4Their waters roared and were troubled: the

mountains were troubled with his strength.

5The stream of the river maketh the city of

God joyful: the most High hath sanctied his

own tabernacle.

6God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be

moved: God will help it in the lmorning early.

7Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were

bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth

trembled.

8The Lord of armies is with us: the God of

Jacob is our protector.

9Come and behold ye the works of the Lord:

what wonders he hath done upon earth,

10Making wars to cease even to the end of

the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break

the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the

re.

11Be still and see that I am God; I will be

exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted

in the earth.

12The Lord of armies is with us: the God of

Jacob is our protector.

Chapter 46

Unto the end, for the sons of Core.

2O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout

unto God with the voice of joy,

3For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king

over all the earth.

4He hath subdued the people under jus; and

the nations under our feet.

5He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the

beauty of Jacob which he hath love.

6God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord

with the sound of trumpet.

7Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises

to our king, sing ye.Book of Psalms 701

8For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye

wisely.

9God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth

on his holy throne.

10The princes of the people are gathered to-

gether, with the God of Abraham: for the strong

gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

Chapter 47

A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on

the second day of the week.

2Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be

praised in the city of our God, in his holy moun-

tain.

3With the joy of the whole earth is mount

Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city

of the great king.

4In her houses shall God be known, when he

shall protect her.

5For behold the kings of the earth assembled

themselves: they gathered together.

6So they saw, and they wondered, they were

troubled, they were moved:

7Trembling took hold of them. There were

pains as of a woman in labour.

8With a vehement wind thou shalt break in

pieces the ships of Tharsis.

9As we have heard, so have we seen, in the

city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God:

God hath founded it for ever.

10We have received thy mercy, O God, in the

midst of thy temple.

11According to thy name, O God, so also is

thy praise kunto the ends of the earth: thy right

hand is full of justice.

12Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters

of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O

Lord.13Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye

in her towers.

14Set your hearts on her strength; and dis-

tribute her houses, that ye may relate it in an-

other generation.

15For this is God, our God unto eternity, and

for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.

Chapter 48

Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.

2Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear,

all ye inhabitants of the world.

3All you that are earthborn, and you sons of

men: both rich and poor together.

4My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the

meditation of my heart understanding.

5I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open

my proposition on the psaltery.

6Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity

of my heel shall encompass me.

7They that trust in their own strength, and

glory in the multitude of their riches,

8No brother can redeem, nor shall man re-

deem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

9Nor the price of the redemption of his soul:

and shall labour for ever,

10And shall still live unto the end.

11He shall not see destruction, when he shall

see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool

shall perish together: And they shall leave their

riches to strangers:

12And their sepulchres shall be their houses

for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations:

they have called their lands by their names.

13And man when he was in honour did not

understand; he is compared to senseless beasts,

and is become like to them.702 Book of Psalms

14This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to

them: and afterwards they shall delight in their

mouth.

15They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall

feed upon them. And the just shall have domin-

ion over them in the morning; and their help

shall decay in hell from their glory.

16But God will redeem my soul from the

hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

17Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be

made rick, and when the glory of his house shall

be increased.

18For when he shall die he shall take nothing

away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

19For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed:

and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well

to him.

20He shall g in to the gneerations of his fa-

thers: and he shall never see light.

21Man when he was in honour did not un-

derstand: he hath been compared to senseless

beasts, and made like to them.

Chapter 49

A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord

hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From

the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:

2Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.

3God shall come manifestly: our God shall

come, and shall not keep silence. A re shall

burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be

round about him.

4He shall call heraven from above, and the

earth, to judge his people.

5Gather ye together his saints to him: who

set his covenant before sacrices.

6And the heavens shall declare his justice: for

God is judge.7Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O

Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy

God.

8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrices: and

thy burnt oerings are always in my sight.

9I will not take calves out of thy house: nor

he goats out of thy

ocks.

10For all the beasts of the woods are mine:

the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.

11I know all the fowls of the air: and with

me is the beauty of the eld.

12If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee:

for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

13Shall I eat the

esh of bullocks? or shall I

drink the blood of goats?

14Oer to God the sacrice of praise: and

pay thy vows to the most High.

15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I

will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

16But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost

thou declare my justices, and take my covenant

in thy mouth?

17Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast

cast my words behind thee.

18If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with

him: and with adulterers thou hast been a par-

taker.

19Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and

thy tongue framed deceits.

20Sitting thou didst speak against thy

brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy

mother's son:

21These things hast thou done, and I was

silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should

be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set

before thy face.

22Understand these things, you that forget

God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none

to deliver you.Book of Psalms 703

23The sacrice of praise shall glorify me: and

there is the way by which I will shew him the

salvation of God.

Chapter 50

Unto the end, a psalm of David,

2When Nathan the prophet came to him, af-

ter he had sinned with Bethsabee. [2 Kings 12.]

3Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy

great mercy. And according to the multitude of

thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

4Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and

cleanse me from my sin.

5For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always

before me.

6To thee only have I sinned, and have done

evil befoer thee: that thou mayst be justied in

thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art

judged.

7For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and

in sins did my mother conceive me.

8For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncer-

tain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast

made manifest to me.

9Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I

shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall

be made whiter than snow.

10To my hearing thou shalt give joy and glad-

ness: and the bones that have been humbled

shall rejoice.

11Tukrn away thy face from my sins, and blot

out all my iniquities.

12Create a clean heart in me, O God: and

renew a right spirit within my bowels.

13Cast me not away from thy face; and take

not thy holy spirit from me.

14Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,

and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.15I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the
wicked shall be converted to thee.

16Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God

of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy

justice.

17O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my

mouth shall declare thy praise.

18For if thou hadst desired sacrice, I would

indeed have given it: with burnt oerings thou

wilt not be delighted.

19A sacrice to God is an aicted spirit: a

contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt

not despise.

20Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will

with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be

built up.

21Then shalt thou accept the sacrice of jus-

tice, oblations and whole burnt oerings: then

shall they lay calves upon thy altar.

Chapter 51

Unto the end, understanding for David,

2When Doeg the Edomite came and told

Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech.

3Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that

art mighty in iniquity?

4All the day long thy tongue hath devised

injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought

deceit.

5Thou hast loved malice more than goodness:

and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

6Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O

deceitful tongue.

7Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he

will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy

dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of

the living.704 Book of Psalms

8The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh

at him, and say:

9Behold the man that made not God his

helper: But trusted in the abundance of his

riches: and prevailed in his vanity.

10But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of

God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever,

yea for ever and ever.

11I will praise thee for ever, because thou

hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it

is good in the sight of thy saints.

Chapter 52

Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to

David. The fool said in his heart: There is no

God.

2They are corrupted, and become abominable

in iniquities: there is none that doth good.

3God looked down from heaven on the chil-

dren of men: to see if there were any that did

understand, or did seek God.

4All have gone aside, they are become unprof-

itable toegther, there is none that doth good, no

not one.

5Shall not all the workers of iniquity know,

who eat up my people as they eat bread?

6They have not called upon God: there have

they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.

For God hath scattered the bones of them that

please men: they have been confounded, because

God hath despised them.

7Who will give out of Sion the salvation of

Israel? when God shall bring back the captivity

of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall

be glad.Chapter 53

Unto the end, in verses, understanding for

David.

2When the en of Ziph had come and said to

Saul: Is not David hidden with us? [1 Kings

23.19]

3Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge

me in thy strength.

4O God, hear my lprayer: give ear to the

words of my mouth.
5For strangers have rrisen up against me; and

the mighty have sought after my soul: and they

have not set God before their eyes.

6For behold God is my helper: and the Lord

is the protector of my soul.

7Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and

cut them o in thy truth.

8I will freely sacrice to thee, and will give

praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:

9For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble:

and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.

Chapter 54

Unto the end, in verses, understanding for

David.

2Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not

lmy supplication:

3Be attentive to me and hear me. I am

grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

4At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribu-

lation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities

upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome

to me.

5My heart is troubled within me: and the

fear of death is fallen upon me.

6Fear and trembling are come upon me: and

darkness hath covered me.Book of Psalms 705

7And I said: Who will give me wings like a

dove, and I will

y and be at rest?

8Lo, I have gone far o

ying away; and I

abode in the wilderness.

9I waited for him that hath saved me from

pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.

10Cast down, O Lord, and divide their

tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradic-

tion in the city.

11Day and night shall iniquity surround it

upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are-

labour,

12And injustice. And usury and deceit have

not departed from its streets.

13For if my enemy had reviled me, I would

verily have borne with it. And if he that hated

me had spoken great things against me, I would

perhaps have hidden my self from him.

14But thou a man of one mind, my guide,

and my familiar,

15Who didst take sweetmeats together with

me: in the house of God we walked with consent.

16Let death come upon them, and let them

go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness

in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

17But I have cried to God: and the Lord will

save me.

18Evening and morning, and at noon I will

speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.

19He shall redeem my soul in peace from

them that draw near to me: for among many

they were with me.

20God shall hear, and the Eternal shall hum-

ble them. For there is no change with them, and

they have not feared God:

21He hath stretched forth his hand to repay.

They have deled his covenant,

22They are divided by the wrath of his coun-

tenance, and his heart hath drawn near. Hiswords are smoother tha oil, and the same are

darts.

23Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall

sustain thee: he shall not suer the just to waver

for ever.

24But thou, O God, shalt bring them down

into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful

men shall not live out half their days; but I will

trust in thee, O Lord.

Chapter 55

Unto the end, for a people that is removed at

a distance form the sanctuary: for David, for

an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the

Philistines held him in Geth.

2Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath

trodden me under foot; all the day long he hath

aicted me ghting against me.

3My enemies have trodden on me all the day

long; for they are many that make war against

me.

4From the height of the day I shall fear: but

I will trust in thee.

5In God I will praise my words, in God I have

put my trust: I will not fear what

esh can do

against me.

6All the day long they detested my words: all

their thoughts were against me unto evil.

7They will dwell and hide themselves: they

will watch my heel. As they have waited for my

soul,

8For nothing shalt thou save them: in thy

anger thou shalt break the people in pieces. O

God,

9I have declared to thee my life: thou hast

set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

10Then shall my enemies be turned back. In

what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I706 Book of Psalms
know thou art my God.

11In God will I praise the word, in the Lord

will I praise his speech. In God have I hoped, I

will not fear what man can do to me.

12In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I

will lpay, praises to thee:

13Because thou hast delivered my soul from

death, my feet from falling: that I may please in

the sight of God, in the light of the living.

Chapter 56

Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an in-

scription of a title, when he

ed from Saul into

the cave. [1 Kings 24.]

2Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on

me: for my soul trusteth in thee. And in the

shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity

pass away.

3I will cry to God the most high; to God who

hath done good to me.

4He hath sent from heaven and delivered me:

he hath made them a reproach that trod upon

me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

5And he hath delivered my soul from the

midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The

sons ofmen, whose teeth are weapons and arrows,

and their tongue a sharp sword.

6Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens,

and thy glory above all the earth.

7They prepared a snare for my feet; and they

bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my

face, and they are fallen into it.

8My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready:

I will sing, and rehearse a psalm.

9Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp:

I will arise early.

10I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among

the people: I will sing a psalm to thee among thenations.

11For thy mercy is magnied even to the

heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds.

12Be thou exalted, O God, above the heav-

ens: and thy glory above all the earth.

Chapter 57

Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an in-

scription of a title.

2If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right

things, ye sons of men.

3For in your heart you work iniquity: your

hands forge injustice in the earth.

4The wicked are alienated from the womb;

they have gone astray from the womb: they have

spoken false things.

5Their madness is according to the likeness

of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her

ears:

6Which will not hear the voice of the charm-

ers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

7God shall break in pieces their teeth in their

mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the

lions.

8They shall come to nothing, like water run-

ning down; he hath bent his bow till they be

weakened.

9Like wax that melteth they shall be taken

away: re hath fallen on them, and they shall

not see the sun.

10Before your thorns could know the brier;

he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

11The just shall rejoice when he shall see the

revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of

the sinner.

12And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit

to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth

them on the earth.Book of Psalms 707

Chapter 58

Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an in-

scription of a title, when Saul sent and watched

his house to kill him. [1 Kings 19.]

2Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;

and defend me from them that rise up against

me.

3Deliver me from them that work iniquity,

and save me from bloody men.

4For behold they have caught my soul: the

mighty have rushed in upon me:

5Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O

Lord: without iniquity have I ren, and directed

my steps.

6Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even

thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Is-

rael. Attend to visit all the nations: have no

mercy on all them that work iniquity.

7They shall return at everning, and shall suf-

fer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about

the city.

8Behold they shall speak with their mouth,

and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they,

hath heard us?

9But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou

shalt bring all the nations to nothing.

10I will keep my strength to thee: for thou

art my protector:

11My God, his mercy shall prevent me.

12God shall let me see over my enemies:

slay them not, lest at any time my people for-

get. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them

down, O Lord, my protector:

13For the sin of their mouth, and the word of

their lips: and let them be taken in their pride.

And for their cursing and lying they shall be

talked of,

14When they are consumed: when they are

consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be nomore. And they shall know that God will rule

Jacob, and all the ends of the earth.

15They shall return at evening and shall suf-

fer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about

the city.

16They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and

shall murmur if they be not lled.

17But I will sing thy strength: and will extol

thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become

my support, and my refuge, in the day of my

trouble.

18Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for

thou art God my defence: my God my mercy.

Chapter 59

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed,

for the inscription of a title, to David himself,

for doctrine,

2When he set re to Mesopotamia of Syria

and Sobal: and Joab returned and slew of Edom,

in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men.

3O God, thou hast cast us o, and hast de-

stroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had

mercy on us.

4Thou hast moved the earth, and hast trou-

bled it: heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has

been moved.

5Thou hast shewn thy people hard things;

thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow.

6Thou hast given a warning to them that fear

thee: that they may

ee from before the bow:

That thy beloved may be delivered.

7Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.

8God hath spoken in his holy place: I will

rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete

out the vale of tabernacles.

9Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and

Ephraim is the strength of my head. Juda is my708 Book of Psalms

king:

10Moab is the pot of my hope. Into Edom

will I stretch out my shoe: to me the foreigners

are made subject.

11Who will bring me into the strong city?

who will lead me into Edom?

12Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us

o? and wilt not thou, O God, go out with our

armies?

13Give us help from trouble: for vain is the

salvation of man.

14Through God we shall do mightily: and he

shall bring to nothing them that aict us.

Chapter 60

Unto the end, in hymns, for David.

2Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive

to my prayer.

3To thee have I cried from the ends of the

earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast

exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;

4For thou hast been my hope; a tower of

strength against the face of the enemy.

5In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I

shall be protected under the covert of thy wings.

6For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer:

thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear

thy name.

7Thou wilt add days to the days of the king:

his years even to generation and generation.

8He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his

mercy and truth who shall search?

9So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever

and ever: that I may pay my vows from day to

day.Chapter 61

Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David.

2Shall not my soul be subject to God? for

from him is my salvation.

3For he is my God and my saviour: he is my

protector, I shall be moved no more.

4How long do you rush in upon a man? you

all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning

wall, and a tottering fence.

5But they have thought to cast away my

price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their

mouth, but cursed with their heart.

6But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for

from him is my patience.

7For he is my God and my saviour: he is my

helper, I shall not be moved.

8In God is my salvation and my glory: he is

the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

9Trust in him, all ye congregation of people:

pour out your hearts before him. God is our

helper for ever.

10But vain are the sons of men, the sons of

men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they

may together deceive.

11Trust not in iniquity, and cover not rob-

beries: if riches abound, set not your heart upon

them.

12God hath spoken once, these two things

have I heard, that power belongeth to God,

13And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt

render to every man according to his works.

Chapter 62

A psalm of David while he was in the desert of

Edom.

2O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break

of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for theeBook of Psalms 709

my

esh, O how many ways!

3In a desert land, and where there is no way,

and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come

before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.

4For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my

lips will praise.

5Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and

in thy name I will lift up my hands.

6Let my soul be lled as with marrow and

fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with

joyful lips.

7If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I

will meditate on thee in the morning:

8Because thou hast been my helper. And I

will rejoice under the covert of thy wings:

9My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right

hand hath received me.

10But they have fought my soul in vain, they

shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

11They shall be delivered into the hands of

the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.

12But the king shall rejoice in God, all they

shall be praised that swear by him: because the

mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked

things.

Chapter 63

Unto the end, a psalm for David.

2Hear O God, my prayer, when I make sup-

plication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear

of the enemy.

3Thou hast protected me from the assem-

bly of the malignant; from the multitude of the

workers of iniquity.

4For they have whetted their tongues like a

sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

5To shoot in secret the undeled.6They will shoot at him on a sudden, and

will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness.

They have talked of hiding snares; they have

said: Who shall see them?

7They have searched after iniquities: they

have failed in their search. Man shall come to a

deep heart:

8And God shall be exalted. The arrows of

children are their wounds:

9And their tongues against them are made

weak. All that saw them were troubled;

10And every man was afraid. And they de-

clared the works of God, and understood his do-

ings.

11The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall

hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall

be praised.

Chapter 64

To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of

Jeremias and Ezechiel to the people of the cap-

tivity, when they began to go out.

2A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and

a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem.

3O hear my prayer: all

esh shall come to

thee.

4The words of the wicked have prevailed over

us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

5Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and

taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We

shall be lled with the good things of thy house;

holy is thy temple,

6Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our

saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the

earth, and in the sea afar o.

7Thou who preparest the mountains by thy

strength, being girded with power:710 Book of Psalms

8Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise

of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,

9And they that dwell in the uttermost bor-

ders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make

the outgoings of the morning and of the evening

to be joyful.

10Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plen-

tifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched

it. The river of God is lled with water, thou

hast prepared their food: for so is its prepara-

tion.

11Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, mul-

tiply its fruits; it shall spring up and rejoice in

its showers.

12Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of

thy goodness: and thy elds shall be lled with

plenty.

13The beautiful places of the wilderness shall

grow fat: and the hills shall be girded about with

joy,
14The rams of the

ock are clothed, and the

vales shall abound with corn: they shall shout,

yea they shall sing a hymn.

Chapter 65

Unto the end, a canticle of a psalm of the resur-

rection. Shout with joy to God, all the earth,

2Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to

his praise.

3Say unto God, How terrible are thy works,

O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy

enemies shall lie to thee.

4Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee:

let it sing a psalm to thy name.

5Come and see the works of God; who is ter-

rible in his counsels over the sons of men.

6Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the

river they shall pass on foot: there shall we re-joice in him.

7Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes

behold the nations; let not them that provoke

him be exalted in themselves.

8O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and make the

voice of his praise to be heard.

9Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not

suered my feet to be moved:

10For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou

hast tried us by re, as silver is tried.

11Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast

laid aictions on our back:

12Thou hast set men over our heads. We

have passed through re and water, and thou

hast brought us out into a refreshment.

13I will go into thy house with burnt oerings:

I will pay thee my vows,

14Which my lips have uttered, And my

mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

15I will oer up to thee holocausts full of

marrow, with burnt oerings of rams: I will oer

to thee bullocks with goats.

16Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I

will tell you what great things he hath done for

my soul.

17I cried to him with my mouth: and I ex-

tolled him with my tongue.

18If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the

Lord will not hear me.

19Therefore hath God heard me, and hath

attended to the voice of my supplication.

20Blessed be God, who hath not turned away

my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

Chapter 66

Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle for

David.Book of Psalms 711

2May God have mercy on us, and bless us:

may he cause the light of his countenance to

shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us.

3That we may know thy way upon earth: thy

salvation in all nations.

4Let people confess to thee, O God: let all

people give praise to thee.

5Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for thou

judgest the people with justice, and directest the

nations upon earth.

6Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let

all the people give praise to thee:

7The earth hath yielded her fruit. May God,

our God bless us,

8May God bless us: and all the ends of the

earth fear him.

Chapter 67

Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David

himself.

2Let God arise, and let his enemies be scat-

tered: and let them that hate him

ee from be-

fore his face.

3As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish

away: as wax melteth before the re, so let the

wicked perish at the presence of God.

4And let the just feast, and rejoice before

God: and be delighted with gladness.

5Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name,

make a way for him who ascendeth upon the

west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before

him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his pres-

ence,

6Who is the father of orphans, and the judge

of widows. God in his holy place:

7God who maketh men of one manner to

dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them thatwere bound in strength; in like manner them that

provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

8O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight

of thy people, when thou didst pass through the

desert:

9The earth was moved, and the heavens

dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at

the presence of the God of Israel.

10Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a

free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou

hast made it perfect.

11In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweet-

ness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.

12The Lord shall give the word to them that

preach good tidings with great power.

13The king of powers is of the beloved, of the

beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide

spoils.

14If you sleep among the midst of lots, you

shall be as the wings of a dove covered with sil-

ver, and the hinder parts of her back with the

paleness of gold.

15When he that is in heaven appointeth kings

over her, they shall be whited with snow in Sel-

mon.

16The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A

curdled mountain, a fat mountain.

17Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A

mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell:

for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.

18The chariot of God is attended by ten thou-

sands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord

is among them in Sina, in the holy place.

19Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast

led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in

men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the

dwelling of the Lord God.

20Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of

our salvation will make our journey prosperous

to us.712 Book of Psalms

21Our God is the God of salvation: and of

the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

22But God shall break the heads of his ene-

mies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in

their sins.

23The Lord said: I will turn them from

Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the

sea:

24That thy foot may be dipped in the blood

of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red

with the same.

25They have seen thy goings, O God, the

goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanc-

tuary.

26Princes went before joined with singers, in

the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels.

27In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from

the fountains of Israel.

28There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of

mind. The princes of Juda are their leaders: the

princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali.

29Command thy strength, O God conrm, O

God, what thou hast wrought in us.

30From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall

oer presents to thee.

31Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the

congregation of bulls with the kine of the people;

who seek to exclude them who are tried with

silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in

wars:

32Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt:

Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

33Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing

ye to the Lord: Sing ye to God,

34Who mounteth above the heaven of heav-

ens, to the east. Behold he will give to his voice

the voice of power:

35Give ye glory to God for Israel, his mag-

nicence, and his power is in the clouds.36God is wonderful in his saints: the God of

Israel is he who will give power and strength to

his people. Blessed be God.

Chapter 68

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed;

for David.

2Save me, O God: for the waters are come in

even unto my soul.

3I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there

is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of

the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

4I have laboured with crying; my jaws are

become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope

in my God.

5They are multiplied above the hairs of my

head, who hate me without cause. My enemies

are grown strong who have wrongfully perse-

cuted me: then did I pay that which I took not

away.

6O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and

my oences are not hidden from thee:

7Let not them be ashamed for me, who look

for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not

be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O

God of Israel.

8Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;

shame hath covered my face.

9I am become a stranger to my brethren, and

an alien to the sons of my mother.

10For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me

up: and the reproaches of them that reproached

thee are fallen upon me.

11And I covered my soul in fasting: and it

was made a reproach to me.

12And I made haircloth my garment: and I

became a byword to them.Book of Psalms 713

13They that sat in the gate spoke against me:

and they that drank wine made me their song.

14But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord;

for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the

multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of

thy salvation.

15Draw me out of the mire, that I may not

stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me,

and out of the deep waters.

16Let not the tempest of water drown me,

nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not

the pit shut her mouth upon me.

17Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind;

look upon me according to the multitude of thy

tender mercies.

18And turn not away thy face from thy ser-

vant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.

19Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me

because of my enemies.

20Thou knowest my reproach, and my con-

fusion, and my shame.

21In thy sight are all they that aict me; my

heart hath expected reproach and misery. And

I looked for one that would grieve together with

me, but there was none: and for one that would

comfort me, and I found none.

22And they gave me gall for my food, and in

my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

23Let their table become as a snare before

them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

24Let their eyes be darkened that they see

not; and their back bend thou down always.

25Pour out thy indignation upon them: and

let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

26Let their habitation be made desolate: and

let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.

27Because they have persecuted him whom

thou hast smitten; and they have added to the

grief of my wounds.28Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and

let them not come into thy justice.

29Let them be blotted out of the book of the

living; and with the just let them not be written.

30But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation,

O God, hath set me up.

31I will praise the name of God with a can-

ticle: and I will magnify him with praise.

32And it shall please God better than a young

calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.

33Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God,

and your soul shall live.

34For the Lord hath heard the poor: and

hath not despised his prisoners.

35Let the heavens and the earth praise him;

the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.

36For God will save Sion, and the cities of

Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell

there, and acquire it by inheritance.

37And the seed of his servants shall possess it;

and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Chapter 69

Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to

remembrance that the Lord saved him.

2O God, come to my assistance; O Lord,

make haste to help me.

3Let them be confounded and ashamed that

seek my soul:

4Let them be turned backward, and blush

for shame that desire evils to me: Let them be

presently turned away blushing for shame that

say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis well.

5Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad

in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say

always: The Lord be magnied.

6But I am needy and poor; O God, help me.

Thou art my helper and my deliverer: O lord,714 Book of Psalms

make no delay.

Chapter 70

A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and

the former captives. In thee, O Lord, I have

hoped, let me never be put to confusion:

2Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me.

Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

3Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and

a place of strength: that thou mayst make me

safe. For thou art my rmament and my refuge.

4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of

the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgres-

sor of the law and of the unjust.

5For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope,

O Lord, from my youth.

6By thee have I been conrmed from the

womb: from my mother's womb thou art my

protector. Of thee I shall continually sing:

7I am become unto many as a wonder, but

thou art a strong helper.

8Let my mouth be lled with praise, that I

may sing thy glory; thy greatness all the day

long.

9Cast me not o in the time of old age: when

my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.

10For my enemies have spoken against me;

and they that watched my soul have consulted

together,

11Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue

and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

12O God, be not thou far from me: O my

God, make haste to my help.

13Let them be confounded and come to noth-

ing that detract my soul; let them be covered

with confusion and blame that seek my hurt.

14But I will always hope; and will add to all

thy praise.15My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy

salvation all the day long. Because I have not

known learning,

16I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O

Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone.

17Thou hast taught me, O God, from my

youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful

works.

18And unto old age and grey hairs: O God,

forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all

the generation that is to come: Thy power,

19And thy justice, O God, even to the highest

great things thou hast done: O God, who is like

to thee?

20How great troubles hast thou shewn me,

many and grievous: and turning thou hast

brought me to life, and hast brought me back

again from the depths of the earth:

21Thou hast multiplied thy magnicence;

and turning to me thou hast comforted me.

22For I will also confess to thee thy truth with

the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing

to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel.

23My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall

sing to thee; and my soul which thou hast re-

deemed.

24Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy

justice all the day; when they shall be con-

founded and put to shame that seek evils to me.

Chapter 71

A psalm on Solomon.

2Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and

to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people

with justice, and thy poor with judgment.

3Let the mountains receive peace for the peo-

ple: and the hills justice.

4He shall judge the poor of the people, andBook of Psalms 715

he shall save the children of the poor: and he

shall humble the oppressor.

5And he shall continue with the sun and be-

fore the moon, throughout all generations.

6He shall come down like rain upon the

eece;

and as showers falling gently upon the earth.

7In his days shall justice spring up, and abun-

dance of peace, till the moon be taken away.

8And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from

the river unto the ends of the earth.

9Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down:

and his enemies shall lick the ground.

10The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall

oer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of

Saba shall bring gifts:

11And all kings of the earth shall adore him:

all nations shall serve him.

12For he shall deliver the poor from the

mighty: and the needy that had no helper.

13He shall spare the poor and needy: and he

shall save the souls of the poor.

14He shall redeem their souls from usuries

and iniquity: and their names shall be hon-

ourable in his sight.

15And he shall live, and to him shall be given

of the gold of Arabia, for him they shall always

adore: they shall bless him all the day.

16And there shall be a rmament on the

earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus

shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the

city shall

ourish like the grass of the earth.

17Let his name be blessed for evermore: his

name continueth before the sun. And in him

shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all

nations shall magnify him.

18Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who

alone doth wonderful things.

19And blessed be the name of his majesty for

ever: and the whole earth shall be lled with his

majesty. So be it. So be it.20The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are

ended.

Chapter 72

A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel,

to them that are of a right heart!

2But my feet were almost moved; my steps

had well nigh slipped.

3Because I had a zeal on occasion of the

wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

4For there is no regard to their death, nor is

there strength in their stripes.

5They are not in the labour of men: neither

shall they be scourged like other men.

6Therefore pride hath held them fast: they

are covered with their iniquity and their wicked-

ness.

7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were

from fatness: they have passed into the aection

of the heart.

8They have thought and spoken wickedness:

they have spoken iniquity on high.

9They have set their mouth against heaven:

and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

10Therefore will my people return here and

full days shall be found in them.

11And they said: How doth God know? and

is there knowledge in the most High?

12Behold these are sinners; and yet, abound-

ing in the world they have obtained riches.

13And I said: Then have I in vain justied

my heart, and washed my hands among the in-

nocent.

14And I have been scourged all the day; and

my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

15If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should

condemn the generation of thy children.716 Book of Psalms

16I studied that I might know this thing, it

is a labour in my sight:

17Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and

understand concerning their last ends.

18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to

them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast

them down.

19How are they brought to desolation? they

have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished

by reason of their iniquity.

20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord;

so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to

nothing.

21For my heart hath been in

amed, and my

reins have been changed:

22And I am brought to nothing, and I knew

not.

23I am become as a beast before thee: and I

am always with thee.

24Thou hast held me by my right hand; and

by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with

thy glory thou hast received me.

25For what have I in heaven? and besides

thee what do I desire upon earth?

26For thee my

esh and my heart hath fainted

away: thou art the God of my heart, and the

God that is my portion for ever.

27For behold they that go far from thee shall

perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are

disloyal to thee.

28But it is good for me to adhere to my God,

to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may de-

clare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter

of Sion.

Chapter 73

Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou

cast us o unto the end: why is thy wrath enkin-dled against the sheep of thy pasture?

2Remember thy congregation, which thou

hast possessed from the beginning. The scep-

tre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed:

mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.

3Lift up thy hands against their pride unto

the end; see what things the enemy hath done

wickedly in the sanctuary.

4And they that hate thee have made their

boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have

set up their ensigns for signs,

5And they knew not both in the going out

and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood

of trees,

6They have cut down at once the gates

thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought

it down.

7They have set re to thy sanctuary: they

have deled the dwelling place of thy name on

the earth.

8They said in their heart, the whole kindred

of them together: Let us abolish all the festival

days of God from the land.

9Our signs we have not seen, there is now no

prophet: and he will know us no more.

10How long, O God, shall the enemy re-

proach: is the adversary to provoke thy name

for ever?
11Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and

thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for

ever?

12But God is our king before ages: he hath

wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

13Thou by thy strength didst make the sea

rm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons

in the waters.

14Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon:

thou hast given him to be meat for the people of

the Ethiopians.Book of Psalms 717

15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the

torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.

16Thine is the day, and thine is the night:

thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

17Thou hast made all the borders of the

earth: the summer and the spring were formed

by thee.

18Remember this, the enemy hath re-

proached the Lord: and a foolish people hath

provoked thy name.

19Deliver not up to beasts the souls that con-

fess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls

of thy poor.

20Have regard to thy covenant: for they that

are the obscure of the earth have been lled with

dwellings of iniquity.

21Let not the humble be turned away with

confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy

name.

22Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: re-

member thy reproaches with which the foolish

man hath reproached thee all the day.

23Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the

pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continu-

ally.

Chapter 74

Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle

for Asaph.

2We will praise thee, O God: we will praise,

and we will call upon thy name. We will relate

thy wondrous works:

3When I shall take a time, I will judge jus-

tices.

4The earth is melted, and all that dwell

therein: I have established the pillars thereof.

5I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly:

and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.6Lift not up your horn on high: speak not

iniquity against God.

7For neither from the east, nor from the west,

nor from the desert hills:

8For God is the judge. One he putteth down,

and another he lifteth up:

9For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of

strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured

it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof

are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall

drink.

10But I will declare for ever: I will sing to

the God of Jacob.

11And I will break all the horns of sinners:

but the horns of the just shall be exalted. Psalms

Chapter 75

Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph:

a canticle to the Assyrians.

2In Judea God is known: his name is great

in Israel.

3And his place is in peace: and his abode in

Sion:

4There hath he broken the powers of bows,

the shield, the sword, and the battle.

5Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the ev-

erlasting hills.

6All the foolish of heart were troubled. They

have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches

have found nothing in their hands.

7At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have

all slumbered that mounted on horseback.

8Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee?

from that time thy wrath.

9Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from

heaven: the earth trembled and was still,

10When God arose in judgment, to save all

the meek of the earth.

11For the thought of man shall give praise

to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall

keep holiday to thee.718 Book of Psalms

12Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all

you that are round about him bring presents. To

him that is terrible,

13Even to him who taketh away the spirit

of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the

earth.

Chapter 76

Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph.

2I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God

with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

3In the days of my trouble I sought God, with

my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was

not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

4I remembered God, and was delighted, and

was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.

5My eyes prevented the watches: I was trou-

bled, and I spoke not.

6I thought upon the days of old: and I had

in my mind the eternal years.

7And I meditated in the night with my own

heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.

8Will God then cast o for ever? or will he

never be more favourable again?

9Or will he cut o his mercy for ever, from

generation to generation?

10Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will

he in his anger shut up his mercies?

11And I said, Now have I begun: this is the

change of the right hand of the most High.

12I remembered the works of the Lord: for I

will be mindful of thy wonders from the begin-

ning.

13And I will meditate on all thy works: and

will be employed in thy inventions.

14Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who

is the great God like our God?15Thou art the God that dost wonders. Thou

hast made thy power known among the nations:

16With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy peo-

ple the children of Jacob and of Joseph.

17The waters saw thee, O God, the waters

saw thee: and they were afraid, and the depths

were troubled.

18Great was the noise of the waters: the

clouds sent out a sound. For thy arrows pass:

19The voice of thy thunder in a wheel.

Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth

shook and trembled.

20Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in

many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be

known.

21Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep,

by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Chapter 77

Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people,

to my law: incline your ears to the words of my

mouth.

2I will open my mouth in parables: I will

utter propositions from the beginning.

3How great things have we heard and known,

and our fathers have told us.

4They have not been hidden from their

children, in another generation. Declaring the

praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his won-

ders which he hath done.

5And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and

made a law in Israel. How great things he com-

manded our fathers, that they should make the

same known to their children:

6That another generation might know them.

The children that should be born and should rise

up, and declare them to their children.

7That they may put their hope in God andBook of Psalms 719

may not forget the works of God: and may seek

his commandments.

8That they may not become like their fathers,

a perverse and exasperating generation. A gen-

eration that set not their heart aright: and whose

spirit was not faithful to God.

9The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot

with the bow: they have turned back in the day

of battle.

10They kept not the covenant of God: and

in his law they would not walk.

11And they forgot his benets, and his won-

ders that he had shewn them.

12Wonderful things did he do in the sight of

their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the eld of

Tanis.

13He divided the sea and brought them

through: and he made the waters to stand as

in a vessel.

14And he conducted them with a cloud by

day: and all the night with a light of re.

15He struck the rock in the wilderness: and

gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

16He brought forth water out of the rock:

and made streams run down as rivers.

17And they added yet more sin against him:

they provoked the most High to wrath in the

place without water.

18And they tempted God in their hearts, by

asking meat for their desires.

19And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can

God furnish a table in the wilderness?

20Because he struck the rock, and the waters

gushed out, and the streams over

owed. Can he

also give bread, or provide a table for his people?

21Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry:

and a re was kindled against Jacob, and wrath

came up against Israel.

22Because they believed not in God: and

trusted not in his salvation.23And he had commanded the clouds from

above, and had opened the doors of heaven.

24And had rained down manna upon them

to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.

25Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them

provisions in abundance.

26He removed the south wind from heaven:

and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

27And he rained upon them

esh as dust:

and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

28And they fell in the midst of their camp,

round about their pavilions.

29So they did eat, and were lled exceedingly,

and he gave them their desire:

30they were not defrauded of that which they

craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

31And the wrath of God came upon them.

And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and

brought down the chosen men of Israel.

32In all these things they sinned still: and

they behaved not for his wondrous works.

33And their days were consumed in vanity,

and their years in haste.

34When he slew them, then they sought him:

and they returned, and came to him early in the

morning.

35And they remembered that God was their

helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

36And they loved him with their mouth: and

with their tongue they lied unto him:

37But their heart was not right with him: nor

were they counted faithful in his covenant.

38But he is merciful, and will forgive their

sins: and will not destroy them. And many a

time did he turn away his anger: and did not

kindle all his wrath.

39And he remembered that they are

esh: a

wind that goeth and returneth not.

40How often did they provoke him in the720 Book of Psalms

desert: and move him to wrath in the place with-

out water?

41And they turned back and tempted God:

and grieved the holy one of Israel.

42They remembered not his hand, in the day

that he redeemed them from the hand of him

that aicted them:

43How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and

his wonders in the eld of Tanis.

44And he turned their rivers into blood, and

their showers that they might not drink.

45He sent amongst them divers sorts of

ies,

which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed

them.

46And he gave up their fruits to the blast,

and their labours to the locust.

47And he destroyed their vineyards with hail,

and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.

48And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and

their stock to the re.

49And he sent upon them the wrath of his

indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble,

which he sent by evil angels.

50He made a way for a path to his anger:

he spared not their souls from death, and their

cattle he shut up in death.

51And he killed all the rstborn in the land

of Egypt: the rstfruits of all their labour in the

tabernacles of Cham.

52And he took away his own people as sheep:

and guided them in the wilderness like a

ock.

53And he brought them out in hope and they

feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their ene-

mies.

54And he brought them into the mountain

of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right

hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gen-

tiles before them: and by lot divided to them

their land by a line of distribution.55And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell

in their tabernacles.

56Yet they tempted, and provoked the most

high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

57And they turned away, and kept not the

covenant: even like their fathers they were

turned aside as a crooked bow.

58They provoked him to anger on their hills:

and moved him to jealousy with their graven

things.

59God heard, and despised them, and he re-

duced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

60And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his

tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

61And he delivered their strength into cap-

tivity: and their beauty into the hands of the

enemy.

62And he shut up his people under the sword:

and he despised his inheritance.

63Fire consumed their young men: and their

maidens were not lamented.

64Their priests fell by the sword: and their

widows did not mourn.

65And the Lord was awaked as one out of

sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been sur-

feited with wine.

66And he smote his enemies on the hinder

parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.

67And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph:

and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion

which he loved.
69And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns,

in the land which he founded for ever.

70And he chose his servant David, and took

him from the

ocks of sheep: he brought him

from following the ewes great with young,

71To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his

inheritance.Book of Psalms 721

72And he fed them in the innocence of his

heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of

his hands.

Chapter 78

A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are

come into thy inheritance, they have deled thy

holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a

place to keep fruit.

2They have given the dead bodies of thy ser-

vants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the

esh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

3They have poured out their blood as water,

round about Jerusalem and there was none to

bury them.

4We are become a reproach to our neigh-

bours: a scorn and derision to them that are

round about us.

5How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for

ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a re?

6Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that

have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms

that have not called upon thy name.

7Because they have devoured Jacob; and have

laid waste his place.

8Remember not our former iniquities: let thy

mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become

exceeding poor.

9Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the

glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and for-

give us our sins for thy name's sake:

10Lest they should say among the Gentiles:

Where is their God? And let him be made known

among the nations before our eyes, By the re-

venging the blood of thy servants, which hath

been shed:

11Let the sighing of the prisoners come in

before thee. According to the greatness of thyarm, take possession of the children of them that

have been put to death.

12And render to our neighbours sevenfold in

their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have

reproached thee, O Lord.

13But we thy people, and the sheep of thy

pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We

will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and

generation.

Chapter 79

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a

testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

2Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that

leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest

upon the cherubims, shine forth

3Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses.

Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

4Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face,

and we shall be saved.

5O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be

angry against the prayer of thy servant?

6How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of

tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

7Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to

our neighbours: and our enemies have scoed at

us.

8O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy

face, and we shall be saved.

9Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt:

thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.

10Thou wast the guide of its journey in its

sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it

lled the land.

11The shadow of it covered the hills: and the

branches thereof the cedars of God.

12It stretched forth its branches unto the sea,

and its boughs unto the river.722 Book of Psalms

13Why hast thou broken down the hedge

thereof, so that all they who pass by the way

do pluck it?

14The boar out of the wood hath laid it

waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured

it.

15Turn again, O God of hosts, look down

from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

16And perfect the same which thy right hand

hath planted: and upon the son of man whom

thou hast conrmed for thyself.

17Things set on re and dug down shall per-

ish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

18Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right

hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast

conrmed for thyself.

19And we depart not from thee, thou shalt

quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

20O Lord God of hosts, convert us and shew

thy face, and we shall be saved.

Chapter 80

Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for

Asaph himself.

2Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the

God of Jacob.

3Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel:

the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

4Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on

the noted day of your solemnity.

5For it is a commandment in Israel, and a

judgment to the God of Jacob.

6He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph,

when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard

a tongue which he knew not.

7He removed his back from the burdens: his

hands had served in baskets.8Thou calledst upon me in aiction, and I

delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place

of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of con-

tradiction.

9Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee:

O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me, 10 there

shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou

adore a strange god.

11For I am the Lord thy God, who brought

thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth

wide, and I will ll it.

12But my people heard not my voice: and

Israel hearkened not to me.

13So I let them go according to the desires of

their heart: they shall walk in their own inven-

tions.

14If my people had heard me: if Israel had

walked in my ways:

15I should soon have humbled their enemies,

and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

16The enemies of the Lord have lied to him:

and their time shall be for ever.

17And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and

lled them with honey out of the rock.

Chapter 81

A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the con-

gregation of gods: and being in the midst of them

he judgeth gods.

2How long will you judge unjustly: and ac-

cept the persons of the wicked?

3Judge for the needy and fatherless: do jus-

tice to the humble and the poor.

4Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out

of the hand of the sinner.

5They have not known nor understood: they

walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the

earth shall be moved.Book of Psalms 723

6I have said: You are gods and all of you the

sons of the most High.

7But you like men shall die: and shall fall like

one of the princes.

8Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou

shalt inherit among all the nations.

Chapter 82

A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.

2O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not

thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

3For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and

they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

4They have taken a malicious counsel against

thy people, and have consulted against thy

saints.

5They have said: Come and let us destroy

them, so that they be not a nation: and let the

name of Israel be remembered no more.

6For they have contrived with one consent:

they have made a covenant together against thee,

7The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the

Ishmahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,

8Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the

Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

9Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with

them: they are come to the aid of the sons of

Lot.

10Do to them as thou didst to Madian and

to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.

11Who perished at Endor: and became as

dung for the earth.

12Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and

Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,

13Who have said: Let us possess the sanctu-

ary of God for an inheritance.

14O my God, make them like a wheel; and

as stubble before the wind.15As re which burneth the wood: and as a

ame burning mountains:

16So shalt thou pursue them with thy tem-

pest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

17Fill their faces with shame; and they shall

seek thy name, O Lord.

18Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever

and ever: and let them be confounded and per-

ish.

19And let them know that the Lord is thy

name: thou alone art the most High over all the

earth.

Chapter 83

Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for

the sons of Core.

2How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of

hosts!
3my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts

of the Lord. My heart and my

esh have rejoiced

in the living God.

4For the sparrow hath found herself a house,

and the turtle a nest for herself where she may

lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts,

my king and my God.

5Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O

Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever.

6Blessed is the man whose help is from thee:

in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps,

7In the vale of tears, in the place which he

hath set.

8For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they

shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods

shall be seen in Sion.

9O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give

ear, O God of Jacob.

10Behold, O God our protector: and look on

the face of thy Christ.724 Book of Psalms

11For better is one day in thy courts above

thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the

house of my God, rather than to dwell in the

tabernacles of sinners.

12For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord

will give grace and glory.

13He will not deprive of good things them

that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed

is the man that trusteth in thee.

Chapter 84

Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.

2Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast

turned away the captivity of Jacob.

3Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy peo-

ple: thou hast covered all their sins.

4Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast

turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.

5Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn o

thy anger from us.

6Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt

thou extend thy wrath from generation to gen-

eration?

7Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life:

and thy people shall rejoice in thee.

8Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us

thy salvation.

9I will hear what the Lord God will speak

in me: for he will speak peace unto his people:

And unto his saints: and unto them that are

converted to the heart.

10Surely his salvation is near to them that

fear him : that glory may dwell in our land.

11Mercy and truth have met each other: jus-

tice and peace have kissed.

12Truth is sprung out of the earth: and jus-

tice hath looked down from heaven.13For the Lord will give goodness: and our

earth shall yield her fruit.

14Justice shall walk before him: and ,shall

set his steps in the way.

Chapter 85

A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O

Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

2Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy

servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.

3Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried

to thee all the day.

4Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to

thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.

5For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and

plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

6Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend

to the voice of my petition.

7I have called upon thee in the day of my

trouble: because thou hast heard me.

8There is none among the gods like unto

thee, O Lord: and there is none according to

thy works.
9All the nations thou hast made shall come

and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall

glorify thy name.

10For thou art great and dost wonderful

things: thou art God alone.

11Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I

will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that

it may fear thy name.

12I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with

my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for

ever:

13For thy mercy is great towards me: and

thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

14O God, the wicked are risen up against

me, and the assembly of the mighty have soughtBook of Psalms 725

my soul: and they have not set thee before their

eyes.

15And thou, O Lord, art a God of compas-

sion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy,

and true.

16O look upon me, and have mercy on me:

give thy command to thy servant, and save the

son of thy handmaid.

17Shew me a token for good: that they who

hate me may see, and be confounded, because

thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast com-

forted me.

Chapter 86

For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The

foundations thereof are the holy mountains:

2The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all

the tabernacles of Jacob.

3Glorious things are said of thee, O city of

God.

4I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon

knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre,

and the people of the Ethiopians, these were

there.

5Shall not Sion say: This man and that man

is born in her? and the Highest himself hath

founded her.

6The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples

and of princes, of them that have been in her.

7The dwelling in thee is as it were of all re-

joicing.

Chapter 87

A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto

the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding

of Eman the Ezrahite.2O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have

cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

3Let my prayer come in before thee: incline

thy ear to my petition.

4For my soul is lled with evils: and my life

hath drawn nigh to hell.

5I am counted among them that go down to

the pit: I am become as a man without help,

6Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping

in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no

more: and they are cut o from thy hand.

7They have laid me in the lower pit: in the

dark places, and in the shadow of death.

8Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy

waves thou hast brought in upon me.

9Thou hast put away my acquaintance far

from me: they have set me an abomination to

themselves. I was delivered up, and came not

forth:

10My eyes languished through poverty. All

the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out

my hands to thee.

11Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or

shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to

thee?

12Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy

mercy: and thy truth in destruction?

13Shall thy wonders be known in the dark;

and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

14But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in

the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

15Lord, why castest thou o my prayer: why

turnest thou away thy face from me?

16I am poor, and in labours from my youth:

and being exalted have been humbled and trou-

bled.

17Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy

terrors have troubled me.

18They have come round about me like wa-

ter all the day: they have compassed me about726 Book of Psalms

together.

19Friend and neighbour thou hast put far

from me: and my acquaintance, because of mis-

ery.

Chapter 88

Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.

2The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever.

I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to

generation and generation.

3For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built

up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be

prepared in them.

4I have made a covenant with my elect: I

have sworn to David my servant:

5Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will

build up thy throne unto generation and gener-

ation.

6The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O

Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.

7For who in the clouds can be compared to

the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall

be like to God?

8God, who is gloried in the assembly of the

saints: great and terrible above all them that are

about him.

9O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee?

thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round

about thee.

10Thou rulest the power of the sea: and ap-

peasest the motion of the waves thereof.

11Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one

that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou

hast scattered thy enemies.

12Thine are the heavens, and thine is the

earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou

hast founded:13The north and the sea thou hast created.

Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:

14Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be

strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:

15Justice and judgment are the preparation

of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before

thy face:
16Blessed is the people that knoweth jubila-

tion. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy

countenance:

17And in thy name they shall rejoice all the

day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.

18For thou art the glory of their strength:

and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be ex-

alted.

19For our protection is of the Lord, and of

our king the holy one of Israel.

20Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints,

and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is

mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my

people.

21I have found David my servant: with my

holy oil I have anointed him.

22For my hand shall help him: and my arm

shall strengthen him.

23The enemy shall have no advantage over

him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt

him.

24And I will cut down his enemies before his

face; and them that hate him I will put to

ight.

25And my truth and my mercy shall be with

him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

26And I will set his hand in the sea; and his

right hand in the rivers.

27He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father:

my God, and the support of my salvation.

28And I will make him my rstborn, high

above the kings of the earth.

29I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and

my covenant faithful to him.Book of Psalms 727

30And I will make his seed to endure for ev-

ermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.

31And if his children forsake my law, and

walk not in my judgments:

32If they profane my justices: and keep not

my commandments:

33I will visit their iniquities with a rod and

their sins with stripes.

34But my mercy I will not take away from

him: nor will I suer my truth to fail.

35Neither will I profane my covenant: and

the words that proceed from my mouth I will

not make void.

36Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will

not lie unto David:

37His seed shall endure for ever.

38And his throne as the sun before me: and

as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful wit-

ness in heaven.

39But thou hast rejected and despised: thou

hast been angry with my anointed.

40Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy

servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the

earth.

41Thou hast broken down all his hedges:

thou hast made his strength fear.

42All that pass by the way have robbed him:

he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

43Thou hast set up the right hand of them

that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies

to rejoice.

44Thou hast turned away the help of his

sword; and hast not assisted him in battle.

45Thou hast made his purication to cease:

and thou hast cast his throne down to the

ground.

46Thou hast shortened the days of his time:

thou hast covered him with confusion.

47How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto

the end? shall thy anger burn like re?48Remember what my substance is: for hast

thou made all the children of men in vain?

49Who is the man that shall live, and not see

death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand

of hell?
50Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, ac-

cording to what thou didst swear to David in

thy truth?

51Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of

thy servants (which I have held in my bosom)

of many nations:

52Wherewith thy enemies have reproached,

O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the

change of thy anointed.

53Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it.

So be it.

Chapter 89

A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou

hast been our refuge from generation to genera-

tion.

2Before the mountains were made, or the

earth and the world was formed; from eternity

and to eternity thou art God.

3Turn not man away to be brought low: and

thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

4For a thousand years in thy sight are as yes-

terday, which is past. And as a watch in the

night,

5Things that are counted nothing, shall their

years be.

6In the morning man shall grow up like grass;

in the morning he shall

ourish and pass away:

in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

7For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and

are troubled in thy indignation.

8Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes:

our life in the light of thy countenance.728 Book of Psalms

9For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath

we have fainted away. Our years shall be consid-

ered as a spider:

10The days of our years in them are three-

score and ten years. But if in the strong they

be fourscore years: and what is more of them is

labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon

us: and we shall be corrected.

11Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and

for thy fear

12Can number thy wrath? So make thy right

hand known: and men learned in heart, in wis-

dom.

13Return, O Lord, how long? and be en-

treated in favour of thy servants.

14We are lled in the morning with thy

mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted

all our days.

15We have rejoiced for the days in which thou

hast humbled us: for the years in which we have

seen evils.

16Look upon thy servants and upon their

works: and direct their children.

17And let the brightness of the Lord our God

be upon us: and direct thou the works of our

hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do

thou direct.

Chapter 90

The praise of a canticle for David. He that

dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide

under the protection of the God of Jacob.

2He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my pro-

tector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I

trust.

3For he hath delivered me from the snare of

the hunters: and from the sharp word.4He will overshadow thee with his shoulders:

and under his wings thou shalt trust.

5His truth shall compass thee with a shield:

thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night.

6Of the arrow that

ieth in the day, of the

business that walketh about in the dark: of in-

vasion, or of the noonday devil.

7A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten

thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come

nigh thee.

8But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and

shalt see the reward of the wicked.

9Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou

hast made the most High thy refuge.

10There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall

the scourge come near thy dwelling.

11For he hath given his angels charge over

thee; to keep thee in all thy ways.

12In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest

thou dash thy foot against a stone.

13Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the

basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the

lion and the dragon.

14Because he hoped in me I will deliver him:

I will protect him because he hath known my

name.

15He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I

am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him,

and I will glorify him.

16I will ll him with length of days; and I

will shew him my salvation.

Chapter 91

A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.

2It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to

sing to thy name, O most High.

3To shew forth thy mercy in the morning,

and thy truth in the night:Book of Psalms 729

4Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the

psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

5For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight

in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I

shall rejoice.

6O Lord, how great are thy works! thy

thoughts are exceeding deep.

7The senseless man shall not know: nor will

the fool understand these things.

8When the wicked shall spring up as grass:

and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That

they may perish for ever and ever:

9But thou, O Lord, art most high for ever-

more.

10For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold

thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of

iniquity shall be scattered.

11But my horn shall be exalted like that of

the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

12My eye also hath looked down upon my

enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall

of the malignant that rise up against me.

13The just shall

ourish like the palm tree:

he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

14They that are planted in the house of the

Lord shall

ourish in the courts of the house of

our God.

15They shall still increase in a fruitful old

age: and shall be well treated,

16That they may shew, That the Lord our

God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

Chapter 92

The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with

beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and

hath girded himself. For he hath established the

world which shall not be moved.2My throne is prepared from of old: thou art

from everlasting.

3The

oods have lifted up, O Lord: the

oods

have lifted up their voice. The

oods have lifted

up their waves,

4With the noise of many waters. Wonderful

are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord

on high.

5Thy testimonies are become exceedingly

credible: holiness becometh thy house, O Lord,

unto length of days.

Chapter 93

The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth:

the God of revenge hath acted freely.

2Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth:

render a reward to the proud.

3How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long

shall sinners glory?

4Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall

all speak who work injustice?

5Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low:

and they have aicted thy inheritance.

6They have slain the widow and the stranger:

and they have murdered the fatherless.

7And they have said: The Lord shall not see:

neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

8Understand, ye senseless among the people:

and, you fools, be wise at last.

9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?

or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

10He that chastiseth nations, shall he not re-

buke: he that teacheth man knowledge?

11The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men,

that they are vain.

12Blessed is the man whom thou shalt in-

struct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy

law.730 Book of Psalms

13That thou mayst give him rest from the

evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked.

14For the Lord will not cast o his people:

neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

15Until justice be turned into judgment: and

they that are near it are all the upright in heart.

16Who shall rise up for me against the evil-

doers? or who shall stand with me against the

workers of iniquity?

17Unless the Lord had been my helper, my

soul had almost dwelt in hell.

18If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O

Lord, assisted me.

19According to the multitude of my sorrows

in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my

soul.

20Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who

framest labour in commandment?

21They will hunt after the soul of the just,

and will condemn innocent blood.

22But the Lord is my refuge: and my God

the help of my hope.

23And he will render them their iniquity :

and in their malice he will destroy them: the

Lord our God will destroy them.

Chapter 94

Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joy-

fully sing to God our saviour.

2Let us come before his presence with thanks-

giving; and make a joyful noise to him with

psalms.

3For the Lord is a great God, and a great

King above all gods.

4For in his hand are all the ends of the earth:

and the heights of the mountains are his.

5For the sea is his, and he made it: and his

hands formed the dry land.6Come let us adore and fall down: and weep

before the Lord that made us.

7For he is the Lord our God: and we are the

people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

8To day if you shall hear his voice, harden

not your hearts:

9As in the provocation, according to the day

of temptation in the wilderness: where your fa-

thers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my

works.

10Forty years long was I oended with that

generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

11And these men have not known my ways:

so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter

into my rest.
Chapter 95

A canticle for David himself, when the house was

built after the captivity. Sing ye to the Lord a

new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew

forth his salvation from day to day.

3Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his

wonders among all people.

4For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be

praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

5For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils:

but the Lord made the heavens.

6Praise and beauty are before him: holiness

and majesty in his sanctuary.

7Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the

Gentiles, bring ye to the Lord glory and honour:

8Bring to the Lord glory unto his name.

Bring up sacrices, and come into his courts:

9Adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all

the earth be moved at his presence.

10Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath

reigned. For he hath corrected the world, whichBook of Psalms 731

shall not be moved: he will judge the people with

justice.

11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth

be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness

thereof:

12The elds and all things that are in them

shall be joyful. Then shall all the trees of the

woods rejoice

13before the face of the Lord, because he

cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth.

He shall judge the world with justice, and the

people with his truth.

Chapter 96

For the same David, when his land was restored

again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the

earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.

2Clouds and darkness are round about him:

justice and judgment are the establishment of his

throne.

3A re shall go before him, and shall burn his

enemies round about.

4His lightnings have shone forth to the world:

the earth saw and trembled.

5The mountains melted like wax, at the pres-

ence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of

all the earth.

6The heavens declared his justice: and all

people saw his glory.

7Let them be all confounded that adore

graven things, and that glory in their idols.

Adore him, all you his angels:

8Sion heard, and was glad. And the daugh-

ters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments,

O Lord.

9For thou art the most high Lord over all

the earth: thou art exalted exceedingly above

all gods.10You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord

preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver

them out of the hand of the sinner.

11Light is risen to the just, and joy to the

right of heart.

12Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give

praise to the remembrance of his holiness.

Chapter 97

A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord

a new canticle: because he hath done wonderful

things. His right hand hath wrought for him

salvation, and his arm is holy.

2The Lord hath made known his salvation:

he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the

Gentiles.

3He hath remembered his mercy and his truth

toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the

earth have seen the salvation of our God.

4Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make

melody, rejoice and sing.

5Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the

harp, and with the voice of a psalm:

6With long trumpets, and sound of cornet.

Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king:

7Let the sea be moved and the fullness

thereof: the world and they that dwell therein.

8The rivers shall clap their hands, the moun-

tains shall rejoice together

9At the presence of the Lord: because he

cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the

world with justice, and the people with equity.

Chapter 98

A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath

reigned, let the people be angry: he that sitteth

on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.732 Book of Psalms

2The lord is great in Sion, and high above all

people.

3Let them give praise to thy great name: for

it is terrible and holy:

4And the king's honour loveth judgment.

Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done

judgment and justice in Jacob.

5Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his

footstool, for it is holy.

6Moses and Aaron among his priests: and

Samuel among them that call upon his name.

They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:

7He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud.

They kept his testimonies, and the command-

ment which he gave them.

8Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God:

thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking

vengeance on all their inventions.

9Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his

holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy.

Chapter 99

A psalm of praise.

2Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve

ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his

presence with exceeding great joy.

3Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made

us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and

the sheep of his pasture.

4Go ye into his gates with praise, into his

courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise

ye his name:

5For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for

ever, and his truth to generation and generation.Chapter 100

A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment

I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing,

2And I will understand in the unspotted way,

when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the

innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

3I will not set before my eyes any unjust

thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.

4The perverse heart did not cleave to me:

and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I

would not know.

5The man that in private detracted his neigh-

bour, him did I persecute. With him that had a

proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not

eat.

6My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth,

to sit with me: the man that walked in the per-

fect way, he served me.

7He that worketh pride shall not dwell in

the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust

things did not prosper before my eyes.

8In the morning I put to death all the wicked

of the land: that I might cut o all the workers

of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

Chapter 101

The prayer of the poor man, when he was anx-

ious, and poured out his supplication before the

Lord.

2Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry

come to thee.

3Turn not away thy face from me: in the day

when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In

what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me

speedily.

4For my days are vanished like smoke, and

my bones are grown dry like fuel for the re.Book of Psalms 733

5I am smitten as grass, and my heart is with-

ered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

6Through the voice of my groaning, my bone

hath cleaved to my

esh.

7I am become like to a pelican of the wilder-

ness: I am like a night raven in the house.

8I have watched, and am become as a sparrow

all alone on the housetop.

9All the day long my enemies reproached me:

and they that praised me did swear against me.

10For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled

my drink with weeping.

11Because of thy anger and indignation: for

having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

12My days have declined like a shadow, and

I am withered like grass.

13But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and

thy memorial to all generations.

14Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion:

for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is

come.

15For the stones thereof have pleased thy

servants: and they shall have pity on the earth

thereof.

16All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O

Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

17For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he

shall be seen in his glory.

18He hath had regard to the prayer of the

humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

19Let these things be written unto another

generation: and the people that shall be created

shall praise the Lord:

20Because he hath looked forth from his high

sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked

upon the earth.

21That he might hear the groans of them that

are in fetters: that he might release the children

of the slain:22That they may declare the name of the

Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;

23When the people assemble together, and

kings, to serve the Lord.

24He answered him in the way of his strength:

Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

25Call me not away in the midst of my days:

thy years are unto generation and generation.

26In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst

the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy

hands.

27They shall perish but thou remainest: and

all of them shall grow old like a garment: And

as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they

shall be changed.

28But thou art always the selfsame, and thy

years shall not fail.

29The children of thy servants shall continue

and their seed shall be directed for ever.

Chapter 102

For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul:

and let all that is within me bless his holy name.

2Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget

all he hath done for thee.

3Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth

all thy diseases.

4Who redeemeth thy life from destruction:

who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion.

5Who satiseth thy desire with good things:

thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's.

6The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all

that suer wrong.

7He hath made his ways known to Moses: his

wills to the children of Israel.

8The Lord is compassionate and merciful:

longsuering and plenteous in mercy.734 Book of Psalms

9He will not always be angry: nor will he

threaten for ever.

10He hath not dealt with us according to our

sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

11For according to the height of the heaven

above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy

towards them that fear him.

12As far as the east is from the west, so far

hath he removed our iniquities from us.

13As a father hath compassion on his chil-

dren, so hath the Lord compassion on them that

fear him:

14For he knoweth our frame. He remem-

bereth that we are dust:

15Man's days are as grass, as the

ower of

the eld so shall he

ourish.

16For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall

not be: and he shall know his place no more.

17But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity

and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And

his justice unto children's children,

18To such as keep his covenant, And are

mindful of his commandments to do them.

19The lord hath prepared his throne in

heaven: and his kingdom shall rule over all.

20Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that

are mighty in strength, and execute his word,

hearkening to the voice of his orders.

21Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you minis-

ters of his that do his will.

22Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place

of his dominion, O my soul, bless thou the Lord.

Chapter 103

For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O

Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great. Thou

hast put on praise and beauty:2And art clothed with light as with a gar-

ment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a

pavilion:

3Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with

water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who

walkest upon the wings of the winds.

4Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy min-

isters a burning re.

5Who hast founded the earth upon its own

bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.

6The deep like a garment is its clothing:

above the mountains shall the waters stand.

7At thy rebuke they shall

ee: at the voice of

thy thunder they shall fear.

8The mountains ascend, and the plains de-

scend into the place which thou hast founded for

them.

9Thou hast set a bound which they shall not

pass over; neither shall they return to cover the

earth.

10Thou sendest forth springs in the vales:

between the midst of the hills the waters shall

pass.

11All the beasts of the eld shall drink: the

wild asses shall expect in their thirst.

12Over them the birds of the air shall dwell:

from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth

their voices.

13Thou waterest the hills from thy upper

rooms: the earth shall be lled with the fruit

of thy works:

14Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb

for the service of men. That thou mayst bring

bread out of the earth:

15And that wine may cheer the heart of man.

That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and

that bread may strengthen man's heart.

16The trees of the eld shall be lled, and

the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted:Book of Psalms 735

17There the sparrows shall make their nests.

The highest of them is the house of the heron.

18The high hills are a refuge for the harts,

the rock for the irchins.

19He hath made the moon for seasons: the

sun knoweth his going down.

20Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is

night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go

about:

21The young lions roaring after their prey,

and seeking their meat from God.

22The sun ariseth, and they are gathered to-

gether: and they shall lie down in their dens.

23Man shall go forth to his work, and to his

labour until the evening.

24How great are thy works, O Lord ? thou

hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is lled

with thy riches.

25So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide

its arms: there are creeping things without num-

ber: Creatures little and great.

26There the ships shall go. This sea dragon

which thou hast formed to play therein.

27All expect of thee that thou give them food

in season.
28What thou givest to them they shall gather

up: when thou openest thy hand, they shall all

be lled with good.

29But if thou turnest away thy face, they

shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their

breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to

their dust.

30Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they

shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face

of the earth.

31May the glory of the Lord endure for ever:

the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

32He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it

tremble: he troubleth the mountains, and they

smoke.33I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I

will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

34Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I

will take delight in the Lord.

35Let sinners be consumed out of the earth,

and the unjust, so that they be no more: O my

soul, bless thou the Lord.

Chapter 104

Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name:

declare his deeds among the Gentiles.

2Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate

all his wondrous works.

3Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of

them rejoice that seek the Lord.

4Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek

his face evermore.

5Remember his marvellous works which he

hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of

his mouth.

6O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons

of Jacob his chosen.

7He is the Lord our God: his judgments are

in all the earth.

8He hath remembered his covenant for ever:

the word which he commanded to a thousand

generations.

9Which he made to Abraham; and his oath

to Isaac:

10And he appointed the same to Jacob for a

law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:

11Saying: To thee will I give the land of

Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

12When they were but a small number: yea

very few, and sojourners therein:

13And they passed from nation to nation,

and from one kingdom to another people.736 Book of Psalms

14He suered no man to hurt them: and he

reproved kings for their sakes.

15Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil

to my prophets.

16And he called a famine upon the land: and

he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

17He sent a man before them: Joseph, who

was sold for a slave.

18They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron

pierced his soul,

19Until his word came. The word of the Lord

in

amed him.

20The king sent, and he released him: the

ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

21He made him master of his house, and ruler

of all his possession.

22That he might instruct his princes as him-

self, and teach his ancients wisdom.

23And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was

a sojourner in the land of Cham.

24And he increased his people exceedingly:

and strengthened them over their enemies.

25He turned their heart to hate his people:

and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

26He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man

whom he had chosen.

27He gave them power to shew them signs,

and his wonders in the land of Cham.

28He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and

grieved not his words.

29He turned their waters into blood, and de-

stroyed their sh.

30Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner

chambers of their kings.

31He spoke, and there came divers sorts of

ies and sciniphs in all their coasts.

32He gave them hail for rain, a burning re

in the land.

33And he destroyed their vineyards and their

g trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of theircoasts.

34He spoke, and the locust came, and the

bruchus, of which there was no number.

35And they devoured all the grass in their

land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.

36And he slew all the rstborn in their land:

the rstfruits of all their labour.

37And he brought them out with silver and

gold: and there was not among their tribes one

that was feeble.

38Egypt was glad when they departed: for

the fear of them lay upon them.

39He spread a cloud for their protection, and

re to give them light in the night.

40They asked, and the quail came: and he

lled them with the bread of heaven.

41He opened the rock, and waters

owed:

rivers ran down in the dry land.

42Because he remembered his holy word,

which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.

43And he brought forth his people with joy,

and his chosen with gladness.

44And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles:

and they possessed the labours of the people:

45That they might observe his justications,

and seek after his law.

Chapter 105

Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his

mercy endureth for ever.

2Who shall declare the powers of the Lord?

who shall set forth all his praises?

3Blessed are they that keep judgment, and

do justice at all times.

4Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy

people: visit us with thy salvation.

5That we may see the good of thy chosen,

that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: thatBook of Psalms 737

thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.

6We have sinned with our fathers: we have

acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in

Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of

thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going

up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

8And he saved them for his own name's sake:

that he might make his power known.

9And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried

up: and he led them through the depths, as in a

wilderness.

10And he saved them from the hand of them

that hated them: and he redeemed them from

the hand of the enemy.

11And the water covered them that aicted

them: there was not one of them left.

12And they believed his words: and they sang

his praises.

13They had quickly done, they forgot his

works: and they waited not for his counsel.

14And they coveted their desire in the desert:

and they tempted God in the place without wa-

ter.

15And he gave them their request: and sent

fulness into their souls.

16And they provoked Moses in the camp,

Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

17The earth opened and swallowed up

Dathan: and covered the congregation of Ab-

iron.

18And a re was kindled in their congrega-

tion: the

ame burned the wicked.

19They made also a calf in Horeb: and they

adored the graven thing.

20And they changed their glory into the like-

ness of a calf that eateth grass.

21They forgot God, who saved them, who

had done great things in Egypt,22Wondrous works in the land of Cham: ter-

rible things in the Red Sea.

23And 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.

24And they set at nought the desirable land.

They believed not his word,

25And they murmured in their tents: they

hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

26And he lifted up his hand over them: to

overthrow them in the desert;

27And to cast down their seed among the

nations, and to scatter them in the countries.

28They also were initiated to Beelphegor:

and ate the sacrices of the dead.

29And they provoked him with their inven-

tions: and destruction was multiplied among

them.

30Then Phinees stood up, and pacied him:

and the slaughter ceased.

31And it was reputed to him unto justice, to

generation and generation for evermore.

32They provoked him also at the waters of

contradiction: and Moses was aicted for their

sakes:

33Because they exasperated his spirit. And

he distinguished with his lips.

34They did not destroy the nations of which

the Lord spoke unto them.

35And they were mingled among the hea-

thens, and learned their works:

36And served their idols, and it became a

stumblingblock to them.

37And they sacriced their sons, and their

daughters to devils.

38And they shed innocent blood: the blood

of their sons and of their daughters which they

sacriced to the idols of Chanaan. And the land

was polluted with blood,738 Book of Psalms

39And was deled with their works: and they

went aside after their own inventions.

40And the Lord was exceedingly angry with

his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.

41And he delivered them into the hands of

the nations: and they that hated them had do-

minion over them.

42And their enemies aicted them: and they

were humbled under their hands:

43Many times did he deliver them. But they

provoked him with their counsel: and they were

brought low by their iniquities.

44And he saw when they were in tribulation:

and he heard their prayer.

45And he was mindful of his covenant: and

repented according to the multitude of his mer-

cies.

46And he gave them unto mercies, in the

sight of all those that had made them captives.

47Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather

us from among the nations: That we may give

thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy

praise.

48Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from

everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people

say: So be it, so be it.

Chapter 106

Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his

mercy endureth for ever.

2Let them say so that have been redeemed by

the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand

of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.

3From the rising and from the setting of the

sun, from the north and from the sea.

4They wandered in a wilderness, in a place

without water: they found not the way of a city

for their habitation.5They were hungry and thirsty: their soul

fainted in them.

6And they cried to the Lord in their tribu-

lation: and he delivered them out of their dis-

tresses.

7And he led them into the right way, that

they might go to a city of habitation.

8Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to

him: and his wonderful works to the children of

men.

9For he hath satised the empty soul, and

hath lled the hungry soul with good things.

10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow

of death: bound in want and in iron.

11Because they had exasperated the words

of God: and provoked the counsel of the most

High:

12And their heart was humbled with labours:

they were weakened, and there was none to help

them.

13Then they cried to the Lord in their af-

iction: and he delivered them out of their dis-

tresses.

14And he brought them out of darkness, and

the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in

sunder.

15Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to

him, and his wonderful works to the children of

men.

16Because he hath broken gates of brass, and

burst iron bars.

17He took them out of the way of their iniq-

uity: for they were brought low for their injus-

tices.

18Their soul abhorred all manner of meat:

and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

19And they cried to the Lord in their af-

iction: and he delivered them out of their dis-

tresses.Book of Psalms 739

20He sent his word, and healed them: and

delivered them from their destructions.

21Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to

him: and his wonderful works to the children of

men.

22And let them sacrice the sacrice of

praise: and declare his works with joy.

23They that go down to the sea in ships, do-

ing business in the great waters:

24These have seen the works of the Lord, and

his wonders in the deep.

25He said the word, and there arose a storm

of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up.

26They mount up to the heavens, and they

go down to the depths: their soul pined away

with evils.

27They were troubled, and reeled like a

drunken man; and all their wisdom was swal-

lowed up.

28And they cried to the Lord in their aic-

tion: and he brought them out of their distresses.

29And he turned the storm into a breeze: and

its waves were still.

30And they rejoiced because they were still:

and he brought them to the haven which they

wished for.

31Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to

him, and his wonderful works to the children of

men.

32And let them exalt him in the church of

the people: and praise him in the chair of the

ancients.

33He hath turned rivers into a wilderness:

and the sources of waters into dry ground:

34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the

wickedness of them that dwell therein.

35He hath turned a wilderness into pools of

waters, and a dry land into water springs.

36And hath placed there the hungry; and

they made a city for their habitation.37Anti they sowed elds, and planted vine-

yards: and they yielded fruit of birth.

38And he blessed them, and they were mul-

tiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suered

not to decrease.

39Then they were brought to be few: and

they were aicted through the trouble of evils

and sorrow.

40Contempt was poured forth upon their

princes: and he caused them to wander where

there was no passing, and out of the way.

41And he helped the poor out of poverty: and

made him families like a

ock of sheep.
42The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all

iniquity shall stop her mouth.

43Who is wise, and will keep these things;

and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

Chapter 107

A canticle of a psalm for David himself.

2My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready:

I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory.

3Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I

will arise in the morning early.

4I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people:

and I will sing unto thee among the nations.

5For thy mercy is great above the heavens:

and thy truth even unto the clouds.

6Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens,

and thy glory over all the earth:

7That thy beloved may be delivered. Save

with thy right hand and hear me.

8God hath spoken in his holiness. I will re-

joice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete

out the vale of tabernacles.

9Galaad is mine: and Manasses is mine and

Ephraim the protection of my head. Juda is my

king:740 Book of Psalms

10Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I

will stretch out my shoe: the aliens are become

my friends.

11Who will bring me into the strong city?

who will lead me into Edom?

12Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us o

? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our

armies?

13O grant us help from trouble: for vain is

the help of man.

14Through God we shall do mightily: and he

will bring our enemies to nothing.

Chapter 108

Unto the end, a psalm for David.

2O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for

the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the

deceitful man is opened against me.

3They have spoken against me with deceit-

ful tongues; and they have compassed me about

with words of hatred; and have fought against

me without cause.

4Instead of making me a return of love, they

detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.

5And they repaid me evil for good: and ha-

tred for my love.

6Set thou the sinner over him: and may the

devil stand at his right hand.

7When he is judged, may he go out con-

demned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.

8May his days be few: and his bishopric let

another take.

9May his children be fatherless, and his wife

a widow.

10 Let his children be carried about

vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out

of their dwellings.11May the usurer search all his substance:

and let strangers plunder his labours.

12May there be none to help him: nor none

to pity his fatherless ospring.

13May his posterity be cut o; in one gener-

ation may his name be blotted out.

14May the iniquity of his fathers be remem-

bered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the

sin of his mother be blotted out.

15May they be before the Lord continually,

and let the memory of them perish from the

earth: 16 because he remembered not to shew

mercy,

17But persecuted the poor man and the beg-

gar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

18And he loved cursing, and it shall come

unto him: and he would not have blessing, and

it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing,

like a garment: and it went in like water into his

entrails, and like oil in his bones.

19May it be unto him like a garment which

covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is

girded continually.

20This is the work of them who detract me

before the Lord; and who speak evils against my

soul.

21But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy

name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do

thou deliver me,

22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is

troubled within me.

23I am taken away like the shadow when it

declineth: and I am shaken o as locusts.

24My knees are weakened through fasting:

and my

esh is changed for oil.

25And I am become a reproach to them: they

saw me and they shaked their heads.

26Help me, O Lord my God; save me; accord-

ing to thy mercy.Book of Psalms 741

27And let them know that this is thy hand:

and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.

28They will curse and thou wilt bless: let

them that rise up against me be confounded: but

thy servant shall rejoice.

29Let them that detract me be clothed with

shame: and let them be covered with their con-

fusion as with a double cloak.

30I will give great thanks to the Lord with

my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise

him.

31Because he hath stood at the right hand of

the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.

Chapter 109

A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord:

Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy

enemies thy footstool.

2The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy

power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy

enemies.

3With thee is the principality in the day of

thy strength: in the brightness of the saints:

from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

4The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent:

Thou art a priest for ever according to the order

of Melchisedech.

5The Lord at thy right hand hath broken

kings in the day of his wrath.

6He shall judge among nations, he shall ll

ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of

many.
7He shall drink of the torrent in the way:

therefore shall he lift up the head.Chapter 110

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart;

in the council of the just, and in the congrega-

tion.

2Great are the works of the Lord: sought out

according to all his wills.

3His work is praise and magnicence: and his

justice continueth for ever and ever.

4He hath made a remembrance of his wonder-

ful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord:

5He hath given food to them that fear him.

He will be mindful for ever of his covenant:

6He will shew forth to his people the power

of his works.

7That he may give them the inheritance of

the Gentiles: the works of his hands are truth

and judgment.

8All his commandments are faithful: con-

rmed for ever and ever, made in truth and eq-

uity.

9He hath sent redemption to his people: he

hath commanded his covenant for ever. Holy

and terrible is his name:

10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of

wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it:

his praise continueth for ever and ever.

Chapter 111

Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he

shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

2His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the

generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

3Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and

his justice remaineth for ever and ever.

4To the righteous a light is risen up in dark-

ness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just.742 Book of Psalms

5Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy

and lendeth: he shall order his words with judg-

ment:

6Because he shall not be moved for ever.

7The just shall be in everlasting remem-

brance: he shall not fear the evil hearing. His

heart is ready to hope in the Lord:

8His heart is strengthened, he shall not be

moved until he look over his enemies.

9He hath distributed, he hath given to the

poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever:

his horn shall be exalted in glory.

10The wicked shall see, and shall be angry,

he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the

desire of the wicked shall perish.

Chapter 112
Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name

of the Lord.

2Blessed be the name of the Lord, from hence-

forth now and for ever.

3From the rising of the sun unto the going

down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy

of praise.

4The Lord is high above all nations; and his

glory above the heavens.

5Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth

on high: 6 and looketh down on the low things

in heaven and in earth?

7Raising up the needy from the earth, and

lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:

8That he may place him with princes, with

the princes of his people.

9Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a

house, the joyful mother of children.Chapter 113

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Ja-

cob from a barbarous people:

2Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his do-

minion.

3The sea saw and

ed: Jordan was turned

back.

4The mountains skipped like rams, and the

hills like the lambs of the

ock.

5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst

ee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned

back?

6Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams,

and ye hills, like lambs of the

ock?

7At the presence of the Lord the earth was

moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob:

8Who turned the rock into pools of water,

and the stony hill into fountains of waters.

Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name

give glory.

2For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest

the Gentiles should say: Where is their God?

3But our God is in heaven: he hath done all

things whatsoever he would.

4The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold,

the works of the hands of men.

5They have mouths and speak not: they have

eyes and see not.

6They have ears and hear not: they have

noses and smell not.

7They have hands and feel not: they have feet

and walk not: neither shall they cry out through

their throat.

8Let them that make them become like unto

them: and all such as trust in them.

9The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord:

he is their helper and their protector.

10The house of Aaron hath hoped in the

Lord: he is their helper and their protector.Book of Psalms 743

11They that fear the Lord have hoped in the

Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

12The Lord hath been mindful of us, and

hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of

Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.

13He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both

little and great.

14May the Lord add blessings upon you:

upon you, and upon your children.

15Blessed be you of the Lord, who made

heaven and earth.

16The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but

the earth he has given to the children of men.

17The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord:

nor any of them that go down to hell.

18But we that live bless the Lord: from this

time now and for ever.

Chapter 114
I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice

of my prayer.

2Because he hath inclined his ear unto me:

and in my days I will call upon him.

3The sorrows of death have compassed me:

and the perils of hell have found me. I met with

trouble and sorrow:

4And I called upon the name of the Lord. O

Lord, deliver my soul.

5The Lord is merciful and just, and our God

sheweth mercy.

6The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was

humbled, and he delivered me.

7Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord

hath been bountiful to thee.

8For he hath delivered my soul from death:

my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

9I will please the Lord in the land of the liv-

ing.Chapter 115

11I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

12What shall I render to the Lord, for all the

things that he hath rendered to me?

13I will take the chalice of salvation; and I

will call upon the name of the Lord.

14I will pay my vows to the Lord before all

his people:
15Precious in the sight of the Lord is the

death of his saints.

16O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy

servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou

hast broken my bonds:

17I will sacrice to thee the sacrice of praise,

and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

18I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight

of all his people:

19In the courts of the house of the Lord, in

the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.

Chapter 116

O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all

ye people.

2For his mercy is conrmed upon us: and the

truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.

Chapter 117

Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his

mercy endureth for ever.

2Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his

mercy endureth for ever.

3Let the house of Aaron now say, that his

mercy endureth for ever.

4Let them that fear the Lord now say, that

his mercy endureth for ever.744 Book of Psalms

5In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and

the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.

6The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what

man can do unto me.

7The Lord is my helper: and I will look over

my enemies.

8It is good to conde in the Lord, rather than

to have condence in man.

9It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than

to trust in princes.

10All nations compassed me about; and, in

the name of the Lord I have been revenged on

them.

11Surrounding me they compassed me about:

and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged

on them.

12They surrounded me like bees, and they

burned like re among thorns: and in the name

of the Lord I was revenged on them.

13Being pushed I was overturned that I might

fall: but the Lord supported me.

14The Lord is my strength and my praise:

and he is become my salvation.

15The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in

the tabernacles of the just.

16The right hand of the Lord hath wrought

strength: the right hand of the Lord hath exalted

me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought

strength.

17I shall not die, but live: and shall declare

the works of the Lord.

18The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but

he hath not delivered me over to death.

19Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will

go in to them, and give praise to the Lord.

20This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall

enter into it.

21I will give glory to thee because thou hast

heard me: and art become my salvation.22The stone which the builders rejected; the

same is become the head of the corner.

23This is the Lord's doing , and it is wonder-

ful in our eyes.

24This is the day which the Lord hath made:

let us be glad and rejoice therein.

25O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good suc-

cess.

26Blessed be he that cometh in the name of

the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house

of the Lord.

27The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon

us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs,

even to the horn of the altar.

28Thou art my God, and I will praise thee:

thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. I will

praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and

art become my salvation.

29O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for

his mercy endureth for ever.

Chapter 118

Blessed are the undeled in the way, who walk

in the law of the Lord.

2Blessed are they that search his testimonies:

that seek him with their whole heart.

3For they that work iniquity, have not walked

in his ways.

4Thou hast commanded thy commandments

to be kept most diligently.

5O! that my ways may be directed to keep

thy justications.

6Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall

look into all thy commandments.

7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart,

when I shall have learned the judgments of thy

justice.Book of Psalms 745

8I will keep thy justications: O! do not thou

utterly forsake me.

9By what doth a young man correct his way?

by observing thy words.

10With my whole heart have I sought after

thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.

11Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that

I may not sin against thee.

12Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy

justications.

13With my lips I have pronounced all the

judgments of thy mouth.

14I have been delighted in the way of thy

testimonies, as in all riches.

15I will meditate on thy commandments: and

I will consider thy ways.

16I will think of thy justications: I will not

forget thy words.

17Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me:

and I shall keep thy words.

18Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the

wondrous things of thy law.

19I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy

commandments from me.

20My soul hath coveted to long for thy justi-

cations, at all times.

21Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are

cursed who decline from thy commandments.

22Remove from me reproach and contempt:

because I have sought after thy testimonies.

23For princes sat, and spoke against me: but

thy servant was employed in thy justications.

24For thy testimonies are my meditation: and

thy justications my counsel.

25My soul hath cleaved to the pavement:

quicken thou me according to thy word.

26I have declared my ways, and thou hast

heard me: teach me thy justications.

27Make me to understand the way of thy jus-

tications: and I shall be exercised in thy won-drous works.

28My soul hath slumbered through heaviness:

strengthen thou me in thy words.

29Remove from me the way of iniquity: and

out of thy law have mercy on me.

30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judg-

ments I have not forgotten.

31I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord:

put me not to shame.

32I have run the way of thy commandments,

when thou didst enlarge my heart.

33Set before me for a law the way of thy

justications, O Lord: and I will always seek

after it.

34Give me understanding, and I will search

thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.

35Lead me into the path of thy command-

ments; for this same I have desired.

36Incline my heart into thy testimonies and

not to covetousness.

37Turn away my eyes that they may not be-

hold vanity: quicken me in thy way.

38Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy

fear.

39Turn away my reproach, which I have ap-

prehended: for thy judgments are delightful.

40Behold I have longed after thy precepts:

quicken me in thy justice.

42So shall I answer them that reproach me

in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words.

43And take not thou the word of truth utterly

out of my mouth: for in thy words, I have hoped

exceedingly.

44So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and

ever.

45And I walked at large: because I have

sought after thy commandments.

46And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings:

and I was not ashamed.746 Book of Psalms

47I meditated also on thy commandments,

which I loved.

48And I lifted up my hands to thy command-

ments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy

justications.
49Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant,

in which thou hast given me hope.

50This hath comforted me in my humiliation:

because thy word hath enlivened me.

51The proud did iniquitously altogether: but

I declined not from thy law.

52I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of

old: and I was comforted.

53A fainting hath taken hold of me, because

of the wicked that forsake thy law.

54Thy justications were the subject of my

song, in the place of my pilgrimage.

55In the night I have remembered thy name,

O Lord: and have kept thy law.

56This happened to me: because I sought

after thy justications.

57O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would

keep thy law.

58I entreated thy face with all my heart: have

mercy on me according to thy word.

59I have thought on my ways: and turned my

feet unto thy testimonies.

60I am ready, and am not troubled: that I

may keep thy commandments.

61The cords of the wicked have encompassed

me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

62I rose at midnight to give praise to thee;

for the judgments of thy justication.

63I am a partaker with all them that fear

thee, and that keep thy commandments.

64The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy:

teach me thy justications.

65Thou hast done well with thy servant, O

Lord, according to thy word.66Teach me goodness and discipline and

knowledge; for I have believed thy command-

ments.

67Before I was humbled I oended; therefore

have I kept thy word.

68Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach

me thy justications.

69The iniquity of the proud hath been multi-

plied over me: but I will seek thy commandments

with my whole heart.

70Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have

meditated on thy law.

71It is good for me that thou hast humbled

me, that I may learn thy justications.

72The law of thy mouth is good to me, above

thousands of gold and silver.

73Thy hands have made me and formed me:

give me understanding, and I will learn thy com-

mandments.
74They that fear thee shall see me, and shall

be glad : because I have greatly hoped in thy

words.

75I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are

equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.

76O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, ac-

cording to thy word unto thy servant.

77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and

I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.

78Let the proud be ashamed, because they

have done unjustly towards me: but I will be

employed in thy commandments.

79Let them that fear thee turn to me: and

they that know thy testimonies.

80Let my heart be undeled in thy justica-

tions, that I may not be confounded.

81My soul hath fainted after thy salvation:

and in thy word I have very much hoped.

82My eyes have failed for thy word, saying:

When wilt thou comfort me?Book of Psalms 747

83For I am become like a bottle in the frost:

I have not forgotten thy justications.

84How many are the days of thy servant:

when wilt thou execute judgment on them that

persecute me?

85The wicked have told me fables: but not

as thy law.

86All thy statutes are truth: they have per-

secuted me unjustly, do thou help me.

87They had almost made an end of me upon

earth: but I have not forsaken thy command-

ments.

88Quicken thou me according to thy mercy:

and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

89For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth rm

in heaven.

90Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast

founded the earth, and it continueth.

91By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all

things serve thee.

92Unless thy law had been my meditation, I

had then perhaps perished in my abjection.

93Thy justications I will never forget: for

by them thou hast given me life.

94I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought

thy justications.

95The wicked have waited for me to destroy

me: but I have understood thy testimonies.

96I have seen an end of all perfection: thy

commandment is exceeding broad.

97O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is

my meditation all the day.

98Through thy commandment, thou hast

made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever

with me.

99I have understood more than all my teach-

ers: because thy testimonies are my meditation.

100I have had understanding above ancients:

because I have sought thy commandments.101I have restrained my feet from every evil

way: that I may keep thy words.

102 I have not declined from thy judgments,

because thou hast set me a law.

103 How sweet are thy words to my palate!

more than honey to my mouth.

104By thy commandments I have had under-

standing: therefore have I hated every way of

iniquity.

105Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light

to my paths.

106I have sworn and am determined to keep

the judgments of thy justice.

107 I have been humbled, O Lord, exceed-

ingly: quicken thou me according to thy word.

108The free oerings of my mouth make ac-

ceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgments.

109My soul is continually in my hands: and

I have not forgotten thy law.

110 Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I

have not erred from thy precepts.

111 I have purchased thy testimonies for an

inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of

my heart.

112 I have inclined my heart to do thy justi-

cations for ever, for the reward.

113 I have hated the unjust: and have loved

thy law.

114 Thou art my helper and my protector:

and in thy word I have greatly hoped.

115Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will

search the commandments of my God.

116Uphold me according to thy word, and I

shall live: and let me not be confounded in my

expectation.

117Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will

meditate always on thy justications.

118 Thou hast despised all them that fall o

from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust.748 Book of Psalms

119 I have accounted all the sinners of the

earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy

testimonies.

120 Pierce thou my

esh with thy fear: for I

am afraid of thy judgments.

121 I have done judgment and justice: give

me not up to them that slander me.

122Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the

proud calumniate me.

123My eyes have fainted after thy salvation:

and for the word of thy justice.

124 Deal with thy servant according to thy

mercy: and teach me thy justications.

125I am thy servant: give me understanding

that I may know thy testimonies.

126 It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dis-

sipated thy law.

127 Therefore have I loved thy command-

ments above gold and the topaz.

128 Therefore was I directed to all thy com-

mandments: I have hated all wicked ways.

129Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore

my soul hath sought them.

130The declaration of thy words giveth light:

and giveth understanding to little ones.

131I opened my mouth, and panted: because

I longed for thy commandments.

132 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on

me according to the judgment of them that love

thy name.

133 Direct my steps according to thy word:

and let no iniquity have dominion over me.

134 Redeem me from the calumnies of men:

that I may keep thy commandments.

135Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:

and teach me thy justications.

136My eyes have sent forth springs of water:

because they have not kept thy law.

137Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment

is right.138 Thou hast commanded justice thy testi-

monies: and thy truth exceedingly.

139 My zeal hath made me pine away: be-

cause my enemies forgot thy words.

140Thy word is exceedingly rened: and thy

servant hath loved it.

141I am very young and despised; but I forget

not thy justications.

142 Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy

law is the truth.

143Trouble and anguish have found me: thy

commandments are my meditation.

144Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give

me understanding, and I shall live.

145I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O

Lord: I will seek thy justications.

146 I cried unto thee, save me: that I may

keep thy commandments.

147 I prevented the dawning of the day, and

cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.

148My eyes to thee have prevented the morn-

ing: that I might meditate on thy words.

149 Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according

to thy mercy: and quicken me according to thy

judgment.

150They that persecute me have drawn nigh

to iniquity; but they are gone far o from thy

law.

151Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways

are truth.

152 I have known from the beginning con-

cerning thy testimonies: that thou hast founded

them for ever.

153 See my humiliation and deliver me for I

have not forgotten thy law.

154 Judge my judgment and redeem me:

quicken thou me for thy word's sake.

155Salvation is far from sinners; because they

have not sought thy justications.Book of Psalms 749

156 Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken

me according to thy judgment.

157Many are they that persecute me and af-

ict me; but I have not declined from thy testi-

monies.
158 I beheld the transgressors, and pined

away; because they kept not thy word.

159Behold I have loved thy commandments,

O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy.

160 The beginning of thy words is truth: all

the judgments of thy justice are for ever.

161 Princes have persecuted me without

cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy

words.

162 I will rejoice at thy words, as one that

hath found great spoil.

163I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I

have loved thy law.

164 Seven times a day I have given praise to

thee, for the judgments of thy justice.

165Much peace have they that love thy law,

and to them there is no stumbling. block.

166I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I

loved thy commandments.

167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies and

hath loved them exceedingly.

168 I have kept thy commandments and thy

testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight.

169 Let my supplication, O Lord, come near

in thy sight: give me understanding according to

thy word.
170 Let my request come in before thee; de-

liver thou me according to thy word.

171 My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou

shalt teach me thy justications.

172My tongue shall pronounce thy word: be-

cause all thy commandments are justice.

173Let thy hand be with me to save me; for

I have chosen thy precepts.174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord;

and thy law is my meditation.

175 My soul shall live and shall praise thee:

and thy judgments shall help me.

176I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost:

seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten

thy commandments.

Chapter 119

In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard

me.

2O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips,

and a deceitful tongue.

3What shall be given to thee, or what shall

be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?

4The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals

that lay waste.

5Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged!

I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:

6My soul hath been long a sojourner.

7With them that hated peace I was peaceable:

when I spoke to them they fought against me

without cause.

Chapter 120

I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from

whence help shall come to me.

2My help is from the Lord, who made heaven

and earth.

3May he not suer thy foot to be moved:

neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

4Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep,

that keepeth Israel.

5The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy pro-

tection upon thy right hand.

6The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the

moon by night.750 Book of Psalms

7The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may

the Lord keep thy soul.

8May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy

going out; from henceforth now and for ever.

Chapter 121

A gradual canticle.

2Our feet were standing in thy courts, O

Jerusalem.

3Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is

compact together.
4For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of

the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the

name of the Lord.

5Because their seats have sat in judgment,

seats upon the house of David.

6Pray ye for the things that are for the peace

of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love

thee.

7Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance

in thy towers.

8For the sake of my brethren, and of my

neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

9Because of the house of the Lord our God, I

have sought good things for thee.

Chapter 122

To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest

in heaven.

2Behold as the eyes of servants are on the

hands of their masters, As the eyes of the hand-

maid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our

eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy

on us.

3Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on

us: for we are greatly lled with contempt.4For our soul is greatly lled: we are a re-

proach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.

Chapter 123
A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the

Lord was with us, let Israel now say:

2If it had not been that the Lord was with

us, When men rose up against us,

3Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive.

When their fury was enkindled against us,

4Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

5Our soul hath passed through a torrent: per-

haps our soul had passed through a water insup-

portable.

6Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us

to be a prey to their teeth.

7Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow

out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is

broken, and we are delivered.

8Our help is in the name of the Lord, who

made heaven and earth.

Chapter 124

A gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord

shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved

for ever that dwelleth

2In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about

it: so the Lord is round about his people from

henceforth now and for ever.

3For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners

upon the lot of the just: that the just may not
stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

4Do good, O Lord, to those that are good,

and to the upright of heart.

5But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord

shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace

upon Israel.Book of Psalms 751

Chapter 125

A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back

the captivity of Sion, we became like men com-

forted.

2Then was our mouth lled with gladness;

and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say

among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great

things for them.

3The Lord hath done great things for us: we

are become joyful.

4Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a

stream in the south.

5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

6Going they went and wept, casting their

seeds.

7But coming they shall come with joyfulness,

carrying their sheaves.

Chapter 126

A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord

build the house, they labour in vain that build

it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in

vain that keepeth it.

2It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye

after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of

sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,

3Behold the inheritance of the Lord are chil-

dren: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

4As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the

children of them that have been shaken.

5Blessed is the man that hath lled the desire

with them; he shall not be confounded when he

shall speak to his enemies in the gate.Chapter 127

A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear

the Lord: that walk in his ways.

2For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands:

blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

3Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of

thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round

about thy table.

4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that

feareth the Lord.

5May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and

mayst thou see the good things of Jerusalem all

the days of thy life.

6And mayst thou see thy children's children,

peace upon Israel.

Chapter 128

A gradual canticle. Often have they fought

against me from my youth, let Israel now say.

2Often have they fought against me from my

youth: but they could not prevail over me.

3The wicked have wrought upon my back:

they have lengthened their iniquity.

4The Lord who is just will cut the necks of

sinners:

5Let them all be confounded and turned back

that hate Sion.

6Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses:

which withereth before it be plucked up:

7Who with the mower lleth not his hand:

nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.

8And they that passed by have not said:

The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have

blessed you in the name of the Lord.752 Book of Psalms

Chapter 129

A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have

cried to thee, O Lord:

2Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be atten-

tive to the voice of my supplication.

3If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord,

who shall stand it.

4For with thee there is merciful forgiveness:

and by reason of thy law, I have waited for thee,

O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word:

5my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

6From the morning watch even until night,

let Israel hope in the Lord.

7Because with the Lord there is mercy: and

with him plentiful redemption.

8And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniq-

uities.

Chapter 130

A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is

not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I

walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things

above me.

2If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my

soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his

mother, so reward in my soul.

3Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth

now and for ever.

Chapter 131

A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David,

and all his meekness.

2How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow

to the God of Jacob:

3If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my

house: if I shall go up into the bed wherein I lie:4If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber
to my eyelids,

5Or rest to my temples: until I nd out a

place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of

Jacob.

6Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we

have found it in the elds of the wood.

7We will go into his tabernacle: we will adore

in the place where his feet stood.

8Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou

and the ark, which thou hast sanctied.

9Let thy priests be clothed with justice: and

let thy saints rejoice.

10For thy servant David's sake, turn not away

the face of thy anointed.

11The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and

he will not make it void: of the fruit of thy womb

I will set upon thy throne.

12If thy children will keep my covenant, and

these my testimonies which I shall teach them:

Their children also for evermore shall sit upon

thy throne.

13For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath

chosen it for his dwelling.

14This is my rest for ever and ever: here will

I dwell, for I have chosen it.

15Blessing I will bless her widow: I will sat-

isfy her poor with bread.

16I will clothe her priests with salvation, and

her saints shall rejoice with exceeding great joy.

17There will I bring forth a horn to David: I

have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

18His enemies I will clothe with confusion:

but upon him shall my sanctication

ourish.

Chapter 132

A gradual canticle of David. Behold how good

and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to-Book of Psalms 753

gether in unity:

2Like the precious ointment on the head, that

ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron,

Which ran down to the skirt of his garment:

3As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth

upon mount Sion. For there the Lord hath com-

manded blessing, and life for evermore.

Chapter 133

A gradual canticle. Behold now bless ye the

Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: Who stand

in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the

house of our God.

2In the nights lift up your hands to the holy

places, and bless ye the Lord.

3May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, he that

made heaven and earth.

Chapter 134

Alleluia. Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you

his servants, praise the Lord:

2You that stand in the house of the Lord, in

the courts of the house of our God.

3Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good:

sing ye to his name, for it is sweet.

4For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto him-

self: Israel for his own possession.

5For I have known that the Lord is great, and

our God is above all gods.

6Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done,

in heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in all the

deeps.

7He bringeth up clouds from the end of the

earth: he hath made lightnings for the rain. He

bringeth forth winds out of his stores:

8He slew the rstborn of Egypt from man

even unto beast.9He sent forth signs and wonders in the midst

of thee, O Egypt: upon Pharao, and upon all his

servants.

10He smote many nations, and slew mighty

kings:

11Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and Og king

of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan.

12And gave their land for an inheritance, for

an inheritance to his people Israel.

13Thy name, O Lord, is for ever: thy memo-

rial, O Lord, unto all generations.

14For the Lord will judge his people, and will

be entreated in favour of his servants.

15The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold,

the works of men's hands.

16They have a mouth, but they speak not:

they have eyes, but they see not.

17They have ears, but they hear not: neither

is there any breath in their mouths.

18Let them that make them be like to them:

and every one that trusteth in them.

19Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless the

Lord, O house of Aaron.

20Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: you that

fear the Lord, bless the Lord.

21Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who

dwelleth in Jerusalem.

Chapter 135

Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his

mercy endureth for ever.

2Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy

endureth for ever.

3Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy

endureth for ever.

4Who alone doth great wonders: for his

mercy endureth for ever.754 Book of Psalms

5Who made the heavens in understanding:

for his mercy endureth for ever.

6Who established the earth above the waters:

for his mercy endureth for ever.

7Who made the great lights: for his mercy

endureth for ever.

8The sun to rule the day: for his mercy en-

dureth for ever.

9The moon and the stars to rule the night:

for his mercy endureth for ever.

10Who smote Egypt with their rstborn: for

his mercy endureth for ever.

11Who brought out Israel from among them:

for his mercy endureth for ever.

12With a mighty hand and with a stretched

out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.

13Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for

his mercy endureth for ever.

14And brought out Israel through the midst

thereof: for his mercy endureth for ever.

15And overthrew Pharao and his host in the

Red Sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.

16Who led his people through the desert: for

his mercy endureth for ever.

17Who smote great kings: for his mercy en-

dureth for ever.

18And slew strong kings: for his mercy en-

dureth for ever.

19Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for his

mercy endureth for ever.

20And Og king of Basan: for his mercy en-

dureth for ever.

21And he gave their land for an inheritance:

for his mercy endureth for ever.

22For an inheritance to his servant Israel: for

his mercy endureth for ever.

23For he was mindful of us in our aiction:

for his mercy endureth for ever.

24And he redeemed us from our enemies: for

his mercy endureth for ever.25Who giveth food to all

esh: for his mercy

endureth for ever.

26Give glory to the God of heaven: for his

mercy endureth for ever.

27Give glory to the Lord of lords: for his

mercy endureth for ever.

Chapter 136

Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and

wept: when we remembered Sion:

2On the willows in the midst thereof we hung

up our instruments.

3For there they that led us into captivity re-

quired of us the words of songs. And they that

carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of

the songs of Sion.

4How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a

strange land?

5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right

hand be forgotten.

6Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do

not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the

beginning of my joy.

7Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom,

in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase

it, even to the foundation thereof.

8O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed

shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment

which thou hast paid us.

9Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy

little ones against the rock.

Chapter 137

For David himself. I will praise thee, O Lord,

with my whole heart: for thou hast heard the

words of my mouth. I will sing praise to thee in

the sight of the angels:Book of Psalms 755

2I will worship towards thy holy temple, and

I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and

for thy truth: for thou hast magnied thy holy

name above all.

3In what day soever I shall call upon thee,

hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my

soul.

4May all the kings of the earth give glory to

thee: for they have heard all the words of thy

mouth.

5And let them sing in the ways of the Lord:

for great is the glory of the Lord.

6For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low:

and the high he knoweth afar o.

7If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation,

thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched

forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies:

and thy right hand hath saved me.

8The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O

Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works

of thy hands.

Chapter 138

Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast

proved me, and known me:

2Thou hast known my sitting down, and my

rising up.
3Thou hast understood my thoughts afar o:

my path and my line thou hast searched out.

4And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for

there is no speech in my tongue.

5Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,

the last and those of old: thou hast formed me,

and hast laid thy hand upon me.

6Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me:

it is high, and I cannot reach to it.

7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or

whither shall I

ee from thy face?9If I take my wings early in the morning, and

dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:

10Even there also shall thy hand lead me:

and thy right hand shall hold me.

11And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover

me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.

12But darkness shall not be dark to thee,

and night shall be light all the day: the darkness

thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.

13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou

hast protected me from my mother's womb.

14I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully

magnied: wonderful are thy works, and my soul

knoweth right well.

15My bone is not hidden from thee, which

thou hast made in secret: and my substance in

the lower parts of the earth.

16Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and

in thy book all shall be written: days shall be

formed, and no one in them.

17But to me thy friends, O God, are made

exceedingly honourable: their principality is ex-

ceedingly strengthened.

18I will number them, and they shall be mul-

tiplied above the sand, I rose up and am still

with thee.

19If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men

of blood, depart from me:

20Because you say in thought: They shall

receive thy cities in vain.

21Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated

thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?

22I have hated them with a perfect hatred:

and they are become enemies to me.

23Prove me, O God, and know my heart:

examine me, and know my paths.

24And see if there be in me the way of iniq-

uity: and lead me in the eternal way.756 Book of Psalms

Chapter 139

Unto the end, a psalm of David.

2Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: res-

cue me from the unjust man.

3Who have devised iniquities in their hearts:

all the day long they designed battles.

4They have sharpened their tongues like a

serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

5Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the

wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who

have proposed to supplant my steps:

6The proud have hidden a net for me. And

they have stretched out cords for a snare: they

have laid for me a stumblingblock by the way-

side.

7I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear,

O Lord, the voice of my supplication.

8O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation:

thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of

battle.

9Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to

the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not

thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

10The head of them compassing me about:

the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.

11Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou

wilt cast them down into the re: in miseries

they shall not be able to stand.

12A man full of tongue shall not be estab-

lished in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust

man unto destruction.

13I know that the Lord will do justice to the

needy, and will revenge the poor.

14But as for the just, they shall give glory to

thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy

countenance.Chapter 140

I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken

to my voice, when I cry to thee.

2Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy

sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sac-

rice.

3Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and

a door round about my lips.

4Incline not my heart to evil words; to make

excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity:

and I will not communicate with the choicest of

them.

5The just man shall correct me in mercy, and

shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sin-

ner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still

be against the things with which they are well

pleased:

6Their judges falling upon the rock have been

swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for

they have prevailed:

7As when the thickness of the earth is broken

up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by

the side of hell.

8But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in

thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.

9Keep me from the snare, which they have

laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of

them that work iniquity.

10The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone

until I pass.

Chapter 141

Of understanding for David, A prayer when he

was in the cave. [1 Kings 24.]

2I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my

voice I made supplication to the Lord.Book of Psalms 757

3In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before

him I declare my trouble:

4When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest

my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they

have hidden a snare for me.

5I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and

there was no one that would know me. Flight

hath failed me: and there is no one that hath

regard to my soul.

6I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my

hope, my portion in the land of the living.

7Attend to my supplication: for I am brought

very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for

they are stronger than I.

8Bring my soul out of prison, that I may

praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou

reward me.

Chapter 142

A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pur-

sued him. [2 Kings 17.] Hear, O Lord, my

prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth:

hear me in thy justice.

2And enter not into judgment with thy ser-

vant: for in thy sight no man living shall be jus-

tied.

3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he

hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath

made me to dwell in darkness as those that have

been dead of old:

5I remembered the days of old, I meditated

on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of

thy hands.

6I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul

is as earth without water unto thee.

7Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath

fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me,

lest I be like unto them that go down into thepit.

8Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning;

for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known

to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted

up my soul to thee.

9Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to

thee have I

ed:

10Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my

God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right

land: 11 for thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt

quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my

soul out of trouble:

12And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my

enemies. And thou wilt cut o all them that

aict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Chapter 143

Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my

hands to ght, and my ngers to war.

2My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and

my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in

him: who subdueth my people under me.

3Lord, what is man, that thou art made

known to him? or the son of man, that thou

makest account of him?

4Man is like to vanity: his days pass away

like a shadow.
5Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend:

touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scat-

ter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt

trouble them.

7Put forth thy hand from on high, take me

out, and deliver me from many waters: from the

hand of strange children:

8Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their

right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

9To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle:758 Book of Psalms

on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings

I will sing praises to thee.

10Who givest salvation to kings: who hast

redeemed thy servant David from the malicious

sword:

11Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand

of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken

vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of

iniquity:

12Whose sons are as new plants in their

youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned

round about after the similitude of a temple:

13Their storehouses full,

owing out of this

into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abound-

ing in their goings forth:

14Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall,

nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

15They have called the people happy, that

hath these things: but happy is that people

whose God is the Lord.

Chapter 144

Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O

God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever;

yea, for ever and ever.

2Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise

thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.

3Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised:

and of his greatness there is no end.

4Generation and generation shall praise thy

works: and they shall declare thy power.

5They shall speak of the magnicence of the

glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous

works.

6And they shall speak of the might of thy

terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness.

7They shall publish the memory of the abun-

dance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thyjustice.

8The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient

and plenteous in mercy.

9The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender

mercies are over all his works.

10Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and

let thy saints bless thee.

11They shall speak of the glory of thy king-

dom: and shall tell of thy power:

12To make thy might known to the sons of

men: and the glory of the magnicence of thy

kingdom.

13Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and

thy dominion endureth throughout all genera-

tions. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and

holy in all his works.

14The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and set-

teth up all that are cast down.

15The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and

thou givest them meat in due season.

16Thou openest thy hand, and llest with

blessing every living creature.

17The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy

in all his works.

18The Lord is nigh unto all them that call

upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.

19He will do the will of them that fear him:

and he will hear their prayer, and save them.

20The Lord keepeth all them that love him;

but all the wicked he will destroy.

21My mouth shall speak the praise of the

Lord: and let all

esh bless his holy name for-

ever; yea, for ever and ever.

Chapter 145

2Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will

praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as

I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:Book of Psalms 759

3In the children of men, in whom there is no

salvation.

4His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return

into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall

perish.

5Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for

his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

6Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and

all things that are in them.

7Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth

judgment for them that suer wrong: who giveth

food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that

are fettered:

8The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord

lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord

loveth the just.

9The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will sup-

port the fatherless and the widow: and the ways

of sinners he will destroy.

10The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O

Sion, unto generation and generation.

Chapter 146

Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is

good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.

2The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will

gather together the dispersed of Israel.

3Who healeth the broken of heart, and

bindeth up their bruises.

4Who telleth the number of the stars: and

calleth them all by their names.

5Great is our Lord, and great is his power:

and of his wisdom there is no number.

6The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth

the wicked down even to the ground.

7Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our

God upon the harp.8Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and

prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass

to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the ser-

vice of men.

9Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the

young ravens that call upon him.

10He shall not delight in the strength of the

horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man.

11The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear

him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

Chapter 147

12Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy

God, O Sion.

13Because he hath strengthened the bolts of

thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within

thee.

14Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and

lleth thee with the fat of corn.

15Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth:

his word runneth swiftly.

16Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth

mists like ashes.

17He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who

shall stand before the face of his cold?

18He shall send out his word, and shall melt

them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall

run.

19Who declareth his word to Jacob: his jus-

tices and his judgments to Israel.

20He hath not done in like manner to every

nation: and his judgments he hath not made

manifest to them. Alleluia.

Chapter 148

Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye

him in the high places.760 Book of Psalms

2Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him,

all his hosts.

3Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him,

all ye stars and light.

4Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let

all the waters that are above the heavens

5Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke,

and they were made: he commanded, and they

were created.

6He hath established them for ever, and for

ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall

not pass away.

7Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons,

and all ye deeps:

8Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which

full his word:

9Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all

cedars:

10Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feath-

ered fowls:

11Kings of the earth and all people: princes

and all judges of the earth:

12Young men and maidens: let the old with

the younger, praise the name of the Lord:

13For his name alone is exalted.

14The praise of him is above heaven and

earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his peo-

ple. A hymn to all his saints to the children of

Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.

Chapter 149

Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise

be in the church of the saints.

2Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and

let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.

3Let them praise his name in choir: let them

sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.4For the Lord is well pleased with his people:

and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

5The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall

be joyful in their beds.

6The high praises of God shall be in their

mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands:

7To execute vengeance upon the nations,

chastisements among the people:

8To bind their kings with fetters, and their

nobles with manacles of iron.

9To execute upon them the judgment that is

written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia.

Chapter 150

Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye

him in the rmament of his power.

2Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye

him according to the multitude of his greatness.

3Praise him with the sound of trumpet:

praise him with psaltery and harp.

4Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise

him with strings and organs.

5Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise

him on cymbals of joy: let every spirit praise the

Lord. Alleluia.Book of Proverbs

Chapter 1

The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king

of Israel,

2To know wisdom, and instruction:

3To understand the words of prudence: and

to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and

judgment, and equity:

4To give subtilty to little ones, to the young

man knowledge and understanding.

5A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser:

and he that understandeth shall possess govern-

ments.

6He shall understand a parable and the in-

terpretation, the words of the wise, and their

mysterious sayings.

7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis-

dom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

8My son, hear the instruction of thy father,

and forsake not the law of thy mother:

9That grace may be added to thy head, and

a chain of gold to thy neck.

10My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent

not to them.

11If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in

wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent

without cause:

12Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and

whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

13We shall nd all precious substance, we

shall ll our houses with spoils.14Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one

purse.

15My son, walk not thou with them, restrain

thy foot from their paths.

16For their feet run to evil, and make haste

to shed blood.

17But a net is spread in vain before the eyes

of them that have wings.

18And they themselves lie in wait for their

own blood, and practise deceits against their own

souls.

19So the ways of every covetous man destroy

the souls of the possessors.

20Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth

her voice in the streets:

21At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in

the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth

her words, saying:

22O children, how long will you love childish-

ness, and fools covet those things which are hurt-

ful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowl-

edge?

23Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter

my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

24Because I called, and you refused: I

stretched out my hand, and there was none that

regarded.

25You have despised all my counsel, and have

neglected my reprehensions.

26I also will laugh in your destruction, and

will mock when that shall come to you which you

feared.762 Book of Proverbs

27When sudden calamity shall fall on you,

and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand:

when tribulation and distress shall come upon

you:

28Then shall they call upon me, and I will

not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and

shall not nd me:

29Because they have hated instruction, and

received not the fear of the Lord,

30Nor consented to my counsel, but despised

all my reproof.

31Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their

own way, and shall be lled with their own de-

vices.

32The turning away of little ones shall kill

them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy

them.

33But he that shall hear me, shall rest with-

out terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without

fear of evils.

Chapter 2

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt

hide my commandments with thee,

2That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: in-

cline thy heart to know prudence.

3For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline

thy heart to prudence:

4If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt

dig for her as for a treasure:

5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the

Lord, and shalt nd the knowledge of God:

6Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of

his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

7He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous,

and protect them that walk in simplicity,

8Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding

the ways of saints.9Then shalt thou understand justice, and

judgment, and equity, and every good path.

10If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and

knowledge please thy soul:

11Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall

preserve thee,

12That thou mayst be delivered from the evil

way, and from the man that speaketh perverse

things:

13Who leave the right way, and walk by dark

ways:

14Who are glad when they have done evil,

and rejoice in the most wicked things:

15Whose ways are perverse, and their steps

infamous.

16That thou mayst be delivered from the

strange woman, and from the stranger, who soft-

eneth her words;

17And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

18And hath forgotten the covenant of her

God: for her house inclineth unto death, and

her paths to hell.

19None that go in unto her, shall return

again, neither shall they take hold of the paths

of life.

20That thou mayst walk in a good way: and

mayst keep the paths of the just.

21For they that are upright, shall dwell in the

earth; and the simple shall continue in it.

22But the wicked shall be destroyed from the

earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken

away from it.

Chapter 3

My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart

keep my commandments.

2For they shall add to thee length of days,

and years of life, and peace.Book of Proverbs 763

3Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put

them about thy neck, and write them in the ta-

bles of thy heart.

4And thou shalt nd grace, and good under-

standing before God and men.

5Have condence in the Lord with all thy

heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence.

6In all thy ways think on him, and he will

direct thy steps.

7Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God,

and depart from evil:

8For it shall be health to thy navel, and moist-

ening to thy bones.

9Honour the Lord with thy substance, and

give him of the rst of all thy fruits;

10And thy barns shall be lled with abun-

dance, and thy presses shall run over with wine.

11My son, reject not the correction of the

Lord: and do not faint when thou art chastised

by him:

12For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth:

and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.

13Blessed is the man that ndeth wisdom,

and is rich in prudence:

14The purchasing thereof is better than the

merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chief

and purest gold:

15She is more precious than all riches: and

all the things that are desired, are not to be com-

pared to her.

16Length of days is in her right hand, and in

her left hand riches and glory.

17Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her

paths are peaceable.

18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold

on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.

19The Lord by wisdom hath founded the

earth, hath established the heavens by prudence.

20By his wisdom the depths have broken out,

and the clouds grow thick with dew.21My son, let not these things depart from

thy eyes: keep the law and counsel:

22And there shall be life to thy soul, and

grace to thy mouth.

23Then shalt thou walk condently in thy

way, and thy foot shall not stumble:

24If thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou

shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

25Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the

power of the wicked falling upon thee.

26For the Lord will be at thy side, and will

keep thy foot that thou be not taken.

27Do not withhold him from doing good, who

is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also.

28Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again:

and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou

canst give at present.

29Practise not evil against thy friend, when

he hath condence in thee.

30Strive not against a man without cause,

when he hath done thee no evil.

31Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow

his ways.

32For every mocker is an abomination to the

Lord, and his communication is with the simple.

33Want is from the Lord in the house of the

wicked: but the habitations of the just shall be

blessed.
34He shall scorn the scorners, and to the

meek he will give grace.

35The wise shall possess glory: the promotion

of fools is disgrace.

Chapter 4

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and

attend, that you may know prudence.

2I will give you a good gift, forsake not my

law.764 Book of Proverbs

3For I also was my father's son, tender, and

as an only son in the sight of my mother:

4And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart

receive my words, keep my commandments, and

thou shalt live.

5Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, nei-

ther decline from the words of my mouth.

6Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee:

love her, and she shall preserve thee.

7The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and

with all thy possession purchase prudence.

8Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee:

thou shalt be gloried by her, when thou shalt

embrace her.

9She shall give to thy head increase of graces,

and protect thee with a noble crown.

10Hear, O my son, and receive my words,

that years of life may be multiplied to thee.

11I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will

lead thee by the paths of equity:

12Which when thou shalt have entered, thy

steps shall not be straitened, and when thou

runnest, thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.

13Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep

it, because it is thy life.

14Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked,

neither let the way of evil men please thee.

15Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and

forsake it.

16For they sleep not, except they have done

evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they

have made some to fall.

17They eat the bread of wickedness, and

drink the wine of iniquity.

18But the path of the just, as a shining light,

goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect

day.

19The way of the wicked is darksome: they

know not where they fall.20My son, hearken to my words, and incline

thy ear to my sayings.

21Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep

them in the midst of thy heart:

22For they are life to those that nd them,

and health to all

esh.

23With all watchfulness keep thy heart, be-

cause life issueth out from it.

24Remove from thee a froward mouth, and

let detracting lips be far from thee.

25Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy

eyelids go before thy steps.

26Make straight the path for thy feet, and all

thy ways shall be established.

27Decline not to the right hand, nor to the

left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord

knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but

those are perverse which are on the left hand.

But he will make thy courses straight, he will

bring forward thy ways in peace.

Chapter 5

My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy

ear to my prudence,

2That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips

may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of

a woman.

3For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb

dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.

4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and

sharp as a two-edged sword.

5Her feet go down into death, and her steps

go in as far as hell.

6They walk not by the path of life, her steps

are wandering, and unaccountable.

7Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart

not from the words of my mouth.Book of Proverbs 765

8Remove thy way far from her, and come not

nigh the doors of her house.

9Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy

years to the cruel.

10Lest strangers be lled with thy strength,

and thy labours be in another man's house,

11And thou mourn at the last, when thou

shalt have spent thy

esh and thy body, and say;

12Why have I hated instruction, and my

heart consented not to reproof,

13And have not heard the voice of them that

taught me, and have not inclined my ear to mas-

ters?

14I have almost been in all evil, in the midst

of the church and of the congregation.

15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and

the streams of thy own well:

16Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and

in the streets divide thy waters.

17Keep them to thyself alone, neither let

strangers be partakers with thee.

18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with

the wife of thy youth:

19Let her be thy dearest hind, and most

agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at

all times: be thou delighted continually with her

love.

20Why art thou seduced, my son, by a

strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom

of another?

21The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and

considereth all his steps.

22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he

is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

23He shall die, because he hath not received

instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he

shall be deceived.Chapter 6

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou

hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger,

2Thou art ensnared with the words of thy

mouth, and caught with thy own words.

3Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and de-

liver thyself: because thou art fallen into the

hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste,

stir up thy friend:

4Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy

eyelids slumber.

5Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and

as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her

ways, and learn wisdom:

7Which, although she hath no guide, nor mas-

ter, nor captain,

8Provideth her meat for herself in the sum-

mer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when

wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

10Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber

a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:

11And want shall come upon thee, as a trav-

eller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou

be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain,

and want shall

ee far from thee.

12A man that is an apostate, an unprotable

man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

13He winketh with the eyes, presseth with

the foot, speaketh with the nger.

14With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and

at all times he soweth discord.

15To such a one his destruction shall

presently come, and he shall suddenly be de-

stroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.

16Six things there are, which the Lord hateth,

and the seventh his soul detesteth:766 Book of Proverbs

17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that

shed innocent blood,

18A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet

that are swift to run into mischief,

19A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and

him that soweth discord among brethren.

20My son, keep the commandments of thy

father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

21Bind them in thy heart continually, and

put them about thy neck.

22When thou walkest, let them go with thee:

when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and

when thou awakest, talk with them.

23Because the commandment is a lamp, and

the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are

the way of life:

24That they may keep thee from the evil

woman, and from the

attering tongue of the

stranger.

25Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not

caught with her winks:

26For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf:

but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a

man.

27Can a man hide re in his bosom, and his

garments not burn?

28Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet

not be burnt?

29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife,

shall not be clean when he shall touch her.

30The fault is not so great when a man hath

stolen: for he stealeth to ll his hungry soul:

31And if he be taken, he shall restore seven-

fold, and shall give up all the substance of his

house.

32But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of

his heart shall destroy his own soul:

33He gathereth to himself shame and dishon-

our, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:34Because the jealousy and rage of the hus-

band will not spare in the day of revenge,

35Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor

will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.

Chapter 7

My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts

with thee. Son,

2Keep my commandments, and thou shalt

live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:

3Bind it upon thy ngers, write it upon the

tables of thy heart.

4Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call

prudence thy friend,

5That she may keep thee from the woman

that is not thine, and from the stranger who

sweeteneth her words.

6For I looked out of the window of my house

through the lattice,

7And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young

man,

8Who passeth through the street by the cor-

ner, and goeth nigh the way of her house,

9In the dark when it grows late, in the dark-

ness and obscurity of the night.

10And behold a woman meeteth him in har-

lot's attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative

and wandering,

11Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide

still at home,

12Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying

in wait near the corners.

13And catching the young man, she kisseth

him, and with an impudent face,

attereth, say-

ing:
14I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I

have paid my vows.Book of Proverbs 767

15Therefore I am come out to meet thee, de-

sirous to see thee, and I have found thee.

16I have woven my bed with cords, I have

covered it with painted tapestry, brought from

Egypt.

17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes,

and cinnamon.

18Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts,

and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day

appear.

19For my husband is not at home, he is gone

a very long journey.

20He took with him a bag of money: he will

return home the day of the full moon.

21She entangled him with many words, and

drew him away with the

attery of her lips.

22Immediately he followeth her as an ox led

to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton,

and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to

bonds,

23Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird

should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not

that his life is in danger.

24Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and at-

tend to the words of my mouth.

25Let not thy mind be drawn away in her

ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.

26For she hath cast down many wounded,

and the strongest have been slain by her.

27Her house is the way to hell, reaching even

to the inner chambers of death.

Chapter 8

Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put

forth her voice?

2Standing in the top of the highest places by

the way, in the midst of the paths,3Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors

she speaketh, saying:

4O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to

the sons of men.

5O little ones understand subtlety, and ye

unwise, take notice.

6Hear, for I will speak of great things: and

my lips shall be opened to preach right things.

7My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips

shall hate wickedness.

8All my words are just, there is nothing

wicked, nor perverse in them.

9They are right to them that understand, and

just to them that nd knowledge.

10Receive my instruction, and not money:

choose knowledge rather than gold.

11For wisdom is better than all the most

precious things: and whatsoever may be desired

cannot be compared to it.

12I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present

in learned thoughts.

13The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate

arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and

a mouth with a double tongue.

14Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is

mine, strength is mine.

16By me princes rule, and the mighty decree

justice.

17I love them that love me: and they that in

the morning early watch for me, shall nd me.

18With me are riches and glory, glorious

riches and justice.

19For my fruit is better than gold and the

precious stone, and my blossoms than choice sil-

ver.

20I walk in the way of justice, in the midst

of the paths of judgment,

21That I may enrich them that love me, and

may ll their treasures.768 Book of Proverbs

22The Lord possessed me in the beginning

of his ways, before he made any thing from the

beginning.

23I was set up from eternity, and of old, be-

fore the earth was made.

24The depths were not as yet, and I was al-

ready conceived, neither had the fountains of wa-

ters as yet sprung out.

25The mountains, with their huge bulk, had

not as yet been established: before the hills, I

was brought forth:

26He had not yet made the earth, nor the

rivers, nor the poles of the world.

27When he prepared the heavens, I was

present: when with a certain law, and compass,

he enclosed the depths:

28When he established the sky above, and

poised the fountains of waters:

29When he compassed the sea with its

bounds, and set a law to the waters that they

should not pass their limits: when he balanced

the foundations of the earth;

30I was with him forming all things: and was

delighted every day, playing before him at all

times;

31Playing in the world: and my delights were

to be with the children of men.

32Now, therefore, ye children, hear me:

blessed are they that keep my ways.

33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse

it not.

34Blessed is the man that heareth me, and

that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at

the posts of my doors.

35He that shall nd me, shall nd life, and

shall have salvation from the Lord.

36But he that shall sin against me shall hurt

his own soul. All that hate me love death.Chapter 9

Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath

hewn her out seven pillars.

2She hath slain her victims, mingled her wine,

and set forth her table.

3She hath sent her maids to invite to the

tower, and to the walls of the city:

4Whosoever is a little one, let him come to

me. And to the unwise she said:

5Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine

which I have mingled for you.

6Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by

the ways of prudence.

7He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury

to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man,

getteth himself a blot.

8Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Re-

buke a wise man, and he will love thee.

9Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom

shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he

shall make haste to receive it.

10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of

wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is pru-

dence.

11For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and

years of life shall be added to thee.

12If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself:

and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

13A foolish woman and clamorous, and full

of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

14Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat,

in a high place of the city,

15To call them that pass by the way, and go

on their journey:

16He that is a little one, let him turn to me.

And to the fool she said:

17Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden

bread is more pleasant.Book of Proverbs 769

18And he did not know that giants are there,

and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Chapter 10

A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish

son is the sorrow of his mother.

2Treasures of wickedness shall prot nothing:

but justice shall deliver from death.

3The Lord will not aict the soul of the just

with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful

practices of the wicked.

4The slothful hand hath wrought poverty:

but the hand of the industrious getteth riches.

He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and

the same runneth after birds, that

y away.

5He that gathereth in the harvest, is a wise

son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the

son of confusion.

6The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of

the just: but iniquity covereth the mouth of the

wicked.

7The memory of the just is with praises: and

the name of the wicked shall rot.

8The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool

is beaten with lips.

9He that walketh sincerely, walketh con-

dently: but he that perverteth his ways, shall

be manifest.

10He that winketh with the eye, shall cause

sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten.

11The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and

the mouth of the wicked covereth iniquity.

12Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity cov-

ereth all sins.

13In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and

a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.

14Wise men lay up knowledge: but the

mouth of the fool is next to confusion.15The substance of a rich man is the city of

his strength: the fear of the poor is their poverty.

16The work of the just is unto life: but the

fruit of the wicked unto sin.

17The way of life, to him that observeth cor-

rection: but he that forsaketh reproofs, goeth

astray.

18Lying lips hide hatred: he that uttereth

reproach, is foolish.

19In the multitude of words there shall not

want sin: but he that refraineth his lips, is most

wise.

20The tongue of the just is as choice silver:

but the heart of the wicked is nothing worth.

21The lips of the just teach many: but they

that are ignorant, shall die in the want of under-

standing.

22The blessing of the Lord maketh men rich:

neither shall aiction be joined to them.

23A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport:

but wisdom is prudence to a man.

24That which the wicked feareth, shall come

upon him: to the just their desire shall be given.

25As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked

shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting

foundation.

26As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the

eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.

27The fear of the Lord shall prolong days:

and the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

28The expectation of the just is joy: but the

hope of the wicked shall perish.

29The strength of the upright is the way of

the Lord: and fear to them that work evil.

30The just shall never be moved: but the

wicked shall not dwell on the earth.

31The mouth of the just shall bring forth

wisdom: the tongue of the perverse shall perish.

32The lips of the just consider what is ac-

ceptable: and the mouth of the wicked uttereth770 Book of Proverbs

perverse things.

Chapter 11

A deceitful balance is an abomination before the

Lord: and a just weight is his will.

2Where pride is, there also shall be reproach:

but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

3The simplicity of the just shall guide them:

and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy

them.

4Riches shall not prot in the day of revenge:

but justice shall deliver from death.

5The justice of the upright shall make his way

prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his

own wickedness.

6The justice of the righteous shall deliver

them: and the unjust shall be caught in their

own snares.

7When the wicked man is dead, there shall

be no hope any more: and the expectation of

the solicitous shall perish.

8The just is delivered out of distress: and the

wicked shall be given up for him.

9The dissembler with his mouth deceiveth his

friend: but the just shall be delivered by knowl-

edge.

10When it goeth well with the just, the city

shall rejoice: and when the wicked perish, there

shall be praise.

11By the blessing of the just the city shall be

exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall

be overthrown.
12He that despiseth his friend, is mean of

heart: but the wise man will hold his peace.

13He that walketh deceitfully, revealeth se-

crets: but he that is faithful, concealeth the

thing committed to him by his friend.14Where there is no governor, the people

shall fall: but there is safety where there is much

counsel.

15He shall be aicted with evil, that is surety

for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares,

shall be secure.

16A gracious woman shall nd glory: and the

strong shall have riches.

17A merciful man doth good to his own soul:

but he that is cruel casteth o even his own kin-

dred.

18The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but

to him that soweth justice, there is a faithful

reward.

19Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing

of evil things, death.

20A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord:

and his will is in them that walk sincerely.

21Hand in hand the evil man shall not be

innocent: but the seed of the just shall be saved.

22A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman

fair and foolish.

23The desire of the just is all good, the ex-

pectation of the wicked is indignation.

24Some distribute their own goods, and grow

richer: others take away what is not their own,

and are always in want.

25The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat:

and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also

himself.

26He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed

among the people: but a blessing upon the head

of them that sell.

27Well doth he rise early who seeketh good

things; but he that seeketh after evil things, shall

be oppressed by them.

28He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but

the just shall spring up as a green leaf.

29He that troubleth his own house, shall in-

herit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.Book of Proverbs 771

30The fruit of the just man is a tree of life:

and he that gaineth souls is wise.

31If the just man receive in the earth, how

much more the wicked and the sinner.

Chapter 12

He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but

he that hateth reproof, is foolish.

2He that is good, shall draw grace from the

Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices,

doth wickedly.

3Man shall not be strengthened by wicked-

ness: and the root of the just shall not be moved.

4A diligent woman is a crown to her husband:

and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is

as rottenness in his bones.

5The thoughts of the just are judgments: and

the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

6The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood:

the mouth of the just shall deliver them.

7Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but

the house of the just shall stand rm.

8A man shall be known by his learning: but

he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to

contempt.

9Better is the poor man that provideth for

himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth

bread.

10The just regardeth the lives of his beasts:

but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

11He that tilleth his land shall be satised

with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very

foolish.

12He that is delighted in passing his time over

wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.

12The desire of the wicked is the fortication

of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.13For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh

to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of

distress.

14By the fruit of his own mouth shall a man

be lled wlth good things, and according to the

works of his hands it shall be repaid him.

15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes:

but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.

16A fool immediately sheweth his anger: but

he that dissembleth injuries is wise.

17He that speaketh that which he knoweth,

sheweth forth justice: but he that lieth, is a de-

ceitful witness.

18There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it

were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue

of the wise is health.

19The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever:

but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying

tongue.

20Deceit is in the heart of them that think

evil things: but joy followeth them that take

counsels of peace.

21Whatsoever shall befall the just man, shall

not make him sad: but the wicked shall be lled

with mischief.
22Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord:

but they that deal faithfully, please him.

23A cautious man concealeth knowledge: and

the heart of fools publisheth folly.

24The hand of the valiant shall bear rule: but

that which is slothful shall be under tribute.

25Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him

low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.

26He that neglecteth a loss for the sake of a

friend, is just: but the way of the wicked shall

deceive them.

27The deceitful man shall not nd gain: but

the substance of a just man shall be precious

gold.772 Book of Proverbs

28In the path of justice is life: but the bye-

way leadeth to death.

Chapter 13

A wise son heareth the doctrine of his father:

but he that is a scorner, heareth not when he is

reproved.

2Of the fruit of his own month shall a man

be lled with good things: but the soul of trans-

gressors is wicked.

3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul:

but he that hath no guard on his speech shall

meet with evils.

4The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but

the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.

5The just shall hate a lying word: but the

wicked confoundeth, and shall be confounded.

6Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but

wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

7One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing

and another is as it were poor, when he hath

great riches.

8The ransom of a man's life are his riches:

but he that is poor, beareth not reprehension.

9The light of the just giveth joy: but the lamp

of the wicked shall be put out.

10Among the proud there are always con-

tentions: but they that do all things with coun-

sel, are ruled by wisdom.

11Substance got in haste shall be diminished:

but that which by little and little is gathered

with the hand, shall increase.

12Hope that is deferred aicteth the soul:

desire when it cometh, is a tree of life.

13Whosoever speaketh ill of any thing,

bindeth himself for the time to come: but he

that feareth the commandment, shall dwell inpeace. Deceitful souls go astray in sins: the just

are merciful, and shew mercy.

14The law of the wise is a fountain of life,

that he may decline from the ruin of death.

15Good instruction shall give grace: in the

way of scorners is a deep pit.

16The prudent man doth all things with

counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his

folly.

17The messenger of the wicked shall fall into

mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

18Poverty and shame to him that refuseth

instruction: but he that yieldeth to reproof shall

be gloried.

19The desire that is accomplished, delighteth

the soul: fools hate them that

ee from evil

things.

20He that walketh with the wise, shall be

wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

21Evil pursueth sinners: and to the just good

shall be repaid.

22The good man leaveth heirs, sons, and

grandsons: and the substance of the sinner is

kept for the just.

23Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but

for others it is gathered without judgment.

24He that spareth the rod, hateth his son:

but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

25The just eateth and lleth his soul: but the

belly of the wicked is never to be lled.

Chapter 14

A wise woman buildeth her house: but the fool-

ish will pull down with her hands that also which

is built.

2He that walketh in the right way, and feareth

God, is despised by him that goeth by an infa-

mous way.Book of Proverbs 773

3In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride:

but the lips of the wise preserve them.

4Where there are no oxen, the crib is empty:

but where there is much corn, there the strength

of the ox is manifest.

5A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful

witness uttereth a lie.

6A scorner seeketh wisdom, and ndeth it

not: the learning of the wise is easy.

7Go against a foolish man, and he knoweth

not the lips of prudence.

8The wisdom of a discreet man is to under-

stand his way: and the imprudence of fools er-

reth.

9A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just

grace shall abide.

10The heart that knoweth the bitterness of

his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not

intermeddle.

11The house of the wicked shall be destroyed:

but the tabernacles of the just shall

ourish.

12There is a way which seemeth just to a

man: but the ends thereof lead to death.

13Laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and

mourning taketh hold of the ends of joy.

14A fool shall be lled with his own ways,

and the good man shall be above him.

15The innocent believeth every word: the dis-

creet man considereth his steps. No good shall

come to the deceitfnl son: but the wise servant

shall prosper in his dealings, and his way shall

be made straight.

16A wise man feareth, and declineth from

evil: the fool leapeth over, and is condent.

17The impatient man shall work folly: and

the crafty man is hateful.

18The childish shall possess folly, and the

prudent shall look for knowledge.

19The evil shall fall down before the good:

and the wicked before the gates of the just.20The poor man shall be hateful even to his

own neighbour: but the friends of the rich are

many.
21He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth:

but he that sheweth mercy to the poor, shall be

blessed. He that believeth in the Lord, loveth

mercy.

22They err that work evil: but mercy and

truth prepare good things.

23In much work there shall be abundance:

but where there are many words, there is often-

times want.

24The crown of the wise, is their riches: the

folly of fools, imprudence.

25A faithful witness delivereth souls: and the

double dealer uttereth lies.

26In the fear of the Lord is condence of

strength, and there shall be hope for his chil-

dren.

27The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,

to decline from the ruin of death.

28In the multitude of people is the dignity of

the king: and in the small number of the people

the dishonour of the prince.

29He that is patient, is governed with much

wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his

folly.

30Soundness of heart is the life of the

esh:
but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

31He that oppresseth the poor, upbraideth

his maker: but he that hath pity on the poor,

honoureth him.

32The wicked man shall be driven out in his

wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

33In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom,

and it shall instruct all the ignorant.

34Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh

nations miserable.

35A wise servant is acceptable to the king:

he that is good for nothing shall feel his anger.774 Book of Proverbs

Chapter 15

A mild answer breaketh wrath: but a harsh word

stirreth up fury.

2The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge:

but the mouth of fools bubbleth out folly.

3The eyes of the Lord in every place behold

the good and the evil.

4A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that

which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.

5A fool laugheth at the instruction of his fa-

ther: but he that regardeth reproofs shall be-

come prudent. In abundant justice there is the

greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked

shall be rooted out.

6The house of the just is very much strength:

and in the fruits of the wicked is trouble.

7The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge:

the heart of fools shall be unlike.

8The victims of the wicked are abominable to

the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

9The way of the wicked is an abomination to

the Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved by

him.

10Instruction is grievous to him that for-

saketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof

shall die.

11Hell and destruction are before the Lord:

how much more the hearts of the children of

men?

12A corrupt man loveth not one that re-

proveth him: nor will he go to the wise.

13A glad heart maketh a cheerful counte-

nance: but by grief of mind the spirit is cast

down.

14The heart of the wise seeketh instruction:

and the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

15All the days of the poor are evil: a secure

mind is like a continual feast.16Better is a little with the fear of the Lord,

than great treasures without content.

17It is better to be invited to herbs with love,

than to a fatted calf with hatred.

18A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he

that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred

up.

19The way of the slothful is as a hedge of

thorns: the way of the just is without oence.

20A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the

foolish man despiseth his mother.

21Folly is joy to the fool: and the wise man

maketh straight his steps.

22Designs are brought to nothing where there

is no counsel: but where there are many coun-

sellors, they are established.

23A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his

mouth: and a word in due time is best.

24The path of life is above for the wise, that

he may decline from the lowest hell.

25The Lord will destroy the house of the

proud: and will strengthen the borders of the

widow.

26Evil thoughts are an abomination to the

Lord: and pure words most beautiful shall be

conrmed by him.

27He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own

house: but he that hateth bribes shall live. By

mercy and faith sins are purged away: and by

the fear of the Lord every one declineth from

evil.

28The mind of the just studieth obedience:

the mouth of the wicked over

oweth with evils.

29The Lord is far from the wicked: and he

will hear the prayers of the just.

30The light of the eyes rejoiceth the soul: a

good name maketh the bones fat.

31The ear that heareth the reproofs of life,

shall abide in the midst of the wise.Book of Proverbs 775

32He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his

own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof, pos-

sesseth understanding.

33The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wis-

dom: and humility goeth before glory.

Chapter 16

It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of

the Lord to govern the tongue.

2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes:

the Lord is the weigher of spirits.

3Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy

thoughts shall be directed.

4The Lord hath made all things for himself:

the wicked also for the evil day.

5Every proud man is an abomination to the

Lord: though hand should be joined to hand, he

is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is

to do justice: and this is more acceptable with

God, than to oer sacrices.

6By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed;

and by the fear of the Lord men depart from

evil.

7When the ways of man shall please the Lord,

he will convert even his enemies to peace.

8Better is a little with justice, than great rev-

enues with iniquity.

9The heart of man disposeth his way: but the

Lord must direct his steps.

10Divination is in the lips of the king, his

mouth shall not err in judgment.

11Weight and balance are judgments of the

Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

12They that act wickedly are abominable to

the king: for the throne is established by justice.

13Just lips are the delight of kings: he that

speaketh right things shall be loved.14The wrath of a king is as messengers of

death: and the wise man will pacify it.

15In the cheerfulness of the king's counte-

nance is life: and his clemency is like the latter

rain.

16Get wisdom, because it is better than gold:

and purchase prudence, for it is more precious

than silver.

17The path of the just departeth from evils:

he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way.

18Pride goeth before destruction: and the

spirit is lifted up before a fall.

19It is better to be humbled with the meek,

than to divide spoils with the proud.

20The learned in word shall nd good things:

and he that trusteth in the Lord is blessed.

21The wise in heart shall be called prudent:

and he that is sweet in words, shall attain to

greater things.

22Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that

possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolish-

ness.

23The heart of the wise shall instruct his

mouth: and shall add grace to his lips.

24Well ordered words are as a honeycomb:

sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

25There is a way that seemeth to a man right:

and the ends thereof lead to death.

26The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth

for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him

to it.

27The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his

lips is a burning re.

28A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and

one full of words separateth princes.

29An unjust man allureth his friend: and

leadeth him into a way that is not good.

30He that with xed eyes deviseth wicked

things, biting his lips, bringeth evil to pass.776 Book of Proverbs

31Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is

found in the ways of justice.

32The patient man is better than the valiant:

and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh

cities.

33Lots are cast into the lap, but they are

disposed of by the Lord.

Chapter 17

Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full

of victims with strife.

2A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons,

and shall divide the inheritance among the

brethren.

3As silver is tried by re, and gold in the

furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

4The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and

the deceitful hearkeneth to lying lips.

5He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his

maker: and he that rejoiceth at another man's

ruin, shall not be unpunished.

6Children's children are the crown of old men:

and the glory of children are their fathers.

7Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor

lying lips a prince.

8The expectation of him that expecteth is a

most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth

himself, he understandeth wisely.

9He that concealeth a transgression, seeketh

friendships: he that repeateth it again, sepa-

rateth friends.

10A reproof availeth more with a wise man,

than a hundred stripes with a fool.

11An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but

a cruel angel shall be sent against him.

12It is better to meet a bear robbed of her

whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.13He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall

not depart from his house.

14The beginning of quarrels is as when one

letteth out water: and before he suereth re-

proach, he forsaketh judgment.

15He that justieth the wicked, and he that

condemneth the just, both are abominable be-

fore God.

16What doth it avail a fool to have riches,

seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh

his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that

refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.

17He that is a friend loveth at all times: and

a brother is proved in distress.

18A foolish man will clap hands, when he is

surety for his friend.

19He that studieth discords, loveth quarrels:

and he that exalteth his door, seeketh ruin.

20He that is of a perverse heart, shall not

nd good: and he that perverteth his tongue,

shall fall into evil.

21A fool is born to his own disgrace: and

even his father shall not rejoice in a fool.

22A joyful mind maketh age

ourishing: a

sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.

23The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bo-

som, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.

24Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the

eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.

25A foolish son is the anger of the father: and

the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

26It is no good thing to do hurt to the just:

nor to strike the prince, who judgeth right.

27He that setteth bounds to his words, is

knowing and wise: and the man of understand-

ing is of a precious spirit.

28Even a fool, if he will hold his peace, shall

be counted wise: and if he close his lips, a man

of understanding.Book of Proverbs 777

Chapter 18

He that hath a mind to depart from a friend,

seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to

reproach.

2A fool receiveth not the words of prudence:

unless thou say those things which are in his

heart.

3The wicked man, when he is come into the

depths of sins, contemneth: but ignominy and

reproach follow him.

4Words from the mouth of a man are as deep

water: and the fountain of wisdom is an over-

owing stream.

5It is not good to accept the person of the

wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.

6The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife:

and his mouth provoketh quarrels.

7The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and

his lips are the ruin of his soul.

8The words of the double tongued are as if

they were harmless: and they reach even to the

inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the

slothful: and the souls of the eeminate shall be

hungry.

9He that is loose and slack in his work, is the

brother of him that wasteth his own works.

10The name of the Lord is a strong tower:

the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.

11The substance of the rich man is the city

of his strength, and as a strong wall compassing

him about.

12Before destruction, the heart of a man is

exalted: and before he be gloried, it is humbled.

13He that answereth before he heareth,

sheweth himself to be a fool, and worthy of con-

fusion.

14The spirit of a man upholdeth his inrmity:

but a spirit that is easily angered, who can bear?15A wise heart shall acquire knowledge: and

the ear of the wise seeketh instruction.

16A man's gift enlargeth his way, and maketh

him room before princes.

17The just is rst accuser of himself: his

friend cometh, and shall search him.

18The lot suppresseth contentions, and de-

termineth even between the mighty.

19A brother that is helped by his brother,

is like a strong city: and judgments are like the

bars of cities.

20Of the fruit of a man's mouth shall his belly

be satised: and the ospring of his lips shall ll

him.

21Death and life are in the power of the

tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits

thereof.

22He that hath found a good wife, hath found

a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from

the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife,

driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth

an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

23The poor will speak with supplications,

and the rich will speak roughly.

24A man amiable in society, shall be more

friendly than a brother.

Chapter 19

Better is the poor man, that walketh in his sim-

plicity, than a rich man that is perverse in his

lips and unwise.

2Where there is no knowledge of the soul,

there is no good: and he that is hasty with his

feet shall stumble.

3The folly of a man supplanteth his steps:

and he fretteth in his mind against God.

4Riches make many friends: but from the

poor man, even they whom he had, depart.778 Book of Proverbs

5A false witness shall not be unpunished: and

he that speaketh lies, shall not escape.

6Many honour the person of him that is

mighty, and are friends of him that giveth gifts.

7The brethren of the poor man hate him:

moreover also his friends have departed far from

him. He that followeth after words only, shall

have nothing.

8But he that possesseth a mind, loveth his

own soul, and he that keepeth prudence, shall

nd good things.

9A false witness shall not be unpunished: and

he that speaketh lies, shall perish.

10Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for

a servant to have rule over princes.

11The learning of a man is known by pa-

tience: and his glory is to pass over wrongs.

12As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger

of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon

the grass.

13A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a

wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping

through.

14House and riches are given by parents: but

a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and

an idle soul shall suer hunger.

16He that keepeth the commandment, keep-

eth his own soul: but he that neglecteth his own

way, shall die.

17He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth

to the Lord: and he will repay him.

18Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the

killing of him set not thy soul.

19He that is impatient, shall suer damage:

and when he shall take away, he shall add an-

other thing.

20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that

thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.21There are many thoughts in the heart of a

man: but the will of the Lord shall stand rm.

22A needy man is merciful: and better is the

poor than the lying man.

23The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he

shall abide in the fulness without being visited

with evil.

24The slothful hideth his hand under his

armpit, and will not so much as bring it to his

mouth.

25The wicked man being scourged, the fool

shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man, he

will understand discipline.

26He that aicteth his father, and chaseth

away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.

27Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction,

and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.

28An unjust witness scorneth judgment: and

the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

29Judgments are prepared for scorners: and

striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

Chapter 20

Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness ri-

otous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall

not be wise.

2As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread

of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against

his own soul.

3It is an honour for a man to separate himself

from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with

reproaches.

4Because of the cold the sluggard would not

plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer,

and it shall not be given him.

5Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep

water: but a wise man will draw it out.Book of Proverbs 779

6Many men are called merciful: but who shall

nd a faithful man?

7The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall

leave behind him blessed children.

8The king, that sitteth on the throne of judg-

ment, scattereth away all evil with his look.

9Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure

from sin?

10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both

are abominable before God.

11By his inclinations a child is known, if his

works be clean and right.

12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the

Lord hath made them both.

13Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee:

open thy eyes, and be lled with bread.

14It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer:

and when he is gone away, then he will boast.

15There is gold and a multitude of jewels:

but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.

16Take away the garment of him that is

surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from

him for strangers.

17The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but

afterwards his mouth shall be lled with gravel.

18Designs are strengthened by counsels: and

wars are to be managed by governments.

19Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets,

and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his

lips.

20He that curseth his father, and mother, his

lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

21The inheritance gotten hastily in the be-

ginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

22Say not: I will return evil: wait for the

Lord, and he will deliver thee.

23Diverse weights are an abomination before

the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.

24The steps of men are guided by the Lord:

but who is the man that can understand his ownway?

25It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and

after vows to retract.

26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and

bringeth over them the wheel.

27The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord,

which searcheth all the hidden things of the bow-

els.

28Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his

throne is strengthened by clemency.

29The joy of young men is their strength: and

the dignity of old men, their grey hairs.

30The blueness of a wound shall wipe away

evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the

belly.

Chapter 21
As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the

king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever

he will, he shall turn it.

2Every way of a man seemeth right to himself:

but the Lord weigheth the hearts.

3To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the

Lord more than victims.

4Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of

the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.

5The thoughts of the industrious always bring

forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in

want.

6He that gathereth treasures by a lying

tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble

upon the snares of death.

7The robberies of the wicked shall be their

downfall, because they would not do judgment.

8The perverse way of a man is strange: but

as for him that is pure, his work is right.

9It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop,

than with a brawling woman, and in a common780 Book of Proverbs

house.

10The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will

not have pity on his neighbour.

11When a pestilent man is punished, the little

one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he

will receive knowledge.

12The just considereth seriously the house of

the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked

from evil.

13He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of

the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be

heard.

14A secret present quencheth anger: and a

gift in the bosom, the greatest wrath.

15It is joy to the just to do judgment: and

dread to them that work iniquity.

16A man that shall wander out of the way

of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the

giants.

17He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want:

he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be

rich.

18The wicked is delivered up for the just: and

the unjust for the righteous.

19It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than

with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

20There is a treasure to be desired, and oil

in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man

shall spend it.

21He that followeth justice and mercy, shall

nd life, justice, and glory.

22The wise man hath scaled the city of the

strong, and hath cast down the strength of the

condence thereof.

23He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue,

keepeth his soul from distress.

24The proud and the arrogant is called igno-

rant, who in anger worketh pride.

25Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have

refused to work at all.26He longeth and desireth all the day: but

he that is just, will give, and will not cease.

27The sacrices of the wicked are abom-

inable, because they are oered of wickedness.

28A lying witness shall perish: an obedient

man shall speak of victory.

29The wicked man impudently hardeneth his

face: but he that is righteous, correcteth his way.

30There is no wisdom, there is no prudence,

there is no counsel against the Lord.

31The horse is prepared for the day of battle:

but the Lord giveth safety.

Chapter 22

A good name is better than great riches: and

good favour is above silver and gold.

2The rich and poor have met one another:

the Lord is the maker of them both.

3The prudent man saw the evil, and hid him-

self: the simple passed on, and suered loss.

4The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord,

riches and glory and life.

5Arms and swords are in the way of the per-

verse: but he that keepeth his own soul, de-

parteth far from them.

6It is a proverb: A young man according to

his way, even when he is old, he will not depart

from it.

7The rich ruleth over the poor: and the bor-

rower is servant to him that lendeth.

8He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and

with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

9He that is inclined to mercy, shall be blessed:

for of his bread he hath given to the poor. He

that maketh presents, shall purchase victory and

honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the

receivers.Book of Proverbs 781

10Cast out the scoer, and contention shall

go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches

shall cease.

11He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the

grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

12The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge:

and the words of the unjust are overthrown.

13The slothful man saith: There is a lion

without, I shall be slain in the midst of the

streets.

14The mouth of a strange woman is a deep

pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall

into it.

15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,

and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

16He that oppresseth the poor, to increase

his own riches, shall himself give to one that is

richer, and shall be in need.

17Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the

wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:

18Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou

keep it in thy bowels, and it shall

ow in thy lips:

19That thy trust may be in the Lord, where-

fore I have also shewn it to thee this day.

20Behold I have described it to thee three

manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge:

21That I might shew thee the certainty, and

the words of truth, to answer out of these to

them that sent thee.

22Do no violence to the poor, because he is

poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

23Because the Lord will judge his cause: and

will aict them that have aicted his soul.

24Be not a friend to an angry man, and do

not walk with a furious man:

25Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take

scandal to thy soul.

26Be not with them that fasten down their

hands, and that oer themselves sureties for

debts:27For if thou have not wherewith to restore,

what cause is there that he should take the cov-

ering from thy bed?

28Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which

thy fathers have set.

29Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he

shall stand before kings, and shall not be before

those that are obscure.

Chapter 23

When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, con-

sider diligently what is set before thy face:

2And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so

that thou have thy soul in thy own power.

3Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the

bread of deceit.

4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to

thy prudence.

5Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou

canst not have: because they shall make them-

selves wings like those of an eagle, and shall

y

towards heaven.

6Eat not with an envious man, and desire not

his meats:

7Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he

thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and

drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not

with thee.

8The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou

shalt vomit up: and shalt lose thy beantiful

words.

9Speak not in the ears of fools: because they

will despise the instruction of thy speech.

10Touch not the bounds of little ones: and

enter not into the eld of the fatherless:

11For their near kinsman is strong: and he

will judge their cause against thee.782 Book of Proverbs

12Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and

thy ears to words of knowledge.

13Withhold not correction from a child: for

if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and de-

liver his soul from hell.

15My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall

rejoice with thee:

16And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips

shall speak what is right.

17Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou

in the fear of the Lord all the day long:

18Because thou shalt have hope in the lat-

ter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken

away.

19Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide

thy mind in the way.

20Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor

in their revellings, who contribute

esh to eat:

21Because they that give themselves to drink-

ing, and that club together, shall be consumed:

and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

22Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and

despise not thy mother when she is old.

23Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and

instruction, and understanding.

24The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he

that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in

him.

25Let thy father and thy mother be joyful,

and let her rejoice that bore thee.

26My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes

keep my ways.

27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange

woman is a narrow pit.

28She lieth in wait in the way as a robber,

and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.

29Who hath woe? whose father hath woe?

who hath contentions? who falls into pits? whohath wounds without cause? who hath redness

of eyes?

30Surely they that pass their time in wine,

and study to drink o their cups.

31Look not upon the wine when it is yellow,

when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it

goeth in pleasantly,

32But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and

will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

33Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and

thy heart shall utter perverse things.

34And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the

midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep when

the stern is lost.

35And thou shalt say: They have beaten me,

but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me,

and I felt not: when shall I awake and nd wine

again?

Chapter 24

Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be

with them:

2Because their mind studieth robberies, and

their lips speak deceits.

3By wisdom the house shall be built, and by

prudence it shall be strengthened.

4By instruction the storerooms shall be lled

with all precious and most beautiful wealth.

5A wise man is strong: and a knowing man,

stout and valiant.

6Because war is managed by due ordering:

and there shall be safety where there are many

counsels.

7Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he

shall not open his mouth.

8He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called

a fool.Book of Proverbs 783

9The thought of a fool is sin: and the detrac-

tor is the abomination of men.

10If thou lose hope, being weary in the day

of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.

11Deliver them that are led to death: and

those that are drawn to death, forbear not to

deliver.

12If thou say: I have not strength enough: he

that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and

nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he

shall render to a man according to his works.

13Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and

the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.

14So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy

soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt

have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not

perish.

15Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness

in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.

16For a just man shall fall seven times, and

shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down

into evil.

17When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad,

and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:

18Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and

he turn away his wrath from him.

19Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to

be like the ungodly.

20For evil men have no hope of things to

come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put

out.

21My son, fear the Lord, and the king: and

have nothing to do with detractors.

22For their destruction shall rise suddenly:

and who knoweth the ruin of both?

23These things also to the wise: It is not good

to have respect to persons in judgment.

24They that say to the wicked man: Thou

art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the

tribes shall abhor them.25They that rebuke him shall be praised: and

a blessing shall come upon them.

26He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right

words.

27Prepare thy work without, and diligently

till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build

thy house.

28Be not witness without cause against thy

neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy

lips.

29Say not: I will do to him as he hath done

to me: I will render to every one according to

his work.

30I passed by the eld of the slothful man,

and by the vineyard of the foolish man:

31And behold it was all lled with nettles,

and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the

stone wall was broken down.

32Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my

heart, and by the example I received instruction.

33Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt

slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little

to rest.

34And poverty shall come to thee as a runner,

and beggary as an armed man.

Chapter 25

These are also parables of Solomon, which the

men of Ezechias, king of Juda, copied out.

2It is the glory of God to conceal the word,

and the glory of kings to search out the speech.

3The heaven above and the earth beneath,

and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

4Take away the rust from silver, and there

shall come forth a most pure vessel:

5Take away wickedness from the face of the

king, and his throne shall be established with

justice.784 Book of Proverbs

6Appear not glorious before the king, and

stand not in the place of great men.

7For it is better that it should be said to

thee: Come up hither; than that thou shouldst

be humbled before the prince.

8The things which thy eyes have seen, ut-

ter not hastily in a quarrel: lest afterward thou

mayst not be able to make amends, when thou

hast dishonoured thy friend.

9Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover

not the secret to a stranger:

10Lest he insult over thee, when he hath

heard it, and cease not to upbraid thee. Grace

and friendship deliver a man: keep these for thy-

self, lest thou fall under reproach.

11To speak a word in due time, is like apples

of gold on beds of silver.

12As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so

is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient

ear.

13As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,

so is a faithful messenger to him that sent him,

for he refresheth his soul.

14As clouds, and wind, when no rain fol-

loweth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth

not full his promises.

15By patience a prince shall be appeased, and

a soft tongue shall break hardness.

16Thou hast found honey, eat what is su-

cient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou

vomit it up.

17Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy

neighbour, lest having his ll he hate thee.

18A man that beareth false witness against

his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a

sharp arrow.

19To trust in an unfaithful man in the time

of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot,

20And one that looseth his garment in cold

weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he thatsingeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth
doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so

the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.

21If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if

he thirst, give him water to drink:

22For thou shalt heap hot coals upon his

head, and the Lord will reward thee.

23The north wind driveth away rain, as doth

a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

24It is better to sit in a corner of the house-

top: than with a brawling woman, and in a com-

mon house.

25As cold water to a thirsty soul, so are good

tidings from a far country.

26A just man falling down before the wicked,

is as a fountain troubled with the foot and a

corrupted spring.

27As it is not good for a man to eat much

honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty shall

be overwhelmed by glory.

28As a city that lieth open and is not com-

passed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain

his own spirit in speaking.

Chapter 26

As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory

is not seemly for a fool.

2As a bird
ying to other places, and a spar-

row going here or there: so a curse uttered with-

out cause shall come upon a man.

3A whip for a horse, and a snae for an ass,

and a rod for the back of fools.

4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest

thou be made like him.

5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he

imagine himself to be wise.

6He that sendeth words by a foolish messen-

ger, is lame of feet and drinketh iniquity.Book of Proverbs 785

7As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a

parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.

8As he that casteth a stone into the heap of

Mercury: so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

9As if a thorn should grow in the hand of a

drunkard: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

10Judgment determineth causes: and he that

putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.

11As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is

the fool that repeateth his folly.

12Hast thou seen a man wise in his own con-

ceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of

him.

13The slothful man saith: There is a lion in

the way, and a lioness in the roads.

14As the door turneth upon its hinges, so

doth the slothful upon his bed.

15The slothful hideth his hand under his

armpit, and it grieveth him to turn it to his

mouth.

16The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit,

than seven men that speak sentences.

17As he that taketh a dog by the ears, so is

he that passeth by in anger, and meddleth with

another man's quarrel.

18As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and

lances unto death.

19So is the man that hurteth his friend de-

ceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in

jest.

20When the wood faileth, the re shall go

out: and when the talebearer is taken away, con-

tentions shall cease.

21As coals are to burning coals, and wood to

re, so an angry man stirreth up strife.

22The words of a talebearer are as it were

simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of

the belly.

23Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart,

are like an earthern vessel adorned with silverdross.

24An enemy is known by his lips, when in his

heart he entertaineth deceit.

25When he shall speak low, trust him not:

because there are seven mischiefs in his heart.

26He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his

malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.

27He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and

he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him.

28A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a

slippery mouth worketh ruin.

Chapter 27

Boast not for to morrow, for thou knowest not

what the day to come may bring forth.

2Let another praise thee, and not thy own

mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.

3A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the

anger of a fool is heavier than them both.

4Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it

breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence

of one provoked?

5Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

6Better are the wounds of a friend, than the

deceitful kisses of an enemy.

7A soul that is full shall tread upon the hon-

eycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take

even bitter for sweet.

8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so

is a man that leaveth his place.

9Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart:

and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to

the soul.

10Thy own friend, and thy father's friend,

forsake not: and go not into thy brother's house

in the day of thy aiction. Better is a neighbour

that is near than a brother afar o.786 Book of Proverbs

11Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart

joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him

that reproacheth.

12The prudent man seeing evil hideth him-

self: little ones passing on have suered losses.

13Take away his garment that hath been

surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge

for strangers.

14He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud

voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him

that curseth.

15Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and

a contentious woman are alike.

16He that retaineth her, is as he that would

hold the wind, and shall call the oil of his right

hand.

17Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth

the countenance of his friend.

18He that keepeth the g tree, shall eat the

fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his

master, shall be gloried.

19As the faces of them that look therein,

shine in the water, so the hearts of men are laid

open to the wise.

20Hell and destruction are never lled: so the

eyes of men are never satised.

21As silver is tried in the ning-pot, and

gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the

mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the

wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous

heart seeketh after knowledge.

22Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the

mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden

barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

23Be diligent to know the countenance of thy

cattle, and consider thy own

ocks:

24For thou shalt not always have power: but

a crown shall be given to generation and gener-

ation.25The meadows are open, and the green

herbs have appeared, and the hay is gathered

out of the mountains.

26Lambs are for thy clothing: and kids for

the price of the eld.

27Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy

food, and for the necessities of thy house, and

for maintenance for thy handmaids.

Chapter 28

The wicked man

eeth, when no man pursueth:

but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without

dread.

2For the sins of the land many are the princes

thereof: and for the wisdom of a man, and the

knowledge of those things that are said, the life

of the prince shall be prolonged.

3A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like

a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.

4They that forsake the law, praise the wicked

man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

5Evil men think not on judgment: but they

that seek after the Lord, take notice of all things.

6Better is the poor man walking in his sim-

plicity, than the rich in crooked ways.

7He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but

he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.

8He that heapeth together riches by usury

and loan, gathereth them for him that will be

bountiful to the poor.

9He that turneth away his ears from hearing

the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.

10He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way,

shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright

shall possess his goods.

11The rich man seemeth to himself wise: but

the poor man that is prudent shall search him

out.Book of Proverbs 787

12In the joy of the just there is great glory:

when the wicked reign, men are ruined.

13He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper:

but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall

obtain mercy.

14Blessed is the man that is always fearful:

but he that is hardened in mind shall fall into

evil.

15As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is

a wicked prince over the poor people.

16A prince void of prudence shall oppress

many by calumny: but he that hateth covetous-

ness, shall prolong his days.

17A man that doth violence to the blood of

a person, if he

ee even to the pit, no man will

stay him.

18He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved:

he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.

19He that tilleth his ground, shall be lled

with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall

be lled with poverty.

20A faithful man shall be much praised: but

he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be

innocent.

21He that hath respect to a person in judg-

ment, doth not well: such a man even for a

morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.

22A man that maketh haste to be rich, and

envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall

come upon him.

23He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward

nd favour with him, more than he that by a

attering tongue deceiveth him.

24He that stealeth any thing from his father,

or from his mother: and saith, This is no sin, is

the partner of a murderer.

26He that boasteth and pueth up himself,

stirreth up quarrels: but he that trusteth in the

Lord, shall be healed.26He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool:

but he that walketh wisely, he shall be saved.

27He that giveth to the poor shall not want:

he that despiseth his intreaty, shall suer indi-

gence.
28When the wicked rise up, men shall hide

themselves: when they perish, the just shall be

multiplied.

Chapter 29

The man that with a sti neck despiseth him

that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed:

and health shall not follow him.

2When just men increase, the people shall re-

joice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people

shall mourn.

3A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his

father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall

squander away his substance.

4A just king setteth up the land: a covetous

man shall destroy it.

5A man that speaketh to his friend with

at-

tering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net

for his feet.

6A snare shall entangle the wicked man when

he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.

7The just taketh notice of the cause of the

poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.

8Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise

men turn away wrath.

9If a wise man contend with a fool, whether

he be angry, or laugh, he shall nd no rest.

10Bloodthirsty men hate the upright: but

just men seek his soul.

11A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man

deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards.

12A prince that gladly heareth lying words,

hath all his servants wicked.788 Book of Proverbs

13The poor man and the creditor have met

one another: the Lord is the enlightener of them

both.

14The king that judgeth the poor in truth,

his throne shall be established for ever.

15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the

child that is left to his own will, bringeth his

mother to shame.

16When the wicked are multiplied, crimes

shall be multiplied: but the just shall see their

downfall.

17Instruct thy son and he shall refresh thee,

and shall give delight to thy soul.

18When prophecy shall fail, the people shall

be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the

law, is blessed.

19A slave will not be corrected by words: be-

cause he understandeth what thou sayest, and

will not answer.

20Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly

is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.

21He that nourisheth his servant delicately

from his childhood, afterwards shall nd him

stubborn.

22A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and

he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be

more prone to sin.

23Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory

shall uphold the humble of spirit.

24He that is partaker with a thief, hateth

his own soul: he heareth one putting him to his

oath, and discovereth not.

25He that feareth man shall quickly fall: he

that trusteth in the Lord, shall be set on high.

26Many seek the face of the prince: but the

judgment of every one cometh forth from the

Lord.

27The just abhor a wicked man: and the

wicked loathe them that are in the right way.The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from

destruction.

Chapter 30

The words of Gatherer the son of Vomiter. The

vision which the man spoke, with whom God

is, and who being strengthened by God, abiding

with him, said:

2I am the most foolish of men, and the wis-

dom of men is not with me.

3I have not learned wisdom, and have not

known the science of saints.

4Who hath ascended up into heaven, and de-

scended? who hath held the wind in his hands?

who hath bound up the waters together as in a

garment? who hath raised up all the borders of

the earth? what is his name, and what is the

name of his son, if thou knowest?

5Every word of God is re tried: he is a buck-

ler to them that hope in him.

6Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be

reproved and found a liar:

7Two things I have asked of thee, deny them

not to me before I die.

8Remove far from me vanity, and lying words.

Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me

only the necessaries of life:

9Lest perhaps being lled, I should be

tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or

being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and

forswear the name of my God.

10Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he

curse thee, and thou fall.

11There is a generation that curseth their

father, and doth not bless their mother.

12A generation that are pure in their own

eyes, and yet are not washed from their lthiness.Book of Proverbs 789

13A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and

their eyelids lifted up on high.

14A generation that for teeth hath swords,

and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour

the needy from o the earth, and the poor from

among men.

15The horseleech hath two daughters that

say: Bring, bring. There are three things that

never are satised, and the fourth never saith: It

is enough.

16Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the

earth which is not satised with water: and the

re never saith: It is enough.

17The eye that mocketh at his father, and

that despiseth the labour of his mother in bear-

ing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out,

and the young eagles eat it.

18Three things are hard to me, and the fourth

I am utterly ignorant of.

19The way of an eagle in the air, the way of

a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the

midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth.

20Such also is the way of an adulterous

woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and

saith: I have done no evil.

21By three things the earth is disturbed, and

the fourth it cannot bear.

22By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool

when be is lled with meat:

23By an odious woman when she is married:

and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her

mistress.

24There are four very little things of the

earth, and they are wiser than the wise.

25The ants, a feeble people, which provide

themselves food in the harvest:

26The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh

its bed in the rock:

27The locust hath no king, yet they all go

out by their bands:28The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and

dwelleth in kings' houses.

19There are three things, which go well, and

the fourth that walketh happily:

30A lion, the strongest of beasts, who hath

no fear of any thing he meeteth:

31A cock girded about the loins: and a ram:

and a king, whom none can resist.

32There is that hath appeared a fool after he

was lifted up on high: for if he had understood,

he would have laid his hand upon his mouth.

33And he that strongly squeezeth the paps

to bring out milk, straineth out butter: and

he that violently bloweth his nose, bringeth out

blood: and he that provoketh wrath, bringeth

forth strife.

Chapter 31

The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith

his mother instructed him.

2What, O my beloved, what, O the beloved

of my womb, what, O the beloved of my vows?

3Give not thy substance to women, and thy

riches to destroy kings.

4Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine

to kings: because there is no secret where drunk-

enness reigneth:

5And lest they drink and forget judgments,

and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

6Give strong drink to them that are sad; and

wine to them that are grieved in mind:

7Let them drink, and forget their want, and

remember their sorrow no more.

8Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the

causes of all the children that pass.

9Open thy mouth, decree that which is just,

and do justice to the needy and poor.790 Book of Proverbs

10Who shall nd a valiant woman? far, and

from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.

11The heart of her husband trusteth in her,

and he shall have no need of spoils.

12She will render him good, and not evil all

the days of her life.

13She hath sought wool and

ax, and hath

wrought by the counsel of her hands.

14She is like the merchant's ship, she bringeth

her bread from afar.

15And she hath risen in the night, and given a

prey to her household, and victuals to her maid-

ens.

16She hath considered a eld, and bought it:

with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a

vineyard.

17She hath girded her loins with strength,

and hath strengthened her arm.

18She hath tasted, and seen that her trac is

good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night.

19She hath put out her hand to strong things,

and her ngers have taken hold of the spindle.

20She hath opened her hand to the needy,

and stretched out her hands to the poor.

21She shall not fear for her house in the cold

of snow: for all her domestics are clothed with

double garments.

22She hath made for herself clothing of

tapestry: ne linen, and purple, is her covering.

23Her husband is honourable in the gates,

when he sitteth among the senators of the land.

24She made ne linen, and sold it, and deliv-

ered a girdle to the Chanaanite.

25Strength and beauty are her clothing, and

she shall laugh in the latter day.

26She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and

the law of clemency is on her tongue.

27She hath looked well on the paths of her

house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.28Her children rose up, and called her

blessed: her husband, and he praised her.

29Many daughters have gathered together

riches: thou hast surpassed them all.

30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:

the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be

praised.

31Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let

her works praise her in the gates.Ecclesiastes

Chapter 1

The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king

of Jerusalem.

2Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity

of vanities, and all is vanity.

3What hath a man more of all his labour,

that he taketh under the sun?

4One generation passeth away, and another

generation cometh: but the earth standeth for

ever.

5The sun riseth, and goeth down, and retur-

neth to his place: and there rising again,

6Maketh his round by the south, and turneth

again to the north: the spirit goeth forward sur-

veying all places round about, and returneth to

his circuits.

7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea

doth not over

ow: unto the place from whence

the rivers come, they return, to

ow again.

8All things are hard: man cannot explain

them by word. The eye is not lled with see-

ing, neither is the ear lled with hearing.

9What is it that hath been? the same thing

that shall be. What is it that hath been done?

the same that shall be done.

10Nothing under the sun is new, neither is

any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it

hath already gone before in the ages that were

before us.

11There is no remembrance of former things:

nor indeed of those things which hereafter areto come, shall there be any remembrance with

them that shall be in the latter end.

12I Ecclesiastes was king over Israel in

Jerusalem,

13And I proposed in my mind to seek and

search out wisely concerning all things that are

done under the sun. This painful occupation

hath God given to the children of men, to be

exercised therein.

14I have seen all things that are done under

the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation

of spirit.

15The perverse are hard to be corrected, and

the number of fools is innite.

16I have spoken in my heart, saying: Behold

I am become great, and have gone beyond all in

wisdom, that were before me in Jerusalem: and

my mind hath contemplated many things wisely,

and I have learned.

17And I have given my heart to know pru-

dence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and

I have perceived that in these also there was

labour, and vexation of spirit,

18Because in much wisdom there is much in-

dignation: and he that addeth knowledge, ad-

deth also labour.

Chapter 2

I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with

delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that792 Ecclesiastes

this also was vanity.

2Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I

said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

3I thought in my heart, to withdraw my

esh

from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom,

and might avoid folly, till I might see what was

protable for the children of men: and what they

ought to do under the sun, all the days of their

life.

4I made me great works, I built me houses,

and planted vineyards,

5I made gardens, and orchards, and set them

with trees of all kinds,

6And I made me ponds of water, to water

therewith the wood of the young trees,

7I got me menservants, and maidservants,

and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and

great

ocks of sheep, above all that were before

me in Jerusalem:
8I heaped together for myself silver and gold,

and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made

me singing men, and singing women, and the

delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to

serve to pour out wine:

9And I surpassed in riches all that were before

me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with

me.

10And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused

them not: and I withheld not my heart from

enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in

the things which I had prepared: and esteemed

this my portion, to make use of my own labour.

11And when I turned myself to all the works

which my hands had wrought, and to the labours

wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things

vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing

was lasting under the sun.

12I passed further to behold wisdom, and er-

rors and folly, (What is man, said I that he can

follow the King his maker?)13And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as

much as light diereth from darkness.

14The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the

fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they

were to die both alike.

15And I said in my heart: If the death of the

fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me,

that I have applied myself more to the study of

wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I

perceived that this also was vanity.

16For there shall be no remembrance of the

wise no more than of the fool forever, and the

times to come shall cover all things together with

oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the

unlearned.

17And therefore I was weary of my life, when

I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and

all vanity and vexation of spirit.

18Again I hated all my application wherewith

I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being

like to have an heir after me,

19Whom I know not whether he will be a

wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over

all my labours with which I have laboured and

been solicitous: and is there anything so vain?

20Wherefore I left o and my heart re-

nounced labouring anymore under the sun.

21For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and

knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he

hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity,

and a great evil.

22For what prot shall a man have of all

his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which

he hath been tormented under the sun?

23All his days are full of sorrows and miseries,

even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and

is not this vanity?

24Is it not better to eat and drink, and to

shew his soul good things of his labours? and

this is from the hand of God.Ecclesiastes 793

25Who shall so feast and abound with de-

lights as I?

26God hath given to a man that is good in

his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but

to the sinner he hath given vexation, and super-

uous care, to heap up and to gather together,

and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but

this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the

mind.

Chapter 3

All things have their season, and in their times

all things pass under heaven.

2A time to be born and a time to die. A time

to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is

planted.

3A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time

to destroy, and a time to build.

4A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time

to mourn, and a time to dance.

5A time to scatter stones, and a time to

gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be

far from embraces.

6A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to

keep, and a time to cast away.

7A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time

to keep silence, and a time to speak.

8A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time

of war, and a time of peace.

9What hath man more of his labour?

10I have seen the trouble, which God hath

given the sons of men to be exercised in it.

11He hath made all things good in their time,

and hath delivered the world to their considera-

tion, so that man cannot nd out the work which

God hath made from the beginning to the end.

12And I have known that there was no better

thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.13For every man that eateth and drinketh,

and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of

God.

14I have learned that all the works which

God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot

add any thing, nor take away from those things

which God hath made that he may be feared.

15That which hath been made, the same con-

tinueth: the things that shall be, have already

been: and God restoreth that which is past.

16I saw under the sun in the place of judg-

ment wickedness, and in the place of justice in-

iquity.

17And I said in my heart: God shall judge

both the just and the wicked, and then shall be

the time of every thing.

18I said in my heart concerning the sons

of men, that God would prove them, and shew

them to be like beasts.

19Therefore the death of man, and of beasts

is one, and the condition of them both is equal:

as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe

alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all

things are subject to vanity.

20And all things go to one place: of earth

they were made, and into earth they return to-

gether.

21Who knoweth if the spirit of the children

of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the

beasts descend downward?

22And I have found that nothing is better

than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that

this is his portion. For who shall bring him to

know the things that shall be after him?

Chapter 4

I turned myself to other things, and I saw the

oppressions that are done under the sun, and the794 Ecclesiastes

tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter;

and they were not able to resist their violence,

being destitute of help from any.

2And I praised the dead rather than the liv-

ing:

3And I judged him happier than them both,

that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that

are done under the sun.

4Again I considered all the labours of men,

and I remarked that their industries are exposed

to the envy of their neighbour: so in this also

there is vanity, and fruitless care.

5The fool foldeth his hands together, and

eateth his own

esh, saying:

6Better is a handful with rest, than both

hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

7Considering I found also another vanity un-

der the sun:

8There is but one, and he hath not a second,

no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to

labour, neither are his eyes satised with riches,

neither doth he re

ect, saying: For whom do I

labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in

this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

9It is better therefore that two should be to-

gether, than one: for they have the advantage of

their society:

10If one fall he shall be supported by the

other: woe to him that is alone, for when he

falleth, he hath none to lift him up.

11And if two lie together, they shall warm

one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

12And if a man prevail against one, two shall

withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily bro-

ken.

13Better is a child that is poor and wise, than

a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not

to foresee for hereafter.

14Because out of prison and chains sometimes

a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and anotherborn king is consumed with poverty.

15I saw all men living, that walk under the

sun with the second young man, who shall rise

up in his place.

16The number of the people, of all that were

before him is innite: and they that shall come

afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also

is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

17Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the

house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much

better is obedience, than the victims of fools,

who know not what evil they do.

Chapter 5

Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart

be hasty to utter a word before God. For God

is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let

thy words be few.

2Dreams follow many cares: and in many

words shall be found folly.

3If thou hast vowed any thing to God, de-

fer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish

promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou

hast vowed, pay it.

4And it is much better not to vow, than after

a vow not to perform the things promised.

5Give not thy mouth to cause thy

esh to

sin: and say not before the angel: There is no

providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and

destroy all the works of thy hands.

6Where there are many dreams, there are

many vanities, and words without number: but

do thou fear God.

7If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor,

and violent judgments, and justice perverted in

the province, wonder not at this matter: for he

that is high hath another higher, and there are

others still higher than these:Ecclesiastes 795

8Moreover there is the king that reigneth over

all the land subject to him.

9A covetous man shall not be satised with

money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no

fruit from them: so this also is vanity.

10Where there are great riches, there are also

many to eat them. And what doth it prot the

owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?

11Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether

he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich

will not suer him to sleep.

12There is also another grievous evil, which I

have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt

of the owner.

13For they are lost with very great aiction:

he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity

of want.

14As he came forth naked from his mother's

womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing

away with him of his labour.

15A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall

he return. What then doth it prot him that he

hath laboured for the wind?

16All the days of his life he eateth in darkness,

and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.

17This therefore hath seemed good to me,

that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the

fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured

under the sun, all the days of his life, which God

hath given him: and this is his portion.

18And every man to whom God hath given

riches, and substance, and hath given him power

to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to

rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.

19For he shall not much remember the days

of his life, because God entertaineth his heart

with delight.Chapter 6

There is also another evil, which I have seen un-

der the sun, and that frequent among men:

2A man to whom God hath given riches,

and substance, and honour, and his soul wan-

teth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God

doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a

stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a

great misery.

3If a man beget a hundred children, and live

many years, and attain to a great age, and his

soul make no use of the goods of his substance,

and he be without burial: of this man I pro-

nounce, that the untimely born is better than

he.

4For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness,

and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

5He hath not seen the sun, nor known the

distance of good and evil:

6Although he lived two thousand years, and

hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make

haste to one place?

7All the labour of man is for his mouth, but

his soul shall not be lled.

8What hath the wise man more than the fool?

and what the poor man, but to go thither, where

there is life?

9Better it is to see what thou mayst desire,

than to desire that which thou canst not know.

But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

10He that shall be, his name is already called:

and it is known, that he is a man, and cannot

contend in judgment with him that is stronger

than himself.

11There are many words that have much van-

ity in disputing.796 Ecclesiastes

Chapter 7
What needeth a man to seek things that are

above him, whereas he knoweth not what is

protable for him in his life, in all the days of

his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a

shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after

him under the sun?

2A good name is better than precious oint-

ments: and the day of death than the day of

one's birth.

3It is better to go to the house of mourning,

than to the house of feasting: for in that we

are put in mind of the end of all, and the living

thinketh what is to come.

4Anger is better than laughter: because by

the sadness of the countenance the mind of the

oender is corrected.

5The heart of the wise is where there is

mourning, and the heart of fools where there is

mirth.

6It is better to be rebuked by a wise man,

than to be deceived by the

attery of fools.

7For as the crackling of thorns burning under

a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also

is vanity.

8Oppression troubleth the wise, and shall de-

stroy the strength of his heart.

9Better is the end of a speech than the be-

ginning. Better is the patient man than the pre-

sumptuous.

10Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in

the bosom of a fool.

11Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause

that former times were better than they are now?

for this manner of question is foolish.

12Wisdom with riches is more protable, and

bringeth more advantage to them that see the

sun.

13For as wisdom is a defence, so money is adefence: but learning and wisdom excel in this,

that they give life to him that possesseth them.

14Consider the works of God, that no man

can correct whom he hath despised.

15In the good day enjoy good things, and

beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath

made both the one and the other, that man may

not nd against him any just complaint.

16These things also I saw in the days of my

vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a

wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.

17Be not over just: and be not more wise

than is necessary, lest thou become stupid.

18Be not overmuch wicked: and be not fool-

ish, lest thou die before thy time.

19It is good that thou shouldst hold up the

just, yea and from him withdraw not thy hand:

for he that feareth God, neglecteth nothing.

20Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more

than ten princes of the city.

21For there is no just man upon earth, that

doth good, and sinneth not.

22But do not apply thy heart to all words

that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy ser-

vant reviling thee.

23For thy conscience knoweth that thou also

hast often spoken evil of others.

24I have tried all things in wisdom. I have

said: I will be wise: and it departed farther from

me,

25Much more than it was: it is a great depth,

who shall nd it out?

26I have surveyed all things with my mind,

to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and

reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool,

and the error of the imprudent:

27And I have found a woman more bitter

than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her

heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He thatEcclesiastes 797

pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that

is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

28Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes,

weighing one thing after another, that I might

nd out the account,

29Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have

not found it. One man among a thousand I

have found, a woman among them all I have not

found.

30Only this I have found, that God made

man right, and he hath entangled himself with

an innity of questions. Who is as the wise man?

and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Chapter 8

The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance,

and the most mighty will change his face.

2I observe the mouth of the king, and the

commandments of the oath of God.

3Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do

not continue in an evil work: for he will do all

that pleaseth him:

4And his word is full of power: neither can

any man say to him: Why dost thou so?

5He that keepeth the commandment, shall

nd no evil. The heart of a wiser man under-

standeth time and answer.

6There is a time and opportunity for every

business, and great aiction for man:

7Because he is ignorant of things past, and

things to come he cannot know by any messen-

ger.

8It is not in man's power to stop the spirit,

neither hath he power in the day of death, nei-

ther is he suered to rest when war is at hand,

neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

9All these things I have considered, and ap-

plied my heart to all the works that are doneunder the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over

another to his own hurt.

10I saw the wicked buried: who also when

they were yet living were in the holy place, and

were praised in the city as men of just works:

but this also is vanity.

11For because sentence is not speedily pro-

nounced against the evil, the children of men

commit evils without any fear.

12But though a sinner do evil a hundred

times, and by patience be borne withal, I know

from thence that it shall be well with them that

fear God, who dread his face.

13But let it not be well with the wicked, nei-

ther let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow

let them pass away that fear not the face of the

Lord.
14There is also another vanity, which is done

upon the earth. There are just men to whom

evils happen, as though they had done the works

of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who

are as secure as though they had the deeds of

the just: but this also I judge most vain.

15Therefore I commended mirth, because

there was no good for a man under the sun, but

to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he

should take nothing else with him of his labour

in the days of his life, which God hath given him

under the sun.

16And I applied my heart to know wisdom,

and to understand the distraction that is upon

earth: for there are some that day and night take

no sleep with their eyes.

17And I understood that man can nd no

reason of all those works of God that are done

under the sun: and the more he shall labour to

seek, so much the less shall he nd: yea, though

the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he

shall not be able to nd it.798 Ecclesiastes

Chapter 9

All these things have I considered in my heart,

that I might carefully understand them: there

are just men and wise men, and their works are
in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not

whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:

2But all things are kept uncertain for the time

to come, because all things equally happen to

the just and to the wicked, to the good and to

the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him

that oereth victims, and to him that despiseth

sacrices. As the good is, so also is the sinner:

as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.

3This is a very great evil among all things

that are done under the sun, that the same

things happen to all men: whereby also the

hearts of the children of men are lled with evil,

and with contempt while they live, and after-

wards they shall be brought down to hell.

4There is no man that liveth always, or that

hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a

dead lion.

5For the living know that they shall die, but

the dead know nothing more, neither have they

a reward any more: for the memory of them is

forgotten.

6Their love also, and their hatred, and their

envy are all perished, neither have they any part

in this world, and in the work that is done under

the sun.
7Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and

drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works

please God.

8At all times let thy garments be white, and

let not oil depart from thy head.

9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest,

all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given

to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity:

for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labourwherewith thou labourest under the sun.

10Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do

it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor

wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither

thou art hastening.

11I turned me to another thing, and I saw

that under the sun, the race is not to the swift,

nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the

wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the

skilful: but time and chance in all.

12Man knoweth not his own end: but as shes

are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught

with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time,

when it shall suddenly come upon them.

13This wisdom also I have seen under the

sun, and it seemed to me to be very great:

14A little city, and few men in it: there came

against it a great king, and invested it, and built

bulwarks round about it, and the siege was per-

fect.

15Now there was found in it a man poor and

wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom,

and no man afterward remembered that poor

man.

16And I said that wisdom is better than

strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor

man slighted, and his words not heard?

17The words of the wise are heard in silence,

more than the cry of a prince among fools.

18Better is wisdom, than weapons of war:

and he that shall oend in one, shall lose many

good things.

Chapter 10

Dying

ies spoil the sweetness of the ointment.

Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small

and shortlived folly.Ecclesiastes 799

2The heart of a wise man is in his right hand,

and the heart of a fool is in his left hand.

3Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the

way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all

men fools.

4If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend

upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will

make the greatest sins to cease.

5There is an evil that I have seen under the

sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the

face of the prince:

6A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting

beneath.

7I have seen servants upon horses: and

princes walking on the ground as servants.

8He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and

he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite

him.

9He that removeth stones, shall be hurt

by them: and he that cutteth trees, shall be

wounded by them.

10If the iron be blunt, and be not as before,

but be made blunt, with much labour it shall be

sharpened: and after industry shall follow wis-

dom.

11If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing

better that backbiteth secretly.

12The words of the mouth of a wise man are

grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down

headlong.

13The beginning of his words is folly, and the

end of his talk is a mischievous error.

14A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot

tell what hath been before him: and what shall

be after him, who can tell him?

15The labour of fools shall aict them that

know not how to go to the city.

16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a

child, and when the princes eat in the morning.17Blessed is the land, whose king is noble,

and whose princes eat in due season for refresh-

ment, and not for riotousness.

18By slothfulness a building shall be brought

down, and through the weakness of hands, the

house shall drop through.

19For laughter they make bread, and wine

that the living may feast: and all things obey

money.

20Detract not the king, no not in thy thought;

and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private

chamber: because even the birds of the air will

carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell

what thou hast said.

Chapter 11

Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for af-

ter a long time thou shalt nd it again.

2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight:

for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the

earth.

3If the clouds be full, they will pour out rain

upon the earth. If the tree fall to the south, or

to the north, in what place soever it shall fall,

there shall it be.

4He that observeth the wind, shall not sow:

and he that considereth the clouds, shall never

reap.

5As thou knowest not what is the way of the

spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in

the womb of her that is with child: so thou know-

est not the works of God, who is the maker of

all.

6In the morning sow thy seed, and in the

evening let not thy hand cease: for thou knowest

not which may rather spring up, this or that:

and if both together, it shall be the better.800 Ecclesiastes

7The light is sweet, and it is delightful for the

eyes to see the sun.

8If a man live many years, and have rejoiced

in them all, he must remember the darksome

time, and the many days: which when they shall

come, the things past shall be accused of vanity.

9Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy

youth, and let thy heart be in that which is good

in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways

of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: and

know that for all these God will bring thee into
judgment.

10Remove anger from thy heart, and put

away evil from thy

esh. For youth and plea-

sure are vain.

Chapter 12

Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth,

before the time of aiction come, and the years

draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please

me not:

2Before the sun, and the light, and the moon,

and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return

after the rain:

3When the keepers of the house shall trem-

ble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the

grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they

that look through the holes shall be darkened:

4And they shall shut the doors in the street,

when the grinder's voice shall be low, and they

shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the

daughters of music shall grow deaf.

5And they shall fear high things, and they

shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall

ourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the ca-

per tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go

into the house of his eternity, and the mourners

shall go round about in the street.6Before the silver cord be broken, and the

golden llet shrink back, and the pitcher be

crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken

upon the cistern,

7And the dust return into its earth, from

whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who

gave it.

8Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all

things are vanity.

9And whereas Ecclesiastes was very wise, he

taught the people, and declared the things that

he had done: and seeking out, he set forth many

parables.

10He sought protable words, and wrote

words most right, and full of truth.

11The words of the wise are as goads, and as

nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of

masters are given from one shepherd.

12More than these, my son, require not. Of

making many books there is no end: and much

study is an aiction of the

esh.

13Let us all hear together the conclusion of

the discourse. Fear God, and keep his command-

ments: for this is all man:

14And all things that are done, God will

bring into judgment for every error, whether it

be good or evil.

Chapter 1

Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for

thy breasts are better than wine,

2Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy

name is as oil poured out: therefore young maid-

ens have loved thee.

3Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour

of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into

his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in

thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine:Ecclesiastes 801

the rightous love thee.

4I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of

Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains

of Solomon.

5Do not consider me that I am brown, be-

cause the sun hath altered my colour: the sons

of my mother have fought against me, they have

made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vine-

yard I have not kept.

6Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth,

where thou feedest, where thou liest in the mid-

day, lest I begin to wander after the

ocks of thy
companions.

7If thou know not thyself, O fairest among

women, go forth, and follow after the steps of

the

ocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of

the shepherds.

8To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's

chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.

9Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's,

thy neck as jewels.

10We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid

with silver.

11While the king was at his repose, my spike-

nard sent forth the odour thereof.

12A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he

shall abide between my breasts.

13A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in

the vineyards of Engaddi.

14Behold thou are fair, O my love, behold

thou are fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.

15Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and

comely. Our bed is

ourishing.

16The beams of our houses are of cedar, our

rafters of cypress trees.Chapter 2

I am the
ower of the eld, and the lily of the

valleys.

2As the lily among thorns, so is my love

among the daughters.

3As the apple tree among the trees of the

woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat

down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his

fruit was sweet to my palate.

4He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set

in order charity in me.

5Stay me up with

owers, compass me about

with apples: because I languish with love.

6His left hand is under my head, and his right

hand shall embrace me.

7I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,

by the roes, and the harts of the eld, that you

stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till

she please.

8The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh

leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the

hills.

9My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart.

Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking

through the windows, looking through the lat-

tices.
10Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise,

make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one,

and come.

11For winter is now past, the rain is over and

gone.

12The

owers have appeared in our land, the

time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle

is heard in our land:

13The g tree hath put forth her green gs:

the vines in

ower yield their sweet smell. Arise,

my love, my beautiful one, and come:

14My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the

hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let802 Ecclesiastes

thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet,

and thy face comely.

15Catch us the little foxes that destroy the

vines: for our vineyard hath

ourished.

16My beloved to me, and I to him who

feedeth among the lilies,

17Till the day break, and the shadows retire.

Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a

young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Chapter 3
In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul

loveth: I sought him, and found him not.

2I will rise, and will go about the city: in the

streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom

my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him

not.

3The watchmen who keep the city, found me:

Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

4When I had a little passed by them, I found

him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will

not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's

house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.

5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by

the roes and the harts of the elds, that you stir

not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.

6Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as

a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices, of myrrh,

and frankincense, and of all the powders of the

perfumer?

7Behold threescore valiant ones of the most

valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?

8All holding swords, and most expert in war:

every man's sword upon his thigh, because of

fears in the night.

9King Solomon hath made him a litter of the

wood of Libanus:
10The pillars thereof he made of silver, theseat of gold, the going up of purple: the midst

he covered with charity for the daughters of

Jerusalem.

11Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king

Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother

crowned him in the day of the joy of his heart.

Chapter 4

How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful

art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what

is hid within. Thy hair is as

ocks of goats, which

come up from mount Galaad.

2Thy teeth as

ocks of sheep, that are shorn,

which come up from the washing, all with twins,

and there is none barren among them.

3Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy

speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of

a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid

within.

4Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is

built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang

upon it, all the armour of valiant men.

5Thy two breasts like two young roes that are

twins, which feed among the lilies.

6Till the day break, and the shadows retire,

I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the

hill of frankincense.

7Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is

not a spot in thee.

8Come from Libanus, my spouse, come from

Libanus, come: thou shalt be crowned from the

top of Amana, from the top of Sanir and Her-

mon, from the dens of the lions, from the moun-

tains of the leopards.

9Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my

spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of

thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.

10How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister,Ecclesiastes 803

my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than

wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above

all aromatical spices.

11Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping hon-

eycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue;

and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of

frankincense.

12My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed,

a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.

13Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates

with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with

spikenard.

14Spikenard and saron, sweet cane and cin-

namon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and

aloes with all the chief perfumes.

15The fountain of gardens: the well of liv-

ing waters, which run with a strong stream from

Libanus.

16Arise, O north wind, and come, O south

wind, blow through my garden, and let the aro-

matical spices thereof

ow.

Chapter 5

Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the

fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my gar-

den, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my

myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten

the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my

wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink,

and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

2I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice

of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister,

my love, my dove, my undeled: for my head

is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the

nights.

3I have put o my garment, how shall I put

it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I dele

them?4My beloved put his hand through the key

hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.

5I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands

dropped with myrrh, and my ngers were full of

the choicest myrrh.

6I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved:

but he had turned aside, and was gone. My soul

melted when he spoke: I sought him, and found

him not: I called, and he did not answer me.

7The keepers that go about the city found me:

they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers

of the walls took away my veil from me.

8I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if

you nd my beloved, that you tell him that I

languish with love.

9What manner of one is thy beloved of the

beloved, O thou most beautiful among women?

what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved,

that thou hast so adjured us?

10My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out

of thousands.

11His head is as the nest gold: his locks as

branches of palm trees, black as a raven.

12His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters,

which are washed with milk, and sit beside the

plentiful streams.

13His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices

set by the perfumers. His lips are as lilies drop-

ping choice myrrh.

14His hands are turned and as of gold, full

of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sap-

phires.

15His legs as pillars of marble, that are set

upon bases of gold. His form as of Libanus, ex-

cellent as the cedars.

16His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely:

such is my beloved, and he is my friend, O ye

daughters of Jerusalem.

17Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most

beautiful among women? whither is thy beloved804 Ecclesiastes

turned aside, and we will seek him with thee?

Chapter 6

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the

bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens,

and to gather lilies.

2I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who

feedeth among the lilies.

3Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and

comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army set in

array.

4Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have

made me

ee away. Thy hair is as a

ock of
goats, that appear from Galaad.

5Thy teeth as a

ock of sheep, which come

up from the washing, all with twins, and there

is none barren among them.

6Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate,

beside what is hidden within thee.

7There are threescore queens, and fourscore

concubines, and young maidens without number.

8One is my dove, my perfect one is but one,

she is the only one of her mother, the chosen

of her that bore her. The daughters saw her,

and declared her most blessed: the queens and

concubines, and they praised her.

9Who is she that cometh forth as the morn-

ing rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun,

terrible as an army set in array?

10I went down into the garden of nuts, to

see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the

vineyard had

ourished, and the pomegranates

budded.

11I knew not: my soul troubled me for the

chariots of Aminadab.

12Return, return, O Sulamitess: return, re-

turn that we may behold thee.Chapter 7

What shalt thou see in the Sulamitess but the

companies of camps? How beautiful are thy

steps in shoes, O prince's daughter! The joints

of thy thighs are like jewels, that are made by

the hand of a skilful workman.

2Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting

cups. Thy belly is like a heap of wheat, set about

with lilies.

3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that

are twins.

4Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like

the shpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate

of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as

the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Dam-

ascus.

5Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of

thy head as the purple of the king bound in the

channels.

6How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my

dearest, in delights!

7Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy

breasts to clusters of grapes.

8I said: I will go up into the palm tree,

and will take hold of the fruit thereof: and thy

breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and

the odour of thy mouth like apples.

9Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my

beloved to drink, and for his lips and his teeth

to ruminate.

10I to my beloved, and his turning is towards

me.

11Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the

eld, let us abide in the villages.

12Let us get up early to the vineyards, let

us see if the vineyard

ourish, if the

owers be

ready to bring forth fruits, if the pomegranates

ourish: there will I give thee my breasts.

13The mandrakes give a smell. In our gatesEcclesiastes 805

are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved,

I have kept for thee.

Chapter 8

Who shall give thee to me for my brother, suck-

ing the breasts of my mother, that I may nd

thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man

may despise me?

2I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into

my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me,

and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new

wine of my pomegranates.
3His left hand under my head, and his right

hand shall embrace me.

4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that

you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.

5Who is this that cometh up from the desert,

owing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?

Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy

mother was corrupted, there she was de

oured

that bore thee.

6Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal

upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jeal-

ousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are re

and

ames.

7Many waters cannot quench charity, neither

can the

oods drown it: if a man should give

all the substance of his house for love, he shall

despise it as nothing.

8Our sister is little, and hath no breasts.

What shall we do to our sister in the day when

she is to be spoken to?

9If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks

of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together

with boards of cedar.

10I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower

since I am become in his presence as one nding

peace.11The peaceable had a vineyard, in that

which hath people: he let out the same to keep-

ers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a

thousand peices of silver.

12My vineyard is before me. A thousand

are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for

them that keep the fruit thereof.

13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the

friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.

14Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the

roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains

of aromatical spices.Book of Wisdom

Chapter 1

Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth.

Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in

simplicity of heart:

2For he is found by them that tempt him not:

and he sheweth himself to them that have faith

in him.

3For perverse thoughts separate from God:

and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the

unwise:

4For wisdom will not enter into a malicious

soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins.

5For the Holy Spirit of discipline will

ee from

the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from

thoughts that are without understanding, and

he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in.

6For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and

will not acquit the evil speaker from his lips:

for God is witness of his reins, and he is a true

searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

7For the Spirit of the Lord hath lled the

whole world: and that which containeth all

things, hath knowledge of the voice.

8Therefore he that speaketh unjust things,

cannot be hid, neither shall the chastising judg-

ment pass him by.

9For inquisition shall be made into the

thoughts of the ungodly, and the hearing of his

words shall come to God, to the chastising of his

iniquities.

10For the ear of jealousy heareth all things,and the tumult of murmuring shall not be hid.

11Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmur-

ing, which proteth nothing, and refrain your

tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech

shall not go for nought: and the mouth that be-

lieth, killeth the soul.

12Seek not death in the error of your life,

neither procure ye destruction by the works of

your hands.

13For God made not death, neither hath he

pleasure in the destruction of the living.

14For he created all things that they might

be: and he made the nations of the earth for

health: and there is no poison of destruction in

them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth.

15For justice is perpetual and immortal.

16But the wicked with works and words have

called it to them: and esteeming it a friend, have

fallen away and have made a covenant with it:

because they are worthy to be of the part thereof.

Chapter 2

For they have said, reasoning with themselves,

but not right: The time of our life is short and

tedious, and in the end of a man there is no

remedy, and no man hath been known to have

returned from hell:

2For we are born of nothing, and after this

we shall be as if we had not been: for the breath

in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a spark toBook of Wisdom 807

move our heart,

3Which being put out, our body shall be

ashes, and our spirit shall be poured abroad as

soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace

of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist,

which is driven away by the beams of the sun,

and overpowered with the heat thereof:

4And our name in time shall be forgotten,

and no man shall have any remembrance of our

works.

5For our time is as the passing of a shadow,

and there is no going back of our end: for it is

fast sealed, and no man returneth:

6Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good

things that are present, and let us speedily use

the creatures as in youth.

7Let us ll ourselves with costly wine, and

ointments: and let not the

ower of the time

pass by us.

8Let us crown ourselves with roses, before

they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot.

9Let none of us go without his part in luxury:

let us every where leave tokens of joy: for this is

our portion, and this our lot.

10Let us oppress the poor just man, and not

spare the widow, nor honour thc ancient grey

hairs of the aged.

11But let our strength be the law of justice:

for that which is feeble is found to be nothing

worth.

12Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just,

because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary

to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgres-

sions of the law, and divulgeth against us the

sins of our way of life.

13He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of

God, and calleth himself the son of God.

14He is become a censurer of our thoughts.

15He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for

his life is not like other men's, and his ways arevery dierent.

16We are esteemed by him as tri

ers, and

he abstaineth from our ways as from lthiness,

and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and

glorieth that he hath God for his father.

17Let us see then if his words be true, and

let us prove what shall happen to him, and we

shall know what his end shall be.

18For if he be the true son of God, he will

defend him, and will deliver him from the hands

of his enemies.

19Let us examine him by outrages and tor-

tures, that we may know his meekness, and try

his patience.
20Let us condemn him to a most shameful

death: for there shall be respect had unto him

by his words.

21These things they thought, and were de-

ceived: for their own malice blinded them.

22And they knew not the secrets of God, nor

hoped for the wages of justice, nor esteemed the

honour of holy souls.

23For God created man incorruptible, and to

the image of his own likeness he made him.

24But by the envy of the devil, death came

into the world:

25And they follow him that are of his side.

Chapter 3

But the souls of the just are in the hand of God,

and the torment of death shall not touch them.

2In the sight of the unwise they seemed to

die: and their departure was taken for misery:

3And their going away from us, for utter de-

struction: but they are in peace.

4And though in the sight of men they suered

torments, their hope is full of immortality.808 Book of Wisdom

5Aicted in few things, in many they shall

be well rewarded: because God hath tried them,

and found them worthy of himself.

6As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them,

and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received

them, and in time there shall be respect had to

them.

7The just shall shine, and shall run to and

fro like sparks among the reeds.

8They shall judge nations, and rule over peo-

ple, and their Lord shall reign for ever.

9They that trust in him shall understand the

truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall

rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect.

10But the wicked shall be punished according

to their own devices: who have neglected the

just, and have revolted from the Lord.

11For he that rejecteth wisdom, and disci-

pline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and

their labours without fruit, and their works un-

protable.

12Their wives are foolish, and their children

wicked.

13Their ospring is cursed, for happy is the

barren: and the undeled, that hath not known

bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation

of holy souls.

14And the eunuch, that hath not wrought in-

iquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things

against God for the precious gift of faith shall be

given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the

temple of God.

15For the fruit of good labours is glorious,

and the root of wisdom never faileth.

16But the children of adulterers shall not

come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful

bed shall be rooted out.

17And if they live long, they shall be nothing

regarded, and their last old age shall be without

honour.18And if they die quickly, they shall have no

hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.

19For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.

Chapter 4

How beautiful is the chaste generation with

glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: be-

cause it is known both with God and with men.

2When it is present, they imitate it: and they

desire it, when it hath withdrawn itself, and it

triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward

of undeled conicts.

3But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall

not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep

root, nor any fast foundation.

4And if they

ourish in branches for a time,

yet standing not fast, they shall be shaken with

the wind, and through the force of winds they

shall be rooted out.

5For the branches not being perfect, shall

be broken, and their fruits shall be unprotable,

and sour to eat, and t for nothing.

6For the children that are born of unlawful

beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their

parents in their trial.

7But the just man, if he be prevented with

death, shall be in rest.

8For venerable old age is not that of long

time, nor counted by the number of years: but

the understanding of a man is grey hairs.

9And a spotless life is old age.

10He pleased God, and was beloved, and liv-

ing among sinners, he was translated.

11He was taken away, lest wickedness should

alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his

soul.

12For the bewitching of vanity obscureth

good things, and the wandering of concupiscenceBook of Wisdom 809

overturneth the innocent mind.

13Being made perfect in a short space, he

fullled a long time.

14For his soul pleased God: therefore he has-

tened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities:

but the people see this, and understand not, nor

lay up such things in their hearts:

15That the grace of God, and his mercy is

with his saints, and that he hath respect to his

chosen.

16But the just that is dead, condemneth the

wicked that are living, and youth soon ended,

the long life of the unjust.

17For they shall see the end of the wise man,

and it shall not understand what God hath de-

signed for him, and why the Lord hath set him

in safety.

18They shall see him, and shall despise him:

but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn.

19And they shall fall after this without hon-

our, and be a reproach among the dead for ever:

for he shall burst them pued up and speechless,

and shall shake them from the foundations, and

they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in

sorrow, and their memory shall perish.

20They shall come with fear at the thought of

their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against

them to convict them.

Chapter 5

Then shall the just stand with great constancy

against those that have aicted them, and taken

away their labours.

2These seeing it, shall be troubled with terri-

ble fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness

of their unexpected salvation,

3Saying within themselves, repenting, and

groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they,whom we had sometime in derision, and for a

parable of reproach.

4We fools esteemed their life madness, and

their end without honour.

5Behold, how they are numbered among the

children of God, and their lot is among the

saints.

6Therefore we have erred from the way of

truth, and the light of justice hath not shined

unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not

risen upon us.

7We wearied ourselves in the way of iniq-

uity and destruction, and have walked through

hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not

known.

8What hath pride proted us? or what ad-

vantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?

9All those things are passed away like a

shadow, and like a post that runneth on,

10And as a ship, that passeth through the

waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace

cannot be found. nor the path of its keel in the

waters:

11Or as when a bird

ieth through the air,

of the passage of which no mark can be found,

but only the sound of the wings beating the light

air, and parting it by the force of her

ight: she

moved her wings, and hath

own through, and

there is no mark found afterwards of her way:

12Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark,

the divided air quickly cometh together again,

so that the passage thereof is not known:

13So we also being born, forthwith ceased

to be: and have been able to shew no mark of

virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness.

14Such things as these the sinners said in hell:

15For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which

is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth

which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke

that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the810 Book of Wisdom

remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth

by.

16But the just shall live for evermore: and

their reward is with the Lord, and the care of

them with the most High.

17Therefore shall they receive a kingdom of

glory, and a crown of beauty at the hand of the

Lord: for with his right hand he will cover them,

and with his holy arm he will defend them.

18And his zeal will take armour, and he will

arm the creature for the revenge of his enemies.

19He will put on justice as a breastplate, and

will take true judgment instead of a helmet:

20He will take equity for an invincible shield:

21And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a

spear, and the whole world shall ght with him

against the unwise.

22Then shafts of lightning shall go directly

from the clouds, as from a bow well bent, they

shall be shot out, and shall

y to the mark.

23And thick hail shall be cast upon them

from the stone casting wrath: the water of the

sea shall rage against them, and the rivers shall

run together in a terrible manner.

24A mighty wind shall stand up against them,

and as a whirlwind shall divide them: and their

iniquity shall bring all the earth to a desert, and

wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the

mighty.
Chapter 6

Wisdom is better than strength: and a wise man

is better than a strong man.

2Hear, therefore, ye kings, and understand,

learn ye that are judges of the ends of the earth.

3Give ear, you that rule the people, and that

please yourselves in multitudes of nations:

4For power is given you by the Lord, andstrength by the most High, who will examine

your works: and search out your thoughts:

6Because being ministers of his kingdom, you

have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of jus-

tice, nor walked according to the will of God.

6Horribly and speedily will he appear to you:

for a most severe judgment shall be for them that

bear rule.

7For to him that is little, mercy is granted:

but the mighty shall be mightily tormented.

8For God will not except any man's person,

neither will he stand in awe of any man's great-

ness: for he made the little and the great, and

he hath equally care of all.

9But a greater punishment is ready for the

more mighty.

10To you, therefore, O kings, are these my

words, that you may learn wisdom, and not fall

from it.
11For they that have kept just things justly,

shall be justied: and they that have learned

these things, shall nd what to answer.

12Covet ye, therefore, my words, and love

them, and you shall have instruction.

13Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away,

and is easily seen by them that love her, and is

found by them that seek her.

14She preventeth them that covet her, so that

she rst sheweth herself unto them.

15He that awaketh early to seek her, shall not

labour: for he shall nd her sitting at his door.

16To think, therefore, upon her, is perfect

understanding: and he that watcheth for her,

shall quickly be secure.

17For she goeth about seeking such as are

worthy of her, and she sheweth herself to them

cheerfully in the ways, and meeteth them with

all providence.

18For the beginning of her is the most true

desire of discipline.Book of Wisdom 811

19And the care of discipline is love: and love

is the keeping of her laws: and the keeping of her

laws is the rm foundation of incorruption:

20And incorruption bringeth near to God.

21Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to

the everlasting kingdom.

22If then your delight be in thrones, and scep-

tres, O ye kings of the people, love wisdom, that

you may reign for ever.

23Love the light of wisdom, all ye that bear

rule over peoples.

24Now what wisdom is, and what was her

origin, I will declare: and I will not hide from

you the mysteries of God, but will seek her out

from the beginning of her birth, and bring the

knowledge of her to light, and will not pass over

the truth:

25Neither will I go with consuming envy: for

such a man shall not be partaker of wisdom.

26Now the multitude of the wise is the wel-

fare of the whole world: and a wise king is the

upholding of the people.

27Receive, therefore, instruction by my

words, and it shall be protable to you.

Chapter 7

I myself am a mortal man, like all others, and of

the race of him, that was rst made of the earth,

and in the womb of my mother I was fashioned

to be

esh.

2In the time of ten months I was compacted

in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure of

sleep concurring.

3And being born, I drew in the common air,

and fell upon the earth, that is made alike, and

the rst voice which I uttered was crying, as all

others do.4I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and with

great cares.

5For none of the kings had any other begin-

ning of birth.

6For all men have one entrance into life, and

the like going out.

7Wherefore I wished, and understanding was

given me: and I called upon God, and the spirit

of wisdom came upon me:

8And I preferred her before kingdoms and

thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in compar-

ison of her.

9Neither did I compare unto her any precious

stone: for all gold, in comparison of her, is as a

little sand; and silver, in respect to her, shall be

counted as clay.

10I loved her above health and beauty, and

chose to have her instead of light: for her light

cannot be put out.

11Now all good things came to me together

with her, and innumerable riches through her

hands,

12And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom

went before me, and I knew not that she was the

mother of them all.

13Which I have learned without guile, and

communicate without envy, and her riches I hide

not.

14For she is an innite treasure to men:

which they that use, become the friends of God,

being commended for the gifts of discipline.

15And God hath given to me to speak as I

would, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those

things that are given me: because he is the guide

of wisdom, and the director of the wise:

16For in his hand are both we, and our words,

and all wisdom, and the knowledge and skill of

works.

17For he hath given me the true knowledge

of the things that are: to know the disposition of812 Book of Wisdom

the whole world, and the virtues of the elements,

18The beginning, and ending, and midst of

the times, the alterations of their courses, and

the changes of seasons,

19The revolutions of the year, and the dispo-

sitions of the stars,

20The natures of living creatures, and rage of

wild beasts, the force of winds, and reasonings

of men, the diversities of plants, and the virtues

of roots,

21And all such things as are hid, and not

foreseen, I have learned: for wisdom, which is

the worker of all things, taught me.

22For in her is the spirit of understanding;

holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent, active, un-

deled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good,

quick, which nothing hindereth, benecent,

23Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure,

having all power, overseeing all things, and con-

taining all spirits: intelligible, pure, subtile:

24For wisdom is more active than all active

things; and reacheth everywhere, by reason of

her purity.

25For she is a vapour of the power of God,

and a certain pure emmanation of the glory of

the Almighty God: and therefore no deled thing

cometh into her.

26For she is the brightness of eternal light,

and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and

the image of his goodness.

27And being but one, she can do all things:

and remaining in herself the same, she reneweth

all things, and through nations conveyeth herself

into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God

and prophets.

28For God loveth none but him that dwelleth

with wisdom.

29For she is more beautiful than the sun, and

above all the order of the stars: being compared

with the light, she is found before it.30For after this cometh night, but no evil can

overcome wisdom.

Chapter 8

She reacheth, therefore, from end to end might-

ily, and ordereth all things sweetly.

2Her have I loved, and have sought her out

from my youth, and have desired to take for my

spouse, and I became a lover of her beauty.

3She glorieth her nobility by being conver-

sant with God: yea, and the Lord of all things

hath loved her.

4For it is she that teacheth the knowledge of

God and is the chooser of his works.

5And if riches be desired in life, what is richer

than wisdom, which maketh all things?

6And if sense do work: who is a more artful

worker than she of those things that are?

7And if a man love justice: her labours have

great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and

prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are

such things as men can have nothing more prof-

itable in life.

8And if a man desire much knowledge: she

knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to

come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches,

and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth

signs and wonders before they be done, and the

events of times and ages.

9I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to

live with me: knowing that she will communicate

to me of her good things, and will be a comfort

in my cares and grief.

10For her sake I shall have glory among the

multitude, and honour with the ancients, though

I be young:

11And I shall be found of a quick conceit in

judgment, and shall be admired in the sight ofBook of Wisdom 813

the mighty, and the faces of princes shall wonder

at me.

12They shall wait for me when I hold my

peace, and they shall look upon me when I speak;

and if I talk much, they shall lay their hands on

their mouth.

13Moreover, by the means of her I shall have

immortality: and shall leave behind me an ever-

lasting memory to them that come after me.

14I shall set the people in order: and nations

shall be subject to me.

15Terrible kings hearing, shall be afraid of

me: among the multitude I shall be found good,

and valiant in war.

16When I go into my house, I shall repose

myself with her: for her conversation hath no

bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but

joy and gladness.

17Thinking these things with myself, and

pondering them in my heart, that to be allied

to wisdom is immortality,

18And that there is great delight in her

friendship, and inexhaustible riches in the works

of her hands, and in the exercise of conference

with her, wisdom, and glory in the communica-

tion of her words: I went about seeking, that I

might take her to myself.

19And I was a witty child, and had received

a good soul.

20And whereas I was more good, I came to a

body undeled.

21And as I knew that I could not otherwise

be continent, except God gave it, and this also

was a point of wisdom, to know whose gift it was,

I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said

with my whole heart:Chapter 9

God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast

made all things with thy word,

2And by thy wisdom hast appointed man,

that he should have dominion over the creature

that was made by thee,

3That he should order the world according to

equity and justice, and execute justice with an

upright heart:

4Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne,

and cast me not o from among thy children:

5For I am thy servant, and the son of thy

handmaid, a weak man, and of short time, and

falling short of the understanding of judgment

and laws.

6For if one be perfect among the children of

men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall

be nothing regarded.

7Thou hast chosen me to be king of thy peo-

ple, and a judge of thy sons and daughters:

8And hast commanded me to build a tem-

ple on thy holy mount, and an altar in the city

of thy dwelling place, a resemblance of thy holy

tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the

beginning:

9And thy wisdom with thee, which knoweth

thy works, which then also was present when

thou madest the world, and knew what was

agreeable to thy eyes, and what was right in thy

commandments.

10Send her out of thy holy heaven, and from

the throne of thy majesty, that she may be with

me, and may labour with me, that I may know

what is acceptable with thee:

11For she knoweth and understandeth all

things, and shall lead me soberly in my works,

and shall preserve me by her power.

12So shall my works be acceptable, and I shall

govern thy people justly, and shall be worthy of814 Book of Wisdom

the throne of my father.

13For who among men is he that can know

the counsel of God? or who can think what the

will of God is?

14For the thoughts of mortal men are fearful,

and our counsels uncertain.

15For the corruptible body is a load upon the

soul, and the earthly habitation presseth down

the mind that museth upon many things.

16And hardly do we guess aright at things

that are upon earth: and with labour do we nd

the things that are before us. But the things

that are in heaven, who shall search out?

17And who shall know thy thought, except

thou give wisdom, and send thy holy Spirit from

above:

18And so the ways of them that are upon

earth may be corrected, and men may learn the

things that please thee?

19For by wisdom they were healed, whosoever

have pleased thee, O Lord, from the beginning.

Chapter 10

She preserved him, that was rst formed by God,

the father of the world, when he was created

alone,

2And she brought him out of his sin, and gave

him power to govern all things.

3But when the unjust went away from her in

his anger, he perished by the fury wherewith he

murdered his brother.

4For whose cause, when water destroyed the

earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the

course of the just by contemptible wood.

5Moreover, when the nations had conspired

together to consent to wickedness, she knew the

just, and preserved him without blame to God,

and kept him strong against the compassion forhis son.

6She delivered the just man, who

ed from
the wicked that were perishing, when the re

came down upon Pentapolis:

7Whose land, for a testimony of their wicked-

ness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and

the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a stand-

ing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous

soul.

8For regarding not wisdom, they did not only

slip in this, that they were ignorant of good

things; but they left also unto men a memorial

of their folly, so that in the things in which they

sinned, they could not so much as lie hid.

9But wisdom hath delivered from sorrow

them that attend upon her.

10She conducted the just, when he

ed from

his brother's wrath, through the right ways, and

shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him

the knowledge of the holy things, made him

honourable in his labours, and accomplished his

labours.

11In the deceit of them that overreached him,

she stood by him, and made him honourable.

12She kept him safe from his enemies, and

she defended him from seducers, and gave him

a strong con
ict, that he might overcome, and

know that wisdom is mightier than all.

13She forsook not the just when he was sold,

but delivered him from sinners: she went down

with him into the pit.

14And in bands she left him not, till she

brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and

power against those that oppressed him: and

shewed them to be liars that had accused him,

and gave him everlasting glory.

15She delivered the just people, and blame-

less seed, from the nations that oppressed them.

16She entered into the soul of the servant of

God and stood against dreadful kings in wondersBook of Wisdom 815

and signs.

17And she rendered to the just the wages of

their labours, and conducted them in a wonder-

ful way: and she was to them for a covert by day,

and for the light of stars by night:

18And she brought them through the Red

Sea, and carried them over through a great wa-

ter.

19But their enemies she drowned in the sea,

and from the depth of hell she brought them out.

Therefore the just took the spoils of the wicked.

20And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord,

and they praised with one accord thy victorious

hand.

21For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb,

and made the tongues of infants eloquent.

Chapter 11

She prospered their works in the hands of the

holy prophet.

2They went through wildernesses that were

not inhabited, and in desert places they pitched

their tents.

3They stood against their enemies, and re-

venged themselves of their adversaries.

4They were thirsty, and they called upon

thee, and water was given them out of the high

rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the

hard stone.

5For by what things their enemies were pun-

ished, when their drink failed them, while the

children of Israel abounded therewith, and re-

joiced:

6By the same things they in their need were

beneted.

7For instead of a fountain of an ever running

river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.8And whilst they were diminished for a man-

ifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou

gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:

9Shewing by the thirst that was then, how

thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their ad-

versaries.

10For when they were tried, and chastised

with mercy, they knew how the wicked were

judged with wrath, and tormented.

11For thou didst admonish and try them as

a father: but the others, as a severe king, thou

didst examine and condemn.

12For whether absent or present, they were

tormented alike.

13For a double aiction came upon them,

and a groaning for the remembrance of things

past.

14For when they heard that by their punish-

ments the others were beneted, they remem-

bered the Lord, wondering at the end of what

was come to pass.

15For whom they scorned before, when he

was thrown out at the time of his being wickedly

exposed to perish, him they admired in the end,

when they saw the event: their thirsting being

unlike to that of the just.

16But for the foolish devices of their in-

iqnity, because some being deceived worshipped

dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst

send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for

vengeance:

17That they might know that by what things

a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented.

18For thy almighty hand, which made the

world of matter without form, was not unable to

send upon them a multitude of bears, or erce

lions,

19Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of

rage; either breathing out a ery vapour, or send-

ing forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible816 Book of Wisdom

sparks out of their eyes:

20Whereof not only the hurt might be able

to destroy them, but also the very sight might

kill them through fear.

21Yea, and without these, they might have

been slain with one blast, persecuted by their

own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy

power: but thou hast ordered all things in mea-

sure, and number, and weight.

22For great power always belonged to thee

alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy

arm?

23For the whole world before thee is as the

least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the

morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth.

24But thou hast mercy upon all, because

thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins

of men for the sake of repentance.

25For thou lovest all things that are, and hat-

est none of the things which thou hast made: for

thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating

it.

26And how could any thing endure, if thou

wouldst not? or be preserved, if not called by

thee?

27But thou sparest all: because they are

thine, O Lord, who lovest souls.

Chapter 12

O how good and sweet is thy Spirit, O Lord, in

all things!

2And therefore thou chastisest them that err,

by little and little: and admonishest them, and

speakest to them, concerning the things wherein

they oend: that leaving their wickedness, they

may believe in thee, O Lord.

3For those ancient inhabitants of thy holy

land, whom thou didst abhor,4Because they did works hateful to thee by

their sorceries, and wicked sacrices,

5And those merciless murderers of their own

children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devour-

ers of blood from the midst of thy consecration,

6And those parents sacricing with their own

hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy

by the hands of our parents,

7That the land which of all is most dear to

thee, might receive a worthy colony of the chil-

dren of God.

8Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and

didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to de-

stroy them by little and little.

9Not that thou wast unable to bring the

wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts,

or with one rough word to destroy them at once:

10But executing thy judgments by degrees,

thou gavest them place of repentance, not be-

ing ignorant that they were a wicked generation,

and their malice natural, and that their thought

could never be changed.

11For it was a cursed seed from the beginning:

neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon

to their sins.

12For who shall say to thee: What hast thou

done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or

who shall come before thee to be a revenger of

wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the

nations perish, which thou hast made ?

13For there is no other God but thou, who

hast care of all, that thou shouldst shew that

thou dost not give judgment unjustly.

14Neither shall king, nor tyrant, in thy sight

inquire about them whom thou hast destroyed.

15For so much then, as thou art just, thou or-

derest all things justly: thinking it not agreeable

to the power, to condemn him who deserveth not

to be punished.

16For thy power is the beginning of justice:Book of Wisdom 817

and because thou art Lord of all, thou makest

thyself gracious to all.

17For thou shewest thy power, when men will

not believe thee to be absolute in power, and

thou convincest the boldness of them that know

thee not.

18But thou being master of power, judgest

with tranquillity, and with great favour disposest

of us: for thy power is at hand when thou wilt.

19But thou hast taught thy people by such

works, that they must be just and humane, and

hast made thy children to be of a good hope:

because in judging, thou givest place for repen-

tance for sins.

20For if thou didst punish the enemies of

thy servants, and that deserved to die, with

so great deliberation, giving them time and

place whereby they might be changed from their

wickedness:

21With what circumspection hast thou

judged thy own children, to whose parents

thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good

promises?

22Therefore whereas thou chastisest us, thou

scourgest our enemies very many ways, to the

end that when we judge we may think on thy

goodness: and when we are judged, we may hope

for thy mercy.

23Wherefore thou hast also greatly tor-

mented them, who, in their life, have lived fool-

ishly and unjustly, by the same things which they

worshipped.

24For they went astray for a long time in

the ways of error, holding those things for gods

which are the most worthless among beasts, liv-

ing after the manner of children without under-

standing.

25Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon

them, as senseless children, to mock them.

26But they that were not amended by mock-eries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy

judgment of God.

27For seeing, with indignation, that they suf-

fered by those very things which they took for

gods, when they were destroyed by the same,

they acknowledged him the true God, whom in

time past they denied that they knew: for which

cause the end also of their condemnation came

upon them.

Chapter 13

But all men are vain, in whom there is not the

knowledge of God: and who by these good things

that are seen, could not understand him that is,

neither by attending to the works have acknowl-

edged who was the workman:

2But have imagined either the re, or the

wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars,

or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be

the gods that rule the world.

3With whose beauty, if they, being delighted,

took them to be gods: let them know how much

the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for

the rst author of beauty made all those things.

4Or if they admired their power, and their

eects, let them understand by them, that he

that made them, is mightier than they:

5For by the greatness of the beauty, and of

the creature, the creator of them may be seen,

so as to be known thereby.

6But yet as to these they are less to be

blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and

desirous to nd him.

7For being conversant among his works, they

search: and they are persuaded that the things

are good which are seen.

8But then again they are not to be pardoned.

9For if they were able to know so much as to818 Book of Wisdom

make a judgment of the world: how did they not

more easily nd out the Lord thereof?

11Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down

a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skil-

fully taken o all the bark thereof, and with his

art, diligently formeth a vessel protable for the

common uses of life,

12And useth the chips of his work to dress

his meat:

13And taking what was left thereof, which is

good for nothing, being a crooked piece of wood,

and full of knots, carveth it diligently when he

hath nothing else to do, and by the skill of his

art fashioneth it, and maketh it like the image

of a man:

14Or the resemblance of some beast, laying

it over with vermilion, and painting it red, and

covering every spot that is in it:

15And maketh a convenient dwelling place

for it, and setting it in a wall, and fastening it

with iron,

16Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing

that it is unable to help itself: for it is an image,

and hath need of help.

17And then maketh prayer to it, enquiring

concerning his substance, and his children, or

his marriage. And he is not ashamed to speak

to that which hath no life:

18And for health he maketh supplication to

the weak, and for life prayeth to that which is

dead, and for help calleth upon that which is

unprotable:

19And for a good journey he petitioneth him

that cannot walk: and for getting, and for work-

ing, and for the event of all things he asketh him

that is unable to do any thing.Chapter 14

Again, another designing to sail, and beginning

to make his voyage through the raging waves,

calleth upon a piece of wood more frail than the

wood that carrieth him.

2For this the desire of gain devised, and the

workman built it by his skill.

3But thy providence, O Father, governeth it:

for thou hast made a way even in the sea, and a

most sure path among the waves,

4Shewing that thou art able to save out of all

things, yea, though a man went to sea without

art.

5But that the works of thy wisdom might not

be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even

to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship,

are saved.

6And from the beginning also, when the

proud giants perished, the hope of the world

ee-

ing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand,

left to the world seed of generation.

7For blessed is the wood, by which justice

cometh

8But the idol that is made by hands, is cursed,

as well it, as he that made it: he because he made

it; and it because being frail it is called a god.

9But to God the wicked and his wickedness

are hateful alike.

10For that which is made, together with him

that made it, shall suer torments.

11Therefore there shall be no respect had

even to the idols of the Gentiles: because the

creatures of God are turned to an abomination,

and a temptation to the souls of men, and a snare

to the feet of the unwise.

12For the beginning of fornication is the de-

vising of idols: and the invention of them is the

corruption of life.Book of Wisdom 819

13For neither were they from the beginning,

neither shall they be for ever.

14For by the vanity of men they came into

the world: and therefore they shall be found to

come shortly to an end.

15For a father being aicted with bitter grief,

made to himself the image of his son, who was

quickly taken away: and him who then had died

as a man, he began now to worship as a god,

and appointed him rites and sacrices among his

servants.

16Then, in process of time, wicked custom

prevailing, this error was kept as a law, and stat-

ues were worshipped by the commandment of

tyrants.

17And those whom men could not honour

in presence, because they dwelt far o, they

brought their resemblance from afar, and made

an express image of the king, whom they had

a mind to honour: that by this their diligence,

they might honour as present, him that was ab-

sent.

18And to the worshipping of these, the sin-

gular diligence also of the articer helped to set

forward the ignorant.

19For he being willing to please him that em-

ployed him, laboured with all his art to make the

resemblance in the best manner.

20And the multitude of men, carried away by

the beauty of the work, took him now for a god,

that little before was but honoured as a man.

21And this was the occasion of deceiving hu-

man life: for men serving either their aection,

or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to

stones and wood.

22And it was not enough for them to err

about the knowledge of God, but whereas they

lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so

many and so great evils peace.

23For either they sacrice their own children,or use hidden sacrices, or keep watches full of

madness,

24So that now they neither keep life, nor mar-

riage undeled, but one killeth another through

envy, or grieveth him by adultery:

25And all things are mingled together, blood,

murder, theft, and dissimulation, corruption and

unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting

of the good,

26Forgetfulness of God, deling of souls,

changing of nature, disorder in marriage, and the

irregularity of adultery and uncleanness.

27For the worship of abominable idols is the

cause, and the beginning and end of all evil.

28For either they are mad when they are

merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live un-

justly, or easily forswear themselves.

29For whilst they trust in idols, which are

without life, though they swear amiss, they look

not to be hurt.

30But for both these things they shall be

justly punished, because they have thought not

well of God, giving heed to idols, and have sworn

unjustly, in guile despising justice.

31For it is not the power of them, by whom

they swear, but the just vengeance of sinners al-

ways punisheth the transgression of the unjust.

Chapter 15

But thou, our God, art gracious and true, pa-

tient, and ordering all things in mercy.

2For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy

greatness: and if we sin not, we know that we

are counted with thee.

3For to know thee is perfect justice: and to

know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of

immortality.
4For the invention of mischievous men hath820 Book of Wisdom

not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture,

a fruitless labour, a graven gure with divers

colours,

5The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust

after it, and he loveth the lifeless gure of a dead

image.

6The lovers of evil things deserve to have no

better things to trust in, both they that make

them, and they that love them, and they that

worship them.

7The potter also tempering soft earth, with

labour fashioneth every vessel for our service,

and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that

are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to

the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels,

the potter is the judge.

8And of the same clay by a vain labour he

maketh a god: he who a little before was made

of earth himself, and a little after returneth to

the same out of which he was taken, when his life,

which was lent him, shall be called for again.

9But his care is, not that he shall labour,

nor that his life is short, but he striveth with

the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeav-

oureth to do like the workers in brass, and coun-

teth it a glory to make vain things.

10For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain

earth and his life more base than clay:

11Forasmuch as he knew not his maker, and

him that inspired into him the soul that worketh,

and that breathed into him a living spirit.

12Yea, and they have counted our life a pas-

time and the business of life to be gain, and that

we must be getting every way, even out of evil.

13For that man knoweth that he oendeth

above all others, who of earthly matter maketh

brittle vessels, and graven gods.

14But all the enemies of thy people that hold

them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy,

and proud beyond measure:15For they have esteemed all the idols of the

heathens for gods, which neither have the use of

eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears

to hear, nor ngers of hands to handle, and as

for their feet, they are slow to walk.

16For man made them: and he that bor-

roweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no

man can make a god like to himself.

17For being mortal himself, he formeth a

dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is bet-

ter than they whom he worshippeth, because he

indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but

they never.

18Moreover, they worship also the vilest crea-

tures: but things without sense, compared to

these, are worse than they.

19Yea, neither by sight can any man see good

of these beasts. But they have

ed from the

praise of God, and from his blessing.

Chapter 16

For these things, and by the like things to these,

they were worthily punished, and were destroyed

by a multitude of beasts.

2Instead of which punishment, dealiug well

with thy people, thou gavest them their desire

of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for

them quails for their meat:

3To the end, that they indeed desiring food,

by means of those things that were shewn and

sent among them, might loath even that which

was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these,

after suering want for a short time, tasted a

new meat.

4For it was requisite that inevitable de-

struction should come upon them that exercised

tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn

how their enemies were destroyed.Book of Wisdom 821

5For when the erce rage of beasts came

upon these, they were destroyed by the bitings

of crooked serpents.

6But thy wrath endured not for ever, but they

were troubled for a short time for their correc-

tion, having a sign of salvation, to put them in

remembrance of the commandment of thy law.

7For he that turned to it, was not healed by

that which he saw, but by thee, the Saviour of

all.

8And in this thou didst shew to our enemies,

that thou art he who deliverest from all evil.

9For the bitings of locusts, and of

ies, killed

them, and there was found no remedy for their

life: because they were worthy to be destroyed

by such things.

10But not even the teeth of venomous ser-

pents overcame thy children: for thy mercy came

and healed them.

11For they were examined for the remem-

brance of thy words, and were quickly healed,

lest falling into deep forgetfulness, they might

not be able to use thy help.

12For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plas-

ter, that healed them, but thy word, O Lord,

which healeth all things.

13For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of

life and death, and leadest down to the gates of

death, and bringest back again:

14A man indeed killeth through malice, and

when the spirit is gone forth, it shall not re-

turn, neither shall he call back the soul that is

received:

15But it is impossible to escape thy hand:

16For the wicked that denied to know thee,

were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being

persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain,

and consumed by re.

17And which was wonderful, in water, which

extinguisheth all things, the re had more force:for the world ghteth for the just.

18For at one time the re was mitigated, that

the beasts which were sent against the wicked

might not be burnt, but that they might see,

and perceive that they were persecuted by the

judgment of God.

19And at another time the re, above its own

power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy

the fruits of a wicked land.

20Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy

people with the food of angels, and gavest them

bread from heaven, prepared without labour;

having in it all that is delicious, and the sweet-

ness of every taste.

21For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness

to thy children, and serving every man's will, it

was turned to what every man liked.

22But snow and ice endured the force of re,

and melted not: that they might know that the

re, burning in the hail, and

ashing in the rain,

destroyed the fruits of the enemies.

23But this same again, that the just might

be nourished, did even forget its own strength.

24For the creature serving thee, the Creator,

is made erce against the unjust for their pun-

ishment: and abateth its strength for the benet

of them that trust in thee.

25Therefore even then it was transformed

into all things, and was obedient to thy grace,

that nourisheth all, according to the will of them

that desired it of thee:

26That thy children, O Lord, whom thou

lovedst, might know that it is not the growing

of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word pre-

serveth them that believe in thee.

27For that which could not be destroyed

by re, being warmed with a little sunbeam,

presently melted away:

28That it might be known to all, that we

ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore822 Book of Wisdom

thee at the dawning of the light.

29For the hope of the unthankful shall melt

away as the winter's ice, and shall run o as

unprotable water.

Chapter 17

For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy

words cannot be expressed: therefore undisci-

plined souls have erred.

2For while the wicked thought to be able to

have dominion over the holy nation, they them-

selves being fettered with the bonds of darkness,

and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay

there exiled from the eternal providence.

3And while they thought to lie hid in their

obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark

veil of forgetfullness, being horribly afraid, and

troubled with exceeding great astonishment.

4For neither did the den that held them, keep

them from fear: for noises coming down trou-

bled them, and sad visions appearing to them,

arighted them.

5And no power of re could give them light,

neither could the bright

ames of the stars en-

lighten that horrible night.

6But there appeared to them a sudden re,

very dreadful: and being struck with the fear of

that face, which was not seen, they thought the

things which they saw to be worse:

7And the delusions of their magic art were

put down, and their boasting of wisdom was re-

proachfully rebuked.

8For they who promised to drive away fears

and troubles from a sick soul, were sick them-

selves of a fear worthy to be laughed at.

9For though no terrible thing disturbed them:

yet being scared with the passing by of beasts,

and hissing of serpents, they died for fear anddenying that they saw the air, which could by

no means be avoided.

10For whereas wickedness is fearful, it

beareth witness of its condemnation: for a

troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous

things.

11For fear is nothing else but a yielding up

of the succours from thought.

12And while there is less expectation from

within, the greater doth it count the ignorance

of that cause which bringeth the torment.

13But they that during that night, in which

nothing could be done, and which came upon

them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the

same sleep,

14Were sometimes molested with the fear of

monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul fail-

ing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was

come upon them.

15Moreover, if any of them had fallen down,

he was kept shut up in prison without irons.

16For if any one were a husbandman, or a

shepherd, or a labourer in the eld, and was

suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from

which he could not

y.

17For they were all bound together with one

chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling

wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the

spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water

running down with violence,

18Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling

down, or the running that could not be seen of

beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of

wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the high-

est mountains: these things made them to swoon

for fear.

19For the whole world was enlightened, with

a clear light, and none were hindered in their

labours.

20But over them only was spread a heavyBook of Wisdom 823

night, an image of that darkness which was to

come upon them. But they were to themselves

more grievous than the darkness.

Chapter 18

But thy saints had a very great light, and they

heard their voice indeed, but did not see their

shape. And because they also did not suer the

same things, they gloried thee:

2And they that before had been wronged,

gave thanks, because they were not hurt now:

and asked this gift, that there might be a dier-

ence.

3Therefore they received a burning pillar of

re for a guide of the way which they knew not,

and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good

entertainment.

4The others indeed were worthy to be de-

prived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who

kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure

light of the law was to be given to the world.

5And whereas they thought to kill the babes

of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved

to reprove them, thou tookest away a multi-

tude of their children, and destroyedst them al-

together in a mighty water.

6For that night was known before by our fa-

thers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they

had trusted to, they might be of better courage.

7So thy people received the salvation of the

just, and destruction of the unjust.

8For as thou didst punish the adversaries so

thou didst also encourage and glorify us.

9For the just children of good men were of-

fering sacrice secretly, and they unanimously

ordered a law of justice: that the just should re-

ceive both good and evil alike, singing now the

praises of the fathers.10But on the other side there sounded an ill

according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable

mourning was heard for the children that were

bewailed.

11And the servant suered the same punish-

ment as the master, and a common man suered

in like manner as the king.

12So all alike had innumerable dead, with one

kind of death. Neither were the living sucient

to bury them: for in one moment the noblest

ospring of them was destroyed.

13For whereas they would not believe any

thing before by reason of the enchantments, then

rst upon the destruction of the rstborn, they

acknowledged the people to be of God.

14For while all things were in quiet silence,

and the night was in the midst of her course,

15Thy Almighty word leaped down from

heaven from thy royal throne, as a erce con-

queror into the midst of the land of destruction,

16With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned

commandment, and he stood and lled all things

with death, and standing on the earth, reached

even to heaven.

17Then suddenly visions of evil dreams trou-

bled them, and fears unlooked for came upon

them.

18And one thrown here, another there, half

dead, shewed the cause of his death.

19For the visions that troubled them fore-

shewed these things, lest they should perish, and

not know why they suered these evils.

20But the just also were afterwards touched

by an assault of death, and there was a distur-

bance of the multitude in the wilderness: but thy

wrath did not long continue;

21For a blameless man made haste to pry

for the people, bringing forth the shield of his

ministry, prayer, and by incense making suppli-

cation, withstood the wrath, and put an end to824 Book of Wisdom

the calamity, shewing that he was thy servant.

22And he overcame the disturbance, not by

strength of body nor with force of arms, but with

a word he subdued him that punished them, al-

leging the oath and covenant made with the fa-

thers.

23For when they were now fallen down dead

by heaps one upon another, he stood between

and stayed the assault, and cut o the way to

the living.

24For in the priestly robe which he wore, was

the whole world: and in the four rows of the

stones, the glory of the fathers was graven, and

thy majesty was written upon the diadem of his

head.

26And to these the destroyer gave place, and

was afraid of them: for the proof only of wrath

was enough.

Chapter 19

But as to the wicked, even to the end there came

upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew

before also what they would do:

2For when they had given them leave to de-

part and had sent them away with great care,

they repented and pursued after them.

3For whilst they were yet mourning, and

lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took

up another foolish device: and pursued them as

fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:

4For a necessity, of which they were worthy,

brought them to this end: and they lost the re-

membrance of those things which had happened,

that their punishment might ll up what was

wanting to their torments:

5And that thy people might wonderfully pass

through, but they might nd a new death.

6For every creature, according to its kind wasfashioned again as from the beginning, obeying

thy commandments, that thy children might be

kept without hurt.

7For a cloud overshadowed their camps and

where water was before, dry land appeared, and

in the Red Sea a way without hindrance, and out

of the great deep a springing eld:

8Through which all the nation passed which

was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles

and wonders.

9For they fed on their food like horses, and

they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord,

who hadst delivered them.

10For they were yet mindful of those things

which had been done in the time of their sojourn-

ing, how the ground brought forth

ies instead

of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude

of frogs instead of shes.

11And at length they saw a new generation

of birds, when being led by their appetite, they

asked for delicate meats.

12For to satisfy their desire, the quail came

up to them from the sea: and punishments came

upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by

the force of thunders: for they suered justly

according to their own wickedness.

13For they exercised a more detestable in-

hospitality than any: others indeed received not

strangers unknown to them, but these brought

their guests into bondage that had deserved well

of them.

14And not only so, but in another respect also

they were worse: for the others against their will

received the strangers.

15But these grievously aicted them whom

they had received with joy, and who lived under

the same laws.

16But they were struck with blindness: as

those others were at the doors of the just man,

when they were covered with sudden darkness,Book of Wisdom 825

and every one sought the passage of his own

door.

17For while the elements are changed in

themselves, as in an instrument the sound of

the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound:

which may clearly be perceived by the very sight.

18For the things of the land were turned into

things of the water: and the things that before

swam in the water passed upon the land.

19The re had power in water above its own

virtue, and the water forgot its quenching na-

ture.

20On the other side, the

ames wasted not

the

esh of corruptible animals walking therein,

neither did they melt that good food, which was

apt to melt as ice. For in all things thou didst

magnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour

them, and didst not despise them, but didst as-

sist them at all times, and in every place.Ecclesiasticus

Chapter 1

All wisdom is from the Lord God, and hath been

always with him, and is before all time.

2Who hath numbered the sand of the sea, and

the drops of rain, and the days of the world?

Who hath measured the height of heaven, and

the breadth of the earth, and the depth of the

abyss?

3Who hath searched out the wisdom of God

that goeth before all things?

4Wisdom hath been created before all things,

and the understanding of prudence from ever-

lasting.

5The word of God on high is the fountain of

wisdom, and her ways are everlasting command-

ments.

6To whom hath the root of wisdom been re-

vealed, and who hath known her wise counsels?

7To whom hath the discipline of wisdom been

revealed and made manifest? and who hath un-

derstood the multiplicity of her steps?

8There is one most high Creator Almighty,

and a powerful king, and greatly to be feared,

who sitteth upon his throne, and is the God of

dominion.

9He created her in the Holy Ghost, and saw

her, and numbered her, and measured her.

10And he poured her out upon all his works,

and upon all

esh according to his gift, and hath

given her to them that love him.

11The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory,and gladness, and a crown of joy.

12The fear of the Lord shall delight the heart,

and shall give joy, and gladness, and length of

days.

13With him that feareth the Lord, it shall go

well in the latter end, and in the day of his death

he shall be blessed.

14The love of God is honourable wisdom.

15And they to whom she shall shew herself

love her by the sight, and by the knowledge of

her great works.

16The fear of the Lord is the beginning of

wisdom, and was created with the faithful in

the womb, it walketh with chosen women, and

is known with the just and faithful.

17The fear of the Lord is the religiousness of

knowledge.

18Religiousness shall keep and justify the

heart, it shall give joy and gladness.

19It shall go well with him that feareth the

Lord, and in the days of his end he shall be

blessed.

20To fear God is the fulness of wisdom, and

fulness is from the fruits thereof.

21She shall ll all her house with her increase,

and the storehouses with her treasures.

22The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom,

lling up peace and the fruit of salvation:

23And it hath seen, and numbered her: but

both are the gifts of God.

24Wisdom shall distribute knowledge, and

understanding of prudence: and exalteth theEcclesiasticus 827

glory of them that hold her.

25The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord: and

the branches thereof are long-lived.

26In the treasures of wisdom is understand-

ing, and religiousness of knowledge: but to sin-

ners wisdom is an abomination.

27The fear of the Lord driveth out sin:

28For he that is without fear, cannot be jus-

tied: for the wrath of his high spirits is his ruin.

29A patient man shall bear for a time, and

afterwards joy shall be restored to him.

30A good understanding will hide his words

for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his

wisdom.

31In the treasures of wisdom is the signica-

tion of discipline:

32But the worship of God is an abomination

to a sinner.

33Son, if thou desire wisdom, keep justice,

and God will give her to thee.

34For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and

discipline: and that which is agreeable to him,

35Is faith, and meekness: and he will ll up

his treasures.

36Be not incredulous to the fear of the Lord:

and come not to him with a double heart.

37Be not a hypocrite in the sight of men, and

let not thy lips be a stumblingblock to thee.

38Watch over them, lest thou fall, and bring

dishonour upon thy soul,

39And God discover thy secrets, and cast thee

down in the midst of the congregation.

40Because thou camest to the Lord wickedly,

and thy heart is full of guile and deceit.

Chapter 2

Son, when thou comest to the service of God,

stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soulfor temptation.

2Humble thy heart, and endure: incline thy

ear, and receive the words of understanding: and

make not haste in the time of clouds.

3Wait on God with patience: join thyself to

God, and endure, that thy life may be increased

in the latter end.

4Take all that shall be brought upon thee:

and in thy sorrow endure, and in thy humiliation

keep patience.
5For gold and silver are tried in the re, but

acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.

6Believe God, and he will recover thee: and

direct thy way, and trust in him. Keep his fear,

and grow old therein.

7Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy:

and go not aside from him lest ye fall.

8Ye that fear the Lord, believe him: and your

reward shall not be made void.

9Ye that fear the Lord hope in him, and

mercy shall come to you for your delight.

10Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and your

hearts shall be enlightened.

11My children behold the generations of men:

and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord,

and hath been confounded.

12For who hath continued in his command-

ment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath

called upon him, and he despised him?

13For God is compassionate and merciful,

and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation:

and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth.

14Woe to them that are of a double heart and

to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and

to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.

15Woe to them that are fainthearted, who

believe not God: and therefore they shall not be

protected by him.

16Woe to them that have lost patience, and

that have forsaken the right ways, and have gone828 Ecclesiasticus

aside into crooked ways.

17And what will they do, when the Lord shall

begin to examine?

18They that fear the Lord, will not be incred-

ulous to his word: and they that love him, will

keep his way.

19They that fear the Lord, will seek after the

things that are well pleasing to him: and they

that love him, shall be lled with his law.

20They that fear the Lord, will prepare their

hearts, and in his sight will sanctify their souls,

21They that fear the Lord, keep his com-

mandments, and will have patience even until

his visitation,

22Saying: If we do not penance, we shall

fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the

hands of men.

23For according to his greatness, so also is

his mercy with him.

Chapter 3

The sons of wisdom are the church of the just:

and their generation, obedience and love.

2Children, hear the judgment of your father,

and so do that you may be saved.

3For God hath made the father honourable

to the children: and seeking the judgment of the

mothers, hath conrmed it upon the children.

4He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for

his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from

them, and shall be heard in the prayer of days.

5And he that honoureth his mother is as one

that layeth up a treasure.

6He that honoureth his father shall have joy

in his own children, and in the day of his prayer

he shall be heard.

7He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a

long life: and he that obeyeth the father, shallbe a comfort to his mother.

8He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his par-

ents, and will serve them as his masters that

brought him into the world.

9Honour thy father, in work and word, and

all patience,

10That a blessing may come upon thee from

him, and his blessing may remain in the latter

end.

11The father's blessing establisheth the

houses of the children: but the mother's curse

rooteth up the foundation.

12Glory not in the dishonour of thy father:

for his shame is no glory to thee.

13For the glory of a man is from the honour

of his father, and a father without honour is the

disgrace of the son.

14Son, support the old age of thy father, and

grieve him not in his life;

15And if his understanding fail, have patience

with him, and despise him not when thou art in

thy strength: for the relieving of the father shall

not be forgotten.

16For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin

of thy mother.

17And in justice thou shalt be built up, and

in the day of aiction thou shalt be remembered:

and thy sins shall melt away as the ice in the fair

warm weather.

18Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh

his father: and he is cursed of God that angereth

his mother.

19My son, do thy works in meekness, and

thou shalt be beloved above the glory of men.

20The greater thou art, the more humble thy-

self in all things, and thou shalt nd grace before

God:

21For great is the power of God alone, and

he is honoured by the humble.Ecclesiasticus 829

22Seek not the things that are too high for

thee, and search not into things above thy abil-

ity: but the things that God hath commanded

thee, think on them always, and in many of his

works be not curious.

23For it is not necessary for thee to see with

thy eyes those things that are hid.

24In unnecessary matters be not over curi-

ous, and in many of his works thou shalt not be

inquisitive.

25For many things are shewn to thee above

the understanding of men.

26And the suspicion of them hath deceived

many, and hath detained their minds in vanity.

27A hard heart shall fear evil at the last: and

he that loveth danger shall perish in it.

28A heart that goeth two ways shall not have

success, and the perverse of heart shall be scan-

dalized therein.

29A wicked heart shall be laden with sorrows,

and the sinner will add sin to sin.

30The congregation of the proud shall not

be healed: for the plant of wickedness shall take

root in them, and it shall not be perceived.

31The heart of the wise is understood in wis-

dom, and a good ear will hear wisdom with all

desire.

32A wise heart, and which hath understand-

ing, will abstain from sins, and in the works of

justice shall have success.

33Water quencheth a

aming re, and alms

resisteth sins:

34And God provideth for him that sheweth

favour: he remembereth him afterwards, and in

the time of his fall he shall nd a sure stay.Chapter 4

Son, defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not

away thy eyes from the poor.

2Despise not the hungry soul: and provoke

not the poor in his want.

3Aict not the heart of the needy, and defer

not to gibe to him that is in distress.

4Reject not the petition of the aicted: and

turn not away thy face from the needy.

5Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for

fear of anger: and leave not to them that ask of

thee to curse thee behind thy back.

6For the prayer of him that curseth thee in

the bitterness of his soul, shall be heard, for he

that made him will hear him.

7Make thyself aable to the congregation of

the poor, and humble thy soul to the ancient,

and bow thy head to a great man.

8Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and

pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable

words with mildness.

9Deliver him that suereth wrong out of the

hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in

thy soul.

10In judging be merciful to the fatherless as

a father, and as a husband to their mother.

11And thou shalt be as the obedient son of

the most High, and he will have mercy on thee

more than a mother.

12Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and

protecteth them that seek after her, and will go

before them in the way of justice.

13And he that loveth her, loveth life: and

they that watch for her, shall embrace her sweet-

ness.

14They that hold her fast, shall inherit life:

and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a

blessing.830 Ecclesiasticus

15They that serve her, shall be servants to

the holy one: and God loveth them that love

her.

16He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge na-

tions: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain

secure.

17If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and

his generation shall be in assurance.

18For she walketh with him in temptation,

and at the rst she chooseth him.

19She will bring upon him fear and dread and

trial: and she will scourge him with the aiction

of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and

trust his soul.

20Then she will strengthen him, and make a

straight way to him, and give him joy,

21And will disclose her secrets to him, and

will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and

understanding of justice.

22But if he go astray, she will forsake him,

and deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

23Son, observe the time, and

y from evil.

24For thy soul be not ashamed to say the

truth.

25For there is a shame that bringeth sin, and

there is a shame that bringeth glory and grace.

26Accept no person against thy own person,

nor against thy soul a lie.

27Reverence not thy neighbour in his fall:

28And refrain not to speak in the time of

salvation. Hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.

29For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and

understanding, and knowledge, and learning by

the word of the wise, and steadfastness in the

works of justice.

30In nowise speak against the truth, but be

ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance.

31Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but

submit not thyself to every man for sin.32Resist not against the face of the mighty,

and do not strive against the stream of the river.

33Strive for justice for thy soul, and even unto

death ght for justice, and God will overthrow

thy enemies for thee.

34Be not hasty in thy tongue: and slack and

remiss in thy works.

35Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying

them of thy household, and oppressing them that

are under thee.

36Let not thy hand be stretched out to re-

ceive, and shut when thou shouldst give.

Chapter 5

Set not thy heart upon unjust possessions, and

say not: I have enough to live on: for it shall

be of no service in the time of vengeance and

darkness.
2Follow not in thy strength the desires of thy

heart:

3And say not: How mighty am I? and who

shall bring me under for my deeds? for God will

surely take revenge.

4Say not: I have sinned, and what harm hath

befallen me? for the most High is a patient re-

warder.

5Be not without fear about sin forgiven, and

add not sin upon sin:

6And say not: The mercy of the Lord is great,

he will have mercy on the multitude of my sins.

7For mercy and wrath quickly come from him,

and his wrath looketh upon sinners.

8Delay not to be converted to the Lord, and

defer it not from day to day.

9For his wrath shall come on a sudden, and

in the time of vengeance he will destroy thee.

10Be not anxious for goods unjustly got-

ten: for they shall not prot thee in the dayEcclesiasticus 831

of calamity and revenge.

11Winnow not with every wind, and go not

into every way: for so is every sinner proved by

a double tongue.

12Be steadfast in the way of the Lord, and

in the truth of thy judgment, and in knowledge,

and let the word of peace and justice keep with

thee.

13Be meek to hear the word, that thou mayst

understand: and return a true answer with wis-

dom.

14If thou have understanding, answer thy

neighbour: but if not, let thy hand be upon

thy mouth, lest thou be surprised in an unskilful

word, and be confounded.

15Honour and glory is in the word of the wise,

but the tongue of the fool is his ruin.

16Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken

in thy tongue, and confounded.

17For confusion and repentance is upon a

thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the dou-

ble tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and

enmity, and reproach.

18Justify alike the small and the great.

Chapter 6

Instead of a friend become not an enemy to thy

neighbour: for an evil man shall inherit reproach

and shame, so shall every sinner that is envious

and double tongued.

2Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul

like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,

3And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy

fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree in the wilder-

ness.

4For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath

it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies,

and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked.5A sweet word multiplieth friends, and ap-

peaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good

man aboundeth.

6Be in peace with many, but let one of a

thousand be thy counsellor.

7If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before

thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.

8For there is a friend for his own occasion,

and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

9And there is a friend that turneth to enmity;

and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and

strife and reproaches.

10And there is a friend a companion at the

table, and he will not abide in the day of distress.

11A friend if he continue steadfast, shall be

to thee as thyself, and shall act with condence

among them of thy household.

12If he humble himself before thee, and hide

himself from thy face, thou shalt have unanimous

friendship for good.

13Separate thyself from thy enemies, and

take heed of thy friends.

14A faithful friend is a strong defence: and

he that hath found him, hath found a treasure.

15Nothing can be compared to a faithful

friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able

to countervail the goodness of his delity.

16A faithful friend is the medicine of life and

immortality: and they that fear the Lord, shall

nd him.

17He that feareth God, shall likewise have

good friendship: because according to him shall

his friend be.

18My son, from thy youth up receive instruc-

tion, and even to thy grey hairs thou shalt nd

wisdom.

19Come to her as one that plougheth, and

soweth, and wait for her good fruits:

20For in working about her thou shalt labour

a little, and shalt quickly eat of her fruits.832 Ecclesiasticus

21How very unpleasant is wisdom to the un-

learned, and the unwise will not continue with

her.

22She shall be to them as a mighty stone of

trial, and they will cast her from them before it

be long.

23For the wisdom of doctrine is according to

her name, and she is not manifest unto many, but

with them to whom she is known, she continueth

even to the sight of God.

24Give ear, my son, and take wise counsel,

and cast not away my advice.

25Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck

into her chains:

26Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and

be not grieved with her bands.

27Come to her with all thy mind, and keep

her ways with all thy power.

28Search for her, and she shall be made

known to thee, and when thou hast gotten her,

let her not go:

29For in the latter end thou shalt nd rest in

her, and she shall be turned to thy joy.

30Then shall her fetters be a strong defence

for thee, and a rm foundation, and her chain a

robe of glory:

31For in her is the beauty of life, and her

bands are a healthful binding.

32Thou shalt put her on as a robe of glory,

and thou shalt set her upon thee as a crown of

joy.

33My son, if thou wilt attend to me, thou

shalt learn: and if thou wilt apply thy mind,

thou shalt be wise.

34If thou wilt incline thy ear, thou shalt re-

ceive instruction: and if thou love to hear, thou

shalt be wise.

35Stand in the multitude of ancients that are

wise, and join thyself from thy heart to their

wisdom, that thou mayst hear every discourse ofGod, and the sayings of praise may not escape

thee.

36And if thou see a man of understanding,

go to him early in the morning, and let thy foot

wear the steps of his doors.

37Let thy thoughts be upon the precepts of

God, and meditate continually on his command-

ments: and he will give thee a heart, and the

desire of wisdom shall be given to thee.

Chapter 7

Do no evils, and no evils shall lay hold of thee.

2Depart from the unjust, and evils shall de-

part from thee.

3My son, sow not evils in the furrows of in-

justice, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold.

4Seek not of the Lord a preeminence, nor of

the king the seat of honour.

5Justify not thyself before God, for he

knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise

before the king.

6Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou

have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest

thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a

stumblingblock for thy integrity.

7Oend not against the multitude of a city,

neither cast thyself in upon the people,

8Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou

shalt not be unpunished.

9Be not fainthearted in thy mind:

10Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.

11Say not: God will have respect to the mul-

titude of my gifts, and when I oer to the most

high God, he will accept my oerings.

12Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness

of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and

exalteth, God who seeth all.Ecclesiasticus 833

13Devise not a lie against thy brother: nei-

ther do the like against thy friend.

14Be not willing to make any manner of lie:

for the custom thereof is not good.

15Be not full of words in a multitude of an-

cients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.

16Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry

ordained by the most High.

17Number not thyself among the multitude

of the disorderly.

18Remember wrath, for it will not tarry long.

19Humble thy spirit very much: for the

vengeance on the

esh of the ungodly is re and

worms.

20Do not transgress against thy friend defer-

ring money, nor despise thy dear brother for the

sake of gold.

21Depart not from a wise and good wife,

whom thou hast gotten in the fear of the Lord:

for the grace of her modesty is above gold.

22Hurt not the servant that worketh faith-

fully, nor the hired man that giveth thee his life.

23Let a wise servant be dear to thee as thy

own soul, defraud him not of liberty, nor leave

him needy.

24Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and

if they be for thy prot, keep them with thee.

25Hast thou children? instruct them, and

bow down their neck from their childhood.

26Hast thou daughters? have a care of their

body, and shew not thy countenance gay towards

them.

27Marry thy daughter well, and thou shalt

do a great work, and give her to a wise man.

28If thou hast a wife according to thy soul,

cast her not o: and to her that is hateful, trust

not thyself. With thy whole heart,

29Honour thy father, and forget not the

groanings of thy mother:30Remember that thou hadst not been born

but through them: and make a return to them

as they have done for thee.

31With all thy soul fear the Lord, and rever-

ence his priests.

32With all thy strength love him that made

thee: and forsake not his ministers.

33Honour God with all thy soul and give hon-

our to the priests, and purify thyself with thy

arms.

34Give them their portion, as it is com-

manded thee, of the rstfruits and of purica-

tions: and for thy negligences purify thyself with

a few.

35Oer to the Lord the gift of thy shoulders,

and the sacrice of sanctication, and the rst-

fruits of the holy things:

36And stretch out thy hand to the poor, that

thy expiation and thy blessing may be perfected.

37A gift hath grace in the sight of all the

living, and restrain not grace from the dead.

38Be not wanting in comforting them that

weep, and walk with them that mourn.

39Be not slow to visit the sick: for by these

things thou shalt be conrmed in love.

40In all thy works remember thy last end,

and thou shalt never sin.

Chapter 8

Strive not with a powerful man, lest thou fall

into his hands.

2Contend not with a rich man, lest he bring

an action against thee.

3For gold and silver hath destroyed many,

and hath reached even to the heart of kings, and

perverted them.

4Strive not with a man that is full of tongue,

and heap not wood upon his re.834 Ecclesiasticus

5Communicate not with an ignorant man, lest

he speak ill of thy family.

6Despise not a man that turneth away from

sin, nor reproach him therewith: remember that

we are all worthy of reproof.

7Despise not a man in his old age; for we also

shall become old.

8Rejoice not at the death of thy enemy; know-

ing that we all die, and are not willing that others

should rejoice at our death.

9Despise not the discourse of them that are

ancient and wise, but acquaint thyself with their

proverbs.
10For of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and

instruction of understanding, and to serve great

men without blame.

11Let not the discourse of the ancients escape

thee, for they have learned of their fathers:

12For of them thou shalt learn understand-

ing, and to give an answer in time of need.

13Kindle not the coals of sinners by rebuking

them, lest thou be burnt with the

ame of the

re of their sins.

14Stand not against the face of an injurious

person, lest he sit as a spy to entrap thee in thy

words.

15Lend not to a man that is mightier than

thyself: and if thou lendest, count it as lost.

16Be not surety above thy power: and if thou

be surety, think as if thou wert to pay it.

17Judge not against a judge: for he judgeth

according to that which is just.

18Go not on the way with a bold man, lest

he burden thee with his evils: for he goeth ac-

cording to his own will, and thou shalt perish

together with his folly.

19Quarrel not with a passionate man, and go

not into the desert with a bold man: for blood

is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no

help he will overthrow thee.20Advise not with fools, for they cannot love

but such things as please them.

21Before a stranger do no matter of counsel:

for thou knowest not what he will bring forth.

22Open not thy heart to every man: lest he

repay thee with an evil turn, and speak reproach-

fully to thee.

Chapter 9

Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, lest

she shew in thy regard the malice of a wicked

lesson.

2Give not the power of thy soul to a woman,

lest she enter upon thy strength, and thou be

confounded.

3Look not upon a woman that hath a mind

for many: lest thou fall into her snares.

4Use not much the company of her that is a

dancer, and hearken not to her, lest thou perish

by the force of her charms.

5Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her beauty be

a stumblingblock to thee.

6Give not thy soul to harlots in any point:

lest thou destroy thyself and thy inheritance.

7Look not round about thee in the ways of

the city, nor wander up and down in the streets

thereof.

8Turn away thy face from a woman dressed

up, and gaze not about upon another's beauty.

9For many have perished by the beauty of a

woman, and hereby lust is enkindled as a re.

10Every woman that is a harlot, shall be trod-

den upon as dung in the way.

11Many by admiring the beauty of another

man's wife, have become reprobate, for her con-

versation burneth as re.

12Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor

repose upon the bed with her:Ecclesiasticus 835

13And strive not with her over wine, lest thy

heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou

fall into destruction.

14Forsake not an old friend, for the new will

not be like to him.

15A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow

old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

16Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner:

for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be.

17Be not pleased with the wrong done by

the unjust, knowing that even to hell the wicked

shall not please.

18Keep thee far from the man that hath

power to kill, so thou shalt not suspect the fear

of death.

19And if thou come to him, commit no fault,

lest he take away thy life.

20Know it to be a communication with death:

for thou art going in the midst of snares, and

walking upon the arms of them that are grieved.

21According to thy power beware of thy

neighbour, and treat with the wise and prudent.

22Let just men be thy guests, and let thy

glory be in the fear of God.

23And let the thought of God be in thy mind,

and all thy discourse on the commandments of

the Highest.

24Works shall be praised for the hand of the

articers, and the prince of the people for the

wisdom of his speech, but the word of the an-

cients for the sense.

25A man full of tongue is terrible in his city,

and he that is rash in his word shall be hateful.

Chapter 10

A wise judge shall judge his people, and the gov-

ernment of a prudent man shall be steady.2As the judge of the people is himself, so also

are his ministers: and what manner of man the

ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell

therein.

3An unwise king shall be the ruin of his peo-

ple: and cities shall be inhabited through the

prudence of the rulers.

4The power of the earth is in the hand of

God, and in his time he will raise up a protable

ruler over it.

5The prosperity of man is in the hand of God,

and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his

honour.

6Remember not any injury done thee by thy

neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of in-

jury.

7Pride is hateful before God and men: and

all iniquity of nations is execrable.

8A kingdom is translated from one people to

another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and

injuries, and divers deceits.

9But nothing is more wicked than the cov-

etous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud?

10There is not a more wicked thing than to

love money: for such a one setteth even his own

soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast

away his bowels.

11All power is of short life. A long sickness

is troublesome to the physician.

12The physician cutteth o a short sickness:

so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall

die.

13For when a man shall die, he shall inherit

serpents, and beasts, and worms.

14The beginning of the pride of man, is to

fall o from God:

15Because his heart is departed from him

that made him: for pride is the beginning of

all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be lled with

maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.836 Ecclesiasticus

16Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the as-

semblies of the wicked, and hath utterly de-

stroyed them.

17God hath overturned the thrones of proud

princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.

18God hath made the roots of proud nations

to wither, and hath planted the humble of these

nations.

19The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the

Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the

foundation.

20He hath made some of them to wither away,

and hath destroyed them, and hath made the

memory of them to cease from the earth.

21God hath abolished the memory of the

proud, and hath preserved the memory of them

that are humble in mind.

22Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for

the race of women.

23That seed of men shall be honoured, which

feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured,

which transgresseth the commandments of the

Lord.

24In the midst of brethren their chief is hon-

ourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in

his eyes.

25The fear of God is the glory of the rich,

and of the honourable, and of the poor.

26Despise not a just man that is poor, and

do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.

27The great man, and the judge, and the

mighty is in honour: and there is none greater

than he that feareth God.

28They that are free shall serve a servant

that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well

instructed will not murmur when he is reproved;

and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.

29Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and

linger not in the time of distress;30Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth

in all things, than he that boasteth himself and

wanteth bread.

31My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and

give it honour according to its desert.

32Who will justify him that sinneth against

his own soul? and who will honour him that

dishonoureth his own soul?

33The poor man is gloried by his discipline

and fear, and there is a man that is honoured for

his wealth.

34But he that is gloried in poverty, how

much more in wealth? and he that is gloried

in wealth, let him fear poverty.

Chapter 11

The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head,

and shall make him sit in the midst of great men.

2Praise not a man for his beauty, neither de-

spise a man for his look.

3The bee is small among

ying things but her

fruit hath the chiefest sweetness.

4Glory not in apparel at any time, and be not

exalted in the day of thy honour: for the works

of the Highest only are wonderful, and his works

are glorious, and secret, and hidden.

5Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and

he whom no man would think on, hath worn the

crown.

6Many mighty men have been greatly brought

down, and the glorious have been delivered into

the hand of others.

7Before thou inquire, blame no man: and

when thou hast inquired, reprove justly.

8Before thou hear, answer not a word: and

interrupt not others in the midst of their dis-

course.Ecclesiasticus 837

9Strive not in a matter which doth not con-

cern thee, and sit not in judgment with sinners.

10My son, meddle not with many matters:

and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from

sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not over-

take; and if thou run before thou shalt not es-

cape.

11There is an ungodly man that laboureth,

and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so

much the more in want.

12Again, there is an inactive man that wan-

teth help, is very weak in ability, and full of

poverty:

13Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him

for good, and hath lifted him up from his low

estate, and hath exalted his head: and many

have wondered at him, and have gloried God.

14Good things and evil, life and death,

poverty and riches, are from God.

15Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge

of the law are with God. Love and the ways of

good things are with him.

16Error and darkness are created with sin-

ners: and they that glory in evil things, grow

old in evil.

17The gift of God abideth with the just, and

his advancement shall have success for ever.

18There is one that is enriched by living spar-

ingly, and this is the portion of his reward.

19In that he saith: I have found me rest, and

now I will eat of my goods alone:

20And he knoweth not what time shall pass,

and that death approacheth, and that he must

leave all to others, and shall die.

21Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be con-

versant therein, and grow old in the work of thy

commandments.

22Abide not in the works of sinners. But

trust in God, and stay in thy place,23For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden

to make the poor man rich.

24The blessing of God maketh haste to re-

ward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing

beareth fruit.

25Say not: What need I, and what good shall

I have by this?

26Say not: I am sucient for myself: and

what shall I be made worse by this?

27In the day of good things be not unmindful

of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful

of good things:

28For it is easy before God in the day of death

to reward every one according to his ways.

29The aiction of an hour maketh one forget

great delights, and in the end of a man is the

disclosing of his works.

30Praise not any man before death, for a man

is known by his children.

31Bring not every man into thy house: for

many are the snares of the deceitful.

32For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking

breath, and as the partridge is brought into the

cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the

heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on

the fall of his neighbour.

33For he lieth in wait and turneth good into

evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.

34Of one spark cometh a great re, and of

one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man

lieth in wait for blood.

35Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man,

for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee

reproach for ever.

36Receive a stranger in, and he shall over-

throw thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee

out of thy own.838 Ecclesiasticus

Chapter 12

If thou do good, know to whom thou dost it, and

there shall be much thanks for thy good deeds.

2Do good to the just, and thou shalt nd

great recompense: and if not of him, assuredly

of the Lord.

3For there is no good for him that is always

occupied in evil, and that giveth no alms: for the

Highest hateth sinners, and hath mercy on the

penitent.

4Give to the merciful and uphold not the sin-

ner: God will repay vengeance to the ungodly

and to sinners, and keep them against the day of

vengeance.

5Give to the good, and receive not a sinner.

6Do good to the humble, and give not to the

ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not to

him, lest thereby he overmaster thee.

7For thou shalt receive twice as much evil for

all the good thou shalt have done to him: for

the Highest also hateth sinners, and will repay

vengeance to the ungodly.

8A friend shall not be known in prosperity,

and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity.

9In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are

grieved: and a friend is known in his adversity.

10Never trust thy enemy for as a brass pot

his wickedness rusteth:

11Though he humble himself and go crouch-

ing, yet take good heed and beware of him.

12Set him not by thee, neither let him sit

on thy right hand, lest he turn into thy place,

and seek to take thy seat and at the last thou

acknowledge my words, and be pricked with my

sayings.

13Who will pity an enchanter struck by a

serpent, or any that come near wild beasts? so is

it with him that keepeth company with a wicked

man, and is involved in his sins.14For an hour he will abide with thee: but if

thou begin to decline, he will not endure it.

15An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips,

but in his heart he lieth in wait, to throw thee

into a pit.

16An enemy weepeth with his eyes: but if he

nd an opportunity he will not be satised with

blood:

17And if evils come upon thee, thou shalt

nd him there rst.

18An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while

he pretendeth to help thee, will undermine thy

feet.

19He will shake his head, and clap his hands,

and whisper much, and change his countenance.

Chapter 13

He that toucheth pitch, shall be deled with it:

and he that hath fellowship with the proud, shall

put on pride.

2He shall take a burden upon him that hath

fellowship with one more honourable than him-

self. And have no fellowship with one that is

richer than thyself.

3What agreement shall the earthen pot have

with the kettle? for if they knock one against

the other, it shall be broken.

4The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he

will fume: but the poor is wronged and must

hold his peace.

5If thou give, he will make use of thee: and

if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee.

6If thou have any thing, he will live with thee,

and will make thee bare, and he will not be sorry

for thee.

7If he have need of thee he will deceive thee,

and smiling upon thee will put thee in hope; he

will speak thee fair, and will say: What wantestEcclesiasticus 839
thou?

8And he will shame thee by his meats, till

he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at

last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when

he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his

head at thee.

9Humble thyself to God, and wait for his

hands.

10Beware that thou be not deceived into folly,

and be humbled.

11Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being

humbled thou be deceived into folly.

12If thou be invited by one that is mightier,

withdraw thyself: for so he will invite thee the

more.

13Be not troublesome to him, lest thou be

put back: and keep not far from him, lest thou

be forgotten.

14Aect not to speak with him as an equal,

and believe not his many words: for by much

talk he will sift thee, and smiling will examine

thee concerning thy secrets.

15His cruel mind will lay up thy words: and

he will not spare to do thee hurt, and to cast

thee into prison.

16Take heed to thyself, and attend diligently

to what thou hearest: for thou walkest in danger

of thy ruin.

17When thou hearest those things, see as it

were in sleep, and thou shalt awake.

18Love God all thy life, and call upon him

for thy salvation.

19Every beast loveth its like: so also every

man him that is nearest to himself.

20All

esh shall consort with the like to itself,

and every man shall associate himself to his like.

21If the wolf shall at any time have fellowship

with the lamb, so the sinner with the just.

22What fellowship hath a holy man with a

dog, or what part hath the rich with the poor?23The wild ass is the lion's prey in the desert:

so also the poor are devoured by the rich.

24And as humility is an abomination to the

proud: so also the rich man abhorreth the poor.

25When a rich man is shaken, he is kept up by

his friends: but when a poor man is fallen down,

he is thrust away even by his acquaintance.

26When a rich man hath been deceived,

he hath many helpers: he hath spoken proud

things, and they have justied him.

27The poor man was deceived, and he is re-

buked also: he hath spoken wisely, and could

have no place.

28The rich man spoke, and all held their

peace, and what he said they extol even to the

clouds.

29The poor man spoke, and they say: Who

is this? and if he stumble, they will overthrow

him.

30Riches are good to him that hath no sin in

his conscience: and poverty is very wicked in the

mouth of the ungodly.

31The heart of a man changeth his counte-

nance, either for good, or for evil.

32The token of a good heart, and a good

countenance thou shalt hardly nd, and with

labour.

Chapter 14

Blessed is the man that hath not slipped by a

word out of his mouth, and is not pricked with

the remorse of sin.

2Happy is he that hath had no sadness of his

mind, and who is not fallen from his hope.

3Riches are not comely for a covetous man

and a niggard, and what should an envious man

do with gold?

4He that gathereth together by wronging his840 Ecclesiasticus

own soul, gathereth for others, and another will

squander away his goods in rioting.

5He that is evil to himself, to whom will he

be good? and he shall not take pleasure in his

goods.

6There is none worse than he that envieth

himself, and this is the reward of his wickedness:

7And if he do good, he doth it ignorantly,

and unwillingly: and at the last he discovereth

his wickedness.

8The eye of the envious is wicked: and he tur-

neth away his face, and despiseth his own soul.

9The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in

his portion of iniquity: he will not be satised

till he consume his own soul, drying it up.

10An evil eye is towards evil things: and he

shall not have his ll of bread, but shall be needy

and pensive at his own table.

11My son, if thou have any thing, do good to

thyself, and oer to God worthy oerings.

12Remember that death is not slow, and that

the covenant of hell hath been shewn to thee: for

the covenant of this world shall surely die.

13Do good to thy friend before thou die, and

according to thy ability, stretching out thy hand

give to the poor.

14Defraud not thyself of the good day, and

let not the part of a good gift overpass thee.

15Shalt thou not leave to others to divide by

lot thy sorrows and labours?

16Give and take, and justify thy soul.

17Before thy death work justice: for in hell

there is no nding food.

18All

esh shall fade as grass, and as the leaf

that springeth out on a green tree.

19Some grow, and some fall o: so is the

generation of

esh and blood, one cometh to an

end, and another is born.

20Every work that is corruptible shall fail in

the end: and the worker thereof shall go with it.21And every excellent work shall be justied:

and the worker thereof shall be honoured therein.

22Blessed is the man that shall continue in

wisdom, and that shall meditate in his justice,

and in his mind shall think of the all seeing eye

of God.

23He that considereth her ways in his heart,

and hath understanding in her secrets, who

goeth after her as one that traceth, and stayeth

in her ways.

24He who looketh in at her windows, and

hearkeneth at her door.

25He that lodgeth near her house, and fas-

tening a pin in her walls shall set up his tent

high unto her, where good things shall rest in

his lodging for ever.

26He shall set his children under her shelter,

and shall lodge under her branches:

27He shall be protected under her covering

from the heat, and shall rest in her glory.

Chapter 15

He that feareth God, will do good: and he that

possesseth justice, shall lay hold on her,

2And she will meet him as an honourable

mother, and will receive him as a wife married

of a virgin.

3With the bread of life and understanding,

she shall feed him, and give him the water of

wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be

made strong in him, and he shall not be moved.

4And she shall hold him fast, and he shall not

be confounded: and she shall exalt him among

his neighbours.

5And in the midst of the church she shall

open his mouth, and shall ll him with the spirit

of wisdom and understanding, and shall clothe

him with a robe of glory.Ecclesiasticus 841

6She shall heap upon him a treasure of joy

and gladness, and shall cause him to inherit an

everlasting name.

7But foolish men shall not obtain her, and

wise men shall meet her, foolish men shall not

see her: for she is far from pride and deceit.

8Lying men shall be mindful of her: but men

that speak truth shall be found with her, and

shall advance, even till they come to the sight of

God.

9Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner:

10For wisdom came forth from God: for

praise shall be with the wisdom of God, and shall

abound in a faithful mouth, and the sovereign

Lord will give praise unto it.

11Say not: It is through God, that she is

not with me: for do not thou the things that he

hateth.

12Say not: He hath caused me to err: for he

hath no need of wicked men.

13The Lord hateth all abomination of error,

and they that fear him shall not love it.

14God made man from the beginning, and

left him in the hand of his own counsel.

15He added his commandments and precepts.

16If thou wilt keep the commandments and

perform acceptable delity for ever, they shall

preserve thee.

17He hath set water and re before thee:

stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt.

18Before man is life and death, good and evil,

that which he shall choose shall be given him:

19For the wisdom of God is great, and he is

strong in power, seeing all men without ceasing.

20The eyes of the Lord are towards them that

fear him, and he knoweth al the work of man.

21He hath commanded no man to do

wickedly, and he hath given no man license to

sin;22For he desireth not a multitude of faithless

and unprotable children.

Chapter 16

Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be mul-

tiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear

of God be not with them.

2Trust not to their life, and respect not their

labours.

3For better is one that feareth God, than a

thousand ungodly children.

4And it is better to die without children, than

to leave ungodly children.

5By one that is wise a country shall be in-

habited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become

desolate.
6Many such things hath my eyes seen, and

greater things than these my ear hath heard.

7In the congregation of sinners a re shall

be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath

shall

ame out.

8The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for

their sins, who were destroyed trusting to their

own strength:

9And he spared not the place where Lot so-

journed, but abhorred them for the pride of their

word.

10He had not pity on them, destroying the

whole nation that extolled themselves in their

sins.

11So did he with the six hundred thousand

footmen, who were gathered together in the

hardness of their heart: and if one had been sti-

necked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpun-

ished:

12For mercy and wrath are with him. He is

mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation:842 Ecclesiasticus

13According as his mercy is, so his correction

judgeth a man according to his works.

14The sinner shall not escape in his rapines,

and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shall

not be put o.

15All mercy shall make a place for every man

according to the merit of his works, and accord-

ing to the wisdom of his sojournment.

16Say not: I shall be hidden from God, and

who shall remember me from on high?

17In such a multitude I shall not be known:

for what is my soul in such an immense creation?

18Behold the heaven, and the heavens of

heavens, the deep, and all the earth, and the

things that are in them, shall be moved in his

sight,

19The mountains also, and the hills, and the

foundations of the earth: when God shall look

upon them, they shall be shaken with trembling.

20And in all these things the heart is sense-

less: and every heart is understood by him.

21And his ways who shall understand, and

the storm, which no eye of man shall see?

22For many of his works are hidden, but the

works of his justice who shall declare? or who

shall endure? for the testament is far from some,

and the examination of all is in the end.

23He that wanteth understanding thinketh

vain things, and the foolish, and erring man,

thinketh foolish things.

24Hearken to me, my son, and learn the disci-

pline of understanding, and attend to my words

in thy heart.

25And I will shew forth good doctrine in eq-

uity, and will seek to declare wisdom: and attend

to my words in thy heart, whilst with equity of

spirit I tell thee the virtues that God hath put

upon his works from the beginning, and I shew

forth in truth his knowledge.26The works of God are done in judgment

from the beginning, and from the making of

them he distinguished their parts, and their be-

ginnings in their generations.

27He beautied their works for ever, they

have neither hungered, nor laboured, and they

have not ceased from their works.

28Nor shall any of them straiten his neigh-

bour at any time.

29Be not thou incredulous to his word.

30After this God looked upon the earth, and

lled it with his goods.

31The soul of every living thing hath shewn

forth before the face thereof, and into it they

return again.

Chapter 17

God created man of the earth, and made him

after his own image.

2And he turned him into it again, and clothed

him with strength according to himself.

3He gave him the number of his days and

time, and gave him power over all things that

are upon the earth.

4He put the fear of him upon all

esh, and

he had dominion over beasts and fowls.

5He created of him a helpmate like to himself,

he gave them counsel, and a tongue, and eyes,

and ears, and a heart to devise: and he lled

them with the knowledge of understanding.

6He created in them the science of the spirit,

he red their heart with wisdom, and shewed

them both good and evil.

7He set his eye upon their hearts to shew

them the greatness of his works:

8That they might praise the name which he

hath sanctied: and glory in his wondrous actEcclesiasticus 843

that they might declare the glorious things of

his works.

9Moreover he gave them instructions, and the

law of life for an inheritance.

10He made an everlasting covenant with

them, and he shewed them his justice and judg-

ments.
11And their eye saw the majesty of his glory,

and their ears heard his glorious voice, and he

said to them: Beware of all iniquity.

12And he gave to every one of them com-

mandment concerning his neighbour.

13Their ways are always before him, they are

not hidden from his eyes.

14Over every nation he set a ruler.

15And Israel was made the manifest portion

of God.

16And all their works are as the sun in the

sight of God: and his eyes are continually upon

their ways.

17Their covenants were not hid by their in-

iquity, and all their iniquities are in the sight of

God.

18The alms of a man is as a signet with him,

and shall preserve the grace of a man as the apple

of the eye:

19And afterward he shall rise up, and shall

render them their reward, to every one upon

their own head, and shall turn them down into

the bowels of the earth.

20But to the penitent he hath given the way

of justice, and he hath strengthened them that

were fainting in patience, and hath appointed to

them the lot of truth.

21Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy sins:

22Make thy prayer before the face of the

Lord, and oend less.

23Return to the Lord, and turn away from

thy injustice, and greatly hate abomination.24And know the justices and judgments of

God, and stand rm in the lot set before thee,

and in prayer to the most high God.

25Go to the side of the holy age, with them

that live and give praise to God.

26Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give

glory before death. Praise perisheth from the

dead as nothing.

27Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst

thou art alive and in health thou shalt give

thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory

in his mercies.

28How great is the mercy of the Lord, and

his forgiveness to them that turn to him !

29For all things cannot be in men, because

the son of man is not immortal, and they are

delighted with the vanity of evil.

30What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall

be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that

which

esh and blood hath invented? and this

shall be reproved.

31He beholdeth the power of the height of

heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.

Chapter 18

He that liveth for ever created all things to-

gether. God only shall be justied, and he re-

maineth an invincible king for ever.

2Who is able to declare his works?

3For who shall search out his glorious acts?

4And who shall show forth the power of his

majesty? or who shall be able to declare his

mercy?

5Nothing may be taken away, nor added, nei-

ther is it possible to nd out the glorious works

of God.

6When a man hath done, then shall he begin:

and when he leaveth o, he shall be at a loss.844 Ecclesiasticus

7What is man, and what is his grace? and

what is his good, or what is his evil?

8The number of the days of men at the most

are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the

sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the

sand, so are a few years compared to eternity.

9Therefore God is patient in them, and

poureth forth his mercy upon them.

10He hath seen the presumption of their heart

that it is wicked, and hath known their end that

it is evil.

11Therefore hath he lled up his mercy in

their favour, and hath shewn them the way of

justice.

12The compassion of man is toward his neigh-

bour: but the mercy of God is upon all

esh.

13He hath mercy, and teacheth, and cor-

recteth, as a shepherd doth his

ock.

14He hath mercy on him that receiveth the

discipline of mercy, and that maketh haste in his

judgments.

15My son, in thy good deeds, make no com-

plaint, and when thou givest any thing, add not

grief by an evil word.

16Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so also

the good word is better than the gift.

17Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but

both are with a justied man.

18A fool will upbraid bitterly: and a gift of

one ill taught consumeth the eyes.

19Before judgment prepare thee justice, and

learn before thou speak.

20Before sickness take a medicine, and before

judgment examine thyself, and thou shalt nd

mercy in the sight of God.

21Humble thyself before thou art sick, and in

the time of sickness shew thy conversation.

22Let nothing hinder thee from praying al-

ways, and be not afraid to be justied even to

death: for the reward of God continueth for ever.23Before prayer prepare thy soul: and be not

as a man that tempteth God.

24Remember the wrath that shall be at the

last day, and the time of repaying when he shall

turn away his face.

25Remember poverty in the time of abun-

dance, and the necessities of poverty in the day

of riches.

26From the morning until the evening the

time shall be changed, and all these are swift in

the eyes of God.

27A wise man will fear in every thing, and in

the days of sins will beware of sloth.

28Every man of understanding knoweth wis-

dom, and will give praise to him that ndeth

her.

29They that were of good understanding in

words, have also done wisely themselves: and

have understood truth and justice, and have

poured forth proverbs and judgments.

30Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from

thy own will.

31If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will

make thee a joy to thy enemies.

32Take no pleasure in riotous assemblies, be

they ever so small: for their concertation is con-

tinual.

33Make not thyself poor by borrowing to con-

tribute to feasts when thou hast nothing in thy

purse: for thou shalt be an enemy to thy own

life.

Chapter 19

A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich:

and he that contemneth small things, shall fall

by little and little.

2Wine and women make wise men fall o,

and shall rebuke the prudent:Ecclesiasticus 845

3And he that joineth himself to harlots, will

be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit

him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater ex-

ample, and his soul shall be taken away out of

the number.

4He that is hasty to give credit, is light of

heart, and shall be lessened: and he that sinneth

against his own soul, shall be despised.

5He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be cen-

sured, and he that hateth chastisement, shall

have less life: and he that hateth babbling, ex-

tinguisheth evil.

6He that sinneth against his own soul, shall

repent: and he that is delighted with wickedness,

shall be condemned.

7Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word,

and thou shalt not fare the worse.

8Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if

there be a sin with thee, disclose it not.

9For he will hearken to thee, and will watch

thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will

hate thee, and so will he be with thee always.

10Hast thou heard a word against thy neigh-

bour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will

not burst thee.

11At the hearing of a word the fool is in tra-

vail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth

a child.

12As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh:

so is a word in the heart of a fool.

13Reprove a friend, lest he may not have un-

derstood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it,

that he may do it no more.

14Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he

hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he

may not say it again.

15Admonish thy friend: for there is often a

fault committed.

16And believe not every word. There is one,

that slippeth with the tongue, but not from hisheart.

17For who is there that hath not oended

with his tongue? Admonish thy neighbour be-

fore thou threaten him.

18And give place to the fear of the most High:

for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is

to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in

all wisdom.

19But the learning of wickedness is not wis-

dom: and the device of sinners is not prudence.

20There is a subtle wickedness, and the same

is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish,

wanting in wisdom.

21Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and

wanteth understanding, with the fear of God,

than he that aboundeth in understanding, and

transgresseth the law of the most High.

22There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same

is unjust.

23And there is one that uttereth an exact

word telling the truth. There is one that hum-

bleth himself wickedly, and his interior is full of

deceit:

24And there is one that submitteth himself

exceedingly with a great lowliness: and there

is one that casteth down his countenance, and

maketh as if he did not see that which is un-

known:

25And if he be hindered from sinning for want

of power, if he shall nd opportunity to do evil,

he will do it.

26A man is known by his look, and a wise

man, when thou meetest him, is known by his

countenance.

27The attire of the body, and the laughter of

the teeth, and the gait of the man, shew what

he is.

28There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an

injurious man: and there is a judgment that is846 Ecclesiasticus

not allowed to be good: and there is one that

holdeth his peace, he is wise.

Chapter 20

How much better is it to reprove, than to be

angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in

prayer.

2The lust of an eunuch shall de

our a young

maiden:
3So is he that by violence executeth of the

unwise.

4How good is it, when thou art reproved, to

shew repentance! for so thou shalt escape wilful

sin.

5There is one that holdeth his peace, that is

found wise: and there is another that is hateful,

that is bold in speech.

6There is one that holdeth his peace, because

he knoweth not what to say: and there is another

that holdeth his peace, knowing the proper time.

7A wise man will hold his peace till he see op-

portunity: but a babbler, and a fool, will regard

no time.

8He that useth many words shall hurt his own

soul: and he that taketh authority to himself

unjustly shall be hated.

9There is success in evil things to a man with-

out discipline, and there is a nding that turneth

to loss.

10There is a gift that is not protable: and

there is a gift, the recompense of which is double.

11There is an abasement because of glory:

and there is one that shall lift up his head from

a low estate.

12There is that buyeth much for a small price,

and restoreth the same sevenfold.

13A man wise in words shall make himself

beloved: but the graces of fools shall be pouredout.

14The gift of the fool shall do thee no good:

for his eyes are sevenfold.

15He will give a few things, and upbraid

much: and the opening of his mouth is the kin-

dling of a re.

16To day a man lendeth, and to morrow he

asketh it again: such a man as this is hateful.

17A fool shall have no friend, and there shall

be no thanks for his good deeds.

18For they that eat his bread, are of a false

tongue. How often, and how many will laugh

him to scorn!

19For he doth not distribute with right un-

derstanding that which was to be had: in like

manner also that which was not to be had.

20The slipping of a false tongue is as one that

falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked

shall come speedily.

21A man without grace is as a vain fable, it

shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise.

22A parable coming out of a fool's mouth

shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due

season.
23There is that is hindered from sinning

through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked.

24There is that will destroy his own soul

through shamefacedness, and by occasion of an

unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect

of person he will destroy himself.

25There is that for bashfulness promiseth to

his friend, and maketh him his enemy for noth-

ing.

26A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it

will be continually in the mouth of men without

discipline.

27A thief is better than a man that is always

lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction.

28The manners of lying men are without hon-

our: and their confusion is with them withoutEcclesiasticus 847

ceasing.

29A wise man shall advance himself with his

words, and a prudent man shall please the great

ones.

30He that tilleth his land shall make a high

heap of corn: and he that worketh justice shall

be exalted: and he that pleaseth great men shall

escape iniquity.

31Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges,

and make them dumb in the mouth, so that they

cannot correct.

32O Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is

not seen: what prot is there in them both?

33Better is he that hideth his folly, than the

man that hideth his wisdom.

Chapter 21

My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more: but

for thy former sins also pray that they may be

forgiven thee.

2Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent:

for if thou comest near them, they will take hold

of thee.

3The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion,

killing the souls of men.

4All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there

is no remedy for the wound thereof.

5Injuries and wrongs will waste riches: and

the house that is very rich shall be brought to

nothing by pride: so the substance of the proud

shall be rooted out.

6The prayer out of the mouth of the poor

shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall

come for him speedily.

7He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the

trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will

turn to his own heart.8He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known

afar o, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him.

9He that buildeth his house at other men's

charges, is as he that gathereth himself stones to

build in the winter.

10The congregation of sinners is like tow

heaped together, and the end of them is a

ame

of re.

11The way of sinners is made plain with

stones, and in their end is hell, and darkness,

and pains.

12He that keepeth justice shall get the un-

derstanding thereof.

13The perfection of the fear of God is wisdom

and understanding.

14He that is not wise in good, will not be

taught.

15But there is a wisdom that aboundeth in

evil: and there is no understanding where there

is bitterness.

16The knowledge of a wise man shall abound

like a

ood, and his counsel continueth like a

fountain of life.

17The heart of a fool is like a broken vessel,

and no wisdom at all shall it hold.

18A man of sense will praise every wise word

he shall hear, and will apply it to himself: the

luxurious man hath heard it, and it shall dis-

please him, and he will cast it behind his back.

19The talking of a fool is like a burden in the

way: but in the lips of the wise, grace shall be

found.

20The mouth of the prudent is sought after in

the church, and they will think upon his words

in their hearts.

21As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom

to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as

words without sense.

22Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet,

and like manacles on the right hand.848 Ecclesiasticus

23A fool lifteth up his voice in laughter: but

a wise man will scarce laugh low to himself.

24Learning to the prudent is as an ornament

of gold, and like a bracelet upon his right arm.

25The foot of a fool is soon in his neighbour's

house: but a man of experience will be abashed

at the person of the mighty.

26A fool will peep through the window into

the house: but he that is well taught will stand

without.

27It is the folly of a man to hearken at the

door: and a wise man will be grieved with the

disgrace.

28The lips of the unwise will be telling fool-

ish things: but the words of the wise shall be

weighed in a balance.

29The heart of fools is in their mouth: and

the mouth of wise men is in their heart.

30While the ungodly curseth the devil, he

curseth his own soul.

31The talebearer shall dele his own soul, and

shall be hated by all: and he that shall abide

with him shall be hateful: the silent and wise

man shall be honoured.

Chapter 22

The sluggard is pelted with a dirty stone, and

all men will speak of his disgrace.

2The sluggard is pelted with the dung of oxen:

and every one that toucheth him will shake his

hands.

3A son ill taught is the confusion of the father:

and a foolish daughter shall be to his loss.

4A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance

to her husband: but she that confoundeth, be-

cometh a disgrace to her father.

5She that is bold shameth both her father and

husband, and will not be inferior to the ungodly:and shall be disgraced by them both.
6A tale out of time is like music in mourning:

but the stripes and instruction of wisdom are

never out of time.

7He that teacheth a fool, is like one that

glueth a potsherd together.

8He that telleth a word to him that heareth

not, is like one that waketh a man out of a deep

sleep.

9He speaketh with one that is asleep, who

uttereth wisdom to a fool: and in the end of the

discourse he saith: Who is this?

10Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed:

and weep for the fool, for his understanding

faileth.

11Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at

rest.

12For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse

than death.

13The mourning for the dead is seven days:

but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days

of their life.

14Talk not much with a fool and go not with

him that hath no sense.

15Keep thyself from him, that thou mayst

not have trouble, and thou shalt not be deled

with his sin.

16Turn away from him, and thou shalt nd

rest, and shalt not be wearied out with his folly.

17What is heavier than lead? and what other

name hath he but fool?

18Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is easier

to bear, than a man without sense, that is both

foolish and wicked.

19A frame of wood bound together in the

foundation of a building, shall not be loosed: so

neither shall the heart that is established by ad-

vised counsel.

20The thought of him that is wise at all times,

shall not be depraved by fear.Ecclesiasticus 849

21As pales set in high places, and plasterings

made without cost, will not stand against the

face of the wind:

22So also a fearful heart in the imagination

of a fool shall not resist against the violence of

fear.

23As a fearful heart in the thought of a fool

at all times will not fear, so neither shall he that

continueth always in the commandments of God.

24He that pricketh the eye, bringeth out

tears: and he that pricketh the heart, bringeth

forth resentment.

25He that
ingeth a stone at birds, shall drive

them away: so he that upbraideth his friend,

breaketh friendship.

26Although thou hast drawn a sword at a

friend, despair not: for there may be a returning.

To a friend,

27If thou hast opened a sad mouth, fear not,

for there may be a reconciliation: except up-

braiding, and reproach, and pride, and disclos-

ing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for in all

these cases a friend will

ee away.

28Keep delity with a friend in his poverty,

that in his prosperity also thou mayst rejoice.

29In the time of his trouble continue faithful

to him, that thou mayst also be heir with him in

his inheritance.

30As the vapour of a chimney, and the smoke

of the re goeth up before the re: so also inju-

rious words, and reproaches, and threats, before

blood.

31I will not be ashamed to salute a friend,

neither will I hide myself from his face: and if

any evil happen to me by him, I will bear it.

32But every one that shall hear it, will beware

of him.
33Who will set a guard before my mouth, and

a sure seal upon my lips, that I fall not by them,

and that my tongue destroy me not?Chapter 23

O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life,

leave me not to their counsel: nor suer me to

fall by them.

2Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and

the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they

spare me not in their ignorances, and that their

sins may not appear:

3Lest my ignorances increase, and my oences

be multiplied, and my sins abound, and I fall be-

fore my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over

me?

4O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me

not to their devices.

5Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and

turn away from me all coveting.

6Take from me the greediness of the belly,

and let not the lusts of the

esh take hold of me,

and give me not over to a shameless and foolish

mind.

7Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the

mouth, and he that will keep it shall not per-

ish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most

wicked works.

8A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the

proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby.

9Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swear-

ing: for in it there are many falls.

10And let not the naming of God be usual in

thy mouth, and meddle not with the names of

saints, for thou shalt not escape free from them.

11For as a slave daily put to the question,

is never without a blue mark: so every one that

sweareth, and nameth, shall not be wholly pure

from sin.

12A man that sweareth much, shall be lled

with iniquity, and a scourge shall not depart from

his house.850 Ecclesiasticus

13And if he make it void, his sin shall be upon

him, and if he dissemble it, he oendeth double:

14And if he swear in vain, he shall not be

justied: for his house shall be lled with his

punishment.

15There is also another speech opposite to

death, let it not be found in the inheritance of

Jacob.

16For from the merciful all these things shall

be taken away, and they shall not wallow in sins.

17Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indis-

creet speech: for therein is the word of sin.

18Remember thy father and thy mother, for

thou sittest in the midst of great men:

19Lest God forget thee in their sight, and

thou, by thy daily custom be infatuated and suf-

fer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been

born, and curse the day of thy nativity.

20The man that is accustomed to opprobrious

words, will never be corrected all the days of his

life.

21Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the

third bringeth wrath and destruction.

22A hot soul is a burning re, it will never

be quenched, till it devour some thing.

23And a man that is wicked in the mouth of

his

esh, will not leave o till he hath kindled a

re.

24To a man that is a fornicator all bread is

sweet, he will not be weary of sinning unto the

end.

25Every man that passeth beyond his own

bed, despising his own soul, and saying: Who

seeth me?

26Darkness compasseth me about, and the

walls cover me, and no man seeth me: whom

do I fear? the most High will not remember my

sins.

27And he understandeth not that his eye

seeth all things, for such a man's fear drivethhim from the fear of God, and the eyes of men

fearing him:

28And he knoweth not that the eyes of the

Lord are far brighter than the sun, beholding

round about all the ways of men, and the bottom

of the deep, and looking into the hearts of men,

into the most hidden parts.

29For all things were known to the Lord God,

before they were created: so also after they were

perfected he beholdeth all things.

30This man shall be punished in the streets

of the city, and he shall be chased as a colt: and

where he suspected not, he shall be taken.

31And he shall be in disgrace with all men,

because he understood not the fear of the Lord.

32So every woman also that leaveth her hus-

band, and bringeth in an heir by another:

33For rst she hath been unfaithful to the

law of the most High: and secondly, she hath

oended against her husband: thirdly, she hath

fornicated in adultery, and hath gotten her chil-

dren of another man.

34This woman shall be brought into the as-

sembly, and inquisition shall be made of her chil-

dren.

35Her children shall not take root, and her

branches shall bring forth no fruit.

36She shall leave her memory to be cursed,

and her infamy shall not be blotted out.

37And they that remain shall know, that

there is nothing better than the fear of God: and

that there is nothing sweeter than to have regard

to the commandments of the Lord.

38It is great glory to follow the Lord: for

length of days shall be received from him.Ecclesiasticus 851

Chapter 24

Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be

honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of

her people,

2And shall open her mouth in the churches

of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the

sight of his power,

3And in the midst of her own people she shall

be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy as-

sembly.

4And in the multitude of the elect she shall

have praise, and among the blessed she shall be

blessed, saying:

5I came out of the mouth of the most High,

the rstborn before all creatures:

6I made that in the heavens there should rise

light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered

all the earth:

7I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne

is in a pillar of a cloud.

8I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven,

and have penetrated into the bottom of the deep,

and have walked in the waves of the sea,

9And have stood in all the earth: and in every

people,

10And in every nation I have had the chief

rule:

11And by my power I have trodden under

my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and

in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the

inheritance of the Lord.

12Then the creator of all things commanded,

and said to me: and he that made me, rested in

my tabernacle,

13And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be

in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take

root in my elect.

14From the beginning, and before the world,

was I created, and unto the world to come I shallnot cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I

have ministered before him.

15And so was I established in Sion, and in the

holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in

Jerusalem.

16And I took root in an honourable people,

and in the portion of my God his inheritance,

and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.

17I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and

as a cypress tree on mount Sion.

18I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and

as a rose plant in Jericho:

19As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as

a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I

exalted.

20I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and

aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like

the best myrrh:

21And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and

galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frank-

incense not cut, and my odour is as the purest

balm.

22I have stretched out my branches as the

turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour

and grace.

23As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant

odour: and my

owers are the fruit of honour

and riches.

24I am the mother of fair love, and of fear,

and of knowledge, and of holy hope.

25In me is all grace of the way and of the

truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.

26Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and

be lled with my fruits.

27For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my

inheritance above honey and the honeycomb.

28My memory is unto everlasting genera-

tions.

29They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and

they that drink me, shall yet thirst.852 Ecclesiasticus

30He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be con-

founded: and they that work by me, shall not

sin.

31They that explain me shall have life ever-

lasting.

32All these things are the book of life, and the

covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of

truth.

33Moses commanded a law in the precepts

of justices, and an inheritance to the house of

Jacob, and the promises to Israel.

34He appointed to David his servant to raise

up of him a most mighty king, and sitting on the

throne of glory for ever.

35Who lleth up wisdom as the Phison, and

as the Tigris in the days of the new fruits.

36Who maketh understanding to abound as

the Euphrates, who multiplieth it as the Jordan

in the time of harvest.

37Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and

riseth up as Gehon in the time of the vintage.

38Who rst hath perfect knowledge of her,

and a weaker shall not search her out.

39For her thoughts are more vast than the

sea, and her counsels more deep than the great

ocean.

40I, wisdom, have poured out rivers.

41I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty

water; I, like a channel of a river, and like an

aqueduct, came out of paradise.

42I said: I will water my garden of plants, and

I will water abundantly the fruits of my meadow.

43And behold my brook became a great river,

and my river came near to a sea:

44For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as

the morning light, and I will declare it afar o.

45I will penetrate to all the lower parts of

the earth, and will behold all that sleep, and

will enlighten all that hope in the Lord.46I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy,
and will leave it to them that seek wisdom, and

will not cease to instruct their ospring even to

the holy age.

47See ye that I have not laboured myself only,

but for all that seek out the truth.

Chapter 25

With three things my spirit is pleased, which are

approved before God and men:

2The concord of brethren, and the love of

neighbours, and man and wife that agree well

together.

3Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am greatly

grieved at their life:

4A poor man that is proud: a rich man that

is a liar: an old man that is a fool, and doting.

5The things that thou hast not gathered in

thy youth, how shalt thou nd them in thy old

age?

6O how comely is judgment for a grey head,

and for ancients to know counsel!

7O how comely is wisdom for the aged, and

understanding and counsel to men of honour!

8Much experience is the crown of old men,

and the fear of God is their glory.

9Nine things that are not to be imagined by

the heart have I magnied, and the tenth I will

utter to men with my tongue.

10A man that hath joy of his children: and

he that liveth and seeth the fall of his enemies.

11Blessed is he that dwelleth with a wise

woman, and that hath not slipped with his

tongue, and that hath not served such as are

unworthy of him.

12Blessed is he that ndeth a true friend, and

that declareth justice to an ear that heareth.Ecclesiasticus 853

13How great is he that ndeth wisdom and

knowledge! but there is none above him that

feareth the Lord.

14The fear of God hath set itself above all

things:

15Blessed is the man, to whom it is given

to have the fear of God: he that holdeth it, to

whom shall he be likened?

16The fear of God is the beginning of his love:

and the beginning of faith is to be fast joined

unto it.

17The sadness of the heart is every plague:

and the wickedness of a woman is all evil.

18And a man will choose any plague, but the

plague of the heart:

19And any wickedness, but the wickedness of

a woman:
20And any aiction, but the aiction from

them that hate him:

21And any revenge, but the revenge of ene-

mies.

22There is no head worse than the head of a

serpent:

23And there is no anger above the anger of a

woman. It will be more agreeable to abide with

a lion and a dragon, than to dwell with a wicked

woman.

24The wickedness of a woman changeth her

face: and she darkeneth her countenance as a

bear: and sheweth it like sackcloth. In the midst

of her neighbours,

25Her husband groaned, and hearing he

sighed a little.

26All malice is short to the malice of a

woman, let the lot of sinners fall upon her.

27As the climbing of a sandy way is to the

feet of the aged, so is a wife full of tongue to a

quiet man.

28Look not upon a woman's beauty, and de-

sire not a woman for beauty.29A woman's anger, and impudence, and con-

fusion is great.

30A woman, if she have superiority, is con-

trary to her husband.

31A wicked woman abateth the courage, and

maketh a heavy countenance, and a wounded

heart.

32Feeble hands, and disjointed knees, a

woman that doth not make her husband happy.

33From the woman came the beginning of

sin, and by her we all die.

34Give no issue to thy water, no, not a little:

nor to a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.

35If she walk not at thy hand, she will con-

found thee in the sight of thy enemies.

36Cut her o from thy

esh, lest she always

abuse thee.

Chapter 26

Happy is the husband of a good wife: for the

number of his years is double.

2A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband,

and shall full the years of his life in peace.

3A good wife is a good portion, she shall be

given in the portion of them that fear God, to a

man for his good deeds.

4Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his coun-

tenance shall be cheerful at all times.

5Of three things my heart hath been afraid,

and at the fourth my face hath trembled:

6The accusation of a city, and the gathering

together of the people:

7And a false calumny, all are more grievous

than death.

8A jealous woman is the grief and mourning

of the heart.

9With a jealous woman is a scourge of the

tongue which communicateth with all.854 Ecclesiasticus

10As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro,

so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of

her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.

11A drunken woman is a great wrath: and

her reproach and shame shall not be hid.

12The fornication of a woman shall be known

by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids.

13On a daughter that turneth not away her-

self, set a strict watch: lest nding an opportu-

nity she abuse herself.

14Take heed of the impudence of her eyes,

and wonder not if she slight thee.

15She will open her mouth as a thirsty trav-

eller to the fountain, and will drink of every wa-

ter near her, and will sit down by every hedge,

and open her quiver against every arrow, until

she fail.

16The grace of a diligent woman shall delight

her husband, and shall fat his bones.

17Her discipline is the gift of God.

18Such is a wise and silent woman, and there

is nothing so much worth as a well instructed

soul.

19A holy and shamefaced woman is grace

upon grace.

20And no price is worthy of a continent soul.

21As the sun when it riseth to the world in

the high places of God, so is the beauty of a good

wife for the ornament of her house.

22As the lamp shining upon the holy candle-

stick, so is the beauty of the face in a ripe age,

23As golden pillars upon bases of silver, so are

the rm feet upon the soles of a steady woman.

24As everlasting foundations upon a solid

rock, so the commandments of God in the heart

of a holy woman.

25At two things my heart is grieved, and the

third bringeth anger upon me.

26A man of war fainting through poverty, and

a man of sense despised:27And he that passeth over from justice to

sin, God hath prepared such an one for the

sword.

28Two sorts of callings have appeared to me

hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free

from negligence: and a huckster shall not be jus-

tied from the sins of the lips.

Chapter 27

Through poverty many have sinned: and he that

seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.

2As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the

joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling

and buying, sin shall stick fast.

3Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.

4Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the

fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be over-

thrown.

5As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust

will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in

his thoughts.

6The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and

the trial of aiction just men.

7As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit

thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart

of man.

8Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this

is the trial of men.

9If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain

her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of hon-

our, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she shall

protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowl-

edgment thou shalt nd a strong foundation.

10Birds resort unto their like: so truth will

return to them that practise her.

11The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so

do sins for them that work iniquities.Ecclesiasticus 855

12A holy man continueth in wisdom as the

sun: but a fool is changed as the moon.

13In the midst of the unwise keep in the word

till its time: but be continually among men that

think.

14The discourse of sinners is hateful, and

their laughter is at the pleasures of sin.

15The speech that sweareth much shall make

the hair of the head stand upright: and its irrev-

erence shall make one stop his ears.

16In the quarrels of the road is the shedding

of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.

17He that discloseth the secret of a friend

loseth his credit, and shall never nd a friend to

his mind.

18Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him

with delity.

19But if thou discover his secrets, follow no

more after him.

20For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so

is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neigh-

bour.

21And as one that letteth a bird go out of

his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and

thou shalt not get him again.

22Follow after him no more, for he is gone

afar o, he is

ed, as a roe escaped out of the

snare because his soul is wounded.

23Thou canst no more bind him up. And of

a curse there is reconciliation:

24But to disclose the secrets of a friend,

leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul.

25He that winketh with the eye forgeth

wicked things, and no man will cast him o:

26In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his

mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the

last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words

he will lay a stumblingblock.

27I have hated many things but not like him,

and the Lord will hate him.28If one cast a stone on high, it will fall

upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will

wound the deceitful.

29He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and

he that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall

stumble upon it: and he that layeth a snare for

another, shall perish in it.

30A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back

upon the author, and he shall not know from

whence it cometh to him.

31Mockery and reproach are of the proud,

and vengeance as a lion shall lie in wait for him.

32They shall perish in a snare that are de-

lighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall

consume them before they die.

33Anger and fury are both of them abom-

inable, and the sinful man shall be subject to

them.

Chapter 28

He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall nd

vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely keep

his sins in remembrance.

2Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee:

and then shall thy sins be forgiven to thee when

thou prayest.

3Man to man reserveth anger, and doth he

seek remedy of God?

4He hath no mercy on a man like himself, and

doth he entreat for his own sins?

5He that is but

esh, nourisheth anger, and

doth he ask forgiveness of God? who shall obtain

pardon for his sins?

6Remember thy last things, and let enmity

cease:

7For corruption and death hang over in his

commandments.856 Ecclesiasticus

8Remember the fear of God, and be not angry

with thy neighbour.

9Remember the covenant of the most High,

and overlook the ignorance of thy neighbour.

10Refrain from strife, and thou shalt diminish

thy sins.

11For a passionate man kindleth strife, and a

sinful man will trouble his friends, and bring in

debate in the midst of them that are at peace.

12For as the wood of the forest is, so the re

burneth, and as a man's strength is, so shall his

anger be, and according to his riches he shall

increase his anger.

13A hasty contention kindleth a re and a

hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and a tongue that

beareth witness bringeth death.

14If thou blow the spark, it shall burn as

a re: and if thou spit upon it, it shall be

quenched: both come out of the mouth.

15The whisperer and the double tongue is

accursed: for he hath troubled many that were

at peace.
16The tongue of a third person hath disqui-

eted many, and scattered them from nation to

nation.

17It hath destroyed the strong cities of the

rich, and hath overthrown the houses of great

men.

18It hath cut in pieces the forces of people,

and undone strong nations.

19The tongue of a third person hath cast

out valiant women, and deprived them of their

labours.

20He that hearkeneth to it, shall never have

rest, neither shall he have a friend in whom he

may repose.

21The stroke of a whip maketh a blue mark:

but the stroke of the tongue will break the bones.

22Many have fallen by the edge of the sword,

but not so many as have perished by their owntongue.

23Blessed is he that is defended from a

wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the

wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke

thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands.

24For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands

are bands of brass.

25The death thereof is a most evil death: and

hell is preferable to it.

26Its continuance shall not be for a long time,

but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and

the just shall not be burnt with its

ame.

27They that forsake God shall fall into it, and

it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched,

and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as

a leopard it shall tear them.

28Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear not a

wicked tongue, and make doors and bars to thy

mouth.

29Melt down thy gold and silver, and make a

balance for thy words, and a just bridle for thy

mouth:

30And take heed lest thou slip with thy

tongue, and fall in the sight of thy enemies who

lie in wait for thee, and thy fall be incurable unto

death.

Chapter 29

He that sheweth mercy, lendeth to his neighbour:

and he that is stronger in hand, keepeth the com-

mandments.

2Lend to thy neighbour in the time of his

need, and pay thou thy neighbour again in due

time.

3Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him:

and thou shalt always nd that which is neces-

sary for thee.

4Many have looked upon a thing lent as aEcclesiasticus 857

thing found, and have given trouble to them that

helped them.

5Till they receive, they kiss the hands of the

lender, and in promises they humble their voice:

6But when they should repay, they will ask

time, and will return tedious and murmuring

words, and will complain of the time:

7And if he be able to pay, he will stand o,

he will scarce pay one half, and will count it as

if he had found it:

8But if not, he will defraud him of his money,

and he shall get him for an enemy without cause.

9And he will pay him with reproaches and

curses, and instead of honour and good turn will

repay him injuries.

10Many have refused to lend, not out of

wickedness, but they were afraid to be defrauded

without cause.

11But yet towards the poor be thou more

hearty, and delay not to shew him mercy.

12Help the poor because of the command-

ment: and send him not away empty handed

because of his poverty.

13Lose thy money for thy brother and thy

friend: and hide it not under a stone to be lost.

14Place thy treasure in the commandments

of the most High, and it shall bring thee more

prot than gold.

15Shut up alms in the heart of the poor, and

it shall obtain help for thee against all evil.

16Better than the shield of the mighty, and

better than the spear:

17It shall ght for thee against thy enemy.

18A good man is surety for his neighbour:

and he that hath lost shame, will leave him to

himself.

19Forget not the kindness of thy surety: for

he hath given his life for thee.

20The sinner and the unclean

eeth from his

surety.21A sinner attributeth to himself the goods

of his surety: and he that is of an unthankful

mind will leave him that delivered him.

22A man is surety for his neighbour: and

when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake

him.

23Evil suretyship hath undone many of good

estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the

sea.
24It hath made powerful men to go from place

to place round about, and they have wandered

in strange countries.

25A sinner that transgresseth the command-

ment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil surety-

ship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall

fall into judgment.

26Recover thy neighbour according to thy

power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall

not.

27The chief thing for man's life is water and

bread, and clothing, and a house to cover shame.

28Better is the poor man's fare under a roof of

boards, than sumptuous cheer abroad in another

man's house.

29Be contented with little instead of much,

and thou shalt not hear the reproach of going

abroad.

30It is a miserable life to go as a guest from

house to house: for where a man is a stranger, he

shall not deal condently, nor open his mouth.

31He shall entertain and feed, and give drink

to the unthankful, and moreover he shall hear

bitter words.

32Go, stranger, and furnish the table, and

give others to eat what thou hast in thy hand.

33Give place to the honourable presence of

my friends: for I want my house, my brother

being to be lodged with me.

34These things are grievous to a man of un-

derstanding: the upbraiding of houseroom, and858 Ecclesiasticus

the reproaching of the lender.

Chapter 30

He that loveth his son, frequently chastiseth him,

that he may rejoice in his latter end, and not

grope after the doors of his neighbours.

2He that instructeth his son shall be praised

in him, and shall glory in him in the midst of

them of his household.

3He that teacheth his son, maketh his enemy

jealous, and in the midst of his friends he shall

glory in him.

4His father is dead, and he is as if he were

not dead: for he hath left one behind him that

is like himself.

5While he lived he saw and rejoiced in him:

and when he died he was not sorrowful, neither

was he confounded before his enemies.

6For he left behind him a defender of his

house against his enemies, and one that will re-

quite kindness to his friends.

7For the souls of his sons he shall bind up

his wounds, and at every cry his bowels shall be

troubled.

8A horse not broken becometh stubborn, and

a child left to himself will become headstrong.

9Give thy son his way, and he shall make

thee afraid: play with him, and he shall make

thee sorrowful.

10Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow,

and at the last thy teeth be set on edge.

11Give him not liberty in his youth, and wink

not at his devices.

12Bow down his neck while he is young, and

beat his sides while he is a child, lest he grow

stubborn, and regard thee not, and so be a sor-

row of heart to thee.13Instruct thy son, and labour about him,

lest his lewd behaviour be an oence to thee.

14Better is a poor man who is sound, and

strong of constitution, than a rich man who is

weak and aicted with evils.

15Health of the soul in holiness of justice,

is better than all gold and silver: and a sound

body, than immense revenues.

16There is no riches above the riches of the

health of the body: and there is no pleasure

above the joy of the heart.

17Better is death than a bitter life, and ev-

erlasting rest, than continual sickness.

18Good things that are hidden in a mouth

that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a

grave.

19What good shall an oering do to an idol?

for it can neither eat, nor smell:

20So is he that is persecuted by the Lord,

bearing the reward of his iniquity:

21He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an

eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.

22Give not up thy soul to sadness, and aict

not thyself in thy own counsel.

23The joyfulness of the heart, is the life of

a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness:

and the joy of a man is length of life.

24Have pity on thy own soul, pleasing God,

and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his

holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee.

25For sadness hath killed many, and there is

no prot in it.

26Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and

pensiveness will bring old age before the time.

27A cheerful and good heart is always feast-

ing: for his banquets are prepared with diligence.Ecclesiasticus 859

Chapter 31

Watching for riches consumeth the

esh, and the

thought thereof driveth away sleep.

2The thinking beforehand turneth away the

understanding, and a grievous sickness maketh

the soul sober.

3The rich man hath laboured in gathering

riches together, and when he resteth he shall be

lled with his goods.

4The poor man hath laboured in his low way

of life, and in the end he is still poor.

5He that loveth gold, shall not be justied:

and he that followeth after corruption, shall be

lled with it.

6Many have been brought to fall for gold, and

the beauty thereof hath been their ruin.

7Gold is a stumblingblock to them that sac-

rice to it: woe to them that eagerly follow after

it, and every fool shall perish by it.

8Blessed is the rich man that is found without

blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor

put his trust in money nor in treasures.

9Who is he, and we will praise him? for he

hath done wonderful things in his life.

10Who hath been tried thereby, and made

perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that

could have transgressed, and hath not trans-

gressed: and could do evil things, and hath not

done them:

11Therefore are his goods established in the

Lord, and all the church of the saints shall de-

clare his alms.

12Art thou set at a great table? be not the

rst to open thy mouth upon it.

13Say not: There are many things which are

upon it.

14Remember that a wicked eye is evil.

15What is created more wicked than an eye?

therefore shall it weep over all the face when itshall see.

16Stretch not out thy hand rst, lest being

disgraced with envy thou be put to confusion.

17Be not hasty in a feast.

18Judge of the disposition of thy neighbour

by thyself.

19Use as a frugal man the things that are set

before thee: lest if thou eatest much, thou be

hated.

20Leave o rst, for manners' sake: and ex-

ceed not, lest thou oend.

21And if thou sittest among many, reach not

thy hand out rst of all, and be not the rst to

ask for drink.

22How sucient is a little wine for a man well

taught, and in sleeping thou shalt not be uneasy

with it, and thou shalt feel no pain.

23Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with

an intemperate man:

24Sound and wholesome sleep with a moder-

ate man: he shall sleep till morning, and his soul

shall be delighted with him.

25And if thou hast been forced to eat much,

arise, go out, and vomit: and it shall refresh thee,

and thou shalt not bring sickness upon thy body.

26Hear me, my son, and despise me not: and

in the end thou shalt nd my words.

27In all thy works be quick, and no inrmity

shall come to thee.

28The lips of many shall bless him that is lib-

eral of his bread, and the testimony of his truth

is faithful.

29Against him that is niggardly of his bread,

the city will murmur, and the testimony of his

niggardliness is true.

30Challenge not them that love wine: for

wine hath destroyed very many.

31Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk to

excess shall rebuke the hearts of the proud.860 Ecclesiasticus

32Wine taken with sobriety is equal life to

men: if thou drink it moderately, thou shalt be

sober.

33What is his life, who is diminished with

wine?

34What taketh away life? death.

35Wine was created from the beginning to

make men joyful, and not to make them drunk.

36Wine drunken with moderation is the joy

of the soul and the heart.

37Sober drinking is health to soul and body.

38Wine drunken with excess raiseth quarrels,

and wrath, and many ruins.

39Wine drunken with excess is bitterness of

the soul.

40The heat of drunkenness is the stumbling-

block of the fool, lessening strength and causing

wounds.

41Rebuke not thy neighbour in a banquet of

wine: and despise him not in his mirth.

42Speak not to him words of reproach: and

press him not in demanding again.

Chapter 32

Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be

among them as one of them.

2Have care of them, and so sit down, and

when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy

charge, take thy place:

3That thou mayst rejoice for them, and re-

ceive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get

the honour of the contribution.

4Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh

thee,

5To speak the rst word with careful knowl-

edge, and hinder not music.

6Where there is no hearing, pour not out

words, and be not lifted up out of season withthy wisdom.

7A concert of music in a banquet of wine is

as a carbuncle set in gold.

8As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold:

so is the melody of music with pleasant and mod-

erate wine.

9Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good

grace shall come to thee.

10Young man, scarcely speak in thy own

cause.

11If thou be asked twice, let thy answer be

short.

12In many things be as if thou wert ignorant,

and hear in silence and withal seeking.

13In the company of great men take not upon

thee: and when the ancients are present, speak

not much.

14Before a storm goeth lightning: and be-

fore shamefacedness goeth favour: and for thy

reverence good grace shall come to thee.

15And at the time of rising be not slack: but

be rst to run home to thy house, and there with-

draw thyself, and there take thy pastime.

16And do what thou hast a mind, but not in

sin or proud speech.

17And for all these things bless the Lord,

that made thee, and that replenisheth thee with

all his good things.

18He that feareth the Lord, will receive his

discipline: and they that will seek him early,

shall nd a blessing.

19He that seeketh the law, shall be lled with

it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet

with a stumblingblock therein.

20They that fear the Lord, shall nd just

judgment, and shall kindle justice as a light.

21A sinful man will

ee reproof, and will nd

an excuse according to his will.

22A man of counsel will not neglect un-

derstanding, a strange and proud man will notEcclesiasticus 861

dread fear:

23Even after he hath done with fear without

counsel, he shall be controlled by the things of

his own seeking.

24My son, do thou nothing without counsel,

and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done.

25Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt

not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself

to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumblingblock

to thy soul.

26And beware of thy own children, and take

heed of them of thy household.

27In every work of thine regard thy soul in

faith: for this is the keeping of the command-

ments.

28He that believeth God, taketh heed to the

commandments: and he that trusteth in him,

shall fare never the worse.

Chapter 33

No evils shall happen to him that feareth the

Lord, but in temptation God will keep him and

deliver him from evils.

2A wise man hateth not the commandments

and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces

as a ship in a storm.

3A man of understanding is faithful to the

law of God, and the law is faithful to him.

4He that cleareth up a question, shall pre-

pare what to say, and so having prayed he shall

be heard, and shall keep discipline, and then he

shall answer.

5The heart of a fool is as a wheel of a cart:

and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.

6A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion

horse: he neigheth under every one that sitteth

upon him.

7Why doth one day excel another, and onelight another, and one year another year, when

all come of the sun?

8By the knowledge of the Lord they were dis-

tinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his

commandment.

9And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of

them, and in them they celebrated festivals at

an hour.

10Some of them God made high and great

days, and some of them he put in the number of

ordinary days. And all men are from the ground,

and out of the earth, from whence Adam was

created.

11With much knowledge the Lord hath di-

vided them and diversied their ways.

12Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted:

and some of them hath he sanctied, and set near

himself: and some of them hath he cursed and

brought low, and turned them from their station.

13As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fash-

ion and order it:

14All his ways are according to his ordering:

so man is in the hand of him that made him, and

he will render to him according to his judgment.

15Good is set against evil, and life against

death: so also is the sinner against a just man.

And so look upon all the works of the most High.

Two and two, and one against another.

16And I awaked last of all, and as one that

gathereth after the grapegatherers.

17In the blessing of God I also have hoped:

and as one that gathereth grapes, have I lled

the winepress.

18See that I have not laboured for myself

only, but for all that seek discipline.

19Hear me, ye great men, and all ye peo-

ple, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the

church.

20Give not to son or wife, brother or friend,

power over thee while thou livest; and give not862 Ecclesiasticus

thy estate to another, lest thou repent, and thou

entreat for the same.

21As long as thou livest, and hast breath in

thee, let no man change thee.

22For it is better that thy children should ask

of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of

thy children.

23In all thy works keep the pre-eminence.

24Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time

when thou shalt end the days of thy life, and

in the time of thy decease, distribute thy inheri-

tance.

25Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for

an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a

slave.

26He worketh under correction, and seeketh

to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh

liberty.

27The yoke and the thong bend a sti neck,

and continual labours bow a slave.

28Torture and fetters are for a malicious

slave: send him to work, that he be not idle:

29For idleness hath taught much evil.

30Set him to work: for so it is t for him.

And if he be not obedient, bring him down with

fetters, but be not excessive towards any one,

and do no grievous thing without judgment.

31If thou have a faithful servant, let him be

to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother:

because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten

him.
32If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away:

33And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest

not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him.

Chapter 34

The hopes of a man that is void of understanding

are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.2The man that giveth heed to lying visions,

is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and

followeth after the wind.

3The vision of dreams is the resemblance of

one thing to another: as when a man's likeness

is before the face of a man.

4What can be made clean by the unclean?

and what truth can come from that which is

false?

5Deceitful divinations and lying omens and

the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:

6And the heart fancieth as that of a woman

in travail: except it be a vision sent forth from

the most High, set not thy heart upon them.

7For dreams have deceived many, and they

have failed that put their trust in them.

8The word of the law shall be fullled without

a lie, and wisdom shall be made plain in the

mouth of the faithful.

9What doth he know, that hath not been

tried? A man that hath much experience, shall

think of many things: and he that hath learned

many things, shall shew forth understanding.

10He that hath no experience, knoweth lit-

tle: and he that hath been experienced in many

things, multiplieth prudence.

11He that hath not been tried, what man-

ner of things doth he know? he that hath been

surprised, shall abound with subtlety.

12I have seen many things by travelling, and

many customs of things.

13Sometimes I have been in danger of death

for these things, and I have been delivered by

the grace of God.

14The spirit of those that fear God, is sought

after, and by his regard shall be blessed.

15For their hope is on him that saveth them,

and the eyes of God are upon them that love

him.Ecclesiasticus 863

16He that feareth the Lord shall tremble at

nothing, and shall not be afraid: for he is his

hope.

17The soul of him that feareth the Lord is

blessed.

18To whom doth he look, and who is his

strength?

19The eyes of the Lord are upon them that

fear him, he is their powerful protector, and

strong stay, a defence from the heat, and a cover

from the sun at noon,

20A preservation from stumbling, and a help

from falling: he raiseth up the soul, and enlight-

eneth the eyes, and giveth health, and life, and

blessing.

21The oering of him that sacriceth of

a thing wrongfully gotten, is stained, and the

mockeries of the unjust are not acceptable.

22The Lord is only for them that wait upon

him in the way of truth and justice.

23The most High approveth not the gifts of

the wicked: neither hath he respect to the obla-

tions of the unjust, nor will he be pacied for

sins by the multitude of their sacrices.

24He that oereth sacrice of the goods of

the poor, is as one that sacriceth the son in the

presence of his father.

25The bread of the needy, is the life of the

poor: he that defraudeth them thereof, is a man

of blood.

26He that taketh away the bread gotten by

sweat, is like him that killeth his neighbour.

27He that sheddeth blood, and he that de-

fraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers.

28When one buildeth up, and another pulleth

down: what prot have they but the labour?

29When one prayeth, and another curseth:

whose voice will God hear?

30He that washeth himself after touching the

dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth hiswashing avail?

31So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth

the same again, what doth his humbling himself

prot him? who will hear his prayer?

Chapter 35

He that keepeth the law, multiplieth oerings.

2It is a wholesome sacrice to take heed to the

commandments, and to depart from all iniquity.

3And to depart from injustice, is to oer a

propitiatory sacrice for injustices, and a beg-

ging of pardon for sins.

4He shall return thanks, that oereth ne

our: and he that doth mercy, oereth sacrice.

5To depart from iniquity is that which

pleaseth the Lord, and to depart from injustice,

is an entreaty for sins.

6Thou shalt not appear empty in the sight of

the Lord.

7For all these things are to be done because

of the commandment of God.

8The oblation of the just maketh the altar

fat, and is an odour of sweetness in the sight of

the most High.

9The sacrice of the just is acceptable, and

the Lord will not forget the memorial thereof.

10Give glory to God with a good heart: and

diminish not the rstfruits of thy hands.

11In every gift shew a cheerful countenance,

and sanctify thy tithes with joy.

12Give to the most High according to what

he hath given to thee, and with a good eye do

according to the ability of thy hands:

13For the Lord maketh recompense, and will

give thee seven times as much.

14Do not oer wicked gifts, for such he will

not receive.864 Ecclesiasticus

15And look not upon an unjust sacrice, for

the Lord is judge, and there is not with him re-

spect of person.

16The Lord will not accept any person

against a poor man, and he will hear the prayer

of him that is wronged.

17He will not despise the prayers of the fa-

therless: nor the widow, when she poureth out

her complaint.

18Do not the widow's tears run down the

cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them

to fall?

19For from the cheek they go up even to

heaven, and the Lord that heareth will not be

delighted with them.

20He that adoreth God with joy, shall be ac-

cepted, and his prayer shall approach even to the

clouds.

21The prayer of him that humbleth himself,

shall pierce the clouds: and till it come nigh he

will not be comforted: and he will not depart till

the most High behold.

22And the Lord will not be slack, but will

judge for the just, and will do judgment: and

the Almighty will not have patience with them,

that he may crush their back:

23And he will repay vengeance to the Gen-

tiles, till he have taken away the multitude of the

proud, and broken the sceptres of the unjust,

24Till he have rendered to men according

to their deeds: and according to the works of

Adam, and according to his presumption,

25Till he have judged the cause of his people,

and he shall delight the just with his mercy.

26The mercy of God is beautiful in the time

of aiction, as a cloud of rain in the time of

drought.Chapter 36

Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold

us, and shew us the light of thy mercies:

2And send thy fear upon the nations, that

have not sought after thee: that they may know

that there is no God beside thee, and that they

may shew forth thy wonders.

3Lift up thy hand over the strange nations,

that they may see thy power.

4For as thou hast been sanctied in us in their

sight, so thou shalt be magnied among them in

our presence,

5That they may know thee, as we also have

known thee, that there is no God beside thee, O

Lord.

6Renew thy signs, and work new miracles.

7Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm.

8Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath.

9Take away the adversary, and crush the en-

emy.

10Hasten the time, and remember the end,

that they may declare thy wonderful works.

11Let him that escapeth be consumed by the

rage of the re: and let them perish that oppress

thy people.

12Crush the head of the princes of the ene-

mies that say: There is no other beside us.

13Gather together all the tribes of Jacob:

that they may know that there no God besides

thee, and may declare thy great works: and thou

shalt inherit them as from the beginning.

14Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy

name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou

hast raised up to be thy rstborn.

15Have mercy on Jerusalem, the city which

thou hast sanctied, the city of thy rest.

16Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words, and

thy people with thy glory.Ecclesiasticus 865

17Give testimony to them that are thy crea-

tures from the beginning, and raise up the

prophecies which the former prophets spoke in

thy name.

18Reward them that patiently wait for thee,

that thy prophets may be found faithful: and

hear the prayers of thy servants,

19According to the blessing of Aaron over thy

people, and direct us into the way of justice, and

let all know that dwell upon the earth, that thou

art God the beholder of all ages.

20The belly will devour all meat, yet one is

better than another.

21The palate tasteth venison and the wise

heart false speeches.

22A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man

of experience will resist it.

23A woman will receive every man: yet one

daughter is better than another.

24The beauty of a woman cheereth the coun-

tenance of her husband, and a man desireth

nothing more.

25If she have a tongue that can cure, and

likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband

is not like other men.

26He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth

a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a

pillar of rest.

27Where there is no hedge, the possession

shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he

mourneth that is in want.

28Who will trust him that hath no rest, and

that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him,

as a robber well appointed, that skippeth from

city to city.Chapter 37

Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but

there is a friend, that is only a friend in name.

Is not this a grief even to death?

2But a companion and a friend shall be

turned to an enemy.
3O wicked presumption, whence camest thou

to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceit-

fulness?

4There is a companion who rejoiceth with his

friend in his joys, but in the time of trouble, he

will be against him.

5There is a companion who condoleth with

his friend for his belly's sake, and he will take

up a shield against the enemy.

6Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be

not unmindful of him in thy riches.

7Consult not with him that layeth a snare for

thee, and hide thy counsel from them that envy

thee.

8Every counsellor giveth out counsel, but

there is one that is a counsellor for himself.

9Beware of a counsellor. And know before

what need he hath: for he will devise to his own

mind:

10Lest he thrust a stake into the ground, and

say to thee:

11Thy way is good; and then stand on the

other side to see what shall befall thee.

12Treat not with a man without religion con-

cerning holiness, nor with an unjust man con-

cerning justice, nor with a woman touching her

of whom she is jealous, nor with a coward con-

cerning war, nor with a merchant about trac,

nor with a buyer of selling, nor with an envious

man of giving thanks,

13Nor with the ungodly of piety, nor with the

dishonest of honesty, nor with the eld laborer

of every work,866 Ecclesiasticus

14Nor with him that worketh by the year of

the nishing of the year, nor with an idle servant

of much business: give no heed to these in any

matter of counsel.

15But be continually with a holy man, whom-

soever thou shalt know to observe the fear of

God,

16Whose soul is according to thy own soul:

and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark,

will be sorry for thee.

17And establish within thyself a heart of good

counsel: for there is no other thing of more worth

to thee than it.

18The soul of a holy man discovereth some-

times true things, more than seven watchmen

that sit in a high place to watch.

19But above all these things pray to the most

High, that he may direct thy way in truth.

20In all thy works let the true word go before

thee, and steady counsel before every action.

21A wicked word shall change the heart: out

of which four manner of things arise, good and

evil, life and death: and the tongue is continually

the ruler of them. There is a man that is subtle

and a teacher of many, and yet is unprotable to

his own soul.

22A skilful man hath taught many, and is

sweet to his own soul.

23He that speaketh sophistically, is hateful:

he shall be destitute of every thing.

24Grace is not given him from the Lord: for

he is deprived of all wisdom.

25There is a wise man that is wise to his

own soul: and the fruit of his understanding is

commendable.

26A wise man instructeth his own people, and

the fruits of his understanding are faithful.

27A wise man shall be lled with blessings,

and they that see shall praise him.28The life of a man is in the number of his

days: but the days of Israel are innumerable.

29A wise man shall inherit honour among his

people, and his name shall live for ever.

30My son, prove thy soul in thy life: and if

it be wicked, give it no power:

31For all things are not expedient for all, and

every kind pleaseth not every soul.

32Be not greedy in any feasting, and pour

not out thyself upon any meat:

33For in many meats there will be sickness,

and greediness will turn to choler.

34By surfeiting many have perished, but he

that is temperate, shall prolong life.

Chapter 38

Honour the physician for the need thou hast of

him: for the most High hath created him.

2For all healing is from God, and he shall

receive gifts of the king.

3The skill of the physician shall lift up his

head, and in the sight of great men he shall be

praised.

4The most High hath created medicines out

of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

5Was not bitter water made sweet with wood?

6The virtue of these things is come to the

knowledge of men, and the most High hath given

knowledge to men, that he may be honoured in

his wonders.

7By these he shall cure and shall allay their

pains, and of these the apothecary shall make

sweet confections, and shall make up ointments

of health, and of his works there shall be no end.

8For the peace of God is over all the face of

the earth.

9My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself,

but pray to the Lord, and he shall heal thee.Ecclesiasticus 867

10Turn away from sin and order thy hands

aright, and cleanse thy heart from all oence.

11Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of

ne

our, and make a fat oering, and then give

place to the physician.

12For the Lord created him: and let him not

depart from thee, for his works are necessary.

13For there is a time when thou must fall into

their hands:

14And they shall beseech the Lord, that he

would prosper what they give for ease and rem-

edy, for their conversation.

15He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker,

shall fall into the hands of the physician.

16My son, shed tears over the dead, and begin

to lament as if thou hadst suered some great

harm, and according to judgment cover his body,

and neglect not his burial.

17And for fear of being ill spoken of weep

bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in

thy sadness.
18And make mourning for him according to

his merit for a day, or two, for fear of detraction.

19For of sadness cometh death, and it over-

whelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the

heart boweth down the neck.

20In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth:

and the substance of the poor is according to

his heart.

21Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive

it from thee: and remember the latter end.

22Forget it not: for there is no returning,

and thou shalt do him no good, and shalt hurt

thyself.

23Remember my judgment: for thine also

shall be so: yesterday for me, and to day for

thee.

24When the dead is at rest, let his remem-

brance rest, and comfort him in the departing of

his spirit.25The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time

of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall

receive wisdom.

26With what wisdom shall he be furnished

that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the

goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is

occupied in their labours, and his whole talk is

about the ospring of bulls?

27He shall give his mind to turn up furrows,

and his care is to give the kine fodder.

28So every craftsman and workmaster that

laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven

seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the

gure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance

of the picture, and by his watching shall nish

the work.

29So doth the smith sitting by the anvil and

considering the iron work. The vapour of the re

wasteth his

esh, and he ghteth with the heat

of the furnace.

30The noise of the hammer is always in his

ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel

he maketh.

31He setteth his mind to nish his work, and

his watching to polish them to perfection.

32So doth the potter sitting at his work, turn-

ing the wheel about with his feet, who is always

carefully set to his work, and maketh all his work

by number:

33He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and

boweth down his strength before his feet:

34He shall give his mind to nish the glazing,

and his watching to make clean the furnace.

35All these trust to their hands, and every

one is wise in his own art.

36Without these a city is not built.

37And they shall not dwell, nor walk about

therein, and they shall not go up into the assem-

bly.868 Ecclesiasticus

38Upon the judges' seat they shall not sit,

and the ordinance of judgment they shall not

understand, neither shall they declare discipline

and judgment, and they shall not be found where

parables are spoken:

39But they shall strengthen the state of the

world, and their prayer shall be in the work of

their craft, applying their soul, and searching in

the law of the most High.

Chapter 39

The wise man will seek out the wisdom of all the

ancients, and will be occupied in the prophets.

2He will keep the sayings of renowned men,

and will enter withal into the subtilties of para-

bles.

3He will search out the hidden meanings of

proverbs, and will be conversant in the secrets of

parables.

4He shall serve among great men, and appear

before the governor.

5He shall pass into strange countries: for he

shall try good and evil among men.

6He will give his heart to resort early to the

Lord that made him, and he will pray in the sight

of the most High.

7He will open his mouth in prayer, and will

make supplication for his sins.

8For if it shall please the great Lord, he will

ll him with the spirit of understanding:

9And he will pour forth the words of his wis-

dom as showers, and in his prayer he will confess

to the Lord.

10And he shall direct his counsel, and his

knowledge, and in his secrets shall he meditate.

11He shall shew forth the discipline he

hath learned, and shall glory in the law of the

covenant of the Lord.12Many shall praise his wisdom, and it shall

never be forgotten.

13The memory of him shall not depart away,

and his name shall be in request from generation

to generation.

14Nations shall declare his wisdom, and the

church shall shew forth his praise.

15If he continue, he shall leave a name above

a thousand: and if he rest, it shall be to his

advantage.
16I will yet meditate that I may declare: for

I am lled as with a holy transport.

17By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine

ospring, and bud forth as the rose planted by

the brooks of waters.

18Give ye a sweet odour as frankincense.

19Send forth

owers, as the lily, and yield a

smell, and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise

with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works.

20Magnify his name, and give glory to him

with the voice of your lips, and with the canticles

of your mouths, and with harps, and in praising

him, you shall say in this manner:

21All the works of the Lord are exceeding

good.

22At his word the waters stood as a heap:

and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of

waters:

23For at his commandment favour is shewn,

and there is no diminishing of his salvation.

24The works of all

esh are before him, and

there is nothing hid from his eyes.

25He seeth from eternity to eternity, and

there is nothing wonderful before him.

26There is no saying: What is this, or what

is that? for all things shall be sought in their

time.

27His blessing hath over

owed like a river.

28And as a

ood hath watered the earth; so

shall his wrath inherit the nations, that have notEcclesiasticus 869

sought after him.

29Even as he turned the waters into a dry

land, and the earth was made dry: and his ways

were made plain for their journey: so to sinners

they are stumblingblocks in his wrath.

30Good things were created for the good from

the beginning, so for the wicked, good and evil

things.

31The principal things necessary for the life

of men, are water, re, and iron, salt, milk, and

bread of

our, and honey, and the cluster of the

grape, and oil, and clothing.

32All these things shall be for good to the

holy, so to the sinners and the ungodly they shall

be turned into evil.

33There are spirits that are created for

vengeance, and in their fury they lay on grievous

torments.

34In the time of destruction they shall pour

out their force: and they shall appease the wrath

of him that made them.

35Fire, hail, famine, and death, all these were

created for vengeance.

36The teeth of beasts, and scorpions, and

serpents, and the sword taking vengeance upon

the ungodly unto destruction.

37In his commandments they shall feast, and

they shall be ready upon earth when need is, and

when their time is come they shall not transgress

his word.

38Therefore from the beginning I was re-

solved, and I have meditated, and thought on

these things and left them in writing,

39All the works of the Lord are good, and he

will furnish every work in due time.

40It is not to be said: This is worse than that:

for all shall be well approved in their time.

41Now therefore with the whole heart and

mouth praise ye him, and bless the name of the

Lord.Chapter 40

Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy

yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day

of their coming out of their mother's womb, until

the day of their burial into the mother of all.

2Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their

imagination of things to come, and the day of

their end:

3From him that sitteth on a glorious throne,

unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:

4From him that weareth purple, and beareth

the crown, even to him that is covered with

rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness,

and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,

5And in the time of rest upon his bed, the

sleep of the night changeth his knowledge.

6A little and as nothing is his rest, and after-

ward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch.

7He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if

he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time

of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that there

is no fear.

8Such things happen to all

esh, from man

even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold

more.

9Moreover, death, and bloodshed, strife, and

sword, oppressions, famine, and aiction, and

scourges:

10All these things are created for the wicked,

and for their sakes came the

ood.

11All things that are of the earth, shall return

to the earth again, and all waters shall return to

the sea.

12All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted

out, and delity shall stand for ever.

13The riches of the unjust shall be dried up

like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like

a great thunder in rain.870 Ecclesiasticus

14While he openeth his hands he shall rejoice:

but transgressors shall pine away in the end.

15The ospring of the ungodly shall not bring

forth many branches, and make a noise as un-

clean roots upon the top of a rock.

16The weed growing over every water, and at

the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before

all grass.

17Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and

mercy remaineth for ever.

18The life of a laborer that is content with

what he hath, shall be sweet, and in it thou shalt

nd a treasure.

19Children, and the building of a city shall

establish a name, but a blameless wife shall be

counted above them both.

20Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the

love of wisdom is above them both.

21The

ute and the psaltery make a sweet

melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them

both.

22Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but

more than these green sown elds.

23A friend and companion meeting together

in season, but above them both is a wife with

her husband.

24Brethren are a help in the time of trouble,

but mercy shall deliver more than they.

25Gold and silver make the feet stand sure:

but wise counsel is above them both.

26Riches and strength lift up the heart: but

above these is the fear of the Lord.

27There is no want in the fear of the Lord,

and it needeth not to seek for help.

28The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of

blessing, and they have covered it above all glory.

29My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for

it is better to die than to want.

30The life of him that looketh toward another

man's table is not to be counted a life: for hefeedeth his soul with another man's meat.

31But a man, well instructed and taught, will

look to himself.

32Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the

unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a re.

Chapter 41

O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee

to a man that hath peace in his possessions!

2To a man that is at rest, and whose ways

are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able

to take meat!

3O death thy sentence is welcome to the

man that is in need, and to him whose strength

faileth:

4Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care

about all things, and to the distrustful that los-

eth patience!

5Fear not the sentence of death. Remem-

ber what things have been before thee, and what

shall come after thee: this sentence is from the

Lord upon all

esh.

6And what shall come upon thee by the good

pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a

hundred, or a thousand years.

7For among the dead there is no accusing of

life.

8The children of sinners become children of

abominations, and they that converse near the

houses of the ungodly.

9The inheritance of the children of sinners

shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a

perpetual reproach.

10The children will complain of an ungodly

father, because for his sake they are in reproach.

11Woe to you, ungodly men, who have for-

saken the law of the most high Lord.Ecclesiasticus 871

12And if you be born, you shall be born in

malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall

be your portion.

13All things that are of the earth, shall re-

turn into the earth: so the ungodly shall from

malediction to destruction.

14The mourning of men is about their body,

but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out.

15Take care of a good name: for this shall

continue with thee, more than a thousand trea-

sures precious and great.

16A good life hath its number of days: but a

good name shall continue for ever.

17My children, keep discipline in peace: for

wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not

seen, what prot is there in them both?

18Better is the man that hideth his folly, than

the man that hideth his wisdom.

19Wherefore have a shame of these things I

am now going to speak of.

20For it is not good to keep all shamefaced-

ness: and all things do not please all men in

opinion.

21Be ashamed of fornication before father

and mother: and of a lie before a governor and

a man in power:

22Of an oence before a prince, and a judge:

of iniquity before a congregation and a people:

23Of injustice before a companion and friend:

and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,

24Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the

covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat,

and of deceit in giving and taking:

25Of silence before them that salute thee: of

looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy

face from thy kinsman.

26Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour,

and of taking away a portion and not restoring.

27Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be

not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approachnot her bed.

28Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before

friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not.

Chapter 42
Repeat not the word which thou hast heard, and

disclose not the thing that is secret; so shalt thou

be truly without confusion, and shalt nd favour

before all men: be not ashamed of any of these

things, and accept no person to sin thereby:

2Of the law of the most High, and of his

covenant, and of judgment to justify the un-

godly:

3Of the aair of companions and travellers,

and of the gift of the inheritance of friends:

4Of exactness of balance and weights, of get-

ting much or little:

5Of the corruption of buying, and of mer-

chants, and of much correction of children, and

to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed.

6Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.

7Where there are many hands, shut up, and

deliver all things in number, and weight: and put

all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.

8Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and

foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young

men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all

things, and well approved in the sight of all men

living.

9The father waketh for the daughter when no

man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away

his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away

the

ower of her age, and when she is married,

lest she should be hateful:

10In her virginity, lest she should be cor-

rupted, and be found with child in her father's

house: and having a husband, lest she should872 Ecclesiasticus

misbehave herself, or at the least become bar-

ren.

11Keep a sure watch over a shameless daugh-

ter: lest at anytime she make thee become a

laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in

the city, and a reproach among the people, and

she make thee ashamed before all the multitude.

12Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry

not among women.

13For from garments cometh a moth, and

from a woman the iniquity of a man.

14For better is the iniquity of a man, than a

woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing

shame and reproach.

15I will now remember the works of the Lord,

and I will declare the things I have seen. By the

words of the Lord are his works.

16The sun giving light hath looked upon all

things, and full of the glory of the Lord is his

work.

17Hath not the Lord made the saints to de-

clare all his wonderful works, which the Lord

Almighty hath rmly settled to be established

for his glory?

18He hath searched out the deep, and the

heart of men: and considered their crafty de-

vices.

19For the Lord knoweth all knowledge, and

hath beheld the signs of the world, he declareth

the things that are past, and the things that

are to come, and revealeth the traces of hidden

things.

20No thought escapeth him, and no word can

hide itself from him.

21He hath beautied the glorious works of

his wisdom: and he is from eternity to eternity,

and to him nothing may be added,

22Nor can he be diminished, and he hath no

need of any counsellor.23O how desirable are all his works, and what

we can know is but as a spark!

24All these things live, and remain for ever,

and for every use all things obey him.

25All things are double, one against another,

and he hath made nothing defective.

26He hath established the good things of ev-

ery one. And who shall be lled with beholding

his glory?

Chapter 43

The rmament on high is his beauty, the beauty

of heaven with its glorious shew.

2The sun when he appeareth shewing forth

at his rising, an admirable instrument, the work

of the most High.

3At noon he burneth the earth, and who can

abide his burning heat? As one keeping a furnace

in the works of heat:

4The sun three times as much, burneth the

mountains, breathing out ery vapours, and

shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes.

5Great is the Lord that made him, and at his

words he hath hastened his course.

6And the moon in all in her season, is for a

declaration of times and a sign of the world.

7From the moon is the sign of the festival day,

a light that decreaseth in her perfection.

8The month is called after her name, increas-

ing wonderfully in her perfection.

9Being an instrument of the armies on high,

shining gloriously in the rmament of heaven.

10The glory of the stars is the beauty of

heaven; the Lord enlighteneth the world on high.

11By the words of the holy one they stand in

judgment, and shall never fall in their watches.

12Look upon the rainbow, and bless him that

made it: it is very beautiful in its brightness.Ecclesiasticus 873

13It encompasseth the heaven about with the

circle of its glory, the hands of the most High

have displayed it.

14By his commandment he maketh the snow

to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the light-

nings of his judgment.

15Through this are the treasures opened, and

the clouds

y out like birds.

16By his greatness he hath xed the clouds,

and the hailstones are broken.

17At his sight shall the mountains be shaken,

and at his will the south wind shall blow.

18The noise of his thunder shall strike the

earth, so doth the northern storm, and the whirl-

wind:

19And as the birds lighting upon the earth,

he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as

the coming down of locusts.

20The eye admireth at the beauty of the

whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished

at the shower thereof.

21He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth:

and when it freezeth, it shall become like the

tops of thistles.

22The cold north wind bloweth, and the wa-

ter is congealed into crystal; upon every gath-

ering together of waters it shall rest, and shall

clothe the waters as a breastplate.

23And it shall devour the mountains, and

burn the wilderness, and consume all that is

green as with re.

24A present remedy of all is the speedy com-

ing of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the

heat that cometh, shall overpower it.

25At his word the wind is still, and with his

thought he appeaseth the deep, and the Lord

hath planted islands therein.

26Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dan-

gers thereof: and when we hear with our ears,

we shall admire.27There are great and wonderful works: a

variety of beasts, and of all living things, and

the monstrous creatures of whales.

28Through him is established the end of their

journey, and by his word all things are regulated.

29We shall say much, and yet shall want

words: but the sum of our words is, He is all.

30What shall we be able to do to glorify him?

for the Almighty himself is above all his works.

31The Lord is terrible, and exceeding great,

and his power is admirable.

32Glorify the Lord as much as ever you can,

for he will yet far exceed, and his magnicence

is wonderful.

33Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as

you can; for he is above all praise.

34When you exalt him put forth all your

strength, and be not weary: for you can never

go far enough.

35Who shall see him, and declare him? and

who shall magnify him as he is from the begin-

ning?

36There are many things hidden from us that

are greater than these: for we have seen but a

few of his works.

37But the Lord hath made all things, and to

the godly he hath given wisdom.

Chapter 44

Let us now praise men of renown and our fathers

in their generation.

2The Lord hath wrought great glory through

his magnicence from the beginning.

3Such as have borne rule in their dominions,

men of great power, and endued with their wis-

dom, shewing forth in the prophets the dignity

of prophets,874 Ecclesiasticus

4And ruling over the present people, and by

the strength of wisdom instructing the people in

most holy words.

5Such as by their skill sought out musical

tunes, and published canticles of the scriptures.

6Rich men in virtue, studying beautifulness:

living at peace in their houses.

7All these have gained glory in their genera-

tions, and were praised in their days.

8They that were born of them have left a

name behind them, that their praises might be

related:

9And there are some, of whom there is no

memorial: who are perished, as if they had never

been: and are become as if they had never been

born, and their children with them.

10But these were men of mercy, whose godly

deeds have not failed:

11Good things continue with their seed,

12Their posterity are a holy inheritance, and

their seed hath stood in the covenants.

13And their children for their sakes remain

for ever: their seed and their glory shall not be

forsaken.
14Their bodies are buried in peace, and their

name liveth unto generation and generation.

15Let the people shew forth their wisdom,

and the church declare their praise.

16Henoch pleased God, and was translated

into paradise, that he may give repentance to

the nations.

17Noe was found perfect, just, and in the

time of wrath he was made a reconciliation.

18Therefore was there a remnant left to the

earth, when the

ood came.

19The covenants of the world were made with

him, that all

esh should no more be destroyed

with the

ood.

20Abraham was the great father of a multi-

tude of nations, and there was not found the liketo him in glory, who kept the law of the most

High, and was in covenant with him.

21In his

esh he established the covenant,

and in temptation he was found faithful.

22Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in

his posterity, that he should increase as the dust

of the earth,
23And that he would exalt his seed as the

stars, and they should inherit from sea to sea,

and from the river to the ends of the earth.

24And he did in like manner with Isaac for

the sake of Abraham his father.

25The Lord gave him the blessing of all na-

tions, and conrmed his covenant upon the head

of Jacob.

26He acknowledged him in his blessings, and

gave him an inheritance, and divided him his

portion in twelve tribes.

27And he preserved for him men of mercy,

that found grace in the eyes of all

esh.

Chapter 45

Moses was beloved of God, and men: whose

memory is in benediction.

2He made him like the saints in glory, and

magnied him in the fear of his enemies, and

with his words he made prodigies to cease.

3He gloried him in the sight of kings, and

gave him commandments in the sight of his peo-

ple, and shewed him his glory.

4He sanctied him in his faith, and meekness,

and chose him out of all

esh.
5For he heard him, and his voice, and brought

him into a cloud.

6And he gave him commandments before his

face, and a law of life and instruction, that he

might teach Jacob his covenant, and Israel his

judgments.Ecclesiasticus 875

7He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to

himself of the tribe of Levi:

8He made an everlasting covenant with him,

and gave him the priesthood of the nation, and

made him blessed in glory,

9And he girded him about with a glorious

girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and

crowned him with majestic attire.

10He put upon him a garment to the feet, and

breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him

with many little bells of gold all round about,

11That as he went there might be a sound,

and a noise made that might be heard in the tem-

ple, for a memorial to the children of his people.

12He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue,

and purple, a woven work of a wise man, endued

with judgment and truth:

13Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist,

with precious stones cut and set in gold, and

graven by the work of a lapidary for a memorial,

according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

14And a crown of gold upon his mitre wherein

was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour:

a work of power, and delightful to the eyes for

its beauty.

15Before him there were none so beautiful,

even from the beginning.

16No stranger was ever clothed with them,

but only his children alone, and his grandchil-

dren for ever.

17His sacrices were consumed with re every

day.

18Moses lled his hands and anointed him

with holy oil.

19This was made to him for an everlasting

testament, and to his seed as the days of heaven,

to execute the oce of the priesthood, and to

have praise, and to glorify his people in his name.

20He chose him out of all men living, to oer

sacrice to God, incense, and a good savour, fora memorial to make reconciliation for his people:

21And he gave him power in his command-

ments, in the covenants of his judgments, that

he should teach Jacob his testimonies, and give

light to Israel in his law.

22And strangers stood up against him, and

through envy the men that were with Dathan

and Abiron, compassed him about in the wilder-

ness, and the congregation of Core in their

wrath.

23The Lord God saw and it pleased him not,

and they were consumed in his wrathful indig-

nation.

24He wrought wonders upon them, and con-

sumed them with a

ame of re.

25And he added glory to Aaron, and gave

him an inheritance, and divided unto him the

rstfruits of the increase of the earth.

26He prepared them bread in the rst place

unto fulness: for the sacrices also of the Lord

they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to his

seed.

27But he shall not inherit among the people

in the land, and he hath no portion among the

people: for he himself is his portion and inheri-

tance.

28Phinees the son of Eleazar is the third in

glory, by imitating him in the fear of the Lord:

29And he stood up in the shameful fall of the

people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul

he appeased God for Israel.

30Therefore he made to him a covenant of

peace, to be the prince of the sanctuary, and of

his people, that the dignity of priesthood should

be to him and to his seed for ever.

31And a covenant to David the king, the son

of Jesse of the tribe of Juda, an inheritance to

him and to his seed, that he might give wisdom

into our heart to judge his people in justice, that

their good things might not be abolished, and he876 Ecclesiasticus

made their glory in their nation everlasting.

Chapter 46

Valiant in war was Jesus the son of Nave, who

was successor of Moses among the prophets, who

was great according to his name,

2Very great for the saving the elect of God,

to overthrow the enemies that rose up against

them, that he might get the inheritance for Is-

rael.

3How great glory did he gain when he lifted

up his hands, and stretched out swords against

the cities?

4Who before him hath so resisted? for the

Lord himself brought the enemies.

5Was not the sun stopped in his anger, and

one day made as two?

6He called upon the most high Sovereign

when the enemies assaulted him on every side,

and the great and holy God heard him by hail-

stones of exceeding great force.

7He made a violent assault against the nation

of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed

the adversaries.

8That the nations might know his power, that

it is not easy to ght against God. And he fol-

lowed the mighty one:

9And in the days of Moses he did a work

of mercy, he and Caleb the son of Jephone, in

standing against the enemy, and withholding the

people from sins, and appeasing the wicked mur-

muring.

10And they two being appointed, were deliv-

ered out of the danger from among the number

of six hundred thousand men on foot, to bring

them into their inheritance, into the land that

oweth with milk and honey.

11And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb,and his strength continued even to his old age,

so that he went up to the high places of the land,

and his seed obtained it for an inheritance:

12That all the children of Israel might see,

that it is good to obey the holy God.

13Then all the judges, every one by name,

whose heart was not corrupted: who turned not

away from the Lord,

14That their memory might be blessed, and

their bones spring up out of their place,

15And their name continue for ever, the glory

of the holy men remaining unto their children.

16Samuel the prophet of the Lord, the

beloved of the Lord his God, established a new

government, and anointed princes over his peo-

ple.

17By the law of the Lord he judged the con-

gregation, and the God of Jacob beheld, and by

his delity he was proved a prophet.

18And he was known to be faithful in his

words, because he saw the God of light:

19And called upon the name of the Lord

Almighty, in ghting against the enemies who

beset him on every side, when he oered a lamb

without blemish.

20And the Lord thundered from heaven, and

with a great noise made his voice to be heard.

21And he crushed the princes of the Tyrians,

and all the lords of the Philistines:

22And before the time of the end of his life

in the world, he protested before the Lord, and

his anointed: money, or any thing else, even to a

shoe, he had not taken of any man, and no man

did accuse him.

23And after this he slept, and he made known

to the king, and shewed him the end of his life,

and he lifted up his voice from the earth in

prophecy to blot out the wickedness of the na-

tion.Ecclesiasticus 877

Chapter 47

Then Nathan the prophet arose in the days of

David.

2And as the fat taken away from the

esh,

so was David chosen from among the children of

Israel.

3He played with lions as with lambs: and with

bears he did in like manner as with the lambs of

the

ock, in his youth.

4Did not he kill the giant, and take away

reproach from his people?

5In lifting up his hand, with the stone in the

sling he beat down the boasting of Goliath:

6For he called upon the Lord the Almighty,

and he gave strength in his right hand, to take

away the mighty warrior, and to set up the horn

of his nation.

7So in ten thousand did he glorify him, and

praised him in the blessings of the Lord, in of-

fering to him a crown of glory:

8For he destroyed the enemies on every side,

and extirpated the Philistines the adversaries

unto this day: he broke their horn for ever.

9In all his works he gave thanks to the holy

one, and to the most High, with words of glory.

10With his whole heart he praised the Lord,

and loved God that made him: and he gave him

power against his enemies:

11And he set singers before the altar, and by

their voices he made sweet melody.

12And to the festivals he added beauty, and

set in order the solemn times even to the end of

his life, that they should praise the holy name

of the Lord, and magnify the holiness of God in

the morning.

13The Lord took away his sins, and exalted

his horn for ever: and he gave him a covenant of

the kingdom, and a throne of glory in Israel.14After him arose up a wise son, and for his

sake he cast down all the power of the enemies.

15Solomon reigned in days of peace, and God

brought all his enemies under him, that he might

build a house in his name, and prepare a sanctu-

ary for ever: O how wise wast thou in thy youth!

16And thou wast lled as a river with wis-

dom, and thy soul covered the earth.

17And thou didst multiply riddles in para-

bles: thy name went abroad to the islands far

o, and thou wast beloved in thy peace.

18The countries wondered at thee for thy can-

ticles, and proverbs, and parables, and interpre-

tations,

19And at the name of the Lord God, whose

surname is, God of Israel.

20Thou didst gather gold as copper, and didst

multiply silver as lead,

21And thou didst bow thyself to women: and

by thy body thou wast brought under subjection.

22Thou hast stained thy glory, and deled

thy seed so as to bring wrath upon thy children,

and to have thy folly kindled,

23That thou shouldst make the kingdom to

be divided, and out of Ephraim a rebellious king-

dom to rule.

24But God will not leave o his mercy, and

he will not destroy, nor abolish his own works,

neither will he cut up by the roots the ospring

of his elect: and he will not utterly take away

the seed of him that loveth the Lord.

25Wherefore he gave a remnant to Jacob, and

to David of the same stock.

26And Solomon had an end with his fathers.

27And he left behind him of his seed, the folly

of the nation,

28Even Roboam that had little wisdom, who

turned away the people through his counsel:

29And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who

caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the878 Ecclesiasticus

way of sin, and their sins were multiplied ex-

ceedingly.

30They removed them far away from their

land.

31And they sought out all iniquities, till

vengeance came upon them, and put an end to

all their sins.

And Elias the prophet stood up, as a re, and

his word burnt like a torch.

2He brought a famine upon them, and they

that provoked him in their envy, were reduced

to a small number, for they could not endure

the commandments of the Lord.

3By the word of the Lord he shut up the

heaven, and he brought down re from heaven

thrice.

4Thus was Elias magnied in his wondrous

works. And who can glory like to thee?

5Who raisedst up a dead man from below,

from the lot of death, by the word of the Lord

God.

6Who broughtest down kings to destruction,

and brokest easily their power in pieces, and the

glorious from their bed.

7Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in

Horeb the judgments of vengeance.

8Who anointedst kings to penance, and

madest prophets successors after thee.

9Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of re, in

a chariot of ery horses.

10Who art registered in the judgments of

times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to rec-

oncile the heart of the father to the son, and to

restore the tribes of Jacob.

11Blessed are they that saw thee, and were

honoured with thy friendship.

12For we live only in our life, but after death

our name shall not be such.

13Elias was indeed covered with the whirl-

wind, and his spirit was lled up in Eliseus: inhis days he feared not the prince, and no man

was more powerful than he.

14No word could overcome him, and after

death his body prophesied.

15In his life he did great wonders, and in

death he wrought miracles.

16For all this the people repented not, neither

did they depart from their sins till they were cast

out of their land, and were scattered through all

the earth.

17And there was left but a small people, and

a prince in the house of David.

18Some of these did that which pleased God:

but others committed many sins.

19Ezechias fortied his city, and brought in

water into the midst thereof, and he digged a

rock with iron, and made a well for water.

20In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent

Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand against them,

and he stretched out his hand against Sion, and

became proud through his power.

21Then their hearts and hands trembled, and

they were in pain as women in travail.

22And they called upon the Lord who is mer-

ciful, and spreading their hands, they lifted them

up to heaven: and the holy Lord God quickly

heard their voice.

23He was not mindful of their sins, neither

did he deliver them up to their enemies, but he

puried them by the hand of Isaias, the holy

prophet.

24He overthrew the army of the Assyrians,

and the angel of the Lord destroyed them.

25For Ezechias did that which pleased God,

and walked valiantly in the way of David his fa-

ther, which Isaias, the great prophet, and faith-

ful in the sight of God, had commanded him.

26In his days the sun wen backward, and he

lengthened the king's life.Ecclesiasticus 879

27With a great spirit he saw the things that

are to come to pass at last, and comforted the

mourners in Sion.

28He showed what should come to pass for

ever, and secret things before they came.

Chapter 49

The memory of Josias is like the composition of

a sweet smell made by the art of a perfumer:

2His remembrance shall be sweet as honey in

every mouth, and as music at a banquet of wine.

3He was directed by God unto the repentance

of the nation, and he took away the abomina-

tions of wickedness.

4And he directed his heart towards the Lord,

and in the days of sinners he strengthened god-

liness.

5Except David, and Ezechias and Josias, all

committed sin.

6For the kings of Juda forsook the law of the

most High, and despised the fear of God.

7So they gave their kingdom to others, and

their glory to a strange nation,

8They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and

made the streets thereof desolate according to

the prediction of Jeremias.

9For they treated him evil, who was conse-

crated a prophet from his mother's womb, to

overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to

build again, and renew.

10It was Ezechiel that saw the glorious vi-

sion, which was shewn him upon the chariot of

cherubims.

11For he made mention of the enemies under

the gure of rain, and of doing good to them that

shewed right ways.

12And may the bones of the twelve prophets

spring up out of their place: for they strength-ened Jacob, and redeemed themselves by strong

faith.

13How shall we magnify Zorobabel? for he

was as a signet on the right hand;

14In like manner Jesus the son of Josedec

who in their days built the house, and set up a

holy temple to the Lord, prepared for everlasting

glory.

15And let Nehemias be a long time remem-

bered, who raised up for us our walls that were

cast down, and set up the gates and the bars,

who rebuilt our houses.

16No man was born upon earth like Henoch:

for he also was taken up from the earth.

17Nor as Joseph, who was a man born prince

of his brethren, the support of his family, the

ruler of his brethren, the stay of the people:

18And his bones were visited, and after death

they prophesied.

19Seth and Sem obtained glory among men:

and above every soul Adam in the beginning,

Chapter 50

Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in

his life propped up the house, and in his days

fortied the temple.

2By him also the height of the temple was

founded, the double building and the high walls

of the temple.

3In his days the wells of water

owed out, and

they were lled as the sea above measure.

4He took care of his nation, and delivered it

from destruction.

5He prevailed to enlarge the city, and ob-

tained glory in his conversation with the people:

and enlarged the entrance of the house and the

court.880 Ecclesiasticus

6He shone in his days as the morning star in

the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at the full.

7And as the sun when it shineth, so did he

shine in the temple of God.

8And as the rainbow giving light in bright

clouds, and as the

ower of roses in the days

of the spring, and as the lilies that are on the

brink of the water, and as the sweet smelling

frankincense in the time of summer.

9As a bright re, and frankincense burning in

the re.

10As a massy vessel of gold, adorned with

every precious stone.

11As an olive tree budding forth, and a cy-

press tree rearing itself on high, when he put on

the robe of glory, and was clothed with the per-

fection of power.

12When he went up to the holy altar, he hon-

oured the vesture of holiness.

13And when he took the portions out of the

hands of the priests, he himself stood by the al-

tar. And about him was the ring of his brethren:

and as the cedar planted in mount Libanus,

14And as branches of palm trees, they stood

round about him, and all the sons of Aaron in

their glory.

15And the oblation of the Lord was in their

hands, before all the congregation of Israel: and

nishing his service, on the altar, to honour the

oering of the most high King,

16He stretched forth his hand to make a li-

bation, and oered of the blood of the grape.

17He poured out at the foot of the altar a

divine odour to the most high Prince.

18Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they

sounded with beaten trumpets, and made a great

noise to be heard for a remembrance before God.

19Then all the people together made haste,

and fell down to the earth upon their faces, toadore the Lord their God, and to pray to the

Almighty God the most High.

20And the singers lifted up their voices, and

in the great house the sound of sweet melody was

increased.

21And the people in prayer besought the Lord

the most High, until the worship of the Lord was

perfected, and they had nished their oce.

22Then coming down, he lifted up his hands

over all the congregation of the children of Israel,

to give glory to God with his lips, and to glory

in his name:

23And he repeated his prayer, willing to shew

the power of God.

24And now pray ye to the God of all, who

hath done great things in all the earth, who hath

increased our days from our mother's womb, and

hath done with us according to his mercy.

25May he grant us joyfulness of heart, and

that there be peace in our days in Israel for ever:

26That Israel may believe that the mercy of

God is with us, to deliver us in his days.

27There are two nations which my soul ab-

horreth: and the third is no nation: which I hate:

28They that sit on mount Seir, and the

Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in

Sichem.

29Jesus the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem, hath

written in this book the doctrine of wisdom and

instruction, who renewed wisdom from his heart.

30Blessed is he that is conversant in these

good things and he that layeth them up in his

heart, shall be wise always.

31For if he do them, he shall be strong to do

all things: because the light of God guideth his

steps.Ecclesiasticus 881

Chapter 51
A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach. I will give

glory to thee, O Lord, O King, and I will praise

thee, O God my Saviour.

2I will give glory to thy name: for thou hast

been a helper and protector to me.

3And hast preserved my body from destruc-

tion, from the snare of an unjust tongue, and

from the lips of them that forge lies, and in the

sight of them that stood by, thou hast been my

helper.

4And thou hast delivered me, according to

the multitude of the mercy of thy name, from

them that did roar, prepared to devour.

5Out of the hands of them that sought my

life, and from the gates of aictions, which com-

passed me about:

6From the oppression of the

ame which sur-

rounded me, and in the midst of the re I was

not burnt.

7From the depth of the belly of hell, and from

an unclean tongue, and from lying words, from

an unjust king, and from a slanderous tongue:

8My soul shall praise the Lord even to death.

9And my life was drawing near to hell be-

neath.
10They compassed me on every side, and

there was no one that would help me. I looked

for the succour of men, and there was none.

11I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and

thy works, which are from the beginning of the

world.

12How thou deliverest them that wait for

thee, O Lord, and savest them out of the hands

of the nations.

13Thou hast exalted my dwelling place upon

the earth and I have prayed for death to pass

away.

14I called upon the Lord, the father of myLord, that he would not leave me in the day of

my trouble, and in the time of the proud without

help.

15I will praise thy name continually, and will

praise it with thanksgiving, and my prayer was

heard.

16And thou hast saved me from destruction,

and hast delivered me from the evil time.

17Therefore I will give thanks, and praise

thee, and bless the name of the Lord.

18When I was yet young, before I wandered

about, I sought for wisdom openly in my prayer.

19I prayed for her before the temple, and unto

the very end I will seek after her, and she

our-

ished as a grape soon ripe.

20My heart delighted in her, my foot walked

in the right way, from my youth up I sought after

her.

21I bowed down my ear a little, and received

her.

22I found much wisdom in myself, and prof-

ited much therein.

23To him that giveth me wisdom, will I give

glory.

24For I have determined to follow her: I have

had a zeal for good, and shall not be confounded.

25My soul hath wrestled for her, and in doing

it I have been conrmed.

26I stretched forth my hands on high, and I

bewailed my ignorance of her.

27I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge

I found her.

28I possessed my heart with her from the

beginning: therefore I shall not be forsaken.

29My entrails were troubled in seeking her:

therefore shall I possess a good possession.

30The Lord hath given me a tongue for my

reward: and with it I will praise him.

31Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather

yourselves together into the hours of discipline.882 Ecclesiasticus

32Why are ye slow and what do you say of

these things? your souls are exceeding thirsty.

33I have opened my mouth, and have spoken:

buy her for yourselves without silver,

34And submit your neck to the yoke, and let

your soul receive discipline: for she is near at

hand to be found.

35Behold with your eyes how I have laboured

a little, and have found much rest to myself.

36Receive ye discipline as a great sum of

money, and possess abundance of gold by her.

37Let your soul rejoice in his mercy and you

shall not be confounded in his praise.

38Work your work before the time, and he

will give you your reward in his time.Prophecy of Isaias

Chapter 1

The vision of Isaias the Son of Amos, which he

saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days

of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of

Juda.

2Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth,

for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up chil-

dren, and exalted them: but they have despised

me.

3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his

master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and

my people hath not understood.

4Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden

with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children:

they have forsaken the Lord, they have blas-

phemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone

away backwards.

5For what shall I strike you any more, you

that increase transgression? the whole head is

sick, and the whole heart is sad.

6From the sole of the foot unto the top of the

head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and

bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound

up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.

7Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt

with re: your country strangers devour before

your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted

by enemies.

8And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a

covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a gardenof cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

9Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed,

we had been as Sodom, and we should have been

like to Gomorrha.

10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of

Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people

of Gomorrha.
11To what purpose do you oer me the multi-

tude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I

desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings,

and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

12When you came to appear before me, who

required these things at your hands, that you

should walk in my courts?

13Oer sacrice no more in vain: incense is

an abomination to me. The new moons, and

the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide,

your assemblies are wicked.

14My soul hateth your new moons, and your

solemnities: they are become troublesome to me,

I am weary of bearing them.

15And when you stretch forth your hands, I

will turn away my eyes from you: and when you

multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands

are full of blood.

16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the

evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do

perversely,

17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve

the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend

the widow.884 Prophecy of Isaias

18And then come, and accuse me, saith the

Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be

made as white as snow: and if they be red as

crimson, they shall be white as wool.

19If you be willing, and will hearken to me,

you shall eat the good things of the land.

20But if you will not, and will provoke me to

wrath: the sword shall devour you because the

mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21How is the faithful city, that was full of

judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it,

but now murderers.

22Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is

mingled with water.

23Thy princes are faithless, companions of

thieves: they all love bribes, they run after re-

wards. They judge not for the fatherless: and

the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

24Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts,

the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort my-

self over my adversaries: and I will be revenged

of my enemies.

25And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will

clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away

all thy tin.

26And I will restore thy judges as they were

before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this

thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful

city.

27Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and

they shall bring her back in justice.

28And he shall destroy the wicked, and the

sinners together: and they that have forsaken

the Lord, shall be consumed.

29For they shall be confounded for the idols,

to which they have sacriced: and you shall be

ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

30When you shall be as an oak with the leaves

falling o, and as a garden without water.31And your strength shall be as the ashes of

tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall

burn together, and there shall be none to quench

it.

Chapter 2

The word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, con-

cerning Juda and Jerusalem.

2And in the last days the mountain of the

house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top

of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the

hills, and all nations shall

ow unto it.

3And many people shall go, and say: Come

and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he

will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his

paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion,

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke

many people: and they shall turn their swords

into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles:

nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nei-

ther shall they be exercised any more to war.

5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk

in the light of the Lord.

6For thou hast cast o thy people, the house

of Jacob: because they are lled as in times past,

and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and

have adhered to strange children.

7Their land is lled with silver and gold: and

there is no end of their treasures.

8And their land is lled with horses: and their

chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full

of idols: they have adored the work of their own

hands, which their own ngers have made.

9And man hath bowed himself down, and

man hath been debased: therefore forgive them

not.Prophecy of Isaias 885

10Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in

the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and

from the glory of his majesty.

11The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the

haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and

the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

12Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall

be upon every one that is proud and highminded,

and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall

be humbled.

13And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of

Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan.

14And upon all the high mountains and upon

all the elevated hills.

15And upon every high tower, and every

fenced wall.

16And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and

upon all that is fair to behold.

17And the loftiness of men shall be bowed

down, and the haughtiness of men shall be hum-

bled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that

day.

18And idols shall be utterly destroyed.

19And they shall go into the holes of rocks,

and into the caves of the earth from the face of

the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his

majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

20In that day a man shall cast away his idols

of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made

for himself to adore, moles and bats.

21And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and

into the holes of stones from the face of the fear

of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty,

when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

22Cease ye therefore from the man, whose

breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.Chapter 3

For behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall take

away from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant

and the strong, the whole strength of bread, and

the whole strength of water.

2The strong man, and the man of war, the

judge, and the prophet and the cunning man,

and the ancient.

3The captain over fty, and the honourable

in countenance, and the counsellor, and the ar-

chitect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.

4And I will give children to be their princes,

and the eeminate shall rule over them.

5And the people shall rush one upon another,

and every man against his neighbour: the child

shall make a tumult against the ancient, and the

base against the honourable.

6For a man shall take hold of his brother, one

of the house of his father, saying: Thou hast a

garment, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be

under thy hand.

7In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no

healer, and in my house there is no bread, nor

clothing: make me not ruler of the people.

8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen:

because their tongue, and their devices are

against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his

majesty.

9The shew of their countenance hath an-

swered them: and they have proclaimed abroad

their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe

to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

10Say to the just man that it is well, for he

shall eat the fruit of his doings.

11Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward

of his hands shall be given him.

12As for my people, their oppressors have

stripped them, and women have ruled over them.

O my people, they that call thee blessed, the886 Prophecy of Isaias

same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy

steps.

13The Lord standeth up to judge, and he

standeth to judge the people.

14The Lord will enter into judgment with the

ancients of his people, and its princes: for you

have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the

poor is in your house.

15Why do you consume my people, and grind

the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of

hosts.

16And the Lord said: Because the daugh-

ters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with

stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their

eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their

feet and moved in a set pace:

17The Lord will make bald the crown of the

head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will

discover their hair.

18In that day the Lord will take away the

ornaments of shoes, and little moons,

19And chains and necklaces, and bracelets,

and bonnets,

20And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs,

and tablets, and sweet balls, and earrings,

21And rings, and jewels hanging on the fore-

head,

22And changes of apparel, and short cloaks,

and ne linen, and crisping pins,

23And lookingglasses, and lawns, and head-

bands, and ne veils.

24And instead of a sweet smell there shall

be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and

instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a

stomacher, haircloth.

25Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword,

and thy valiant ones in battle.

26And her gates shall lament and mourn, and

she shall sit desolate on the ground.Chapter 4

And in that day seven women shall take hold of

one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and

wear our own apparel: only let us be called by

thy name, take away our reproach.

2In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in

magnicence and glory, and the fruit of the earth

shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall

have escaped of Israel.

3And it shall come to pass, that every one

that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain

in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that

is written in life in Jerusalem.

4If the Lord shall wash away the lth of the

daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood

of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the

spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

5And the Lord will create upon every place

of mount Sion, and where he is called upon, a

cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of

aming re in the night: for over all the glory

shall be a protection.

6And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade

in the daytime from the heat, and for a security

and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain.

Chapter 5

I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin

concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vine-

yard on a hill in a fruitful place.

2And he fenced it in, and picked the stones

out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines,

and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set

up a winepress therein: and he looked that it

should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth

wild grapes.

3And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,Prophecy of Isaias 887

and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my

vineyard.

4What is there that I ought to do more to my

vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that

I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it

hath brought forth wild grapes?

5And now I will shew you what I will do to

my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof,

and it shall be wasted: I will break down the

wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.

6And I will make it desolate: it shall not be

pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers

and thorns shall come up: and I will command

the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the

house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleas-

ant plant: and I looked that he should do judg-

ment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and

behold a cry.

8Woe to you that join house to house and lay

eld to eld, even to the end of the place: shall

you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?

9These things are in my ears, saith the Lord

of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall

become desolate, without an inhabitant.

10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one

little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall

yield three bushels.

11Woe to you that rise up early in the morn-

ing to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the

evening, to be in

amed with wine.

12The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel

and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and

the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you

consider the works of his hands.

13Therefore is my people led away captive,

because they had not knowledge, and their no-

bles have perished with famine, and their multi-

tude were dried up with thirst.

14Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, andopened her mouth without any bounds, and their

strong ones, and their people, and their high and

glorious ones shall go down into it.

15And man shall be brought down, and man

shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall

be brought low.

16And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in

judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctied

in justice.

17And the lambs shall feed according to their

order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned

into fruitfulness.

18Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords

of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

19That say: Let him make haste, and let his

work come quickly, that we may see it: and let

the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that

we may know it.

20Woe to you that call evil good, and good

evil: that put darkness for light, and light for

darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet

for bitter.

21Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes,

and prudent in your own conceits.

22Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine,

and stout men at drunkenness.

23That justify the wicked for gifts, and take

away the justice of the just from him.

24Therefore as the tongue of the re de-

voureth the stubble, and the heat of the

ame

consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes,

and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have

cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have

blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled

against his people, and he hath stretched out

his hand upon them, and struck them: and the

mountains were troubles, and their carcasses be-

came as dung in the midst of the streets. For

after this his anger is not turned away, but his888 Prophecy of Isaias

hand is stretched out still.

26And he will lift up a sign to the nations

afar o, and will whistle to them from the ends

of the earth: and behold they shall come with

speed swiftly.

27There is none that shall faint, nor labour

among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep,

neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,

nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.

28Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows

are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like

the

int, and their wheels like the violence of a

tempest.

29Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall

roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and

take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast

hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

30And they shall make a noise against them

that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall

look towards the land, and behold darkness of

tribulation, and the light is darkened with the

mist thereof.

Chapter 6

In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord

sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his

train lled the temple.

2Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had

six wings, and the other had six wings: with two

they covered his face, and with two they covered

his feet, and with two they

ew.

3And they cried one to another, and said:

Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the

earth is full of his glory,

4And the lintels of the doors were moved at

the voice of him that cried, and the house was

lled with smoke.

5And I said: Woe is me, because I have heldmy peace; because I am a man of unclean lips,

and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath

unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the

King the Lord of hosts.

6And one of the seraphims

ew to me, and

in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken

with the tongs o the altar.

7And he touched my mouth, and said: Be-

hold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniq-

uities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be

cleansed.

8And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us?

And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.

9And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this

people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and

see the vision, and know it not.

10Blind the heart of this people, and make

their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they

see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and

understand with their heart, and be converted

and I heal them.

11And I said: How long, O Lord? And he

said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabi-

tant, and the houses without man, and the land

shall be left desolate.

12And the Lord shall remove men far away,

and she shall be multiplied that was left in the

midst of the earth.

13And there shall be still a tithing therein,

and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a

turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its

branches: that which shall stand therein, shall

be a holy seed.

Chapter 7

And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the

son of Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda,Prophecy of Isaias 889

that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son of

Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to

ght against it: but they could not prevail over

it.

2And they told the house of David, saying:

Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart

was moved, and the heart of his people, as the

trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

3And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to

meet Achaz, thou and Jasub thy son that is left,

to the conduit of the upper pool in the way of

the fuller's eld.

4And thou shalt say to him: See thou be

quiet: fear not, and let not thy heart be afraid

of the two tails of these rebrands, smoking with

the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and

of the son of Romelia.

5Because Syria hath taken counsel against

thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of

Romelia, saying:

6Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and

draw it away to us, and make the son of Tabeel

king in the midst thereof.

7Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand,

and this shall not be.

8But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the

head of Damascus is Rasin: and within three-

score and ve years, Ephraim shall cease to be a

people:

9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and

the head of Samaria is the son of Romelia. If

you will not believe, you shall not continue.

10And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying:

11Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either

unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above.

12And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will

not tempt the Lord.

13And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of

David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous

to men, that you are grievous to my God also?14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you

a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear

a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

15He shall eat butter and honey, that he may

know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.

16For before the child know to refuse the evil

and to choose the good, the land which thou

abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her two

kings.

17The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon

thy people, and upon the house of thy father,

days that have not come since the time of the

separation of Ephraim from Juda with the king

of the Assyrians.

18And it shall come to pass in that day, that

the Lord shall hiss for the

y, that is in the ut-

termost parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the

bee that is in the land of Assyria.

19And they shall come, and shall all of them

rest in the torrents of the valleys, and in the holes

of the rocks, and upon all places set with shrubs,

and in all hollow places.

20In that day the Lord shall shave with a

razor that is hired by them that are beyond the

river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head and

the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard.

21And it shall come to pass in that day, that

a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep.

22And for the abundance of milk he shall eat

butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat

that shall be left in the midst of the land.

23And it shall come to pass in that day,

that every place where there were a thousand

vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall be-

come thorns and briers.

24With arrows and with bows they shall go

in thither: for briers and thorns shall be in all

the land.

25And as for the hills that shall be raked

with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall890 Prophecy of Isaias

not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to

feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.

Chapter 8

And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book,

and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the

spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.

2And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias

the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.

3And I went to the prophetess, and she con-

ceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me:

Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils:

Make hast to take away the prey.

4For before the child know to call his father

and his mother, the strength of Damascus, and

the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before

the king of the Assyrians.

5And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:

6Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the

waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath

rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia:

7Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon

them the waters of the river strong and many,

the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and

he shall come up over all his channels, and shall

over

ow all his banks.

8And shall pass through Juda, over

owing,

and going over shall reach even to the neck.

And the stretching out of his wings shall ll the

breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.

9Gather yourselves together, O ye people,

and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar

o: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird

yourselves, and be overcome.

10Take counsel together, and it shall be de-

feated: speak a word, and it shall not be done:

because God is with us.

11For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hathtaught me, with a strong arm, that I should not

walk in the way of this people, saying:

12Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this

people speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye

their fear, nor be afraid.

13Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let

him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14And he shall be a sanctication to you.

But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of

oence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare

and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15And very many of them shall stumble and

fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be

snared, and taken.

16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among

my disciples.

17And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid

his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look

for him.

18Behold I and my children, whom the Lord

hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in

Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in

mount Sion.

19And when they shall say to you: Seek of

pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their en-

chantments: should not the people seek of their

God, for the living of the dead?

20To the law rather, and to the testimony.

And if they speak not according to this word,

they shall not have the morning light.

21And they shall pass by it, they shall fall,

and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry,

they will be angry, and curse their king, and their

God, and look upwards.

22And they shall look to the earth, and be-

hold trouble and darkness, weakness and dis-

tress, and a mist following them, and they can-

not

y away from their distress.Prophecy of Isaias 891

Chapter 9

At the rst time the land of Zabulon, and the

land of Nephtali was lightly touched: and at the

last the way of the sea beyond the Jordan of the

Galilee of the Gentiles was heavily loaded.

2The people that walked in darkness, have

seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the

region of the shadow of death, light is risen.

3Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast

not increased the joy. They shall rejoice before

thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as con-

querors rejoice after taking a prey, when they

divide the spoils.

4For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of

their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor

thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.

5For every violent taking of spoils, with tu-

mult, and garment mingled with blood, shall be

burnt, and be fuel for the re.

6For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son

is given to us, and the government is upon his

shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonder-

ful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of

the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

7His empire shall be multiplied, and there

shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the

throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to es-

tablish it and strengthen it with judgment and

with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the

zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

8The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath

lighted upon Israel.

9And all the people of Ephraim shall know,

and the inhabitants of Samaria that say in the

pride and haughtiness of their heart:

10The bricks are fallen down, but we will

build with square stones: they have cut down the

sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.

11And the Lord shall set up the enemies ofRasin over him, and shall bring on his enemies

in a crowd:

12The Syrians from the east, and, the

Philistines from the west: and they shall devour

Israel with open mouth. For all this his indigna-

tion is not turned away, but his hand is stretched

out still.

13And the people are not returned to him

who hath struck them, and have not sought after

the Lord of hosts.

14And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the

head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and

him that holdeth back, in one day.

15The aged and honourable, he is the head:

and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

16And they that call this people blessed,

shall cause them to err: and they that are called

blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.

17Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in

their young men: neither shall he have mercy

on their fatherless, and widows: for every one is

a hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth hath

spoken folly. For all this his indignation is not

turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18For wickedness is kindled as a re, it shall

devour the brier and the thorn: and shall kin-

dle in the thicket of the forest, and it shall be

wrapped up in smoke ascending on high.

19By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land

is troubled, and the people shall be as fuel for

the re: no man shall spare his brother.

20And he shall turn to the right hand, and

shall be hungry: and shall eat on the left hand,

and shall not be lled: every one shall eat the

esh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and

Ephraim Manasses, and they together shall be

against Juda.

21After all these things his indignation is not

turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.892 Prophecy of Isaias

Chapter 10

Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when

they write, write injustice:

2To oppress the poor in judgment, and do

violence to the cause of the humble of my people:

that widows might be their prey, and that they

might rob the fatherless.

3What will you do in the day of visitation,

and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to

whom will ye

ee for help? and where will ye

leave your glory?

4That you be not bowed down under the

bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things

his anger is not turned away, but his hand is

stretched out still.

5Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the

sta of my anger, and my indignation is in their

hands.

6I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I

will give him a charge against the people of my

wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold

on the prey, and to tread them down like the

mire of the streets.

7But he shall not take it so, and his heart

shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to

destroy, and to cut o nations not a few.

8For he shall say:

9Are not my princes as so many kings? is not

Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is

not Samaria as Damascus?

10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of

the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of

Samaria.

11Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and

her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

12And it shall come to pass, that when the

Lord shall have performed all his works in mount

Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the

proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the gloryof the haughtiness of his eyes.

13For he hath said: By the strength of my

own hand I have done it, and by my own wis-

dom I have understood: and I have removed the

bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils

of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled

down them that sat on high.

14And my hand hath found the strength of

the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered,

that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and

there was none that moved the wing, or opened

the mouth, or made the least noise.

15Shall the axe boast itself against him that

cutteth with it? or shall the saw exalt itself

against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod

should lift itself up against him that lifteth it

up, and a sta exalt itself, which is but wood.

16Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of

hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones:

and under his glory shall be kindled a burning,

as it were the burning of a re.

17And the light of Israel shall be as a re, and

the Holy One thereof as a

ame: and his thorns

and his briers shall be set on re, and shall be

devoured in one day.

18And the glory of his forest, and of his beau-

tiful hill, shall be consumed from the soul even

to the

esh, and he shall run away through fear.

19And they that remain of the trees of his

forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be

numbered, and a child shall write them down.

20And it shall come to pass in that day, that

the remnant of Israel, and they that shall escape

of the house of Jacob, shall lean no more upon

him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon

the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21The remnant shall be converted, the rem-

nant, I say, of Jacob, to the mighty God.

22For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the

sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be con-Prophecy of Isaias 893

verted, the consumption abridged shall over

ow

with justice.

23For the Lord God of hosts shall make a

consumption, and an abridgment in the midst of

all the land.

24Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of

hosts: O my people that dwellest in Sion, be not

afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee with

his rod, and he shall lift up his sta over thee in

the way of Egypt.

25For yet a little and a very little while, and

my indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall

be upon their wickedness.

26And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a

scourge against him, according to the slaugh-

ter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod

over the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of

Egypt.

27And it shall come to pass in that day,

that his burden shall be taken away from o thy

shoulder, and his yoke from o thy neck, and the

yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil.

28He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into

Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his car-

riages.

29They have passed in haste, Gaba is our

lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul

ed away.

30Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim,

attend, O Laisa, poor Anathoth.

31Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of

Gabim, take courage.

32It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe:

he shall shake his hand against the mountain of

the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem.

33Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall

break the earthen vessel with terror, and the tall

of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall

be humbled.

34And the thickets of the forest shall be cutdown with iron, and Libanus with its high ones

shall fall.

Chapter 11

And there shall come forth a rod out of the root

of Jesse, and a

ower shall rise up out of his root.

2And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon

him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding,

the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit

of knowledge, and of godliness.

3And he shall be lled with the spirit of the

fear of the Lord, He shall not judge according to

the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to

the hearing of the ears.

4But he shall judge the poor with justice, and

shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth:

and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his

mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall

slay the wicked.

5And justice shall be the girdle of his loins:

and faith the girdle of his reins.

6The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the

leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and

the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and

a little child shall lead them.

7The calf and the bear shall feed: their young

ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat

straw like the ox.

8And the sucking child shall play on other

hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust

his hand into the den of the basilisk.

9They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all

my holy mountain, for the earth is lled with the

knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of

the sea.

10In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth

for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall

beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.894 Prophecy of Isaias

11And it shall come to pass in that day, that

the Lord shall set his hand the second time to

possess the remnant of his people, which shall

be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt,

and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from

Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and

from the islands of the sea.

12And he shall set up a standard unto the

nations, and shall assemble the fugitives of Israel,

and shall gather together the dispersed of Juda

from the four quarters of the earth.

13And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken

away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish:

Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not

ght against Ephraim.

14But they shall

y upon the shoulders of the

Philistines by the sea, they together shall spoil

the children of the east: Edom, till Moab shall

be under the rule of their hand, and the children

of Ammon shall be obedient.

15And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue

of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift up his hand

over the river in the strength of his spirit: and

he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that

men may pass through it in their shoes.

16And there shall be a highway for the rem-

nant of my people, which shall be left from the

Assyrians: as there was for Israel in the day that

he came up out of the land of Egypt.

Chapter 12
And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks

to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me:

thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast com-

forted me.

2Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal con-

dently, and will not fear: because the Lord is

my strength, and my praise, and he is becomemy salvation.

3Thou shall draw waters with joy out of the

saviour's fountains:

4And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the

Lord, and call upon his name: make his works

known among the people: remember that his

name is high.

5Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great

things: shew this forth in all the earth.

6Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of

Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee,

the Holy One of Israel.

Chapter 13

The burden of Babylon which Isaias the son of

Amos saw.

2Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a ban-

ner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the

rulers go into the gates.

3I have commanded my sanctied ones, and

have called my strong ones in my wrath, them

that rejoice in my glory.

4The noise of a multitude in the mountains,

as it were of many people, the noise of the sound

of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord

of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.

5To them that come from a country afar o,

from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instru-

ments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.

6Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it

shall come as a destruction from the Lord.

7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every

heart of man shall melt,

8And shall be broken. Gripings and pains,

shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as

a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed

at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as

faces burnt.Prophecy of Isaias 895

9Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a

cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath,

and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy

the sinners thereof out of it.

10For the stars of heaven, and their bright-

ness shall not display their light: the sun shall

be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not

shine with her light.

11And I will visit the evils of the world, and

against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will

make the pride of indels to cease, and will bring

down the arrogancy of the mighty.

12A man shall be more precious than gold,

yea a man than the nest of gold.

13For this I will trouble the heaven: and the

earth shall be moved out of her place, for the

indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day

of his erce wrath.

14And they shall be as a doe

eeing away,

and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather

them together: every man shall turn to his own

people, and every one shall

ee to his own land.

15Every one that shall be found, shall be

slain: and every one that shall come to their aid,

shall fall by the sword.

16Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces

before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged,

and their wives shall be ravished.

17Behold I will stir up the Medes against

them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

18But with their arrows they shall kill the

children, and shall have no pity upon the suck-

lings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare

their sons.

19And that Babylon, glorious among king-

doms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall

be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gom-

orrha.

20It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and

it shall not be founded unto generation and gen-eration: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents

there, nor shall shepherds rest there.

21But wild beasts shall rest there, and their

houses shall be lled with serpents, and ostriches

shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance

there:

22And owls shall answer one another there,

in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples

of pleasure.

Chapter 14

Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not

be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on

Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will

make them rest upon their own ground: and the

stranger shall be joined with them, and shall ad-

here to the house of Jacob.

2And the people shall take them, and bring

them into their place: and the house of Israel

shall possess them in the land of the Lord for

servants and handmaids: and they shall make

them captives that had taken them, and shall

subdue their oppressors.

3And it shall come to pass in that day,

that when God shall give thee rest from thy

labour, and from thy vexation, and from the

hard bondage, wherewith thou didst serve be-

fore,

4Thou shalt take up this parable against

the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is

the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath

ceased?

5The Lord hath broken the sta of the

wicked, the rod of the rulers,

6That struck the people in wrath with an

incurable wound, that brought nations under in

fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.

7The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad896 Prophecy of Isaias

and hath rejoiced.

8The r trees also have rejoiced over thee,

and the cedars of Libanus, saying: Since thou

hast slept, there hath none come up to cut us

down.

9Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at

thy coming, it stirred up the giants for thee. All

the princes of the earth are risen up from their

thrones, all the princes of nations.

10All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou

also art wounded as well as we, thou art become

like unto us.

11Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy car-

cass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth

be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.

12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,

who didst rise in the morning? how art thou

fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?

13And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend

into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the

stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the

covenant, in the sides of the north.

14I will ascend above the height of the clouds,

I will be like the most High.

15But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell,

into the depth of the pit.

16They that shall see thee, shall turn toward

thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that trou-

bled the earth, that shook kingdoms,

17That made the world a wilderness, and de-

stroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the

prison to his prisoners?

18All the kings of the nations have all of them

slept in glory, every one in his own house.

19But thou art cast out of thy grave, as

an unprotable branch deled, and wrapped up

among them that were slain by the sword, and

art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a

rotten carcass.20Thou shalt not keep company with them,

even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land,

thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked

shall not be named for ever.

21Prepare his children for slaughter for the

iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up,

nor inherit the land, nor ll the face of the world

with cities.

22And I will rise up against them, saith the

Lord of hosts: and I will destroy the name of

Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the

ospring, saith the Lord.

23And I will make it a possession for the eri-

cius and pools of waters, and I will sweep it and

wear it out with a besom, saith the Lord of hosts.

24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying:

Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I

have purposed,

25So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the

Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains

tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken

away from them, and his burden shall be taken

o their shoulder.
26This is the counsel, that I have purposed

upon all the earth, and this is the hand that is

stretched out upon all nations.

27For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and

who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched

out: and who shall turn it away?

28In the year that king Achaz died, was this

burden:

29Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the

rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces:

for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth

a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.

30And the rstborn of the poor shall be fed,

and the poor shall rest with condence: and I

will make thy root perish with famine, and I will

kill thy remnant.

31Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia isProphecy of Isaias 897

thrown down: for a smoke shall come from the

north, and there is none that shall escape his

troop.

32And what shall be answered to the messen-

gers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded

Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in

him.

Chapter 15

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of

Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall

of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.

2The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high

places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba,

Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be

baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.

3In their streets they are girded with sack-

cloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their

streets all shall howl and come down weeping.

4Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice

is heard even to Jasa. For this shall the well

appointed men of Moab howl, his soul shall howl

to itself.

5My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof

shall

ee unto Segor a heifer of three years old:

for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weep-

ing: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up

a cry of destruction.

6For the waters of Nemrim shall be deso-

late, for the grass is withered away, the spring

is faded, all the greenness is perished.

7According to the greatness of their work, is

their visitation also: they shall lead them to the

torrent of the willows.

8For the cry is gone round about the border

of Moab: the howling thereof unto Gallim, and

unto the well of Elim the cry thereof.

9For the waters of Dibon are lled with blood:for I will bring more upon Dibon: the lion upon

them that shall

ee of Moab, and upon the rem-

nant of the land.

Chapter 16

Send forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the

earth, from Petra of the desert, to the mount of

the daughter of Sion.

2And it shall come to pass, that as a bird

eeing away, and as young ones

ying out of the

nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the

passage of Arnon.

3Take counsel, gather a council: make thy

shadow as the night in the midday: hide them

that

ee, and betray not them that wander

about.

4My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab,

be thou a covert to them from the face of the

destroyer: for the dust is at an end, the wretch

is consumed: he hath failed, that trod the earth

under foot.
5And a throne shall be prepared in mercy,

and one shall sit upon it in truth in the taberna-

cle of David, judging and seeking judgment and

quickly rendering that which is just.

6We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is

exceeding proud: his pride and his arrogancy,

and his indignation is more than his strength.

7Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every

one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the

brick walls, tell ye their stripes.

8For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate,

and the lords of the nations have destroyed the

vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have

reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the

wilderness, the branches thereof are left, they are

gone over the sea.

9Therefore I will lament with the weeping of898 Prophecy of Isaias

Jazer the vineyard of Sabama: I will water thee

with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the

voice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy

vintage, and upon thy harvest.

10And gladness and joy shall be taken away

from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor

shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out

wine in the press that was wont to tread it out:

the voice of the treaders I have taken away.

11Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a

harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick

wall.

12And it shall come to pass, when it is seen

that Moab is wearied on his high places, that he

shall go in to his sanctuaries to pray, and shall

not prevail.

13This is the word, that the Lord spoke to

Moab from that time:

14And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In

three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of

Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of

the people, and it shall be left small and feeble,

not many.

Chapter 17

The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus

shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous

heap of stones.

2The cities of Aroer shall be left for

ocks,

and they shall rest there, and there shall be none

to make them afraid.

3And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the

kingdom from Damascus: and the remnant of

Syria shall be as the glory of the children of Is-

rael: saith the Lord of hosts.

4And it shall come to pass in that day, that

the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the

fatness of his

esh shall grow lean.5And it shall be as when one gathereth in the

harvest that which remaineth, and his arm shall

gather the ears of corn: and it shall be as he that

seeketh ears in the vale of Raphaim.

6And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon

it, shall be as one cluster of grapes, and as the

shaking of the olive tree, two or three berries in

the top of a bough, or four or ve upon the top

of the tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.

7In that day man shall bow down himself to

his Maker, and his eyes shall look to the Holy

One of Israel.

8And he shall not look to the altars which

his hands made; and he shall not have respect

to the things that his ngers wrought, such as

groves and temples.

9In that day his strong cities shall be for-

saken, as the ploughs, and the corn that were

left before the face of the children of Israel, and

thou shalt be desolate.

10Because thou hast forgotten God thy

saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong

helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants,

and shalt sow strange seed.

11In the day of thy planting shall be the wild

grape, and in the morning thy seed shall

ourish:

the harvest is taken away in the day of inheri-

tance, and shall grieve thee much.

12Woe to the multitude of many people, like

the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult

of crowds, like the noise of many waters.

13Nations shall make a noise like the noise of

waters over

owing, but he shall rebuke him, and

he shall

ee far o: and he shall be carried away

as the dust of the mountains before the wind,

and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

14In the time of the evening, behold there

shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and

he shall not be: this is the portion of them that

have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiledProphecy of Isaias 899

us.

Chapter 18

Woe to the land, the winged cymbal, which is

beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and

in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye

swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces:

to a terrible people, after which there is no other:

to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot,

whose land the rivers have spoiled.

3All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell

on the earth, when the sign shall be lifted up on

the mountains, you shall see, and you shall hear

the sound of the trumpet.

4For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take

my rest, and consider in my place, as the noon

light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the day

of harvest.

5For before the harvest it was all

ourishing,

and it shall bud without perfect ripeness, and

the sprigs thereof shall be cut o with pruning

hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and

shaken out.

6And they shall be left together to the birds of

the mountains, and the beasts of the earth: and

the fowls shall be upon them all the summer,

and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon

them.

7At that time shall a present be brought to

the Lord of hosts, from a people rent and torn in

pieces: from a terrible people, after which there

hath been no other: from a nation expecting,

expecting and trodden under foot, whose land

the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name

of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.Chapter 19

The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will

ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into

Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at

his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt

in the midst thereof.

2And I will set the Egyptians to ght against

the Egyptians: and they shall ght brother

against brother, and friend against friend, city

against city, kingdom against kingdom.

3And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in

the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their

counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and

their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsay-

ers.

4And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of

cruel masters, and a strong king shall rule over

them, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

5And the water of the sea shall be dried up,

and the river shall be wasted and dry.

6And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the

banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The

reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

7The channel of the river shall be laid bare

from its fountain, and every thing sown by the

water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, and

shall be no more.

8The shers also shall mourn, and all that

cast a hook into the river shall lament, and they

that spread nets upon the waters shall languish

away.

9They shall be confounded that wrought in

ax, combing and weaving ne linen.

10And its watery places shall be dry, all they

shall mourn that made pools to take shes.

11The princes of Tanis are become fools, the

wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish

counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the

son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?900 Prophecy of Isaias

12Where are now thy wise men? let them

tell thee, and shew what the Lord of hosts hath

purposed upon Egypt.

13The princes of Tanis are become fools, the

princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have

deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof.

14The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof

the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused

Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man

staggereth and vomiteth.

15And there shall be no work for Egypt, to

make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or

that holdeth back.

16In that day Egypt shall be like unto women,

and they shall be amazed, and afraid, because of

the moving of the hand of the Lord of hosts,

which he shall move over it.

17And the land of Juda shall be a terror to

Egypt: everyone that shall remember it shall

tremble because of the counsel of the Lord of

hosts, which he hath determined concerning it.

18In that day there shall be ve cities in

the land of Egypt, speaking the language of

Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts: one

shall be called the city of the sun.

19In that day there shall be an altar of the

Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a

monument of the Lord at the borders thereof:

20It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to

the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they

shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressor,

and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender

to deliver them.

21And the Lord shall be known by Egypt,

and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that

day, and shall worship him with sacrices and

oerings: and they shall make vows to the Lord,

and perform them.

22And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a

scourge, and shall heal it, and they shall returnto the Lord, and he shall be pacied towards

them, and heal them.

23In that day there shall be a way from Egypt

to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter

into Egypt, and the Egyptian to the Assyrians,

and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian.

24In that day shall Israel be the third to the

Egyptian and the Assyrian: a blessing in the

midst of the land,

25Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, say-

ing: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the

work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is

my inheritance.

Chapter 20

In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus,

when Sargon the king of the Assyrians had sent

him, and he had fought against Azotus, and had

taken it:

2At that same time the Lord spoke by the

hand of Isaias the son of Amos, saying Go, and

loose the sackcloth from o thy loins, and take

o thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and

went naked, and barefoot.

3And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias

hath walked, naked and barefoot, it shall be a

sign and a wonder of three years upon Egypt,

and upon Ethiopia,

4So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away

the prisoners of Egypt, and the captivity of

Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot,

with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of

Egypt.

5And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of

Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.

6And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in

that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we

ed

for help, to deliver us from the face of the kingProphecy of Isaias 901

of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to

escape?

Chapter 21

The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirl-

winds come from the south, it cometh from the

desert from a terrible land.

2A grievous vision is told me: he that is un-

faithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a

spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O

Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to

cease.

3Therefore are my loins lled with pain, an-

guish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a

woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of

it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.

4My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Baby-

lon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

5Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower

them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take

up the shield.

6For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and

set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let

him tell.

7And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a

rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and

he beheld them diligently with much heed.

8And a lion cried out: I am upon the watch-

tower of the Lord, standing continually by day:

and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.

9Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the

chariot with two horsemen, and he answered,

and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and

all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the

ground.

10O my thrashing, and the children of my

oor, that which I have heard of the Lord of

hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared untoyou.

11The burden of Duma calleth to me out of

Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman,

what of the night?

12The watchman said: The morning cometh,

also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.

13The burden in Arabia. In the forest at

evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.

14Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you

that inhabit the land of the south, meet with

bread him that

eeth.

15For they are

ed from before the swords,

from the sword that hung over them, from the

bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.

16For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a

year, according to the years of a hireling, all the

glory of Cedar shall be taken away.

17And the residue of the number of strong

archers of the children of Cedar shall be dimin-

ished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken

it.

Chapter 22

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth

thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to

the housetops?

2Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous

city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor

dead in battle.

3All the princes are

ed together, and are

bound hard: all that were found, are bound to-

gether, they are

ed far o.

4Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I

will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for

the devastation of the daughter of my people.

5For it is a day of slaughter and of treading

down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of

hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall,902 Prophecy of Isaias

and magnicent upon the mountain.

6And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the

horseman, and the shield was taken down from

the wall.

7And thy choice valleys shall be full of char-

iots, and the horsemen shall place themselves in

the gate.

8And the covering of Juda shall be discovered,

and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the

house of the forest.

9And you shall see the breaches of the city of

David, that they are many: and you have gath-

ered together the waters of the lower pool,

10 And have numbered the houses of

Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify

the wall.

11And you made a ditch between the two

walls for the water of the old pool: and you have

not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded

him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.

12And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that

day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to

baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

13And behold joy and gladness, killing calves,

and slaying rams, eating

esh, and drinking

wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we

shall die.

14And the voice of the Lord of hosts was

revealed in my ears: Surely this iniquity shall

not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord

God of hosts.

15Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get

thee in to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle,

to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou shalt

say to him:
16What dost thou here, or as if thou wert

somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a

sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument

carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in

a rock.17Behold the Lord will cause thee to be car-

ried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will

lift thee up as a garment.

18He will crown thee with a crown of tribu-

lation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large

and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and

there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame

of the house of thy Lord.

19And I will drive thee out from thy station,

and depose thee from thy ministry.

20And it shall come to pass in that day, that

I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,

21And I will clothe him with thy robe, and

will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give

thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a

father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to

the house of Juda.

22And I will lay the key of the house of David

upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none

shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall

open.

23And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure

place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to

the house of his father.

24And they shall hang upon him all the glory

of his father's house, divers kinds of vessels, ev-

ery little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to

every instrument of music.

25In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall

the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure

place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and

that which hung thereon, shall perish, because

the Lord hath spoken it.

Chapter 23

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea,

for the house is destroyed, from whence they

were wont to come: from the land of CethimProphecy of Isaias 903

it is revealed to them.

2Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the

merchants of Sidon passing over the sea, have

lled thee.

3The seed of the Nile in many waters, the

harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is

become the mart of the nations.

4Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea

speaketh, even the strength of the sea, saying:

I have not been in labour, nor have I brought

forth, nor have I nourished up young men, nor

brought up virgins.

5When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will

be sorry when they shall hear of Tyre:

6Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of

the island.

7Is not this your city, which gloried from of

old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar

o to sojourn.

8Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre,

that was formerly crowned, whose merchants

were princes, and her traders the nobles of the

earth?

9The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull

down the pride of all glory, and bring to disgrace

all the glorious ones of the earth.

10Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the

sea, thou hast a girdle no more.

11He stretched out his hand over the sea,

he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a

charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong

ones thereof.

12And he said: Thou shalt glory no more,

O virgin daughter of Sidon, who art oppressed:

arise and sail over to Cethim, there also thou

shalt have no rest.

13Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there

was not such a people, the Assyrians founded

it: they have led away the strong ones thereofinto captivity, they have destroyed the houses

thereof, they have, brought it to ruin.

14Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your

strength is laid waste.

15And it shall come to pass in that day that

thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotten, seventy years,

according to the days of one king: but after sev-

enty years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song

of a harlot.

16Take a harp, go about the city, harlot that

hast been forgotten: sing well, sing many a song,

that thou mayst be remembered.

17And it shall come to pass after seventy

years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and will

bring her back again to her trac: and she shall

commit fornication again with all the kingdoms

of the world upon the face of the earth.

18And her merchandise and her hire shall be

sanctied to the Lord: they shall not be kept in

store, nor laid up: for her merchandise shall be

for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that

they may eat unto fulness, and be clothed for a

continuance.

Chapter 24

Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and

shall strip it, and shall aict the face thereof,

and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof.

2And it shall be as with the people, so with

the priest: and as with the servant so with his

master: as with the handmaid, so with her mis-

tress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as

with the lender, so with the borrower: as with

him that calleth for his money, so with him that

oweth.

3With desolation shall the earth be laid

waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the

Lord hath spoken this word.904 Prophecy of Isaias

4The earth mourned, and faded away, and is

weakened: the world faded away, the height of

the people of the earth is weakened.

5And the earth is infected by the inhabitants

thereof: because they have transgressed the laws,

they have changed the ordinance, they have bro-

ken the everlasting covenant.

6Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and

the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore

they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few

men shall be left.

7The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath

languished away, all the merry have sighed.

8The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise

of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the

harp is silent.

9They shall not drink wine with a song: the

drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

10The city of vanity is broken down, every

house is shut up, no man cometh in.

11There shall be a crying for wine in the

streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth

is gone away.

12Desolation is left in the city, and calamity

shall oppress the gates.

13For it shall be thus in the midst of the

earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few

olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the

olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended.

14These shall lift up their voice, and shall give

praise: when the Lord shall be gloried, they

shall make a joyful noise from the sea.

15Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction:

the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands

of the sea.

16From the ends of the earth we have heard

praises, the glory of the just one. And I said:

My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe

is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, andwith the prevarication of transgressors they have

prevaricated.
17Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon

thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth.

18And it shall come to pass, that he that shall

ee from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the

pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit,

shall be taken in the snare: for the

ood-gates

from on high are opened, and the foundations of

the earth shall be shaken.

19With breaking shall the earth be broken,

with crushing shall the earth be crushed, with

trembling shall the earth be moved.

20With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a

drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of

one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy

upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21And it shall come to pass, that in that day

the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on

high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the

earth.

22And they shall be gathered together as in

the gathering of one bundle into the pit, and they

shall be shut up there in prison: and after many

days they shall be visited.

23And the moon shall blush, and the sun

shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall

reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall

be gloried in the sight of his ancients.

Chapter 25

O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt O thee, and

give glory to thy name: for thou hast done won-

derful things, thy designs of old faithful, amen.

2For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the

strong city to ruin, the house of strangers, to be

no city, and to be no more built up for ever.Prophecy of Isaias 905

3Therefore shall a strong people praise thee,

the city of mighty nations shall fear thee.

4Because thou hast been a strength to the

poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a

refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the

heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirl-

wind beating against a wall.

5Thou shalt bring down the tumult of

strangers, as heat in thirst: and as with heat un-

der a burning cloud, thou shalt make the branch

of the mighty to wither away.

6And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all

people in this mountain, a feast of fat things, a

feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine

puried from the lees.

7And he shall destroy in this mountain the

face of the bond with which all people were tied,

and the web that he began over all nations.

8He shall cast death down headlong for ever:

and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from

every face, and the reproach of his people he shall

take away from o the whole earth: for the Lord

hath spoken it.

9And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is

our God, we have waited for him, and he will save

us: this is the Lord, we have patiently waited for

him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salva-

tion.

10For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this

mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down un-

der him, as straw is broken in pieces with the

wain.

11And he shall stretch forth his hands under

him, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his

hands to swim: and he shall bring down his glory

with the dashing of his hands.

12And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall

fall, and be brought low, and shall be pulled

down to the ground, even to the dust.Chapter 26

In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land

of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour,

a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein.

2Open ye the gates, and let the just nation,

that keepeth the truth, enter in.

3The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep

peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

4You have hoped in the Lord for evermore,

in the Lord God mighty for ever.

5For he shall bring down them that dwell on

high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall

bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull

it down even to the dust.

6The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the

poor, the steps of the needy.

7The way of the just is right, the path of the

just is right to walk in.

8And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord,

we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and

thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.

9My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea,

and with my spirit within me in the morning

early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do

thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of

the world shall learn justice.

10Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will

not learn justice: in the land of the saints he

hath done wicked things, and he shall not see

the glory of the Lord.

11Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them

not see: let the envious people see, and be con-

founded: and let re devour thy enemies.

12Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast

wrought all our works for us.

13O Lord our God, other lords besides thee

have had dominion over us, only in thee let us

remember thy name.

14Let not the dead live, let not the giants906 Prophecy of Isaias

rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed

them, and hast destroyed all their memory.

15Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O

Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation:

art thou gloried? thou hast removed all the

ends of the earth far o.

16Lord, they have sought after thee in dis-

tress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy in-

struction was with them.

17As a woman with child, when she draweth

near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cri-

eth out in her pangs: so are we become in thy

presence, O Lord.

18We have conceived, and been as it were

in labour, and have brought forth wind: we have

not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the

inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.

19Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise

again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in

the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and

the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into

ruin.

20Go, my people, enter into thy chambers,

shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for

a moment, until the indignation pass away.

21For behold the Lord will come out of his

place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the

earth against him: and the earth shall disclose

her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Chapter 27

In that day the Lord with his hard, and great,

and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar

serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and

shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

2In that day there shall be singing to the

vineyard of pure wine.

3I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenlygive it drink: lest any hurt come to it, I keep it

night and day.

4There is no indignation in me: who shall

make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I

march against it, shall, I set it on re together?

5Or rather shall it take hold of my strength,

shall it make peace with me, shall it make peace

with me?

6When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel

shall blossom and bud, and they shall ll the face

of the world with seed.

7Hath he struck him according to the stroke

of him that struck him? or is he slain, as he

killed them that were slain by him?

8In measure against measure, when it shall be

cast o, thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated

with his severe spirit in the day of heat.

9Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the

house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the

fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away,

when he shall have made all the stones of the

altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves

and temples shall not stand.

10For the strong city shall be desolate, the

beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left

as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and

there shall he lie down, and shall consume its

branches.

11Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought,

women shall come and teach it: for it is not a

wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not

have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall

not spare it.

12And it shall come to pass, that in that day

the Lord will strike from the channel of the river

even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be

gathered together one by one, O ye children of

Israel.

13And it shall come to pass, that in that day

a noise shall be made with a great trumpet, andProphecy of Isaias 907

they that were lost, shall come from the land of

the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the

land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord in

the holy mount in Jerusalem.

Chapter 28

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of

Ephraim, and to the fading

ower the glory his

joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, stag-

gering with wine.

2Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as

a storm of hail: a destroying whirlwind, as the

violence of many waters over

owing, and sent

forth upon a spacious land.

3The crown of pride of the drunkards of

Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.

4And the fading tower the glory of his joy,

who is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as a

hasty fruit before the ripeness of autumn: which

when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon he

taketh it in his hand, he will eat it up.

5In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown

of glory, and a garland of joy to the residue of

his people:

6And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth

in judgment, and strength to them that return

out of the battle to the gate.

7But these also have been ignorant through

wine, and through drunkenness have erred:

the priest and the prophet have been ignorant

through drunkenness, they are swallowed up

with wine, they have gone astray in drunken-

ness, they have not known him that seeth, they

have been ignorant of judgment.

8For all the tables were full of vomit and lth,

so that there was no more place.

9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom

shall he make to understand the hearing? themthat are weaned from the milk, that are drawn

away from the breasts.

10For command, command again; command,

command again; expect, expect again; a little

there, a little there.

11For with the speech of lips, and with an-

other tongue he will speak to this people.

12To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh

the weary, and this is my refreshing: and they

would not hear.

13And the word of the Lord shall be to

them: Command, command again; command,

command again; expect, expect again; a little

there, a little there: that they may go, and fall

backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

14Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye

scornful men, who rule over my people that is in

Jerusalem.

15For you have said: We have entered into a

league with death, and we have made a covenant

with hell. When the over

owing scourge shall

pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we

have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood

we are protected.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Be-

hold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion,

a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone,

founded in the foundation. He that believeth,

let him not hasten.

17And I will set judgment in weight, and jus-

tice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope

of falsehood: and waters shall over

ow its pro-

tection.

18And your league with death shall be abol-

ished, and your covenant with hell shall not

stand: when the over

owing scourge shall pass,

you shall be trodden down by it.

19Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall

take you away: because in the morning early it

shall pass through, in the day and in the night,908 Prophecy of Isaias

and vexation alone shall make you understand

what you hear.

20For the bed is straitened, so that one must

fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

21For the Lord shall stand up as in the moun-

tain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the val-

ley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work,

his strange work: that he may perform his work,

his work is strange to him.

22And now do not mock, lest your bonds be

tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God

of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon

all the earth.

23Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and

hear my speech.

24Shall the ploughman plough all the day to

sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?

25Will he not, when he hath made plain the

surface thereof, sow gith, and scatter cummin,

and put wheat in order, and barley, and millet,

and vetches in their bounds?

26For he will instruct him in judgment: his

God will teach him.

27For gith shall not be thrashed with saws,

neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon

cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a

rod, and cumin with a sta.

28But breadcorn shall be broken small: but

the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither

shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its

teeth.

29This also is come forth from the Lord God

of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and

magnify justice.

Chapter 29

Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took:

year is added to year. the solemnities are at anend.

2And I will make a trench about Ariel, and

it shall be in sorrow and mourning, and it shall

be to me as Ariel.

3And I will make a circle round about thee,

and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and

raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.

4Thou shalt be brought down, thou shall

speak out of the earth, and thy speech shall be

heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be

from the earth like that of the python, and out

of the earth thy speech shall mutter.

5And the multitude of them that fan thee,

shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing

away, the multitude of them that have prevailed

against thee.

6And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A

visitation shall come from the Lord of hosts in

thunder, and with earthquake, and with a great

noise of whirlwind and tempest; and with the

ame of devouring re.

7And the multitude of all nations that have

fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a

vision by night, and all that have fought, and

besieged and prevailed against it.

8And as he that is hungry dreameth, and

eateth, but when he is awake, his soul is empty:

and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and drinketh

and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and

his soul is empty: so shall be the multitude of

all the Gentiles, that have fought against mount

Sion.

9Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stag-

ger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and

not with drunkenness.

10For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit

of a deep sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will

cover your prophets and princes, that see visions.

11And the vision of all shall be unto you as

the words of a book that is sealed which whenProphecy of Isaias 909

they shall deliver to one that is learned, they

shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I can-

not, for it is sealed.

12And the book shall be given to one that

knoweth no letters, and it shall be said to him:

Read: and he shall answer: I know no letters.

13And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this peo-

ple draw near me with their mouth, and with

their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from

me, and they have feared me with the command-

ment and doctrines of men:

14Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an

admiration in this people, by a great and won-

derful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from their

wise men, and the understanding of their pru-

dent men shall be hid.

15Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide

your counsel from the Lord: and their works are

in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and

who knoweth us?

16This thought of yours is perverse: as if

the clay should think against the potter, and

the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou

madest me not: or the thing framed should say

to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest

not.

17Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus

shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall

be esteemed as a forest?

18And in that day the deaf shall hear the

words of the book, and out of darkness and ob-

scurity the eyes of the blind shall see.

19And the meek shall increase their joy in

the Lord, and the poor men shall rejoice in the

Holy One of Israel.

20For he that did prevail hath failed, the

scorner is consumed, and they are all cut o that

watched for iniquity:

21That made men sin by word, and sup-

planted him that reproved them in the gate, anddeclined in vain from the just.

22Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house

of Jacob, he that redeemed Abraham: Jacob

shall not now be confounded, neither shall his

countenance now be ashamed:

23But when he shall see his children, the work

of my hands in the midst of him sanctifying my

name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of

Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel:

24And they that erred in spirit, shall know

understanding, and they that murmured, shall

learn the law.

Chapter 30

Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord,

that you would take counsel, and not of me: and

would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that

you might add sin upon sin:

2Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have

not asked at my mouth, hoping for help in the

strength of Pharao, and trusting in the shadow

of Egypt.

3And the strength of Pharao shall be to your

confusion, and the condence of the shadow of

Egypt to your shame.

4For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy mes-

sengers came even to Hanes.

5They were all confounded at a people that

could not prot them: they were no help, nor to

any prot, but to confusion and to reproach.

6The burden of the beasts of the south. In a

land of trouble and distress, from whence come

the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the

y-

ing basilisk, they carry their riches upon the

shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the

bunches of camels to a people that shall not be

able to prot them.

7For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no pur-910 Prophecy of Isaias

pose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It

is pride only, sit still.

8Now therefore go in and write for them upon

box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall

be in the latter days for a testimony for ever.

9For it is a people that provoketh to wrath,

and lying children that will not hear the law of

God.

10Who say to the seers: See not: and to

them that behold: Behold not for us those things

that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see

errors for us.

11Take away from me the way, turn away the

path from me, let the Holy One of Israel cease

from before us.

12Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Is-

rael: Because you have rejected this word, and

have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have

leaned upon it:

13Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as

a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a

high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come

on a sudden, when it is not looked for.

14And it shall be broken small, as the pot-

ter's vessel is broken all to pieces with mighty

breaking, and there shall not a sherd be found

of the pieces thereof, wherein a little re may

be carried from the hearth, or a little water be

drawn out of the pit.

15For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One

of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be

saved: in silence and in hope shall your strength

be. And you would not:

16But have said: No, but we will

ee to

horses: therefore shall you

ee. And we will

mount upon swift ones: therefore shall they be

swifter that shall pursue after you.

17A thousand men shall

ee for fear of one:

and for fear of ve shall you

ee, till you be left

as the mast of ship on the top of a mountain,and as an ensign upon a hill.

18Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may

have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be

exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God

of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for

him.

19For the people of Sion shall dwell in

Jerusalem: weeping thou shalt not weep, he will

surely have pity on thee: at the voice of thy cry,

as soon as he shall hear, he will answer thee.

20And the Lord will give you spare bread,

and short water: and will not cause thy teacher

to

ee away from thee any more, and thy eyes

shall see thy teacher.

21And thy ears shall hear the word of one

admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the

way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to

the right hand, nor to the left.

22And thou shalt dele the plates of thy

graven things of silver, and the garment of thy

molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away

as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.

Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.

23And rain shall be given to thy seed, where-

soever thou shalt sow in the land: and the bread

of the corn of the land shall be most plentiful,

and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large

in thy possession:

24And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till

the ground, shall eat mingled provender as it was

winnowed in the

oor.

25And there shall be upon every high moun-

tain, and upon every elevated hill rivers of run-

ning waters in the day of the slaughter of many,

when the tower shall fall.

26And the light of the moon shall be as the

light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be

sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day

when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his

people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.Prophecy of Isaias 911

27Behold the name of the Lord cometh from

afar, his wrath burneth, and is heavy to bear: his

lips are lled with indignation, and his tongue as

a devouring re.

28His breath as a torrent over

owing even

to the midst of the neck, to destroy the nations

unto nothing, and the bridle of error that was in

the jaws of the people.

29You shall have a song as in the night of the

sanctied solemnity, and joy of heart, as where

one goeth with a pipe, to come into the mountain

of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel.

30And the Lord shall make the glory of his

voice to be heard, and shall shew the terror of his

arm, in the threatening of wrath, and the

ame

of devouring re: he shall crush to pieces with

whirlwind, and hailstones.

31For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian

shall fear being struck with the rod.

32And the passage of the rod shall be strongly

grounded, which the Lord shall make to rest

upon him with timbrels and harps, and in great

battles he shall overthrow them.

33For Topheth is prepared from yesterday,

prepared by the king, deep, and wide. The

nourishment thereof is re and much wood: the

breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kin-

dling it.

Chapter 31

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help,

trusting in horses, and putting their condence

in chariots, because they are many: and in horse-

men, because they are very strong: and have not

trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not

sought after the Lord.

2But he that is the wise one hath brought

evil, and hath not removed his words: and hewill rise up against the house of the wicked, and

against the aid of them that work iniquity.

3Egypt is man, and not God: and their

horses,

esh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall

put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and

he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be

confounded together.

4For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the

lion roareth, and the lions whelp upon his prey,

and when a multitude of shepherds shall come

against him, he will not fear at their voice, nor

be afraid of their multitude: so shall the Lord of

hosts come down to ght upon mount Sion, and

upon the hill thereof.

5As birds

ying, so will the Lord of hosts pro-

tect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, pass-

ing over and saving.

6Return as you had deeply revolted, O chil-

dren of Israel.

7For in that day a man shall cast away his

idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your

hands have made for you to sin.

8And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not

of a man, and the sword not of a man shall de-

vour him, and he shall

ee not at the face of the

sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.

9And his strength shall pass away with dread,

and his princes

eeing shall be afraid: the Lord

hath said it, whose re is in Sion, and his furnace

in Jerusalem.

Chapter 32

Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes

shall rule in judgment.

2And a man shall be as when one is hid from

the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as

rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a

rock that standeth out in a desert land.912 Prophecy of Isaias

3The eyes of them that see shall not be dim,

and the ears of them that hear shall hearken dili-

gently.

4And the heart of fools shall understand

knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall

speak readily and plain.

5The fool shall no more be called prince: nei-

ther shall the deceitful be called great:

6For the fool will speak foolish things, and his

heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy,

and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make

empty the soul of the hungry, and take away

drink from the thirsty.

7The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked:

for he hath framed devices to destroy the meek,

with lying words, when the poor man speaketh

judgment.

8But the prince will devise such things as are

worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the

rulers.

9Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice:

ye condent daughters, give ear to my speech.

10For after days and a year, you that are

condent shall be troubled: for the vintage is at

an end, the gathering shall come no more.

11Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled,

ye condent ones: strip you, and be confounded,

gird your loins.

12Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful

country, for the fruitful vineyard.

13Upon the land of my people shall thorns

and briers come up: how much more upon all

the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

14For the house is forsaken, the multitude of

the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come

upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the

pastures of

ocks.

15Until the spirit be poured upon us from on

high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and

charmel shall be counted for a forest.16An judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,

and justice shall sit in charmel.

17And the work of justice shall be peace, and

the service of justice quietness, and security for

ever.

18And my people shall sit in the beauty of

peace, and in the tabernacles of condence, and

in wealthy rest.

19But hail shall be in the descent of the for-

est, and the city shall be made very low.

20Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters,

sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

Chapter 33

Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thy-

self also be spoiled? and thou that despisest,

shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou

shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt

be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease

to despise, thou shalt be despised.

2O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have

waited for thee: be thou our arm in the morning,

and our salvation in the time of trouble.

3At the voice of the angel the people

ed, and

at the lifting up thyself the nations are scattered.

4And your spoils shall be gathered together

as the locusts are gathered, as when the ditches

are full of them.

5The Lord is magnied, for he hath dwelt

on high: he hath lled Sion with judgment and

justice.

6And there shall be faith in thy times: riches

of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of

the Lord is his treasure.

7Behold they that see shall cry without, the

angels of peace shall weep bitterly.

8The ways are made desolate, no one passeth

by the road, the covenant is made void, he hathProphecy of Isaias 913

rejected the cities, he hath not regarded the men.

9The land hath mourned, and languished:

Libanus is confounded, and become foul, and

Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and

Carmel are shaken.

10Now will I rise up, saith the Lord: now will

I be exalted, now will I lift up myself.

11You shall conceive heat, you shall bring

forth stubble: your breath as re shall devour

you.
12And the people shall be as ashes after a

re, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt

with re.

13Hear, you that are far o, what I have done,

and you that are near know my strength.

14The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling

hath seized upon the hypocrites. Which of you

can dwell with devouring re? which of you shall

dwell with everlasting burnings?

15He that walketh in justices, and speaketh

truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression,

and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stop-

peth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his

eyes that he may see no evil.

16He shall dwell on high, the fortications of

rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him,

his waters are sure.

17His eyes shall see the king in his beauty,

they shall see the land far o.

18Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the

learned? where is he that pondered the words of

the law? where is the teacher of little ones?

19The shameless people thou shalt not

see, the people of profound speech: so that

thou canst not understand the eloquence of his

tongue, in whom there is no wisdom.

20Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity:

thy eyes shall see Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a

tabernacle that cannot be removed: neither shallthe nails thereof be taken away for ever, neither

shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

21Because only there our Lord is magni-

cent: a place of rivers, very broad and spacious

streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it, nei-

ther shall the great galley pass through it.

22For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our

lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.

23Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be

of no strength: thy mast shall be in such condi-

tion, that thou shalt not be able to spread the

ag. Then shall the spoils of much prey be di-

vided: the lame shall take the spoil.

24Neither shall he that is near, say: I am

feeble. The people that dwell therein, shall have

their iniquity taken away from them.

Chapter 34

Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken,

ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is

therein, the world, and every thing that cometh

forth of it.

2For the indignation of the Lord is upon all

nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he

hath killed them, and delivered them to slaugh-

ter.

3Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of

their carcasses shall rise a stink: the mountains

shall be melted with their blood.

4And all the host of the heavens shall pine

away, and the heavens shall be folded together

as a book: and all their host shall fall down as

the leaf falleth from the vine, and from the g

tree.

5For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold

it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the

people of my slaughter unto judgment.

6The sword of the Lord is lled with blood, it914 Prophecy of Isaias

is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck

goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for

there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great

slaughter in the land of Edom.

7And the unicorns shall go down with them,

and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall

be soaked with blood, and their ground with the

fat of fat ones.

8For it is the day of the vengeance of the

Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment

of Sion.

9And the streams thereof shall be turned into

pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone:

and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

10Night and day it shall not be quenched, the

smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from gener-

ation to generation it shall lie waste, none shall

pass through it for ever and ever.

11The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and

the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a

line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to

nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.

12The nobles thereof shall not be there: they

shall call rather upon the king, and all the

princes thereof shall be nothing.

13And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its

houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof:

and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and

the pasture of ostriches.

14And demons and monsters shall meet, and

the hairy ones shall cry out one to another, there

hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for her-

self.

15There hath the ericius had its hole, and

brought up its young ones, and hath dug

round about, and cherished them in the shadow

thereof: thither are the kites gathered together

one to another.
16Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord,

and read: not one of them was wanting, one hathnot sought for the other: for that which pro-

ceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded,

and his spirit it hath gathered them.

17And he hath cast the lot for them, and his

hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall

possess it for ever, from generation to generation

they shall dwell therein.

Chapter 35

The land that was desolate and impassable shall

be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and

shall

ourish like the lily.

2It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall re-

joice with joy and praise: the glory of Libanus is

given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and Saron,

they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the

beauty of our God.

3Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and conrm

the weak knees.

4Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and

fear not: behold your God will bring the revenge

of recompense: God himself will come and will

save you.

5Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened,

and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

6Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and

the tongue of the dumb shall be free: for waters

are broken out in the desert, and streams in the

wilderness.

7And that which was dry land, shall become

a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. In

the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall rise

up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush.

8And a path and a way shall be there, and

it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall

not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a

straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.

9No lion shall be there, nor shall any mis-Prophecy of Isaias 915

chievous beast go up by it, nor be found there:

but they shall walk there that shall be delivered.

10And the redeemed of the Lord shall return,

and shall come into Sion with praise, and ever-

lasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall

obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourn-

ing shall

ee away.

Chapter 36

And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king

Ezechias, that Sennacherib king of the Assyrians

came up against all the fenced cities of Juda, and

took them.
2And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces

from Lachis to Jerusalem, to king Ezechias with

a great army, and he stood by the conduit of the

upper pool in the way of the fuller's eld.

3And there went out to him Eliacim the son of

Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna the

scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder.

4And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias:

Thus saith the great king, the king of the As-

syrians: What is this condence wherein thou

trustest?

5Or with what counsel or strength dost thou

prepare for war? on whom dost thou trust, that

thou art revolted from me?

6Lo thou trustest upon this broken sta of a

reed, upon Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it

will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao

king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

7But if thou wilt answer me: We trust in the

Lord our God: is it not he whose high places and

altars Ezechias hath taken away, and hath said

to Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before

this altar?

8And now deliver thyself up to my lord the

king of the Assyrians, and I will give thee twothousand horses, and thou wilt not be able on

thy part to nd riders for them.

9And how wilt thou stand against the face of

the judge of one place, of the least of my master's

servants? But if thou trust in Egypt, in chariots

and in horsemen:

10And am I now come up without the Lord

against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to

me: Go up against this land, and destroy it.

11And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe said

to Rabsaces: Speak to thy servants in the Syrian

tongue: for we understand it: speak not to us in

the Jews' language in the hearing of the people,

that are upon the wall.

12And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my mas-

ter sent me to thy master and to thee, to speak

all these words; and not rather to the men that

sit on the wall; that they may eat their own

dung, and drink their urine with you?

13Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a

loud voice in the Jews' language, and said: Hear

the words of the great king, the king of the As-

syrians.

14Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias de-

ceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you.

15And let not Ezechias make you trust in the

Lord, saying: The Lord will surely deliver us,

and this city shall not be given into the hands of

the king of the Assyrians.

16Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said

the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which

is for your advantage, and come out to me, and

eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his

g tree, and drink ye every one the water of his

cistern,

17Till I come and take you away to a land,

like to your own, a land of corn and of wine, a

land of bread and vineyards.

18Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying:

The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of916 Prophecy of Isaias

the nations delivered their land out of the hand

of the king of the Assyrians?

19Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad?

where is the god of Sepharvaim? have they de-

livered Samaria out of my hand?

20Who is there among all the gods of these

lands, that hath delivered his country out of my

hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out

of my hand?

21And they held their peace, and answered

him not a word. For the king had commanded,

saying: Answer him not.

22And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that

was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and

Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to

Ezechias with their garments rent, and told him

the words of Rabsaces.

Chapter 37

And it came to pass, when king Ezechias had

heard it, that he rent his garments and covered

himself with sackcloth, and went into the house

of the Lord.

2And he sent Eliacim who was over the house,

and Sobna the scribe, and the ancients of the

priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaias the son

of Amos the prophet.

3And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias:

This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke,

and of blasphemy: for the children are come

to the birth, and there is not strength to bring

forth.

4It may be the Lord thy God will hear the

words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyri-

ans his master hath sent to blaspheme the living

God, and to reproach with words which the Lord

thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up by prayer

for the remnant that is left.5And the servants of Ezechias came to Isaias.

6And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say

to your master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not

afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with

which the servants of the king of the Assyrians

have blasphemed me.

7Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and

he shall hear a message, and shall return to his

own country, and I will cause him to fall by the

sword in his own country.

8And Rabsaces returned, and found the king

of the Assyrians besieging Lobna. For he had

heard that he was departed from Lachis.

9And he heard say about Tharaca the king

of Ethiopia: He is come forth to ght against

thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers

to Ezechias, saying:

10Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king

of Juda, saying: Let not thy God deceive thee,

in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall

not be given into the hands of the king of the

Assyrians.

11Behold thou hast heard all that the kings

of the Assyrians have done to all countries which

they have destroyed, and canst thou be deliv-

ered?

12Have the gods of the nations delivered them

whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and

Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden,

that were in Thalassar?

13Where is the king of Emath, and the king of

Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,

of Ana, and of Ava?

14And Ezechias took the letter from the hand

of the messengers, and read it, and went up to

the house of the Lord, and Ezechias spread it

before the Lord.

15And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying:

16Lord of hosts, God of Israel who sitteth

upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God ofProphecy of Isaias 917

all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made

heaven and earth.

17Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open,

O Lord, thy eyes, and see, and hear all the words

of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to blaspheme

the living God.

18For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the

Assyrians have laid waste lands, and their coun-

tries.

19And they have cast their gods into the re,

for they were not gods, but the works of men's

hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them

in pieces.

20And now, O Lord our God, save us out of

his hand: and let all the kingdoms of the earth

know, that thou only art the Lord.

21And Isaias the son of Amos sent to

Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord the God

of Israel: For the prayer thou hast made to me

concerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyri-

ans:

22This is the word which the Lord hath spo-

ken of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion hath

despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the

daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged the head af-

ter thee.

23Whom hast thou reproached, and whom

hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast

thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on

high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

24By the hand of thy servants thou hast re-

proached the Lord: and hast said: With the mul-

titude of my chariots I have gone up to the height

of the mountains, to the top of Libanus: and I

will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice r

trees, and will enter to the top of its height, to

the forest of its Carmel.

25I have digged, and drunk water, and have

dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers

shut up in banks.26Hast thou not heard what I have done to

him of old? from the days of old I have formed

it: and now I have brought it to eect: and it

hath come to pass that hills ghting together,

and fenced cities should be destroyed.

27The inhabitants of them were weak of

hand, they trembled, and were confounded: they

became like the grass of the eld, and the herb of

the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops,

which withered before it was ripe.

28I know thy dwelling, and thy going out,

and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

29When thou wast mad against me, thy pride

came up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring

in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I

will turn thee back by the way by which thou

camest.

30But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat this

year the things that spring of themselves, and in

the second year eat fruits: but in the third year

sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the

fruit of them.

31And that which shall be saved of the house

of Juda, and which is left, shall take root down-

ward, and shall bear fruit upward:

32For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a rem-

nant, and salvation from mount Sion: the zeal of

the Lord of hosts shall do this.

33Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning

the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into

this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come

before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

34By the way that he came, he shall return,

and into this city he shall not come, saith the

Lord.

35And I will protect this city, and will save it

for my own sake, and for the sake of David my

servant.

36And the angel of the Lord went out and

slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred918 Prophecy of Isaias

and eighty-ve thousand. And they arose in the

morning, and behold they were all dead corpses.

37And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians

went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt

in Ninive.

38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping

in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adram-

elech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the

sword: and they

ed into the land of Ararat,

and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

Chapter 38

In those days Ezechias was sick even to death,

and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet cane unto

him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take

order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not

live.

2And Ezechias turned his face toward the

wall, and prayed to the Lord,

3And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remem-

ber how I have walked before thee in truth, and

with a perfect heart, and have done that which

is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with

great weeping.

4And the word of the Lord came to Isaias,

saying:

5Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord

the God of David thy father: I have heard thy

prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I will

add to thy days fteen years:

6And I will deliver thee and this city out of

the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will

protect it.

7And this shall be a sign to thee from the

Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he

hath spoken:

8Behold I will bring again the shadow of the

lines, by which it is now gone down in the sundial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward.

And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by

which it was gone down.

9The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when

he had been sick, and was recovered of his sick-

ness.

10I said: In the midst of my days I shall go

to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of

my years.

11I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the

land of the living. I shall behold man no more,

nor the inhabitant of rest.

12My generation is at an end, and it is rolled

away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is

cut o, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but

beginning, he cut me o: from morning even to

night thou wilt make an end of me.

13I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he

broken all my bones: from morning even to night

thou wilt make an end of me.

14I will cry like a young swallow, I will med-

itate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking

upward: Lord, I suer violence, answer thou for

me.

15What shall I say, or what shall he answer

for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will

recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of

my soul.

16O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of

my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt

correct me, and make me to live.

17Behold in peace is my bitterness most bit-

ter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it

should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins be-

hind thy back.

18For hell shall not confess to thee, neither

shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go

down into the pit, look for thy truth.

19The living, the living, he shall give praise

to thee, as I do this day: the father shall makeProphecy of Isaias 919

the truth known to the children.

20O Lord, save me, and we will sing our

psalms all the days of our life in the house of

the Lord.

21Now Isaias had ordered that they should

take a lump of gs, and lay it as a plaster upon

the wound, and that he should be healed.

22And Ezechias had said: What shall be the

sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

Chapter 39

At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Bal-

adan king of Babylon, sent letters and presents

to Ezechias: for he had heard that he had been

sick and was recovered.

2And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and

he shewed them the storehouses of his aromatical

spices, and of the silver, and of the gold, and of

the sweet odours, and of the precious ointment,

and all the storehouses of his furniture, and all

things that were found in his treasures. There

was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion

that Ezechias shewed them not.

3Then Isaias the prophet came to king

Ezechias, and said to him: What said these

men, and from whence came they to thee? And

Ezechias said: From a far country they came to

me, from Babylon.

4And he said: What saw they in thy house?

And Ezechias said: All things that are in my

house have they seen, there was not any thing

which I have not shewn them in my treasures.

5And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word

of the Lord of hosts.

6Behold the days shall come that all that is

in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up

in store until this day, shall be carried away into

Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saiththe Lord.

7And of thy children, that shall issue from

thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take

away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace

of the king of Babylon.

8And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of

the Lord, which he hath spoken, is good. And

he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.

Chapter 40

Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith

your God.

2Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call

to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity

is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the

Lord double for all her sins.

3The voice of one crying in the desert: Pre-

pare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the

wilderness the paths of our God.

4Every valley shall be exalted, and every

mountain and hill shall be made low, and the

crooked shall become straight, and the rough

ways plain.

5And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all

esh together shall see, that the mouth

of the Lord hath spoken.

6The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said:

What shall I cry? All

esh is grass, and all the

glory thereof as the

ower of the eld.

7The grass is withered, and the

ower is

fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown

upon it. Indeed the people is grass:

8The grass is withered, and the

ower is

fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for

ever.

9Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou

that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy

voice with strength, thou that bringest good tid-920 Prophecy of Isaias

ings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the

cities of Juda: Behold your God:

10Behold the Lord God shall come with

strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his re-

ward is with him and his work is before him.

11He shall feed his

ock like a shepherd: he

shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and

shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself

shall carry them that are with young.

12Who hath measured the waters in the hol-

low of his hand, and weighed the heavens with

his palm? who hath poised with three ngers the

bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in

scales, and the hills in a balance?

13Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord?

or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught

him?

14With whom hath he consulted, and who

hath instructed him, and taught him the path of

justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed

him the way of understanding?

15Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a

bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain

of a balance: behold the islands are as a little

dust.

16And Libanus shall not be enough to burn,

nor the beasts thereof sucient for a burnt of-

fering.

17All nations are before him as if they had no

being at all, and are counted to him as nothing,

and vanity.

18To whom then have you likened God? or

what image will you make for him?

19Hath the workman cast a graven statue?

or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or

the silversmith with plates of silver?

20He hath chosen strong wood, and that will

not rot: the skilful workman seeketh how he may

set up an idol that may not be moved.

21Do you not know? hath it not been heard?hath it not been told you from the beginning?

have you not understood the foundations of the

earth?

22It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the

earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts:

he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing,

and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

23He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to

nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth

as vanity.

24And surely their stock was neither planted,

nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he

hath blown upon them, and they are withered,

and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

25And to whom have ye likened me, or made

me equal, saith the Holy One?

26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath

created these things: who bringeth out their host

by number, and calleth them all by their names:

by the greatness of his might, and strength, and

power, not one of them was missing.

27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest,

O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my

judgment is passed over from my God?

28Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard?

the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath cre-

ated the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor

labour, neither is there any searching out of his

wisdom.

29It is he that giveth strength to the weary,

and increaseth force and might to them that are

not.

30You shall faint, and labour, and young men

shall fall by inrmity.

31But they that hope in the Lord shall renew

their strength, they shall take wings as eagles,

they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk

and not faint.Prophecy of Isaias 921

Chapter 41

Let the islands keep silence before me, and the

nations take new strength: let them come near,

and then speak, let us come near to judgment

together.

2Who hath raised up the just one from the

east, hath called him to follow him? he shall

give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule

over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his

sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his bow.

3He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace,

no path shall appear after his feet.

4Who hath wrought and done these things,

calling the generations from the beginning? I the

Lord, I am the rst and the last.

5The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of

the earth were astonished, they drew near, and

came.

6Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall

say to his brother: Be of good courage.

7The coppersmith striking with the hammer

encouraged him that forged at that time, saying:

It is ready for soldering: and he strengthened it

with nails, that it should not be moved.

8But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom

I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend:

9In whom I have taken thee from the ends

of the earth, and from the remote parts thereof

have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my

servant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast

thee away.

10Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside,

for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and

have helped thee, and the right hand of my just

one hath upheld thee.

11Behold all that ght against thee shall be

confounded and ashamed, they shall be as noth-

ing, and the men shall perish that strive against

thee.12Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not nd

the men that resist thee: they shall be as noth-

ing: and as a thing consumed the men that war

against thee.
13For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee

by the hand, and say to thee: Fear not, I have

helped thee.

14Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that

are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the

Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.

15I have made thee as a new thrashing wain,

with teeth like a saw: thou shalt thrash the

mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt

make the hills as cha.

16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall

carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter

them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the

Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.

17The needy and the poor seek for waters,

and there are none: their tongue hath been dry

with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God

of Israel will not forsake them.

18I will open rivers in the high hills, and foun-

tains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the

desert into pools of waters, and the impassable

land into streams of waters.

19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and

the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I

will set in the desert the r tree, the elm, and

the box tree together:

20That they may see and know, and consider,

and understand together that the hand of the

Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel

hath created it.

21Bring your cause near, saith the Lord:

bring hither, if you have any thing to allege, saith

the King of Jacob.

22Let them come, and tell us all things that

are to come: tell us the former things what they

were: and we will set our heart upon them and922 Prophecy of Isaias

shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the

things that are to come.

23Shew the things that are to come hereafter,

and we shall know that ye are gods. Do ye also

good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, and

see together.

24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work

of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen

you is an abomination.

25I have raised up one from the north, and

he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall

call upon my name, and he shall make princes

to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.

26Who hath declared from the beginning,

that we may know: and from time of old, that

we may say: Thou art just. There is none that

sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth

your words.

27The rst shall say to Sion: Behold they are

here, and to Jerusalem I will give an evangelist.

28And I saw, and there was no one even

among them to consult, or who, when I asked,

could answer a word.

29Behold they are all in the wrong, and their

works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity.

Chapter 42

Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect,

my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit

upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the

Gentiles.

2He shall not cry, nor have respect to person,

neither shall his voice be heard abroad.

3The bruised reed he shall not break, and

smoking

ax he shall not quench, he shall bring

forth judgment unto truth.

4He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he

set judgment in the earth, and the islands shallwait for his law.

5Thus saith the Lord God that created the

heavens, and stretched them out: that estab-

lished the earth, and the things that spring out

of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it,

and spirit to them that tread thereon.

6I the Lord have called thee in justice, and

taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And

I have given thee for a covenant of the people,

for a light of the Gentiles:

7That thou mightest open the eyes of the

blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison,

and them that sit in darkness out of the prison

house.

8I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give

my glory to another, nor my praise to graven

things.

9The things that were rst, behold they are

come: and new things do I declare: before they

spring forth, I will make you hear them.

10Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise

is from the ends of the earth: you that go down

to the sea, and all that are therein: ye islands,

and ye inhabitants of them.

11Let the desert and the cities thereof be ex-

alted: Cedar shall dwell in houses: ye inhabi-

tants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry from

the top of the mountains.

12They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall

declare his praise in the islands.

13The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as

a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout

and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies.

14I have always held my peace, I have kept

silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as

a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow

up at once.

15I will lay waste the mountains and hills,

and will make all their grass to wither: and I

will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up theProphecy of Isaias 923

standing pools.

16And I will lead the blind into the way which

they know not: and in the paths which they were

ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make

darkness light before them, and crooked things

straight: these things have I done to them, and

have not forsaken them.

17They are turned back: let them be greatly

confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that

say to a molten thing: You are our god.

18Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that

you may see.

19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but

he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is

blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but

the servant of the Lord?

20Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not

observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt

thou not hear?

21And the Lord was willing to sanctify him,

and to magnify the law, and exalt it.

22But this is a people that is robbed and

wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and

they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are

made a prey, and there is none to deliver them:

a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore.

23Who is there among you that will give ear

to this, that will attend and hearken for times to

come?

24Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and

Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself,

against whom we have sinned? And they would

not walk in his ways, and they have not hear-

kened to his law.

25And he hath poured out upon him the in-

dignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and

hath burnt him round about, and he knew not:

and set him on re, and he understood not.Chapter 43

And now thus saith the Lord that created thee,

O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel: Fear not,

for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by thy

name: thou art mine.

2When thou shalt pass through the waters, I

will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover

thee: when thou shalt walk in the re, thou shalt

not be burnt, and the

ames shall not burn in

thee:

3For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of

Israel, thy Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy

atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee.

4Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes,

thou art glorious: I have loved thee, and I will

give men for thee, and people for thy life.

5Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring

thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the

west.

6I will say to the north: Give up: and to the

south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar,

and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

7And every one that calleth upon my name,

I have created him for my glory. I have formed

him, and made him.

8Bring forth the people that are blind, and

have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears.

9All the nations are assembled together, and

the tribes are gathered: who among you can de-

clare this, and shall make us hear the former

things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let

them be justied, and hear, and say: It is truth.

10You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and

my servant whom I have chosen: that you may

know, and believe me, and understand that I

myself am. Before me there was no God formed,

and after me there shall be none.

11I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour

besides me.924 Prophecy of Isaias

12I have declared, and have saved. I have

made it heard, and there was no strange one

among you. You are my witnesses, saith the

Lord, and I am God.

13And from the beginning I am the same, and

there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I

will work, and who shall turn it away?

14Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the

Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Baby-

lon, and have brought down all their bars, and

the Chaldeans glorying in their ships.

15I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator

of Israel, your King.

16Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in

the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.

17Who brought forth the chariot and the

horse, the army and the strong: they lay down

to sleep together, and they shall not rise again:

they are broken as

ax, and are extinct.

18Remember not former things, and look not

on things of old.

19Behold I do new things, and now they shall

spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will

make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the

desert.

20The beast of the eld shall glorify me, the

dragons and the ostriches: because I have given

waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to

give drink to my people, to my chosen.

21This people have I formed for myself, they

shall shew forth my praise.

22But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob,

neither hast thou laboured about me, O Israel.

23Thou hast not oered me the ram of thy

holocaust, nor hast thou gloried me with thy

victims: I have not caused thee to serve with

oblations, nor wearied thee with incense.

24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with

money, neither hast thou lled me with the fat

of thy victims. But thou hast made me to servewith thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy

iniquities.

25I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities

for my own sake, and I will not remember thy

sins.

26Put me in remembrance, and let us plead

together: tell if thou hast any thing to justify

thyself.

27Thy rst father sinned, and thy teachers

have transgressed against me.

28And I have profaned the holy princes, I

have given Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to re-

proach.

Chapter 44

And now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel

whom I have chosen.

2Thus saith the Lord that made and formed

thee, thy helper from the womb: Fear not, O my

servant Jacob, and thou most righteous whom I

have chosen.

3For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty

ground, and streams upon the dry land: I will

pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my bless-

ing upon thy stock.

4And they shall spring up among the herbs,

as willows beside the running waters.

5One shall say: I am the Lord's, and another

shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and an-

other shall subscribe with his hand, To the Lord,

and surname himself by the name of Israel.

6Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and

his redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the rst,

and I am the last, and besides me there is no

God.

7Who is like to me? let him call and declare:

and let him set before me the order, since I ap-

pointed the ancient people: and the things toProphecy of Isaias 925

come, and that shall be hereafter, let them shew

unto them.

8Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from

that time I have made thee to hear, and have

declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God

besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?

9The makers of idols are all of them noth-

ing, and their best beloved things shall not prot

them. They are their witnesses, that they do not

see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.

10Who hath formed a god, and made a graven

thing that is protable for nothing?

11Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be

confounded: for the makers are men: they shall

all assemble together, they shall stand and fear,

and shall be confounded together.

12The smith hath wrought with his le, with

coals, and with hammers he hath formed it, and

hath wrought with the strength of his arm: he

shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water,

and shall be weary.

13The carpenter hath stretched out his rule,

he hath formed it with a plane: he hath made it

with corners, and hath fashioned it round with

the compass: and he hath made the image of

a man as it were a beautiful man dwelling in a

house.

14He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm,

and the oak that stood among the trees of the

forest: he hath planted the pine tree, which the

rain hath nourished.

15And it hath served men for fuel: he took

thereof, and warmed himself: and he kindled

it, and baked bread: but of the rest he made

a god, and adored it: he made a graven thing,

and bowed down before it.

16Part of it he burnt with re, and with part

of it he dressed his meat: he boiled pottage, and

was lled, and was warmed, and said: Aha, I am

warm, I have seen the re.17But the residue thereof he made a god,

and a graven thing for himself: he boweth down

before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it,

saying: Deliver me, for thou art my God.

18They have not known, nor understood: for

their eyes are covered that they may not see, and
that they may not understand with their heart.

19They do not consider in their mind, nor

know, nor have the thought to say: I have burnt

part of it in the re, and I have baked bread upon

the coals thereof: I have broiled

esh and have

eaten, and of the residue thereof shall I make an

idol? shall I fall down before the stock of a tree?

20Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart

adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say:

Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

21Remember these things, O Jacob, and Is-

rael, for thou art my servant. I have formed thee,

thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me not.

22I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud,

and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have

redeemed thee.

23Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord

hath shewn mercy: shout with joy, ye ends of

the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise,

thou, O forest, and every tree therein: for the

Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be

gloried.

24Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy

maker, from the womb: I am the Lord, that make

all things, that alone stretch out the heavens,

that established the earth, and there is none with

me.

25That make void the tokens of diviners, and

make the soothsayers mad. That turn the wise

backward, and that make their knowledge fool-

ish.

26That raise up the word of my servant and

perform the counsel of my messengers, who say

to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to926 Prophecy of Isaias

the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will

raise up the wastes thereof.

27Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate,

and I will dry up thy rivers.

28Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd,

and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who

say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to

the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid.

Chapter 45

Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus,

whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue

nations before his face, and to turn the backs of

kings, and to open the doors before him, and the

gates shall not be shut.

2I will go before thee, and will humble the

great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the

gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron.

3And I will give thee hidden treasures, and

the concealed riches of secret places: that thou

mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee

by thy name, the God of Israel.

4For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel

my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I

have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast not

known me.

5I am the Lord, and there is none else: there

is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou

hast not known me:

6That they may know who are from the rising

of the sun, and they who are from the west, that

there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and

there is none else:

7I form the light, and create darkness, I make

peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all

these things.

8Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above,

and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth beopened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice

spring up together: I the Lord have created him.

9Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a

sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to

him that fashioneth it: What art thou making,

and thy work is without hands?

10Woe to him that saith to his father: Why

begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost

thou bring forth?

11Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel,

his maker: Ask me of things to come, concern-

ing my children, and concerning the work of my

hands give ye charge to me.

12I made the earth: and I created man upon

it: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and I

have commanded all their host.

13I have raised him up to justice, and I will

direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and let

go my captives, not for ransom, nor for presents,

saith the Lord the God of hosts.

14Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt,

and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of Sabaim,

men of stature shall come over to thee, and shall

be thine: they shall walk after thee, they shall

go bound with manacles: and they shall worship

thee, and shall make supplication to thee: only

in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee.

15Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of

Israel the saviour.

16They are all confounded and ashamed: the

forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.

17Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal

salvation: you shall not be confounded, and you

shall not be ashamed for ever and ever.

18For thus saith the Lord that created the

heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and

made it, the very maker thereof: he did not cre-

ate it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am

the Lord, and there is no other.

19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark placeProphecy of Isaias 927

of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Ja-

cob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak

justice, that declare right things.

20Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw

near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles:

they have no knowledge that set up the wood of

their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot

save.

21Tell ye, and come, and consult together:

who hath declared this from the beginning, who

hath foretold this from that time? Have not I

the Lord, and there is no God else besides me?

A just God and a saviour, there is none besides

me.

22Be converted to me, and you shall be saved,

all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there

is no other.

23I have sworn by myself, the word of justice

shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return:

24For every knee shall be bowed to me, and

every tongue shall swear.

25Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my

justices and empire: they shall come to him, and

all that resist him shall be confounded.

26In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be

justied and praised.

Chapter 46

Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols

are put upon beasts and cattle, your burdens

of heavy weight even unto weariness.

2They are consumed, and are broken to-

gether: they could not save him that carried

them, and they themselves shall go into captiv-

ity.

3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the

remnant of the house of Israel who are carried

by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.4Even to your old age I am the same, and

to your grey hairs I will carry you: I have made

you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.

5To whom have you likened me, and made

me equal, and compared me, and made me like?

6You that contribute gold out of the bag, and

weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a gold-

smith to make a god: and they fall down and

worship.
7They bear him on their shoulders and carry

him, and set him in his place, and he shall stand,

and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when

they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear:

he shall not save them from tribulation.

8Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye

transgressors, to the heart.

9Remember the former age, for I am God,

and there is no God beside, neither is there the

like to me:

10Who shew from the beginning the things

that shall be at last, and from ancient times the

things that as yet are not done, saying: My coun-

sel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:

11Who call a bird from the east, and from a

far country the man of my own will, and I have

spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have created,

and I will do it. Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who

are far from justice.

12I have brought my justice near, it shall not

be afar o: and my salvation shall not tarry. I

will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.

Chapter 47

Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter

of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne

for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt

no more be called delicate and tender.

2Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover928 Prophecy of Isaias

thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy

legs, pass over the rivers.

3Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy

shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and

no man shall resist me.

4Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name,

the Holy One of Israel.

5Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness,

O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no

more be called the lady of kingdoms.

6I was angry with my people, I have polluted

my inheritance, and have given them into thy

hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon

the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding

heavy.

7And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for

ever: thou hast not laid these things to thy heart,

neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.

8And now hear these things, thou that art

delicate, and dwellest condently, that sayest in

thy heart: I am, and there is none else besides

me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not

know barrenness.

9These two things shall come upon thee sud-

denly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All

things are come upon thee, because of the multi-

tude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness

of thy enchanters.

10And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness,

and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy

wisdom, and, thy knowledge, this hath deceived

thee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and

besides me there is no other.

11Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt

not know the rising thereof: and calamity shall

fall violently upon thee, which thou canst not

keep o: misery shall come upon thee suddenly,

which thou shalt not know.

12Stand now with thy enchanters, and with

the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hastlaboured from thy youth, if so be it may prot

thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.

13Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy

counsels: let now the astrologers stand and save

thee, they that gazed at the stars, and counted

the months, that from them they might tell the

things that shall come to thee.

14Behold they are as stubble, re hath burnt

them, they shall not deliver themselves from the

power of the

ames: there are no coals where-

with they may be warmed, nor re, that they

may sit thereat.

15Such are all the things become to thee, in

which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from

thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way,

there is none that can save thee.

Chapter 48

Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that

are called by the name of Israel, and are come

forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear

by the name of the Lord, and make mention of

the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice.

2For they are called of the holy city, and are

established upon the God of Israel: the Lord of

hosts is his name.

3The former things of old, I have declared,

and they went forth out of my mouth, and I have

made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and

they came to pass.

4For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy

neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as

brass.

5I foretold thee of old, before they came to

pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My

idols have done these things, and my graven and

molten things have commanded them.

6See now all the things which thou hastProphecy of Isaias 929

heard: but have you declared them? I have

shewn thee new things from that time, and

things are kept which thou knowest not:

7They are created now, and not of old: and

before the day, when thou heardest them not,

lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them.

8Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither

was thy ear opened of old. For I know that trans-

gressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called

thee a transgressor from the womb.

9For my name's sake I will remove my wrath

far o: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest

thou shouldst perish.

10Behold I have rened thee, but not as sil-

ver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.

11For my own sake, for my own sake will I

do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will

not give my glory to another.

12Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel

whom I call: I am he, I am the rst, and I am

the last.

13My hand also hath founded the earth, and

my right hand hath measured the heavens: I

shall call them, and they shall stand together.

14Assemble yourselves together, all you, and

hear: who among them hath declared these

things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his

pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the

Chaldeans.

15I, even I have spoken and called him: I have

brought him, and his way is made prosperous.

16Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I

have not spoken in secret from the beginning:

from the time before it was done, I was there,

and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his

spirit.

17Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy

One of Israel: I am the Lord thy God that teach

thee protable things, that govern thee in the

way that thou walkest.18O that thou hadst hearkened to my com-

mandments: thy peace had been as a river, and

thy justice as the waves of the sea,

19And thy seed had been as the sand, and the

ospring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his

name should not have perished, nor have been

destroyed from before my face.

20Come forth out of Babylon,

ee ye from

the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy:

make this to be heard, and speak it out even

to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath

redeemed his servant Jacob.

21They thirsted not in the desert, when he

led them out: he brought forth water out of the

rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the

waters gushed out.

22There is no peace to the wicked, saith the

Lord.

Chapter 49

Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from

afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb,

from the bowels of my mother he hath been

mindful of my name.

2And he hath made my mouth like a sharp

sword: in the shadow of his hand he hath pro-

tected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow:

in his quiver he hath hidden me.

3And he said to me: Thou art my servant

Israel, for in thee will I glory.

4And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have

spent my strength without cause and in vain:

therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my

work with my God.

5And now saith the Lord, that formed me

from the womb to be his servant, that I may

bring back Jacob unto him, and Israel will not be

gathered together: and I am gloried in the eyes930 Prophecy of Isaias

of the Lord, and my God is made my strength.

6And he said: It is a small thing that thou

shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of

Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Be-

hold, I have given thee to be the light of the

Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even

to the farthest part of the earth.

7Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel,

his Holy One, to the soul that is despised, to the

nation that is abhorred, to the servant of rulers:

Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and

adore for the Lord's sake, because he is faithful,

and for the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen

thee.

8Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time

I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I

have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and

given thee to be a covenant of the people, that

thou mightest raise up the earth, and possess the

inheritances that were destroyed:

9That thou mightest say to them that are

bound: Come forth: and to them that are in

darkness: Shew yourselves. They shall feed in

the ways, and their pastures shall be in every

plain.

10They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither

shall the heat nor the sun strike them: for he

that is merciful to them, shall be their shepherd,

and at the fountains of waters he shall give them

drink.

11And I will make all my mountains a way,

and my paths shall be exalted.

12Behold these shall come from afar, and be-

hold these from the north and from the sea, and

these from the south country.

13Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O

earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation:

because the Lord hath comforted his people, and

will have mercy on his poor ones.

14And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me,and the Lord hath forgotten me.

15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not

to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she

should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

16Behold, I have graven thee in my hands:

thy walls are always before my eyes.

17Thy builders are come: they that destroy

thee and make thee waste shall go out of thee.

18Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all

these are gathered together, they are come to

thee: I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt be clothed

with all these as with an ornament, and as a

bride thou shalt put them about thee.

19For thy deserts, and thy desolate places,

and the land of thy destruction shall now be too

narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they

that swallowed thee up shall be chased far away.

20The children of thy barrenness shall still

say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me,

make me room to dwell in.

21And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who

hath begotten these? I was barren and brought

not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath

brought up these? I was destitute and alone:

and these, where were they?

22Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will

lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and will set up

my standard to the people. And they shall bring

thy sons in their arms, and carry thy daughters

upon their shoulders.

23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and

queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with

their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up

the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that

I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded

that wait for him.

24Shall the prey be taken from the strong?

or can that which was taken by the mighty, be

delivered?
25For thus saith the Lord: Yea verily, evenProphecy of Isaias 931

the captivity shall be taken away from the

strong: and that which was taken by the mighty,

shall be delivered. But I will judge those that

have judged thee, and thy children I will save.

26And I will feed thy enemies with their own

esh: and they shall be made drunk with their

own blood, as with new wine: and all

esh shall

know, that I am the Lord that save thee, and

thy Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob.

Chapter 50

Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the

divorce of your mother, with which I have put

her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold

you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and

for your wicked deeds have I put your mother

away.

2Because I came, and there was not a man:

I called, and there was none that would hear.

Is my hand shortened and become little, that I

cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me

to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the

sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land:

the shes shall rot for want of water, and shall

die for thirst.

3I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and

will make sackcloth their covering.

4The Lord hath given me a learned tongue,

that I should know how to uphold by word him

that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in

the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may

hear him as a master.

5The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I

do not resist: I have not gone back.

6I have given my body to the strikers, and

my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have

not turned away my face from them that rebuked

me, and spit upon me.7The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I

not confounded: therefore have I set my face as

a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be

confounded.

8He is near that justieth me, who will con-

tend with me? let us stand together, who is my

adversary? let him come near to me.

9Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is

he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be

destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them

up.

10Who is there among you that feareth the

Lord, that heareth the voice of his servant, that

hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? let

him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon

his God.

11Behold all you that kindle a re, encom-

passed with

ames, walk in the light of your re,

and in the

ames which you have kindled: this

is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in

sorrows.

Chapter 51

Give ear to me, you that follow that which is

just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the

rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the

pit from which you are dug out.

2Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara

that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed

him, and multiplied him.

3The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and

will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will

make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her

wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and

gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving,

and the voice of praise.

4Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear

to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from932 Prophecy of Isaias

me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light of

the nations.

5My just one is near at hand, my saviour is

gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people:

the islands shall look for me, and shall patiently

wait for my arm.

6Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down

to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall van-

ish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away

like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall

perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be

for ever, and my justice shall not fail.

7Hearken to me, you that know what is just,

my people who have my law in your heart: fear

ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of

their blasphemies.

8For the worm shall eat them up as a gar-

ment: and the moth shall consume them as wool:

but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice

from generation to generation.

9Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm

of the Lord, arise as in the days of old, in the

ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the

proud one, and wounded the dragon?

10Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water

of the mighty deep, who madest the depth of the

sea a way, that the delivered might pass over?

11And now they that are redeemed by the

Lord, shall return, and shall come into Sion

singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon

their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness,

sorrow and mourning shall

ee away.

12I myself will comfort you: who art thou,

that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man,

and of the son of man, who shall wither away

like grass?

13And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy

maker, who stretched out the heavens, and

founded the earth: and thou hast been afraid

continually all the day at the presence of his furywho aicted thee, and had prepared himself to

destroy thee: where is now the fury of the op-

pressor?

14He shall quickly come that is going to open

unto you, and he shall not kill unto utter destruc-

tion, neither shall his bread fail.

15But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble

the sea, and the waves thereof swell: the Lord of

hosts is my name.

16I have put my words in thy mouth, and

have protected thee in the shadow of my hand,

that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found

the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art

my people.

17Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which

hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of

his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom

of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk

even to the dregs.

18There is none that can uphold her among

all the children that she hath brought forth: and

there is none that taketh her by the hand among

all the children that she hath brought up.

19There are two things that have happened

to thee: who shall be sorry for thee? desolation,

and destruction, and the famine, and the sword,

who shall comfort thee?

20Thy children are cast forth, they have slept

at the head of all the ways, and the wild ox that

is snared: full of the indignation of the Lord, of

the rebuke of thy God.

21Therefore hear this, thou poor little one,

and thou that art drunk but not with wine.

22Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord, and thy

God, who will ght for his people: Behold I have

taken out of thy hand the cup of dead sleep, the

dregs of the cup of my indignation, thou shalt

not drink it again any more.

23And I will put it in the hand of them that

have oppressed thee, and have said to thy soul:Prophecy of Isaias 933

Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast

laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to

them that went over.

Chapter 52

Arise, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on

the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the city

of the Holy One: for henceforth the uncircum-

cised, and unclean shall no more pass through

thee.

2Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O

Jerusalem: loose the bonds from o thy neck, O

captive daughter of Sion.

3For thus saith the Lord: You were sold

gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without

money.

4For thus saith the Lord God: My people

went down into Egypt at the beginning to so-

journ there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed

them without any cause at all.

5And now what have I here, saith the Lord:

for my people is taken away gratis. They that

rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the

Lord, and my name is continually blasphemed

all the day long.

6Therefore my people shall know my name in

that day: for I myself that spoke, behold I am

here.

7How beautiful upon the mountains are the

feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and that

preacheth peace: of him that sheweth forth

good, that preacheth salvation, that saith to

Sion: Thy God shall reign!

8The voice of thy watchmen: they have lifted

up their voice, they shall praise together: for

they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall

convert Sion.

9Rejoice, and give praise together, O yedeserts of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath com-

forted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

10The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in

the sight of all the Gentiles: and all the ends of

the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

11Depart, depart, go ye out from thence,

touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of

her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the

Lord.

12For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither

shall you make haste by

ight: for the Lord will

go before you, and the God of Israel will gather

you together.
13Behold my servant shall understand, he

shall be exalted, and extolled, and shall be ex-

ceeding high.

14As many have been astonished at thee, so

shall his visage be inglorious among men, and

his form among the sons of men.

15He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall

shut their mouth at him: for they to whom it

was not told of him, have seen: and they that

heard not, have beheld.

Chapter 53

Who a hath believed our report? and to whom

is the arm of the Lord revealed?

2And he shall grow up as a tender plant before

him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there

is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have

seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we

should be desirous of him:

3Despised, and the most abject of men, a

man of sorrows, and acquainted with inrmity:

and his look was as it were hidden and despised,

whereupon we esteemed him not.

4Surely he hath borne our inrmities and car-

ried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it934 Prophecy of Isaias

were a leper, and as one struck by God and af-

icted.

5But he was wounded for our iniquities, he

was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our

peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are

healed.

6All we like sheep have gone astray, every

one hath turned aside into his own way: and the

Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7He was oered because it was his own will,

and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as

a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as

a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open

his mouth.

8He was taken away from distress, and from

judgment: who shall declare his generation? be-

cause he is cut o out of the land of the living:

for the wickedness of my people have I struck

him.

9And he shall give the ungodly for his burial,

and the rich for his death: because he hath

done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his

mouth.

10And the Lord was pleased to bruise him

in inrmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin,

he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the

Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.

11Because his soul hath laboured, he shall

see and be lled: by his knowledge shall this my

just servant justify many, and he shall bear their

iniquities.

12Therefore will I distribute to him very

many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong,

because he hath delivered his soul unto death,

and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath

borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the

transgressors.Chapter 54

Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not:

sing forth praise, and make a joyful noise, thou

that didst not travail with child: for many are

the children of the desolate, more than of her

that hath a husband, saith the Lord.

2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out

the skins of thy tabernacles, spare not: lengthen

thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

3For thou shalt pass on to the right hand,

and to the left: and thy seed shall inherit the

Gentiles, and shall inhabit the desolate cities.

4Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded,

nor blush: for thou shalt not be put to shame,

because thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,

and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy

widowhood.
5For he that made thee shall rule over thee,

the Lord of hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer,

the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the God

of all the earth.

6For the Lord hath called thee as a woman

forsaken and mourning in spirit, and as a wife

cast o from her youth, said thy God.

7For a small moment have I forsaken thee,

but with great mercies will I gather thee.

8In a moment of indignation have I hid my

face a little while from thee, but with everlasting

kindness have I had mercy on thee, said the Lord

thy Redeemer.

9This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to

whom I swore, that I would no more bring in the

waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn

not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke

thee.

10For the mountains shall be moved, and the

hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart

from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall

not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy onProphecy of Isaias 935

thee.

11O poor little one, tossed with tempest,

without all comfort, behold I will lay thy stones

in order, and will lay thy foundations with sap-

phires,

12And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper:

and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy bor-

ders of desirable stones.

13All thy children shall be taught of the Lord:

and great shall be the peace of thy children.

14And thou shalt be founded in justice: de-

part far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear;

and from terror, for it shall not come near thee.

15Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who was

not with me, he that was a stranger to thee be-

fore, shall be joined to thee.

16Behold, I have created the smith that

bloweth the coals in the re, and bringeth forth

an instrument for his work, and I have created

the killer to destroy.

17No weapon that is formed against thee shall

prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee

in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the

inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their

justice with me, saith the Lord.

Chapter 55

All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you

that have no money make haste, buy, and eat:

come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and

without any price.

2Why do you spend money for that which is

not bread, and your labour for that which doth

not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and

eat that which is good, and your soul shall be

delighted in fatness.

3Incline your ear and come to me: hear and

your soul shall live, and I will make an everlast-ing covenant with you, the faithful mercies of

David.

4Behold I have given him for a witness to the

people, for a leader and a master to the Gentiles.

5Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou

knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee

shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God,

and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glo-

ried thee.

6Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found:

call upon him, while he is near.

7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un-

just man his thoughts, and let him return to the

Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our

God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor

your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9For as the heavens are exalted above the

earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways,

and my thoughts above your thoughts.

10And as the rain and the snow come down

from heaven, and return no more thither, but

soak the earth, and water it, and make it to

spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread

to the eater:

11So shall my word be, which shall go forth

from my mouth: it shall not return to me void,

but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall

prosper in the things for which I sent it.

12For you shall go out with joy, and be led

forth with peace: the mountains and the hills

shall sing praise before you, and all the trees of

the country shall clap their hands.

13Instead of the shrub, shall come up the r

tree, and instead of the nettle, shall come up the

myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named for an

everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.936 Prophecy of Isaias

Chapter 56

Thus saith the Lord: Keep ye judgment, and do

justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my

justice to be revealed.

2Blessed is the man that doth this, and the

son of man that shall lay hold on this: that keep-

eth the sabbath from profaning it, that keepeth

his hands from doing any evil.

3And let not the son of the stranger, that

adhereth to the Lord, speak, saying: The Lord

will divide and separate me from his people. And

let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree.

4For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They

that shall keep my sabbaths, and shall choose

the things that please me, and shall hold fast

my covenant:

5I will give to them in my house, and within

my walls, a place, and a name better than sons

and daughters: I will give them an everlasting

name which shall never perish.

6And the children of the stranger that ad-

here to the Lord, to worship him, and to love his

name, to be his servants: every one that keepeth

the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth

fast my covenant:

7I will bring them into my holy mount, and

will make them joyful in my house of prayer:

their holocausts, and their victims shall please

me upon my altar: for my house shall be called

the house of prayer, for all nations.

8The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered

of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his

congregation.

9All ye beasts of the eld come to devour, all

ye beasts of the forest.

10His watchmen are all blind, they are all

ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing

vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.

11And most impudent dogs, they never hadenough: the shepherds themselves knew no un-

derstanding: all have turned aside into their own

way, every one after his own gain, from the rst

even to the last.

12Come, let us take wine, and be lled with

drunkenness: and it shall be as to day, so also to

morrow, and much more.

Chapter 57

The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to

heart, and men of mercy are taken away, be-

cause there is none that understandeth; for the

just man is taken away from before the face of

evil.

2Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that

hath walked in his uprightness.

3But draw near hither, you sons of the sorcer-

ess, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot.

4Upon whom have you jested? upon whom

have you opened your mouth wide, and put out

your tongue? are not you wicked children, a false

seed,

5Who seek your comfort in idols under every

green tree, sacricing children in the torrents,

under the high rocks?

6In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this

is thy lot: and thou hast poured out libations to

them, thou hast oered sacrice. Shall I not be

angry at these things?

7Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast

laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to oer

victims.

8And behind the door, and behind the post

thou hast set up thy remembrance: for thou hast

discovered thyself near me, and hast received an

adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made

a covenant with them: thou hast loved their bed

with open hand.Prophecy of Isaias 937

9And thou hast adorned thyself for the king

with ointment, and hast multiplied thy per-

fumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far o,

and wast debased even to hell.

10Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of

thy ways: yet thou saidst not: I will rest: thou

has found life of thy hand, therefore thou hast

not asked.

11For whom hast thou been solicitous and

afraid, that thou hast lied, and hast not been

mindful of me, nor thought on me in thy heart?

for I am silent, and as one that seeth not, and

thou hast forgotten me.

12I will declare thy justice, and thy works

shall not prot thee.

13When thou shalt cry, let thy companies

deliver thee, but the wind shall carry them all

o, a breeze shall take them away, but he that

putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land,

and shall possess my holy mount.

14And I will say: Make a way: give free pas-

sage, turn out of the path, take away the stum-

blingblocks out of the way of my people.

15For thus saith the High and the Eminent

that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy,

who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and

with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the

spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of

the contrite.

16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I

be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go

forth from my face, and breathings I will make.

17For the iniquity of his covetousness I was

angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee,

and was angry: and he went away wandering in

his own heart.

18I saw his ways, and I healed him, and

brought him back, and restored comforts to him,

and to them that mourn for him.

19I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peaceto him that is far o, and to him that is near,

said the Lord, and I healed him.

20But the wicked are like the raging sea,

which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast

up dirt and mire.

21There is no peace to the wicked, saith the

Lord God.

Chapter 58

Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,

and shew my people their wicked doings, and the

house of Jacob their sins.

2For they seek me from day to day, and de-

sire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done

justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of

their God: they ask of me the judgments of jus-

tice: they are willing to approach to God.

3Why have we fasted, and thou hast not re-

garded: have we humbled our souls, and thou

hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your

fast your own will is found, and you exact of all

your debtors.

4Behold you fast for debates and strife, and

strike with the st wickedly. Do not fast as you

have done until this day, to make your cry to be

heard on high.
5Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a

man to aict his soul for a day? is this it, to

wind his head about like a circle, and to spread

sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast,

and a day acceptable to the Lord?

6Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen?

loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles

that oppress, let them that are broken go free,

and break asunder every burden.

7Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the

needy and the harbourless into thy house: when

thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise938 Prophecy of Isaias

not thy own

esh.

8Then shall thy light break forth as the morn-

ing, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy

justice shall go before thy face, and the glory of

the Lord shall gather thee up.

9Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall

hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I

am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the

midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the nger,

and to speak that which proteth not.

10When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the

hungry, and shalt satisfy the aicted soul, then

shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy dark-

ness shall be as the noonday.

11And the Lord will give thee rest continu-

ally, and will ll thy soul with brightness, and

deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a wa-

tered garden, and like a fountain of water whose

waters shall not fail.

12And the places that have been desolate for

ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the

foundation of generation and generation: and

thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences,

turning the paths into rest.

13If thou turn away thy foot from the sab-

bath, from doing thy own will in my holy day,

and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of

the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou

dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not

found, to speak a word:

14Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord,

and I will lift thee up above the high places of

the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance

of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord

hath spoken it.Chapter 59

Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened

that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that

it cannot hear.

2But your iniquities have divided between you

and your God, and your sins have hid his face

from you that he should not hear.

3For your hands are deled with blood, and

your ngers with iniquity: your lips have spoken

lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.

4There is none that calleth upon justice, nei-

ther is there any one that judgeth truly: but

they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vani-

ties: they have conceived labour, and brought

forth iniquity.

5They have broken the eggs of asps, and have

woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of

their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought

out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.

6Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither

shall they cover themselves with their works:

their works are unprotable works, and the work

of iniquity is in their hands.

7Their feet run to evil, and make haste to

shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprof-

itable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in

their ways.

8They have not known the way of peace,

and there is no judgment in their steps: their

paths are become crooked to them, every one

that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.

9Therefore is judgment far from us, and jus-

tice shall not overtake us. We looked for light,

and behold darkness: brightness, and we have

walked in the dark.

10We have groped for the wall, and like the

blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we

have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are

in dark places, as dead men.Prophecy of Isaias 939

11We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall

lament as mournful doves. We have looked for

judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and

it is far from us.

12For our iniquities are multiplied before

thee, and our sins have testied against us: for

our wicked doings are with us, and have known

our iniquities:

13In sinning and lying against the Lord: and

we have turned away so that we went not after

our God, but spoke calumny and transgression:

we have conceived, and uttered from the heart,

words of falsehood.

14And judgment is turned away backward,

and justice hath stood far o: because truth

hath fallen down in the street, and equity could

not come in.

15And truth hath been forgotten: and he

that departed from evil, lay open to be a prey:

and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his

eyes, because there is no judgment.

16And he saw that there is not a man: and

he stood astonished, because there is none to op-

pose himself: and his own arm brought salvation

to him, and his own justice supported him.

17He put on justice as a breastplate, and a

helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the

garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal

as with a cloak.

18As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath

to his adversaries, and a reward to his enemies:

he will repay the like to the islands.

19And they from the west, shall fear the name

of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun,

his glory when he shall come as a violent stream,

which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:

20And there shall come a redeemer to Sion,

and to them that return from iniquity in Jacob,

saith the Lord.

21This is my covenant with them, saith theLord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words

that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart

out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy

seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed,

saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Chapter 60

Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light

is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon

thee.

2For behold darkness shall cover the earth,

and a mist the people: but the Lord shall arise

upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

3And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and

kings in the brightness of thy rising.

4Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all

these are gathered together, they are come to

thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy

daughters shall rise up at thy side.

5Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy

heart shall wonder and be enlarged, when the

multitude of the sea shall be converted to thee,

the strength of the Gentiles shall come to thee.

6The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the

dromedaries of Madian and Epha: all they from

Saba shall come, bringing gold and frankincense:

and shewing forth praise to the Lord.

7All the

ocks of Cedar shall be gathered

together unto thee, the rams of Nabaioth shall

minister to thee: they shall be oered upon my

acceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of

my majesty.

8Who are these, that

y as clouds, and as

doves to their windows?

9For, the islands wait for me, and the ships

of the sea in the beginning: that I may bring thy

sons from afar: their silver, and their gold with

them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to940 Prophecy of Isaias

the Holy One of Israel, because he hath gloried

thee.

10And the children of strangers shall build

up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to

thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in

my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee.

11And thy gates shall be open continually:

they shall not be shut day nor night, that the

strength of the Gentiles may be brought to thee,

and their kings may be brought.

12For the nation and the kingdom that will

not serve thee, shall perish: and the Gentiles

shall be wasted with desolation.

13The glory of Libanus shall come to thee,

the r tree, and the box tree, and the pine tree

together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary:

and I will glorify the place of my feet.

14And the children of them that aict thee,

shall come bowing down to thee, and all that

slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet,

and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion

of the Holy One of Israel.

15Because thou wast forsaken, and hated,

and there was none that passed through thee,

I will make thee to be an everlasting glory, a joy

unto generation and generation:

16And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gen-

tiles, and thou shalt be nursed with the breasts

of kings: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord

thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One

of Jacob.

17For brass I will bring gold, and for iron

I will bring silver: and for wood brass, and for

stones iron: and I will make thy visitation peace,

and thy overseers justice.

18Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land,

wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and sal-

vation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy

gates.

19Thou shalt no more have the sun for thylight by day, neither shall the brightness of the

moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be unto

thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy

glory.

20Thy sun shall go down no more, and thy

moon shall not decrease: for the Lord shall be

unto thee for an everlasting light, and the days

of thy mourning shall be ended.

21And thy people shall be all just, they shall

inherit the land for ever, the branch of my plant-

ing, the work of my hand to glorify me.

22The least shall become a thousand, and a

little one a most strong nation: I the Lord will

suddenly do this thing in its time.

Chapter 61

The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the

Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to

preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart,

and to preach a release to the captives, and de-

liverance to them that are shut up.

2To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort

all that mourn:

3To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to

give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for

mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of

grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty

ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify

him.

4And they shall build the places that have

been waste from of old, and shall raise up ancient

ruins, and shall repair the desolate cities, that

were destroyed for generation and generation.

5And strangers shall stand and shall feed your

ocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your

husbandman, and the dressers of your vines.

6But you shall be called the priests of theProphecy of Isaias 941

Lord: to you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our

God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and

you shall pride yourselves in their glory.

7For your double confusion and shame, they

shall praise their part: therefore shall they re-

ceive double in their land, everlasting joy shall

be unto them.

8For I am the Lord that love judgment, and

hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make

their work in truth, and I will make a perpetual

covenant with them.

9And they shall know their seed among the

Gentiles, and their ospring in the midst of peo-

ples: all that shall see them, shall know them,

that these are the seed which the Lord hath

blessed.

10I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my

soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath

clothed me with the garments of salvation: and

with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a

bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride

adorned with her jewels.

11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and

as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so

shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth,

and praise before all the nations.

Chapter 62

For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for

the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just

one come forth as brightness, and her saviour be

lighted as a lamp.

2And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and

all kings thy glorious one: and thou shalt be

called by a new name, which the mouth of the

Lord shall name.

3And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the

hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the handof thy God.

4Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and

thy land shall no more be called Desolate: but

thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy

land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well

pleased with thee: and thy land shall be inhab-

ited.

5For the young man shall dwell with the vir-

gin, and thy children shall dwell in thee. And

the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and

thy God shall rejoice over thee.

6Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have ap-

pointed watchmen all the day, and all the night,

they shall never hold their peace. You that are

mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,

7And give him no silence till he establish, and

till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

8The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and

by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more

give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and

the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine,

for which thou hast laboured.

9For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall

praise the Lord: and they that bring it together,

shall drink it in my holy courts.

10Go through, go through the gates, prepare

the way for the people, make the road plain, pick

out the stones, and lift up the standard to the

people.

11Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard

in the ends of the earth, tell the daughter of Sion:

Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his reward

is with him, and his work before him.

12And they shall call them, The holy people,

the redeemed of the Lord. But thou shalt be

called: A city sought after, and not forsaken.942 Prophecy of Isaias

Chapter 63

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed

garments from Bosra, this beautiful one in his

robe, walking in the greatness of his strength. I,

that speak justice, and am a defender to save.

2Why then is thy apparel red, and thy gar-

ments like theirs that tread in the winepress?

3I have trodden the winepress alone, and

of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I

have trampled on them in my indignation, and

have trodden them down in my wrath, and their

blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have

stained all my apparel.

4For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the

year of my redemption is come.

5I looked about, and there was none to help:

I sought, and there was none to give aid: and my

own arm hath saved for me, and my indignation

itself hath helped me.

6And I have trodden down the people in my

wrath, and have made them drunk in my indig-

nation, and have brought down their strength to

the earth.

7I will remember the tender mercies of the

Lord, the praise of the Lord for all the things

that the Lord hath bestowed upon us, and for

the multitude of his good things to the house of

Israel, which he hath given them according to

his kindness, and according to the multitude of

his mercies.

8And he said: Surely they are my people,

children that will not deny: so he became their

saviour.

9In all their aiction he was not troubled,

and the angel of his presence saved them: in his

love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and

he carried them and lifted them up all the days

of old.

10But they provoked to wrath, and aictedthe spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to

be their enemy, and he fought against them.

11And he remembered the days of old of

Moses, and of his people: Where is he that

brought them up out of the sea, with the shep-

herds of his

ock? where is he that put in the

midst of them the spirit of his Holy One?

12He that brought out Moses by the right

hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided

the waters before them, to make himself an ev-

erlasting name.

13He that led them out through the deep, as

a horse in the wilderness that stumbleth not.

14As a beast that goeth down in the eld,

the spirit of the Lord was their leader: so didst

thou lead thy people to make thyself a glorious

name.

15Look down from heaven, and behold from

thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory:

where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multi-

tude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they

have held back themselves from me.

16For thou art our father, and Abraham hath

not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of

us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer,

from everlasting is thy name.

17Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord,

from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our

heart, that we should not fear thee? return for

the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inher-

itance.

18They have possessed thy holy people as

nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy

sanctuary.

19We are become as in the beginning, when

thou didst not rule over us, and when we were

not called by thy name.Prophecy of Isaias 943

Chapter 64
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and

wouldst come down: the mountains would melt

away at thy presence.

2They would melt as at the burning of re,

the waters would burn with re, that thy name

might be made known to thy enemies: that the

nations might tremble at thy presence.

3When thou shalt do wonderful things, we

shall not bear them: thou didst come down, and

at thy presence the mountains melted away.

4From the beginning of the world they have

not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye

hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things

thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.

5Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth

justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee:

behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in

them we have been always, and we shall be saved.

6And we are all become as one unclean,

and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous

woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our

iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

7There is none that calleth upon thy name:

that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou

hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us

in the hand of our iniquity.

8And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and

we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all

are the works of thy hands.

9Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember

no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy

people.

10The city of thy sanctuary is become a

desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is deso-

late.

11The house of our holiness, and of our glory,

where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with re,

and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.12Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon

these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and aict

us vehemently?

Chapter 65

They have sought me that before asked not for

me, they have found me that sought me not. I

said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did

not call upon my name.

2I have spread forth my hands all the day to

an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that

is not good after their own thoughts.

3A people that continually provoke me to

anger before my face, that immolate in gardens,

and sacrice upon bricks.

4That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the

temple of idols: that eat swine's

esh, and pro-

fane broth is in their vessels.

5That say: Depart from me, come not near

me, because thou art unclean: these shall be

smoke in my anger, a re burning all the day.

6Behold it is written before me: I will not

be silent, but I will render and repay into their

bosom.

7Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your

fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacri-

ced upon the mountains, and have reproached

me upon the hills; and I will measure back their

rst work in their bosom.

8Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found

in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, be-

cause it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of

my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.

9And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob,

and out of Juda a possessor of my mountains:

and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants

shall dwell there.

10And the plains shall be turned to folds of944 Prophecy of Isaias

ocks, and the valley of Achor into a place for

the herds to lie down in, for my people that have

sought me.

11And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that

have forgotten my holy mount, that set a table

for fortune, and oer libations upon it,

12I will number you in the sword, and you

shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and

you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not

hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have

chosen the things that displease me.

13Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold

my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry:

behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be

thirsty.

14Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you

shall be confounded: behold my servants shall

praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry

for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of

spirit.

15And you shall leave your name for an exe-

cration to my elect: and the Lord God shall slay

thee, and call his servants by another name.

16In which he that is blessed upon the earth,

shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that

sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen:

because the former distresses are forgotten, and

because they are hid from my eyes.

17For behold I create new heavens, and a

new earth: and the former things shall not be in

remembrance, and they shall not come upon the

heart.

18But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in

these things, which I create: for behold I create

Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy.

19And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy

in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no

more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

20There shall no more be an infant of days

there, nor an old man that shall not ll up hisdays: for the child shall die a hundred years old,

and the sinner being a hundred years old shall

be accursed.

21And they shall build houses, and inhabit

them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat

the fruits of them.

22They shall not build, and another inhabit;

they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the

days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people,

and the works of their hands shall be of long

continuance.

23My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring

forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the

blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with

them.
24And it shall come to pass, that before they

call, I will hear; as they are yet speaking, I will

hear.

25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together;

the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall

be the serpent's food: they shall not hurt nor kill

in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

Chapter 66

Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and

the earth my footstool: what is this house that

you will build to me? and what is this place of

my rest?

2My hand made all these things, and all these

things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom

shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and

little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth

at my words?

3He that sacriceth an ox, is as if he slew

a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrice, as

if he should brain a dog: he that oereth an

oblation, as if he should oer swine's blood; he

that remembereth incense, as if he should blessProphecy of Isaias 945

an idol. All these things have they chosen in

their ways, and their soul is delighted in their

abominations.

4Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries,

and will bring upon them the things they feared:

because I called, and there was none that would

answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and

they have done evil in my eyes, and have chosen

the things that displease me.

5Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble

at his word: Your brethren that hate you, and

cast you out for my name's sake, have said: Let

the Lord be gloried, and we shall see in your

joy: but they shall be confounded.

6A voice of the people from the city, a voice

from the temple, the voice of the Lord that ren-

dereth recompense to his enemies.

7Before she was in labour, she brought forth;

before her time came to be delivered, she brought

forth a man child.

8Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who

hath seen the like to this? shall the earth bring

forth in one day? or shall a nation be brought

forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour,

and hath brought forth her children?

9Shall not I that make others to bring forth

children, myself bring forth, saith the Lord?

shall I, that give generation to others, be bar-

ren, saith the Lord thy God?

10Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with

her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with

her, all you that mourn for her.

11That you may suck, and be lled with the

breasts of her consolations: that you may milk

out, and

ow with delights, from the abundance

of her glory.

12For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will

bring upon her as it were a river of peace, and

as an over

owing torrent the glory of the Gen-

tiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carriedat the breasts, and upon the knees they shall

caress you.

13As one whom the mother caresseth, so will

I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in

Jerusalem.

14You shall see and your heart shall rejoice,

and your bones shall

ourish like an herb, and

the hand of the Lord shall be known to his ser-

vants, and he shall be angry with his enemies.

15For behold the Lord will come with re,

and his chariots are like a whirlwind, to render

his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke with

ames of re.
16For the Lord shall judge by re, and by his

sword unto all

esh, and the slain of the Lord

shall be many.

17They that were sanctied, thought them-

selves clean in the gardens behind the gate

within, they that did eat swine's

esh, and the

abomination, and the mouse: they shall be con-

sumed together, saith the Lord.

18But I know their works, and their thoughts:

I come that I may gather them together with all

nations and tongues: and they shall come and

shall see my glory.

19And I will set a sign among them, and I will

send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles

into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that

draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the

islands afar o, to them that have not heard of

me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall

declare my glory to the Gentiles:

20And they shall bring all your brethren out

of all nations for a gift to the Lord, upon horses,

and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and

in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith

the Lord, as if the children of Israel should bring

an oering in a clean vessel into the house of the

Lord.

21And I will take of them to be priests, and946 Prophecy of Isaias

Levites, saith the Lord.

22For as the new heavens, and the new earth,

which I will make to stand before me, saith the

Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.

23And there shall be month after month, and

sabbath after sabbath: and all

esh shall come

to adore before my face, saith the Lord.

24And they shall go out, and see the carcasses

of the men that have transgressed against me:

their worm shall not die, and their re shall not

be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight

to all

esh.Prophecy of Jeremias

Chapter 1

The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the

priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Ben-

jamin.

2The word of the Lord which came to him in

the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda,

in the thirteenth year of his reign.

3And which came to him in the days of

Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, unto the

end of the eleventh year of Sedecias the son of

Josias king of Juda, even unto the carrying away

of Jerusalem captive, in the fth month.

4And the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

5Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy

mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest

forth out of the womb, I sanctied thee, and

made thee a prophet unto the nations.

6And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold,

I cannot speak, for I am a child.

7And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a

child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send

thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee,

thou shalt speak.

8Be not afraid at their presence: for I am

with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

9And the Lord put forth his hand, and

touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me:

Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

10Lo, I have set thee this day over the na-tions, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull

down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build,

and to plant.

11And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said:

I see a rod watching.

12And the Lord said to me: Thou hast seen

well: for I will watch over my word to perform

it.

13And the word of the Lord came to me a

second time saying: What seest thou? And I

said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof

from the face of the north.

14And the Lord said to me: From the north

shall an evil break forth upon all the inhabitants

of the land.

15For behold I will call together all the fami-

lies of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord:

and they shall come, and shall set every one his

throne in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,

and upon all the walls thereof round about, and

upon all the cities of Juda.

16And I will pronounce my judgments against

them, touching all their wickedness, who have

forsaken me, and have sacriced to strange gods,

and have adored the work of their own hands.

17Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise,

and speak to them all that I command thee. Be

not afraid at their presence: for I will make thee

not to fear their countenance.

18For behold I have made thee this day a948 Prophecy of Jeremias

fortied city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of

brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to

the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to

the people of the land.

19And they shall ght against them, and shall

not prevail: for I am with thee, saith the Lord,

to deliver thee.

Chapter 2

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying:

Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee,

pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals,

when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land

that is not sown.

3Israel is holy to the Lord, the rstfruits of his

increase: all they that devour him oend: evils

shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

4Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of

Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel:

5Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have

your fathers found in me, that they are gone far

from me, and have walked after vanity, and are

become vain?

6And they have not said: Where is the Lord,

that made us come up out of the land of Egypt?

that led us through the desert, through a land

uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of

drought, and the image of death, through a land

wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?

7And I brought you into the land of Carmel,

to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things

thereof: and when ye entered in, you deled my

land and made my inheritance an abomination.

8The priests did not say: Where is the Lord?

and they that held the law knew me not, and

the pastors transgressed against me: and the

prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.9Therefore will I yet contend in judgment

with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with

your children.

10Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see:

and send into Cedar, and consider diligently:

and see if there hath been done any thing like

this.

11If a nation hath changed their gods, and

indeed they are not gods: but my people have

changed their glory into an idol.

12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and

ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.

13For my people have done two evils. They

have forsaken me, the fountain of living water,

and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken

cisterns, that can hold no water.

14Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave?

why then is he become a prey?

15The lions have roared upon him, and have

made a noise, they have made his land a wilder-

ness: his cities are burnt down, and there is none

to dwell in them.

16The children also of Memphis, and of

Taphnes have de

oured thee, even to the crown

of the head.

17Hath not this been done to thee, because

thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that

time, when he led thee by the way?

18And now what hast thou to do in the way

of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what

hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians,

to drink the water of the river?

19Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and

thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and

see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee,

to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear

is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

20Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou

hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not

serve. For on every high hill, and under everyProphecy of Jeremias 949

green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

21Yet, I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all

true seed: how then art thou turned unto me

into that which is good for nothing, O strange

vineyard?

22Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and

multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art

stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord

God.

23How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I

have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in

the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift

runner pursuing his course.

24A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in

the desire of his heart, snued up the wind of his

love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her

shall not fail: in her monthly lth they shall nd

her.

25Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy

throat from thirst. But thou saidst: I have

lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved

strangers, and I will walk after them.

26As the thief is confounded when he is taken,

so is the house of Israel confounded, they and

their kings, their princes and their priests, and

their prophets.

27Saying to a stock: Thou art my father: and

to a stone: Thou hast begotten me: they have

turned their back to me, and not their face: and

in the time of their aiction they will say: Arise,

and deliver us.

28Where are the gods, whom thou hast made

thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time

of thy aiction: for according to the number of

thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.

29Why will you contend with me in judg-

ment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.

30In vain have I struck your children, they

have not received correction: your sword hath

devoured your prophets, your generation is likea ravaging lion.

31See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become

a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing

land? why then have my people said: We are

revolted, we will come to thee no more?

32Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a

bride her stomacher? but my people hath for-

gotten me days without number.

33Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way

good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught

thy malices to be thy ways,

34And in thy skirts is found the blood of the

souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches

have I found them, but in all places, which I

mentioned before.
35And thou hast said: I am without sin and

am innocent: and therefore let thy anger be

turned away from me. Behold, I will contend

with thee in judgment, because thou hast said:

I have not sinned.

36How exceeding base art thou become, go-

ing the same ways over again! and thou shalt

be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of

Assyria.

37For from thence thou shalt go, and thy

hand shall be upon thy head: for the Lord hath

destroyed thy trust, and thou shalt have nothing

prosperous therein.

Chapter 3

It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife,

and she go from him, and marry another man,

shall he return to her any more? shall not that

woman be polluted, and deled? but thou hast

prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless

return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive

thee.

2Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where950 Prophecy of Jeremias

thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit

in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the

wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with

thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.

3Therefore the showers were withholden, and

there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's

forehead, thou wouldst not blush.

4Therefore at the least from this time call to

me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virgin-

ity:

5Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou

continue unto the end? Behold, thou hast spo-

ken, and hast done evil things, and hast been

able.

6And the Lord said to me in the days of

king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Is-

rael hath done? she hath gone of herself upon

every high mountain, and under every green tree,

and hath played the harlot there.

7And when she had done all these things, I

said: Return to me, and she did not return. And

her treacherous sister Juda saw,

8That because the rebellious Israel had

played the harlot, I had put her away, and given

her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister

Juda was not afraid, but went and played the

harlot also herself.

9And by the facility of her fornication she de-

led the land, and played the harlot with stones

and with stocks.

10And after all this, her treacherous sister

Juda hath not returned to me with her whole

heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.

11And the Lord said to me: The rebellious

Israel hath justied her soul, in comparison of

the treacherous Juda.

12Go, and proclaim these words towards the

north, and thou shalt say: Return, O rebellious

Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn away

my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord,and I will not be angry for ever.

13But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that

thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God:

and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers

under every green tree, and hast not heard my

voice, saith the Lord.

14Return, O ye revolting children, saith the

Lord: for I am your I husband: and I will take

you, one of a city, and two of a kindred, and will

bring you into Sion.

15And I will give you pastors according to my

own heart, and they shall feed you with knowl-

edge and doctrine.

16And when you shall be multiplied, and in-

crease in the land in those days, saith the Lord,

they shall say no more: The ark of the covenant

of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart,

neither shall they remember it, neither shall it be

visited, neither shall that be done any more.

17At that time Jerusalem shall be called the

throne of the Lord: and all the nations shall be

gathered together to it, in the name of the Lord

to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the

perversity of their most wicked heart.

18In those days the house of Juda shall go to

the house of Israel, and they shall come together

out of the land of the north to the land which I

gave to your fathers.

19But I said: How shall I put thee among the

children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly

inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And

I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not

cease to walk after me.

20But as a woman that despiseth her lover,

so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the

Lord.

21A voice was heard in the highways, weep-

ing and howling of the children of Israel: because

they have made their way wicked, they have for-

gotten the Lord their God.Prophecy of Jeremias 951

22Return, you rebellious children, and I will

heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee:

for thou art the Lord our God.

23In very deed the hills were liars, and the

multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord

our God is the salvation of Israel.

24Confusion hath devoured the labour of our

fathers from our youth, their

ocks and their

herds, their sons and their daughters.

25We shall sleep in our confusion, and our

shame shall cover us, because we have sinned

against the Lord our God, we and our fathers

from our youth even to this day, and we have

not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

Chapter 4

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, re-

turn to me: if thou wilt take away thy stum-

blingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not be

moved.

2And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in

truth, and in judgment, and in justice: and the

Gentiles shall bless him, and shall praise him.

3For thus saith the Lord to the men of

Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fal-

low ground, and sow not upon thorns:

4Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away

the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and

ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation

come forth like re, and burn, and there be none

that can quench it because of the wickedness of

your thoughts.

5Declare ye in Juda, and make it heard in

Jerusalem: speak, and sound with the trumpet

in the land: cry aloud, and say: Assemble your-

selves, and let us go into strong cities.

6Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen

yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from thenorth, and great destruction.

7The lion is come up out of his den, and the

robber of nations hath roused himself: he is come

forth out of his place, to make thy land desolate:

thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without

an inhabitant.

8For this gird yourselves with haircloth,

lament and howl: for the erce anger of the Lord

is not turned away from us.

9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith

the Lord: That the heart of the king shall perish,

and the heart of the princes: and the priests shall

be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.

10And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord

God, hast thou then deceived this people and

Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and

behold the sword reacheth even to the soul?

11At that time it shall be said to this people,

and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways

that are in the desert of the way of the daughter

of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.

12A full wind from these places shall come

to me: and now I will speak my judgments with

them.

13Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and

his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter

than eagles: woe unto us, for we are laid waste.

14Wash thy heart from wickedness, O

Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long

shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

15For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and

giving notice of the idol from mount Ephraim.

16Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard

in Jerusalem, that guards are coming from a

far country, and give out their voice against the

cities of Juda.

17They are set round about her, as keepers of

elds: because she hath provoked me to wrath,

saith the Lord.

18Thy ways, and thy devices have brought952 Prophecy of Jeremias

these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness,

because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy

heart.

19My bowels, my bowels are in part, the

senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will

not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the

sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.

20Destruction upon destruction is called for,

and all the earth is laid waste: my tents are de-

stroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a mo-

ment.

21How long shall I see men

eeing away, how

long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?

22For my foolish people have not known me:

they are foolish and senseless children: they are

wise to do evil, but to do good they have no

knowledge.

23I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and

nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light

in them.

24I looked upon the mountains, and behold

they trembled: and all the hills were troubled.

25I beheld, and lo there was no man: and all

the birds of the air were gone.

26I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilder-

ness: and all its cities were destroyed at the

presence of the Lord, and at the presence of the

wrath of his indignation.

27For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall

be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.

28The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens

shall lament from above: because I have spoken,

I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither

am I turned away from it.

29At the voice of the horsemen, and the

archers, all the city is

ed away: they have en-

tered into thickets and climbed up the rocks: all

the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a

man in them.

30But when thou art spoiled what wilt thoudo? though thou clothest thyself with scar-

let, though thou deckest thee with ornaments

of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone,

thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers

have despised thee, they will seek thy life.

31For I have heard the voice as of a woman

in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of

a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying

away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my

soul hath fainted because of them that are slain.

Chapter 5

Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and

see, and consider, and seek in the broad places

thereof, if you can nd a man that executeth

judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be mer-

ciful unto it.

2And though they say: The Lord liveth; this

also they will swear falsely.

3O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast

struck them, and they have not grieved: thou

hast bruised them, and they have refused to

receive correction: they have made their faces

harder than the rock, and they have refused to

return.

4But I said: Perhaps these are poor and fool-

ish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judg-

ment of their God.

5I will go therefore to the great men, and will

speak to them: for they have known the way of

the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold

these have altogether broken the yoke more, and

have burst the bonds.

6Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain

them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a

leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that

shall go out thence shall be taken, because their

transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions areProphecy of Jeremias 953

strengthened.

7How can I be merciful to thee? thy chil-

dren have forsaken me, and swear by them that

are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they

committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's

house.

8They are become as amorous horses and stal-

lions: every one neighed after his neighbour's

wife.

9Shall I not visit for these things, saith the

Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on

such a nation?

10Scale the walls thereof, and throw them

down, but do not utterly destroy: take away

the branches thereof, because they are not the

Lord's.

11For the house of Israel, and the house of

Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith

the Lord.

12They have denied the Lord, and said, It is

not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we

shall not see the sword and famine.

13The prophets have spoken in the wind, and

there was no word of God in them: these things

therefore shall befall them.

14Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: be-

cause you have spoken this word, behold I will

make my words in thy mouth as re, and this

people as wood, and it shall devour them.

15Behold I will bring upon you a nation from

afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong

nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose lan-

guage thou shalt not know, nor understand what

they say.

16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they

are all valiant.

17And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy

bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy

daughters: they shall eat up thy

ocks, and thy

herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy gs:and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong

cities, wherein thou trustest.

18Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord,

I will not bring you to utter destruction.

19And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord

our God done all these things to us? thou shalt

say to them: As you have forsaken me, and

served a strange god in your own land, so shall

you serve strangers in a land that is not your

own.

20Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and

publish it in Juda, saying:

21Hear, O foolish people, and without under-

standing: who have eyes, and see not: and ears,

and hear not.

22Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord:

and will you not repent at my presence? I have

set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting

ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the

waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not

prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over

it.

23But the heart of this people is become hard

of belief and provoking, they are revolted and

gone away.

24And they have not said in their heart: Let

us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early

and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth

for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.

25Your iniquities have turned these things

away, and your sins have withholden good things

from you.

26For among my people are found wicked

men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares

and traps to catch men.

27As a net is full of birds, so their houses are

full of deceit: therefore are they become great

and enriched.

28They are grown gross and fat: and have

most wickedly transgressed my words. They954 Prophecy of Jeremias

have not judged the cause of the widow, they

have not managed the cause of the fatherless,

and they have not judged the judgment of the

poor.

29Shall I not visit for these things, saith the

Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such

a nation?

30Astonishing and wonderful things have

been done in the land.

31The prophets prophesied falsehood, and

the priests clapped their hands: and my peo-

ple loved such things: what then shall be done

in the end thereof?

Chapter 6

Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in

the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trum-

pet in Thecua, and set up the standard over

Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north,

and a great destruction.

2I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beau-

tiful and delicate woman.

3The shepherds shall come to her with their

ocks: they have pitched their tents against her

round about: every one shall feed them that are

under his hand.

4Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let

us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day

is declined, for the shadows of the evening are

grown longer.

5Arise, and let us go up in the night, and

destroy her houses.

6For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down

her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this

is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the

midst of her.

7As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath

she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoilshall be heard in her, inrmity and stripes are

continually before me.

8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my

soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate,

a land uninhabited.

9Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall

gather the remains of Israel, as in a vine, even

to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a grape-

gatherer into the basket.

10To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall

I testify, that he may hear? behold, their ears

are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: be-

hold the word of the Lord is become unto them

a reproach: and they will not receive it.

11Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord,

I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon

the child abroad, and upon the council of the

young men together: for man and woman shall

be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.

12And their houses shall be turned over to

others, with their lands and their wives together:

for I will stretch forth my hand upon the inhab-

itants of the land, saith the Lord.

13For from the least of them even to the

greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from

the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of

deceit.

14And they healed the breach of the daughter

of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace:

and there was no peace.

15They were confounded, because they com-

mitted abomination: yea, rather they were not

confounded with confusion, and they knew not

how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among

them that fall: in the time of their visitation

they shall fall down, saith the Lord.

16Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways,

and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the

good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall nd

refreshment for your souls. And they said: WeProphecy of Jeremias 955

will not walk.

17And I appointed watchmen over you, say-

ing: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet.

And they said: We will not hearken.

18Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O

congregation, what great things I will do to

them.

19Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring

evils upon this people, the fruits of their own

thoughts: because they have not heard my

words, and they have cast away my law.

20To what purpose do you bring me frank-

incense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane

from a far country? your holocausts are not ac-

ceptable, nor are your sacrices pleasing to me.

21Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I

will bring destruction upon this people, by which

fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbour

and kinsman shall perish.

22Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people

cometh from the land of the north, and a great

nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.

23They shall lay hold on arrow and shield:

they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their

voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall

mount upon horses, prepared as men for war,

against thee, O daughter of Sion.

24We have heard the fame thereof, our hands

grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a

woman in labour.

25Go not out into the elds, nor walk in the

highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is

on every side.

26Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my

people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee

mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamenta-

tion, because the destroyer shall suddenly come

upon us.

27I have set thee for a strong trier among my

people: and thou shalt know, and prove theirway.

28All these princes go out of the way, they

walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they

are all corrupted.

29The bellows have failed, the lead is con-

sumed in the re, the founder hath melted in

vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.

30Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord

hath rejected them.

Chapter 7

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord,

saying:

2Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord,

and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye

the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that

enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.

3Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel: Make your ways and your doings good:

and I will dwell with you in this place.

4Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple

of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the

temple of the Lord.

5For if you will order well your ways, and your

doings: if you will execute judgment between a

man and his neighbour,

6If you oppress not the stranger, the father-

less, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood

in this place, and walk not after strange gods to

your own hurt,

7I will dwell with you in this place: in the

land, which I gave to your fathers from the be-

ginning and for evermore.

8Behold you put your trust in lying words,

which shall not prot you:

9To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to

swear falsely, to oer to Baalim, and to go after

strange gods, which you know not.956 Prophecy of Jeremias

10And you have come, and stood before me

in this house, in which my name is called upon,

and have said: We are delivered, because we have

done all these abominations.

11Is this house then, in which my name hath

been called upon, in your eyes become a den of

robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the

Lord.

12Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name

dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to

it for the wickedness of my people Israel:

13And now, because you have done all these

works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you

rising up early, and speaking, and you have not

heard: and I have called you, and you have not

answered:

14I will do to this house, in which my name is

called upon, and in which you trust, and to the

place which I have given you and your fathers,

as I did to Silo.

15And I will cast you away from before my

face, as I have cast away all your brethren, the

whole seed of Ephraim.

16Therefore do not thou pray for this people,

nor take to thee praise and supplication for them:

and do not withstand me: for I will not hear thee.

17Seest thou not what they do in the cities

of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18The children gather wood, and the fathers

kindle the re, and the women knead the dough,

to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to

oer libations to strange gods, and to provoke

me to anger.

19Do they provoke me to anger, saith the

Lord? is it not themselves, to the confusion of

their own countenance?

20Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Be-

hold my wrath and my indignation is enkindled

against this place, upon men and upon beasts,

and upon the trees of the eld, and upon thefruits of the land, and it shall burn, and shall

not be quenched.

21Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Is-

rael: Add your burnt oerings to your sacrices,

and eat ye the

esh.

22For I spoke not to your fathers, and I com-

manded them not, in the day that I brought

them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the

matter of burnt oerings and sacrices.

23But this thing I commanded them, saying:

Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God,

and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all

the way that I have commanded you, that it may

be well with you.

24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their

ear: but walked in their own will, and in the per-

versity of their wicked heart: and went backward

and not forward,

25From the day that their fathers came out

of the land of Egypt, even to this day. And I

have sent to you all my servants the prophets,

from day to day, rising up early and sending.

26And they have not hearkened to me: nor

inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck,

and have done worse than their fathers.

27And thou shalt speak to them all these

words, but they will not hearken to thee: and

thou shalt call them, but they will not answer

thee.

28And thou shalt say to them: This is a na-

tion which hath not hearkened to the voice of the

Lord their God, nor received instruction: faith

is lost, and is taken away out of their mouth.

29Cut o thy hair, and cast it away: and take

up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath re-

jected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath,

30Because the children of Juda have done evil

in my eyes, saith the Lord. They have set their

abominations in the house in which my name is

called upon, to pollute it;Prophecy of Jeremias 957

31And they have built the high places of

Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of En-

nom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in

the re: which I commanded not, nor thought

on in my heart.

32Therefore behold the days shall come, saith

the Lord, and it shall no more be called Topheth,

nor the valley of the son of Ennom: but the val-

ley of slaughter: and they shall bury in Topheth,

because there is no place.

33And the carcasses of this people shall be

meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts

of the earth, and there shall be none to drive

them away.

34And I will cause to cease out of the cities

of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the

voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice

of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for

the land shall be desolate.

Chapter 8

At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out

the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of

the princes thereof, and the bones of the priests,

and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of

the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.

2And they shall spread them abroad to the

sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven,

whom they have loved, and whom they have

served, and after whom have walked, and whom

they have sought, and adored: they shall not

be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they

shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

3And death shall be chosen rather than life

by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred

in all places, which are left, to which I have cast

them out, saith the Lord of hosts.

4And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith theLord: Shall not he that falleth, rise again? and

he that is turned away, shall he not turn again?

5Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned

away with a stubborn revolting? they have laid

hold on lying, and have refused to return.

6I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh

what is good, there is none that doth penance for

his sin, saying: What have I done? They are all

turned to their own course, as a horse rushing to

the battle.

7The kite in the air hath known her time:

the turtle, and the swallow, and the stork have

observed the time of their coming: but my people

have not known the judgment of the Lord.

8How do you say: We are wise, and the law

of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pens of

the scribes hath wrought falsehood.

9The wise men are confounded, they are dis-

mayed, and taken: for they have cast away the

word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in

them.

10Therefore will I give their women to

strangers, their elds to others for an inheri-

tance: because from the least even to the great-

est all follow covetousness: from the prophet

even to the priest all deal deceitfully.

11And they healed the breach of the daughter

of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace:

when there was no peace.

12They are confounded, because they have

committed abomination: yea rather they are not

confounded with confusion, and they have not

known how to blush: therefore shall they fall

among them that fall; in the time of their visi-

tation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

13Gathering I will gather them together,

saith the Lord, there is no grape on the vines,

and there are no gs on the g tree, the leaf is

fallen: and I have given them the things that are

passed away.958 Prophecy of Jeremias

14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves,

and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us

be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put

us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to

drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.

15We looked for peace and no good came: for

a time of healing, and behold fear.

16The snorting of his horses was heard from

Dan, all the land was moved at the sound of

the neighing of his warriors: and they came and

devoured the land, and all that was in it: the

city and its inhabitants.

17For behold I will send among you serpents,

basilisks, against which there is no charm: and

they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

18My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mour-

neth within me.

19Behold the voice of the daughter of my peo-

ple from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or

is not her king in her? why then have they pro-

voked me to wrath with their idols, and strange

vanities?

20The harvest is past, the summer is ended,

and we are not saved.

21For the aiction of the daughter of my

people I am aicted, and made sorrowful, as-

tonishment hath taken hold on me.

22Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no

physician there? Why then is not the wound of

the daughter of my people closed?

Chapter 9
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain

of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and

night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

2Who will give me in the wilderness a lodg-

ing place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my

people, and depart from them? because they areall adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

3And they have bent their tongue, as a bow,

for lies, and not for truth: they have strength-

ened themselves upon the earth, for they have

proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have

not known, saith the Lord.

4Let every man take heed of his neighbour,

and let him not trust in any brother of his: for

every brother will utterly supplant, and every

friend will walk deceitfully.

5And a man shall mock his brother, and they

will not speak the truth: for they have taught

their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured

to commit iniquity.

6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit:

through deceit they have refused to know me,

saith the Lord.

7Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Be-

hold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall

I do before the daughter of my people?

8Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spo-

ken deceit: with his mouth one speaketh peace

with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait for

him.

9Shall I not visit them for these things, saith

the Lord? or shall not my soul be revenged on

such a nation?

10For the mountains I will take up weeping

and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of

the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up,

for that there is not a man that passeth through

them: and they have not heard the voice of the

owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they

are gone away and departed.

11And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of

sand, and dens of dragons: and I will make the

cities of Juda desolate, for want of an inhabitant.

12Who is the wise man, that may understand

this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the

Lord may come that he may declare this, whyProphecy of Jeremias 959

the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a

wilderness, which none passeth through?

13And the Lord said: Because they have for-

saken my law, which I gave them, and have not

heard my voice, and have not walked in it.

14But they have gone after the perverseness

of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their

fathers taught them.

15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the

God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with

wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

16And I will scatter them among the nations,

which they and their fathers have not known:

and I will send the sword after them till they be

consumed.

17Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning

women, and let them come: and send to them

that are wise women, and let them make haste:

18Let them hasten and take up a lamentation

for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids

run down with waters.

19For a voice of wailing is heard out of

Sion: How are we wasted and greatly con-

founded? because we have left the land, because

our dwellings are cast down.

20Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the

Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his

mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and

every one her neighbour mourning.

21For death is come up through our win-

dows, it is entered into our houses to destroy

the children from without, the young men from

the streets.

22Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the car-

cass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of

the country, and as grass behind the back of the

mower, and there is none to gather it.

23Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man

glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong manglory in his strength, and let not the rich man

glory in his riches:

24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that

he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the

Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and jus-

tice in the earth: for these things please me, saith

the Lord.

25Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and

I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin

circumcised.

26Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon

Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and

upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair

polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all

the nations are uncircumcised in the

esh, but

all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the

heart.

Chapter 10

Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken

concerning you, O house of Israel.

2Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according

to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of

the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear:

3For the laws of the people are vain: for the

works of the hand of the workman hath cut a

tree out of the forest with an axe.

4He hath decked it with silver and gold: he

hath put it together with nails and hammers,

that it may not fall asunder.

5They are framed after the likeness of a palm

tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to

be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore

fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor

good.

6There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art

great, and great is thy name in might.

7Who shall not fear thee, O king of nations?960 Prophecy of Jeremias

for thine is the glory: among all the wise men

of the nations, and in all their kingdoms there is

none like unto thee.

8They shall be all proved together to be sense-

less and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is

wood.

9Silver spread into plates is brought from

Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the work of the

articer, and of the hand of the coppersmith: vi-

olet and purple is their clothing: all these things

are the work of articers.

10But the Lord is the true God: he is the liv-

ing God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath

the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not

be able to abide his threatening.

11Thus then shall you say to them: The gods

that have not made heaven and earth, let them

perish from the earth, and from among those

places that are under heaven.

12He that maketh the earth by his power,

that prepareth the world by his wisdom, and

stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.

13At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters

in the heaven, and lifteth up the clouds from the

ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings for rain,

and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

14Every man is become a fool for knowledge,

every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for

what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit

in them.

15They are vain things, and a ridiculous

work: in the time of their visitation they shall

perish.

16The portion of Jacob is not like these: for

it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the

rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his

name.

17Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou

that dwellest in a siege.

18For thus saith he Lord: Behold I will castaway far o the inhabitants of the land at this

time: and I will aict them, so that they may

be found.

19Woe is me for my destruction, my wound is

very grievous. But I said: Truly this is my own

evil, and I will bear it.

20My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords

are broken: my children are gone out from me,

and they are not: there is none to stretch forth

my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

21Because the pastors have done foolishly,

and have not sought the Lord: therefore have

they not understood, and all their

ock is scat-

tered.

22Behold the sound of a noise cometh, a great

commotion out of the land of the north: to make

the cities of Juda a desert, and a dwelling for

dragons.

23I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is

not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to

direct his steps.

24Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judg-

ment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to

nothing.

25Pour out thy indignation upon the na-

tions that have not known thee, and upon the

provinces that have not called upon thy name:

because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured

him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his

glory.

Chapter 11

The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias,

saying:

2Hear ye the words of this covenant, and

speak to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants

of Jerusalem,

3And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith theProphecy of Jeremias 961

Lord the God of Israel: Cursed is the man that

shall not hearken to the words of this covenant,

4Which I commanded your fathers in the day

that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,

from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice,

and do all things that I command you: and you

shall be my people, and I will be your God:

5That I may accomplish the oath which I

swore to your fathers, to give them a land

ow-

ing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I

answered and said: Amen, O Lord.

6And the Lord said to me: Proclaim aloud

all these words in the cities of Juda, and in the

streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words

of the covenant, and do them:

7For protesting I conjured your fathers in the

day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt

even to this day: rising early I conjured them,

and said: Hearken ye to my voice:

8And they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear:

but walked every one in the perverseness of his

own wicked heart: and I brought upon them all

the words of this covenant, which I commanded

them to do, but they did them not.

9And the Lord said to me: A conspiracy is

found among the men of Juda, and among the

inhabitants of Jerusalem.

10They are returned to the former iniquities

of their fathers, who refused to hear my words:

so these likewise have gone after strange gods, to

serve them: the house of Israel, and the house

of Juda have made void my covenant, which I

made with their fathers.

11Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I

will bring in evils upon them, which they shall

not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me,

and I will not hearken to them.

12And the cities of Juda, and the inhabitants

of Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to

whom they oer sacrice, and they shall not savethem in the time of their aiction.

13For according to the number of thy cities

were thy gods, O Juda: and according to the

number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set

up altars of confusion, altars to oer sacrice to

Baalim.

14Therefore do not thou pray for this people,

and do not take up praise and prayer for them:

for I will not hear them in the time of their cry

to me, in the time of their aiction.

15What is the meaning that my beloved hath

wrought much wickedness in my house? shall

the holy

esh take away from thee thy crimes, in

which thou hast boasted?

16The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive

tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of

a word, a great re was kindled in it, and the

branches thereof are burnt.

17And the Lord of hosts that planted thee,

hath pronounced evil against thee: for the evils

of the house of Israel, and of the house of Juda,

which they have done to themselves, to provoke

me, oering sacrice to Baalim.

18But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me, and I

have known: then thou shewedst me their do-

ings.

19And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried

to be a victim: and I knew not that they had

devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put

wood on his bread, and cut him o from the land

of the living, and let his name be remembered no

more.

20But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who judgest

justly, and triest the reins and the hearts, let

me see thy revenge on them: for to thee have I

revealed my cause.

21Therefore thus saith the Lord to the men

of Anathoth, who seek thy life, and say: Thou

shalt not prophesy in the name of the Lord, and

thou shalt not die in our hands.962 Prophecy of Jeremias

22Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Be-

hold I will visit upon them: their young men

shall die by the sword, their sons and their

daughters shall die by famine.

23And there shall be no remains of them: for

I will bring in evil upon the men of Anathoth,

the year of their visitation.

Chapter 12

Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with

thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee:

Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why

is it well with all them that transgress, and do

wickedly?

2Thou hast planted them, and they have

taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit:

thou art near in their mouth, and far from their

reins.

3And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou

hast seen me, and proved my heart with thee:

gather them together as for the day of slaughter.

4How long shall the land mourn, and the herb

of every eld wither for the wickedness of them

that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are

consumed: because they have said: He shall not

see our last end.

5If thou hast been wearied with running with

footmen, how canst thou contend with horses?

and if thou hast been secure in a land of peace,

what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?

6For even thy brethren, and the house of thy

father, even they have fought against thee, and

have cried after thee with full voice: believe them

not when they speak good things to thee.

7I have forsaken my house, I have left my

inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the

hand of her enemies.

8My inheritance is become to me as a lion inthe wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore

have I hated it.

9Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird?

is it as a bird dyed throughout? come ye, assem-

ble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth, make

haste to devour.

10Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard,

they have trodden my portion under foot: they

have changed my delightful portion into a deso-

late wilderness.

11They have laid it waste, and it hath

mourned for me. With desolation is all the land

made desolate; because there is none that con-

sidereth in the heart.

12The spoilers are come upon all the ways

of the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall

devour from one end of the land to the other end

thereof: there is no peace for all

esh.

13They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns:

they have received an inheritance, and it shall

not prot them: you shall be ashamed of your

fruits, because of the erce wrath of the Lord.

14Thus saith the Lord against all wicked

neighbours, that touch the inheritance that I

have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I

will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck

the house of Juda out of the midst of them.

15And when I shall have plucked them out,

I will return, and have mercy on them: and will

bring them back, every man to his inheritance,

and every man into his land.

16And it shall come to pass, if they will be

taught, and will learn the ways of my people,

to swear by my name: The Lord liveth, as they

have taught my people to swear by Baal: that

they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

17But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck

out and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.Prophecy of Jeremias 963

Chapter 13

Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and get thee

a linen girdle, and thou shalt put it about thy

loins, and shalt not put it into water.

2And I got a girdle according to the word of

the Lord, and put it about my loins.

3And the word of the Lord came to me the

second time, saying:

4Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is

about thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates,

and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

5And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as

the Lord had commanded me.

6And it came to pass after many days, that

the Lord said to me: Arise, go to the Euphrates,

and take from thence the girdle, which I com-

manded thee to hide there.

7And I went to the Euphrates, and digged,

and took the girdle out of the place where I had

hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so that

it was t for no use.

8And the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

9Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will

I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of

Jerusalem to rot.

10This wicked people, that will not hear my

words, and that walk in the perverseness of their

heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve

them, and to adore them: and they shall be as

this girdle ,which is t for no use.

11For as the girdle sticketh close to the loins

of a man, so have I brought close to me all the

house of Israel, and all the house of Juda, saith

the Lord: that they might be my people, and for

a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but

they would not hear.

12Thou shalt speak therefore to them this

word: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:Every bottle shall be lled with wine. And they

shall say to thee: Do we not know that every

bottle shall be lled with wine?

13And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith

the Lord: Behold I will ll all the inhabitants

of this land, and the kings of the race of David

that sit upon his throne, and the priests, and the

prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

with drunkenness.

14And I will scatter them every man from

his brother, and fathers and sons in like manner,

saith the Lord: I will not spare, and I will not

pardon: nor will I have mercy, but to destroy

them.

15Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for

the Lord hath spoken.

16Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before

it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the

dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he

will turn it into the shadow of death, and into

darkness.

17But if you will not hear this, my soul shall

weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall

weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears,

because the

ock of the Lord is carried away cap-

tive.

18Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble

yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory

is come down from your head.

19The cities of the south are shut up, and

there is none to open them: all Juda is carried

away captive with an entire captivity.

20Lift up your eyes, and see, you that come

from the north: where is the

ock that is given

thee, thy beautiful cattle?

21What wilt thou say when he shall visit

thee? for thou hast taught them against thee,

and instructed them against thy own head: shall

not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in

labour?964 Prophecy of Jeremias

22And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are

these things come upon me? For the greatness

of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the

soles of thy feet are deled.

23If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the

leopard his spots: you also may do well, when

you have learned evil.

24And I will scatter them as stubble, which

is carried away by the wind in the desert.

25This is thy lot, and the portion of thy mea-

sure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast

forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood.

26Wherefore I have also bared thy thighs

against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared.

27I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neigh-

ing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy

abominations, upon the hills in the eld. Woe

to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean

after me: how long yet?

Chapter 14

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias con-

cerning the words of the drought.

2Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof

are fallen, and are become obscure on the

ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

3The great ones sent their inferiors to the

water: they came to draw, they found no wa-

ter, they carried back their vessels empty: they

were confounded and aicted, and covered their

heads.

4For the destruction of the land, because

there came no rain upon the earth, the husband-

man were confounded, they covered their heads.

5Yea, the hind also brought forth in the eld,

and left it, because there was no grass.

6And the wild asses stood upon the rocks,

they snued up the wind like dragons, their eyesfailed, because there was no grass.

7If our iniquities have testied against us, O

Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our

rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

8O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof

in time of trouble: why wilt thou be as a stranger

in the land, and as a wayfaring man turning in

to lodge?

9Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a

mighty man that cannot save? but thou, O Lord,

art among us, and thy name is called upon by

us, forsake us not.

10Thus saith the Lord to this people, that

have loved to move their feet, and have not

rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will

now remember their iniquities, and visit their

sins.

11And the Lord said to me: Pray not for this

people for their good.

12When they fast I will not hear their

prayers: and if they oer holocausts and vic-

tims, I will not receive them: for I will consume

them by the sword, and by famine, and by the

pestilence.

13And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, the

prophets say to them: You shall not see the

sword, and there shall be no famine among you,

but he will give you true peace in this place.

14And the Lord said to me: The prophets

prophesy falsely in my name: I sent them not,

neither have I commanded them, nor have I spo-

ken to them: they prophesy unto you a lying

vision, and divination and deceit, and the se-

duction of their own heart.

15Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning

the prophets that prophesy in my name, whom

I did not send, that say: Sword and famine shall

not be in this land: By sword and famine shall

those prophets be consumed.

16And the people to whom they prophesy,Prophecy of Jeremias 965

shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem be-

cause of the famine and the sword, and there

shall be none to bury them: they and their wives,

their sons and their daughters, and I will pour

out their own wickedness upon them.

17And thou shalt speak this word to them:

Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and

let them not cease, because the virgin daughter

of my people is aicted with a great aiction,

with an exceeding grievous evil.

18If I go forth into the elds, behold the slain

with the sword: and if I enter into the city, be-

hold them that are consumed with famine. The

prophet also and the priest are gone into a land

which they knew not.

19Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath

thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou

struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we

have looked for peace, and there is no good: and

for the time of healing, and behold trouble.

20We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness,

the iniquities of our fathers, because we have

sinned against thee.

21Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name's

sake, and do not disgrace in us the throne of thy

glory: remember, break not thy covenant with

us.

22Are there any among the graven things of

the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heav-

ens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God,

whom we have looked for? for thou hast made

all these things.

Chapter 15

And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel

shall stand before me, my soul is not towards

this people: cast them out from my sight, and

let them go forth.2And if they shall say unto thee: Whither

shall we go forth? thou shalt say to them: Thus

saith the Lord: Such as are for death, to death:

and such as are for the sword, to the sword: and

such as are for famine, to famine: and such as

are for captivity, to captivity.

3And I will visit them with four kinds, saith

the Lord: The sword to kill, and the dogs to

tear, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts of

the earth, to devour and to destroy.

4And I will give them up to the rage of all

the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses

the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that

he did in Jerusalem.

5For who shall have pity on thee, O

Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who

shall go to pray for thy peace?

6Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou

art gone backward: and I will stretch out my

hand against thee, and I will destroy thee: I am

weary of entreating thee.

7And I will scatter them with a fan in the

gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed

my people, and yet they are not returned from

their ways.
8Their widows are multiplied unto me above

the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them

against the mother of the young man a spoiler at

noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon

the cities.

9She that hath borne seven is become weak,

her soul hath fainted away: her sun is gone down,

while it was yet day: she is confounded, and

ashamed: and the residue of them I will give up

to the sword in the sight of their enemies, saith

the Lord.

10Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou

borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to

all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither

hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse966 Prophecy of Jeremias

me.

11The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it shall

be well with thy remnant, assuredly I shall help

thee in the time of aiction, and in the time of

tribulation against the enemy.

12Shall iron be allied with the iron from the

north, and the brass?

13Thy riches and thy treasures I will give

unto spoil for nothing, because of all thy sins,

even in all thy borders.

14And I will bring thy enemies out of a land,

which thou knowest not: for a re is kindled in

my rage, it shall burn upon you.

15O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and

visit me, and defend me from them that perse-

cute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know

that for thy sake I have suered reproach.

16Thy words were found, and I did eat them,

and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my

heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord

God of hosts.

17I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did

I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat

alone, because thou hast lled me with threats.

18Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and

my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed?

it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful

waters that cannot be trusted.

19Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt

be converted, I will convert thee, and thou shalt

stand before my face; and thou wilt separate

the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my

mouth: they shall be turned to thee, and thou

shalt not be turned to them.

20And I will make thee to this people as a

strong wall of brass: and they shall ght against

thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee to

save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

21And I will deliver thee out of the hand of

the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of thehand of the mighty.

Chapter 16

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt

thou have sons and daughters in this place.

3For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons

and daughters, that are born in this place, and

concerning their mothers that bore them: and

concerning their fathers, of whom they were born

in this land:

4They shall die by the death of grievous ill-

nesses: they shall not be lamented, and they

shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon

the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed

with the sword, and with famine: and their car-

casses shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and

for the beasts of the earth.

5For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the

house of feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor

to comfort them: because I have taken away my

peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy

and commiserations.

6Both the great and the little shall die in this

land: they shall not be buried nor lamented, and

men shall not cut themselves, nor make them-

selves bald for them.

7And they shall not break bread among them

to him that mourneth, to comfort him for the

dead: neither shall they give them for their fa-

ther and mother.

8And do not thou go into the house of feast-

ing, to sit with them, and to eat and drink:

9For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God

of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this

place in your sight, and in your days the voice

of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of

the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.Prophecy of Jeremias 967

10And when thou shalt tell this people all

these words, and they shall say to thee: Where-

fore hath the Lord pronounced against us all this

great evil? what is our iniquity? and what is our

sin, that we have sinned against the Lord our

God?

11Thou shalt say to them: Because your fa-

thers forsook me, saith the Lord: and went after

strange gods, and served them, and adored them:

and they forsook me, and kept not my law.

12And you also have done worse than your

fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after

the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to

hearken to me.

13So I will cast you forth out of this land, into

a land which you know not, nor your fathers: and

there you shall serve strange gods day and night,

which shall not give you any rest.

14Therefore behold the days come, saith the

Lord, when it shall be said no more: The Lord

liveth, that brought forth the children of Israel

out of the land of Egypt.

15But, The Lord liveth, that brought the chil-

dren of Israel out of the land of the north, and

out of all the lands to which I cast them out: and

I will bring them again into their land, which I

gave to their fathers.

16Behold I will send many shers, saith the

Lord, and they shall sh them: and after this

I will send them many hunters, and they shall

hunt them from every mountain, and from every

hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

17For my eyes are upon all their ways: they

are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath

not been hid from my eyes.

18And I will repay rst their double iniqui-

ties, and their sins: because they have deled my

land with the carcasses of their idols, and they

have lled my inheritance with their abomina-

tions.19O Lord, my might, and my strength, and

my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the

Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth,

and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed

lies, a vanity which hath not proted them.

20Shall a man make gods unto himself and

they are no gods?

21Therefore behold I will this once cause

them to know, I will shew them my hand and

my power: and they shall know that my name is

the Lord.

Chapter 17

The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron,

with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon

the table of their heart, upon the horns of their

altars.

2When their children shall remember their

altars, and their groves, and their green trees

upon the high mountains,

3Sacricing in the eld: I will give thy

strength, and all thy treasures to the spoil, and

thy high places for sin in all thy borders.

4And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inher-

itance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee

serve thy enemies in a land which thou know-

est not: because thou hast kindled a re in my

wrath, it shall burn for ever.

5Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man

that trusteth in man, and maketh

esh his arm,

and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

6For he shall be like tamaric in the desert,

and he shall not see when good shall come: but

he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt

land, and not inhabited.

7Blessed be the man that trusteth in the

Lord, and the Lord shall be his condence.

8And he shall be as a tree that is planted by968 Prophecy of Jeremias

the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards

moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat

cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and

in the time of drought it shall not be solicitous,

neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth

fruit.

9The heart is perverse above all things, and

unsearchable, who can know it?

10I am the Lord who search the heart, and

prove the reins: who give to every one accord-

ing to his way, and according to the fruit of his

devices.

11As the partridge hath hatched eggs which

she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered

riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days

he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall

be a fool.

12A high and glorious throne from the begin-

ning is the place of our sanctication.

13O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake

thee shall be confounded: they that depart from

thee, shall be written in the earth: because they

have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.

14Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed:

save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my

praise.

15Behold they say to me: Where is the word

of the Lord? let it come.

16And I am not troubled, following thee for

my pastor, and I have not desired the day of

man, thou knowest. That which went out of my

lips, hath been right in thy sight.

17Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my

hope in the day of aiction.

18Let them be confounded that persecute

me, and let not me be confounded: let them

be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon

them the day of aiction, and with a double de-

struction, destroy them.

19Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and standin the gate of the children of the people, by which
the kings of Juda come in, and go out, and in all

the gates of Jerusalem:

20And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word

of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and al Juda, and

all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by

these gates.

21Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your

souls, and carry no burdens on the sabbath day:

and bring them not in by the gates of Jerusalem.

22And do not bring burdens out of your

houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any

work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded

your fathers.

23But they did not hear, nor incline their

ear: but hardened their neck, that they might

not hear me, and might not receive instruction.

24And it shall come to pass: if you will hear-

ken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens

by the gates of this city on the sabbath day: and

if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no

work therein:

25Then shall there enter in by the gates

of this city kings and princes, sitting upon the

throne of David, and riding in chariots and on

horses, they and their princes, the men of Juda,

and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city

shall be inhabited for ever.

26And they shall come from the cities

of Juda, and from the places round about

Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and

from the plains, and from the mountains, and

from the south, bringing holocausts, and victims,

and sacrices, and frankincense, and they shall

bring in an oering into the house of the Lord.

27But if you will not hearken to me, to

sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry bur-

dens, and not to bring them in by the gates

of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kin-

dle a re in the gates thereof, and it shall de-Prophecy of Jeremias 969

vour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be

quenched.

Chapter 18

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord,

saying:

2Arise, and go down into the potter's house,

and there thou shalt hear my words.

3And I went down into the potter's house,

and behold he was doing a work on the wheel.

4And the vessel was broken which he was

making of clay with his hands: and turning he

made another vessel, as it seemed good in his

eyes to make it.

5Then the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

6Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O

house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is

in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand,

O house of Israel.

7I will suddenly speak against a nation, and

against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down,

and to destroy it.

8If that nation against which I have spoken,

shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the

evil that I have thought to do to them.

9And I will suddenly speak of a nation and

of a kingdom, to build up and plant it.

10If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey

not my voice: I will repent of the good that I

have spoken to do unto it.

11Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and

the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith

the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and

devise a device against you: let every man of you

return from his evil way, and make ye your ways

and your doings good.

12And they said; We have no hopes: for wewill go after our own thoughts, and we will do

every one according to the perverseness of his

evil heart.
13Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among

the nations: Who hath heard such horrible

things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to ex-

cess?

14Shall the snow of Libanus fail from the rock

of the eld? or can the cold waters that gush out

and run down, be taken away?

15Because my people have forgotten me, sac-

ricing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in

ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not

trodden:

16That their land might be given up to deso-

lation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that

shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his

head.

17As a burning wind will I scatter them be-

fore the enemy: I will shew them the back, and

not the face, in the day of their destruction.

18And they said: Come, and let us invent

devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not

perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise,

nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us

strike him with the tongue, and let us give no

heed to all his words.

19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the

voice of my adversaries.
20Shall evil be rendered for good, because

they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember

that I have stood in thy sight, to speak good

for them, and to turn away thy indignation from

them.

21Therefore deliver up their children to

famine, and bring them into the hands of the

sword: let their wives be bereaved of children

and widows: and let their husbands be slain by

death: let their young men be stabbed with the

sword in battle.970 Prophecy of Jeremias

22Let a cry be heard out of their houses: for

thou shalt bring the robber upon them suddenly:

because they have digged a pit to take me, and

have hid snares for my feet.

23But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel

against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let

not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let

them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time

of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Chapter 19

Thus saith the Lord: Go, and take a potter's

earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the

people, and of the ancients of the priests:

2And go forth into the valley of the son of

Ennom, which is by the entry of the earthen gate:

and there thou shalt proclaim the words that I

shall tell thee.

3And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the

Lord, O ye kings of Juda, and ye inhabitants

of Jerusalem: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the

God of Israel: Behold I will bring an aiction

upon this place: so that whosoever shall hear it,

his ears shall tingle:

4Because they have forsaken me, and have

profaned this place : and have sacriced therein

to strange gods, whom neither they nor their fa-

thers knew, nor the kings of Juda: and they have

lled this place with the blood of innocents.

5And they have built the high places of

Baalim, to burn their children with re for a

holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command,

nor speak of, neither did it once come into my

mind.

6Therefore behold the days come, saith the

Lord, that this place shall no more be called

Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom,

but the valley of slaughter.7And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of

Jerusalem in this place: and I will destroy them

with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and

by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I

will give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls

of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.

8And I will make this city an astonishment,

and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it,

shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all

the plagues thereof.

9And I will feed them with the

esh of their

sons, and with the

esh of their daughters: and

they shall eat every one the

esh of his friend in

the siege, and in the distress wherewith their ene-

mies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten

them.

10And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight

of the men that shall go with thee.

11And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the

Lord of hosts: Even so will I break this people,

and this city, as the potter's vessel is broken,

which cannot be made whole again: and they

shall be buried in Topheth, because there is no

other place to bury in.

12Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord,

and to the inhabitants thereof: and I will make

this city as Topheth.

13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the

houses of the kings of Juda shall be unclean

as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon

whose roofs they have sacriced to all the host

of heaven, and have poured out drink oerings

to strange gods.

14Then Jeremias came from Topheth,

whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and

he stood in the court of the house of the Lord,

and said to all the people:

15Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of

Israel: Behold I will bring in upon this city, and

upon all the cities thereof all the evils that I haveProphecy of Jeremias 971

spoken against it: because they have hardened

their necks, that they might not hear my words.

Chapter 20

Now Phassur the son of Emmer, the priest, who

was appointed chief in the house of the Lord,

heard Jeremias prophesying these words.

2And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet,

and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper

gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.

3And when it was light the next day, Phas-

sur brought Jeremias out of the stocks. And

Jeremias said to him: The Lord hath not called

thy name Phassur, but fear on every side.

4For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver

thee up to fear, thee and all thy friends: and they

shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thy

eyes shall see it, and I will give all Juda into

the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall

carry them away to Babylon, and shall strike

them with the sword.

5And I will give all the substance of this

city, and all its labour, and every precious thing

thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Juda

will I give into the hands of their enemies: and

they shall pillage them, and take them away, and

carry them to Babylon.

6But thou Phassur, and all that dwell in thy

house, shall go into captivity, and thou shalt go

to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there

thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy friends, to

whom thou hast prophesied a lie.

7Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am

deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and

thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughing-

stock all the day, all sco at me.

8For I am speaking now this long time, cry-

ing out against iniquity, and I often proclaimdevastation: and the word of the Lord is made a

reproach to me, and a derision all the day.

9Then I said: I will not make mention of

him, nor speak any more in his name: and there

came in my heart as a burning re, shut up in

my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to

bear it.

10For I heard the reproaches of many, and

terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us

persecute him: from all the men that were my

familiars, and continued at my side: if by any

means he may be deceived, and we may prevail

against him, and be revenged on him.

11But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior:

therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and

shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded,

because they have not understood the everlast-

ing reproach, which never shall be eaced.

12And thou, O Lord of hosts, prover of the

just, who seest the reins and the heart: let me

see, I beseech thee, thy vengeance on them: for

to thee I have laid open my cause.

13Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord: be-

cause he hath delivered the soul of the poor out

of the hand of the wicked.

14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let

not the day in which my mother bore me, be

blessed.

15Cursed be the man that brought the tidings

to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee:

and made him greatly rejoice.

16Let that man be as the cities which the

Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented:

let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling

at noontide:

17Who slew me not from the womb, that my

mother might have been my grave, and her womb

an everlasting conception.

18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour

and sorrow, and that my days should be spent972 Prophecy of Jeremias

in confusion?

Chapter 21

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord,

when king Sedecias sent unto him Phassur, the

son of Melchias, and Sophonias, the son of

Maasias the priest, saying:

2Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nabu-

chodonosor king of Babylon maketh war against

us: if so be the Lord will deal with us according

to all his wonderful works, that he may depart

from us.

3And Jeremias said to them: Thus shall you

say to Sedecias:

4Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Be-

hold I will turn back the weapons of war that are

in your hands, and with which you ght against

the king of Babylon, and the Chaldeans, that

besiege you round about the walls: and I will

gather them together in the midst of this city.

5And I myself will ght against you with an

outstretched hand, and with a strong arm, and

in fury, and in indignation, and in great wrath.

6And I will strike the inhabitants of this city,

men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence.

7And after this, saith the Lord, I will give

Sedecias the king of Juda, and his servants, and

his people, and such as are left in this city from

the pestilence, and the sword, and the famine,

into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of

Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and

into the hand of them that seek their life, and he

shall strike them with the edge of the sword, and

he shall not be moved to pity, nor spare them,

nor shew mercy to them.

8And to this people thou shalt say: Thus

saith the Lord: Behold I set before you the way

of life, and the way of death.9He that shall abide in this city, shall die

by the sword, and by the famine, and by the

pestilence: but he that shall go out and

ee over

to the Chaldeans, that besiege you, shall live,

and his life shall be to him as a spoil.

10For I have set my face against this city for

evil, and not for good, saith the Lord: it shall be

given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and

he shall burn it with re.

11And to the house of the king of Juda: Hear

ye the word of the Lord,

12O house of David, thus saith the Lord:

Judge ye judgment in the morning, and deliver

him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand

of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth

like a re, and be kindled, and there be none to

quench it, because of the evil of your ways.

13Behold I come to thee that dwellest in a

valley upon a rock above a plain, saith the Lord:

and you say: Who shall strike us and who shall

enter into our houses?

14But I will visit upon you according to the

fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will

kindle a re in the forest thereof: and it shall

devour all things round about it.

Chapter 22

Thus saith the Lord: Go down to the house of

the king of Juda, and there thou shalt speak this

word,

2And thou shalt say: Hear the word of the

Lord, king of Juda, that sittest upon the throne

of David: thou and thy servants, and thy people,

who enter in by these gates.

3Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and

justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out

of the hand of the oppressor: and aict not

the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, norProphecy of Jeremias 973

oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent

blood in this place.

4For if you will do this thing indeed, then

shall there enter in by the gates of this house,

kings of the race of David sitting upon his throne,

and riding in chariots and on horses, they and

their servants, and their people.

5But if you will not hearken to these words: I

swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house

shall become a desolation.

6For thus saith the Lord to the house of the

king of Juda: Thou art to me Galaad the head of

Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness,

and cities not habitable.

7And I will prepare against thee the destroyer

and his weapons: and they shall cut down thy

chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong into

the re.

8And many nations shall pass by this city:

and they shall say every man to his neighbour:

Why hath the Lord done so to this great city?

9And they shall answer: Because they have

forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and

have adored strange gods, and served them.

10Weep not for him that is dead, nor bemoan

him with your tears: lament him that goeth

away, for he shall return no more, nor see his

native country.

11For thus saith the Lord to Sellum the son

of Josias the king of Juda, who reigned instead

of his father, who went forth out of this place:

He shall return hither no more:

12But in the place, to which I have removed

him, there shall he die, and he shall not see this

land any more.

13Woe to him that buildeth up his house

by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment:

that will oppress his friend without cause, and

will not pay him his wages.

14Who saith: I will build me a wide house,and large chambers: who openeth to himself win-

dows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth

them with vermilion.

15Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest

thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and

drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was

then well with him?

16He judged the cause of the poor and needy

for his own good: was it not therefore because

he knew me, saith the Lord?

17But thy eyes and thy heart are set

upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent

blood, and upon oppression, and running after

evil works.

18Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning

Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda: They shall

not mourn for him, Alas, my brother, and, Alas,

sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my

lord, or, Alas, the noble one.

19He shall be buried with the burial of an

ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of

Jerusalem.

20Go up to Libanus, and cry: and lift up thy

voice in Basan, and cry to them that pass by, for

all thy lovers are destroyed.

21I spoke to thee in thy prosperity: and thou

saidst: I will not hear: this hath been thy way

from thy youth, because thou hast not heard my

voice.

22The wind shall feed all thy pastors, and thy

lovers shall go into captivity and then shalt thou

be confounded, and ashamed of all thy wicked-

ness.
23Thou that sittest in Libanus, and makest

thy nest in the cedars, how hast thou mourned

when sorrows came upon thee, as the pains of a

woman in labour?

24As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the

son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on

my right hand, I would pluck him thence.974 Prophecy of Jeremias

25And I will give thee into the hand of them

that seek thy life, and into the hand of them

whose face thou fearest, and into the hand of

Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the

hand of the Chaldeans.

26And I will send thee, and thy mother that

bore thee, into a strange country, in which you

were not born, and there you shall die:

27And they shall not return into the land,

whereunto they lift up their mind to return

thither.

28Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a bro-

ken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure?

why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are

cast into a land which they know not?

29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the

Lord.

30Thus saith the Lord: Write this man bar-

ren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for

there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit

upon the throne of David, and have power any

more in Juda.

Chapter 23

Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the

sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.

2Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of

Israel to the pastors that feed my people: You

have scattered my

ock, and driven them away,

and have not visited them: behold I will visit

upon you for the evil of your doings, saith the

Lord.

3And I will gather together the remnant of

my

ock, out of all the lands into which I have

cast them out: and I will make them return to

their own elds, and they shall increase and be

multiplied.

4And I will set up pastors over them, andthey shall feed them: they shall fear no more,

and they shall not be dismayed: and none shall

be wanting of their number, saith the Lord.

5Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I

will raise up to David a just branch: and a king

shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute

judgment and justice in the earth.

6In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel

shall dwell condently: and this is the name that

they shall call him: The Lord our just one.

7Therefore behold the days come, saith the

Lord, and they shall say no more: The Lord

liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out

of the land of Egypt:

8But, The Lord liveth, who hath brought out,

and brought hither the seed of the house of Israel

from the land of the north, and out of all the

lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they

shall dwell in their own land.

9To the prophets: My heart is broken within

me, all my bones tremble: I am become as a

drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at the

presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his

holy words.

10Because the land is full of adulterers, be-

cause the land hath mourned by reason of curs-

ing, the elds of the desert are dried up: and

their course is become evil, and their strength

unlike.

11For the prophet and the priest are deled:

and in my house I have found their wickedness,

saith the Lord.

12Therefore their way shall be as a slippery

way in the dark: for they shall be driven on, and

fall therein: for I will bring evils upon them, the

year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

13And I have seen folly in the prophets of

Samaria: they prophesied in Baal and deceived

my people Israel.

14And I have seen the likeness of adulter-Prophecy of Jeremias 975

ers, and the way of lying in the prophets of

Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of

the wicked, that no man should return from

his evil doings, they are all become unto me as

Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomor-

rha.

15Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts

to the prophets: Behold I will feed them with

wormwood, and will give them gall to drink:

for from the prophets of Jerusalem corruption

is gone forth into all the land.

16Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hearken not

to the words of the prophets that prophesy to

you, and deceive you: they speak a vision of their

own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

17They say to them that blaspheme me: The

Lord hath said: You shall have peace: and to

every one that walketh in the perverseness of his

own heart, they have said: No evil shall come

upon you.

18For who hath stood in the counsel of the

Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who

hath considered his word and heard it?

19Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indig-

nation shall come forth, and a tempest shall

break out and come upon the head of the wicked.

20The wrath of the Lord shall not return till

he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought

of his heart: in the latter days you shall under-

stand his counsel.

21I did not send prophets, yet they ran: I

have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

22If they had stood in my counsel, and had

made my words known to my people, I should

have turned them from their evil way, and from

their wicked doings.

23Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the

Lord, and not a God afar o?

24Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I

not see him, saith the Lord? do not I ll heavenand earth, saith the Lord?

25I have heard what the prophets said, that

prophesy lies in my name, and say: I have

dreamed, I have dreamed.

26How long shall this be in the heart of the

prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy

the delusions of their own heart?

27Who seek to make my people forget my

name through their dreams, which they tell every

man to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my

name for Baal.

28The prophet that hath a dream, let him

tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him

speak my word with truth: what hath the cha

to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?

29Are not my words as a re, saith the

Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh the rock

in pieces?

30Therefore behold I am against the

prophets, saith the Lord: who steal my words

every one from his neighbour.

31Behold I am against the prophets, saith the

Lord: who use their tongues, and say: The Lord

saith it.

32Behold I am against the prophets that have

lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and

cause my people to err by their lying, and by

their wonders: when I sent them not, nor com-

manded them, who have not proted this people

at all, saith the Lord.

33If therefore this people, or the prophet, or

the priest shall ask thee, saying: What is the

burden of the Lord? thou shalt say to them:

You are the burden: for I will cast you away,

saith the Lord.

34And as for the prophet, and the priest, and

the people that shall say: The burden of the

Lord: I will visit upon that man, and upon his

house.

35Thus shall you say every one to his neigh-976 Prophecy of Jeremias

bour, and to his brother, What hath the Lord

answered? and what hath the Lord spoken?

36And the burden of the Lord shall be men-

tioned no more, for every man's word shall be

his burden: for you have perverted the words of

the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.

37Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What

hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath

the Lord spoken?

38But if you shall say: The burden of the

Lord: therefore thus saith the Lord: Because you

have said this word: The burden of the Lord:

and I have sent to you, saying: Say not, The

burden of the Lord:

39Therefore behold I will take you away car-

rying you, and will forsake you, and the city

which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out

of my presence.
40And I will bring an everlasting reproach

upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall

never be forgotten.

Chapter 24

The Lord shewed me: and behold two bas-

kets full of gs, set before the temple of the

Lord: after that Nabuchodonosor king of Baby-

lon had carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim

the king of Juda, and his chief men, and the

craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem, and had

brought them to Babylon.

2One basket had very good gs, like the gs

of the rst season: and the other basket had very

bad gs, which could not be eaten, because they

were bad.

3And the Lord said to me: What seest thou,

Jeremias? And I said: Figs, the good gs, very

good: and the bad gs, very bad, which cannot

be eaten because they are bad.4And the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

5Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like

these good gs, so will I regard the captives of

Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place

into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good.

6And I will set my eyes upon them to be

pacied, and I will bring them again into this

land: and I will build them up, and not pull them

down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them

up.

7And I will give them a heart to know me,

that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people,

and I will be their God: because they shall return

to me with their whole heart.

8And as the very bad gs, that cannot be

eaten, because they are bad: thus saith the Lord:

So will I give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his

princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that have

remained in this city, and that dwell in the land

of Egypt.

9And I will deliver them up to vexation, and

aiction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be

a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and

to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast

them out.

10And I will send among them the sword,

and the famine, and the pestilence: till they be

consumed out of the land which I gave to them,

and their fathers.

Chapter 25

The word that came to Jeremias concerning all

the people of Juda, in the fourth year of Joakim

the son of Josias king of Juda, (the same is the

rst year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,)

2Which Jeremias the prophet spoke to all

the people of Juda, and to all the inhabitantsProphecy of Jeremias 977

of Jerusalem, saying:

3From the thirteenth year of Josias the son

of Ammon king of Juda until this day: this is

the three and twentieth year, the word of the

Lord hath come to me, and I have spoken to

you, rising before day, and speaking, and you

have not hearkened.

4And the Lord hath sent to you all his ser-

vants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and

you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ears

to hear.

5When he said: Return ye, every one from

his evil way, and from your wicked devices, and

you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath

given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever.

6And go not after strange gods to serve them,

and adore them: nor provoke me to wrath by the

works of your hands, and I will not aict you.

7And you have not heard me, saith the Lord,

that you might provoke me to anger with the

works of your hands, to your own hurt.

8Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Be-

cause you have not heard my words:

9Behold I will send, and take all the kin-

dreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabu-

chodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and

I will bring them against this land, and against

the inhabitants thereof, and against all the na-

tions that are round about it: and I will destroy

them, and make them an astonishment and a

hissing, and perpetual desolations.

10And I will take away from them the voice

of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of

the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the

sound of the mill and the light of the lamp.

11And all this land shall be a desolation,

and an astonishment: and all these nations shall

serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12And when the seventy years shall be ex-

pired, I will punish the king of Babylon, andthat nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity,

and the land of the Chaldeans: and I will make

it perpetual desolations.

13And I will bring upon that land all my

words, that I have spoken against it, all that

is written in this book, all that Jeremias hath

prophesied against all nations:

14For they have served them, whereas they

were many nations, and great kings: and I will

repay them according to their deeds, and accord-

ing to the works of their hands.

15For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God

of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at

my hand: and thou shalt make all the nations to

drink thereof, into which I shall send thee.

16And they shall drink, and be troubled, and

be mad because of the sword, which I shall send

among them.

17And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord,

and I presented it to all the nations to drink of

it, to which the Lord sent me:

18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda,

and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to

make them a desolation, and an astonishment,

and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.

19Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants,

and his princes, and all his people,

20And all in general: all the kings of the

land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of

the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Ac-

caron, and the remnant of Azotus.

21And Edom, and Moab, and the children of

Ammon.

22And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings

of Sidon: and the kings of the land of the islands

that are beyond the sea.

23And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and all

that have their hair cut round.

24And all the kings of Arabia, and all the

kings of the west, that dwell in the desert.978 Prophecy of Jeremias

25And all the kings of Zambri, and all the

kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes:

26And all the kings of the north far and

near, every one against his brother: and all the

kingdoms of the earth, which are upon the face

thereof: and the king of Sesac shall drink after

them.

27And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith

the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink ye,

and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no

more, because of the sword, which I shall send

among you.

28And if they refuse to take the cup at thy

hand to drink, thou shalt say to them: Thus

saith the Lord of hosts: Drinking you shall drink:

29For behold I begin to bring evil on the city

wherein my name is called upon: and shall you

be as innocent and escape free? you shall not

escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all

the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of

hosts.

30And thou shalt prophesy unto them all

these words, and thou shalt say to them: I The

Lord shall roar from on high, and shall utter his

voice from his holy habitation: roaring he shall

roar upon the place of his beauty: the shout as

it were of them that tread grapes shall be given

out against all the inhabitants of the earth.

31The noise is come even to the ends of

the earth: for the Lord entereth into judgment

with the nations: he entereth into judgment with

all

esh; the wicked I have delivered up to the

sword, saith the Lord.

32Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold evil

shall go forth from nation to nation: and a great

whirlwind shall go forth from the ends of the

earth.

33And the slain of the Lord shall be at that

day from one end of the earth even to the other

end thereof: they shall not be lamented, andthey shall not be gathered up, nor buried: they

shall lie as dung upon the face of the earth.

34Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and sprinkle

yourselves with ashes, ye leaders of the

ock: for

the days of your slaughter and your dispersion

are accomplished, and you shall fall like precious

vessels.
35And the shepherds shall have no way to

ee, nor the leaders of the

ock to save them-

selves.

36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a

howling of the principal of the

ock: because the

Lord hath wasted their pastures.

37And the elds of peace have been silent

because of the erce anger of the Lord.

38He hath forsaken his covert as the lion, for

the land is laid waste because of the wrath of

the dove, and because of the erce anger of the

Lord.

Chapter 26

In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son

of Josias king of Juda, came this word from the

Lord, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord: stand in the court of

the house of the Lord, and speak to all the cities

of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in the

house of the Lord, all the words which I have

commanded thee to speak unto them: leave not

out one word.

3If so be they will hearken and be converted

every one from his evil way; that I may repent

me of the evil that I think to do unto them for

the wickedness of their doings.

4And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the

Lord: If you will not hearken to me to walk in

my law, which I have given you:

5To give ear to the words of my servants theProphecy of Jeremias 979

prophets, whom I sent to you rising up early:

and sending, and you have not hearkened:

6I will make this house like Silo: and I will

make this city a curse to all the nations of the

earth.

7And the priests, and the prophets, and all

the people heard Jeremias speaking these words

in the house of the Lord.

8And when Jeremias had made an end of

speaking all that the Lord had commanded him

to speak to all the people, the priests, and the

prophets, and all the people laid hold on him,

saying: Let him be put to death.

9Why hath he prophesied in the name of the

Lord, saying: This house shall be like Silo; and

this city shall be made desolate, without an in-

habitant? And all the people were gathered to-

gether against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.

10And the princes of Juda heard these words:

and they went up from the king's house into the

house of the Lord, and sat in the entry of the

new gate of the house of the Lord.

11And the priests and the prophets spoke to

the princes, and to all the people, saying: The

judgment of death is for this man: because he

hath prophesied against this city, as you have

heard with your ears.

12Then Jeremias spoke to all the princes, and

to all the people, saying: The Lord sent me to

prophesy concerning this house, and concerning

this city all the words that you have heard.

13Now therefore amend your ways, and your

doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord your

God: and the Lord will repent him of the evil

that he hath spoken against you.

14But as for me, behold I am in your hands:

do with me what is good and right in your eyes:

15But know ye, and understand, that if you

put me to death, you will shed innocent blood

against your own selves, and against this city,and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the

Lord sent me to you, to speak all these words in

your hearing.

16Then the princes, and all the people said

to the priests, and to the prophets: There is no

judgment of death for this man: for he hath spo-

ken to us in the name of the Lord our God.

17And some of the ancients of the land rose

up: and they spoke to all the assembly of the

people, saying:

18Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the

days of Ezechias king of Juda, and he spoke to

all the people of Juda, saying: Thus saith the

Lord of hosts: Sion shall be ploughed like a eld,

and Jerusalem shall be a heap of stones: and the

mountain of the house the high places of woods.

19Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all Juda,

condemn him to death? did they not fear the

Lord, and beseech the face of the Lord: and the

Lord repented of the evil that he had spoken

against them? therefore we are doing a great

evil against our souls.

20There was also a man that prophesied in

the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Semei

of Cariathiarim: and he prophesied against this

city, and against this land, according to all the

words of Jeremias.

21And Joakim, and all his men in power,

and his princes heard these words: and the king

sought to put him to death. And Urias heard it,

and was afraid, and

ed and went into Egypt.

22And king Joakim sent men into Egypt, El-

nathan the son of Achobor, and men with him

into Egypt.

23And they brought Urias out of Egypt: and

brought him to king Joakim, and he slew him

with the sword: and he cast his dead body into

the graves of the common people.

24So the hand of Ahicam the son of Saphan

was with Jeremias, that he should not be deliv-980 Prophecy of Jeremias

ered into the hands of the people, to put him to

death.

Chapter 27

In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of

Josias king of Juda, this word came to Jeremias

from the Lord, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee

bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on

thy neck.

3And thou shalt send them to the king of

Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king

of the children of Ammon, and to the king of

Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of

the messengers that are come to Jerusalem to

Sedecias the king of Juda.

4And thou shalt command them to speak to

their masters: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the

God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your mas-

ters:

5I made the earth, and the men and the

beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by

my great power, and by my stretched out arm:

and I have given it to whom it seemed good in

my eyes.

6And now I have given all these lands into

the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my

servant: moreover also the beasts of the eld I

have given him to serve him.

7And all nations shall serve him, and his son,

and his son's son: till the time come for his land

and himself: and many nations and great kings

shall serve him.

8But the nation and kingdom that will not

serve Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and

whosoever will not bend his neck under the yoke

of the king of Babylon: I will visit upon that na-

tion with the sword, and with famine, and withpestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them

by his hand.

9Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and

diviners, and dreamers, and soothsayers, and

sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not serve

the king of Babylon.

10For they prophesy lies to you: to remove

you far from your country, and cast you out, and

to make you perish.

11But the nation that shall bend down their

neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and

shall serve him: I will let them remain in their

own land, saith the Lord: and they shall till it,

and dwell in it.

12And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda

according to all these words, saying: Bend down

your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon,

and serve him, and his people, and you shall live.

13Why will you die, thou and thy people by

the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence,

as the Lord hath spoken against the nation that

will not serve the king of Babylon?

14Hearken not to the words of the prophets

that say to you: You shall not serve the king of

Babylon: for they tell you a lie.

15For I have not sent them, saith the Lord:

and they prophesy in my name falsely: to drive

you out, and that you may perish, both you, and

the prophets that prophesy to you.

16I spoke also to the priests, and to this peo-

ple, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not

to the words of your prophets, that prophesy to

you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall

now in a short time be brought again from Baby-

lon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

17Therefore hearken not to them, but serve

the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why

should this city be given up to desolation?

18But if they be prophets, and the word of

the Lord be in them: let them interpose them-Prophecy of Jeremias 981

selves before the Lord of hosts, that the vessels

which were left in the house of the Lord, and in

the house of the king of Juda, and in Jerusalem,

may not go to Babylon.

19For thus saith the Lord of hosts to the pil-

lars, and to the sea, and to the bases, and to the

rest of the vessels that remain in this city:

20Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Baby-

lon did not take, when he carried away Jecho-

nias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from

Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of

Juda and Jerusalem.

21For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God

of Israel, to the vessels that are left in the house

of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda

and Jerusalem:

22They shall be carried to Babylon, and there

they shall be until the day of their visitation,

saith the Lord: and I will cause them to be

brought, and to be restored in this place.

Chapter 28

And it came to pass in that year, in the begin-

ning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the

fourth year, in the fth month, that Hananias

the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to

me, in the house of the Lord before the priests,

and all the people, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Is-

rael: I have broken the yoke of the king of Baby-

lon.

3As yet two years of days, and I will cause all

the vessels of the house of the Lord to be brought

back into this place, which Nabuchodonosor king

of Babylon took away from this place, and car-

ried them to Babylon.

4And I will bring back to this place Jecho-

nias the son of Joakim king of Juda, and all thecaptives of Juda, that are gone to Babylon, saith

the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of

Babylon.

5And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias

the prophet in the presence of the priests, and in

the presence of all the people that stood in the

house of the Lord:

6And Jeremias the prophet said: Amen, the

Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words, which

thou hast prophesied: that the vessels may be

brought again into the house of the Lord, and

all the captives may return out of Babylon to

this place.

7Nevertheless hear this word that I speak in

thy ears, and in the ears of all the people:

8The prophets that have been before me, and

before thee from the beginning, and have proph-

esied concerning many countries, and concerning

great kingdoms, of war, and of aiction, and of

famine.

9The prophet that prophesied peace: when

his word shall come to pass, the prophet shall be

known, whom the hath sent in truth.

10And Hananias the prophet took the chain

from the neck of Jeremias the prophet, and broke

it.

11And Hananias spoke in the presence of all

the people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Even

so will I break the yoke of Nabuchodonosor the

king of Babylon after two full years from o the

neck of all the nations.

12And Jeremias the prophet went his way.

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after

that Hananias the prophet had broken the chain

from o the neck of Jeremias the prophet, saying:

13Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the

Lord: Thou hast broken chains of wood, and

thou shalt make for them chains of iron.

14For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of982 Prophecy of Jeremias

all these nations, to serve Nabuchodonosor king

of Babylon, and they shall serve him: moreover

also I have given him the beasts of the earth.

15And Jeremias the prophet said to Hananias

the prophet: Hear now, Hananias: the Lord hath

not sent thee, and thou hast made this people to

trust in a lie.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I

will send thee away from o the face of the earth:

this year shalt thou die: for thou hast spoken

against the Lord.

17And Hananias the prophet died in that

year, in the seventh month.

Chapter 29

Now these are the words of the letter which

Jeremias the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the

residue of the ancients that were carried into cap-

tivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets,

and to all the people, whom Nabuchodonosor

had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

2After that Jechonias the king, and the

queen, and the eunuchs, and the princes of Juda,

and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the en-

gravers were departed out of Jerusalem:

3By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan, and

Gamarias the son of Helcias, whom Sedecias king

of Juda sent to Babylon to Nabuchodonosor king

of Babylon, saying:

4Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Is-

rael, to all that are carried away captives, whom

I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem

to Babylon:

5Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and

plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.

6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daugh-

ters: and take wives for your sons, and give your

daughters to husbands, and let them bear sonsand daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and

be not few in number.

7And seek the peace of the city, to which I

have caused you to be carried away captives; and

pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof

shall be your peace.

8For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God

of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the

midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and

give no heed to your dreams which you dream:

9For they prophesy falsely to you in my name:

and I have not sent them, saith the Lord.

10For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy

years shall begin to be accomplished in Babylon,

I will visit you: and I will perform my good word

in your favour, to bring you again to this place.

11For I know the thoughts that I think to-

wards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace,

and not of aiction, to give you an end and pa-

tience.

12And you shall call upon me, and you shall

go. and you shall pray to me, and I will hear

you.

13You shall seek me, and shall nd me: when

you shall seek me with all your heart.

14And I will be found by you, saith the Lord:

and I will bring back your captivity, and I will

gather you out of all nations, and from all the

places to which I have driven you out, saith the

Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to

which I caused you to be carried away captive.

15Because you have said: The Lord hath

raised us up prophets in Babylon:

16For thus saith the Lord to the king that

sitteth upon the throne of David, and to all the

people that dwell in this city, to your brethren

that are not gone forth with you into captivity.

17Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will

send upon them the sword, and the famine, and

the pestilence: and I will make them like bad gsProphecy of Jeremias 983

that cannot be eaten, because they are very bad.

18And I will persecute them with the sword,

and with famine, and with the pestilence: and I

will give them up unto aiction to all the king-

doms of the earth: to be a curse, and an aston-

ishment, and a hissing, and a reproach to all the

nations to which I have driven them out:

19Because they have not hearkened to my

words, saith the Lord: which I sent to them by

my servants the prophets, rising by night, and

sending: and you have not heard, saith the Lord.

20Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all

ye of the captivity, whom I have sent out from

Jerusalem to Babylon.

21Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel, to Achab the son of Colias, and to Sede-

cias the son of Maasias, who prophesy unto you

in my name falsely: Behold I will deliver them

up into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king

of Babylon: and he shall kill them before your

eyes.

22And of them shall be taken up a curse by

all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon,

saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and

like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in

the re:

23Because they have acted folly in Israel,

and have committed adultery with the wives of

their friends, and have spoken lying words in my

name, which I commanded them not: I am the

judge and the witness, saith the Lord.

24And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou shalt

say:

25Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Is-

rael: Because thou hast sent letters in thy name

to all the people that are in Jerusalem, and to

Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest, and to

all the priests, saying:

26The Lord hath made thee priest instead

of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be rulerin the house of the Lord, over every man that

raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks,

and into prison.

27And now why hast thou not rebuked

Jeremias the Anathothite, who prophesieth to

you?

28For he hath also sent to us in Babylon,

saying: It is a long time: build ye houses, and

dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the

fruits of them.
29So Sophonias the priest read this letter, in

the hearing of Jeremias the prophet.

30And the word of the Lord came to

Jeremias, saying:

31Send to all them of the captivity, saying:

Thus saith the Lord to Semeias the Nehelamite:

Because Semeias hath prophesied to you, and I

sent him not: and hath caused you to trust in a

lie:

32Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will

visit upon Semeias the Nehelamite, and upon his

seed: he shall not have a man to sit in the midst

of this people, and he shall not see the good that

I will do to my people, saith the Lord: because

he hath spoken treason against the Lord.

Chapter 30

This is the word that came to Jeremias from the

Lord, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, say-

ing: Write thee all the words that I have spoken

to thee, in a book.

3For behold the days come, saith the Lord,

and I will bring again the captivity of my people

Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will cause

them to return to the land which I gave to their

fathers, and they shall possess it.984 Prophecy of Jeremias

4And these are the words that the Lord hath

spoken to Israel and to Juda:

5For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a

voice of terror: there is fear and no peace.

6Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why

then have I seen every man with his hands on

his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces

are turned yellow?

7Alas, for that day is great, neither is there

the like to it; and it is the time of tribulation to

Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it.

8And it shall come to pass in that day, saith

the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke

from o thy neck, and will burst his bands: and

strangers shall no more rule over him:

9But they shall serve the Lord their God, and

David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

10Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob,

saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel:

for behold, I will save thee from a country afar

o, and thy seed from the land of their captiv-

ity: and Jacob shall return, and be at rest, and

abound with all good things, and there shall be

none whom he may fear:

11For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save

thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations,

among which I have scattered thee: but I will not

utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in

judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself

innocent.

12For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is in-

curable, thy wound is very grievous.

13There is none to judge thy judgment to

bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.

14All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will

not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with

the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastisement:

by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy

sins are hardened.

15Why criest thou for thy aiction? thy sor-row is incurable: for the multitude of thy iniq-

uity, and for thy hardened sins I have done these

things to thee.

16Therefore all they that devour thee, shall

be devoured: and all thy enemies shall be carried

into captivity: and they that waste thee shall be

wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give

for a prey.

17For I will close up thy scar, and will heal

thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they

have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she

that hath none to seek after her.

18Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring

back the captivity of the pavilions of Jacob, and

will have pity on his houses, and the city shall

be built in her high place, and the temple shall

be founded according to the order thereof.

19And out of them shall come forth praise,

and the voice of them that play: and I will multi-

ply them, and they shall not be made few: and I

will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.

20And their children shall be as from the be-

ginning, and their assembly shall be permanent

before me: and I will visit against all that aict

them.

21And their leader shall be of themselves:

and their prince shall come forth from the midst

of them: and I will bring him near, and he shall

come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart

to approach to me, saith the Lord?

22And you shall be my people: and I will be

your God.

23Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury

going forth, a violent storm, it shall rest upon

the head of the wicked.

24The Lord will not turn away the wrath of

his indignation, till he have executed and per-

formed the thought of his heart: in the latter

days you shall understand these things.Prophecy of Jeremias 985

Chapter 31

At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God

of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my

people.

2Thus saith the Lord: The people that were

left and escaped from the sword, found grace in

the desert: Israel shall go to his rest.

3The Lord hath appeared from afar to me.

Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love,

therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.

4And I will build thee again, and thou shalt

be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be

adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in

the dances of them that make merry.

5Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the moun-

tains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and

they shall not gather the vintage before the time.

6For there shall be a day, in which the watch-

men on mount Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let

us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.

7For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the

joy of Jacob, and neigh before the head of the

Gentiles: shout ye, and sing, and say: Save, O

Lord, thy people, the remnant of Israel.

8Behold I will bring them from the north

country, and will gather them from the ends of

the earth and among them shall be the blind,

and the lame, the woman with child, and she

that is bringing forth, together, a great company

of them returning hither.

9They shall come with weeping: and I will

bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them

through the torrents of waters in a right way, and

they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to

Israel, and Ephraim is my rstborn.

10Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations,

and declare it in the islands that are afar o, and

say: He that scattered Israel will gather him:

and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his

ock.

11For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and

delivered him out of the hand of one that was

mightier than he.

12And they shall come, and shall give praise

in mount Sion: and they shall

ow together to

the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and

wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and

herds, and their soul shall be as a watered gar-

den, and they shall be hungry no more.

13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,

the young men and old men together: and I will

turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort

them, and make them joyful after their sorrow.

14And I will ll the soul of the priests with

fatness: and my people shall be lled with my

good things, saith the Lord.

15Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on

high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping,

of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing

to be comforted for them, because they are not.

16Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease

from weeping, and thy eyes tears: for there is a

reward for thy work, saith the Lord: and they

shall return out of the land of the enemy.

17And there is hope for thy last end, saith

the Lord: and the children shall return to their

own borders.

18Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went

into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was

instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to

the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted,

for thou art the Lord my God.

19For after thou didst convert me, I did

penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I

struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed,

because I have borne the reproach of my youth.

20Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to

me, surely he is a tender child: for since I spoke

of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are986 Prophecy of Jeremias

my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity

him, saith the Lord.

21Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee

bitterness: direct thy heart into the right way,

wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin of

Israel, return to these thy cities.

22How long wilt thou be dissolute in deli-

ciousness, O wandering daughter? for the Lord

hath created a new thing upon the earth: A

WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.

23Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of

Israel: As yet shall they say this word in the land

of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall

bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee,

the beauty of justice, the holy mountain.

24And Juda and all his cities shall dwell

therein together: the husbandman and they that

drive the

ocks.

25For I have inebriated the weary soul: and

I have lled every hungry soul.

26Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a

sleep, and I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.

27Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and

I will sow the house of Israel and the house of

Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of

beasts.

28And as I have watched over them, to pluck

up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and de-

stroy, and aict: so will I watch over them, to

build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.

29In those days they shall say no more: The

fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of

the children are set on edge.

30But every one shall die for his own iniquity:

every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth

shall be set on edge.

31Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord,

and I will make a new covenant with the house

of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

32Not according to the covenant which Imade with their fathers, in the day that I took

them by the hand to bring them out of the land

of Egypt, the covenant which they made void,

and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

33But this shall be the covenant that I will

make with the house of Israel, after those days,

saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels,

and I will write it in their heart: and I will be

their God, and they shall be my people.

34And they shall teach no more every man

his neighbour, and every man his brother, say-

ing: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from

the least of them even to the greatest, saith the

Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will

remember their sin no more.

35Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun

for the light of the day, the order of the moon

and of the stars, for the light of the night: who

stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar,

the Lord of hosts is his name.

36If these ordinances shall fail before me,

saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall

fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.

37Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above

can be measured, and the foundations of the

earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away

all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done,

saith the Lord.

38Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that

the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower

of Hanameel even to the gate of the corner.

39And the measuring line shall go out farther

in his sight upon the hill Gareb: and it shall

compass Goatha,

40And the whole valley of dead bodies, and of

ashes, and all the country of death, even to the

torrent Cedron, and to the corner of the horse

gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it

shall not be plucked up, and it shall not be de-

stroyed any more for ever.Prophecy of Jeremias 987

Chapter 32

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord

in the tenth year of Sedecias king of Juda: the

same is the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor.

2At that time the army of the king of Babylon

besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremias the prophet

was shut up in the court of the prison, which

was in the house of the king of Juda.

3For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up,

saying: Why dost thou prophesy, saying: Thus

saith the Lord: Behold I will give this city into

the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall

take it?

4And Sedecias king of Juda shall not escape

out of the hand of the Chaldeans: but he shall be

delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon:

and he shall speak to him mouth to mouth, and

his eyes shall see his eyes.

5And he shall lead Sedecias to Babylon: and

he shall be there till I visit him, saith the Lord.

But if you will ght against the Chaldeans, you

shall have no success.

6And Jeremias said: The word of the Lord

came to me, saying:

7Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy

cousin shall come to thee, saying: Buy thee my

eld, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy right to

buy it, being next akin.

8And Hanameel my uncle's son came to me,

according to the word of the Lord, to the entry of

the prison, and said to me: Buy my eld, which

is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for the

right of inheritance is thine, and thou art next

of kin to possess it. And I understood that this

was the word of the Lord.

9And I bought the eld of Hanameel my un-

cle's son, that is in Anathoth: and I weighed him

the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of silver.

10And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, andtook witnesses: and I weighed him the money in

the balances.

11And I took the deed of the purchase that

was sealed, and the stipulations, and the rati-

cations with the seals that were on the outside.

12And I gave the deed of the purchase to

Baruch the son of Neri the son of Maasias in the

sight of Hanameel my uncle's son, in the presence

of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the

purchase, and before all the Jews that sat in the

court of the prison.

13And I charged Baruch before them, saying:

14Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel: Take these writings, this deed of the pur-

chase that is sealed up, and this deed that is

open: and put them in an earthen vessel, that

they may continue many days.

15For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God

of Israel: Houses, and elds, and vineyards shall

be possessed again in this land.

16And after I had delivered the deed of pur-

chase to Baruch the son of Neri, I prayed to the

Lord, saying:

17Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold thou

hast made heaven and earth by thy great power,

and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be hard

to thee:

18Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and

returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bo-

som of their children after them: O most mighty,

great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy

name.

19Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in

thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways

of the children of Adam, to render unto every

one according to his ways, and according to the

fruit of his devices.

20Who hast set signs and wonders in the land

of Egypt even until this day, and in Israel, and

amongst men, and hast made thee a name as at988 Prophecy of Jeremias

this day.

21And hast brought forth thy people Israel,

out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with

wonders, and with a strong hand, and a stretched

out arm, and with great terror.

22And hast given them this land which thou

didst swear to their fathers, to give them a land

owing with milk and honey.

23And they came in, and possessed it: but

they obeyed not thy voice, and they walked not

in thy law: and they did not any of those things

that thou didst command them to do, and all

these evils are come upon them.

24Behold works are built up against the city

to take it: and the city is given into the hands

of the Chaldeans, who ght against it, by the

sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and

what thou hast spoken, is all come to pass, as

thou thyself seest.

25And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a

eld for money, and take witnesses, whereas the

city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans?

26And the word of the Lord came to

Jeremias, saying:

27Behold I am the Lord the God of all

esh:

shall any thing be hard for me?

28Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold

I will deliver this city into the hands of the

Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of

Babylon, and they shall take it.

29And the Chaldeans that ght against this

city, shall come and set it on re, and burn it,

with the houses upon whose roofs they oered

sacrice to Baal, and poured out drink oerings

to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath.

30For the children of Israel, and the children

of Juda, have continually done evil in my eyes

from their youth: the children of Israel who even

till now provoke me with the work of their hands,

saith the Lord.31For this city hath been to me a provocation

and indignation from the day that they built it,

until this day, in which it shall be taken out of

my sight.

32Because of all the evil of the children of Is-

rael, and of the children of Juda, which they have

done, provoking me to wrath, they and their

kings, their princes, and their priests, and their

prophets, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants

of Jerusalem.

33And they have turned their backs to me,

and not their faces: when I taught them early

in the morning, and instructed them, and they

would not hearken to receive instruction.

34And they have set their idols in the house,

in which my name is called upon, to dele it.

35And they have built the high places of Baal,

which are in the valley of the son of Ennom,

to consecrate their sons and their daughters to

Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither

entered it into my heart, that they should do this

abomination, and cause Juda to sin.

36And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the

God of Israel to this city, whereof you say that

it shall be delivered into the hands of the king

of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by

pestilence:

37Behold I will gather them together out of

all the lands to which I have cast them out in

my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great

indignation: and I will bring them again into

this place, and will cause them to dwell securely.

38And they shall be my people, and I will be

their God.

39And I will give them one heart, and one

way, that they may fear me all days: and that it

may be well with them, and with their children

after them.

40And I will make an everlasting covenant

with them, and will not cease to do them good:Prophecy of Jeremias 989

and I will give my fear in their heart, that they

may not revolt from me.

41And I will rejoice over them, when I shall

do them good: and I will plant them in this land

in truth, with my whole heart, and with all my

soul.

42For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought

upon this people all this great evil: so will I

bring upon them all the good that I now speak

to them.

43And elds shall be purchased in this land:

whereof you say that it is desolate, because there

remaineth neither man nor beast, and it is given

into the hands of the Chaldeans.

44Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds

shall be written, and sealed, and witnesses shall

be taken, in the land of Benjamin, and round

about Jerusalem, in the cities of Juda, and in

the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of

the plains, and in the cities that are towards the

south: for I will bring back their captivity, saith

the Lord.

Chapter 33

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the

second time, while he was yet shut up in the

court of the prison, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord, who will do, and will

form it, and prepare it, the Lord is his name.

3Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will

shew thee great things, and sure things which

thou knowest not.

4For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to

the houses of this city, and to the houses of the

king of Juda, which are destroyed, and to the

bulwarks, and to the sword.

5Of them that come to ght with the

Chaldeans, and to ll them with the dead bodiesof the men whom I have slain in my wrath, and

in my indignation, hiding my face from this city

because of all their wickedness.

6Behold I will close their wounds and give

them health, and I will cure them: and I will

reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.

7And I will bring back the captivity of Juda,

and the captivity of Jerusalem: and I will build

them as from the beginning.

8And I will cleanse them from all their iniq-

uity, whereby they have sinned against me: and

I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they

have sinned against me, and despised me.

9And it shall be to me a name, and a joy, and

a praise, and a gladness before all the nations of

the earth, that shall hear of all the good things

which I will do to them: and they shall fear and

be troubled for all the good things, and for all

the peace that I will make for them.

10Thus saith the Lord: There shall be heard

again in this place (which you say is desolate,

because there is neither man nor beast: in the

cities of Juda, and without Jerusalem, which are

desolate without man, and without inhabitant,

and without beast)

11The voice of joy and the voice of gladness,

the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the

bride, the voice of them that shall say: Give ye

glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good,

for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them

that shall bring their vows into the house of the

Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the

land as at the rst, saith the Lord.

12Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall

be again in this place that is desolate without

man, and without beast, and in all the cities

thereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their

ocks to lie down.

13And in the cities on the mountains, and in

the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are990 Prophecy of Jeremias

towards the south: and in the land of Benjamin,

and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of

Juda shall the

ocks pass again under the hand

of him that numbereth them, saith the Lord.

14Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that

I will perform the good word that I have spoken

to the house of Israel, and to the house of Juda.

15In those days, and at that time, I will make

the bud of justice to spring forth unto David, and

he shall do judgment and justice in the earth.

16In those days shall Juda be saved, and

Jerusalem shall dwell securely: and this is the

name that they shall call him, The Lord our just

one.

17For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be

cut o from David a man to sit upon the throne

of the house of Israel.

18Neither shall there be cut o from the

priests and Levites a man before my face to of-

fer holocausts, and to burn sacrices, and to kill

victims continually.

19And the word of the Lord came to

Jeremias, saying:

20Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with

the day can be made void, and my covenant with

the night, that there should not be day and night

in their season:

21Also my covenant with David my servant

may be made void, that he should not have a son

to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites

and priests my ministers.

22As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered,

nor the sand of the sea be measured: so will I

multiply the seed of David my servant, and the

Levites my ministers.

23And the word of the Lord came to

Jeremias, saying:

24Hast thou not seen what this people hath

spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord

had chosen, are cast o: and they have despisedmy people, so that it is no more a nation before

them?

25Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my

covenant between day and night, and laws to

heaven and earth:

26Surely I will also cast o the seed of Jacob,

and of David my servant, so as not to take any

of his seed to be rulers of the seed of Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob: for I will bring back their cap-

tivity, and will have mercy on them.

Chapter 34

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord,

when Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all

his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth, that

were under the power of his hand, and all the

people fought against Jerusalem and against all

the cities thereof, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Go,

and speak to Sedecias king of Juda, and say to

him: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver

this city into the hands of the king of Babylon,

and he shall burn it with re.

3And thou shalt not escape out of his hand:

but thou shalt surely be taken, and thou shalt

be delivered into his hand: and thy eyes shall see

the eyes of the king of Babylon, and his mouth

shall speak with thy mouth, and thou shalt go

to Babylon.

4Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias

king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord to thee: Thou

shalt not die by the sword.

5But thou shalt die in peace, and according to

the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that

were before thee, so shall they burn thee: and

they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord:

for I have spoken the word, saith the Lord.

6And Jeremias the prophet spoke all theseProphecy of Jeremias 991

words to Sedecias the king of Juda in Jerusalem.

7And the army of the king of Babylon fought

against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of

Juda that were left, against Lachis, and against

Azecha: for these remained of the cities of Juda,

fenced cities.

8The word that came to Jeremias from the

Lord, after that king Sedecias had made a

covenant with all the people in Jerusalem mak-

ing a proclamation:

9That every man should let his manservant,

and every man his maidservant, being Hebrew

man or a Hebrew woman, go free: and that they

should not lord it over them, to wit, over the

Jews their brethren.

10And all the princes, and all the people who

entered into the covenant, heard that every man

should let his manservant, and every man his

maidservant go free, and should no more have

dominion over them: and they obeyed, and let

them go free.
11But afterwards they turned: and brought

back again their servants and their handmaids,

whom they had let go free, and brought them

into subjection as menservants and maidser-

vants.

12And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias

from the Lord, saying:

13Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I

made a covenant with your fathers in the day

that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,

out of the house of bondage, saying:

14At the end of seven years, let ye go every

man his brother being a Hebrew, who hath been

sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and

thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fa-

thers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline

their ear.

15And you turned to day, and did that which

was right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty everyone to his brother: and you made a covenant in

my sight, in the house upon which my name is

invocated.

16And you are fallen back, and have deled

my name: and you have brought back again

every man his manservant, and every man his

maidservant, whom you had let go free, and set

at liberty: and you have brought them into sub-

jection to be your servants and handmaids.

17Therefore thus saith the Lord: You have

not hearkened to me, in proclaiming liberty ev-

ery man to his brother and every man to his

friend: behold I proclaim a liberty for you, saith

the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to

the famine: and I will cause you to be removed

to all the kingdoms of the earth.

18And I will give the men that have trans-

gressed my covenant, and have not performed

the words of the covenant which they agreed to

in my presence, when they cut the calf in two

and passed between the parts thereof:

19The princes of Juda, and the princes of

Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all

the people of the land that passed between the

parts of the calf:

20And I will give them into the hands of their

enemies, and into the hands of them that seek

their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat

to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the

earth.

21And Sedecias the king of Juda, and his

princes, I will give into the hands of their ene-

mies, and into the hands of them that seek their

lives, and into the hands of the armies of the king

of Babylon, which are gone from you.

22Behold I will command, saith the Lord, and

I will bring them again to this city, and they shall

ght against it, and take it, and burn it with re:

and I will make the cities of Juda a desolation,

without an inhabitant.992 Prophecy of Jeremias

Chapter 35

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord

in the days of Joakim the son of Josias king of

Juda, saying:

2Go to the house of the Rechabites: and

speak to them, and bring them into the house of

the Lord, into one of the chambers of the trea-

sures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink.

3And I took Jezonias the son of Jeremias the

son of Habsanias, and his brethren, and all his

sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites.

4And I brought them into the house of the

Lord, to the treasure house of the sons of Hanan,

the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which was

by the treasure house of the princes, above the

treasure of Maasias the son of Sellum, who was

keeper of the entry.

5And I set before the sons of the house of

the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups: and

I said to them: Drink ye wine.

6And they answered : We will not drink wine:

because Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father,

commanded us, saying: You shall drink no wine,

neither you, nor your children, for ever:

7Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow reed,

nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but you shall

dwell in tents all your days, that you may live

many days upon the face of the earth, in which

you are strangers.

8Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jon-

adab the son of Rechab, our father, in all things

that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine

all our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our

sons, nor our daughters:

9Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor to have

vineyard, or eld, or seed:

10But we have dwelt in tents, and have been

obedient according to all that Jonadab our father

commanded us.11But when Nabuchodonosor king of Baby-

lon came up to our land, we said: Come, let us

go into Jerusalem from the face of the army of

the Chaldeans, and from the face of the army of

Syria: and we have remained in Jerusalem.

12And the word of the Lord came to

Jeremias, saying:

13Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel: Go, and say to the men of Juda, and

to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not

receive instruction, to obey my words, saith the

Lord?

14The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab,

by which he commanded his sons not to drink

wine, have prevailed: and they have drunk none

to this day, because they have obeyed the com-

mandment of their father: but I have spoken to

you, rising early and speaking, and you have not

obeyed me.

15And I have sent to you all my servants the

prophets, rising early, and sending and saying:

Return ye every man from his wicked way, and

make your ways good: and follow not strange

gods, nor worship them, and you shall dwell in

the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and

you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to

me.

16So the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab

have constantly kept the commandment of their

father, which he commanded them: but this peo-

ple hath not obeyed me.

17Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the

God of Israel: Behold I will bring upon Juda, and

upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil

that I have pronounced against them, because I

have spoken to them, and they have not heard: I

have called to them, and they have not answered

me.

18And Jeremias said to the house of the Rech-

abites: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God ofProphecy of Jeremias 993

Israel: Because you have obeyed the command-

ment of Jonadab your father, and have kept all

his precepts, and have done all that he com-

manded you:

19Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the

God of Israel: There shall not be wanting a man

of the race of Jonadab the son of Rechab, stand-

ing before me for ever.

Chapter 36

And it came to pass in the fourth year of Joakim

the son of Josias king of Juda, that this word

came to Jeremias by the Lord, saying:

2Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt

write in it all the words that I have spoken to

thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the

nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from

the days of Josias even to this day.

3If so be, when the house of Juda shall hear

all the evils that I purpose to do unto them, that

they may return every man from his wicked way:

and I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin.

4So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias:

and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremias

all the words of the Lord, which he spoke to him,

upon the roll of a book.

5And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying:

I am shut up, and cannot go into the house of

the Lord.

6Go thou in therefore, and read out of the vol-

ume, which thou hast written from my mouth,

the words of the Lord, in the hearing of all the

people in the house of the Lord on the fasting

day: and also thou shalt read them in the hear-

ing of all Juda that come out of their cities:

7If so be they may present their supplication

before the Lord, and may return every one from

his wicked way: for great is the wrath and indig-nation which the Lord hath pronounced against

this people.

8And Baruch the son of Nerias did accord-

ing to all that Jeremias the prophet ,had com-

manded him, reading out of the volume the

words of the Lord in the house of the Lord.

9And it came to pass in the fth year of

Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, in the

ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before

the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to

all the people that were come together out of the

cities of Juda to Jerusalem.

10And Baruch read out of the volume the

words of Jeremias in the house of the Lord, in

the treasury of Gamarias the son of Saphan the

scribe, in the upper court, in the entry of the new

gate of the house of the Lord, in the hearing of

all the people.

11And when Micheas the son of Gamarias the

son of Saphan had heard out of the book all the

words of the Lord,

12He went down into the king's house to the

secretary's chamber: and behold all the princes

sat there, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaias the son

of Semeias, and Elnathan the son of Achobor,

and Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sedecias

the son of Hananias, and all the princes.

13And Micheas told them all the words that

he had heard when Baruch read out of the vol-

ume in the hearing of the people.

14Therefore all the princes sent Judi the son

of Nathanias, the son of Selemias, the son of

Chusi, to Baruch, saying: Take in thy hand the

volume in which thou hast read in the hearing

of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of

Nerias took the volume in his hand, and came to

them.

15And they said to him: Sit down and read

these things in our hearing. And Baruch read in

their hearing.994 Prophecy of Jeremias

16And when they had heard all the words,

they looked upon one another with astonish-

ment, and they said to Baruch: We must tell

the king all these words.

17And they asked him, saying: Tell us how

didst thou write all these words from his mouth.

18And Baruch said to them: With his mouth

he pronounced all these words as if he were read-

ing to me: and I wrote in a volume with ink.

19And the princes said to Baruch: Go, and

hide thee, both thou and Jeremias, and let no

man know where you are.

20And they went in to the king into the court:

but they laid up the volume in the chamber of

Elisama the scribe: and they told all the words

in the hearing of the king.

21And the king sent Judi that he should take

the volume: who bringing it out of the chamber

of Elisama the scribe, read it in the hearing of

the king, and of all the princes that stood about

the king.

22Now the king sat in the winter house, in

the ninth month: and there was a hearth before

him full of burning coals.

23And when Judi had read three or four

pages, he cut it with the penknife, and he cast

it into the re, that was upon the hearth, till all

the volume was consumed with the re that was

on the hearth.

24And the king and all his servants that heard

all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend

their garments.

25But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and

Gamarias spoke to the king, not to burn the

book: and he heard them not.

26And the king commanded Jeremiel the son

of Amelech, and Saraias the son of Ezriel, and

Selemias the son of Abdeel, to take up Baruch

the scribe, and Jeremias the prophet: but the

Lord hid them.27And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias

the prophet, after that the king had burnt the

volume, and the words that Baruch had written

from the mouth of Jeremias, saying:

28Take thee again another volume: and write

in it all the former words that were in the rst

volume which Joakim the king of Juda both

burnt.

29And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of

Juda: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast burnt

that volume, saying: Why hast thou written

therein, and said: The king of Babylon shall

come speedily, and shall lay waste this land: and

shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

30Therefore thus saith the Lord against

Joakim the king of Juda: He shall have none

to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead

body shall be cast out to the heat by day, and

to the frost by night.

31And I will punish him, and his seed and

his servants, for their iniquities, and I will

bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of

Jerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the

evil that I have pronounced against them, but

they have not heard.

32And Jeremias took another volume, and

gave it to Baruch the son of Nerias the scribe:

who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremias all

the words of the book which Joakim the king of

Juda had burnt with re: and there were added

besides many more words than had been before.

Chapter 37

Now king Sedecias the son of Josias reigned in-

stead of Jechonias the son of Joakim: whom

Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon made king in

the land of Juda.

2But neither he, nor his servants, nor theProphecy of Jeremias 995

people of the land did obey the words of the

Lord, that he spoke in the hand of Jeremias the

prophet.

3And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of

Selemias, and Sophonias the son of Maasias the

priest to Jeremias the prophet, saying: Pray to

the Lord our God for us.

4Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of

the people: for they had not as yet cast him

into prison. And the army of Pharao was come

out of Egypt: and the Chaldeans that besieged

Jerusalem, hearing these tidings, departed from

Jerusalem.

5And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias

the prophet, saying:

6Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Thus

shall you say to the king of Juda, who sent you to

inquire of me: Behold the army of Pharao, which

is come forth to help you, shall return into their

own land, into Egypt.

7And the Chaldeans shall come again, and

ght against this city, and take it, and burn it

with re.

8Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls,

saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart and

go away from us: for they shall not go away.

9But if you should even beat all the army of

the Chaldeans that ght against you, and there

should be left of them some wounded men: they

shall rise up, every man from his heart, and burn

this city with re.

10Now when the army of the Chaldeans was

gone away from Jerusalem, because of Pharao's

army,

11Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem to

go into the land of Benjamin: and to divide a

possession there in the presence of the citizens,

12And when he was come to the gate of Ben-

jamin, the captain of the gate, who was there in

his turn, was one named Jerias, the son of Se-lemias, the son of Hananias: and he took hold of

Jeremias the prophet, saying: Thou art

eeing

to the Chaldeans.

13And Jeremias answered: It is not so, I am

not

eeing to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened

not to him: so Jerias took Jeremias and brought

him to the princes.

14Wherefore the princes were angry with

Jeremias, and they beat him, and cast him into

the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the

scribe: for he was chief over the prison.

15So Jeremias went into the house of the

prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremias re-

mained there many days.

16Then Sedecias the king, sending, took him:

and asked him secretly in his house, and said: Is

there, thinkest thou, any word from the Lord?

And Jeremias said. There is. And he said: Thou

shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of

Babylon.

17And Jeremias said to king Sedecias: In

what have I oended against thee, or thy ser-

vants, or thy people, that thou hast cast me into

prison?

18Where are your prophets that prophesied

to you, and said: The king of Babylon shall not

come against you, and against this land?

19Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord

the king: let my petition be accepted in thy

sight: and send me not back into the house of

Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

20Then king Sedecias commanded that

Jeremias should be committed into the entry of

the prison: and that they should give him daily

a piece of bread, beside broth, till all the bread

in the city were spent: and Jeremias remained

in the entry of the prison.996 Prophecy of Jeremias

Chapter 38

Now Saphatias the son of Mathan, and Gedelias

the son of Phassur, and Juchal the son of Se-

lemias, and Phassur the son of Melchias heard

the words that Jeremias spoke to all the people,

saying:

2Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shall re-

main in this city, shall die by the sword, and by

famine, and by pestilence: but he that shall go

forth to the Chaldeans, shall live, and his life

shall be safe, and he shall live.

3Thus saith the Lord: This city shall surely

be delivered into the hand of the army of the

king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

4And the princes said to the king. We beseech

thee that this man may be put to death: for on

purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of

war, that remain in this city, and the hands of

the people, speaking to them according to these

words: for this man seeketh not peace to this

people, but evil.

5And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your

hands: for it is not lawful for the king to deny

you any thing.

6Then they took Jeremias and cast him into

the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech,

which was in the entry of the prison: and they

let down Jeremias by ropes into the dungeon,

wherein there was no water, but mire. And

Jeremias sunk into the mire.

7Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch

that was in the king's house, heard that they had

put Jeremias in the dungeon: but the king was

sitting in the gate of Benjamin.

8And Abdemelech went out of the king's

house, and spoke to the king, saying:

9My lord the king, these men have done evil

in all that they have done against Jeremias the

prophet, casting him into the dungeon to diethere with hunger, for there is no more bread

in the city.

10Then the king commanded Abdemelech the

Ethiopian, saying: Take from hence thirty men

with thee, and draw up Jeremias the prophet out

of the dungeon, before he die.

11So Abdemelech taking the men with him,

went into the king's house that was under the

storehouse: and he took from thence old rags,

and old rotten things, and he let them down by

cords to Jeremias into the dungeon.

12And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to

Jeremias: Put these old rags and these rent

and rotten things under thy arms, and upon the

cords: and Jeremias did so.

13And they drew up Jeremias with the cords,

and brought him forth out of the dungeon. And

Jeremias remained in the entry of the prison.

14And king Sedecias sent, and took Jeremias

the prophet to him to the third gate, that was

in the house of the Lord: and the king said to

Jeremias: I will ask thee a thing, hide nothing

from me.

15Then Jeremias said to Sedecias: If I shall

declare it to thee, wilt thou not put me to death?

and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken

to me.

16Then king Sedecias swore to Jeremias, in

private, saying: As the Lord liveth, that, made

us this soul, I will not put thee to death, nor will

I deliver thee into the hands of these men that

seek thy life.

17And Jeremias said to Sedecias: Thus saith

the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: If thou wilt

take a resolution and go out to the princes of the

king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city

shall not be burnt with re: and thou shalt be

safe, and thy house.

18But if thou wilt not go out to the princes of

the king of Babylon, this city shall be deliveredProphecy of Jeremias 997

into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall

burn it with re: and thou shalt not escape out

of their hand.

19And king Sedecias said to Jeremias: I am

afraid because of the Jews that are

ed over to

the Chaldeans: lest I should be delivered into

their hands, and they should abuse me.

20But Jeremias answered: They shall not de-

liver thee: hearken, I beseech thee, to the word

of the Lord, which I speak to the, and it shall be

well with thee, and thy soul shall live.

21But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the

word which the Lord hath shewn me:

22Behold all the women that are left in the

house of the king of Juda, shall be brought out to

the princes of the king of Babylon: and they shall

say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and

have prevailed against thee, they have plunged

thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery place and

they have departed from thee.

23And all thy wives, and thy children shall

be brought out to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt

not escape their hands, but thou shalt be taken

by the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall

burn this city with re.

24Then Sedecias said to Jeremias: Let no

man know these words, and thou shalt not die.

25But if the princes shall hear that I have

spoken with thee, and shall come to thee, and

say to thee: Tell us what thou hast said to the

king, hide it not from us, and we will not kill

thee: and also what the king said to thee:

26Thou shalt say to them: I presented my

supplication before the king, that he would not

command me to be carried back into the house

of Jonathan, to die there.

27So all the princes came to Jeremias, and

asked him: and he spoke to them according to

all the words that the king had commanded him:

and they left him: for nothing had been heard.28But Jeremias remained in the entry of the

prison, until the day that Jerusalem was taken:

and it came to pass that Jerusalem was taken.

Chapter 39

In the ninth year of Sedecias king of Juda, in

the tenth month, came Nabuchodonosor king of

Babylon, and all his army to Jerusalem, and they

besieged it.

2And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the

fourth month, the fth day of the month, the

city was opened.

3And all the princes of the king of Baby-

lon came in, and sat in the middle gate:

Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu, Sarsachim, Rab-

sares, Neregel, Serezer, Rebmag, and all the rest

of the princes of the king of Babylon.

4And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all

the men of war saw them, they

ed: and they

went forth in the night out of the city by the

way of the king's garden, and by the gate that

was between the two walls, and they went out to

the way of the desert.

5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after

them: and they took Sedecias in the plain of

the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken

him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king

of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of

Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.

6And the king of Babylon slew the sons of

Sedecias, in Reblatha, before his eyes: and the

king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Juda.

7He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and

bound him with fetters, to be carried to Babylon.

8And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house,

and the houses of the people with re, and they

threw down the wall of Jerusalem.

9And Nabuzardan the general of the army998 Prophecy of Jeremias

carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of

the people that remained in the city, and the

fugitives that had gone over to him, and the rest

of the people that remained.

10But Nabuzardan the general left some of

the poor people that had nothing at all, in the

land of Juda, and he gave them vineyards, and

cisterns at that time.

11Now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had

given charge to Nabuzardan the general concern-

ing Jeremias, saying:

12Take him, and set thy eyes upon him, and

do him no harm: but as he hath a mind, so do

with him.

13Therefore Nabuzardan the general sent,

and Nabuzardan, and Rabsares, and Neregel,

and Sereser, and Rebmag, and all the nobles of

the king of Babylon,

14Sent and took Jeremias out of the court of

the prison, and committed him to Godolias the

son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, that he might

go home, and dwell among the people.

15But the word of the Lord came to Jeremias,

when he was yet shut up in the court of the

prison, saying: Go, and tell Abdemelech the

Ethiopian, saying:

16Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel: Behold I will bring my words upon this

city unto evil, and not unto good: and they shall

be accomplished in thy sight in that day.

17And I will deliver thee in that day, saith

the Lord: and thou shalt not be given into the

hands of the men whom thou fearest:

18But delivering, I will deliver thee, and thou

shalt not fall by the sword: but thy life shall be

saved for thee, because thou hast put thy trust

in me, saith the Lord.Chapter 40

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord,

after that Nabuzardan the general had let him

go from Rama, when he had taken him, being

bound with chains, among all them that were

carried away from Jerusalem and Juda, and were

carried to Babylon.

2And the general of the army taking

Jeremias, said to him: The Lord thy God hath

pronounced this evil upon this place,

3And he hath brought it: and the Lord hath

done as he hath said: because you have sinned

against the Lord, and have not hearkened to his

voice, and this word is come upon you.

4Now then behold I have loosed thee this day

from the chains which were upon thy hands: if it

please thee to come with me to Babylon, come:

and I will set my eyes upon thee: but if it do not

please thee to come with me to Babylon, stay

here: behold all the land is before thee, as thou

shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to

go, thither go.

5And come not with me: but dwell with

Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan,

whom the king of Babylon hath made governor

over the cities of Juda: dwell therefore with him

in the midst of the people: or whithersoever it

shall please thee to go, go. And the general of

the army gave him victuals and presents, and let

him go.

6And Jeremias went to Godolias the son of

Ahicam to Masphath: and dwelt with him in the

midst of the people that were left in the land.

7And when all the captains of the army that

were scattered through the countries, they and

their companions, had heard that the king of

Babylon had made Godolias the son of Ahicam

governor of the country, and that he had com-

mitted unto him men and women, and children,Prophecy of Jeremias 999

and of the poor of the land, them that had not

been carried away captive to Babylon:

8They came to Godolias to Masphath: and

Ismahel the son of Nathanias, and Johanan, and

Jonathan, the sons of Caree, and Sareas the

son of Thanehumeth, and the children of Ophi,

that were of Netophathi, and Jezonias the son of

Maachati, they and their men.

9And Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of

Saphan swore to them and to their companions,

saying: Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell

in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and

it shall be well with you.

10Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I may

answer the commandment of the Chaldeans that

are sent to us: but as for you, gather ye the

vintage, and the harvest, and the oil, and lay it

up in your vessels, and abide in your cities which

you hold.

11Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab,

and among the children of Ammon, and in

Edom, and in all the countries, when they heard

that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in

Judea, and that he had made Godolias the son

of Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them:

12All the Jews, I say, returned out of all the

places to which they had

ed, and they came into

the land of Juda to Godolias to Masphath: and

they gathered wine, and a very great harvest.

13Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all

the captains of the army, that had been scat-

tered about in the countries, came to Godolias

to Masphath.

14And they said to him: Know that Baalis

the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Is-

mahel the son of Nathanias to kill thee. And

Godolias the son of Ahicam believed them not.

15But Johanan the son of Caree, spoke to

Godolias privately in Masphath, saying: I will

go, and I will kill Ismahel the son of Nathanias,and no man shall know it, lest he kill thee, and

all the Jews be scattered, that are gathered unto

thee, and the remnant of Juda perish.

16And Godolias the son of Ahicam said to

Johanan the son of Caree: Do not this thing:

for what thou sayst of Ismahel is false.

Chapter 41

And it came to pass in the seventh month, that

Ismahel the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama

of the royal blood, and the nobles of the king,

and ten men with him, came to Godolias the son

of Ahicam into Masphath: and they ate bread

there together in Masphath.

2And Ismahel the son of Nathanias arose, and

the ten men that were with him, and they struck

Godolias the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan

with the sword, and slew him whom the king of

Babylon had made governor over the land.

3Ismahel slew also all the Jews that were with

Godolias in Masphath, and the Chaldeans that

were found there, and the soldiers.

4And on the second day after he had killed

Godolias, no man yet knowing it,

5There came some from Sichem, and from

Silo, and from Samaria, fourscore men, with

their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and

mourning: and they had oerings and incense in

their hand, to oer in the house of the Lord.

6And Ismahel the son of Nathanias went forth

from Masphath to meet them, weeping all along

as he went: and when he had met them, he said

to them: Come to Godolias, the son of Ahicam.

7And when they were come to the midst

of the city, Ismahel the son of Nathanias, slew

them, and cast them into the midst of the pit,

he and the men that were with him.

8But ten men were found among them, that1000 Prophecy of Jeremias

said to Ismahel: Kill us not: for we have stores

in the eld, of wheat, and barley, and oil, and

honey. And he forbore, and slew them not with

their brethren.

9And the pit into which Ismahel cast all the

dead bodies of the men whom he slew because

of Godolias, is the same that king Asa made, for

fear of Baasa the king of Israel: the same did

Ismahel the son of Nathanias ll with them that

were slain.

10Then Ismahel carried away captive all the

remnant of the people that were in Masphath:

the king's daughters, and all the people that

remained in Masphath: whom Nabuzardan the

general of the army had committed to Godolias

the son of Ahicam. And Ismahel the son of

Nathanias took them, and he departed, to go

over to the children of Ammon.

11But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the

captains of the ghting men that were with him,

heard of the evil that Ismahel the son of Natha-

nias had done.

12And taking all the men, they went out to

ght against Ismahel the son of Nathanias, and

they found him by the great waters that are in

Gabaon.

13And when all the people that were with

Ismahel, had seen Johanan the son of Caree, and

all the captains of the ghting men that were

with him, they rejoiced.

14And all the people whom Ismahel had

taken, went back to Masphath: and they re-

turned and went to Johanan the son of Caree.

15But Ismahel the son of Nathanias

ed with

eight men, from the face of Johanan, and went

to the children of Ammon.

16Then Johanan the son of Caree, and all the

captains of the soldiers that were with him, took

all the remnant of the people whom they had re-

covered from Ismahel the son of Nathanias, fromMasphath, after that he had slain Godolias the

son of Ahicam: valiant men for war, and the

women, and the children, and the eunuchs whom

he had brought back from Gabaon.

17And they departed, and sat as sojourners

in Chamaam, which is near Bethlehem: in order

to go forward, and enter into Egypt,

18From the face of the Chaldeans: for they

were afraid of them, because Ismahel the son of

Nathanias had slain Godolias the son of Ahicam,

whom the king of Babylon had made governor in

the land of Juda.

Chapter 42

Then all the captains of the warriors, and Jo-

hanan the son of Caree, and Jezonias, the son of

Osaias, and the rest of the people from the least

to the greatest came near:

2And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let

our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou

for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant,

for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do

behold us.

3And let the Lord thy God shew us the way

by which we may walk, and the thing that we

must do.

4And Jeremias the prophet said to them: I

have heard you: behold I will pray to the Lord

your God according to your words: and whatso-

ever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to

you: and I will hide nothing from you.

5And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be

witness between us of truth and faithfulness, if

we do not according to every thing for which the

Lord thy God shall send thee to us.

6Whether it be good or evil, we will obey

the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send

thee: that it may be well with us when we shallProphecy of Jeremias 1001

hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.

7Now after ten days, the word of the Lord

came to Jeremias.
8And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and

all the captains of the ghting men that were

with him, and all the people from the least to

the greatest.

9And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord

the God of Israel, to whom you sent me, to

present your supplications before him:

10If you will be quiet and remain in this land,

I will build you up, and not pull you down: I will

plant you, and not pluck you up: for now I am

appeased for the evil that I have done to you.

11Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of

whom you are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith

the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to

deliver you from his hand.

12And I will shew mercies to you, and will

take pity on you, and will cause you to dwell in

your own land.

13But if you say: We will not dwell in this

land, neither will we hearken to the voice of the

Lord our God,

14Saying: No, but we will go into the land of

Egypt: where we shall see no war, nor hear the

sound of the trumpet, nor suer hunger: and

there we will dwell.

15For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye

remnant of Juda: Thus saith the Lord of hosts,

the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go into

Egypt, and enter in to dwell there:

16The sword which you fear, shall overtake

you there in the land of Egypt: and the famine,

whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you in

Egypt, and there you shall die.

17And all the men that set their faces to go

into Egypt, to dwell there, shall die by the sword,

and by famine, and by pestilence: none of them

shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evilthat I will bring upon them.

18For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God

of Israel: As my anger and my indignation

hath been kindled against the inhabitants of

Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled

against you, when you shall enter into Egypt,

and you shall be an execration, and an astonish-

ment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall

see this place no more.

19This is the word of the Lord concerning

you, O ye remnant of Juda: Go ye not into

Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you

this day.

20For you have deceived your own souls: for

you sent me to the Lord our God, saying: Pray

for us to the Lord our God, and according to

all that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so

declare unto us, and we will do it.

21And now I have declared it to you this day,

and you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord

your God, with regard to all the things for which

he hath sent me to you.

22Now therefore know certainly that you

shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by

pestilence in the place to which you desire to go

to dwell there.

Chapter 43

And it came to pass, that when Jeremias had

made an end of speaking to the people all the

words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord

their God had sent him to them, all these words:

2Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the

son of Caree, and all the proud men, made an-

swer, saying to Jeremias: Thou tellest a lie: the

Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not

into Egypt, to dwell there.

3But Baruch the son of Nerias setteth thee1002 Prophecy of Jeremias

on against us, to deliver us into the hands of

the Chaldeans, to kill us, and to cause us to be

carried away captives to Babylon.

4So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the cap-

tains of the soldiers, and all the people, obeyed

not the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land

of Juda.

5But Johanan the son of Caree, and all the

captains of the soldiers took all the remnant of

Juda, that were returned out of all nations, to

which they had before been scattered, to dwell

in the land of Juda:

6Men, and women, and children, and

the king's daughters, and every soul, which

Nabuzardan the general had left with Godolias

the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan, and

Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son of Ne-

rias.

7And they went into the land of Egypt, for

they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: and they

came as far as Taphnis.

8And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias

in Taphnis, saying:

9Take great stones in thy hand, and thou

shalt hide them in the vault that is under the

brick wall at the gate of Pharao's house in Taph-

nis: in the sight of the men of Juda.

10And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith

the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I

will send, and take Nabuchodonosor the king of

Babylon my servant: and I will set his throne

over these stones which I have hid, and he shall

set his throne over them.

11And he shall come and strike the land of

Egypt: such as are for death, to death: and such

as are for captivity, to captivity: and such as are

for the sword, to the sword.

12And he shall kindle a re in the temples

of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them,

and he shall carry them away captives: and heshall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a

shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall

go forth from thence in peace.

13And he shall break the statues of the house

of the sun, that are in the land of Egypt; and the

temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with

re.

Chapter 44

The word that came to Jeremias, concerning

all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt,

dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in Mem-

phis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel: You have seen all this evil that I have

brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities

of Juda: and behold they are desolate this day,

and there is not an inhabitant in them:

3Because of the wickedness which they have

committed, to provoke me to wrath, and to go

and oer sacrice, and worship other gods, which

neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.

4And I sent to you all my servants the

prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying:

Do not commit this abominable thing, which I

hate.

5But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to

turn from their evil ways, and not to sacrice to

strange gods.

6Wherefore my indignation and my fury was

poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of

Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and they

are turned to desolation and waste, as at this

day.

7And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the

God of Israel: Why do you commit this great

evil against your own souls, that there should

die of you man and woman, child and sucklingProphecy of Jeremias 1003

out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should

be left you:

8In that you provoke me to wrath with the

works of your hands, by sacricing to other gods

in the land of Egypt, into which you are come to

dwell there: and that you should perish, and be

a curse, and a reproach to all the nations of the

earth?

9Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers,

and the evils of the kings of Juda, and the evils

of their wives, and your evils, and the evils of

your wives, that they have done in the land of

Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

10They are not cleansed even to this day:

neither have they feared, nor walked in the law

of the Lord, nor in my commandments, which I

set before you and your fathers.

11Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the

God of Israel: Behold I will set my face upon

you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda.

12And I will take the remnant of Juda that

have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt,

and to dwell there; and they shall be all con-

sumed in the land of Egypt: they shall fall by

the sword, and by the famine: and they shall be

consumed from the least even to the greatest, by

the sword, and by the famine shall they die: and

they shall be for an execration, and for a wonder,

and for a curse, and for a reproach.

13And I will visit them that dwell in the

land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem by

the sword, and by famine and by pestilence.

14And there shall be none that shall escape,

and remain of the remnant of the Jews that are

gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt: and that

shall return into the land of Juda, to which they

have a desire to return to dwell there: there shall

none return but they that shall

ee.

15Then all the men that knew that their

wives sacriced to other gods: and all the womenof whom there stood by a great multitude, and

all the people of them that dwelt in the land of

Egypt in Phatures, answered Jeremias, saying:

16As for the word which thou hast spoken to

us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken

to thee:

17But we will certainly do every word that

shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrice

to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink

oerings to her, as we and our fathers have done,

our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda,

and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were

lled with bread, and it was well with us, and

we saw no evil.

18But since we left o to oer sacrice to the

queen of heaven, and to pour out frank oerings

to her, we have wanted all things, and have been

consumed by the sword, and by famine.

19And if we oer sacrice to the queen of

heaven, and pour out drink oerings to her: did

we make cakes to worship her, to pour out drink

oerings to her, without our husbands?

20And Jeremias spoke to all the people, to

the men, and to the women, and to all the people

which had given him that answer, saying:

21Was it not the sacrice that you oered

in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of

Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and

your princes, and the people of the land, which

the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not en-

tered into his heart?

22So that the Lord could no longer bear, be-

cause of the evil of your doings, and because

of the abominations which you have committed:

therefore your land is become a desolation, and

an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhab-

itant, as at this day.

23Because you have sacriced to idols, and

have sinned against the Lord: and have not

obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not1004 Prophecy of Jeremias

walked in his law, and in his commandments,

and in his testimonies: therefore are these evils

come upon you, as at this day.

24And Jeremias said to all the people and to

all the women: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all

Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt:

25Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel, saying: You and your wives have spoken

with your mouth, and fullled with your hands,

saying: Let us perform our vows which we have

made, to oer sacrice to the queen of heaven,

and to pour out drink oerings to her: you have

fullled your vows, and have performed them in-

deed.

26Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord,

all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Behold I have sworn by my great name, saith the

Lord: that my name shall no more be named in

the mouth of any man of Juda, in the land of

Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.

27Behold I will watch over them for evil, and

not for good: and all the men of Juda that are

in the land of Egypt, shall be consumed, by the

sword, and by famine, till there be an end of

them.

28And a few men that shall

ee from the

sword, shall return out of the land of Egypt into

the land of Juda: and all the remnant of Juda

that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell

there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine,

or theirs.

29And this shall be a sign to you, saith the

Lord, that I will punish you in this place: that

you may know that my words shall be accom-

plished indeed against you for evil.

30Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver

Pharao Nechao king of Egypt into the hand of

his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek

his life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into

the land of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylonhis enemy, and that sought his life.

Chapter 45

The word that Jeremias the prophet spoke to

Baruch the son of Nerias, when he had writ-

ten these words in a book, out of the mouth of

Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of

Josias king of Juda, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to

thee, Baruch:

3Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I

am, for the Lord hath added sorrow to my sor-

row: I am wearied with my groans, and I nd no

rest.

4Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say

to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do

destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do

pluck up, and all this land.

5And dost thou seek great things for thyself?

Seek not: for behold I will bring evil upon all

esh, saith the Lord! but I will give thee thy life,

and save thee in all places whithersoever thou

shalt go.

Chapter 46

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the

prophet against the Gentiles,

2Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao

Nechao king of Egypt, which was by the river Eu-

phrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonosor

the king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year

of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.

3Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go

forth to battle.

4Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen:

stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put

on coats of mail.Prophecy of Jeremias 1005

5What then? I have seen them dismayed, and

turning their backs, their valiant ones slain: they

ed apace, and they looked not back: terror was

round about, saith the Lord.

6Let not the swift

ee away, nor the strong

think to escape: they are overthrown, and fallen

down, towards the north by the river Euphrates.

7Who is this that cometh up as a

ood: and

his streams swell like those of rivers?

8Egypt riseth up like a

ood, and the waves

thereof shall be moved as rivers, and he shall

say: I will go up and will cover the earth: I will

destroy the city, and its inhabitants.

9Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots,

and let the valiant men come forth, the Ethiopi-

ans, and the Libyans that hold the shield, and

the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.

10For this is the day of the Lord the God of

hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may revenge

himself of his enemies: the sword shall devour,

and shall be lled, and shall be drunk with their

blood: for there is a sacrice of the Lord God

of hosts in the north country, by the river Eu-

phrates.

11Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin

daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply

medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.

12The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and

thy howling hath lled the land: for the strong

hath stumbled against the strong, and both are

fallen together.

13The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias

the prophet, how Nabuchodonosor king of Baby-

lon should come and strike the land of Egypt:

14Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Mag-

dal, and let it be known in Memphis, and in

Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself:

for the sword shall devour all round about thee.

15Why are thy valiant men come to noth-

ing? they stood not: because the Lord hathoverthrown them.

16He hath multiplied them that fall, and one

hath fallen upon another, and they shall say:

Arise, and let us return to our own people, and

to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the

dove.

17Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt,

a tumult time hath brought.

18As I live, saith the King, (whose name

is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is among the

mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall

he come.

19Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou

daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall

be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and un-

inhabited.
20Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer:

there shall come from the north one that shall

goad her.

21Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of

her, like fatted calves are turned back, and are

ed away together, and they could not stand, for

the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the

time of their visitation.

22Her voice shall sound like brass, for they

shall hasten with an army, and with axes they

shall come against her, as hewers of wood.

23They have cut down her forest, saith the

Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multi-

plied above locusts, and are without number.

24The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and

delivered into the hand of the people of the

north.

25The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath

said: Behold I will visit upon the tumult of

Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt,

and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and

upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.

26And I will deliver them into the hand of

them that seek their lives, and into the hand of1006 Prophecy of Jeremias

Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the

hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be

inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.

27And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and

be not thou dismayed, O Israel: for behold I will

save thee from afar o, and thy seed out of the

land of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and

be at rest, and prosper: and there shall be none

to terrify him.

28And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith

the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will con-

sume all the nations to which I have cast thee

out: but thee I will not consume, but I will cor-

rect thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee

as if thou wert innocent.

Chapter 47

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the

prophet against the people of Palestine, before

Pharao took Gaza.

2Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up

waters out of the north, and they shall be as

an over

owing torrent, and they shall cover the

land, and all that is therein, the city and the

inhabitants thereof: then the men shall cry, and

all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,

3At the noise of the marching of arms, and

of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots, and

the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have

not looked back to the children, for feebleness of

hands,

4Because of the coming of the day, in which

all the Philistines shall be laid waste, and Tyre

and Sidon shall be destroyed, with all the rest

of their helpers. For the Lord hath wasted the

Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Cappado-

cia.

5Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hathheld her peace with the remnant of their valley:

how long shalt thou cut thyself?

6O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt

thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest,

and be still.

7How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath

given it a charge against Ascalon, and against

the countries thereof by the sea side, and there

hath made an appointment for it?

Chapter 48

Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the

God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste,

and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong

city is confounded and hath trembled.

2There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hes-

ebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us

cut it o from being a nation. Therefore shalt

thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword

shall follow thee.

3A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and

great destruction.

4Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her

little ones.

5For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner

go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oron-

aim the enemies have heard a howling of destruc-

tion.

6Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the

wilderness.

7For because thou hast trusted in thy bul-

warks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be

taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his

priests, and his princes together.

8And the spoiler shall come upon every city,

and no city shall escape: and the valleys shall

perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, for the

Lord hath spoken:Prophecy of Jeremias 1007

9Give a

ower to Moab, for in its

ower it

shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be des-

olate, and uninhabited.

10Cursed be he that doth the work of the

Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that with-

holdeth his sword from blood.

11Moab hath been fruitful from his youth,

and hath rested upon his lees: and hath not been

poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone

into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained

in him, and his scent is not changed.

12Therefore behold the days come, saith the

Lord, and I will send him men that shall order

and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him

down, and shall empty his vessels, and break

their bottles one against another.

13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos,

as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in

which they trusted.

14How do you say: We are valiant and stout

men in battle?

15Moab is laid waste, and they have cast

down her cities: and her choice young men are

gone down to the slaughter: saith the king,

whose name is the Lord of hosts.

16The destruction of Moab is near to come:

the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding

swiftly.

17Comfort him, all you that are round about

him, and all you that know his name, say: How

is the strong sta broken, the beautiful rod?

18Come down from thy glory, and sit in

thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: be-

cause the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he

hath destroyed thy bulwarks.

19Stand in the way, and look out, O habi-

tation of Aroer: inquire of him that

eeth: and

say to him that hath escaped: What is done?

20Moab is confounded, because he is over-

thrown: howl ye, and cry, tell ye it in Arnon,that Moab is wasted.

21And judgment is come upon the plain coun-

try: upon Helon, and upon Jasa, and upon

Mephaath.

22And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and

upon the house of Deblathaim,

23And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethga-

mul, and upon Bethmaon,

24And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and

upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or

near.

25The horn of Moab is cut o, and his arm

is broken, saith the Lord.

26Make him drunk, because he lifted up him-

self against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his

hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in

derision.

27For Israel hath been a derision unto

them: as though thou hadst found him amongst

thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast

spoken against him, thou shalt be led away cap-

tive.

28Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you

that dwell in Moab: and be ye like the dove that

maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole in the

highest place.

29We have heard the pride of Moab, he is

exceeding proud: his haughtiness, and his ar-

rogancy, and his pride, and the loftiness of his

heart.

30I know, saith the Lord, his boasting, and

that the strength thereof is not according to it,

neither hath it endeavoured to do according as

it was able.

31Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will

cry out to all Moab, for the men of the brick wall

that mourn.

32O vineyard of Sabama, I will weep for thee,

with the mourning of Jazer: thy branches are

gone over the sea, they are come even to the sea1008 Prophecy of Jeremias

of Jazer: the robber hath rushed in upon thy

harvest and thy vintage.

33Joy and gladness is taken away from

Carmel, and from the land of Moab, and I have

taken away the wine out of the presses: the

treader of the grapes shall not sing the accus-

tomed cheerful tune.

34From the cry of Hesebon even to Eleale,

and to Jasa, they have uttered their voice: from

Segor to Oronaim, as a heifer of three years old:

the waters also of Nemrim shall be very bad.

35And I will take away from Moab, saith the

Lord, him that oereth in the high places, and

that sacriceth to his gods.

36Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab

like pipes and my heart shall sound like pipes

for the men of the brick wall: because he hath

done more than he could, therefore they have

perished.

37For every head shall be bald, and every

beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied to-

gether, and upon every back there shall be hair-

cloth.

38Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in

the streets thereof general mourning: because I

have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the

Lord.
39How is it overthrown, and they have

howled! How hath Moab bowed down the neck,

and is confounded! And Moab shall be a deri-

sion, and an example to all round about him.

40Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall

as an eagle, and shall stretch forth his wings to

Moab.

41Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are

won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab

in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in

labour.

42And Moab shall cease to be a people: be-

cause he hath gloried against the Lord.43Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon

thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.

44He that shall

ee from the fear, shall fall

into the pit: and he that shall get up out of the

pit, shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring

upon Moab the year of their visitation, saith the

Lord.

45They that

ed from the snare stood in the

shadow of Hesebon: but there came a re out of

Hesebon, and a

ame out of the midst of Seon,

and it shall devour part of Moab, and the crown

of the head of the children of tumult.

46Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast persisted, O

people of Chamos: for thy sons, and thy daugh-

ters are taken captives.

47And I will bring back the captivity of Moab

in the last days, saith the Lord. Hitherto the

judgments of Moab.

Chapter 49

Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the

Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir?

Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his

people dwelt in his cities?

2Therefore behold the days come, saith the

Lord, and I will cause the noise of war to be

heard in Rabbath of the children of Ammon,

and it shall be destroyed into a heap, and her

daughters shall be burnt with re, and Israel

shall possess them that have possessed him, saith

the Lord.

3Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted. Cry,

ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with

haircloth: mourn and go about by the hedges:

for Melchom shall be carried into captivity, his

priests, and his princes together.

4Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy val-

ley hath

owed away, O delicate daughter, thatProphecy of Jeremias 1009

hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said: Who

shall come to me?

5Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith

the Lord God of hosts, from all that are round

about thee: and you shall be scattered every one

out of one another's sight, neither shall there be

any to gather together them that

ee.

6And afterwards I will cause the captives of

the children of Ammon to return, saith the Lord.

7Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts:

Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is per-

ished from her children: their wisdom is become

unprotable.

8Flee and turn your backs, go down into the

deep hole, ye inhabitants of Dedan: for I have

brought the destruction of Esau upon him, the

time of his visitation.

9If grapegatherers had come to thee, would

they not have left a bunch? if thieves in the

night, they would have taken what was enough

for them.

10But I have made Esau bare, I have revealed

his secrets, and he cannot be hid: his seed is laid

waste, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and

he shall not be.

11Leave thy fatherless children: I will make

them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.

12For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose

judgment was not to drink of the cup, shall cer-

tainly drink: and shalt thou come o as inno-

cent? thou shalt not come o as innocent, but

drinking thou shalt drink.

13For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord,

that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a re-

proach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her

cities shall be everlasting wastes.

14I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and

an ambassador is sent to the nations: Gather

yourselves together, and come against her, and

let us rise up to battle.15For behold I have made thee a little one

among the nations, despicable among men.

16Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and

the pride of thy heart: O thou that dwellest in

the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay

hold on the height of the hill: but though thou

shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I will

bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

17And Edom shall be desolate: every one

that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and

shall hiss at all its plagues.

18As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha,

and the neighbours thereof, saith the Lord: there

shall not a man dwell there, and there shall no

son of man inhabit it.

19Behold one shall come up as a lion from

the swelling of the Jordan, against the strong and

beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly upon

her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I

may appoint over her? for who is like to me? and

who shall abide me? and who is that shepherd

that can withstand my countenance?

20Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord,

which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his

thoughts which he hath thought concerning the

inhabitants of Theman: surely the little ones of

the

ock shall cast them down, of a truth they

shall destroy them with their habitation.

21The earth is moved at the noise of their

fall: the cry of their voice is heard in the Red

Sea.

22Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and

y: and he shall spread his wings over Bosra:

and in that day the heart of the valiant ones of

Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.

23Against Damascus. Emath is confounded

and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tid-

ings, they are troubled as in the sea: through

care they could not rest.

24Damascus is undone, she is put to

ight,1010 Prophecy of Jeremias

trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sor-

rows have taken her as a woman in labour.

25How have they forsaken the city of renown,

the city of joy!

26Therefore her young men shall fall in her

streets: and all the men of war shall be silent in

that day, saith the Lord of hosts.

27And I will kindle a re in the wall of Dam-

ascus, and it shall devour the strong holds of

Benadad.

28Against Cedar and against the kingdoms

of Asor, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon

destroyed. Thus saith the Lord: Arise, and go ye

up to Cedar, and waste the children of the east.

29They shall take their tents, and their

ocks:

and shall carry o for themselves their curtains,

and all their vessels, and their camels: and they

shall call fear upon them round about.

30Flee ye, get away speedily, sit in deep holes,

you that inhabit Asor, saith the Lord: for Nabu-

chodonosor king of Babylon hath taken counsel

against you, and hath conceived designs against

you.

31Arise, and go up to a nation that is at ease,

and that dwelleth securely, saith the Lord: they

have neither gates, nor bars: they dwell alone.

32And their camels shall be for a spoil and

the multitude of their cattle for a booty, and I

will scatter into every wind them that have their

hair cut round, and I will bring destruction upon

them from all their connes, saith the Lord.

33And Asor shall be a habitation for dragons,

desolate for ever: no man shall abide there, nor

son of man inhabit it.

34The word of the Lord that came to

Jeremias the prophet against Elam, in the be-

ginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda,

saying:

35Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will

break the bow of Elam, and their chief strength.36And I will bring upon Elam the four winds

from the four quarters of heaven: and I will scat-

ter them into all these winds: and there shall be

no nation, to which the fugitives of Elam shall

not come.
37And I will cause Elam to be afraid before

their enemies, and in the sight of them that seek

their life: and I will bring evil upon them, my

erce wrath, saith the Lord: and I will send the

sword after them, till I consume them.

38And I will set my throne in Elam, and de-

stroy kings and princes from thence, saith the

Lord.

39But in the latter days I will cause the cap-

tives of Elam, to return, saith the Lord.

Chapter 50

The word that the Lord hath spoken against

Babylon, and against the land of the Chaldeans

in the hand of Jeremias the prophet.

2Declare ye among the nations, and publish

it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it

not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,

Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are

confounded, their idols are overthrown.

3For a nation is come up against her out of

the north, which shall make her land desolate:

and there shall be none to dwell therein, from

man even to beast: yea they are removed, and

gone away.

4In those days, and at that time, saith the

Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and

the children of Juda together: going and weeping

they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord

their God.

5They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces

are hitherward. They shall come, and shall be

joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant,Prophecy of Jeremias 1011

which shall never be forgotten.

6My people have been a lost

ock, their shep-

herds have caused them to go astray, and have

made them wander in the mountains: they have

gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten

their resting place.

7All that found them, have devoured them:

and their enemies said: We have not sinned in

so doing: because they have sinned against the

Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord

the hope of their fathers.

8Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go

forth out of the land of the Chaldeans: and be

ye as kids at the head of the

ock.

9For behold I raise up, and will bring against

Babylon an assembly of great nations from the

land of the north: and they shall be prepared

against her, and from thence she shall be taken:

their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a de-

stroyer, shall not return in vain.

10And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that

waste her shall be lled, saith the Lord.

11Because you rejoice, and speak great

things, pillaging my inheritance: because you are

spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and have

bellowed as bulls.

12Your mother is confounded exceedingly,

and she that bore you is made even with the

dust: behold she shall be the last among the na-

tions, a wilderness unpassable, and dry.

13Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall

not be inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate:

every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall be

astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues.

14Prepare yourselves against Babylon round

about, all you that bend the bow: ght against

her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned

against the Lord.

15Shout against her, she hath every where

given her hand, her foundations are fallen, herwalls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of

the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath

done, so do to her.

16Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him

that holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest:

for fear of the sword of the dove every man shall

return to his people, and every one shall

ee to

his own land.

17Israel is a scattered

ock, the lions have

driven him away: rst the king of Assyria de-

voured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor king

of Babylon hath broken his bones.

18Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the

God of Israel: Behold I will visit the king of

Babylon and his land, as I have visited the king

of Assyria.

19And I will bring Israel again to his habi-

tation: and he shall feed on Carmel, and Bason,

and his soul shall be satised in mount Ephraim,

and Galaad.

20In those days, and at that time, saith the

Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for,

and there shall be none: and the sin of Juda, and

there shall none be found: for I will be merciful

to them, whom I shall leave.

21Go up against the land of the rulers, and

punish the inhabitants thereof, waste, and de-

stroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do

according to all that I have commanded thee.

22A noise of war in the land, and a great

destruction.

23How is the hammer of the whole earth bro-

ken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into

a desert among the nations!

24I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and

thou art taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not

aware of it: thou art found and caught, because

thou hast provoked the Lord.

25The Lord hath opened his armoury, and

hath brought forth the weapons of his wrath:1012 Prophecy of Jeremias

for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to be

done in the land of the Chaldeans.

26Come ye against her from the uttermost

borders: open that they may go forth that shall

tread her down: take the stones out of the way,

and make heaps, and destroy her: and let noth-

ing of her be left.

27Destroy all her valiant men, let them go

down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their

day is come, the time of their visitation.

28The voice of them that

ee, and of them

that have escaped out of the land of Babylon: to

declare in Sion the revenge of the Lord our God,

the revenge of his temple.

29Declare to many against Babylon, to all

that bend the bow: stand together against her

round about, and let none escape; pay her ac-

cording to her work: according to all that she

hath done, do ye to her: for she hath lifted up

herself against the Lord, against the Holy One

of Israel.

30Therefore shall her young men fall in her

streets: and all her men of war shall hold their

peace in that day, saith the Lord.

31Behold I come against thee, O proud one,

saith the Lord the God of hosts: for thy day is

come, the time of thy visitation.

32And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall

down, and there shall be none to lift him up:

and I will kindle a re in his cities, and it shall

devour all round about him.

33Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children

of Israel, and the children of Juda are oppressed

together: all that have taken them captives, hold

them fast, they will not let them go.

34Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts

is his name: he will defend their cause in judg-

ment, to terrify the land, and to disquiet the

inhabitants of Babylon.

35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith theLord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and
upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

36A sword upon her diviners, and they shall

be foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and

they shall be dismayed.

37A sword upon their horses, and upon their

chariots, and upon all the people that are in the

midst of her: and they shall become as women:

a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be

made a spoil.

38A drought upon her waters, and they shall

be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and

they glory in monstrous things.

39Therefore shall dragons dwell there with

the g fauns: and ostriches shall dwell therein,

and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, nei-

ther shall it be built up from generation to gen-

eration.

40As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomor-

rha, and their neighbour cities, saith the Lord:

no man shall dwell there, neither shall the son of

man inhabit it.

41Behold a people cometh from the north,

and a great nation, and many kings shall rise

from the ends of the earth.

42They shall take the bow and the shield:

they are cruel and unmerciful: their voice shall

roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses:

like a man prepared for battle against thee, O

daughter of Babylon.

43The king of Babylon hath heard the report

of them, and his hands are grown feeble: anguish

hath taken hold of him, pangs as a woman in

labour.

44Behold he shall come up like a lion from the

swelling of the Jordan to the strong and beauti-

ful: for I will make him run suddenly upon her:

and who shall be the chosen one whom I may

appoint over her? for who is like to me? and

who shall bear up against me? and who is thatProphecy of Jeremias 1013

shepherd that can withstand my countenance?

45Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord,

which he hath taken against Babylon: and his

thoughts which he hath thought against the land

of the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the

ocks shall pull them down, of a truth their habi-

tation shall be destroyed with them.

46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the

earth is moved, and the cry is heard amongst the

nations.

Chapter 51

Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as

it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and

against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted

up their heart against me.

2And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they

shall fan her, and shall destroy her land: for they

are come upon her on every side in the day of her

aiction.

3Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow,

and let not him go up that is armed with a coat

of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her

army.

4And the slain shall fall in the land of

the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions

thereof.

5For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken

by their God the Lord of hosts: but their land

hath been lled with sin against the Holy One

of Israel.

6Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let

every one save his own life: be not silent upon

her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from

the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath

deserved.

7Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand

of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: thenations have drunk of her wine, and therefore

they have staggered.

8Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed:

howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she

may be healed.

9We would have cured Babylon, but she is

not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every

man to his own land: because her judgment hath

reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to

the clouds.

10The Lord hath brought forth our justices:

Come, and let us declare in Sion the work of the

Lord our God.

11Sharpen the arrows, ll the quivers, the

Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the

Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to de-

stroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord,

the vengeance of his temple.

12Upon the walls of Babylon set up the

standard, strengthen the watch: set up the

watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord

hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke

against the inhabitants of Babylon.

13O thou that dwellest upon many waters,

rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire

destruction.

14The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself,

saying: I will ll thee with men as with locusts,

and they shall lift up a joyful shout against thee.

15He that made the earth by his power, that

hath prepared the world by his wisdom, and

stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

16When he uttereth his voice the waters are

multiplied in heaven: he lifteth up the clouds

from the ends of the earth, he hath turned light-

ning into rain: and hath brought forth the wind

out of his treasures.

17Every man is become foolish by his knowl-

edge: every founder is confounded by his idol,

for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no1014 Prophecy of Jeremias

breath in them.

18They are vain works, and worthy to be

laughed at, in the time of their visitation they

shall perish.

19The portion of Jacob is not like them: for

he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the

sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is

his name.

20Thou dashest together for me the weapons

of war, and with thee I will dash nations to-

gether, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:

21And with thee I will break in pieces the

horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break

in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up

into it:

22And with thee I will break in pieces man

and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces

the old man and the child, and with thee I will

break in pieces the young man and the virgin:

23And with thee I will break in pieces the

shepherd and his

ock, and with thee I will break

in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen,

and with thee I will break in pieces captains and

rulers.

24And I will render to Babylon, and to all

the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil, that

they have done in Sion, before your eyes, saith

the Lord.

25Behold I come against thee, thou destroy-

ing mountain, saith the Lord, which corruptest

the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand

upon thee, and will roll thee down from the

rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

26And they shall not take of thee a stone for

the corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou

shalt be destroyed for ever, saith the Lord.

27Set ye up a standard in the land: sound

with the trumpet among the nations: prepare

the nations against her: call together against her

the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: num-ber Taphsar against her, bring the horse as the

stinging locust.

28Prepare the nations against her, the kings

of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and

all the land of their dominion.

29And the land shall be in a commotion, and

shall be troubled: for the design of the Lord

against Babylon shall awake, to make the land

of Babylon desert and uninhabitable.

30The valiant men of Babylon have forborne

to ght, they have dwelt in holds: their strength

hath failed, and they are become as women: her

dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.

31One running post shall meet another, and

messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king

of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to

the other:

32And that the fords are taken, and the

marshes are burnt with re, and the men of war

are arighted.

33For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of

Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a thrash-

ing

oor, this is the time of her thrashing: yet

a little while, and the time of her harvest shall

come.
34Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath

eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath

made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed

me up like a dragon, he hath lled his belly with

my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.

35The wrong done to me, and my

esh be

upon Babylon, saith the habitation of Sion: and

my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith

Jerusalem.

36Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I

will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for

thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and will

dry up her spring.

37And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a

dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment andProphecy of Jeremias 1015

a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

38They shall roar together like lions, they

shall shake their manes like young lions.

39In their heat I will set them drink: and

I will make them drunk, that they may slum-

ber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake

no more, saith the Lord.

40I will bring them down like lambs to the

slaughter, and like rams with kids.

41How is Sesach taken, and the renowned

one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon

become an astonishment among the nations?

42The sea is come up over Babylon : she is

covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

43Her cities are become an astonishment, a

land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein

none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.

44And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and

I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he

had swallowed down: and the nations shall no

more

ow together to him, for the wall also of

Babylon shall fall.

45Go out of the midst of her, my people: that

every man may save his life from the erce wrath

of the Lord.

46And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for

the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and

a rumour shall come in one year, and after this

year another rumour: and iniquity in the land,

and ruler upon ruler.

47Therefore behold the days come, and I will

visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land

shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall

in the midst of her.

48And the heavens and the earth, and all

things that are in them shall give praise for

Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the

north, saith the Lord.

49And as Babylon caused that there should

fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fallslain in all the earth.

50You that have escaped the sword, come

away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar

o, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

51We are confounded, because we have heard

reproach: shame hath covered our faces: because

strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of the

house of the Lord.

52Therefore behold the days come, saith the

Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in

all her land the wounded shall groan:

53If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and

establish her strength on high: from me there

should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.

54The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great

destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

55Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste,

and destroyed out of her the great voice: and

their wave shall roar like many waters: their

voice hath made a noise:

56Because the spoiler is come upon her, that

is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken,

and their bow is weakened, because the Lord,

who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.

57And I will make her princes drunk, and

her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers,

and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an

everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith

the king whose name is Lord of hosts.

58Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad

wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down,

and her high gates shall be burnt with re, and

the labours of the people shall come to nothing,

and of the nations shall go to the re, and shall

perish.

59The word that Jeremias the prophet com-

manded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of

Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to

Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now

Saraias was chief over the prophecy.1016 Prophecy of Jeremias

60And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil

that was to come upon Babylon: all these words

that are written against Babylon.

61And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou

shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt

read all these words,

62Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken

against this place to destroy it: so that there

should be neither man nor beast to dwell therein,

and that it should be desolate for ever.

63And when thou shalt have made an end

of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to

it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the Eu-

phrates:

64And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon

sink, and she shall not rise up from the aic-

tion that I will bring upon her, and she shall

be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of

Jeremias.

Chapter 52

Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he

began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in

Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Ami-

tal, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

2And he did that which was evil in the eyes of

the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.

3For the wrath of the Lord was against

Jerusalem, and against Juda, till he cast them

out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted

from the king of Babylon.

4And it came to pass in the ninth year of his

reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the

month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Baby-

lon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem,

and they besieged it, and built forts against it

round about.

5And the city was besieged until the eleventhyear of king Sedecias.

6And in the fourth month, the ninth day of

the month, a famine overpowered the city: and

there was no food for the people of the land.

7And the city was broken up, and the men of

war

ed, and went out of the city in the night by

the way of the gate that is between the two walls,

and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans

besieging the city round about,) and they went

by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.

8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued af-

ter the king: and they overtook Sedecias in the

desert which is near Jericho: and all his compan-

ions were scattered from him.

9And when they had taken the king, they

carried him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha,

which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judg-

ment upon him.

10And the king of Babylon slew the sons of

Sedecias before his eyes: and he slew all the

princes of Juda in Reblatha.

11And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and

bound him with fetters, and the king of Babylon

brought him into Babylon, and he put him in

prison till the day of his death.

12And in the fth month, the tenth day of the

month, the same is the nineteenth year of Nabu-

chodonosor, king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan

the general of the army, who stood before the

king of Babylon in Jerusalem.

13And he burnt the house of the Lord, and

the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem,

and every great house he burnt with re.

14And all the army of the Chaldeans that

were with the general broke down all the wall of

Jerusalem round about.

15But Nabuzardan the general carried away

captives some of the poor people, and of the rest

of the common sort who remained in the city,

and of the fugitives that were

ed over to theProphecy of Jeremias 1017

king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

16But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan

the general left some for vinedressers, and for

husbandmen.

17The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the

brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord,

and the bases, and the sea of brass that was in

the house of the Lord: and they carried all the

brass of them to Babylon.

18And they took the caldrons, and the

esh-

hooks, and the psalteries, and the bowls, and the

little mortars, and all the brazen vessels that had

been used in the ministry: and

19The general took away the pitchers, and

the censers, and the pots, and the basins, and

the candlesticks, and the mortars, and the cups:

as many as were of gold, in gold: and as many

as were of silver, in silver:

20And the two pillars, and one sea, and

twelve oxen of brass that were under the bases,

which king Solomon had made in the house of

the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all

these vessels.

21And concerning the pillars, one pillar was

eighteen cubits high: and a cord of twelve cubits

compassed it about: but the thickness thereof

was four ngers, and it was hollow within.

22And chapiters of brass were upon both:

and the height of one chapiter was ve cubits:

and network, and pomegranates were upon the

chapiters round about, all of brass. The same of

the second pillar, and the pomegranates.

23And there were ninety-six pomegranates

hanging down: and the pomegranates being a

hundred in all, were compassed with network.

24And the general took Saraias the chief

priest, and Sophonias the second priest, and the

three keepers of the entry.

25He also took out of the city one eunuch that

was chief over the men of war: and seven menof them that were near the king's person, that

were found in the city: and a scribe, an ocer of

the army who exercised the young soldiers: and

threescore men of the people of the land, that

were found in the midst of the city.

26And Nabuzardan the general took them,

and brought them to the king of Babylon, to

Reblatha.

27And the king of Babylon struck them, and

put them to death in Reblatha, in the land of

Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out

of his land.

28This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor

carried away captive: in the seventh year, three

thousand and twenty-three Jews.

29In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor,

eight hundred and thirty-two souls from

Jerusalem.

30In the three and twentieth year of Nabu-

chodonosor, Nabuzardan the general carried

away of the Jews seven hundred and forty ve

souls. So all the souls were four thousand six

hundred.

31And it came to pass in the seven and thirti-

eth year of the captivity of Joachin king of Juda,

in the twelfth month, the ve and twentieth day

of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Baby-

lon, in the rst year of his reign, lifted up the

head of Joachin king of Juda, and brought him

forth out of prison.

32And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his

throne above the thrones of the kings that were

with him in Babylon.

33And he changed his prison garments, and

he ate bread before him always all the days of

his life.

34And for his diet a continual provision was

allowed him by the king of Babylon, every day a

portion, until the day of his death, all the days

of his life.Lamentations of Jeremias

Chapter 1

Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was

full of people! how is the mistress of the Gen-

tiles become as a widow: the princes of provinces

made tributary!

2Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night,

and her tears are on her cheeks: there is none

to comfort her among all them that were dear

to her: all her friends have despised her, and are

become her enemies.

3Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling

place, because of her aiction, and the great-

ness of her bondage; she hath dwelt among the

nations, and she hath found no rest; all her per-

secutors have taken her in the midst of straits.

4Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because

there are none that come to the solemn feast:

all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh;

her virgins are in aiction; and she is oppressed

with bitterness.

5He. Her adversaries are become her lords;

her enemies are enriched; because the Lord hath

spoken against her for the multitude of her iniq-

uities; her children are led into captivity, before

the face of the oppressor.

6Vau. And from the daughter of Sion, all

her beauty is departed; her princes are become

like rams that nd no pastures; and they are

gone away without strength before the face of

the pursuer.

7Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the daysof her aiction, and prevarication of all her de-

sirable things which she had from the days of

old, when her people fell in the enemy's hand,

and there was no helper; the enemies have seen

her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.

8Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned,

therefore is she become unstable; all that hon-

oured her, have despised her, because they have

seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned back-

ward.

9Teth. Her lthiness is on her feet, and she

hath not remembered her end; she is wonderfully

cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O

Lord, my aiction, because the enemy is lifted

up.

10Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to

all her desirable things: for she hath seen the

Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou

gavest commandment that they should not enter

into thy church.

11Caph. All her people sigh, they seek bread:

they have given all their precious things for food

to relieve the soul: see, 0 Lord, and consider, for

I am become vile.

12Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way,

attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my

sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the

Lord spoke in the day of his erce anger.

13Mem. From above he hath sent re into my

bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a

net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he

hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow allLamentations of Jeremias 1019

the day long.

14Nun. The yoke of my iniquities hath

watched: they are folded together in his hand,

and put upon my neck: my strength is weak-

ened: the Lord hath delivered me into a hand,

out of which I am not able to rise.

15Samech. The Lord hath taken away all

my mighty men out of the midst of me: he hath

called against me the time, to destroy my chosen

men: the Lord hath trodden the winepress for

the virgin daughter of Juda.

16Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes

run down with water: because the comforter,

the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children

are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.

17Phe. Sion hath spread forth her hands,

there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath com-

manded against Jacob, his enemies are round

about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman

among them.

18Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked

his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye

people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my

young men are gone into captivity.

19Coph. I called for my friends, but they

deceived me: my priests and my ancients pined

away in the city: while they sought their food,

to relieve their souls.

20Res. Behold, 0 Lord, for I am in dis-

tress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned

within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad

the sword destroyeth and at home there is death

alike.

21Sin. They have heard that I sigh, and there

is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard

of my evil, they have rejoiced that thou hast done

it: thou hast brought a day of consolation, and

they shall be like unto me.

22Thau. Let all their evil be present before

thee: and make vintage of them, as thou hastmade vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my

sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.

Chapter 2

Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscu-

rity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath

he cast down from heaven to the earth the glori-

ous one of Israel, and hath not remembered his

footstool in the day of his anger.

2Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong,

and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in

Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong

holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them

down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom

unclean, and the princes thereof.

3Ghimel. He hath broken in his erce anger

all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his

right hand from before the enemy: and he hath

kindled in Jacob as it were a

aming re devour-

ing round about.

4Daleth. He hath bent his bow as an enemy,

he hath xed his right hand as an adversary:

and he hath killed all that was fair to behold in

the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath

poured out his indignation like re.

5He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he

hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath over-

thrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed

his strong holds, and hath multiplied in the dan-

ghter of Juda the aicted, both men and women.

6Vau. And he hath destroyed his tent as a

garden, he hath thrown down his tabernacle: the

Lord hath caused feasts and sabbaths to be for-

gotten in Sion: and hath delivered up king and

priest to reproach, and to the indignation of his

wrath.

7Zain. The Lord hath cast o his altar, he

hath cursed his sanctuary: he hath delivered the1020 Lamentations of Jeremias

walls of the towers thereof into the hand of the

enemy: they have made a noise in the house of

the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

8Heth. The Lord hath purposed to de-

stroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he hath

stretched out his line, and hath not withdrawn

his hand from destroying: and the bulwark hath

mourned, and the wall hath been destroyed to-

gether.

9Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground:

he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king

and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law

is no more, and her prophets have found no vi-

sion from the Lord.

10Jod. The ancients of the daughter of

Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their

peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust,

they are girdcd with haircloth, the virgins of

Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping,

my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out

upon the earth, for the destruction of the daugh-

ter of my people, when the children, and the

sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city.

12Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where

is corn and wine? when they fainted away as the

wounded in the streets of the city: when they

breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their

mothers.

13Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to

what shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?

to what shall I equal thee, that I may comfort

thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the

sea is thy destruction: who shall heal thee?

14Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and

foolish things for thee: and they have not laid

open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but

they have seen for thee false revelations and ban-

ishments.

15Samech. All they that passed by the wayhave clapped their hands at thee: they have

hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter

of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect

beauty, the joy of all the earth?

16Phe. All thy enemies have opened their

month against thee: they have hissed, and

gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will

swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we

looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.

17Ain. The Lord hath done that which he

purposed, he hath fullled his word, which he

commanded in the days of old: he hath de-

stroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused

the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up

the horn of thy adversaries.

18Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon

the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run

down like a torrent day and night: give thyself

no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.

19Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the

beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like

water, before the face of the Lord: lift up thy

hands to him for the life of thy little children,

that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the

streets.

20Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom

thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat

their own fruit, their children of a span long?

shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the

sanctuary of the Lord?

21Sin. The child and the old man lie without

on the ground: my virgins and my young men

are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them

in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and

shewn them no pity.

22Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival,

those that should terrify me round about, and

there was none in the day of the wrath of the

Lord that escaped and was left: those that I

brought up, and nourished, my enemy hath con-Lamentations of Jeremias 1021

sumed them.

Chapter 3

Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the

rod of his indignation.

2Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into

darkness, and not into light.

3Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and

turned again his hand all the day.

4Beth. My skin and my

esh he hath made

old, he hath broken my bones.

5Beth. He hath built round about me, and

he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.

6Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those

that are dead for ever.

7Ghimel. He hath built against me round

about, that I may not get out: he hath made my

fetters heavy.

8Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat,

he hath shut out my prayer.

9Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with

square stones, he hath turned my paths upside

down.

10Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying

in wait: as a lion in secret places.

11Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths,

and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me

desolate.

12Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me

as a mark for his arrows.

13He. He hath shot into my reins the daugh-

ters of his quiver.

14He. I am made a derision to all my people,

their song all the day long.

15He. He hath lled me with bitterness, he

hath inebriated me with wormwood.

16Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by

one, he hath fed me with ashes.17Vau. And my soul is removed far o from

peace, I have forgotten good things.

18Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is

perished from the Lord.

19Zain. Remember my poverty, and trans-

gression, the wormwood and the gall.

20Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and

my soul shall languish within me.

21Zain. These things I shall think over in my

heart, therefore will I hope.

22Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are

not consumed: because his commiserations have

not failed.

23Heth. They are new every morning, great

is thy faithfulness.

24Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my

soul: therefore will I wait for him.

25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope

in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the

salvation of God.

27Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath

borne the yoke from his youth.

28Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his

peace: because he hath taken it up upon him-

self.

29Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if

so be there may be hope.

30Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that

striketh him, he shall be lled with reproaches.

31Caph. For the Lord will not cast o for

ever.

32Caph. For if he hath cast o, he will also

have mercy, according to the multitude of his

mercies.

33Caph. For he hath not willingly aicted,

nor cast o the children of men.

34Lamed. To crush under his feet all the

prisoners of the land,1022 Lamentations of Jeremias

35Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a

man before the face of the most High,

36Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in

his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

37Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a

thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it

not?

38Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed

out of the mouth of the Highest?

39Mem. Why hath a living man murmured,

man suering for his sins?

40Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek,

and return to the Lord.

41Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our

hands to the Lord in the heavens.

42Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked

thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

43Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath,

and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not

spared.

44Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee,

that our prayer may not pass through.

45Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast,

and refuse in the midst of the people.

46Phe. All our enemies have opened their

mouths against us.

47Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and

a snare, and destruction.

48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams

of water, for the destruction of the daughter of

my people.

49Ain. My eye is aicted, and hath not been

quiet, because there was no rest:

50Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked

down from the heavens.

51Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because

of all the daughters of my city.

52Sade. My enemies have chased me and

caught me like a bird, without cause.53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and

they have laid a stone over me.

54Sade. Waters have

owed over my head: I

said: I am cut o.

55Coph. I have called upon thy name, O

Lord, from the lowest pit.

56Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not

away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

57Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when

I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

58Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause

of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

59Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity

against me: judge thou my judgment.

60Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all

their thoughts against me.

61Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O

Lord, all their imaginations against me.

62Sin. The lips of them that rise up against

me: and their devices against me all the day.

63Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their

rising up, I am their song.

64Thau. Thou shalt render them a recom-

pense, O Lord, according to the works of their

hands.

65Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of

heart, thy labour.

66Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger,

and shalt destroy them from under the heavens,

O Lord.

Chapter 4

Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the nest

colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary

are scattered in the top of every street?

2Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and they that

were clothed with the best gold: how are theyLamentations of Jeremias 1023

esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the pot-

ter's hands?

3Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn

out the breast, they have given suck to their

young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like

the ostrich in the desert.

4Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath

stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little

ones have asked for bread, and there was none

to break it unto them.

5He. They that were fed delicately have died

in the streets: they that were brought up in scar-

let have embraced the dung.

6Vau. And the iniquity of the daughter of my

people is made greater than the sin of Sodom,

which was overthrown in a moment, and hands

took nothing in her.

7Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow,

purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory,

fairer than the sapphire.

8Heth. Their face is now made blacker than

coals, and they are not known in the streets:

their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is with-

ered, and is become like wood.

9Teth. It was better with them that were

slain by the sword, than with them that died

with hunger: for these pined away being con-

sumed for want of the fruits of the earth.

10Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have

sodden their own children: they were their meat

in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11Caph. The Lord hath accomplished his

wrath, he hath poured out his erce anger: and

he hath kindled a re in Sion, and it hath de-

voured the foundations thereof.

12Lamed. The kings of the earth, and all the

inhabitants of the world would not have believed,

that the adversary and the enemy should enter

in by the gates of Jerusalem.

13Mem. For the sins of her prophets, andthe iniquities of her priests, that have shed the

blood of the just in the midst of her.

14Nun. They have wandered as blind men

in the streets, they were deled with blood: and

when they could not help walking in it, they held

up their skirts.

15Samech. Depart you that are deled, they

cried out to them: Depart, get ye hence, touch

not: for they quarrelled, and being removed,

they said among the Gentiles: He will no more

dwell among them.

16Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided

them, he will no more regard them: they re-

spected not the persons of the priests, neither

had they pity on the ancient.

17Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes

failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we

looked attentively towards a nation that was not

able to save.

18Sade. Our steps have slipped in the way of

our streets, our end draweth near: our days are

fullled, for our end is come.

19Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than

the eagles of the air: they pursued us upon the

mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilder-

ness.

20Res. The breath of our mouth, Christ the

Lord, is taken in our sins: to whom we said: Un-

der thy shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

22Thau. Thy iniquity is accomplished, O

daughter of Sion, he will no more carry thee away

into captivity: he hath visited thy iniquity, O

daughter of Edom, he hath discovered thy sins.

Chapter 5

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: con-

sider and behold our reproach.1024 Lamentations of Jeremias

2Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our

houses to strangers.

3We are become orphans without a father:

our mothers are as widows.

4We have drunk our water for money: we

have bought our wood.

6We were dragged by the necks, we were

weary and no rest was given us.

6We have given our hand to Egypt, and to

the Assyrians, that we might be satised with

bread.

7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and

we have borne their iniquities.

8Servants have ruled over us: there was none

to redeem us out of their hand.

9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives,

because of the sword in the desert.

10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason

of the violence of the famine.

11They oppressed the women in Sion, and

the virgins in the cities of Juda.

12The princes were hanged up by their hand:

they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

13They abused the young men indecently:

and the children fell under the wood.

14The ancients have ceased from the gates:

the young men from the choir of the singers.

15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing

is turned into mourning.

16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to

us, because we have sinned.

17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore

are our eyes become dim.

18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed,

foxes have walked upon it.

19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever,

thy throne from generation to generation.

20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt

thou forsake us for a long time?21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall

be converted: renew our days, as from the be-

ginning.

22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art

exceedingly angry with us.Prophecy of Baruch

Chapter 1

And these are the words of the book, which

Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias,

the son of Sedecias, the son of Sedei, the son

Helcias, wrote in Babylonia.

2In the fth year, in the seventh day of the

month, at the time that the Chaldeans took

Jerusalem, and burnt it with re.

3And Baruch read the words of this book in

the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king

of Juda, and in the hearing of all the people that

came to hear the book.

4And in the hearing of the nobles, the sons of

the kings, and in the hearing of the ancients, and

in the hearing of the people, from the least even

to the greatest of them that dwelt in Babylonia,

by the river Sedi.

5And when they heard it they wept, and

fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

6And they made a collection of money ac-

cording to every man's power.

7And they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the

priest, the son of Helcias, the son of Salom, and

to the priests, and to all the people, that were

found with him in Jerusalem:

8At the time when he received the vessels of

the temple of the Lord, which had been taken

away out of the temple, to return them into

the land of Juda the tenth day of the month

Sivan, the silver vessels, which Sedecias the sonof Josias king of Juda had made,

9After that Nabuchodonosor the king of

Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the

princes, and all the powerful men, and the people

of the land from Jerusalem, and brought them

bound to Babylon.

10And they said: Behold we have sent you

money, buy with it holocausts, and frankincense,

and make meat oerings, and oerings for sin at

the altar of the Lord our God:

11And pray ye for the life of Nabuchodonosor

the king of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar

his son, that their days may be upon earth as the

days of heaven:

12And that the Lord may give us strength,

and enlighten our eyes, that we may live under

the shadow of Nabuchodonosor the king of Baby-

lon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son,

and may serve them many days, and may nd

favour in their sight.

13And pray ye for us to the Lord our God:

for we have sinned against the Lord our God,

and his wrath is not turned away from us even

to this day.

14And read ye this book, which we have sent

to you to be read in the temple of the Lord, on

feasts, and proper days.

15And you shall say: To the Lord our God

belongeth justice, but to us confusion of our face:

as it is come to pass at this day to all Juda, and

to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,1026 Prophecy of Baruch

16To our kings, and to our princes, and to our

priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers.

17We have sinned before the Lord our God,

and have not believed him, nor put our trust in

him:
18And we were not obedient to him, and we

have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our

God, to walk in his commandments which he

hath given us.

19From the day that he brought our fathers

out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we

were disobedient to the Lord our God: and going

astray we turned away from hearing his voice.

20And many evils have cleaved to us, and

the curses which the Lord foretold by Moses his

servant: who brought our fathers out of the land

of Egypt, to give us a land

owing with milk and

honey, as at this day.

21And we have not hearkened to the voice of

the Lord our God according to all the words of

the prophets whom he sent to us:

22And we have gone away every man after

the inclinations of his own wicked heart, to serve

strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the

Lord our God.

Chapter 2

Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good

his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges

that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to

our princes, and to all Israel and Juda:

2That the Lord would bring upon us great

evils, such as never happened under heaven, as

they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according

to the things that are written in the law of Moses:

3That a man should eat the

esh of his own

son, and the

esh of his own daughter.

4And he hath delivered them up to be underthe hand of all the kings that are round about us,

to be a reproach, and desolation among all the

people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.

5And we are brought under, and are not up-

permost: because we have sinned against the

Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.

6To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but

to us, and to our fathers confusion of face, as at

this day.

7For the Lord hath pronounced against us all

these evils that are come upon us:

8And we have not entreated the face of the

Lord our God, that we might return every one

of us from our most wicked ways.

9And the Lord hath watched over us for evil,

and hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is just

in all his works which he hath commanded us:

10And we have not hearkened to his voice to

walk in the commandments of the Lord which he

hath set before us.

11And now, O Lord God of Israel, who hast

brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with

a strong hand, and with signs, and with wonders,

and with thy great power, and with a mighty

arm, and hast made thee a name as at this day,

12We have sinned, we have done wickedly, we

have acted unjustly, O Lord our God, against all

thy justices.

13Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for

we are left a few among the nations where thou

hast scattered us.

14Hear, O Lord, our prayers, and our peti-

tions, and deliver us for thy own sake: and grant

that we may nd favour in the sight of them that

have led us away:

15That all the earth may know that thou art

the Lord our God, and that thy name is called

upon Israel, and upon his posterity.

16Look down upon us, O Lord, from thy holy

house, and incline thy ear, and hear us.Prophecy of Baruch 1027

17Open thy eyes, and behold: for the dead

that are in hell, whose spirit is taken away from

their bowels, shall not give glory and justice to

the Lord:
18But the soul that is sorrowful for the great-

ness of evil she hath done, and goeth bowed

down, and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the

hungry soul giveth glory and justice to thee the

Lord.

19For it is not for the justices of our fathers

that we pour out our prayers, and beg mercy in

thy sight, O Lord our God:

20But because thou hast sent out thy wrath,

and thy indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken

by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying:

21Thus saith the Lord: Bow down your shoul-

der, and your neck, and serve the king of Baby-

lon: and you shall remain in the land which I

have given to your fathers.

22But if you will not hearken to the voice of

the Lord your God, to serve the king of Babylon:

I will cause you to depart out of the cities of

Juda, and from without Jerusalem.

23And I will take away from you the voice of

mirth, and the voice of joy, and the voice of the

bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, and all

the land shall be without any footstep of inhab-

itants.

24And they hearkened not to thy voice, to

serve the king of Babylon: and thou hast made

good thy words, which thou spokest by the hands

of thy servants the prophets, that the bones of

our kings, and the bones of our fathers should

be removed out of their place:

25And behold they are cast out to the heat of

the sun, and to the frost of the night: and they

have died in grievous pains, by famine, and by

the sword, and in banishment.

26And thou hast made the temple, in which

thy name was called upon, as it is at this day, forthe iniquity of the house of Israel, and the house

of Juda.

27And thou hast dealt with us, O Lord our

God, according to all thy goodness, and accord-

ing to all that great mercy of thine:

28As thou spokest by the hand of thy servant

Moses, in the day when thou didst command him

to write thy law before the children of Israel,

29Saying: If you will not hear my voice, this

great multitude shall be turned into a very small

number among the nations, where I will scatter

them:

30For I know that the people will not hear

me, for they are a people of a sti neck: but

they shall turn to their heart in the land of their

captivity:

31And they shall know that I am the Lord

their God: and I will give them a heart, and

they shall understand: and ears, and they shall

hear.

32And they shall praise me in the land of

their captivity, and shall be mindful of my name.

33And they shall turn away themselves from

their sti neck, and from their wicked deeds: for

they shall remember the way of their fathers,

that sinned against me.

34And I will bring them back again into the

land which I promised with an oath to their fa-

thers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall

be masters thereof: and I will multiply them, and

they shall not be diminished.

35And I will make with them another

covenant that shall be everlasting, to be their

God, and they shall be my people: and I will no

more remove my people, the children of Israel,

out of the land that I have given them.1028 Prophecy of Baruch

Chapter 3

And now, O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel,

the soul in anguish, and the troubled spirit crieth

to thee:

2Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for thou art

a merciful God, and have pity on us: for we have

sinned before thee.

3For thou remainest for ever, and shall we

perish everlastingly?

4O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, hear

now the prayer of the dead of Israel, and of their

children, that have sinned before thee, and have

not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God,

wherefore evils have cleaved fast to us.

5Remember not the iniquities of our fathers,

but think upon thy hand, and upon thy name at

this time:

6For thou art the Lord our God, and we will

praise thee, O Lord:

7Because for this end thou hast put thy fear in

our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon

thy name, and praise thee in our captivity, for

we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers,

who sinned before thee.

8And behold we are at this day in our cap-

tivity, whereby thou hast scattered us to be a

reproach, and a curse, and an oence, according

to all the iniquities of our fathers, who departed

from thee, O Lord our God.

9Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life:

give ear, that thou mayst learn wisdom.

10How happeneth it, O Israel, that thou art

in thy enemies' land?

11Thou art grown old in a strange country,

thou art deled with the dead: thou art counted

with them that go down into hell.

12Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom:

13For if thou hadst walked in the way of God,

thou hadst surely dwelt in peace for ever.14Learn where is wisdom, where is strength,

where is understanding: that thou mayst know

also where is length of days and life, where is the

light of the eyes, and peace.

15Who hath found out her place? and who

hath gone in to her treasures?

16Where are the princes of the nations, and

they that rule over the beasts that are upon the

earth?

17That take their diversion with the birds of

the air.

18That hoard up silver and gold, wherein

men trust, and there is no end of their getting?

who work in silver and are solicitous, and their

works are unsearchable.

19They are cut o, and are gone down to hell,

and others are risen up in their place.

20Young men have seen the light, and dwelt

upon the earth: but the way of knowledge they

have not known,

21Nor have they understood the paths

thereof, neither have their children received it,

it is far from their face.

22It hath not been heard of in the land of

Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman.

23The children of Agar also, that search after

the wisdom that is of the earth, the merchants

of Merrha, and of Theman, and the tellers of fa-

bles, and searchers of prudence and understand-

ing: but the way of wisdom they have not known,

neither have they remembered her paths.

24O Israel, how great is the house of God,

and how vast is the place of his possession!

25It is great, and hath no end: it is high and

immense.

26There were the giants, those renowned men

that were from the beginning, of great stature,

expert in war.

27The Lord chose not them, neither did they

nd the way of knowledge: therefore did theyProphecy of Baruch 1029

perish.

28And because they had not wisdom, they

perished through their folly.

29Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken

her, and brought her down from the clouds?

30Who hath passed over the sea, and found

her, and brought her preferably to chosen gold?

31There is none that is able to know her ways,

nor that can search out her paths:

32But he that knoweth all things, knoweth

her, and hath found her out with his understand-

ing: he that prepared the earth for evermore, and

lled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts:

33He that sendeth forth the light, and it

goeth: and hath called it, and it obeyeth him

with trembling.

34And the stars have given light in their

watches, and rejoiced:

35They were called, and they said: Here we

are: and with cheerfulness they have shined forth

to him that made them.

36This is our God, and there shall no other

be accounted of in comparison of him.

37He found out all the way of knowledge,

and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel

his beloved.

38Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and

conversed with men.

Chapter 4

This is the book of the commandments of God,

and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep

it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken

it, to death.
2Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk

in the way by its brightness, in the presence of

the light thereof.3Give not thy honour to another, nor thy

dignity to a strange nation.

4We are happy, O Israel: because the things

that are pleasing to God, are made known to us.

5Be of good comfort, O people of God, the

memorial of Israel:

6You have been sold to the Gentiles, not for

your destruction: but because you provoked God

to wrath, you are delivered to your adversaries.

7For you have provoked him who made you,

the eternal God, oering sacrice to devils, and

not to God.

8For you have forgotten God, who brought

you up, and you have grieved Jerusalem that

nursed you.

9For she saw the wrath of God coming upon

you, and she said: Give ear, all you that dwell

near Sion, for God hath brought upon me great

mourning:

10For I have seen the captivity of my people,

of my sons, and my daughters, which the Eternal

hath brought upon them.

11For I nourished them with joy: but I sent

them away with weeping and mourning.

12Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and

desolate: I am forsaken of many for the sins of

my children, because they departed from the law

of God.

13And they have not known his justices, nor

walked by the ways of God's commandments,

neither have they entered by the paths of his

truth and justice.

14Let them that dwell about Sion come, and

remember the captivity of my sons and daugh-

ters, which the Eternal hath brought upon them.

15For he hath brought a nation upon them

from afar, a wicked nation, and of a strange

tongue:

16Who have neither reverenced the ancient,

nor pitied children, and have carried away the1030 Prophecy of Baruch

beloved of the widow, and have left me all alone

without children.

17But as for me, what help can I give you?

18But he that hath brought the evils upon

you, he will deliver you out of the hands of your

enemies.

19Go your way, my children, go your way: for

I am left alone.

20I have put o the robe of peace, and have

put upon me the sackcloth of supplication, and

I will cry to the most High in my days.

21Be of good comfort, my children, cry to the

Lord, and he will deliver you out of the hand of

the princes your enemies.

22For my hope is in the Eternal that he will

save you: and joy is come upon me from the Holy

One, because of the mercy which shall come to

you from our everlasting Saviour.

23For I sent you forth with mourning and

weeping: but the Lord will bring you back to me

with joy and gladness for ever.

24For as the neighbours of Sion have now

seen your captivity from God: so shall they also

shortly see your salvation from God, which shall

come upon you with great honour, and everlast-

ing glory.

25My children, suer patiently the wrath

that is come upon you: for thy enemy hath per-

secuted thee, but thou shalt quickly see his de-

struction: and thou shalt get up upon his neck.

26My delicate ones have walked rough ways,

for they were taken away as a

ock made a prey

by the enemies.

27Be of good comfort, my children, and cry

to the Lord: for you shall be remembered by him

that hath led you away.

28For as it was your mind to go astray from

God; so when you return again you shall seek

him ten times as much.29For he that hath brought evils upon you,

shall bring you everlasting joy again with your

salvation.

30Be of good heart, O Jerusalem: for he ex-

horteth thee, that named thee.

31The wicked that have aicted thee, shall

perish: and they that have rejoiced at thy ruin,

shall be punished.

32The cities which thy children have served,

shall be punished: and she that received thy

sons.

33For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was

glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her

own desolation.

34And the joy of her multitude shall be cut

o: and her gladness shall be turned to mourn-

ing.

35For re shall come upon her from the Eter-

nal, long to endure, and she shall be inhabited

by devils for a great time.

36Look about thee, O Jerusalem, towards the

east, and behold the joy that cometh to thee

from God.
37For behold thy children come, whom thou

sentest away scattered, they come gathered to-

gether from the east even to the west, at the

word of the Holy One rejoicing for the honour of

God.

Chapter 5

Put o, O Jerusalem, the garment of thy mourn-

ing, and aiction: and put on the beauty, and

honour of that everlasting glory which thou hast

from God.

2God will clothe thee with the double gar-

ment of justice, and will set a crown on thy head

of everlasting honour.Prophecy of Baruch 1031

3For God will shew his brightness in thee, to

every one under heaven.

4For thy name shall be named to thee by

God for ever: the peace of justice, and honour

of piety.

5Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high: and

look about towards the east, and behold thy chil-

dren gathered together from the rising to the set-

ting sun, by the word of the Holy One rejoicing

in the remembrance of God.

6For they went out from thee on foot, led

by the enemies: but the Lord will bring them

to thee exalted with honour as children of the

kingdom.

7For God hath appointed to bring down every

high mountain, and the everlasting rocks, and to

ll up the valleys to make them even with the

ground: that Israel may walk diligently to the

honour of God.

8Moreover the woods, and every sweet-

smelling tree have overshadowed Israel by the

commandment of God.

9For God will bring Israel with joy in the

light of his majesty, with mercy, and justice, that

cometh from him.

Chapter 6

For the sins that you have committed before

God, you shall be carried away captives into

Babylon by Nabuchodonosor the king of Baby-

lon.

2And when you are come into Babylon, you

shall be there many years, and for a long time,

even to seven generations: and after that I will

bring you away from thence with peace.

3But now, you shall see in Babylon gods of

gold, and of silver, and of stone, and of wood

borne upon shoulders, causing fear to the Gen-tiles.

4Beware therefore that you imitate not the

doings of others, and be afraid, and the fear of

them should seize upon you.

5But when you see the multitude behind, and

before, adoring them, say you in your hearts:

Thou oughtest to be adored, O Lord.

6For my angel is with you: And I myself will

demand an account of your souls.

7For their tongue that is polished by the

craftsman, and themselves laid over with gold

and silver, are false things, and they cannot

speak.

8And as if it were for a maiden that loveth to

go gay: so do they take gold and make them up.

9Their gods have golden crowns upon their

heads: whereof the priests secretly convey away

from them gold, and silver, and bestow it on

themselves.

10Yea and they give thereof to prostitutes,

and they dress out harlots: and again when they

receive it of the harlots, they adorn their gods.

11And these gods cannot defend themselves

from the rust, and the moth.

12But when they have covered them with a

purple garment, they wipe their face because of

the dust of the house, which is very much among

them.

13This holdeth a sceptre as a man, as a judge

of the country, but cannot put to death one that

oendeth him.

14And this hath in his hand a sword, or an

axe, but cannot save himself from war, or from

robbers, whereby be it known to you, that they

are not gods.

15Therefore fear them not. For as a vessel

that a man uses when it is broken becometh use-

less, even so are their gods:

16When they are placed in the house, their

eyes are full of dust by the feet of them that go1032 Prophecy of Baruch

in.

17And as the gates are made sure on every

side upon one that hath oended the king, or

like a dead man carried to the grave, so do the

priests secure the doors with bars and locks, lest

they be stripped by thieves.

18They light candles to them, and in great

number, of which they cannot see one: but they

are like beams in the house.

19And they say that the creeping things

which are of the earth, gnaw their hearts, while

they eat them and their garments, and they feel

it not.

20Their faces are black with the smoke that

is made in the house.

21Owls, and swallows, and other birds

upon their bodies, and upon their heads, and

cats in like manner.

22Whereby you may know that they are no

gods. Therefore fear them not.

23The gold also which they have, is for shew,

but except a man wipe o the rust, they will not

shine: for neither when they were molten, did

they feel it.

24Men buy them at a high price, whereas

there is no breath in them.

25And having not the use of feet they are car-

ried upon shoulders, declaring to men how vile

they are. Be they confounded also that worship

them.

26Therefore if they fall to the ground, they

rise not up again of themselves, nor if a man

set them upright, will they stand by themselves,

but their gifts shall be set before them, as to the

dead.

27The things that are sacriced to them,

their priests sell and abuse: in like manner also

their wives take part of them, but give nothing

of it either to the sick, or to the poor.

28The childbearing and menstruous womentouch their sacrices: knowing, therefore, by

these things that they are not gods, fear them

not.

29For how can they be called gods? because

women set oerings before the gods of silver, and

of gold, and of wood:

30And priests sit in their temples, having

their garments rent, and their heads and beards

shaven, and nothing upon their heads.

31And they roar and cry before their gods,

as men do at the feast when one is dead.

32The priests take away their garments, and

clothe their wives and their children.

33And whether it be evil that one doth unto

them, or good, they are not able to recompense

it: neither can they set up a king, nor put him

down:

34In like manner they can neither give riches,

nor requite evil. If a man make a vow to them,

and perform it not: they cannot require it.

35They cannot deliver a man from death, nor

save the weak from the mighty.

36They cannot restore the blind man to his

sight: nor deliver a man from distress.

7They shall not pity the widow, nor do good

to the fatherless.

38Their gods, of wood, and of stone, and of

gold, and of silver, are like the stones that are

hewn out of the mountains: and they that wor-

ship them shall be confounded.

39How then is it to be supposed, or to be

said, that they are gods?

40Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor

them: who when they here of one dumb that

cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreat-

ing him, that he may speak.

41As though they could be sensible that have

no motion themselves: and they, when they shall

perceive this, will leave them: for their gods

themselves have no sense.Prophecy of Baruch 1033

42The women also, with cords about them,

sit in the ways, burning olive-stones.

43And when any one of them, drawn away by

some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth

her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy

as herself, nor her cord broken.

44But all things that are done about them,

are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be

said, that they are gods?

45And they are made by workmen, and by

goldsmiths. They shall be nothing else but what

the priests will have them to be.

46For the articers themselves that make

them, are of no long continuance. Can those

things then that are made by them, be gods?

47But they have left false things and reproach

to them that come after.

48For when war cometh upon them , or evils:

the priests consult with themselves, where they

may hide themselves with them.

49How then can they be thought to be gods,

that can neither deliver themselves from war, nor

save themselves from evils?

50For seeing they are but of wood, and laid

over with gold, and with silver, it shall be known

hereafter that they are false things, by all na-

tions, and kings: and it shall be manifest that

they are no gods, but the work of men's hands,

and that there is no work of God in them.

51Whence, therefore, is it known that they

are not gods, but the work of men's hands, and

no work of God is in them?

52They cannot set up a king over the land,

nor give rain to men.

53They determine no causes, nor deliver

countries from oppression: because they can do

nothing, and are as daws between heaven and

earth.

54For when re shall fall upon the house of

these gods of wood, and of silver, and of gold,their priests indeed will

ee away, and be saved:

but they themselves shall be burnt in the midst

like beams.

55And they cannot withstand a king and war.

How then can it be supposed, or admitted, that

they are gods?

56Neither are these gods of wood, and of

stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver,

able to deliver themselves from thieves or rob-

bers: they that are stronger than them,

57Shall take from them the gold, and silver,

and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and

shall go their way, neither shall they help them-

selves.

58Therefore it is better to be a king that

sheweth his power: or else a protable vessel in

the house, with which the owner thereof will be

well satised: or a door in the house, to keep

things safe that are therein, than such false gods.

59The sun, and the moon, and the stars be-

ing bright, and sent forth for protable uses, are

obedient.

60In like manner the lightning, when it

breaketh forth, is easy to be seen: and after the

same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

61And the clouds, when God commandeth

them to go over the whole world, do that which

is commanded them.

62The re also being sent from above to

consume mountains, and woods, doth as it is

commanded. But these neither in shew, nor in

power, are alike to any one of them.

63Wherefore it is neither to be thought, nor

to be said, that they are gods: since they are

neither able to judge causes, nor to do any good

to men.

64Knowing, therefore, that they are not gods,

fear them not.

65For neither can they curse kings, nor bless

them.1034 Prophecy of Baruch

66Neither do they shew signs in the heaven to

the nations, nor shine as the sun, nor give light

as the moon.

67Beasts are better than they, which can

under a covert, and help themselves.

68Therefore there is no manner of appearance

that they are gods: so fear them not.

69For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers

keepeth nothing, so are their gods of wood, and

of silver, and laid over with gold.

70They are no better than a white thorn in

a garden, upon which every bird sitteth. In like

manner also their gods of wood, and laid over

with gold, and with silver, are like to a dead

body cast forth in the dark.

71By the purple also and the scarlet which

are motheaten upon them, you shall know that

they are not gods. And they themselves at last

are consumed, and shall be a reproach in the

country.

72Better, therefore, is the just man that hath

no idols: for he shall be far from reproach.Prophecy of Ezechiel

Chapter 1

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in

the fourth month, on the fth day of the month,

when I was in the midst of the captives by the

river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I

saw the visions of God.

2On the fth day of the month, the same was

the fth year of the captivity of king Joachin,

3The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel

the priest the son of Buzi in the land of the

Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and the hand

of the Lord was there upon him.

4And I saw, and behold a whirlwind came

out of the north: and a great cloud, and a re

infolding it, and brightness was about it: and out

of the midst thereof, that is, out of the midst of

the re, as it were the resemblance of amber:

5And in the midst thereof the likeness of four

living creatures: and this was their appearance:

there was the likeness of a man in them.

6Every one had four faces, and every one four

wings.

7Their feet were straight feet, and the sole

of their foot was like the sole of a calf's foot,

and they sparkled like the appearance of glowing

brass.

8And they had the hands of a man under

their wings on their four sides: and they had

faces, and wings on the four sides,

9And the wings of one were joined to thewings of another. They turned not when they

went: but every one went straight forward.

10And as for the likeness of their faces: there

was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on

the right side of all the four: and the face of an

ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face

of an eagle over all the four.

11And their faces, and their wings were

stretched upward: two wings of every one were

joined, and two covered their bodies:

12And every one of them went straight for-

ward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to

go, thither they went: and they turned not when

they went.

13And as for the likeness of the living crea-

tures, their appearance was like that of burning

coals of re, and like the appearance of lamps.

This was the vision running to and fro in the

midst of the living creatures, a bright re, and

lightning going forth from the re.

14And the living creatures ran and returned

like

ashes of lightning.

15Now as I beheld the living creatures, there

appeared upon the earth by the living creatures

one wheel with four faces.

16And the appearance of the wheels, and the

work of them was like the appearance of the sea:

and the four had all one likeness: and their ap-

pearance and their work was as it were a wheel

in the midst of a wheel.

17When they went, they went by their four1036 Prophecy of Ezechiel

parts: and they turned not when they went.

18The wheels had also a size, and a height,

and a dreadful appearance: and the whole body

was full of eyes round about all the four.

19And, when the living creatures went, the

wheels also went together by them: and when

the living creatures were lifted up from the earth,

the wheels also were lifted up with them.

20Withersoever the spirit went, thither as the

spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal,

and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the

wheels.

21When those went these went, and when

those stood these stood, and when those were

lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted

up together, and followed them: for the spirit of

life was in the wheels.

22And over the heads of the living creatures

was the likeness of the rmament, the appear-

ance of crystal terrible to behold, and stretched

out over their heads above.

23And under the rmament were their wings

straight, the one toward the other, every one

with two wings covered his body, and the other

was covered in like manner.

24And I heard the noise of their wings, like

the noise of many waters, as it were the voice of

the most high God: when they walked, it was

like the voice of a multitude, like the noise of an

army, and when they stood, their wings were let

down.
25For when a voice came from above the r-

mament, that was over their heads, they stood,

and let down their wings.

26And above the rmament that was over

their heads, was the likeness of a throne, as the

appearance of the sapphire stone, and upon the

likeness of the throne, was the likeness of the

appearance of a man above upon it.

27And I saw as it were the resemblance ofamber as the appearance of re within it round

about: from his loins and upward, and from his

loins downward, I saw as it were the resemblance

of re shining round about.

28As the appearance of the rainbow when

it is in a cloud on a rainy day: this was the

appearance of the brightness round about.

Chapter 2

This was the vision of the likeness of the glory of

the Lord, and I saw, and I fell upon my face, and

I heard the voice of one that spoke, and he said

to me: Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I

will speak to thee.

2And the spirit entered into me after that he

spoke to me, and he set me upon my feet: and I

heard him speaking to me,

3And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the

children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that

hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers,

have transgressed my covenant even unto this

day.

4And they to whom I send thee are children of

a hard face, and of an obstinate heart: and thou

shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:

5If so be they at least will hear, and if so

be they will forbear, for they are a provoking

house: and they shall know that there hath been

a prophet in the midst of them.

6And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be

thou afraid of their words: for thou art among

unbelievers and destroyers, and thou dwellest

with scorpions. Fear not their words, neither

be thou dismayed at their looks: for they are a

provoking house.

7And thou shalt speak my words to them,

if perhaps they will hear, and forbear: for they

provoke me to anger.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1037

8But thou, O son of man, hear all that I say

to thee: and do not thou provoke me, as that

house provoketh me: open thy mouth, and eat

what I give thee.

9And I looked, and behold, a hand was sent to

me, wherein was a book rolled up: and he spread

it before me, and it was written within and with-

out: and there were written in it lamentations,

and canticles, and woe.

Chapter 3

And he said to me: Son of man, eat all that

thou shalt nd: eat this book, and go speak to

the children of Israel.

2And I opened my mouth, and he caused me

to eat that book:

3And he said to me: Son of man, thy belly

shall eat, and thy bowels shall be lled with this

book, which I give thee, and I did eat it: and it

was sweet as honey in my mouth.

4And he said to me: Son of man, go to the

house of Israel, and thou shalt speak my words

to them.

5For thou art not sent to a people of a pro-

found speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to

the house of Israel:

6Nor to many nations of a strange speech,

and of an unknown tongue, whose words thou

canst not understand: and if thou wert sent to

them, they would hearken to thee.

7But the house of Israel will not hearken to

thee: because they will not hearken to me: for

all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and

an obstinate heart.
8Behold I have made thy face stronger than

their faces: and thy forehead harder than their

foreheads.

9I have made thy face like an adamant andlike

int: fear them not, neither be thou dis-

mayed at their presence: for they are a provoking

house.

10And he said to me: Son of man, receive in

thy heart, and hear with thy ears, all the words

that I speak to thee:

11And go get thee in to them of the captiv-

ity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt

speak to them, and shalt say to them: Thus saith

the Lord: If so be they will hear, and will for-

bear.

12And the spirit took me up, and I heard be-

hind me the voice of a great commotion, saying:

Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his place.

13The noise of the wings of the living crea-

tures striking one against another, and the noise

of the wheels following the living creatures, and

the noise of a great commotion.

14The spirit also lifted me, and took me up:

and I went away in bitterness in the indignation

of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with

me, strengthening me.

15And I came to them of the captivity, to the

heap of new corn, to them that dwelt by the river

Chobar, and I sat where they sat: and I remained

there seven days mourning in the midst of them.

16And at the end of seven days the word of

the Lord came to me, saying:

17Son of man, I have made thee a watchman

to the house of Israel: and thou shalt hear the

word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them

from me.

18If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt

surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak

to him, that he may be converted from his wicked

way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in

his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy

hand.

19But if thou give warning to the wicked,

and he be not converted from his wickedness,1038 Prophecy of Ezechiel

and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his

iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.

20Moreover if the just man shall turn away

from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I

will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall

die, because thou hast not given him warning:

he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he

hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will

require his blood at thy hand.

21But if thou warn the just man, that the

just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he

shall live, because thou hast warned him, and

thou hast delivered thy soul.

22And the hand of the Lord was upon me,

and he said to me: Rise and go forth into the

plain, and there I will speak to thee.

23And I rose up, and went forth into the

plain: and behold the glory of the Lord stood

there, like the glory which I saw by the river

Chobar: and I fell upon my face.

24And the spirit entered into me, and set me

upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to

me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of

thy house.

25And thou, O son of man, behold they shall

put bands upon thee, and they shall bind thee

with them: and thou shalt not go forth from the

midst of them.

26And I will make thy tongue stick fast to

the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb,

and not as a man that reproveth: because they

are a provoking house.

27But when I shall speak to thee, I will open

thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them: Thus

saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him

hear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear:

for they are a provoking house.Chapter 4

And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and

lay it before thee: and draw upon it the plan of

the city of Jerusalem.

2And lay siege against it, and build forts, and

cast up a mount, and set a camp against it, and

place battering rams round about it.

3And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it

for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and

set thy face resolutely against it, and it shall be

besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: it

is a sign to the house of Israel.

4And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and

shalt lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon

it, according to the number of the days that thou

shalt sleep upon it, and thou shalt take upon

thee their iniquity.

5And I have laid upon thee the years of their

iniquity, according to the number of the days

three hundred and ninety days: and thou shalt

bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6And when thou hast accomplished this, thou

shalt sleep again upon thy right side, and thou

shalt take upon thee the iniquity of the house of

Juda forty days: a day for a year, yea, a day for

a year I have appointed to thee.

7And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of

Jerusalem and thy arm shall be stretched out:

and thou shalt prophesy against it.

8Behold I have encompassed thee with bands:

and thou shalt not turn thyself from one side to

the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy

siege.

9And take to thee wheat and barley, and

beans, and lentils, and millet, and tches, and

put them in one vessel, and make thee bread

thereof according to the number of the days that

thou shalt lie upon thy side: three hundred and

ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1039

10And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall

be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to

time thou shalt eat it.

11And thou shalt drink water by measure,

the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou

shalt drink it,

12And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked

under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their

sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.

13And the Lord said: So shall the children of

Israel eat their bread all lthy among the nations

whither I will cast them out.

14And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, be-

hold my soul hath not been deled, and from my

infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing

that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no

unclean

esh hath entered into my mouth.

15And he said to me: Behold I have given

thee neat's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt

make thy bread therewith.

16And he said to me: Son of man: Be-

hold, I will break in pieces the sta of bread in

Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight,

and with care: and they shall drink water by

measure, and in distress.

17So that when bread and water fail, every

man may fall against his brother, and they may

pine away in their iniquities.

Chapter 5

And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife

that shaveth the hair: and cause it to pass over

thy head, and over thy beard: and take thee a

balance to weigh in, and divide the hair.

2A third part thou shalt burn with re in

the midst of the city, according to the fullling

of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a

third part, and cut it in pieces with the knifeall round about: and the other third part thou

shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out the

sword after them.

3And thou shalt take thereof a small number:

and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.

4And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt

cast them in the midst of the re, and shalt burn

them with re: and out of it shall come forth a

re into all the house of Israel.

5Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem,

I have set her in the midst of the nations, and

the countries round about her.

6And she hath despised my judgments, so as

to be more wicked than the Gentiles; and my

commandments, more than the countries that

are round about her: for they have cast o my

judgments, and have not walked in my com-

mandments.

7Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because

you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round

about you, and have not walked in my command-

ments, and have not kept my judgments, and

have not done according to the judgments of the

nations that are round about you:

8Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold

I come against thee, and I myself will execute

judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of

the Gentiles.

9And I will do in thee that which I have not

done: and the like to which I will do no more,

because of all thy abominations.

10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in

the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their

fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee,

and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every

wind.

11Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God:

Because thou hast violated my sanctuary with

all thy oences, and with all thy abominations:

I will also break thee in pieces, and my eye shall1040 Prophecy of Ezechiel

not spare, and I will not have any pity.

12A third part of thee shall die with the pesti-

lence, and shall be consumed with famine in the

midst of thee: and a third part of thee shall fall

by the sword round about thee: and a third part

of thee will I scatter into every wind, and I will

draw out a sword after them.

13And I will accomplish my fury, and will

cause my indignation to rest upon them, and I

will be comforted: and they shall know that I

the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I shall

have accomplished my indignation in them.

14And I will make thee desolate, and a re-

proach among the nations that are round about

thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by.

15And thou shalt be a reproach, and a sco,

an example, and an astonishment amongst the

nations that are round about thee, when I shall

have executed judgments in thee in anger, and

in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.

16I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall

send upon them the grievous arrows of famine,

which shall bring death, and which I will send to

destroy you: and I will gather together famine

against you: and I will break among you the sta

of bread.

17And I will send in upon you famine, and

evil beasts unto utter destruction: and pesti-

lence, and blood shall pass through thee, and

I will bring in the sword upon thee. I the Lord

have spoken it.

Chapter 6

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man set thy face towards the moun-

tains of Israel, and prophesy against them.

3And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the

word of the Lord God: Thus saith the LordGod to the mountains, and to the hills, and to

the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring

upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high

places.

4And I will throw down your altars, and your

idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast

down your slain before your idols.

5And I will lay the dead carcasses of the chil-

dren of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter

your bones round about your altars,

6In all your dwelling places. The cities

shall be laid waste, and the high places shall

be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars

shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces:

and your idols shall be no more, and your tem-

ples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be

defaced.

7And the slain shall fall in the midst of you:

and you shall know that I am the Lord.

8And I will leave in you some that shall escape

the sword among the nations, when I shall have

scattered you through the countries.

9And they that are saved of you shall re-

member me amongst the nations, to which they

are carried captives: because I have broken their

heart that was faithless, and revolted from me:

and their eyes that went a fornicating after their

idols: and they shall be displeased with them-

selves because of the evils which they have com-

mitted in all their abominations.

10And they shall know that I the Lord have

not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to

them.

11Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy

hand and stamp with thy foot, and say: Alas,

for all the abominations of the evils of the house

of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the

famine, and by the pestilence.

12He that is far o shall die of the pestilence:

and he that is near, shall fall by the sword: andProphecy of Ezechiel 1041

he that remaineth, and is besieged, shall die by

the famine: and I will accomplish my indignation

upon them.

13And you shall know that I am the Lord,

when your slain shall be amongst your idols,

round about your altars, in every high hill, and

on all the tops of mountains, and under every

woody tree, and under every thick oak, the place

where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to

all their idols.

14And I will stretch forth my hand upon

them: and I will make the land desolate, and

abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all

their dwelling places: and they shall know that

I am the Lord.

Chapter 7

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord

God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the

end is come upon the four quarters of the land.

3Now is an end come upon thee, and I will

send my wrath upon thee, and I will judge thee

according to thy ways: and I will set all thy

abominations against thee.

4And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will

shew thee no pity: but I will lay thy ways upon

thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst

of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

5Thus saith the Lord God: One aiction,

behold an aiction is come.

6An end is come, the end is come, it hath

awaked against thee: behold it is come.

7Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest

in the land: the time is come, the day of slaugh-

ter is near, and not of the joy of mountains.

8Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath

upon thee, and I will accomplish my anger inthee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways,

and I will lay upon thee all thy crimes.

9And my eye shall not spare, neither will I

shew mercy: but I will lay thy ways upon thee,

and thy abominations shall be in the midst of

thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord

that strike.

10Behold the day, behold it is come: destruc-

tion is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride

hath budded.

11Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety:

nothing of them shall remain, nor of their people,

nor of the noise of them: and there shall be no

rest among them.

12The time is come, the day is at hand: let

not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for

wrath is upon all the people thereof.

13For the seller shall not return to that which

he hath sold, although their life be yet among

the living. For the vision which regardeth all

the multitude thereof, shall not go back: neither

shall man be strengthened in the iniquity of his

life.

14Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready,

yet there is none to go to the battle: for my

wrath shall be upon all the people thereof.

15The sword without: and the pestilence,

and the famine within: he that is in the eld

shall die by the sword: and they that are in the

city, shall be devoured by the pestilence, and the

famine.

16And such of them as shall

ee shall escape:

and they shall be in the mountains like doves of

the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for

his iniquity.

17All hands shall be made feeble, and all

knees shall run with water.

18And they shall gird themselves with hair-

cloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall

be upon every face, and baldness upon all their1042 Prophecy of Ezechiel

heads.

19Their silver shall be cast forth, and their

gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and

their gold shall not be able to deliver them in

the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not

satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be

lled: because it hath been the stumblingblock

of their iniquity.

20And they have turned the ornament of

their jewels into pride, and have made of it the

images of their abominations, and idols: there-

fore I have made it an uncleanness to them.

21And I will give it into the hands of strangers

for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a

prey, and they shall dele it.

22And I will turn away my face from them,

and they shall violate my secret place: and rob-

bers shall enter into it, and dele it.

23Make a shutting up: for the land is full

of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of

iniquity.

24And I will bring the worst of the nations,

and they shall possess their houses: and I will

make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they

shall possess their sanctuary.

25When distress cometh upon them, they will

seek for peace and there shall be none.

26Trouble shall come upon trouble, and ru-

mour upon rumour, and they shall seek a vision

of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the

priest, and counsel from the ancients.

27The king shall mourn, and the prince shall

be clothed with sorrow, and the hands of the

people of the land shall be troubled. I will do

to them according to their way, and will judge

them according to their judgments: and they

shall know that I am the Lord.Chapter 8

And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the

sixth month, in the fth day of the month, as

I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda sat

before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell

there upon me.

2And I saw, and behold a likeness as the ap-

pearance of re: from the appearance of his loins,

and downward, re: and from his loins, and up-

ward, as the appearance of brightness, as the

appearance of amber.

3And the likeness of a hand was put forth

and took me by a lock of my head: and the

spirit lifted me up between the earth and the

heaven, and brought me in the vision of God

into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked

toward the north, where was set the idol of jeal-

ousy to provoke to jealousy.

4And behold the glory of the God of Israel

was there, according to the vision which I had

seen in the plain.

5And he said to me: Son of man, lift up thy

eyes towards the way of the north, and I lifted

up my eyes towards the way of the north: and

behold on the north side of the gate of the altar

the idol of jealousy in the very entry.

6And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou

see, thinkest thou, what these are doing, the

great abominations that the house of Israel com-

mitteth here, that I should depart far o from

my sanctuary? and turn thee yet again and thou

shalt see greater abominations.

7And he brought me in to the door of the

court: and I saw, and behold a hole in the wall.

8And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the

wall, and when I had digged in the wall, behold

a door.

9And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked

abominations which they commit here.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1043

10And I went in and saw, and behold ev-

ery form of creeping things, and of living crea-

tures, the abominations, and all the idols of the

house of Israel, were painted on the wall all round

about.

11And seventy men of the ancients of the

house of Israel, and Jezonias the son of Saaphan

stood in the midst of them, that stood before the

pictures: and every one had a censer in his hand:

and a cloud of smoke went up from the incense.

12And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O

son of man, what the ancients of the house of

Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his

chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not,

the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

13And he said to me: If thou turn thee again,

thou shalt see greater abominations which these

commit.
14And he brought me in by the door of the

gate of the Lord's house, which looked to the

north: and behold women sat there mourning

for Adonis.

15And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen,

O son of man: but turn thee again, thou shalt

see greater abominations than these.

16And he brought me into the inner court of

the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of

the temple of the Lord, between the porch and

the altar, were about ve and twenty men having

their backs towards the temple of the Lord, in

their faces to the east: and they adored towards

the rising of the sun.

17And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen,

O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of

Juda, that they should commit these abomina-

tions which they have committed here: because

they have lled the land with iniquity, and have

turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they

put a branch to their nose.

18Therefore I also will deal with them in mywrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will

I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my

ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

Chapter 9

And he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying:

The visitations of the city are at hand, and every

one hath a destroying weapon in his hand.

2And behold six men came from the way of

the upper gate, which looketh to the north: and

each one had his weapon of destruction in his

hand: and there was one man in the midst of

them clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn

at his reins: and they went in, and stood by the

brazen altar.

3And the glory of the Lord of Israel went

up from the cherub, upon which he was, to the

threshold of the house: and he called to the man

that was clothed with linen, and had a writer's

inkhorn at his loins.

4And the Lord said to him: Go through

the midst of the city, through the midst of

Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads

of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abom-

inations that are committed in the midst thereof.

5And to the others he said in my hearing: Go

ye after him through the city, and strike: let not

your eyes spare, nor be ye moved with pity.

6Utterly destroy old and young, maidens,

children and women: but upon whomsoever you

shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my

sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men

who were before the house.

7And he said to them: Dele the house, and

ll the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And

they went forth, and slew them that were in the

city.

8And the slaughter being ended I was left;1044 Prophecy of Ezechiel

and I fell upon my face, and crying, I said: Alas,

alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt thou then destroy

all the remnant of Israel, by pouring out thy fury

upon Jerusalem?

9And he said to me: The iniquity of the house

of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the

land is lled with blood, and the city is lled with

perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath

forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

10Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor

will I have pity: I will requite their way upon

their head.

11And behold the man that was clothed with

linen, that had the inkhorn at his back, returned

the word, saying: I have done as thou hast com-

manded me.

Chapter 10

And I saw and behold in the rmament that was

over the heads of the cherubims, there appeared

over them as it were the sapphire stone, as the

appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2And he spoke to the man, that was clothed

with linen, and said: Go in between the wheels

that are under the cherubims and ll thy hand

with the coals of re that are between the cheru-

bims, and pour them out upon the city. And he

went in, in my sight:

3And the cherubims stood on the right side

of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud

lled the inner court.

4And the glory of the Lord was lifted up from

above the cherub to the threshold of the house:

and the house was lled with the cloud, and the

court was lled with the brightness of the glory

of the Lord.

5And the sound of the wings of the cherubims

was heard even to the outward court as the voiceof God Almighty speaking.

6And when he had commanded the man that

was clothed with linen, saying: Take re from the

midst of the wheels that are between the cheru-

bims: he went in and stood beside the wheel.

7And one cherub stretched out his arm from

the midst of the cherubims to the re that was

between the cherubims: and he took, and put

it into the hands of him that was clothed with

linen: who took it and went forth.

8And there appeared in the cherubims the

likeness of a man's hand under their wings.

9And I saw, and behold there were four

wheels by the cherubims: one wheel by one

cherub, and another wheel by another cherub:

and the appearance of the wheels was to the sight

like the chrysolite stone:

10And as to their appearance, all four were

alike: as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.

11And when they went, they went by four

ways: and they turned not when they went: but

to the place whither they rst turned, the rest

also followed, and did not turn back.

12And their whole body, and their necks, and

their hands, and their wings, and the circles were

full of eyes, round about the four wheels.

13And these wheels he called voluble, in my

hearing.

14And every one had four faces: one face was

the face of a cherub, and the second face, the face

of a man: and in the third was the face of a lion:

and in the fourth the face of an eagle.

15And the cherubims were lifted up: this is

the living creature that I had seen by the river

Chobar.

16And when the cherubims went, the wheels

also went by them: and when the cherubims

lifted up their wings, to mount up from the earth,

the wheels stayed not behind, but were by them.

17When they stood, these stood: and whenProphecy of Ezechiel 1045

they were lifted up, these were lifted up: for the

spirit of life was in them.

18And the glory of the Lord went forth from

the threshold of the temple: and stood over the

cherubims.

19And the cherubims lifting up their wings,

were raised from the earth before me: and as

they went out, the wheels also followed: and it

stood in the entry of the east gate of the house

of the Lord: and the glory of the God of Israel

was over them.

20This is the living creature, which I saw un-

der the God of Israel by the river Chobar: and I

understood that they were cherubims.

21Each one had four faces, and each one had

four wings: and the likeness of a man's hand was

under their wings.

22And as to the likeness of their faces, they

were the same faces which I had seen by the river

Chobar, and their looks, and the impulse of every

one to go straight forward.

Chapter 11
And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into

the east gate of the house of the Lord, which

looketh towards the rising of the sun: and behold

in the entry of the gate ve and twenty men: and

I saw in the midst of them Jezonias the son of

Azur, and Pheltias the son of Banaias, princes

of the people.

2And he said to me: Son of man, these are

the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked

counsel in this city,

3Saying: Were not houses lately built? This

city is the caldron, and we the

esh.

4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy,

thou son of man.

5And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, andsaid to me: Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Thus

have you spoken, O house of Israel, for I know

the thoughts of your heart.

6You have killed a great many in this city,

and you have lled the streets thereof with the

slain.

7Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your

slain, whom you have laid in the midst thereof,

they are the

esh, all this is the caldron: and I

will bring you forth out of the midst thereof.

8You have feared the sword, and I will bring

the sword upon you, saith the Lord God.

9And I will cast you out of the midst thereof,

and I will deliver you into the hand of the ene-

mies, and I will execute judgments upon you.

10You shall fall by the sword: I will judge

you in the borders of Israel, and you shall know

that I am the Lord.

11This shall not be as a caldron to you, and

you shall not be as

esh in the midst thereof: I

will judge you in the borders of Israel.

12And you shall know that I am the Lord:

because you have not walked in my command-

ments, and have not done my judgments, but

you have done according to the judgments of the

nations that are round about you.

13And it came to pass, when I prophesied,

that Pheltias the son of Banaias died: and I fell

down upon my face, and I cried with a loud voice:

and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou

make an end of all the remnant of Israel?

14And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

15Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren,

thy kinsmen, and all the house of Israel, all they

to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said:

Get ye far from the Lord, the land is given in

possession to us.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Be-

cause I have removed them far o among the1046 Prophecy of Ezechiel

Gentiles, and because I have scattered them

among the countries: I will be to them a lit-

tle sanctuary in the countries whither they are

come.

17Therefore speak to them: Thus saith the

Lord God: I will gather you from among the

peoples, and assemble you out of the countries

wherein you are scattered, and I will give you

the land of Israel.

18And they shall go in thither, and shall take

away all the scandals, and all the abominations

thereof from thence.

19And I will give them one heart, and will

put a new spirit in their bowels: and I will take

away the stony heart out of their

esh, and will

give them a heart of

esh:

20That they may walk in my commandments,

and keep my judgments, and do them: and that

they may be my people, and I may be their God.

21But as for them whose heart walketh after

their scandals and abominations, I will lay their

way upon their head, saith the Lord God.

22And the cherubims lifted up their wings,

and the wheels with them: and the glory of the

God of Israel was over them.

23And the glory of the Lord went up from

the midst of the city, and stood over the mount

that is on the east side of the city.

24And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me

into Chaldea, to them of the captivity, in vision,

by the spirit of God: and the vision which I had

seen was taken up from me.

25And I spoke to them of the captivity all

the words of the Lord, which he had shewn me.

Chapter 12

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of aprovoking house: who have eyes to see, and see

not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are

a provoking house.

3Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee

all necessaries for removing, and remove by day

into their sight: and thou shalt remove out of

thy place to another place in their sight, if so

be they will regard it: for they are a provoking

house.
4And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as

the furniture of one that is removing by day

in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the

evening in their presence, as one goeth forth that

removeth his dwelling.

5Dig thee a way through the wall before their

eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.

6In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon

men's shoulders, thou shalt be carried out in the

dark: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not

see the ground: for I have set thee for a sign of

things to come to the house of Israel.

7I did therefore as he had commanded me: I

brought forth my goods by day, as the goods of

one that removeth: and in the evening I digged

through the wall with my hand, and I went forth

in the dark, and was carried on men's shoulders

in their sight.

8And the word of the Lord came to me in the

morning, saying:

9Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the

provoking house, said to thee: What art thou

doing?

10Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:

This burden concerneth my prince that is in

Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel, that are

among them.

11Say: I am a sign of things to come to you:

as I have done, so shall it be done to them: they

shall be removed from their dwellings, and go

into captivity.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1047

12And the prince that is in the midst of them,

shall be carried on shoulders, he shall go forth in

the dark: they shall dig through the wall to bring

him out: his face shall be covered, that he may

not see the ground with his eyes.

13And I will spread my net over him, and he

shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him

into Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans,

and he shall not see it, and there he shall die.

14And all that are about him, his guards, and

his troops I will scatter into every wind: and I

will draw out the sword after them.

15And they shall know that I am the Lord,

when I shall have dispersed them among the na-

tions, and scattered them in the countries.

16And I will leave a few men of them from

the sword, and from the famine, and from the

pestilence: that they may declare all their wicked

deeds among the nations whither they shall go:

and they shall know that I am the Lord.

17And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

18Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and

drink thy water in hurry and sorrow.

19And say to the people of the land: Thus

saith the Lord God to them that dwell in

Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat

their bread in care, and drink their water in des-

olation: that the land may become desolate from

the multitude that is therein, for the iniquity of

all that dwell therein.

20And the cities that are now inhabited shall

be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate: and

you shall know that I am the Lord.

21And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

22Son of man, what is this proverb that you

have in the land of Israel? saying: The days shall

be prolonged, and every vision shall fail.

23Say to them therefore: Thus saith the LordGod: I will make this proverb to cease, neither

shall it be any more a common saying in Israel:

and tell them that the days are at hand, and the

eect of every vision.

24For there shall be no more any vain visions,

nor doubtful divination in the midst of the chil-

dren of Israel.

25For I the Lord will speak: and what word

soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and

shall not be prolonged any more: but in your

days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word,

and will do it, saith the Lord God.

26And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

27Son of man, behold the house of Israel, they

that say: The visions that this man seeth, is for

many days to come: and this man prophesieth

of times afar o.

28Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord

God: not one word of mine shall be prolonged

any more: the word that I shall speak shall be

accomplished, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 13

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, prophesy thou against the

prophets of Israel that prophesy: and thou shalt

say to them that prophesy out of their own heart:

Hear ye the word of the Lord:

3Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the foolish

prophets that follow their own spirit, and see

nothing.

4Thy prophets, O Israel, were like foxes in

the deserts.

5You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor

have you set up a wall for the house of Israel, to

stand in battle in the day of the Lord.

6They see vain things, and they foretell lies,1048 Prophecy of Ezechiel

saying: The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath

not sent them: and they have persisted to con-

rm what they have said.

7Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken

a lying divination: and you say: The Lord saith:

whereas I have not spoken.

8Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because

you have spoken vain things, and have seen lies:

therefore behold I come against you, saith the

Lord God.

9And my hand shall be upon the prophets

that see vain things, and that divine lies: they

shall not be in the council of my people, nor

shall they be written in the writing of the house

of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land

of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord

God.

10Because they have deceived my people, say-

ing: Peace, and there is no peace: and the peo-

ple built up a wall, and they daubed it with dirt

without straw.

11Say to them that daub without tempering,

that it shall fall: for there shall be an over

ow-

ing shower, and I will cause great hailstones to

fall violently from above, and a stormy wind to

throw it down.

12Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall it not

be said to you: Where is the daubing wherewith

you have daubed it?

13Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Lo, I

will cause a stormy wind to break forth in my

indignation, and there shall be an over

owing

shower in my anger: and great hailstones in my

wrath to consume.

14And I will break down the wall that you

have daubed with untempered mortar: and I will

make it even with the ground, and the founda-

tion thereof shall be laid bare: and it shall fall,

and shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and

you shall know that I am the Lord.15And I will accomplish my wrath upon the

wall, and upon them that daub it without tem-

pering the mortar, and I will say to you: The

wall is no more, and they that daub it are no

more.

16Even the prophets of Israel that prophesy

to Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for

her: and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.

17And thou, son of man, set thy face against

the daughters of thy people that prophesy out of

their own heart: and do thou prophesy against

them,

18And say: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to

them that sew cushions under every elbow: and

make pillows for the heads of persons of every

age to catch souls: and when they caught the

souls of my people, they gave life to their souls.

19And they violated me among my people,

for a handful of barley, and a piece of bread,

to kill souls which should not die, and to save

souls alive which should not live, telling lies to

my people that believe lies.

20Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold

I declare against your cushions, wherewith you

catch

ying souls: and I will tear them o from

your arms: and I will let go the soul that you

catch, the souls that should

y.

21And I will tear your pillows, and will deliver

my people out of your hand, neither shall they

be any more in your hands to be a prey: and you

shall know that I am the Lord.

22Because with lies you have made the heart

of the just to mourn, whom I have not made

sorrowful: and have strengthened the hands of

the wicked, that he should not return from his

evil way, and live.

23Therefore you shall not see vain things, nor

divine divinations any more, and I will deliver

my people out of your hand: and you shall know

that I am the Lord.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1049

Chapter 14

And some of the ancients of Israel came to me,

and sat before me.

2And the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

3Son of man, these men have placed their

uncleannesses in their hearts, and have set up

before their face the stumblingblock of their in-

iquity: and shall I answer when they inquire of

me?

4Therefore speak to them, and say to them:

Thus saith the Lord God: Man, man of the house

of Israel that shall place his uncleannesses in

his heart, and set up the stumblingblock of his

iniquity before his face, and shall come to the

prophet inquiring of me by him: I the Lord will

answer him according to the multitude of his un-

cleannesses:
5That the house of Israel may be caught in

their own heart, with which they have departed

from me through all their idols.

6Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus

saith the Lord God: Be converted, and depart

from your idols, and turn away your faces from

all your abominations.

7For every man of the house of Israel, and

every stranger among the proselytes in Israel, if

he separate himself from me, and place his idols

in his heart, and set the stumblingblock of his

iniquity before his face, and come to the prophet

to inquire of me by him: I the Lord will answer

him by myself.

8And I will set my face against that man, and

will make him an example, and a proverb, and

will cut him o from the midst of my people:

and you shall know that I am the Lord.

9And when the prophet shall err, and speak

a word: I the Lord have deceived that prophet:

and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, andwill cut him o from the midst of my people

Israel.

10And they shall bear their iniquity: accord-

ing to the iniquity of him that inquireth, so shall

the iniquity of the prophet be.

11That the house of Israel may go no more

astray from me, nor be polluted with all their

transgressions: but may be my people, and I may

be their God, saith the Lord of hosts.

12And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

13Son of man, when a land shall sin against

me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch

forth my hand upon it, and will break the sta

of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon

it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.

14And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and

Job, shall be in it: they shall deliver their own

souls by their justice, saith the Lord of hosts.

15And if I shall bring mischievous beasts also

upon the land to waste it, and it be desolate, so

that there is none that can pass because of the

beasts:

16If these three men shall be in it, as I live,

saith the Lord, they shall deliver neither sons nor

daughters: but they only shall be delivered, and

the land shall be made desolate.

17Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and

say to the sword: Pass through the land: and I

destroy man and beast out of it:

18And these three men be in the midst

thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they

shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they

themselves alone shall be delivered.

19Or if I also send the pestilence upon that

land, and pour out my indignation upon it in

blood, to cut o from it man and beast:

20And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the

midst thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they

shall deliver neither son nor daughter: but they1050 Prophecy of Ezechiel

shall only deliver their own souls by their justice.

21For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall

send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judg-

ments, the sword, and the famine, and the mis-

chievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy

out of it man and beast,

22Yet there shall be left in it some that shall

be saved, who shall bring away their sons and

daughters: behold they shall come among you,

and you shall see their way, and their doings:

and you shall be comforted concerning the evil

that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in all things

that I have brought upon it.

23And they shall comfort you, when you shall

see their ways, and their doings: and you shall

know that I have not done without cause all that

I have done in it, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 15
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, what shall be made of the wood

of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that

are among the trees of the forests?

3Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or

shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang

thereon?

4Behold it is cast into the re for fuel: the re

hath consumed both ends thereof, and the midst

thereof is reduced to ashes: shall it be useful for

any work?

5Even when it was whole it was not t for

work: how much less, when the re hath de-

voured and consumed it, shall any work be made

of it?

6Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As the

vine tree among the trees of the forests which I

have given to the re to be consumed, so will I

deliver up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.7And I will set my face against them: they

shall go out from re, and re shall consume

them: and you shall know that I am the Lord,

when I shall have set my face against them.

8And I shall have made their land a wilder-

ness, and desolate, because they have been trans-

gressors, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 16
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her

abominations.

3And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord

God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is

of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Am-

orrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.

4And when thou wast born, in the day of thy

nativity thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou

washed with water for thy health, nor salted with

salt, nor swaddled with clouts.

5No eye had pity on thee to do any of these

things for thee, out of compassion to thee: but

thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in

the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou

wast born.

6And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast

trodden under foot in thy own blood: and I said

to thee when thou wast in thy blood: Live: I

have said to thee: Live in thy blood.

7I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the

eld: and thou didst increase and grow great,

and advancedst, and camest to woman's orna-

ment: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair

grew: and thou was naked, and full of confusion.

8And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and

behold thy time was the time of lovers: and I

spread my garment over thee, and covered thy

ignominy. and I swore to thee, and I enteredProphecy of Ezechiel 1051

into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God:

and thou becamest mine.

9And I washed thee with water, and cleansed

away thy blood from thee: and I anointed thee

with oil.

10And I clothed thee with embroidery, and

shod thee with violet coloured shoes: and I

girded thee about with ne linen, and clothed

thee with ne garments.

11I decked thee also with ornaments, and put

bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy

neck.

12And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and

earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon

thy head.

13And thou wast adorned with gold, and sil-

ver, and wast clothed with ne linen, and em-

broidered work, and many colours: thou didst

eat ne

our, and honey, and oil, and wast made

exceeding beautiful: and wast advanced to be a

queen.

14And thy renown went forth among the

nations for thy beauty: for thou wast perfect

through my beauty, which I had put upon thee,

saith the Lord God.

15But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst

the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast

prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his.

16And taking of thy garments thou hast made

thee high places sewed together on each side:

and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath

not been done before, nor shall be hereafter.

17And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of

my gold, and my silver, which I gave thee, and

thou madest thee images of men, and hast com-

mitted fornication with them.

18And thou tookest thy garments of divers

colours, and coveredst them: and settest my oil

and my sweet incense before them.

19And my bread which I gave thee, the ne

our, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee,

thou hast set before them for a sweet odour; and

it was done, saith the Lord God.

20And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy

daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and

hast sacriced the same to them to be devoured.

Is thy fornication small?

21Thou hast sacriced and given my children

to them, consecrating them by re.

22And after all thy abominations, and forni-

cations, thou hast not remembered the days of

thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of

confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.

23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness

(woe, woe to thee, saith the Lord God)

24That thou didst also build thee a common

stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every

street.

25At every head of the way thou hast set up

a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy

beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted

thyself to every one that passed by, and hast

multiplied thy fornications.

26And thou hast committed fornication with

the Egyptians thy neighbours, men of large bod-

ies, and hast multiplied thy fornications to pro-

voke me.

27Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon

thee, and will take away thy justication: and I

will deliver thee up to the will of the daughters of

the Philistines that hate thee, that are ashamed

of thy wicked way.

28Thou hast also committed fornication with

the Assyrians, because thou wast not yet satis-

ed: and after thou hadst played the harlot with

them, even so thou wast not contented.

29Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications

in the land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and

neither so wast thou satised.

30Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith1052 Prophecy of Ezechiel

Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works

of a shameless prostitute?

31Because thou hast built thy brothel house

at the head of every way, and thou hast made

thy high place in every street: and wast not as a

harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,

32But is an adulteress, that bringeth in

strangers over her husband.

33Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast

given hire to all thy lovers, and thou hast given

them gifts to come to thee from every side, to

commit fornication with thee.

34And it hath happened in thee contrary to

the custom of women in thy fornications, and

after thee there shall be no such fornication, for

in that thou gavest rewards, and didst not take

rewards, the contrary hath been done in thee.

35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the

Lord.

36Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy

money hath been poured out, and thy shame dis-

covered through thy fornications with thy lovers,

and with the idols of thy abominations, by the

blood of thy children whom thou gavest them:

37Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers

with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all

whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou hast

hated: and I will gather them together against

thee on every side, and will discover thy shame in

their sight, and they shall see all thy nakedness.

38And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and

they that shed blood are judged: and I will give

thee blood in fury and jealousy.

39And I will deliver thee into their hands,

and they shall destroy thy brothel house, and

throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee

of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels

of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full of

disgrace.

40And they shall bring upon thee a multi-tude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and

shall slay thee with their swords.

41And they shall burn thy houses with re,

and shall execute judgments upon thee in the

sight of many women: and thou shalt cease from

fornication, and shalt give no hire any more.

42And my indignation shall rest in thee: and

my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will

cease and be angry no more.

43Because thou hast not remembered the

days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all

these things: wherefore I also have turned all thy

ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I

have not done according to thy wicked deeds in

all thy abominations.

44Behold every one that useth a common

proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As

the mother was, so also is her daughter.

45Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast

o her husband, and her children: and thou art

the sister of thy sisters, who cast o their hus-

bands, and their children: your mother was a

Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.

46And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her

daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy

younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is

Sodom, and her daughters.

47But neither hast thou walked in their ways,

nor hast thou done a little less than they accord-

ing to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost

more wicked things than they in all thy ways.

48As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister

Sodom herself, and her daughters, have not done

as thou hast done, and thy daughters.

49Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy

sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance,

and the idleness of her, and of her daughters:

and they did not put forth their hand to the

needy, and the poor.

50And they were lifted up, and committedProphecy of Ezechiel 1053

abominations before me: and I took them away

as thou hast seen.

51And Samaria committed not half thy sins:

but thou hast surpassed them with thy crimes,

and hast justied thy sisters by all thy abomina-

tions which thou hast done.

52Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion,

thou that hast surpassed thy sisters with thy

sins, doing more wickedly than they: for they

are justied above thee, therefore be thou also

confounded, and bear thy shame, thou that hast

justied thy sisters.

53And I will bring back and restore them by

bringing back Sodom, with her daughters, and

by bringing back Samaria, and her daughters:

and I will bring those that return of thee in the

midst of them.

54That thou mayest bear thy shame, and

mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done,

comforting them.

55And thy sister Sodom and her daughters

shall return to their ancient state: and Samaria

and her daughters shall return to their ancient

state: and thou and thy daughters shall return

to your ancient state.

56And Sodom thy sister was not heard of in

thy mouth, in the day of thy pride,

57Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at

this time, making thee a reproach of the daugh-

ters of Syria, and of all the daughters of Pales-

tine round about thee, that encompass thee on

all sides.

58Thou hast borne thy wickedness, and thy

disgrace, saith the Lord God.

59For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal

with thee, as thou hast despised the oath, in

breaking the covenant:

60And I will remember my covenant with

thee in the days of thy youth: and I will establish

with thee an everlasting covenant.61And thou shalt remember thy ways, and

be ashamed: when thou shalt receive thy sisters,

thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them

to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

62And I will establish my covenant with thee:

and thou shalt know that I am the Lord,

63That thou mayest remember, and be con-

founded, and mayest no more open thy mouth

because of thy confusion, when I shall be paci-

ed toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith

the Lord God.

Chapter 17

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a

parable to the house of Israel,

3And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large

eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feath-

ers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took

away the marrow of the cedar.

4He cropped o the top of the twigs thereof:

and carried it away into the land of Chanaan,

and he set it in a city of merchants.

5And he took of the seed of the land, and put

it in the ground for seed, that it might take a

rm root over many waters: he planted it on the

surface of the earth.

6And it sprung up and grew into a spread-

ing vine of low stature, and the branches thereof

looked towards him: and the roots thereof were

under him. So it became a vine, and grew into

branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7And there was another large eagle, with

great wings, and many feathers: and behold

this vine, bending as it were her roots towards

him, stretched forth her branches to him, that he

might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

8It was planted in a good ground upon many1054 Prophecy of Ezechiel

waters, that it might bring forth branches, and

bear fruit, that it might become a large vine.

9Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall

it prosper then? shall he not pull up the roots

thereof, and strip o its fruit, and dry up all the

branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither:

and this without a strong arm, or many people

to pluck it up by the root?

10Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper then?

shall it not be dried up when the burning wind

shall touch it, and shall it not wither in the fur-

rows where it grew?

11And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

12Say to the provoking house: Know you not

what these things mean? Tell them: Behold the

king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he

shall take away the king and the princes thereof

and carry them with him to Babylon.

13And he shall take one of the king's seed,

and make a covenant with him, and take an oath

of him. Yea, and he shall take away the mighty

men of the land,

14That it may be a low kingdom and not lift

itself up, but keep his covenant and observe it.

15But he hath revolted from him and sent

ambassadors to Egypt, that it might give him

horses, and much people. And shall he that hath

done thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he

escape that hath broken the covenant?

16As I live, saith the Lord God: In the

place where the king dwelleth that made him

king, whose oath he hath made void, and whose

covenant he broke, even in the midst of Babylon

shall he die.

17And not with a great army, nor with much

people shall Pharao ght against him: when he

shall cast up mounts, and build forts, to cut o

many souls.

18For he had despised the oath, breaking hiscovenant, and behold he hath given his hand:

and having done all these things, he shall not

escape.

19Therefore thus saith the Lord God: As I

live, I will lay upon his head the oath he hath

despised, and the covenant he hath broken.

20And I will spread my net over him, and he

shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him

into Babylon, and will judge him there for the

transgression by which he hath despised me.

21And all his fugitives with all his bands shall

fall by the sword: and the residue shall be scat-

tered into every wind: and you shall know that

I the Lord have spoken.

22Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will

take of the marrow of the high cedar, and will

set it: I will crop o a tender twig from the top

of the branches thereof, and I will plant it on a

mountain high and eminent.

23On the high mountains of Israel will I plant

it, and it shall shoot forth into branches and shall

bear fruit, and it shall become a great cedar: and

all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall

make its nest under the shadow of the branches

thereof.

24And all the trees of the country shall know

that I the Lord have brought down the high tree,

and exalted the low tree: and have dried up the

green tree, and have caused the dry tree to

our-

ish. I the Lord have spoken and have done it.

Chapter 18

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

What is the meaning?

2That you use among you this parable as a

proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers

have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the chil-

dren are set on edge.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1055

3As I live, saith the Lord God, this parable

shall be no more to you a proverb in Israel.

4Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the

father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the

soul that sinneth, the same shall die.

5And if a man be just, and do judgment and

justice,

6And hath not eaten upon the mountains,

nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of

Israel: and hath not deled his neighbour's wife,

nor come near to a menstruous woman:

7And hath not wronged any man: but hath

restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken

nothing away by violence: hath given his bread

to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with

a garment:

8Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any

increase: hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity,

and hath executed true judgment between man

and man:

9Hath walked in my commandments, and

kept my judgments, to do truth: he is just, he

shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

10And if he beget a son that is a robber, a

shedder of blood, and that hath done some one

of these things:

11Though he doth not all these things, but

that eateth upon the mountains, and that de-

leth his neighbour's wife:

12That grieveth the needy and the poor, that

taketh away by violence, that restoreth not the

pledge, and that lifteth up his eyes to idols, that

comitteth abomination:

13That giveth upon usury, and that taketh an

increase: shall such a one live? he shall not live.

Seeing he hath done all these detestable things,

he shall surely die, his blood shall be upon him.

14But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his

father's sins, which he hath done, is afraid, and

shall not do the like to them:15That hath not eaten upon the mountains,

nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of

Israel, and hath not deled his neighbour's wife:

16And hath not grieved any man, nor with-

holden the pledge, nor taken away with violence,

but hath given his bread to the hungry, and cov-

ered the naked with a garment:

17That hath turned away his hand from in-

juring the poor, hath not taken usury and in-

crease, but hath executed my judgments, and

hath walked in my commandments: this man

shall not die for the iniquity of his father, but

living he shall live.

18As for his father, because he oppressed and

oered violence to his brother, and wrought evil

in the midst of his people, behold he is dead in

his own iniquity.

19And you say: Why hath not the son borne

the iniquity of his father? Verily, because the son

hath wrought judgment and justice, hath kept

all my commandments, and done them, living,

he shall live.

20The soul that sinneth, the same shall die:

the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father,

and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the

son: the justice of the just shall be upon him,

and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon

him.

21But if the wicked do penance for all his

sins which he hath committed, and keep all my

commandments, and do judgment, and justice,

living he shall live, and shall not die.

22I will not remember all his iniquities that he

hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought,

he shall live.
23Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith

the Lord God, and not that he should be con-

verted from his ways, and live?

24But if the just man turn himself away from

his justice, and do iniquity according to all the1056 Prophecy of Ezechiel

abominations which the wicked man useth to

work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath

done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarica-

tion, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his

sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall

die.

25And you have said: The way of the Lord is

not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel:

Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather

your ways perverse?

26For when the just turneth himself away

from his justice, and comitteth iniquity, he shall

die therein: in the injustice that he hath wrought

he shall die.

27And when the wicked turneth himself away

from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and

doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his

soul alive.

28Because he considereth and turneth away

himself from all his iniquities which he hath

wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.

29And the children of Israel say: The way of

the Lord is not right. Are not my ways right,

O house of Israel, and are not rather your ways

perverse?

30Therefore will I judge every man according

to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord

God. Be converted, and do penance for all your

iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin.

31Cast away from you all your transgressions,

by which you have transgressed, and make to

yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and

why will you die, O house of Israel?

32For I desire not the death of him that dieth,

saith the Lord God, return ye and live.Chapter 19

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the

princes of Israel,

2And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie

down among the lions, and bring up her whelps

in the midst of young lions?

3And she brought out one of her whelps, and

he became a lion: and he learned to catch the

prey, and to devour men.

4And the nations heard of him, and took

him, but not without receiving wounds: and they

brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.

5But she seeing herself weakened, and that

her hope was lost, took one of her young lions,

and set him up for a lion.

6And he went up and down among the lions,

and became a lion: and he learned to catch the

prey, and to devour men.

7He learned to make widows, and to lay waste

their cities: and the land became desolate, and

the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.

8And the nations came together against him

on every side out of the provinces, and they

spread their net over him, in their wounds he

was taken.

9And they put him into a cage, they brought

him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they

cast him into prison, that his voice should no

more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood

planted by the water: her fruit and her branches

have grown out of many waters.

11And she hath strong rods to make scep-

tres for them that bear rule, and her stature was

exalted among the branches: and she saw her

height in the multitude of her branches.

12But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast

on the ground, and the burning wind dried up

her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and driedProphecy of Ezechiel 1057
up: the re hath devoured her.

13And now she is transplanted into the

desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

14And a re is gone out from a rod of her

branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that

she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre of

rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for

a lamentation.

Chapter 20

And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the

fth month, the tenth day of the month: there

came men of the ancients of Israel to inquire of

the Lord, and they sat before me.

2And the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

3Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel

and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Are

you come to inquire of me? As I live, I will not

answer you, saith the Lord God.

4If thou judgest them, if thou judgest, O

son of man, declare to them the abominations

of their fathers.

5And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:

In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up

my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and

appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted

up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your

God:

6In that day I lifted up my hand for them to

bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land

which I had provided for them,

owing with milk

and honey, which excelled amongst all lands.

7And I said to them: Let every man cast away

the scandals of his eyes, and dele not yourselves

with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

8But they provoked me, and would not hear-

ken to me: they did not every man cast away theabominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake

the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out

my indignation upon them, and accomplish my

wrath against them in the midst of the land of

Egypt.

9But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that

it might not be violated before the nations, in

the midst of whom they were, and among whom

I made myself known to them, to bring them out

of the land of Egypt.

10Therefore I brought them out from the land

of Egypt, and brought them into the desert.

11And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed

them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall

live in them.
12Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to

be a sign between me and them: and that they

might know that I am the Lord that sanctify

them.

13But the house of Israel provoked me in the

desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they

cast away my judgments, which if a man do he

shall live in them: and they grievously violated

my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour

out my indignation upon them in the desert, and

would consume them.

14But I spared them for the sake of my name,

lest it should be profaned before the nations,

from which I brought them out, in their sight.

15So I lifted up my hand over them in the

desert, not to bring them into the land which I

had given them

owing with milk and honey, the

best of all lands.

16Because they cast o my judgments, and

walked not in my statutes, and violated my sab-

baths: for their heart went after idols.

17Yet my eye spared them, so that I de-

stroyed them not: neither did I consume them

in the desert.

18And I said to their children in the wilder-1058 Prophecy of Ezechiel

ness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers,

and observe not their judgments, nor be ye de-

led with their idols:

19I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my

statutes, and observe my judgments, and do

them.

20And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may

be a sign between me and you: and that you may

know that I am the Lord your God.

21But their children provoked me, they

walked not in my commandments, nor observed

my judgments to do them: which if a man do,

he shall live in them: and they violated my sab-

baths: and I threatened to pour out my indig-

nation upon them, and to accomplish my wrath

in them in the desert.

22But I turned away my hand, and wrought

for my name's sake, that it might not be violated

before the nations, out of which I brought them

forth in their sight.

23Again I lifted up my hand upon them in the

wilderness, to disperse them among the nations,

and scatter them through the countries:

24Because they had not done my judgments,

and had cast o my statutes, and had violated

my sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the

idols of their fathers.

25Therefore I also gave them statutes that

were not good, and judgments, in which they

shall not live.

26And I polluted them in their own gifts,

when they oered all that opened the womb, for

their oences: and they shall know that I am the

Lord.

27Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O

son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the

Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers

blaspheme me, when they had despised and con-

temned me;

28And I had brought them into the land, forwhich I lifted up my hand to give it them: they

saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and

there they sacriced their victims: and there

they presented the provocation of their oer-

ings, and there they set their sweet odours, and

poured forth their libations.

29And I said to them: What meaneth the

high place to which you go? and the name

thereof was called High-place even to this day.

30Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus

saith the Lord God: Verily, you are deled in the

way of your fathers, and you commit fornication

with their abominations.

31And you dele yourselves with all your

idols unto this day, in the oering of your gifts,

when you make your children pass through the

re: and shall I answer you, O house of Israel?

As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not answer

you.

32Neither shall the thought of your mind

come to pass, by which you say: We will be as

the Gentiles, and as the families of the earth, to

worship stocks and stones.

33As I live, saith the Lord God, I will

reign over you with a strong hand, and with a

stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

34And I will bring you out from the people,

and I will gather you out of the countries, in

which you are scattered, I will reign over you

with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm,

and with fury poured out.

35And I will bring you into the wilderness of

people, and there will I plead with you face to

face.

36As I pleaded against your fathers in the

desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge

you, saith the Lord God.

37And I will make you subject to my sceptre,

and will bring you into the bands of the covenant.

38And I will pick out from among you theProphecy of Ezechiel 1059

transgressors, and the wicked, and will bring

them out of the land where they sojourn, and

they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and

you shall know that I am the Lord.

39And as for you, O house of Israel: thus

saith the Lord God: Walk ye every one after

your idols, and serve them. But if in this also

you hear me not, but dele my holy name any

more with your gifts, and with your idols;

40In my holy mountain, in the high mountain

of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the

house of Israel serve me; all of them I say, in the

land in which they shall please me, and there

will I require your rstfruits, and the chief of

your tithes with all your sanctications.

41I will accept of you for an odour of sweet-

ness, when I shall have brought you out from the

people, and shall have gathered you out of the

lands into which you are scattered, and I will be

sanctied in you in the sight of the nations.

42And you shall know that I am the Lord,

when I shall have brought you into the land of

Israel, into the land for which I lifted up my hand

to give it to your fathers.

43And there you shall remember your ways,

and all your wicked doings with which you have

been deled; and you shall be displeased with

yourselves in your own sight, for all your wicked

deeds which you committed.

44And you shall know that I am the Lord,

when I shall have done well by you for my own

name's sake, and not according to your evil ways,

nor according to your wicked deeds, O house of

Israel, saith the Lord God.

45And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

46Son of man, set thy face against the way

of the south, and drop towards the south, and

prophesy against the forest of the south eld.

47And say to the south forest: Hear the wordof the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold

I will kindle a re in thee, and will burn in thee

every green tree, and every dry tree: the

ame

of the re shall not be quenched: and every face

shall be burned in it, from the south even to the

north.

48And all

esh shall see, that I the Lord have

kindled it, and it shall not be quenched.

49And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they

say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

Chapter 21

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem,

and let thy speech

ow towards the holy places,

and prophesy against the land of Israel:

3And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the

Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and I

will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and

will cut o in thee the just, and the wicked.

4And forasmuch as I have cut o in thee the

just and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go

forth out of its sheath against all

esh, from the

south even to the north.

5That all

esh may know that I the Lord

have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be

turned back.

6And thou, son of man, mourn with the

breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh

before them.

7And when they shall say to thee: Why

mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which

I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall

melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and ev-

ery spirit shall faint, and water shall run down

every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be

done, saith the Lord God.1060 Prophecy of Ezechiel

8And the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

9Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith

the Lord God: Say: The sword, the sword is

sharpened, and furbished.

10It is sharpened to kill victims: it is fur-

bished that it may glitter: thou removest the

sceptre of my son, thou hast cut down every tree.

11And I have given it to be furbished, that

it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and

it is furbished, that it may be in the hand of the

slayer.

12Cry, and howl, O son of man, for this sword

is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of

Israel, that are

ed: they are delivered up to the

sword with my people, strike therefore upon thy

thigh,

13Because it is tried: and that when it shall

overthrow the sceptre, and it shall not be, saith

the Lord God.

14Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy,

and strike thy hands together, and let the sword

be doubled, and let the sword of the slain be

tripled: this is the sword of a great slaughter,

that maketh them stand amazed,

15And languish in heart, and that multiplieth

ruins. In all their gates I have set the dread of

the sharp sword, the sword that is furbished to

glitter, that is made ready for slaughter.

16Be thou sharpened, go to the right hand,

or to the left, which way soever thou hast a mind

to set thy face.

17And I will clap my hands together, and will

satisfy my indignation: I the Lord have spoken.

18And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

19And thou son of man, set thee two ways,

for the sword of the king of Babylon to come:

both shall come forth out of one land: and with

his hand he shall draw lots, he shall consult atthe head of the way of the city.

20Thou shalt make a way that the sword may

come to Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and

to Juda unto Jerusalem the strong city.

21For the king of Babylon stood in the high-

way, at the head of two ways, seeking divination,

shuing arrows: he inquired of the idols, and

consulted entrails.

22On his right hand was the divination for

Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the

mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in howl-

ing, to set engines against the gates, to cast up

a mount, to build forts.

23And he shall be in their eyes as one consult-

ing the oracle in vain, and imitating the leisure

of sabbaths: but he will call to remembrance the

iniquity that they may be taken.

24Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Be-

cause you have remembered your iniquity, and

have discovered your prevarications, and your

sins have appeared in all your devices: because,

I say, You have remembered, you shall be taken

with the hand.

25But thou profane wicked prince of Israel,

whose day is come that hath been appointed in

the time of iniquity:

26Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the dia-

dem, take o the crown: is it not this that hath

exalted the low one, and brought down him that

was high?

27I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity, iniq-

uity: but this was not done till he came to whom

judgment belongeth, and I will give it him.

28And thou son of man, prophesy, and say:

Thus saith the Lord God concerning the children

of Ammon, and concerning their reproach, and

thou shalt say: O sword, O sword, come out of

the scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and

to glitter,

29Whilst they see vain things in thy regard,Prophecy of Ezechiel 1061

and they divine lies: to bring thee upon the necks

of the wicked that are wounded, whose appointed

day is come in the time of iniquity.

30Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee

in the place wherein thou wast created, in the

land of thy nativity.

31And I will pour out upon thee my indig-

nation: in the re of my rage will I blow upon

thee, and will give thee into the hands of men

that are brutish and contrive thy destruction.

32Thou shalt be fuel for the re, thy blood

shall be in the midst of the land, thou shalt be

forgotten: for I the Lord have spoken it.

Chapter 22

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2And thou son of man, dost thou not judge,

dost thou not judge the city of blood?

3And thou shalt shew her all her abomina-

tions, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God:

This is the city that sheddeth blood in the midst

of her, that her time may come: and that hath

made idols against herself, to dele herself.

4Thou art become guilty in thy blood which

thou hast shed: and thou art deled in thy idols

which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy

days to draw near, and hast brought on the time

of thy years: therefore have I made thee a re-

proach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all

countries.

5Those that are near, and those that are far

from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou lthy

one, infamous, great in destruction.

6Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath

employed his arm in thee to shed blood.

7They have abused father and mother in thee,

they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of

thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widowin thee.

8Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and pro-

faned my sabbaths.

9Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood,

and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee,

they have committed wickedness in the midst of

thee.

10They have discovered the nakedness of

their father in thee, they have humbled the un-

cleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.

11And every one hath committed abomina-

tion with his neighbour's wife, and the father in

law hath wickedly deled his daughter in law, the

brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of

his father in thee.

12They have taken gifts in thee to shed blood:

thou hast taken usury and increase, and hast

covetously oppressed thy neighbours: and thou

hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

13Behold, I have clapped my hands at thy

covetousness, which thou hast exercised: and at

the blood that hath been shed in the midst of

thee.

14Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands

prevail in the days which I will bring upon thee:

I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

15And I will disperse thee in the nations, and

will scatter thee among the countries, and I will

put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.

16And I will possess thee in the sight of the

Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I am the

Lord.

17And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

18Son of man, the house of Israel is become

dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and

iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they

are become the dross of silver.

19Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Be-

cause you are all turned into dross, therefore be-1062 Prophecy of Ezechiel

hold I will gather you together in the midst of

Jerusalem.

20As they gather silver, and brass, and tin,

and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace:

that I may kindle a re in it to melt it: so will I

gather you together in my fury and in my wrath,

and will take my rest, and I will melt you down.

21And will gather you together, and will burn

you in the re of my wrath, and you shall be

melted in the midst thereof.

22As silver is melted in the midst of the fur-

nace, so shall you be in the midst thereof: and

you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have

poured out my indignation upon you.

23And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

24Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land

that is unclean, and not rained upon in the day

of wrath.

25There is a conspiracy of prophets in the

midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catch-

eth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have

taken riches and hire, they have made many wid-

ows in the midst thereof.

26Her priests have despised my law, and have

deled my sanctuaries: they have put no dier-

ence between holy and profane: nor have distin-

guished between the polluted and the clean: and

they have turned away their eyes from my sab-

baths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

27Her princes in the midst of her, are like

wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to

destroy souls, and to run after gains through cov-

etousness.

28And her prophets have daubed them with-

out tempering the mortar, seeing vain things,

and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith

the Lord God: when the Lord hath not spoken.

29The people of the land have used oppres-

sion, and committed robbery: they aicted theneedy and poor, and they oppressed the stranger

by calumny without judgment.

30And I sought among them for a man that

might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before

me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy

it: and I found none.

31And I poured out my indignation upon

them, in the re of my wrath I consumed them:

I have rendered their way upon their own head,

saith the Lord God.

Chapter 23

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, there were two women, daugh-

ters of one mother.

3And they committed fornication in Egypt,

in their youth they committed fornication: there

were their breasts pressed down, and the teats of

their virginity were bruised.

4And their names were Oolla the elder, and

Ooliba her younger sister: and I took them,

and they bore sons and daughters. Now for

their names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is

Ooliba.

5And Oolla committed fornication against

me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians

that came to her,

6Who were clothed with blue, princes, and

rulers, beautiful youths, all horsemen, mounted

upon horses.

7And she committed her fornications with

those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and

she deled herself with the uncleanness of all

them on whom she doted.

8Moreover also she did not forsake her forni-

cations which she had committed in Egypt: for

they also lay with her in her youth, and they

bruised the breasts of her virginity, and pouredProphecy of Ezechiel 1063

out their fornication upon her.

9Therefore have I delivered her into the hands

of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the

Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted.

10They discovered her disgrace, took away

her sons and daughters, and slew her with the

sword: and they became infamous women, and

they executed judgments in her.

11And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she

was mad with lust more than she: and she car-

ried her fornication beyond the fornication of her

sister.

12Impudently prostituting herself to the chil-

dren of the Assyrians, the princes, and rulers

that came to her, clothed with divers colours,

to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to

young men all of great beauty.

13And I saw that she was deled, and that

they both took one way.

14And she increased her fornications: and

when she had seen men painted on the wall, the

images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours,

15And girded with girdles about their reins,

and with dyed turbans on their heads, the re-

semblance of all the captains, the likeness of the

sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans

wherein they were born,

16She doted upon them with the lust of

her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into

Chaldea.

17And when the sons of Babylon were come

to her to the bed of love, they deled her with

their fornications, and she was polluted by them,

and her soul was glutted with them.

18And she discovered her fornications, and

discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alien-

ated from her, as my soul was alienated from her

sister.

19For she multiplied her fornications, remem-

bering the days of her youth, in which she playedthe harlot in the land of Egypt.

20And she was mad with lust after lying with

them whose

esh is as the

esh of asses: and

whose issue as the issue of horses.

21And thou hast renewed the wickedness of

thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in

Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.

22Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord

God: Behold I will raise up against thee all

thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glut-

ted: and I will gather them together against thee

round about.

23The children of Babylon, and all the

Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings, and

princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beauti-

ful young men, all the captains, and rulers, the

princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.

24And they shall come upon thee well ap-

pointed with chariot and wheel, a multitude of

people: they shall be armed against thee on ev-

ery side with breastplate, and buckler, and hel-

met: and I will set judgment before them, and

they shall judge thee by their judgments.

25And I will set my jealousy against thee,

which they shall execute upon thee with fury:

they shall cut o thy nose and thy ears: and

what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall

take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue

shall be devoured by re.

26And they shall strip thee of thy garments,

and take away the instruments of thy glory.

27And I will put an end to thy wickedness in

thee, and thy fornication brought out of the land

of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up thy eyes to

them, nor remember Egypt any more.

28For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will

deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou

hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul hath

been glutted.

29And they shall deal with thee in hatred,1064 Prophecy of Ezechiel

and they shall take away all thy labours, and

shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and

the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discov-

ered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.

30They have done these things to thee, be-

cause thou hast played the harlot with the na-

tions among which thou wast deled with their

idols.

31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister

and I will give her cup into thy hand.

32Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink

thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be

had in derision and scorn, which containeth very

much.

33Thou shalt be lled with drunkenness, and

sorrow: with the cup of grief and sadness, with

the cup of thy sister Samaria.

34And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it

up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the

fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts:

because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

35Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Be-

cause thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me

o behind thy back, bear thou also thy wicked-

ness, and thy fornications.

36And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son

of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and

dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?

37Because they have committed adultery,

and blood is in their hands, and they have com-

mitted fornication with their idols: moreover

also their children, whom they bore to me, they

have oered to them to be devoured.

38Yea, and they have done this to me. They

polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and pro-

faned my sabbaths.

39And when they sacriced their children to

their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same

day to profane it: they did these things even in

the midst of my house.40They sent for men coming from afar, to

whom they had sent a messenger: and behold

they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself,

and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with

women's ornaments.

41Thou sattest on a very ne bed, and a table

was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst

set my incense, and my ointment.

42And there was in her the voice of a mul-

titude rejoicing: and to some that were brought

of the multitude of men, and that came from the

desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and

beautiful crowns on their heads.

43And I said to her that was worn out in her

adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in

her fornication.

44And they went in to her, as to a harlot:

so went they in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked

women.

45They therefore are just men: these shall

judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as

shedders of blood are judged: because they are

adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multi-

tude upon them, and deliver them over to tumult

and rapine:

47And let the people stone them with stone,

and let them be stabbed with their swords: they

shall kill their sons and daughters, and their

houses they shall burn with re.

48And I will take away wickedness out of the

land: and all women shall learn, not to do ac-

cording to the wickedness of them.

49And they shall render your wickedness

upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your

idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord

God.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1065

Chapter 24

And the word of the Lord came to me in the

ninth year, in the tenth month, the tenth day of

the month, saying:

2Son of man, write thee the name of this day,

on which the king of Babylon hath set himself

against Jerusalem to day.

3And thou shalt speak by a gure a parable

to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus

saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I

say, and put water in it.

4Heap together into it the pieces thereof,

every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder,

choice pieces and full of bones.

5Take the fattest of the

ock, and lay together

piles of bones under it: the seething thereof is

boiling hot, and the bones thereof are thoroughly

sodden in the midst of it.

6Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to

the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it,

and its rust is not gone out of it: cast it out

piece by piece, there hath no lot fallen upon it.

7For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath

shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed

it upon the ground, that it might be covered with

dust.

8And that I might bring my indignation upon

her, and take my vengeance: I have shed her

blood upon the smooth rock, that it should not

be covered.

9Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe

to the bloody city, of which I will make a great

bonre.

10Heap together the bones, which I will

burn with re: the

esh shall be consumed, and

the whole composition shall be sodden, and the

bones shall be consumed.

11Then set it empty upon burning coals, that

it may be hot, and the brass thereof may bemelted: and let the lth of it be melted in the

midst thereof, and let the rust of it be consumed.

12Great pains have been taken, and the great

rust thereof is not gone out, not even by re.

13Thy uncleanness is execrable: because

I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not

cleansed from thy lthiness: neither shalt thou

be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest

in thee.

14I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to

pass, and I will do it: I will not pass by, nor

spare, nor be pacied: I will judge thee according

to thy ways, and according to thy doings, saith

the Lord.

15And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

16Son of man, behold I take from thee the

desire of thy eyes with a stroke, and thou shall

not lament, nor weep; neither shall thy tears run

down.

17Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the

dead: let the tire of thy head be upon thee, and

thy shoes on thy feet, and cover not thy face, nor

eat the meat of mourners.

18So I spoke to the people in the morning,

and my wife died in the evening: and I did in

the morning as he had commanded me.

19And the people said to me: Why dost thou

not tell us what these things mean that thou

doest?

20And I said to them: The word of the Lord

came to me, saying:

21Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the

Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary,

the glory of your realm, and the thing that your

eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your

sons, and your daughters, whom you have left,

shall fall by the sword.

22And you shall do as I have done: you shall

not cover your faces, nor shall you eat the meat1066 Prophecy of Ezechiel

of mourners.

23You shall have crowns on your heads, and

shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor

weep, but you shall pine away for your iniqui-

ties, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

24And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a sign

of things to come: according to all that he hath

done, so shall you do, when this shall come to

pass: and you shall know that I am the Lord

God.

25And thou, O son of man, behold in the

day wherein I will take away from them their

strength, and the joy of their glory, and the de-

sire of their eyes, upon which their souls rest,

their sons and their daughters.

26In that day when he that escapeth shall

come to thee, to tell thee:

27In that day, I say, shall thy mouth be

opened to him that hath escaped, and thou shalt

speak, and shalt be silent no more: and thou

shalt be unto them for a sign of things to come,

and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 25

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, set thy face against the children

of Ammon, and thou shalt prophesy of them.

3And thou shalt say to the children of Am-

mon: Hear ye the word of the Lord God: Thus

saith the Lord God: Because thou hast said: Ha,

ha, upon my sanctuary, because it was profaned:

and upon the land of Israel, because it was laid

waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they

are led into captivity:

4Therefore will I deliver thee to the men of

the east for an inheritance, and they shall place

their sheepcotes in thee, and shall set up their

tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits: and theyshall drink thy milk.

5And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels,

and the children of Ammon a couching place for

ocks: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

6For thus saith the Lord God: Because thou

hast clapped thy hands and stamped with thy

foot, and hast rejoiced with all thy heart against

the land of Israel:

7Therefore behold I will stretch forth my

hand upon thee, and will deliver thee to be the

spoil of nations, and will cut thee o from among

the people, and destroy thee out of the lands, and

break thee in pieces: and thou shalt know that

I am the Lord.

8Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab

and Seir have said: Behold the house of Juda is

like all other nations:

9Therefore behold I will open the shoulder

of Moab from the cities, from his cities, I say,

and his borders, the noble cities of the land of

Bethiesimoth, and Beelmeon, and Cariathaim,

10To the people of the east with the chil-

dren of Ammon, and I will give it them for an

inheritance: that there may be no more any re-

membrance of the children of Ammon among the

nations.

11And I will execute judgments in Moab: and

they shall know that I am the Lord.

12Thus saith the Lord God: Because Edom

hath taken vengeance to revenge herself of the

children of Juda, and hath greatly oended, and

hath sought revenge of them:

13Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will

stretch forth my hand upon Edom, and will take

away out of it man and beast, and will make it

desolate from the south: and they that are in

Dedan shall fall by the sword.

14And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by

the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in

Edom according to my wrath, and my fury: andProphecy of Ezechiel 1067

they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord

God.

15Thus saith the Lord God: Because the

Philistines have taken vengeance, and have re-

venged themselves with all their mind, destroy-

ing and satisfying old enmities:

16Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold

I will stretch forth my hand upon the Philistines,

and will kill the killers, and will destroy the rem-

nant of the sea coast.

17And I will execute great vengeance upon

them, rebuking them in fury: and they shall

know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my

vengeance upon them.

Chapter 26

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the

rst day of the month, that the word of the Lord

came to me, saying:

2Son of man, because Tyre hath said of

Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the people are bro-

ken, she is turned to me: I shall be lled, now

she is laid waste.

3Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold

I come against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause

many nations to come up to thee, as the waves

of the sea rise up.

4And they shall break down the walls of Tyre,

and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape

her dust from her, and make her like a smooth

rock.

5She shall be a drying place for nets in the

midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith

the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the

nations.

6Her daughters also that are in the eld, shall

be slain by the sword: and they shall know that

I am the Lord.7For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I

will bring against Tyre Nabuchodonosor king of

Babylon, the king of kings, from the north, with

horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and compa-

nies, and much people.

8Thy daughters that are in the eld, he shall

kill with the sword: and he shall compass thee

with forts, and shall cast up a mount round

about: and he shall lift up the buckler against

thee.

9And he shall set engines of war and batter-

ing rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy

towers with his arms.

10By reason of the multitude of his horses,

their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake

at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels, and

chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as

by the entrance of a city that is destroyed.

11With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread

down all thy streets, thy people he shall kill with

the sword, and thy famous statues shall fall to

the ground.

12They shall waste thy riches, they shall

make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall

destroy thy walls, and pull down thy ne houses:

and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and

thy dust in the midst of the waters.

13And I will make the multitude of thy songs

to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be

heard no more.

14And I will make thee like a naked rock,

thou shalt be a drying place for nets, neither

shalt thou be built any more: for I have spoken

it, saith the Lord God.

15Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall

not the islands shake at the sound of thy fall,

and the groans of thy slain when they shall be

killed in the midst of thee?

16Then all the princes of the sea shall come

down from their thrones: and take o their1068 Prophecy of Ezechiel

robes, and cast away their broidered garments,

and be clothed with astonishment: they shall sit

on the ground, and with amazement shall won-

der at thy sudden fall.

17And taking up a lamentation over thee,

they shall say to thee: How art thou fallen,

that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast

strong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all

did dread?

18Now shall the ships be astonished in the

day of thy terror: and the islands in the sea shall

be troubled because no one cometh out of thee.

19For thus saith the Lord God: When I shall

make thee a desolate city like the cities that are

not inhabited: and shall bring the deep upon

thee, and many waters shall cover thee:

20And when I shall bring thee down with

those that descend into the pit to the everlasting

people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of

the earth, as places desolate of old, with them

that are brought down into the pit, that thou be

not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the

land of the living,

21I will bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt

not be, and if thou be sought for, thou shalt not

be found any more for ever, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 27

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Thou therefore, O son of man, take up a

lamentation for Tyre:

3And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry

of the sea, being the mart of the people for many

islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou

hast said: I am of perfect beauty,

4And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy

neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy

beauty:5With r trees of Sanir they have built thee

with all sea planks: they have taken cedars from

Libanus to make thee masts.

6They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of

Basan: and they have made thee benches of In-

dian ivory and cabins with things brought from

the islands of Italy.

7Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven

for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and

purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy

covering.

8The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians

were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy

pilots.

9The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men

thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy

various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and

their mariners were thy factors.

10The Persians, and Lydians, and the

Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung

up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy or-

nament.

11The men of Arad were with thy army upon

thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that

were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy

walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.

12The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied

thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches,

with silver, iron, tin, and lead,

13Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy

merchants, they brought to thy people slaves and

vessels of brass.

14From the house of Thogorma they brought

horses, and horsemen, and mules to thy market.

15The men of Dedan were thy merchants:

many islands were the trac of thy hand, they

exchanged for thy price teeth of ivory and ebony.

16The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason

of the multitude of thy works, they set forth pre-

cious stories, and purple, and broidered works,Prophecy of Ezechiel 1069

and ne linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy

market.

17Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy

merchants with the best corn: they set forth

balm, and honey, and oil and rosin in thy fairs.

18The men of Damascus were thy merchants

in the multitude of thy works, the multitude of

divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best

colour.

19Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth

in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus

were in thy market.

20The men of Dedan were thy merchants in

tapestry for seats.

21Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar, they

were the merchants of thy hand: thy merchants

came to thee with lambs, and rams, and kids.

22The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they were

thy merchants: with all the best spices, and pre-

cious stones, and gold, which they set forth in

thy market.

23Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy mer-

chants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad sold to thee.

24They were thy merchants in divers man-

ners, with bales of blue cloth, and of embroi-

dered work, and of precious riches, which were

wrapped up and bound with cords: they had

cedars also in thy merchandise.

25The ships of the sea, were thy chief in thy

merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and

gloried exceedingly in the heart of the sea.

26Thy rowers have brought thee into great

waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the

heart of the sea.

27Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy

manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots,

who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy peo-

ple: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with

all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee:

shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thyruin.

28Thy

eets shall be troubled at the sound

of the cry of thy pilots.

29And all that handled the oar shall come

down from their ships: the mariners, and all the

pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land:

30And they shall mourn over thee with a loud

voice and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast

up dust upon their heads and shall be sprinkled

with ashes.

31And they shall shave themselves bald for

thee, and shall be girded with haircloth: and

they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul,

with most bitter weeping.

32And they shall take up a mournful song

for thee, and shall lament thee: What city is like

Tyre, which is become silent in the midst of the

sea?

33Which by thy merchandise that went from

thee by sea didst ll many people: which by the

multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst

enrich the kings of the earth.

34Now thou art destroyed by the sea, thy

riches are in the bottom of the waters, and all

the multitude that was in the midst of thee is

fallen.

35All the inhabitants of the islands are as-

tonished at thee: and all their kings being struck

with the storm have changed their countenance.

36The merchants of people have hissed at

thee: thou art brought to nothing, and thou

shalt never be any more.

Chapter 28

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus

saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted

up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in1070 Prophecy of Ezechiel

the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas

thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy
heart as if it were the heart of God.

3Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret

is hid from thee.

4In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou

hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold

an silver into thy treasures.

5By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy

trac thou hast increased thy strength: and thy

heart is lifted up with thy strength.

6Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because

thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:

7Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee

strangers: the strongest of the nations: and they

shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy

wisdom, and they shall dele thy beauty.

8They shall kill thee, and bring thee down:

and thou shalt die the death of them that are

slain in the heart of the sea.

9Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee:

I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God,

in the hand of them that slay thee?

10Thou shalt die the death of the uncircum-

cised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken

it, saith the Lord God.

11And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon

the king of Tyre:

12And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God:

Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wis-

dom, and perfect in beauty.

13Thou wast in the pleasures of the par-

adise of God: every precious stone was thy cov-

ering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the

chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sap-

phire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold

the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were pre-

pared in the day that thou wast created.14Thou a cherub stretched out, and protect-

ing, and I set thee in the holy mountain of God,

thou hast walked in the midst of the stones of

re.

15Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the

day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in

thee.

16By the multitude of thy merchandise, thy

inner parts were lled with iniquity, and thou

hast sinned: and I cast thee out from the moun-

tain of God, and destroyed thee, O covering

cherub, out of the midst of the stones of re.

17And thy heart was lifted up with thy

beauty: thou hast lost thy wisdom in thy beauty,

I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee

before the face of kings, that they might behold

thee.

18Thou hast deled thy sanctuaries by the

multitude of thy iniquities, and by the iniquity

of thy trac: therefore I will bring forth a re

from the midst of thee, to devour thee, and I will

make thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight

of all that see thee.

19All that shall see thee among the nations,

shall be astonished at thee: thou art brought to

nothing, and thou shalt never be any more.

20And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

21Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and

thou shalt prophesy of it,

22And shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God:

Behold I come against thee, Sidon, and I will

be gloried in the midst of thee: and they shall

know that I am the Lord, when I shall execute

judgments in her, and shall be sanctied in her.

23And I will send into her pestilence, and

blood in her streets: and they shall fall being

slain by the sword on all sides in the midst

thereof: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

24And the house of Israel shall have no more aProphecy of Ezechiel 1071

stumblingblock of bitterness, nor a thorn causing

pain on every side round about them, of them

that are against them: and they shall know that

I am the Lord God.

25Thus saith the Lord God: When I shall

have gathered together the house of Israel out

of the people among whom they are scattered:

I will be sanctied in them before the Gentiles:

and they shall dwell in their own land, which I

gave to my servant Jacob.

26And they shall dwell therein secure, and

they shall build houses, and shall plant vine-

yards, and shall dwell with condence, when I

shall have executed judgments upon all that are

their enemies round about: and they shall know

that I am the Lord their God.

Chapter 29

In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh

day of the month, the word of the Lord came to

me, saying:

2Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king

of Egypt: and thou shalt prophesy of him, and

of all Egypt:

3Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God:

Behold, I come against thee, Pharao king of

Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst

of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and

I made myself.
4But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I

will cause the sh of thy rivers to stick to thy

scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst

of thy rivers, and all thy sh shall stick to thy

scales.

5And I will cast thee forth into the desert,

and all the sh of thy river: thou shalt fall upon

the face of the earth, thou shalt not be taken

up, nor gathered together: I have given thee formeat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls

of the air.

6And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know

that I am the Lord: because thou hast been a

sta of a reed to the house of Israel.

7When they took hold of thee with the hand

thou didst break, and rent all their shoulder: and

when they leaned upon thee, thou brokest, and

weakenest all their loins.

8Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold,

I will bring the sword upon thee: and cut o

man and beast out of thee.

9And the land of Egypt shall become a desert,

and a wilderness: and they shall know that I am

the Lord, because thou hast said: The river is

mine, and I made it.

10Therefore, behold I come against thee, and

thy rivers: and I will make the land of Egypt ut-

terly desolate, and wasted by the sword, from the

tower of Syene, even to the borders of Ethiopia.

11The foot of man shall not pass through it,

neither shall the foot of beasts go through it: nor

shall it be inhabited during forty years.

12And I will make the land of Egypt desolate

in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and

the cities thereof in the midst of the cites that are

destroyed, and they shall be desolate for forty

years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among

the nations, and will disperse them through the

countries.

13For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of

forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the

people among whom they had been scattered.

14And I will bring back the captivity of

Egypt, and will place them in the land of Pha-

tures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall

be there a low kingdom:

15It shall be the lowest among other king-

doms, and it shall no more be exalted over the

nations, and I will diminish them that they shall1072 Prophecy of Ezechiel

rule no more over the nations.

16And they shall be no more a condence to

the house of Israel, teaching iniquity, that they

may
ee, and follow them: and they shall know

that I am the Lord God.

17And it came to pass in the seven and twen-

tieth year in the rst month, in the rst of the

month: that the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

18Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Baby-

lon hath made his army to undergo hard service

against Tyre: every head was made bald, and

every shoulder was peeled and there hath been

no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for

the service that he rendered me against it.

19Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Be-

hold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the king of

Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall take

her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a

prey, and ri

e the spoils thereof: and it shall be

wages for his army.

20And for the service that he hath done me

against it: I have given him the land of Egypt,

because he hath laboured for me, saith the Lord

God.

21In that day a horn shall bud forth to the

house of Israel, and I will give thee an open

mouth in the midst of them: and they shall know

that I am the Lord.

Chapter 30

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith

the Lord God: Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day:

3For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord

is near: a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the

nations.

4And the sword shall come upon Egypt:and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the

wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude

thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations

thereof shall be destroyed.

5Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the

rest of the crowd, and Chub, and the children of

the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by

the sword.

6Thus saith the Lord God: They also that

uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her em-

pire shall be brought down: from the tower of

Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the

Lord the God of hosts.

7And they shall be desolate in the midst of

the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof

shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

8And they shall know that I am the Lord:

when I shall have set a re in Egypt, and all the

helpers thereof shall be destroyed.

9In that day shall messengers go forth from

my face in ships to destroy the condence of

Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them

in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly

come.

10Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the

multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabu-

chodonosor the king of Babylon.

11He and his people with him, the strongest

of nations, shall be brought to destroy the land:

and they shall draw their swords upon Egypt:

and shall ll the land with the slain.

12And I will make the channels of the rivers

dry, and will deliver the land into the hand of

the wicked: and will lay waste the land and all

that is therein by the hands of strangers, I the

Lord have spoken it.

13Thus saith the Lord God: I will also de-

stroy the idols, and I will make an end of the

idols of Memphis: and there shall: be no more

a prince of the land of Egypt and I will cause aProphecy of Ezechiel 1073

terror in the land of Egypt.

14And I will destroy the land of Phatures,

and will make a re in Taphnis, and will execute

judgments in Alexandria.
15And I will pour out my indignation upon

Pelusium the strength of Egypt, and will cut o

the multitude of Alexandria.

16And I will make a re in Egypt: Pelusium

shall be in pain like a woman in labour, and

Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis

there shall be daily distresses.

17The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubas-

tus shall fall by the sword, and they themselves

shall go into captivity.

18And in Taphnis the day shall be darkened,

when I shall break there the sceptres of Egypt,

and the pride of her power shall cease in her: a

cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be

led into captivity.

19And I will execute judgments in Egypt:

and they shall know that I am the Lord.

20And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in

the rst month, in the seventh day of the month,

that the word of the Lord came, me, saying:

21Son of man, I have broken the arm of

Pharao king of Egypt: and behold it is not bound

up, to be healed, to be tied up with clothes,

and swathed with linen, that it might recover

strength, and hold the sword.

22Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Be-

hold, I come against Pharao king of Egypt, and

I will break into pieces his strong arm, which is

already broken: and I will cause the sword to fall

out of his hand:

23And I will disperse Egypt among the na-

tions, and scatter them through the countries.

24And I will strengthen the arms of the king

of Babylon, and will put my sword in his hand:

and I will break the arms of Pharao, and they

shall groan bitterly being slain before his face.25And I will strengthen the arms of the king

of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fall:

and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I

shall have given my sword into the hand of the

king of Babylon, and he shall have stretched it

forth upon the land of Egypt.

26And I will disperse Egypt among the na-

tions, and will scatter them through the coun-

tries, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 31

And it came to pass, in the eleventh year, the

third month the rst day of the month, that the

word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt,

and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy

greatness?

3Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus,

with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high

stature, and his top was elevated among the

thick boughs.

4The waters nourished him, the deep set him

tip on high, the streams thereof ran round about

his roots, and it sent, forth its rivulets to all the

trees of the country.

5Therefore was his height exalted above all

the trees of the country and his branches were

multiplied, and his boughs were elevated because

of many waters.

6And when he had spread forth his shadow,

all the fowls of the air made their nests in his

boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought

forth their young under his branches, and the as-

sembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.

7And he was most beautiful for his greatness,

and for the spreading of his branches: for his root

was near great waters.

8The cedars in the paradise of God were not1074 Prophecy of Ezechiel

higher than he, the r trees did not equal his

top, neither were the plane trees to be compared

with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of

God was like him in his beauty.

9For I made him beautiful and thick set with

many branches: and all the trees of pleasure,

that were in the paradise of God, envied him.

10Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Be-

cause he was exalted in height, and shot up his

top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up

in his height:

11I have delivered him into the hands of the

mighty one of the nations, he shall deal with him:

I have cast him out according to his wickedness.

12And strangers, and the most cruel of the

nations shall cut him down, and cast him away

upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall

in every valley, and his branches shall be broken

on every rock of the country: and all the people

of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and

leave him.

13All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins,

and all the beasts of the eld were among his

branches.

14For which cause none of the trees by the

waters shall exalt themselves for their height:

nor shoot up their tops among the thick branches

and leaves, neither shall any of them that are wa-

tered stand up in their height: for they are all

delivered unto death to the lowest parts of the

earth, in the midst of the children of men, with

them that go down into the pit.

15Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when

he went down to hell, I brought in mourning, I

covered him with the deep: and I withheld its

rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus

grieved for him, and all the trees of the eld

trembled.

16I shook the nations with the sound of his

fall, when I brought him down to hell with themthat descend into the pit: and all the trees of

pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that

were moistened with waters, were comforted in

the lowest parts of the earth.

17For they also shall go down with him to

hell to them that are slain by the sword; and the

arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow

in the midst of the nations.

18To whom art thou like, O thou that art

famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure?

Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of

pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou

shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised,

with them that are slain by the sword: this is

Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord

God.

Chapter 32

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the

twelfth month, in the rst day of the month, that

the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, take up a lamentation for

Pharao the king of Egypt, and say to him: Thou

art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon

that is in the sea: and thou didst push with

the horn in thy rivers, and didst trouble the wa-

ters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their

streams.

3Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will

spread out my net over thee with the multitude

of many people, and I will draw thee up in my

net.

4And I will throw thee out on the land, I will

cast thee away into the open eld and I will cause

all the fowls of the air to dwell upon thee, and I

will ll the beasts of all the earth with thee.

5And I will lay thy

esh upon the mountains,

and will ll thy hills with thy corruption,Prophecy of Ezechiel 1075

6And I will water the earth with thy stinking

blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall

be lled with thee.

7And I will cover the heavens, when thou

shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof

dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the

moon shall not give her light.

8I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn

over thee and I will cause darkness upon thy

land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded

shall fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord

God.

9And I shall provoke to anger the heart of

many people, when I shall have brought in thy

destruction among the nations upon the lands,

which thou knowest not.

10And I will make many people to be amazed

at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid

for thee, when my sword shall begin to

y upon

their faces: and they shall be astonished on a

sudden, every one for his own life, in the day of

their ruin.

11For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of

the king of Babylon shall come upon thee,

12By the swords of the mighty I will over-

throw thy multitude: all these nations are invin-

cible: and they shall waste the pride of Egypt,

and the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

13I will destroy also all the beasts thereof

that were beside the great waters: and the foot

of man shall trouble them no more, neither shall

the hoof of beasts trouble them.

14Then will I make their waters clear, and

cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord

God:

15When I shall have made the land of Egypt

desolate: and the land shall be destitute of her

fulness, when I shall have struck all the inhabi-

tants thereof and they shall know that I am the

Lord.16This is the lamentation, and they shall

lament therewith: the daughters of the nations

shall lament therewith for Egypt, and for the

multitude thereof they shall lament therewith,

saith the Lord God.

17And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in

the fteenth day of the month, that the word of

the Lord came to me saying:

18Son of man, sing a mournful song for the

multitude of Egypt: and cast her down, both

her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to

the lowest part of the earth, with them that go

down into the pit.

19Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down

and sleep with the uncircumcised.

20They shall fall in the midst of them that

are slain with the sword: the sword is given, they

have drawn her down, and all her people.

21The most mighty among the strong ones

shall speak to him from the midst of hell, they

that went down with his helpers and slept uncir-

cumcised, slain by the sword.

22Assur is there, and all his multitude: their

graves are round about him, all of them slain,

and that fell by the sword.

23Whose graves are set in the lowest parts of

the pit: and his multitude lay round about his

grave: all of them slain, and fallen by the sword,

they that heretofore spread terror in the land of

the living.

24There is Elam and all his multitude round

about his grave, all of them slain, and fallen by

the sword; that went down uncircumcised to the

lowest parts of the earth: that caused their terror

in the land of the living, and they have borne

their shame with them that go down into the

pit.

25In the midst of the slain they have set him a

bed among all his people: their graves are round

about him: all these are uncircumcised, and slain1076 Prophecy of Ezechiel

by the sword: for they spread their terror in the

land of the living, and have borne their shame

with them that descend into the pit: they are

laid in the midst of the slain.

26There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and all their

multitude: their graves are round about him: all

of them uncircumcised and slain, and fallen by

the sword: though they spread their terror in the

land of the living.

27And they shall not sleep with the brave,

and with them that fell uncircumcised, that went

down to hell with their weapons, and laid their

swords under their heads, and their iniquities

were in their bones, because they were the terror

of the mighty in the land of the living.

28So thou also shalt be broken in the midst

of the uncircumcised, and shalt sleep with them

that are slain by the sword.

29There is Edom, and her kings, and all her

princes, who with their army are joined with

them that are slain by the sword: and have slept

with the uncircumcised, and with them that go

down into the pit.

30There are all the princes of the north, and

all the hunters: who were brought down with the

slain, fearing, and confounded in their strength:

who slept uncircumcised with them that are slain

by the sword, and have borne their shame with

them that go down into the pit.

31Pharao saw them, and he was comforted

concerning all his multitude, which was slain by

the sword: Pharao, and all his army, saith the

Lord God:

32Because I have spread my terror in the land

of the living, and he hath slept in the midst of

the uncircumcised with them that are slain by

the sword: Pharao and all his multitude, saith

the Lord God.Chapter 33

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, speak to the children of thy

people, and say to them: When I bring the sword

upon a land, if the people of the land take a man,

one of their meanest, and make him a watchman

over them:

3And he sees the sword coming upon the land,

and sound the trumpet, and tell the people:

4Then he that heareth the sound of the trum-

pet, whosoever he be, and doth not look to him-

self, if the sword come, and cut him o: his blood

shall be upon his own head.

5He heard the sound of the trumpet, and did

not look to himself, his blood shall be upon him:

but if he look to himself, he shall save his life.

6And if the watchman see the sword coming,

and sound not the trumpet: and the people look

not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut

o a soul from among them: he indeed is taken

away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood

at the hand of the watchman.

7So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a

watchman to the house of Israel: therefore thou

shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt

tell it them from me.

8When I say to the wicked: O wicked man,

thou shalt surely die: if thou dost not speak to

warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked

man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require

his blood at thy hand.

9But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may

be converted from his ways, and he be not con-

verted from his way he shall die in his iniquity:

but thou hast delivered thy soul.

10Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the

house of Israel: Thus you have spoken, saying:

Our iniquities, and our sins are upon us, and we

pine away in them: how then can we live?Prophecy of Ezechiel 1077

11Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God,

I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the

wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn

ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O

house of Israel?

12Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the

children of thy people: The justice of the just

shall not deliver him, in what day soever he shall

sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not

hurt him, in what day soever he shall turn from

his wickedness: and the just shall not be able to

live in his justice, in what day soever he shall

sin.

13Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall

surely live, and he, trusting in his justice, com-

mit iniquity: all his justices shall be forgotten,

and his iniquity, which he hath committed, in

the same shall he die.

14And it I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt

surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do

judgment and justice,

15And if that wicked man restore the pledge,

and render what he had robbed, and walk in the

commandments of life, and do no unjust thing:

he shall surely live, and shall not die.

16None of his sins, which he hath committed,

shall be imputed to him: he hath done judgment

and justice, he shall surely live.

17And the children of thy people have said:

The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas

their own way is unjust.

18For when the just shall depart from his jus-

tice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.

19And when the wicked shall depart from his

wickedness, and shall do judgments, and justice,

he shall live in them.

20And you say: The way of the Lord is not

right, I will judge every one of you according to

his ways, O house of Israel.

21And it came to pass in the twelfth year ofour captivity, in the tenth month, in the fth

day of the month, that there came to me one

that was

ed from Jerusalem, saying: The city

is laid waste.

22And the hand of the Lord had been upon

me in the evening, before he that was

ed came:

and he opened my mouth till he came to me in

the morning, and my mouth being opened, I was

silent no more.

23And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

24Son of man, they that dwell in these ru-

inous places in the land of Israel, speak, saying:

Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but

we are many, the land is given us in possession.

25Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord

God: You that eat with the blood and lift up

your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed

blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?

26You stood on your swords, you have com-

mitted abominations, and every one hath deled

his neighbours wife; and shall you possess the

land by inheritance?

27Say thou thus to them: Thus saith the Lord

God: As I live, they that dwell in the ruinous

places, shall fall by the sword: and he that is

in the eld, shall be given to the beasts to be

devoured: and they that are in holds, and caves,

shall die of the pestilence.

28And I will make the land a wilderness, and

a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall

fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be deso-

late, because there is none to pass by them,

29And they shall know that I am the Lord,

when I shall have made their land waste and des-

olate, for all their abominations which they have

committed.

30And thou son of man: the children of thy

people, that talk of thee by the walls, and in the

doors of the houses, and speak one to another1078 Prophecy of Ezechiel

each man to his neighbour, saying: Come, and

let us hear what is the word that cometh forth

from the Lord.

31And they come to thee, as if people were

coming in, and my people sit before thee: and

hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn

them into a song of their mouth, and their heart

goeth after their covetousness.

32And thou art to them as a musical song

which is sung with a sweet and agreeable voice:

and they hear thy words, and do them not.

33And when that which was foretold shall

come to pass, for behold it is coming, then shall

they know that a prophet hath been among

them.

Chapter 34

And the word of the Lord came to me, it saying:

2Son of man, prophesy concerning the shep-

herds of Israel: prophesy, and say to the shep-

herds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the

shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should

not the

ocks be fed by the shepherds?

3You ate the milk, and you clothed yourselves

with the wool, and you killed that which was fat:

but my

ock you did not feed.

4The weak you have not strengthened, and

that which was sick you have not healed, that

which was broken you have not bound up,

and that which was driven away you have not

brought again, neither have you sought that

which was lost: but you ruled over them with

rigour, and with a high hand.

5And my sheep were scattered, because there

was no shepherd and they became the prey of all

the beasts of the eld, and were scattered.

6My sheep have wandered in every mountain,

and in every high hill: and my

ocks were scat-tered upon the face of the earth, and there was

none that sought them, there was none, I say,

that sought them.

7Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of

the Lord:

8As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as

my

ocks have been made a spoil, and my sheep

are become a prey to all the beasts of the eld,

because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds

did not seek after my

ock, but the shepherds fed

themselves, and fed not my

ocks:

9Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of

the Lord:

10Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself

come upon the shepherds, I will require my

ock

at their hand, and I will cause them to cease

from feeding the

ock any more, neither shall

the shepherds feed themselves any more: and I

will deliver my

ock from their mouth, and it

shall no more be meat for them.

11For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I my-

self will seek my sheep, and will visit them.

12As the shepherd visiteth his

ock in the

day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep

that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, and

will deliver them out of all the places where they

have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

13And I will bring them out from the peoples,

and will gather them out of the countries, and

will bring them to their own land: and I will feed

them in the mountains of Israel, by the rivers,

and in all the habitations of the land.

14I will feed them in the most fruitful pas-

tures, and their pastures shall be in the high

mountains of Israel: there shall they rest on the

green grass, and be fed in fat pastures upon the

mountains of Israel.

15I will feed my sheep: and I will cause them

to lie down, saith the Lord God.

16I will seek that which was lost: and thatProphecy of Ezechiel 1079

which was driven away, I will bring again: and

I will bind up that which was broken, and I will

strengthen that which was weak, and that which

was fat and strong I will preserve, and I will feed

them in judgment.

17And as for you, O my

ocks, thus saith the

Lord God: Behold I judge between cattle and

cattle, of rams and of he goats.

18Was it not enough for you to feed upon

good pastures? but you must also tread down

with your feet the residue of your pastures: and

when you drank the clearest water, you troubled

the rest with your feet.

19And my sheep were fed with that which

you had trodden with your feet: and they drank

what your feet had troubled.

20Therefore thus saith the Lord God to you:

Behold, I myself will judge between the fat cattle

and the lean.

21Because you thrusted with sides and shoul-

ders, and struck all the weak cattle with your

horns, till they were scattered abroad:

22I will save my

ock, and it shall be no more

a spoil, and I will judge between cattle and cat-

tle.

23And I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD

OVER THEM, and he shall feed them, even my

servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall

be their shepherd.

24And I the Lord will be their God: and my

servant David the prince in the midst of them: I

the Lord have spoken it.

25And I will make a covenant of peace with

them, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out

of the land: and they that dwell in the wilderness

shall sleep secure in the forests.

26And I will make them a blessing round

about my hill: and I will send down the rain

in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.

27And the tree of the eld shall yield its fruit,and the earth shall yield her increase, and they

shall be in their land without fear: and they shall

know that I am the Lord, when I shall have bro-

ken the bonds of their yoke, and shall have de-

livered them out of the hand of those that rule

over them.

28And they shall be no more for a spoil to

the nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth

devour them: but they shall dwell securely with-

out, any terror.

29And I will raise up for them a bud of

renown: and they shall be no more consumed

with famine in the land, neither shall they bear

any more the reproach of the Gentiles.

30And they shall know that I the Lord their

God am with them, and that they are my people

the house of Israel: saith the Lord God.

31And you my

ocks, the

ocks of my pasture

are men: and I am the Lord your God, saith the

Lord God.

Chapter 35

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir,

and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:

3Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come

against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch forth

my hand upon thee, and I will make thee deso-

late and waste.

4I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be

desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the

Lord.
5Because thou hast been an everlasting en-

emy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in

the hands of the sword in the time of their aic-

tion, in the time of their last iniquity.

6Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will

deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue1080 Prophecy of Ezechiel

thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood

shall pursue thee.

7And I will make mount Seir waste and deso-

late: and I will take away from it him that goeth

and him that returneth.

8And I will ll his mountains with his men

that are slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys,

and in thy torrents they shall fall that are slain

with the sword.

9I will make thee everlasting desolations, and

thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt

know that I am the Lord God.

10Because thou hast said: The two nations,

and the two lands shall be mine, and I will pos-

sess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was

there.

11Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I

will do according to thy wrath, and according to

thy envy, which thou hast exercised in hatred to

them: and I will be made known by them, when

I shall have judged thee.

12And thou shalt know that I the Lord have

heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken

against the mountains of Israel, saying. They

are desolate, they are given to us to consume.

13And you rose up against me with your

mouth, and have derogated from me by your

words: I have heard them.

14Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole

earth shall rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.

15As thou hast rejoiced over the inheritance

of the house of Israel, because it was laid waste,

so will I do to thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O

mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know

that I am the Lord.Chapter 36

And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains

of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear

the word of the Lord:

2Thus saith the Lord God: Because the en-

emy hath said to you: Aha, the everlasting

heights are given to us for an inheritance.

3Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the

Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and

trodden under foot on every side, and made an

inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are

become the subject of the talk, and the reproach

of the people:

4Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the

word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God

to the mountains, and to the hills, to the brooks,

and to the valleys, and to desolate places, and

ruinous walls, and to the cities that are forsaken,

that are spoiled, and derided by the rest of the

nations round about.

5Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the

re of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the

nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my

land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy,

and with all the heart, and with the mind: and

have cast it out to lay it waste.

6Prophesy therefore concerning the land of

Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills,

to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus saith the

Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and

in my indignation, because you have borne the

shame of the Gentiles.

7Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have

lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are

round about you, shall themselves bear their

shame.

8But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot

ye forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my

people of Israel: for they are at hand to come.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1081

9For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you,

and you shall be ploughed and sown.

10And I will multiply men upon you, and all

the house of Israel: and the cities ball be inhab-

ited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired.

11And I will make you abound with men and

with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and

increased: and I will settle you as from the be-

ginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you

had from the beginning: and you shall know that

I am the Lord.

12And I will bring men upon you, my peo-

ple Israel, and they shall possess thee for their

inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance,

and shalt no more henceforth be without them.

13Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy say

of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and one

that suocatest thy nation:

14Therefore thou shalt devour men no more

nor destroy thy nation any more, saith the Lord

God.

15Neither will I cause men to hear in thee

the shame of the nations any more, nor shalt

thou bear the reproach of the people, nor lose

thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.

16And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

17Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt

in their own land, they deled it with their ways,

and with their doings: their way was before me

like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.

18And I poured out my indignation upon

them for the blood which they had shed upon

the land, and with their idols they deled it.

19And I scattered them among the nations,

and they are dispersed through the countries: I

have judged them according to their ways, and

their devices.

20And when they entered among the nations

whither they went, they profaned my holy name,when it was said of them: This is the people of

the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.

21And I have regarded my own holy name,

which the house of Israel hath profaned among

the nations to which they went in.

22Therefore thou shalt say to the house of

Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: It is not for

your sake that I will do this, O house of Israel,

but for my holy name's sake, which you have

profaned among the nations whither you went.

23And I will sanctify my great name, which

was profaned among the Gentiles, which you

have profaned in the midst of them: that the

Gentiles may know that I am the Lord, saith the

Lord of hosts, when I shall be sanctied in you

before their eyes.

24For I will take you from among the Gen-

tiles, and will gather you together out of all the

countries, and will bring you into your own land.

25And I will pour upon you clean water, and

you shall be cleansed from all your lthiness, and

I will cleanse you from all your idols.

26And I will give you a new heart, and put a

new spirit within you: and I will take away the

stony heart out of your

esh, and will give you

a heart of

esh.

27And I will put my spirit in the midst of

you: and I will cause you to walk in my com-

mandments, and to keep my judgments, and do

them.

28And you shall dwell in the land which I

gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people,

and I will be your God.

29And I will save you from all your unclean-

nesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply

it, and will lay no famine upon you.

30And I will multiply the fruit of the tree,

and the increase of the eld, that you bear no

more the reproach of famine among the nations.

31And you shall remember your wicked ways,1082 Prophecy of Ezechiel

and your doings that were not good: and your

iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall displease

you.

32It is not for your sakes that I will do this,

saith the Lord God, be it known to you: be

confounded, and ashamed at your own ways, O

house of Israel.

33Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that

I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, and

shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and shall

repair the ruinous places,

34And the desolate land shall be tilled, which

before was waste in the sight of all that passed

by,

35They shall say: This land that was un-

tilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the

cities that were abandoned, and desolate, and

destroyed, are peopled and fenced.

36And the nations, that shall be left round

about you, shall know that I the Lord have built

up what was destroyed, and planted what was

desolate, that I the Lord have spoken and done

it.

37Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this

shall the house of Israel nd me, that I will do it

for them: I will multiply them as a

ock of men,

38As a holy

ock, as the

ock of Jerusalem

in her solemn feasts: so shall the waste cities be

full of

ocks of men: and they shall know that I

am the Lord.

Chapter 37

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought

me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me

down in the midst of a plain that was full of

bones.

2And he led me about through them on every

side: now they were very many upon the face ofthe plain, and they were exceeding dry.

3And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou

think these bones shall live and I answered: O

Lord God, thou knowest.

4And he said to me: Prophesy concerning

these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones,

hear the word of the Lord.

5Thus saith the Lord God to these bones:

Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall

live.

6And I will lay sinews upon you, and will

cause

esh to grow over you, and will cover you

with skin: and I will give you spirit and you shall

live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

7And I prophesied as he had commanded me:

and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold

a commotion: and the bones came together, each

one, its joint.

8And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the

esh came up upon them: and the skin was

stretched out over them, but there was no spirit

in them.

9And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit,

prophesy, O son of man, and say to the spirit:

Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from the

four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let

them live again.

10And I prophesied as he had commanded

me: and the spirit came into them, and they

lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an ex-

ceeding great army.

11And he said to me: Son of man: All these

bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our

bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we

are cut o.

12Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus

saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your

graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres,

O my people: and will bring you into the land

of Israel.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1083

13And you shall know that I am the Lord,

when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and

shall have brought you out of your graves, O my

people:

14And shall have put my spirit in you, and

you shall live, and I shall make you rest upon

your own land: and you shall know that I the

Lord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord

God:

15And the word of the Lord came to me,

saying:

16And thou son of man, take thee a stick:

and write upon it: Of Juda, and of the chil-

dren of Israel his associates: and take another

stick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick of

Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, and of

his associates.

17And join them one to the other into one

stick, and they shall become one in thy hand.

18And when the children of thy people shall

speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what

thou meanest by this?

19Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:

Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is

in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Is-

rael that are associated with him, and I will put

them together with the stick of Juda, and will

make them one stick: and they shall be one in

his hand.

20And the sticks whereon thou hast written,

shall be in thy hand, before their eyes.

21And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the

Lord God: Behold, I will take of the children of

Israel from the midst of the nations whither they

are gone: and I will gather them on every side,

and will bring them to their own land.

22And I will make them one nation in the

land on the mountains of Israel, and one king

shall be king over them all: and they shall no

more be two nations, neither shall they be di-vided any more into two kingdoms.

23Nor shall they be deled any more with

their idols, nor with their abominations, nor with

all their iniquities: and I will save them out of

all the places in which they have sinned, and I

will cleanse them: and they shall be my people,

and I will be their God.

24And my servant David shall be king over

them, and they shall have one shepherd: they

shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my

commandments, and shall do them.

25And they shall dwell in the land which I

gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers

dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their

children, and their children's children, for ever:

and David my servant shall be their prince for

ever.

26And I will make a covenant of peace with

them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with

them: and I will establish them, and will multi-

ply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst

of them for ever.

27And my tabernacle shall be with them: and

I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

28And the nations shall know that I am the

Lord the sanctier of Israel, when my sanctuary

shall be in the midst of them for ever.

Chapter 38

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the

land of Magog, the chief prince of Mosoch and

Thubal: and prophesy of him,

4And I will turn thee about, and I will put a

bit in thy jaws: and I will bring thee forth, and

all thy army, horses and horsemen all clothed

with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with

spears and shields and swords.1084 Prophecy of Ezechiel

5The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with

them, all with shields and helmets.

6Gomer, and all his bands, the house

of Thogorma, the northern parts and all his

strength, and many peoples with thee.

7Prepare and make thyself ready, and all thy

multitude that is assembled about thee, and be

thou commander over them.

8After many days thou shalt be visited: at the

end of years thou shalt come to the land that is

returned from the sword, and is gathered out of

many nations, to the mountains of Israel which

have been continually waste: but it hath been

brought forth out of the nations, and they shall

all of them dwell securely in it.

9And thou shalt go up and come like a storm,

and like a cloud to cover the land, thou and all

thy bands and many people with thee.

10Thus saith the Lord God: In that day

projects shall enter into thy heart, and thou shalt

conceive a mischievous design.

11And thou shalt say: I will go up to the land

which is without a wall, I will come to them that

are at rest, and dwell securely: all these dwell

without a wall, they have no bars nor gates:

12To take spoils, and lay hold on the prey, to

lay thy hand upon them that had been wasted,

and afterwards restored, and upon the people

that is gathered together out of the nations,

which hath begun to possess and to dwell in the

midst of the earth.

13Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants of

Tharsis, and all the lions thereof shall say to

thee: Art thou come to take spoils? behold,

thou hast gathered thy multitude to take a prey,

to take silver, and gold, and to carry away goods

and substance, and to take rich spoils.

14Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy and

say to Gog: Thus saith the Lord God: Shalt thou

not know, in that day, when my people of Israelshall dwell securely?

15And thou shalt come out of thy place from

the northern parts, thou and many people with

thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great com-

pany and a mighty army.

16And thou shalt come upon my people of

Israel like a cloud, to cover the earth. Thou shalt

be in the latter days, and I will bring thee upon

my land: that the nations may know me, when

I shall be sanctied in thee, O Gog, before their

eyes.

17Thus saith the Lord God: Thou then art

he, of whom I have spoken in the days of old, by

my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophe-

sied in the days of those times that I would bring

thee upon them.

18And it shall come to pass in that day, in

the day of the coming of Gog upon the land of

Israel, saith the Lord God, that my indignation

shall come up in my wrath.

19And I have spoken in my zeal, and in the

re of my anger, that in that day there shall be

a great commotion upon the land of Israel:

20So that the shes of the sea, and the birds

of the air, and the beasts of the eld, and every

creeping thing that creepeth upon the ground,

and all men that are upon the face of the earth,

shall be moved at my presence: and the moun-

tains shall be thrown down, and the hedges shall

fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

21And I will call in the sword against him

in all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every

man's sword shall be pointed against his brother.

22And I will judge him with pestilence, and

with blood, and with violent rain, and vast hail-

stones: I will rain re and brimstone upon him,

and upon his army, and upon the many nations

that are with him.

23And I will be magnied, and I will be sanc-

tied: and I will be known in the eyes of manyProphecy of Ezechiel 1085

nations and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 39

And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog,

and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I

come against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of

Mosoch and Thubal.

2And I will turn thee round, and I will lead

thee out, and will make thee go up from the

northern parts: and will bring thee upon the

mountains of Israel.

3And I will break thy bow in thy left hand,

and I will cause thy arrows to fall out of thy right

hand.

4Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel,

thou and all thy bands, and thy nations that are

with thee: I have given thee to the wild beasts,

to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts

of the earth to be devoured.

5Thou shalt fall upon the face of the eld: for

I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

6And I will send a re on Magog, and on

them that dwell condently in the islands: and

they shall know that I am the Lord.

7And I will make my holy name known in

the midst of my people Israel, and my holy name

shall be profaned no more: and the Gentiles shall

know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

8Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith the

Lord God: this is the day whereof I have spoken.

9And the inhabitants shall go forth of the

cities of Israel, and shall set on re and burn

the weapons, the shields, and the spears, the

bows and the arrows, and the handstaves and

the pikes: and they shall burn them with re

seven years.

10And they shall not bring wood out of the

countries, nor cut down out of the forests: forthey shall burn the weapons with re, and shall

make a prey of them to whom they had been a

prey, and they shall rob those that robbed them,

saith the Lord God.

11And it shall come to pass in that day, that

I will give Gog a noted place for a sepulchre in

Israel: the valley of the passengers on the east of

the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them

that pass by: and there shall they bury Gog, and
all his multitude, and it shall be called the valley

of the multitude of Gog.

12And the house of Israel shall bury them for

seven months to cleanse the land.

13And all the people of the land shall bury

him, and it shall be unto them a noted day,

wherein I was gloried, saith the Lord God.

14And they shall appoint men to go contin-

ually about the land, to bury and to seek out

them that were remaining upon the face of the

earth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven

months they shall begin to seek.

15And they shall go about passing through

the land: and when they shall see the bone of a

man, they shall set up sign by it, till the buriers

bury it in the valley, of the multitude of Gog.

16And the name of the city shall be Amona,

and they shall cleanse the land.

17And thou, O son of man, saith the Lord

God, say to every fowl, and to all the birds, and

to all the beasts of the eld: Assemble your-

selves, make haste, come together from every

side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great

victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat

esh,

and drink blood.

18You shall eat the

esh of the mighty, and

you shall drink the blood of the princes of the

earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats,

and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.

19And you shall eat the fat till you be full,

and shall drink blood till you be drunk of the1086 Prophecy of Ezechiel

victim which I shall slay for you.

20And you shall be lled at my table with

horses, and mighty horsemen, and all the men of

war, saith the Lord God.

21And I will set my glory among the nations:

and all nations shall see my judgment that I have

executed, and my hand that I have laid upon

them.

22And the house of Israel shall know that I

am the Lord their God from that day and for-

ward.

23And the nations shall know that the house

of Israel were made captives for their iniquity,

because they forsook me, and I hid my face from

them: and I delivered them into the hands of

their enemies, and they fell all by the sword.

24I have dealt with them according to their

uncleanness, and wickedness, and hid my face

from them.
25Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Now

will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and will

have mercy on all the house of Israel and I will

be jealous for my holy name.

26And they shall bear their confusion, and

all the transgressions wherewith they have trans-

gressed against me, when they shall dwell in their

land securely fearing no man:

27And I shall have brought them back from

among the nations, and shall have gathered them

together out of the lands of their enemies, and

shall be sanctied in them, in the sight of many

nations.

28And they shall know that I am the Lord

their God, because I caused them to be carried

away among the nations; and I have gathered

them together unto their own land, and have not

left any of them there.

29And I will hide my face no more from them,

for I have poured out my spirit upon all the house

of Israel, saith the Lord God.Chapter 40

In the ve and twentieth year of our captivity, in

the beginning of the year, the tenth day of the

month, the fourteenth year after the city was

destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of the

Lord was upon me, and he brought me thither.

2In the visions of God he brought me into

the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high

mountain: upon which there was as the building

of a city, bending towards the south.

3And he brought me in thither, and behold a

man, whose appearance was like the appearance

of brass, with a line of

ax in his hand, and a

measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the

gate.

4And this man said to me: Son of man, see

with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, and set

thy heart upon all that I shall shew thee: for

thou art brought hither that they may be shewn

to thee: declare all that thou seest, to the house

of Israel.

5And behold there was a wall on the out-

side of the house round about, and in the man's

hand a measuring reed of six cubits and a hand-

breadth: and he measured the breadth of the

building one reed, and the height one reed.

6And he came to the gate that looked toward

the east, and he went up the steps thereof: and

he measured the breadth of the threshold of the

gate one reed, that is, one threshold was one reed

broad;
7And every little chamber was one reed long,

and one reed broad: and between the little cham-

bers were ve cubits:

8And the threshold of the gate by the porch

of the gate within, was one reed.

9And he measured the porch of the gate eight

cubits, and the front thereof two cubits: and the

porch of the gate was inward.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1087

10And the little chambers of the gate that

looked eastward were three on this side, and

three on that side: all three were of one measure,

and the fronts of one measure, on both parts.

11And he measured the breadth of the thresh-

old of the gate ten cubits: and the length of the

gate thirteen cubits:

12And the border before the little chambers

one cubit: and one cubit was the border on both

sides: and the little chambers were six cubits on

this side and that side.

13And he measured the gate from the roof

of one little chamber to the roof of another, in

breadth ve and twenty cubits: door against

door.

14He made also fronts of sixty cubits: and

to the front the court of the gate on every side

round about.
15And before the face of the gate which

reached even to the face of the porch of the inner

gate, fty cubits.

16And slanting windows in the little cham-

bers, and in their fronts, which were within the

gate on every side round about: and in like man-

ner there were also in the porches windows round

about within, and before the fronts the represen-

tation of palm trees.

17And he brought me into the outward court,

and behold there were chambers, and a pavement

of stone in the court round about: thirty cham-

bers encompassed the pavement.

18And the pavement in the front of the gates

according to the length of the gates was lower.

19And he measured the breadth from the face

of the lower gate to the front of the inner court

without, a hundred cubits to the east, and to the

north.

20He measured also both the length and the

breadth of the gate of the outward court, which

looked northward.21And the little chambers thereof three on

this side, and three on that side: and the front

thereof, and the porch thereof according to the

measure of the former gate, fty cubits long, and

ve and twenty cubits broad.

22And the windows thereof, and the porch,

and the gravings according to the measure of the

gate that looked to the east, and they went up

to it by seven steps, and a porch was before it.

23And the gate of the inner court was over

against the gate of the north, and that of the

east: and he measured from gate to gate a hun-

dred cubits.

24And he brought me out to the way of the

south, and behold the gate that looked to the

south: and he measured the front thereof, and

the porch thereof according to the former mea-

sures.

25And the windows thereof, and the porches

round about, as the other windows: the length

was fty cubits, and the breadth ve and twenty

cubits.

26And there were seven steps to go up to it:

and a porch before the doors thereof: and there

were graven palm trees, one on this side, and

another on that side in the front thereof.

27And there was a gate of the inner court

towards the south: and he measured from gate

to gate towards the south, a hundred cubits.

28And he brought me into the inner court

at the south gate: and he measured the gate

according to the former measures.

29The little chamber thereof, and the front

thereof, and the porch thereof with the same

measures: and the windows thereof, and the

porch thereof round about it was fty cubits in

length, and ve and twenty cubits in breadth.

30And the porch round about was ve and

twenty cubits long, and ve cubits broad.

31And the porch thereof to the outward1088 Prophecy of Ezechiel

court, and the palm trees thereof in the front:

and there were eight steps to go up to it.

32And he brought me into the inner court by

the way of the east: and he measured the gate

according to the former measures.

33The little chamber thereof, and the front

thereof, and the porch thereof as before: and the

windows thereof, and the porches thereof round

about it was fty cubits long, and ve and twenty

cubits broad.

34And the porch thereof, that is, of the out-

ward court: and the graven palm trees in the

front thereof on this side and on that side: and

the going up thereof was by eight steps.

35And he brought me into the gate that

looked to the north: and he measured accord-

ing to the former measures.

36The little chamber thereof, and the front

thereof, and the porch thereof, and the windows

thereof round about it was fty cubits long, and

ve and twenty cubits broad.

37And the porch thereof looked to the out-

ward court: and the graving of palm trees in the

front thereof was on this side and on that side:

and the going up to it was by eight steps.

38And at every chamber was a door in the

forefronts of the gates: there they washed the

holocaust.

39And in the porch of the gate were two ta-

bles on this side, and two tables on that side:

that the holocaust, and the sin oering, and the

trespass oering might be slain thereon.

40And on the outward side, which goeth up

to the entry of the gate that looketh toward the

north, were two tables: and at the other side

before the porch of the gate were two tables,

41Four tables were on this side, and four ta-

bles on that side at the sides of the gate were

eight tables, upon which they slew the victims.

42And the four tables for the holocausts weremade of square stones: one cubit and a half long,

and one cubit and a half broad, and one cubit

high: to lay the vessels upon, in which the holo-

caust and the victim is slain.

43And the borders of them were of one hand-

breadth, turned inwards round about: and upon

the tables was the

esh of the oering.

44And without the inner gate were the cham-

bers of the singing men in the inner court, which

was on the side of the gate that looketh to the

north: and their prospect was towards the south,

one at the side of the east gate, which looketh

toward the north.

45And he said to me: This chamber, which

looketh toward the south shall be for the priests

that watch in the wards of the temple.

46But the chamber that looketh towards the

north shall be for the priests that watch over

the ministry of the altar. These are the sons of

Sadoc, who among the sons of Levi, come near

to the Lord, to minister to him.

47And he measured the court a hun-

dred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad

foursquare: and the altar that was before the

face of the temple.

48And he brought me into the porch of the

temple: and he measured the porch ve cubits

on this side, and ve cubits on that side: and

the breadth of the gate three cubits on this side,

and three cubits on that side.

49And the length of the porch was twenty

cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and there

were eight steps to go up to it. And there were

pillars in the fronts: one on this side, and another

on that side.Prophecy of Ezechiel 1089

Chapter 41

And he brought me into the temple, and he mea-

sured the fronts six cubits broad on this side, and

six cubits on that side, the breadth of the taber-

nacle.

2And the breadth of the gate was ten cubits:

and the sides of the gate ve cubits on this side,

and ve cubits on that side: and he measured

the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth

twenty cubits.

3Then going inward he measured the front of

the gate two cubits: and the gate six cubits, and

the breadth of the gate seven cubits.

4And he measured the length thereof twenty

cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, before the

face of the temple: and he said to me: This is

the holy of holies.

5And he measured the wall of the house six

cubits: and the breadth of every side chamber

four cubits round about the house on every side.

6And the side chambers one by another, were

twice thirty-three: and they bore outwards, that

they might enter in through the wall of the house

in the sides round about, to hold in, and not to

touch the wall of the temple.

7And there was a broad passage round about,

going up by winding stairs, and it led into the

upper loft of the temple all round: therefore was

the temple broader in the higher parts: and so

from the lower parts they went to the higher by

the midst.

8And I saw in the house the height round

about, the foundations of the side chambers

which were the measure of a reed the space of

six cubits:

9And the thickness of the wall for the side

chamber without, which was ve cubits: and the

inner house was within the side chambers of the

house,10And between the chambers was the breadth

of twenty cubits round about the house on every

side.

11And the door of the side chambers was

turned towards the place of prayer: one door

was toward the north, and another door was to-

ward the south: and the breadth of the place for

prayer, was ve cubits round about.

12And the building that was separate, and

turned to the way that looked toward the sea,

was seventy cubits broad and the wall of the

building, ve cubits thick round about: and

ninety cubits long.

13And he measured the length of the house, a

hundred cubits: and the separate building, and

the walls thereof, a hundred cubits in length.

14And the breadth before the face of the

house, and of the separate place toward the east,

a hundred cubits.

15And he measured the length of the building

over against it, which was separated at the back

of it: and the galleries on both sides a hundred

cubits: and the inner temple, and the porches of

the court.

16The thresholds, and the oblique windows,

and the galleries round about on three sides, over

against the threshold of every one, and

oored

with wood all round about: and the ground was

up to the windows, and the windows were shut

over the doors.

17And even to the inner house, and without

all the wall round about within and without, by

measure.
18And there were cherubims and palm trees

wrought, so that a palm tree was between a

cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two

faces.

19The face of a man was toward the palm tree

on one side, and the face of a lion was toward the

palm tree on the other side: set forth through all1090 Prophecy of Ezechiel

the house round about.

20From the ground even to the upper parts of

the gate, were cherubims and palm trees wrought

in the wall of the temple.

21The threshold was foursquare, and the face

of the sanctuary sight to sight.

22The altar of wood was three cubits high:

and the length thereof was two cubits: and the

corners thereof, aid the length thereof, and the

walls thereof, were of wood. And he said to me:

This is the table before the Lord.

23And there were two doors in the temple,

and in the sanctuary.

24And in the two doors on both sides were

two little doors, which were folded within each

other: for there were two wickets on both sides

of the doors.

25And there were cherubims also wrought in

the doors of the temple, and the gures of palm

trees, like as were made on the walls: for which

cause also the planks were thicker in the front of

the porch without.

26Upon which were the oblique windows, and

the representation of palm trees on this side, and

on that side in the sides of the porch, according

to the sides of the house, and the breadth of the

walls.

Chapter 42

And he brought me forth into the outward court

by the way that leadeth to the north, and he

brought me into the chamber that was over

against the separate building, and over against

the house toward the north.

2In the face of the north door was the length

of hundred cubits, and the breadth of fty cubits.

3Over against the twenty cubits of the in-

ner court, and over against the pavement of theoutward court that was paved with stone, where

there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery.

4And before the chambers was a walk ten

cubits broad, looking to the inner parts of a way

of one cubit. And their doors were toward the

north.

5Where were the store chambers lower above:

because they bore up the galleries, which ap-

peared above out of them from he lower parts,

and from the midst of the building.

6For they were of three stories, and had not

pillars, as the pillars of the courts: therefore did

they appear above out of the lower places, and

out of the middle places, fty cubits from the

ground.

7And the outward wall that went about by

the chambers, which were towards the outward

court on the forepart of the chambers, was fty

cubits long.

8For the length of the chambers of the out-

ward court was fty cubits: and the length be-

fore the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.

9And there was under these chambers, an en-

trance from the east, for them that went into

them out of the outward court.

10In the breadth of the outward wall of the

court that was toward the east, over against the

separate building, and there were chambers be-

fore the building.

11And the way before them was like the

chambers which were toward the north: they

were as long as they, and as broad as they: and

all the going in to them, and their fashions, and

their doors were alike.

12According to the doors of the chambers

that were towards the south: there was a door

in the head of the way, which way was before

the porch, separated towards the east as one en-

tereth in.

13And he said to me: The chambers of theProphecy of Ezechiel 1091

north, and the chambers of the south, which

are before the separate building: they are holy

chambers, in which the priests shall eat, that ap-

proach to the Lord into the holy of holies: there

they shall lay the most holy things, and the of-

fering for sin, and for trespass: for it is a holy

place.

14And when the priests shall have entered

in, they shall not go out of the holy places into

the outward court: but there they shall lay their

vestments, wherein they minister, for they are

holy: and they shall put on other garments, and

so they shall go forth to the people.

15Now when he had made an end of measur-

ing the inner house, he brought me out by the

way of the gate that looked toward the east: and

he measured it on every side round about.

16And he measured toward the east with the

measuring reed, ve hundred reeds with the mea-

suring reed round about.

17And he measured toward the north ve

hundred reeds with the measuring reed round

about.

18And towards the south he measured ve

hundred reeds with the measuring reed round

about.

19And toward the west he measured ve hun-

dred reeds, with the measuring reed.

20By the four winds he measured the wall

thereof on every side round about, ve hundred

cubits and ve hundred cubits broad, making a

separation between the sanctuary and the place

of the people.

Chapter 43

And he brought me to the gate that looked to-

wards the east.

2And behold the glory of the God of Israelcame in by the way of the east: and his voice

was like the noise of many waters, and the earth

shone with his majesty.

3And I saw the vision according to the ap-

pearance which I had seen when he came to de-

stroy the city: and the appearance was according

to the vision which I had seen by the river Cho-

bar: and I fell upon my face.

4And the majesty of the Lord went into the

temple by the way of the gate that looked to the

east.
5And the spirit lifted me up and brought me

into the inner court: and behold the house was

lled with the glory of the Lord.

6And I heard one speaking to me out of the

house, and the man that stood by me,

7Said to me: Son of man, the place of my

throne, and the place of the soles of my feet,

where I dwell in the midst of the children of Israel

for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more

profane my holy name, they and their kings by

their fornications, and by the carcasses of their

kings, and by the high places.

8They who have set their threshold by my

threshold, and their posts by my posts: and

there was but a wall between me, and them: and

they profaned my holy name by the abomina-

tions which they committed: for which reason I

consumed them in my wrath.

9Now therefore let them put away their forni-

cations, and the carcasses of their kings far from

me: and I will dwell in the midst of them for

ever.

10But thou, son of man, shew to the house

of Israel the temple, and let them be ashamed of

their iniquities, and let them measure the build-

ing:
11And be ashamed of all that they have done.

Shew them the form of the house, and of the

fashion thereof, the goings out and the comings1092 Prophecy of Ezechiel

in, and the whole plan thereof, and all its ordi-

nances, and all its order, and all its laws, and

thou shalt write it in their sight: that they may

keep the whole form thereof, and its ordinances,

and do them.

12This is the law of the house upon the top of

the mountain: All its border round about; most

holy: this then is the law of the house.

13And these are the measures of the altar

by the truest cubit, which is a cubit and a hand-

breadth: the bottom thereof was a cubit, and the

breadth a cubit: and the border thereof unto its

edge, and round about, one handbreadth: and

this was the trench of the altar.

14And from the bottom of the ground to the

lowest brim two cubits, and the breadth of one

cubit: and from the lesser brim to the greater

brim four cubits, and the breadth of one cubit.

15And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and

from the Ariel upward were four horns.

16And the Ariel was twelve cubits long, and

twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with equal sides.

17And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and

fourteen cubits broad in the four corners thereof:

and the crown round about it was half a cubit,

and the bottom of it one cubit round about: and

its steps turned toward the east.

18And he said to me: Son of man, thus saith

the Lord God: These are the ceremonies of the

altar, in what day soever it shall be made: that

holocausts may be oered upon it, and blood

poured out.

19And thou shalt give to the priests, and the

Levites, that are of the race of Sadoc, who ap-

proach to me, saith the Lord God, to oer to me

a calf of the herd for sin.

20And thou shalt take of his blood, and shalt

put it upon the four horns thereof, and upon the

four corners of the brim, and upon the crown

round about: and thou shalt cleanse, and expiateit.

21And thou shalt take the calf, that is oered

for sin: and thou shalt burn him in a separate

place of the house without the sanctuary.

22And in the second day thou shalt oer a

he goat without blemish for sin: and they shall

expiate the altar, as they expiated it with the

calf.

23And when thou shalt have made an end of

the expiation thereof, thou shalt oer a calf of

the herd without blemish, and a ram of the

ock

without blemish.

24And thou shalt oer them in the sight of

the Lord, and the priests shall put salt upon

them, and shall oer them a holocaust to the

Lord.

25Seven days shalt thou oer a he goat for

sin daily: they shall oer also a calf of the herd,

and a ram of the

ock without blemish.

26Seven days shall they expiate the altar, and

shall cleanse it: and they shall consecrate it.

27And the days being expired, on the eighth

day and thenceforward, the priests shall oer

your holocausts upon the altar, and the peace of-

ferings: and I will be pacied towards you, saith

the Lord God.

Chapter 44

And he brought me back to the way of the gate

of the outward sanctuary, which looked towards

the east: and it was shut.

2And the Lord said to me: This gate shall be

shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall

pass through it: because the Lord the God of

Israel hath entered in by it, and it shall be shut

3For the prince. The prince himself shall sit

in it, to eat bread before the Lord: he shall enter

in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shallProphecy of Ezechiel 1093

go out by the same way.

4And he brought me by the way of the north

gate, in the sight of the house: and I saw, and

behold the glory of the Lord lled the house of

the Lord: and I fell on my face.

5And the Lord said to me: Son of man, at-

tend with thy heart and behold with thy eyes,

and hear with thy ears, all that I say to thee

concerning all the ceremonies of the house of the

Lord, and concerning all the laws thereof: and

mark well the ways of the temple, with all the

goings out of the sanctuary.

6And thou shalt say to the house of Israel

that provoketh me: Thus saith the Lord God:

Let all your wicked doings suce you, O house

of Israel:

7In that you have brought in strangers uncir-

cumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in

esh, to

be in my sanctuary, and to dele my house: and

you oer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and

you have broken my covenant by all your wicked

doings.
8And you have not kept the ordinances of

my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my

charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

9Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger un-

circumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in

esh,

shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that

is in the midst of the children of Israel.

10Moreover the Levites that went away far

from me, when the children of Israel went astray,

and have wandered from me after their idols, and

have borne their iniquity:

11They shall be ocers in my sanctuary, and

doorkeepers of the gates of the house, and minis-

ters to the house: they shall slay the holocausts,

and the victims of the people: and they shall

stand in their sight, to minister to them.

12Because they ministered to them before

their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquityto the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up

my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and

they shall bear their iniquity:

13And they shall not come near to me, to do

the oce of priest to me, neither shall they come

near to any of my holy things that are by the holy

of holies: but they shall bear their shame, and

their wickednesses which they have committed.

14And I will make them doorkeepers of the

house, for all the service thereof, and for all that

shall be done therein.

15But the priests, and Levites, the sons of

Sadoc, who kept the ceremonies of my sanctuary,

when the children of Israel went astray from me,

they shall come near to me, to minister to me:

and they shall stand before me, to oer me the

fat, and the blood, saith the Lord God.

16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and

they shall come near to my table, to minister

unto me, and to keep my ceremonies.

17And when they shall enter in at the gates

of the inner court, they shall be clothed with

linen garments: neither shall any woollen come

upon them, when they minister in the gates of

the inner court and within.

18They shall have linen mitres on their heads,

and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall

not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.

19And when they shall go forth to the out-

ward court to the people, they shall put o

their garments wherein they ministered, and lay

them up in the store chamber of the sanctuary,

and they shall clothe themselves with other gar-

ments: and they shall not sanctify the people

with their vestments.

20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor

wear long hair: but they shall only poll their

heads.

21And no priest shall drink wine when he is

to go into the inner court.1094 Prophecy of Ezechiel

22Neither shall they take to wife a widow, nor

one that is divorced, but they shall take virgins

of the seed of the house of Israel: but they may

take a widow also, that is, the widow of a priest.

23And they shall teach my people the dier-

ence between holy and profane, and shew them

how to discern between clean and unclean.

24And when there shall be a controversy, they

shall stand in my judgments, and shall judge:

they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances in

all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths.

25And they shall come near no dead person,

lest they be deled, only their father and mother,

and son and daughter, and brother and sister,

that hath not had another husband: for whom

they may become unclean.

26And after one is cleansed, they shall reckon

unto him seven days.

27And in the day that he goeth into the sanc-

tuary, to the inner court, to minister unto me in

the sanctuary, he shall oer for his sin, saith the

Lord God.

28And they shall have no inheritance, I am

their inheritance: neither shall you give them

any possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

29They shall eat the victim both for sin and

for trespass: and every vowed thing in Israel shall

be theirs.

31The priests shall not eat of any thing that

is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it

be fowl or cattle.

Chapter 45

And when you shall begin to divide the land by

lot, separate ye rstfruits to the Lord, a por-

tion of the land to be holy, in length twenty-ve

thousand and in breadth ten thousand: it shall

be holy in all the borders thereof round about.2And there shall be for the sanctuary on ev-

ery side ve hundred by ve hundred, foursquare

round about: and fty cubits for the suburbs

thereof round about.

3And with this measure thou shalt measure

the length of ve and twenty thousand, and the

breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be the

temple and the holy of holies.

4The holy portion of the land shall be for the

priests the ministers of the sanctuary, who come

near to the ministry of the Lord: and it shall be

a place for their houses, and for the holy place

of the sanctuary.

5And ve and twenty thousand of length, and

ten thousand of breadth shall be for the Levites,

that minister in the house: they shall possess

twenty store chambers.

6And you shall appoint the possession of the

city ve thousand broad, and ve and twenty

thousand long, according to the separation of the

sanctuary, for the whole house of Israel.

7For the prince also on the one side and on

the other side, according to the separation of the

sanctuary, and according to the possession of the

city, over against the separation of the sanctuary,

and over against the possession of the city: from

the side of the sea even to the sea, and from the

side of the east even to the east. And the length

according to every part from the west border to

the east border.

8He shall have a portion of the land in Israel:

and the princes shall no more rob my people:

but they shall give the land to the house of Israel

according to their tribes:

9Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suce you,

O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and rob-

beries, and execute judgment and justice, sep-

arate your connes from my people, saith the

Lord God.

10You shall have just balances, and a justProphecy of Ezechiel 1095

ephi, and a just bate.

11The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and

of one measure: that the bate may contain the

tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part

of a core: their weight shall be equal according

to the measure of a core.

12And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now

twenty sicles, and ve and twenty sicles, and f-

teen sicles, make a mna,

13And these are the rstfruits, which you

shall take: the sixth part of an ephi of a core

of wheat, and the sixth part of an ephi of a core

of barley.

14The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the

tenth part of a core: and ten bates make a core:

for ten bates ll a core.

15And one ram out of a

ock of two hun-

dred, of those that Israel feedeth for sacrice,

and for holocausts, and for peace oerings, to

make atonement for them, saith the Lord God.

16All the people of the land shall be bound

to these rstfruits for the prince in Israel.

17And the prince shall give the holocaust,

and the sacrice, and the libations on the feasts,

and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, and

on all the solemnities of the house of Israel: he

shall oer the sacrice for sin, and the holocaust,

and the peace oerings to make expiation for the

house of Israel.

18Thus saith the Lord God: In the rst

month, the rst of the month, thou shalt take a

calf of the herd without blemish, and thou shalt

expiate the sanctuary.

19And the priest shall take of the blood of

the sin oering: and he shall put it on the posts

of the house, and on the four corners of the brim

of the altar, and oil the posts of the gate of the

inner court.

20And so shalt thou do in the seventh day of

the month, for every one that hath been igno-rant, and hath been deceived by error, and thou

shalt make expiation for the house.

21In the rst month, the fourteenth day of

the month, you shall observe the solemnity of

the pasch: seven days unleavened bread shall be

eaten.

22And the prince on that day shall oer for

himself, and for all the people of the land, a calf

for sin.

23And in the solemnity of the seven days

he shall oer for a holocaust to the Lord, seven

calves, and seven rams without blemish daily for

seven days: and for sin a he goat daily.

24And he shall oer the sacrice of an ephi

for every calf, and an ephi for every ram: and a

hin of oil for every ephi.

25In the seventh month, in the fteenth day

of the month, in the solemn feast, he shall do the

like for the seven days: as well in regard to the

sin oering, as to the holocaust, and the sacrice,

and the oil.

Chapter 46

Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner

court that looketh toward the east, shall be shut

the six days, on which work is done; but on the

sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the

day of the new moon it shall be opened.

2And the prince shall enter by the way of

the porch of the gate from without, and he shall

stand at the threshold of the gate: and the

priests shall oer his holocaust, and his peace

oerings: and he shall adore upon the threshold

of the gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall

not be shut till the evening.

3And the people of the land shall adore at

the door of that gate before the Lord on the sab-

baths, and on the new moons.1096 Prophecy of Ezechiel

4And the holocaust that the prince shall of-

fer to the Lord on the sabbath day, shall be six

lambs without blemish, and a ram without blem-

ish.

5And the sacrice of all ephi for a ram: but

for the lambs what sacrice his hand shall allow:

and a hin of oil for every ephi.

6And on the day of the new moon a calf of

the herd without blemish: and the six lambs,

and the rams shall be without blemish.

7And he shall oer in sacrice an ephi for calf,

an ephi also for a ram: but for the lambs, as his

hand shall nd: and a hin of oil for every ephi.

8And when the prince is to go in, let him go

in by the way of the porch of the gate, and let

him go out the same way.

9But when the people of the land shall go

in before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that

goeth in by the north gate to adore, shall go out

by the way of the south gate; and he that goeth

in by the way of the south gate, shall go out by

the way of the north gate: he shall not return

by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but

shall go out at that over against it.

10And the prince in the midst of them, shall

go in when they go in, and go out when they go

out.

11And in the fairs, and in the solemnities

there shall be the sacrice of an ephi to a calf,

and an ephi to a ram: and to the lambs, the

sacrice shall be as his hand shall nd: and a

hin of oil to every ephi.

12But when the prince shall oer a volun-

tary holocaust, or voluntary peace oering to

the Lord: the gate that looketh towards the east

shall be opened to him, and he shall oer his

holocaust, and his peace oerings, as it is wont

to be done on the sabbath day: and he shall go

out, and the gate shall be shut after he is gone

forth.13And he shall oer every day for a holocaust

to the Lord, a lamb of the same year without

blemish: he shall oer it always in the morning.

14And he shall oer the sacrice for it morn-

ing by morning, the sixth part of an ephi: and

the third part of a hin of oil to be mingled with

the ne

our: a sacrice to the Lord by ordi-

nance continual and everlasting.

15He shall oer the lamb, and the sacrice,

and the oil morning by morning: an everlasting

holocaust.

16Thus saith the Lord God: If the prince

give a gift to any of his sons: the inheritance of

it shall go to his children, they shall possess it

by inheritance.

17But if he give a legacy out of his inheritance

to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year

of release, and it shall return to the prince: but

his inheritance shall go to his sons.

18And the prince shall not take of the peo-

ple's inheritance by violence, nor of their posses-

sion: but out of his own possession he shall give

an inheritance to his sons: that my people be

not dispersed every man from his possession.

19And he brought me in by the entry that

was at the side of the gate, into the chambers

of the sanctuary that were for the priests, which

looked toward the north. And there was a place

bending to the west.

20And he said to me: This is the place where

the priests shall boil the sin oering, and the

trespass oering: where they shall dress the sac-

rice, that they may not bring it out into the

outward court, and the people be sanctied.

21And he brought me into the outward court,

and he led me about by the four corners of the

court: and behold there was a little court in the

corner of the court, to every corner of the court

there was a little court.

22In the four corners of the court were lit-Prophecy of Ezechiel 1097

tle courts disposed, forty cubits long, and thirty

broad, all the four were of one measure.

23And there was a wall round about compass-

ing the four little courts, and there were kitchens

built under the rows round about.

24And he said to me: This is the house of

the kitchens wherein the ministers of the house

of the Lord shall boil the victims of the people.

Chapter 47

And he brought me again to the gate of the

house, and behold waters issued out from un-

der the threshold of the house toward the east:

for the forefront of the house looked toward the

east: but the waters came down to the right side

of the temple to the south part of the altar.

2And he led me out by the way of the north

gate, and he caused me to turn to the way with-

out the outward gate to the way that looked to-

ward the east: and behold there ran out waters

on the right side.

3And when the man that had the line in his

hand went out towards the east, he measured a

thousand cubits: and he brought me through the

water up to the ankles.

4And again he measured a thousand, and he

brought me through the water up to the knees.

5And he measured a thousand, and he

brought me through the water up to the loins.

And he measured a thousand, and it was a tor-

rent, which I could not pass over: for the waters

were risen so as to make a deep torrent, which

could not be passed over.

6And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen,

O son of man. And he brought me out, and he

caused me to turn to the bank of the torrent.

7And when I had turned myself, behold on

the bank of the torrent were very many trees onboth sides.

8And he said to me: These waters that issue

forth toward the hillocks of sand to the east, and

go down to the plains of the desert, shall go into

the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall

be healed.

9And every living creature that creepeth

whithersoever the torrent shall come, shall live:

and there shall be shes in abundance after these

waters shall come thither, and they shall be

healed, and all things shall live to which the tor-

rent shall come.

10And the shers shall stand over these wa-

ters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall

be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of

the shes thereof, as the shes of the great sea,

a very great multitude:

11But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny

places they shall not be healed, because they

shall be turned into saltpits.

12And by the torrent on the banks thereof

on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit:

their leaf shall not fall o, and their fruit shall

not fail: every month shall they bring forth rst-

fruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out

of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be

for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.

13Thus saith the Lord God: This is the bor-

der, by which you shall possess the land accord-

ing to the twelve tribes of Israel: for Joseph hath

a double portion.

14And you shall possess it, every man in like

manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted

up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this

land shall fall unto you for a possession.

15And this is the border of the land: toward

the north side, from the great sea by the way of

Hethalon, as men go to Sedada,

16Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is be-

tween the border of Damascus and the border1098 Prophecy of Ezechiel

of Emath the house of Tichon, which is by the

border of Auran.

17And the border from the sea even to the

court of Enan, shall be the border of Damascus,

and from the north to the north: the border of

Emath, this is the north side.

18And the east side is from the midst of Au-

ran, and from the midst of Damascus, and from

the midst of Galaad, and from the midst of the

land of Israel, Jordan making the bound to the

east sea, and thus you shall measure the east

side.

19And the south side southward is, from

Thamar even to the waters of contradiction of

Cades: and, the torrent even to the great sea:

and this is the south side southward.

20And the side toward the sea, is the great

sea from the borders straight on, till thou come

to Emath: this is the side of the sea.

21And you shall divide this land unto you by

the tribes of Israel:

22And you shall divide it by lot for an

inheritance to you, and to the strangers that

shall come over to you, that shall beget children

among you: and they shall be unto you as men

of the same country born among the children of

Israel: they shall divide the possession with you

in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

23And in what tribe soever the stranger shall

be, there shall you give him possession, saith the

Lord God.

Chapter 48

And these are the names of the tribes from the

borders of the north, by the way of Hethalon, as

they go to Emath, the court of Enan the border

of Damascus northward, by the way o Emath.

And from the east side thereof to the sea shallbe one portion for Dan.

2And by the border of Dan, from the east

side even to the side of the sea, one portion for

Aser:

3And by the border of Aser, from the east

side even to the side of the sea one portion for

Nephthali.

4And by the border of Nephthali, from the

east side even to the side of the one portion for

Manasses.

5And by the border of Manasses, from the

east side even to the side of the sea, one portion

for Ephraim.
6And by the border of Ephraim, from the east

side even to the side of the sea, one portion for

Ruben.

7And by the border of Ruben, from the east

side even to the side of the sea, one portion for

Juda.

8And by the border of Juda, from the east

side even to the side of the sea, shall be the rst-

fruits which you shall set apart, ve and twenty

thousand in breadth, and length, as every one

of the portions from the east side to the side of

the sea: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst

thereof.

9The rstfruits which you shall set apart for

the Lord will be the length of ve and twenty

thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand.

10And these shall be the rstfruits of the

sanctuary for the priests: toward the north ve

and twenty thousand in length, and toward the

sea ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east

also ten thousand in breadth, and toward the

south ve and twenty thousand in length: and

the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst

thereof.

11The sanctuary shall be for the priests of

the sons of Sadoc, who kept my ceremonies, and

went not astray when the children of Israel wentProphecy of Ezechiel 1099

astray, as the Levites also went astray.

12And for them shall be the rstfruits of the

rstfruits of the land holy of holies, by the border

of the Levites,

13And the Levites in like manner shall have

by the borders of the priests ve and twenty

thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

All the length shall be ve and twenty thousand,

and the breadth ten thousand.

14And they shall not sell thereof, nor ex-

change, neither shall the rstfruits of the land

be alienated, because they are sanctied to the

Lord.

15But the ve thousand that remain in the

breadth over against the ve and twenty thou-

sand, shall be a profane place for the city for

dwelling, and for suburbs and the city shall be

in the midst thereof.

16And these are the measures thereof: on

the north side four thousand and ve hundred:

and on the south side four thousand and ve

hundred: and on the east side four thousand and

ve hundred: and on the west side four thousand

and ve hundred.

17And the suburbs of the city shall be to the

north two hundred and fty, and the south two

hundred and fty, and to the east two hundred

and fty, and to the sea two hundred and fty.

18And the residue in length by the rstfruits

of the sanctuary, ten thousand toward the east,

and ten thousand toward the west, shall be as the

rstfruits of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof

shall be for bread to them that serve the city.

19And they that serve the city, shall serve it

out of all the tribes of Israel.

20All the rstfruits, of ve and twenty thou-

sand, by ve and twenty thousand foursquare,

shall be set apart for the rstfruits of the sanc-

tuary, and for the possession of the city.

21And the residue shall be for the prince onevery side of the rstfruits of the sanctuary, and

of the possession of the city over against the ve

and twenty thousand of the rstfruits unto the

east border: toward the sea also over against

the ve and twenty thousand, unto the border

of the sea, shall likewise be the portion of the

prince: and the rstfruits of the sanctuary, and

the sanctuary of the temple shall be in the midst

thereof.

22And from the possession of the Levites, and

from the possession of the city which are in the

midst of the prince's portions: what shall be to

the border of Juda, and to the border of Ben-

jamin, shall also belong to the prince.

23And for the rest of the tribes: from the east

side to the west side, one portion for Benjamin.

24And over against the border of Benjamin,

from the east side to the west side, one portion

for Simeon.

25And by the border of Simeon, from the east

side to the west side, one portion for Issachar.

26And by the border of Issachar, from the

east side to the west side, one portion for Zabu-

lon.

27And by the border of Zabulon, from the

east side to the side of the sea, one portion for

Gad.

28And by the border of Gad, the south

side southward: and the border shall be from

Thamar, even to the waters of contradiction of

Cades, the inheritance over against the great sea.

29This is the land which you shall divide by

lot to the tribes of Israel: and these are the por-

tions of them, saith the Lord God.

30And these are the goings out of the city: on

the north side thou shalt measure four thousand

and ve hundred.

31And the gates of the city according to the

name, of the tribes of Israel, three gates on the

north side, the gate of Ruben one, the gate of1100 Prophecy of Ezechiel

Juda one, the gate of Levi one.

32And at the east side, four thousand and

ve hundred: and three gates, the gate of Joseph

one, the gate of Benjamin one, the gate of Dan

one.

33And at the south side, thou shalt measure

four thousand and ve hundred and three gates,

the gate of Simeon one, the gate of Issachar one,

the gate of Zabulon one.

34And at the west side, four thousand and

ve hundred, and their three gates, the gate of

Gad one, the gate of Aser one, the gate of Neph-

thali one.

35Its circumference was eighteen thousand:

and the name of the city from that day, The

Lord is there.Prophecy of Daniel

Chapter 1

In the third year of the reign of Joakim, king of

Juda, Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came

to Jerusalem, and beseiged it.

2And the Lord delivered into his hands

Joakim, the king of Juda, and part of the ves-

sels of the house of God: and he carried them

away into the land of Sennaar, to the house of

his god, and the vessels he brought into the trea-

sure house of his god.

3And the king spoke to Asphenez, the master

of the eunuchs, that he should bring in some of

the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and

of the princes,

4Children in whom there was no blemish,

well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, acute in

knowledge, and instructed in science, and such

as might stand in the king's palace, that he

might teach them the learning, and tongue of

the Chaldeans.

5And the king appointed them a daily provi-

sion, of his own meat, and of the wine of which he

drank himself, that being nourished three years,

afterwards they might stand before the king.

6Now there was among them of the children

of Juda, Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias.

7And the master of the eunuchs gave them

names: to Daniel, Baltassar: to Ananias,

Sidrach: to Misael, Misach: and to Azarias, Ab-

denago.8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he

would not be deled with the king's table, nor

with the wine which he drank: and he requested

the master of the eunuchs that he might not be

deled.
9And God gave to Daniel grace and mercy in

the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

10And the prince of the eunuchs said to

Daniel: I fear my lord, the king, who hath ap-

pointed you meat and drink: who if he should see

your faces leaner than those of the other youths,

your equals, you shall endanger my head to the

king.

11And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the

prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel,

Ananias, Misael, and Azarias:

12Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten

days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water

to drink:

13And look upon our faces, and the faces of

the children that eat of the king's meat: and as

thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.

14And when he had heard these words, he

tried them for ten days.

15And after ten days, their faces appeared

fairer and fatter than all the children that ate of

the king's meat.

16So Malasar took their portions, and the

wine that they should drink: and he gave them

pulse.

17And to these children God gave knowledge,1102 Prophecy of Daniel

and understanding in every book, and wisdom:

but to Daniel the understanding also of all vi-

sions and dreams.

18And when the days were ended, after which

the king had ordered they should be brought in:

the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before

Nabuchodonosor.

19And when the king had spoken to them,

there were not found among them all such as

Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: and they

stood in the king's presence.

20And in all matters of wisdom and under-

standing, that the king enquired of them, he

found them ten times better than all the divin-

ers, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom.

21And Daniel continued even to the rst year

of king Cyrus.

Chapter 2

In the second year of the reign of Nabu-

chodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had a dream, and

his spirit was terried, and his dream went out

of his mind.

2Then the king commanded to call together

the diviners and the wise men, and the magi-

cians, and the Chaldeans: to declare to the king

his dreams: so they came and stood before the

king.

3And the king said to them: I saw a dream:

and being troubled in mind I know not what I

saw.

4And the Chaldeans answered the king in

Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants

thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation

thereof.

5And the king, answering, said to the

Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind:

unless you tell me the dream, and the mean-ing thereof, you shall be put to death, and your

houses shall be conscated.

6but if you tell the dream, and the meaning

of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts,

and great honour: therefore, tell me the dream,

and the interpretation thereof.

7They answered again and said: Let the king

tell his servants the dream, and we will declare

the interpretation of it.

8The king answered and said: I know for cer-

tain, that you seek to gain time, since you know

that the thing is gone from me.

9If, therefore, you tell me not the dream,

there is one sentence concerning you, that you

have also framed a lying interpretation, and full

of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass

away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may

know that you also give a true interpretation

thereof.

10Then the Chaldeans answered before the

king, and said: There is no man upon earth, that

can accomplish thy word, O king; neither doth

any king, though great and mighty, ask such a

thing of any diviner, or wise man, or Chaldean.

11For the thing that thou asketh, O king,

is dicult: nor can any one be found that can

shew it before the king, except the gods, whose

conversation is not with men.

12Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in

great wrath, commanded that all the wise men

of Babylon should be put to death.

13And the decree being gone forth, the wise

men were slain: and Daniel and his companions

were sought for, to be put to death.

14Then Daniel inquired concerning the law

and the sentence, of Arioch, the general of the

king's army, who was gone forth to kill the wise

men of Babylon.

15And he asked him that had received the

orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence wasProphecy of Daniel 1103

gone forth from the face of the king. And when

Arioch had told the matter to Daniel,

16Daniel went in, and desired of the king,

that he would give him time to resolve the ques-

tion, and declare it to the king.

17And he went into his house, and told the

matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his

companions:

18To the end that they should ask mercy at

the face of the God of heaven, concerning this se-

cret, and that Daniel and his companions might

not perish with the rest of the wise men of Baby-

lon.

19Then was the mystery revealed to Daniel

by a vision in the night: and Daniel blessed the

God of heaven,

20And speaking, he said: Blessed be the

name of the Lord from eternity and for evermore:

for wisdom and fortitude are his.

21And he changeth times and ages: taketh

away kingdoms, and establisheth them: giveth

wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that

have understanding:

22He revealeth deep and hidden things, and

knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with

him.

23To thee, O God of our fathers, I give

thanks, and I praise thee: because thou hast

given me wisdom and strength: and now thou

hast shewn me what we desired of thee, for thou

hast made known to us the king's discourse.

24After this Daniel went in to Arioch, to

whom the king had given orders to destroy the

wise men of Babylon, and he spoke thus to him:

Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me

in before the king, and I will tell the solution to

the king.

25Then Arioch in haste brought in Daniel to

the king, and said to him: I have found a man

of the children of the captivity of Juda, that willresolve the question to the king.

26The king answered, and said to Daniel,

whose name was Baltassar: Thinkest thou in-

deed that thou canst tell me the dream that I

saw, and the interpretation thereof?

27And Daniel made answer before the king,

and said: The secret that the king desireth to

know, none of the wise men, or the philosophers,

or the diviners, or the soothsayers, can declare

to the king.

28But there is a God in heaven that revealeth

mysteries, who hath shewn to thee, O king Nabu-

chodonosor, what is to come to pass in the latter

times. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head

upon thy bed, are these:

29Thou, O king, didst begin to think in thy

bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he

that revealeth mysteries shewed thee what shall

come to pass.

30To me also this secret is revealed, not by

any wisdom that I have more than all men alive:

but that the interpretation might be made man-

ifest to the king, and thou mightest know the

thought of thy mind.

31Thou, O king, sawest, and behold there

was as it were a great statue: this statue, which

was great and high, tall of stature, stood before

thee, and the look thereof was terrible.

32The head of this statue was of ne gold,

but the breast and the arms of silver, and the

belly and the thighs of brass.

33And the legs of iron, the feet part of iron

and part of clay.

34Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out

of a mountain without hands: and it struck the

statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron

and clay, and broke them in pieces.

35Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the

silver, and the gold broken to pieces together,

and became like the cha of a summer's thresh-1104 Prophecy of Daniel

ing
oor, and they were carried away by the

wind: and there was no place found for them:

but the stone that struck the statue became a

great mountain, and lled the whole earth.

36This is the dream: we will also tell the

interpretation thereof before thee, O king.

37Thou art a king of kings: and the God of

heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength,

and power, and glory:

38And all places wherein the children of men,

and the beasts of the eld do dwell: he hath also

given the birds of the air into thy hand, and hath

put all things under thy power: thou, therefore,

art the head of gold.

39And after thee shall rise up another king-

dom, inferior to thee, of silver: and another third

kingdom of brass, which shall rule over all the

world.

40And the fourth kingdom shall be as iron.

As iron breaketh into pieces, and subdueth all

things, so shall that break, and destroy all these.

41And whereas thou sawest the feet, and the

toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron: the

kingdom shall be divided, but yet it shall take

its origin from the iron, according as thou sawest

the iron mixed with the miry clay.

42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron,

and part of clay: the kingdom shall be partly

strong, and partly broken.

43And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed

with miry clay, they shall be mingled indeed to-

gether with the seed of man, but they shall not

stick fast one to another, as iron cannot be mixed

with clay.

44But in the days of those kingdoms, the God

of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never

by destroyed, and his kingdom shall not be de-

livered up to another people: and it shall break

in pieces, and shall consume all these kingdoms:

and itself shall stand for ever.45According as thou sawest, that the stone

was cut out of the mountain without hands, and

broke in pieces the clay and the iron, and the

brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great

God hath shewn the king what shall come to

pass hereafter, and the dream is true, and the

interpretation thereof is faithful.

46Then king Nabuchodonosor fell on his face,

and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that

they should oer in sacrice to him victims and

incense.

47And the king spoke to Daniel, and said:

Verily, your God is the God of gods, and Lord

of kings, and a revealer of hidden things: seeing

thou couldst discover this secret.

48Then the king advanced Daniel to a high

station, and gave him many and great gifts: and

he made him governor over all the provinces of

Babylon: and chief of the magistrates over all

the wise men of Babylon.

49And Daniel requested of the king, and he

appointed Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, over

the works of the province of Babylon: but Daniel

himself was in the king's palace.

Chapter 3

King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of

sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he

set it up in the plain of Dura, of the province of

Babylon.

2Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, sent to call

together the nobles, the magistrates, and the

judges, the captains, the rulers, and governors,

and all the chief men of the provinces, to come

to the dedication of the statue which king Nabu-

chodonosor had set up.

3Then the nobles, the magistrates, and the

judges, the captains, and rulers, and the greatProphecy of Daniel 1105

men that were placed in authority, and all

the princes of the provinces, were gathered to-

gether to come to the dedication of the statue,

which king Nabuchodonosor had set up. And

they stood before the statue which king Nabu-

chodonosor had set up.

4Then a herald cried with a strong voice: To

you it is commanded, O nations, tribes and lan-

guages:

5That in the hour that you shall hear the

sound of the trumpet, and of the

ute, and of

the harp, of the sackbut, and of the psaltery,

and of the symphony, and of all kind of music,

ye fall down and adore the golden statue which

king Nabuchodonosor hath set up.

6But if any man shall not fall down and adore,

he shall the same hour be cast into a furnace of

burning re.

7Upon this, therefore, at the time when all

the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the

ute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and the

psaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind of

music, all the nations, tribes, and languages fell

down and adored the golden statue which king

Nabuchodonosor had set up.

8And presently at that very time some

Chaldeans came and accused the Jews,

9And said to king Nabuchodonosor: O king,

live for ever:

10Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that ev-

ery man that shall hear the sound of the trum-

pet, the

ute, and the harp, of the sackbut, and

the psaltery, of the symphony, and of all kind

of music, shall prostrate himself, and adore the

golden statue:

11And that if any man shall not fall down

and adore, he should be cast into a furnace of

burning re.

12Now there are certain Jews, whom thou

hast set over the works of the province of Baby-lon, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago: these men,

O king, have slighted thy decree: they worship

not thy gods, nor do they adore the golden statue

which thou hast set up.

13Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and in

wrath, commanded that Sidrach, Misach, ad Ab-

denago should be brought: who immediately

were brought before the king.

14And Nabuchodonosor, the king, spoke to

them, and said: Is it true, O Sidrach, Misach,

and Abdenago, that you do not worship my gods,

nor adore the golden statue that I have set up?

15Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what

hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the

trumpet,

ute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and

symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate

yourselves, and adore the statue which I have

made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast

the same hour into the furnace of burning re:

and who is the God that shall deliver you out of

my hand?

16Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, answered,

and said to king Nabuchodonosor: We have no

occasion to answer thee concerning this matter.

17For behold our God, whom we worship, is

able to save us from the furnace of burning re,

and to deliver us out of thy hands, O king.

18But if he will not, be it known to thee,

O king, that we will not worship thy gods, nor

adore the golden statue which thou hast set up.

19Then was Nabuchodonosor lled with fury:

and the countenance of his face was changed

against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he

commanded that the furnace should be heated

seven times more than it had been accustomed

to be heated.

20And he commanded the strongest men that

were in his army, to bind the feet of Sidrach,

Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast them into

the furnace of burning re.1106 Prophecy of Daniel

21And immediately these men were bound,

and were cast into the furnace of burning re,

with their coats, and their caps, and their shoes,

and their garments.

22For the king's commandment was urgent,

and the furnace was heated exceedingly. And the

ame of the re slew those men that had cast in

Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago.

23But these three men, that is, Sidrach, Mis-

ach, and Abdenago, fell down bound in the midst

of the furnace of burning re.

24And they walked in the midst of the

ame,

praising God, and blessing the Lord.

25Then Azarias standing up, prayed in this

manner, and opening his mouth in the midst of

the re, he said:

26Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our

fathers, and thy name is worthy of praise, and

glorious for ever:

27For thou art just in all that thou hast done

to us, and all thy works are true, and thy ways
right, and all thy judgments true.

28For thou hast executed true judgments in

all the things that thou hast brought upon us,

and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers:

for according to truth and judgment, thou hast

brought all these things upon us for our sins.

29For we have sinned, and committed in-

iquity, departing from thee: and we have tres-

passed in all things:

30And we have not hearkened to thy com-

mandments, nor have we observed nor done as

thou hadst commanded us, that it might go well

with us.

31Wherefore, all that thou hast brought upon

us, and every thing that thou hast done to us,

thou hast done in true judgment:

32And thou hast delivered us into the hands

of our enemies that are unjust, and most wicked,

and prevaricators, and to a king unjust, andmost wicked beyond all that are upon the earth.

33And now we cannot open our mouths: we

are become a shame, and a reproach to thy ser-

vants, and to them that worship thee.

34Deliver us not up for ever, we beseech

thee, for thy name's sake, and abolish not thy

covenant.

35And take not away thy mercy from us, for

the sake of Abraham, thy beloved, and Isaac, thy

servant, and Israel, thy holy one:

36To whom thou hast spoken, promising that

thou wouldst multiply their seed as the stars of

heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea shore.

37For we, O Lord, are diminished more than

any nation, and are brought low in all the earth

this day for our sins.

38Neither is there at this time prince, or

leader, or prophet, or holocaust, or sacrice, or

oblation, or incense, or place of rst fruits before

thee,

39That we may nd thy mercy: nevertheless,

in a contrite heart and humble spirit let us be

accepted.

40As in holocausts of rams, and bullocks, and

as in thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrice

be made in thy sight this day, that it may please

thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust

in thee.

41And now we follow thee with all our heart,

and we fear thee, and seek thy face.

42Put us not to confusion, but deal with us

according to thy meekness, and according to the

multitude of thy mercies.

43And deliver us, according to thy wonderful

works, and give glory to thy name, O Lord:

44And let all them be confounded that shew

evils to thy servants, let them be confounded in

all thy might, and let their strength be broken:

45And let them know that thou art the Lord,

the only God, and glorious over all the world.Prophecy of Daniel 1107

46Now the king's servants that had cast them

in, ceased not to heat the furnace with brimstone

and tow, and pitch, and dry sticks,

47And the

ame mounted up above the fur-

nace nine and forth cubits:

48And it broke forth, and burnt such of the

Chaldeans as it found near the furnace.

49But the angel of the Lord went down with

Azarias and his companions into the furnace:

and he drove the

ame of the re out of the fur-

nace,

50And made the midst of the furnace like

the blowing of a wind bringing dew, and the re

touched them not at all, nor troubled them, nor

did them any harm.

51Then these three, as with one mouth,

praised and gloried and blessed God, in the fur-

nace, saying:
52Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our

fathers; and worthy to be praised, and gloried,

and exalted above all for ever: and blessed is the

holy name of thy glory: and worthy to be praised

and exalted above all, in all ages.

53Blessed art thou in the holy temple of thy

glory: and exceedingly to be praised and exalted

above all for ever.

55Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths,

and sittest upon the cherubims: and worthy to

be praised and exalted above all for ever.

56Blessed art thou in the rmament of

heaven: and worthy of praise, and glorious for

ever.

57All ye works of the Lord, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

58O ye angels of the Lord, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

59O ye heavens, bless the Lord: praise and

exalt him above all for ever.

60O all ye waters that are above the heavens,

bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above allfor ever.

61O all ye powers of the Lord, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

62O ye sun and moon, bless the Lord: praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

63O ye stars of heaven, bless the Lord: praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

64O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

65O all ye spirits of God, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

66O ye re and heat, bless the Lord: praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

67O ye cold and heat, bless the Lord, praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

68O ye dews and hoar frost, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

69O ye frost and cold, bless the Lord: praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

70O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord: praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

71O ye nights and days, bless the Lord: praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

72O ye light and darkness, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

73O ye lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

74O let the earth bless the Lord: let it praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

76O all ye things that spring up in the earth,

bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all

for ever.

77O ye fountains, bless the Lord: praise and

exalt him above all for ever.

78O ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord: praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

79O ye whales, and all that move in the wa-

ters, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above

all for ever.1108 Prophecy of Daniel

80O all ye fowls of the air, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

81O all ye beasts and cattle, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

82O ye sons of men, bless the Lord: praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

83O let Israel bless the Lord: let them praise

and exalt him above all for ever.

84O ye priests of the Lord, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

85O ye servants of the Lord, bless the Lord:

praise and exalt him above all for ever.

86O ye spirits and souls of the just, bless the

Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

87O ye holy and humble of heart, bless the

Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

88O Ananias, Azarias, Misael, bless ye the

Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

For he hath delivered us from hell, ad saved us

out of the hand of death, and delivered us out

of the midst of the burning

ame, and saved us

out of the midst of the re.

89O give thanks to the Lord, because he is

good: because his mercy endureth for ever and

ever.

90O all ye religious, bless the Lord, the God

of gods: praise him, and give him thanks, be-

cause his mercy endureth for ever and ever.

91Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, was as-

tonished, and rose up in haste, and said to his

nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into

the midst of the re? They answered the king,

and said: True, O king.

92He answered, and said: Behold, I see four

men loose, and walking in the midst of the re,

and there is no hurt in them, and the form of the

fourth is like the son of God.

93Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door

of the burning ery furnace, and said: Sidrach,

Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the mosthigh God, go ye forth, and come. And immedi-

ately Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, went out

from the midst of the re.

94And the nobles, and the magistrates, and

the judges, and the great men of the king, being

gathered together, considered these men, that

the re had no power on their bodies, and that

not a hair of their head had been singed, nor

their garments altered, nor the smell of the re

had passed on them.

95Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth,

said: Blessed be the God of them, to wit, of

Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who hath sent

his angel, and delivered his servants that be-

lieved in him: and they changed the king's word,

and delivered up their bodies, that they might

not serve nor adore any god except their own

God.

96By me, therefore, this decree is made:

That every people, tribe, and tongue, which shall

speak blasphemy against the God of Sidrach,

Misach, and Abdenago, shall be destroyed, and

their houses laid waste: for there is no other God

that can save in this manner.

97Then the king promoted Sidrach, Misach,

and Abdenago, in the province of Babylon.

98Nabuchodonosor, the king, to all peoples,

nations, and tongues, that dwell in all the earth,

peace be multiplied unto you.

99The most high God hath wrought signs and

wonders towards me. It hath seemed good to me,

therefore, to publish

100His signs, because they are great: and his

wonders, because they are mighty: and his king-

dom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to

all generations.Prophecy of Daniel 1109

Chapter 4

I, Nabuchodonosor, was at rest in my house, and

ourishing in my palace:

2I saw a dream that arighted me: and my

thoughts in my bed, and the visions of my head,

troubled me.

3Then I set forth a decree, that all the wise

men of Babylon should be brought in before me,

and that they should shew me the interpretation

of the dream.

4Then came in the diviners, the wise men,

the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and I told

the dream before them: but they did not shew

me the interpretation thereof.

5Till their colleague, Daniel, came in before

me, whose name is Baltassar, according to the

name of my god, who hath in him the spirit of

the holy gods: and I told the dream before him.

6Baltassar, prince of the diviners, because I

know that thou hast in thee the spirit of the holy

gods, and that no secret is impossible to thee, tell

me the visions of my dreams that I have seen,

and the interpretation of them?

7This was the vision of my head in my bed: I

saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth,

and the height thereof was exceeding great.

8The tree was great and strong, and the

height thereof reached unto heaven: the sight

thereof was even to the ends of all the earth.

9Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit

exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under

it dwelt cattle and beasts, and in the branches

thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and

all

esh did eat of it.

10I saw in the vision of my head upon my

bed, and behold a watcher, and a holy one came

down from heaven.

11He cried aloud, and said thus: Cut down

the tree, and chop o the branches thereof: shakeo its leaves, and scatter its fruits: let the beasts

y away that are under it, and the birds from its

branches.

12Nevertheless, leave the stump of its roots

in the earth, and let it be tied with a band of iron

and of brass, among the grass, that is without,

and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let

its protion be with the wild beasts in the grass

of the earth.

13Let his heart be changed from man's, and

let a beast's heart be given him: and let seven

times pass over him.

14This is the decree by the sentence of the

watchers, and the word and demand of the holy

ones: till the living know, that the most High

ruleth in the kingdom of men: and he will give

it to whomsoever it shall please him, and he will

appoint the basest man over it.

15I, king Nabuchodonosor, saw this dream:

thou, therefore, O Baltassar, tell me quickly the

interpretation: for all the wise men of my king-

dom are not able to declare the meaning of it to

me: but thou art able, because the spirit of the

holy gods is in thee.

16Then Daniel, whose name was Baltassar,

began silently to think within himself for about

one hour: and his thought troubled him. But

the king answering, said: Baltassar, let not the

dream and the interpretation thereof trouble

thee. Baltassar answered, and said: My lord,

the dream be to them that hate thee, and the

interpretation thereof to thy enemies.

17The tree which thou sawest, which was high

and strong, whose height reached to the skies,

and the sight thereof into all the earth:

18And the branches thereof were most beau-

tiful, and its fruit exceeding much, and in it was

food for all, under which the beasts of the eld

dwelt, and the birds of the air had their abode

in its branches.1110 Prophecy of Daniel

19It is thou, O king, who art grown great, and

become mighty: for thy greatness hath grown,

and hath reached to heaven, and thy power unto

the ends of the earth.

20And whereas the king saw a watcher, and

a holy one come down from heaven, and say:

Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the

stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it

be bound with iron and brass, among the grass

without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew

of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild

beasts, till seven times pass over him.

21This is the interpretation of the sentence

of the most High, which is come upon my lord,

the king.

22They shall cast thee out from among men,

and thy dwelling shall be with cattle, and with

wild beasts, and thou shalt eat grass, as an ox,

and shalt be wet with the dew of heaven: and

seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know

that the most High ruleth over the kingdom of

men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

23But whereas he commanded, that the

stump of the roots thereof, that is, of the tree,

should be left: thy kingdom shall remain to thee,

after thou shalt have known that power is from

heaven.

24Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be ac-

ceptable to thee, and redeem thou thy sins with

alms, and thy iniquities with works of mercy to

the poor: perhaps he will forgive thy oences.

25All these things came upon king Nabu-

chodonosor.

26At the end of twelve months he was walking

in the palace of Babylon.

27And the king answered, and said: Is not

this the great Babylon, which I have built, to be

the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of my

power, and in the glory of my excellence?

28And while the word was yet in the king'smouth, a voice came down from heaven: To thee,

O king Nabuchodonosor, it is said: Thy kingdom

shall pass from thee.

29And they shall cast thee out from among

men, and thy dwelling shall be with cattle and

wild beasts: thou shalt eat grass like an ox, 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.

30The same hour the word was fullled upon

Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from

among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and

his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till

his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his

nails like birds' claws.

31Now at the end of the days, I, Nabu-

chodonosor, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my

sense was restored to me: and I blessed the most

High, and I praised and gloried him that liveth

for ever: for his power is an everlasting power,

and his kingdom is to all generations.

32And all the inhabitants of the earth are

reputed as nothing before him: for he doth ac-

cording to his will, as well with the powers of

heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth:

and there is none that can resist his hand, and

say to him: Why hast thou done it?

33At the same time my sense returned to

me, and I came to the honour and glory of my

kingdom: and my shape returned to me: and

my nobles, and my magistrates, sought for me,

and I was restored to my kingdom: and greater

majesty was added to me.

34Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now

praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of

heaven: because all his works are true, and his

ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he

is able to abase.Prophecy of Daniel 1111

Chapter 5

Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thou-

sand of his nobles: and every one drank accord-

ing to his age.

2And being now drunk, he commanded that

they should bring the vessels of gold and silver,

which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought

away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem,

that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and

his concubines, might drink in them.

3Then were the golden and silver vessels

brought, which he had brought away out of the

temple that was in Jeursalem: and the king and

his nobles, his wives, and his concubines, drank

in them.

4They drank wine, and praised their gods of

gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood,

and of stone.
5In the same hour there appeared ngers, as

it were of the hand of a man, writing over against

the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of

the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints

of the hand that wrote.

6Then was the king's countenance changed,

and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of

his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one

against the other.

7And the king cried out aloud to bring in the

wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers.

And the king spoke, and said to the wise men

of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing,

and shall make known to me the interpretation

thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall

have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the

third man in my kingdom.

8Then came in all the king's wise men, but

they could neither read the writing, nor declare

the interpretation to the king.

9Wherewith king Baltasar was much trou-bled, and his countenance was changed: and his

nobles also were troubled.

10Then the queen, on occasion of what had

happened to the king, and his nobles, came into

the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O

king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble

thee, neither let thy countenance be changed.

11There is a man in thy kingdom that hath

the spirit of the holy gods in him: and in the days

of thy father knowledge and wisdom were found

in him: for king Nabuchodonosor, thy father, ap-

pointed him prince of the wise men, enchanters,

Chaldeans, and soothsayers, thy father, I say, O

king:

12Because a greater spirit, and knowl-

edge, and understanding, and interpretation of

dreams, and shewing of secrets, and resolving of

dicult things, were found in him, that is, in

Daniel: whom the king named Baltassar. Now,

therefore, let Daniel be called for, and he will tell

the interpretation.

13Then Daniel was brought in before the

king. And the king spoke, and said to him: Art

thou Daniel, of the children of the captivity of

Juda, whom my father, the king, brought out of

Judea?

14I have heard of thee, that thou hast the

spirit of the gods, and excellent knowledge, and

understanding, and wisdom are found in thee.

15And now the wise men, the magicians, have

come in before me, to read this writing, and shew

me the interpretation thereof; and they could not

declare to me the meaning of this writing.

16But I have heard of thee, that thou canst

interpret obscure things, and resolve dicult

things: now if thou art able to read the writ-

ing, and to shew me the interpretation thereof,

thou shalt be clothed with purple, and shalt have

a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the

third prince in my kingdom.1112 Prophecy of Daniel

17To which Daniel made answer, and said

before the king: thy rewards be to thyself, and

the gifts of thy house give to another: but the

writing I will read to thee, O king, and shew thee

the interpretation thereof.

18O king, the most high God gave to Nabu-

chodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and great-

ness, and glory, and honour.

19And for the greatness that he gave to him,

all people, tribes, and languages trembled, and

were afraid of him: whom he would, he slew:

and whom he would, he destroyed: and whom

he would, he set up: and whom he would, he

brought down.

20But when his heart was lifted up, and his

spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down

from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory

was taken away.

21And he was driven out from the the sons of

men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and

his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did

eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with

the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most

High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he

will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.

22Thou also, his son, O Baltasar, hast not

humbled thy heart, whereas thou knewest all

these things:

23But hast lifted thyself up against the Lord

of heaven: and the vessels of his house have been

brought before thee: and thou, and thy nobles,

and thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk

wine in them: and thou hast praised the gods of

silver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron, and of

wood, and of stone, that neither see, nor hear,

nor feel: but the God who hath thy breath in his

hand, and all thy ways, thou hast not gloried.

24Wherefore, he hath sent the part of the

hand which hath written this that is set down.

25And this is the writing that is written:MANE, THECEL, PHARES.

26And this is the interpretation of the word.

MANE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and

hath nished it.

27THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance,

and art found wanting.

28PHARES: thy kingdom is divided, and is

given to the Medes and Persians.

29Then by the king's command, Daniel was

clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put

about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him

that he had power as the third man in the king-

dom.

30The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean

king, was slain.

31And Darius, the Mede, succeeded to the

kingdom, being threescore and two years old.

Chapter 6

It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over

the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors, to

be over his whole kingdom.

2And three princes over them of whom Daniel

was one: that the governors might give an ac-

count to them, and the king might have no trou-

ble.

3And Daniel excelled all the princes, and gov-

ernors: because a greater spirit of God was in

him.

4And the king thought to set him over all the

kingdom; whereupon the princes, and the gov-

ernors, sought to nd occasion against Daniel,

with regard to the king: and they could nd no

cause, nor suspicion, because he was faithful, and

no fault, nor suspicion was found in him.

5Then these men said: We shall not nd any

occasion against this Daniel, unless perhaps con-

cerning the law of his God.Prophecy of Daniel 1113

6Then the princes, and the governors, craftily

suggested to the king, and spoke thus unto him:

King Darius, live for ever:

7All the princes of the kingdom, the magis-

trates, and governors, the senators, and judges,

have consulted together, that an imperial decree,

and an edict be published: That whosoever shall

ask any petition of any god, or man, for thirty

days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the

den of the lions.

8Now, therefore, O king, conrm the sen-

tence, and sign the decree: that what is decreed

by the Medes and Persians may not be altered,

nor any man be allowed to transgress it.

9So king Darius set forth the decree, and es-

tablished it.

10Now, when Daniel knew this, that is to say,

that the law was made, he went into his house:

and opening the windows in his upper chamber

towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a

day, and adored and gave thanks before his God,

as he had been accustomed to do before.

11Wherefore those men carefully watching

him, found Daniel praying and making suppli-

cation to his God.

12And they came and spoke to the king con-

cerning the edict: O king, hast thou not decreed,

that every man that should make a request to

any of the gods, or men, for thirty days, but to

thyself, O king, should be cast into the den of

the lions? And the king answered them, saying:

The word is true, according to the decree of the

Medes and Persians, which it is not lawful to

violate.

13Then they answered, and said before the

king: Daniel, who is of the children of the cap-

tivity of Juda, hath not regarded thy law, nor

the decree that thou hast made: but three times

a day he maketh his prayer.

14Now when the king had heard these words,he was very much grieved, and in behalf of Daniel

he set his heart to deliver him, and even till sun-

set he laboured to save him.

15But those men perceiving the king's design,

said to him: Know thou, O king, that the law of

the Medes and Persians is, that no decree which

the king hath made, may be altered.

16Then the king commanded, and they

brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of the

lions. And the king said to Daniel: Thy God,

whom thou always servest, he will deliver thee.

17And a stone was brought, and laid upon the

mouth of the den: which the king sealed with his

own ring, and with the ring of his nobles, that

nothing should be done against Daniel.

18And the king went away to his house, and

laid himself down without taking supper, and

meat was not set before him, and even sleep de-

parted from him.

19Then the king rising very early in the morn-

ing, went in haste to the lions' den:

20And coming near to the den, cried with

a lamentable voice to Daniel, and said to him:

Daniel, servant of the living God, hath thy God,

whom thou servest always, been able, thinkest

thou, to deliver thee from the lions?

21And Daniel answering the king, said: O

king, live for ever:

22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut

up the mouths of the lions, and they have not

hurt me: forasmuch as before him justice hath

been found in me: yea, and before thee, O king,

I have done no oence.

23Then was the king exceeding glad for him,

and he commanded that Daniel should be taken

out of the den: and Daniel was taken out of the

den, and no hurt was found in him, because he

believed in his God.

24And by the king's commandment, those

men were brought that had accused Daniel: and1114 Prophecy of Daniel

they were cast into the lions' den, they and their

children, and their wives: and they did not reach

the bottom of the den, before the lions caught

them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

25Then king Darius wrote to all people,

tribes, and languages, dwelling in the whole

earth: PEACE be multiplied unto you.

26It is decreed by me, that in all my empire

and my kingdom, all men dread and fear the God

of Daniel. For he is the living and eternal God

for ever: and his kingdom shall not be destroyed,

and his power shall be for ever.

27He is the deliverer, and saviour, doing signs

and wonders in heaven, and in earth: who hath

delivered Daniel out of the lions' den.

28Now Daniel continued unto the reign of

Darius, and the reign of Cyrus, the Persian.

Chapter 7

In the rst year of Baltasar, king of Babylon,

Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head

was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he

comprehended it in a few words: and relating

the sum of it in short, he said:

2I saw in my vision by night, and behold the

four winds of the heavens strove upon the great

sea.

3And four great beasts, dierent one from

another, came up out of the sea.

4The rst was like a lioness, and had the

wings of an eagle: I beheld till her wings were

plucked o, and she was lifted up from the earth,

and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart

of a man was given to her.

5And behold another beast, like a bear, stood

up on one side: and there were three rows in the

mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof, and thus

they said to it: Arise, devour much

esh.6After this I beheld, and lo, another like a

leopard, and it had upon it four wings, as of a

fowl, and the beast had four heads, and power

was given to it.

7After this I beheld in the vision of the night,

and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful,

and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth,

eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down

the rest with his feet: and it was unlike to the

other beasts which I had seen before it, and had

ten horns.

8I considered the horns, and behold another

little horn sprung out of the midst of them: and

three of the rst horns were plucked up at the

presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of

a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking

great things.

9I beheld till thrones were placed, and the

ancient of days sat: his garment was white as

snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool:

his throne like

ames of re: the wheels of it like

a burning re.

10A swift stream of re issued forth from be-

fore him: thousands of thousands ministered to

him, and ten thousand times a hundred thou-

sand stood before him: the judgment sat, and

the books were opened.

11I beheld, because of the voice of the great

words which that horn spoke: and I saw that

the beast was slain, and the body thereof was

destroyed, and given to the re to be burnt:

12And that the power of the other beasts

was taken away: and that times of life were ap-

pointed them for a time, and a time.

13I beheld, therefore, in the vision of the

night, and lo, one like the Son of man came with

the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the

ancient of days: and they presented him before

him.

14And he gave him power, and glory, andProphecy of Daniel 1115

a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues

shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power

that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom

that shall not be destroyed.

15My spirit trembled; I, Daniel, was af-

frighted at these things, and the visions of my

head troubled me.

16I went near to one of them that stood by,

and asked the truth of him concerning all these

things, and he told me the interpretation of the

words, and instructed me:

17These four great beasts, are four kingdoms,

which shall arise out of the earth.

18But the saints of the most high God shall

take the kingdom: and they shall possess the

kingdom for ever and ever.

19After this I would diligently learn concern-

ing the fourth beast, which was very dierent

from all, and exceeding terrible: his teeth and

claws were of iron: he devoured and broke in

pieces, and the rest he stamped upon with his

feet:

20And concerning the ten horns that he had

on his head: and concerning the other that came

up, before which three horns fell: and of that

horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking great

things, and was greater than the rest.

21I beheld, and lo, that horn made war

against the saints, and prevailed over them,

22Till the ancient of days came and gave

judgment to the saints of the most High, and

the time came, and the saints obtained the king-

dom.

23And thus he said: The fourth beast shall be

the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be

greater than all the kingdoms, and shall devour

the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and

break it in pieces.

24And the ten horns of the same kingdom,

shall be ten kings: and another shall rise up afterthem, and he shall be mightier than the former,

and he shall bring down three kings.

25And he shall speak words against the High

One, and shall crush the saints of the most High:

and he shall think himself able to change times

and laws, and they shall be delivered into his

hand until a time, and times, and half a time.

26And a judgment shall sit, that his power

may be taken away, and be broken in pieces, and

perish even to the end.

27And that the kingdom, and power, and

the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole

heaven, may be given to the people of the saints

of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlast-

ing kingdom, and all kings shall serve him, and

shall obey him.

28Hitherto is the end of the word. I, Daniel,

was much troubled with my thoughts, and my

countenance was changed in me: but I kept the

word in my heart.

Chapter 8

In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar,

a vision appeared to me. I, Daniel, after what I

had seen in the beginning,

2Saw in my vision when I was in the castle

of Susa, which is in the province of Elam: and

I saw in the vision that I was over the gate of

Ulai.

3And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and be-

hold a ram stood before the water, having two

high horns, and one higher than the other, and

growing up. Afterward

4I saw the ram pushing with his horns against

the west, and against the north, and against the

south: and no beasts could withstand him, nor

be delivered out of his hand: and he did accord-

ing to his own will, and became great.1116 Prophecy of Daniel

5And I understood: and behold a he goat

came from the west on the face of the whole

earth, and he touched not the ground, and the

he goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

6And he went up to the ram that had the

horns, which I had seen standing before the

gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his

strength.

7And when he was come near the ram, he

was enraged against him, and struck the ram:

and broke his two horns, and the ram cound not

withstand him: and when he had cast him down

on the ground, he stamped upon him, and none

could deliver the ram out of his hand.

8And the he goat became exceeding great:

and when he was grown, the great horn was bro-

ken, and there came up four horns under it to-

wards the four winds of heaven.

9And out of one of them came forth a little

horn: and it became great against the south, and

against the east, and against the strength.

10And it was magnied even unto the

strength of heaven: and it threw down of the

strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them.

11And it was magnied even to the prince

of the strength: and it took away from him the

continual sacrice, and cast down the place of

his sanctuary.

12And strength was given him against the

continual sacrice, because of sins: and truth

shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall

do and shall prosper.

13And I heard one of the saints speaking, and

one saint said to another I know not to whom,

that was speaking: How long shall be the vision,

concerning the continual sacrice, and the sin of

the desolation that is made: and the sanctuary,

and the strength be trodden under foot?

14And he said to him: Unto evening and

morning two thousand three hundred days: andthe sanctuary shall be cleansed.

15And it came to pass when I, Daniel, saw

the vision, and sought the meaning, that behold

there stood before me as it were the appearance

of a man.

16And I heard the voice of a man between

Ulai: and he called, and said: Gabriel, make

this man to understand the vision.

17And he came, and stood near where I

stood: and when he was come, I fell on my face,

trembling, and he said to me: Understand, O

son of man, for in the time of the end the vision

shall be fullled.

18And when he spoke to me, I fell

at on the

ground: and he touched me, and set me upright.

19And he said to me: I will shew thee what

things are to come to pass in the end of the male-

diction: for the time hath its end.

20The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is

the king of the Medes and Persians.

21And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks,

and the great horn that was between his eyes,

the same is the rst king.

22But whereas when that was borken, there

arose up four for it, four kings shall rise up of his

nation, but not with his strength.

23And after their reign, when iniquities shall

be grown up, there shall arise a king of a shame-

less face, and understanding dark sentences.

24And his power shall be strengthened, but

not by his own force: and he shall lay all things

waste, and shall prosper, and do more than can

be believed. And he shall destroy the mighty,

and the people of the saints,

25According to his will, and craft shall be

successful in his hand: and his heart shall be

pued up, and in the abundance of all things he

shall kill many: and he shall rise up aginst the

prince of princes, and shall be broken without

hand.Prophecy of Daniel 1117

26And the vision of the evening and the

morning, which was told, is true: thou, there-

fore, seal up the vision, because it shall come to

pass after many days.

27And I, Daniel, languished, and was sick

for some days: and when I was risen up, I did

the king's business, and I was astonished at the

vision, and there was none that could interpret

it.

Chapter 9

In the rst year of Darius, the son of Assuerus,

of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the

kingdom of the Chaldeans:

2The rst year of his reign I, Daniel, under-

stood by books the number of the years, concern-

ing which the word of the Lord came to Jeremias,

the prophet, that seventy years should be accom-

plished of the desolation of Jerusalem.

3And I set my face to the Lord, my God,

to pray and make supplication with fasting, and

sackcloth, and ashes.

4And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I

made my confession, and said: I beseech thee,

O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the

covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and

keep thy commandments.

5We have sinned, we have committed iniquity,

we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and

we have gone aside from thy commandments,

and thy judgments.

6We have not hearkened to thy servants, the

prophets, that have spoken in thy name to our

kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all

the people of the land.

7To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion

of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to

the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel,to them that are near, and to them that are far

o, in all the countries whither thou hast driven

them, for their iniquities, by which they have

sinned against thee.

8O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to

our princes, and to our fathers, that have sinned.

9But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy and

forgiveness, for we have departed from thee:

10And we have not hearkened to the voice of

the Lord, our God, to walk in his law, which he

set before us by his servants, the prophets.

11And all Israel have transgressed thy law,

and have turned away from hearing thy voice,

and the malediction, and the curse, which is

written in the book of Moses, the servant of God,

is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against

him.

12And he hath conrmed his words which

he spoke against us, and against our princes

that judged us, that he would bring in upon

us a great evil, such as never was under all the

heaven, according to that which hath been done

in Jerusalem.

13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this

evil is come upon us: and we entreated not thy

face, O Lord our God, that we might turn from

our iniquities, and think on thy truth.

14And the Lord hath watched upon the evil,

and hath brought it upon us: the Lord, our God,

is just in all his works which he hath done: for

we have not hearkened to his voice.

15And now, O Lord, our God, who hast

brought forth thy people out of the land of

Egypt, with a strong hand, and hast made thee

a name as at this day: we have sinned, we have

committed iniquity,

16O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy

wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I be-

seech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from

thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins,1118 Prophecy of Daniel

and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and

thy people, are a reproach to all that are round

about us.

17Now, therefore, O our God, hear the sup-

plication of thy servant, and his prayers: and

shew thy face upon thy sanctuary, which is des-

olate, for thy own sake.

18Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open

thy eyes, and see our desolation, and the city

upon which thy name is called: for it is not for

our justications that we present our prayers be-

fore thy face, but for the multitude of thy tender

mercies.

19O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeased: hear-

ken, and do: delay not, for thy own sake, O my

God: because thy name is invocated upon thy

city, and upon thy people.

20Now while I was yet speaking, and praying,

and confessing my sins, and the sins of my people

of Israel, and presenting my supplications in the

sight of my God, for the holy mountain of my

God:

21As I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the

man, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at

the beginning,

ying swiftly, touched me at the

time of the evening sacrice.

22And he instructed me, and spoke to me,

and said: O Daniel, I am now come forth to

teach thee, and that thou mightest understand.

23From the beginning of thy prayers the word

came forth: and I am come to shew it to thee,

because thou art a man of desires: therefore, do

thou mark the word, and understand the vision.

24Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy peo-

ple, and upon thy holy city, that transgression

may be nished, and sin may have an end, and

iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting jus-

tice may be brought; and vision and prophecy

may be fullled; and the Saint of saints may be

anointed.25Know thou, therefore, and take notice:

that from the going forth of the word, to build up

Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the prince, there

shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and

the street shall be built again, and the walls, in

straitness of times.

26And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be

slain: and the people that shall deny him shall

not be his. And a people, with their leader, that

shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanc-

tuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and

after the end of the war the appointed desola-

tion.

27And he shall conrm the covenant with

many, in one week: and in the half of the week

the victim and the sacrice shall fail: and there

shall be in the temple the abomination of deso-

lation: and the desolation shall continue even to

the consummation, and to the end.

Chapter 10

In the third year of Cyrus, king of the Persians,

a word was revealed to Daniel, surnamed Baltas-

sar, and a true word, and great strength: and he

understood the word: for there is need of under-

standing in a vision.

2In those days I, Daniel, mourned the days

of three weeks.

3I ate no desirable bread, and neither

esh,

nor wine, entered into my mouth, neither was

I anointed with ointment: till the days of three

weeks were accomplished.

4And in the four and twentieth day of the

rst month, I was by the great river, which is

the Tigris.

5And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw: and

behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were

girded with the nest gold:Prophecy of Daniel 1119

6And his body was like the chrysolite, and

his face as the appearance of lightning, and his

eyes as a burning lamp: and his arms, and all

downward even to the feet, like in appearance to

glittering brass: and the voice of his word like

the voice of a multitude.

7And I, Daniel alone, saw the vision: for the

men that were with me saw it not: but an ex-

ceeding great terror fell upon them, and they

ed

away, and hid themselves.

8And I, being left alone, saw this great vision:

and there remained no strength in me, and the

appearance of my countenance was changed in

me, and I fainted away, and retained no strength.

9And I heard the voice of his words: and

when I heard I lay in a consternation upon my

face, and my face was close to the ground.

10And behold a hand touched me, and lifted

me up upon my knees, and upon the joints of my

hands.
11And he said to me: Daniel, thou man of

desires, understand the words that I speak to

thee, and stand upright: for I am sent now to

thee. And when he had said this word to me, I

stood trembling.

12And he said to me: Fear not, Daniel: for

from the rst day that thou didst set thy heart

to understand, to aict thyself in the sight of

thy God, thy words have been heard: and I am

come for thy words.

13But the prince of the kingdom of the Per-

sians resisted me one and twenty days: and be-

hold Michael, one of the chief princes, came to

help me, and I remained there by the king of the

Persians.

14But I am come to teach thee what things

shall befall thy people in the latter days, for as

yet the vision is for days.

15And when he was speaking such words to

me, I cast down my countenance to the ground,and held my peace.

16And behold as it were the likeness of a son

of man touched my lips: then I opened my mouth

and spoke, and said to him that stood before

me: O my lord, at the sight of thee my joints are

loosed, and no strength hath remained in me.

17And how can the servant of my lord speak

with my lord? for no strength remaineth in me;

moreover, my breath is stopped.

18Therefore, he that looked like a man,

touched me again, and strengthened me.

19And he said: Fear not, O man of desires,

peace be to thee: take courage, and be strong.

And when he spoke to me, I grew strong, and I

said: Speak, O my lord, for thou hast strength-

ened me.

20And he said: Dost thou know wherefore I

am come to thee? And now I will return, to ght

against the prince of the Persians. When I went

forth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks

coming.

21But I will tell thee what is set down in the

scripture of truth: and none is my helper in all

these things, but Michael your prince.

Chapter 11

And from the rst year of Darius, the Mede, I

stood up, that he might be strengthened, and

conrmed.

2And now I will shew thee the truth. Behold,

there shall stand yet three kings in Persia, and

the fourth shall be enriched exceedingly above

them all: and when he shall be grown mighty by

his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom

of Greece.

3But there shall rise up a strong king, and

shall rule with great power: and he shall do what

he pleaseth.1120 Prophecy of Daniel

4And when he shall come to his height, his

kingdom shall be broken, and it shall be divided

towards the four winds of the heaven: but not

to his posterity, nor according to his pwoer with

wheich he ruled. For his kingdom shall be rent

in peices, even for strangers, besides these.

5And the king of the south shall be strength-

ened, and one of his princes shall prevail over

him, and he shall rule with great power: for his

dominions shall be great.

6And after the end of years they shall be in

league together: and the daughter of the king

of the south shall come to the king of the north

to make friendship, but she shall not obtain the

strength of the arm, neither shall her seed stand:

and she shall be given up, and her young men

that brought her, and they that strengthened her

in these times.

7And a plant of the bud of her roots shall

stand up: and he shall come with an army, and

shall enter into the province of the king of the

north: and he shall abuse them, and shall pre-

vail.

8And he shall also carry away captive into

Egypt their gods, and their graven things, and

their precious vessels of gold and silver: he shall

prevail aginst the king of the north.

9And the king of the south shall enter into

the kingdom, and shall return to his own land.

10And his sons shall be provoked, and they

shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and

he shall come with haste like a

ood: and he

shall return, and be stirred up, and he shall join

battle with his force.

11And the king of the south being provoked,

shall go forth, and shall ght against the king of

the north, and shall prepare an exceeding great

multitude, and a multitude shall be given into

his hands.

12And he shall take a multitude, and hisheart shall be lifted up, and he shall cast down

many thousands: but he shall not prevail.

13For the king of the north shall return, and

shall prepare a multitude much greater than be-

fore: and in the end of times, and years, he

shall come in haste with a great army, and much

riches.

14And in those times many shall rise up

against the king of the south, and the children

of prevaricators of thy people shall lift up them-

selves to full the vision, and they shall fall.

15And the king of the north shall come, and

shall cast up a mount, and shall take the best

fenced citits: and the arms of the south shall

not withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up

to resist, and they shall not have strength.

16And he shall come upon him, and do ac-

cording to his pleasure, and there shall be none

to stand against his face: and he shall stand in

the glorious land, and it shall be consumed by

his hand.

17And he shall set his face to come to possess

all his kingdom, and he shall make upright con-

ditions with him: and he shall give him a daugh-

ter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not

stand, neither shall she be for him.

18And he shall turn his face to the islands,

and shall take many: and he shall cause the

prince of his reproach to cease, and his reproach

shall be turned upon him.

19And he shall turn his face to the empire of

his own land, and he shall stumble, and fall, ans

shall not be found.

20And there shall stand up in his place one

most vile, and unworthy of kingly honour: and

in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage

nor in battle.

21And there shall stand up in his place one

despised, and the kingly honour shall not be

given him: and he shall come privately, and shallProphecy of Daniel 1121

obtain the kingdom by fraud.

22And the arms of the ghter shall be over-

come before his face, and shall be broken: yea,

also the prince of the covenant.

23And after friendships, he will deal deceit-

fully with him: and he shall go up, and shall

overcome with a small people.

24And he shall enter into rich and plentiful

cities: and he shall do that which his fathers

never did, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall scat-

ter their spoils, and their prey, and their riches,

and shall forecast devices against the best fenced

places: and this until a time.

25And his strength, and his heart, shall be

stirred up aginst the king of the south, with a

great army: and the king of the south shall be

stirred up to battle with many and very strong

succours: and they shall not stand, for they shall

form designs against him.

26And they that eat bread with him, shall

destroy him, and his army shall be overthrown:

and many shall fall down slain.

27And the heart of the two kings shall be to

do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table,

and they shall not prosper: because as yet the

end is unto another time.

28And he shall return into his land with much

riches: and his heart shall be aginst the holy

covenant, and he shall succeed, and shall return

into his own land.

29At the time appointed he shall return, and

he shall come to the south, but the latter time

shall not be like the former.

30And the galleys and the Romans shall come

upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall

return, and shall have indignation against the-

covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed:

and he shall returnm, and shall devise against

them that haave forsaken the covenant of the

sanctuary.31And arms shall stand on his part, and they

shall dele the sanctuary of strength, and shall

take away the continual sacrice: and they shall

place there the abomination unto desolation.

32And such as deal wickedly against the

covenant shall deceitfully dissemble: but the

people that know their God shall prevail and suc-

ceed.

33And they that are learned among the peo-

ple shall teach many: and they shall fall by the

sword, and by re, and by captivity, and by spoil

for many days.

34And when they shall have fallen, they shall

be relieved with a small help: and many shall be

joined to them deceitfully.

35And some of thelearned shall fall, that they

may be tried, and may be chosen, and made

white, even to the appointed time: because yet

there shall be another time.

36And the king shall do according to his will,

and he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify him-

self against every god: and he shall speak great

things against the God of gods, and shall pros-

per, till the wrath be accomplished. For the de-

termination is made.

37And he shall make no account of the God

of his fathers: and he shall follow the lust of

women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he

shall rise up against all things.

38But he shall worship the god Maozim, in

his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not,

he shall worship with gold, and silver, and pre-

cious stones, and things of great price.

39And he shall do this to fortify Maozim with

a strange god, whom he hath acknowledged, and

he shall increase glory, and shall give them power

over many, and shall divide the land gratis.

40And at the time prexed the king of the

south shall ght against him, and the king of the

north shall come against him like a tempest, with1122 Prophecy of Daniel

chariots, andwith horsemen, and with a great

navy, and he shall enter into the countries, and

shall destroy, and pass through.

41And he shal enter into the glorious land,

ansd many shall fall: and these only shakll be

saved out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and

the principality of the children of Ammon.

42And he shall lay his hand upon the lands:

and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

43And he shall have power over the treasures

of gold, and of silver, and all the precious things

of Egypt: and he shall pass through Lybia, and

Ethiopia.

44And tidings out of the east, and out of the

north, shall trouble him: and he shall come with

a great multitude to destroy and slay many.

45And he shall x his tabernacle, Apadno,

between the seas, upon a glorious and holy

mountain: and he shall come even to the top

thereof, and none shall help him.

Chapter 12

But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great

prince, who standeth for the children of thy peo-

ple: and a time shall come, such as never was

from the time that nations began, even until

that time. And at that time shall thy people

be saved, every one that shall be found written

in the book.

2And many of those that sleep in the dust of

the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlast-

ing, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

3But they that are learned, shall shine as the

brightness of the rmament: and they that in-

struct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.

4But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and

seal the book, even to the time appointed: many

shall pass over, and knowledge shall be manifold.5And I, Daniel, looked, and behold as it were

two others stood: one on this side upon the bank

of the river, and another on that side, on the

other bank of the river.

6And I said to the man that was clothed in

linen, that stood upon the waters of the river:

How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

7And I heard the man that was clothed in

linen, that stood upon the waters of the river,

when he had lifted up his right hand, and his

left hand to heaven, and had sworn by him that

liveth for ever, that it should be unto a time,

and times, and half a time. And when the scat-

tering of the band of the holy people shall be

accomplished, all these things shall be nished.

8And I heard, and understood not. And I

said: O my lord, what shall be after these things?

9And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words

are shut up, and sealed until the appointed time.

10Many shall be chosen, and made white, and

shall be tried as re: and the wicked shall deal

wickedly, and none of the wicked shall under-

stand, but the learned shall understand.

11And from the time when the continual sac-

rice shall be taken away, and the abomination

unto desolation shall be set up, there shall be a

thousand two hundred ninety days.

12Blessed is he that waitedth, and cometh

unto a thousand three hundred thirty-ve days.

13But go thou thy ways until the time ap-

pointed: and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy

lot unto the end of the days.

Chapter 13

Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and

his name was Joakim:

2And he took a wife, whose name was Su-

sanna, the daughter of Helcias, a bery beautifulProphecy of Daniel 1123

woman, and one that feared God.

3For her parents being just, had instructed

their daughter according to the law of Moses.

4Now Joakim was very rich, and had an or-

chard near his house: and the Jews resorted

to him, because he was the most honourable of

them all.

5And there were two of the ancients of the

people appointed judges that year, of whom the

Lord said: That iniquity came out from Babylon,

from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern

the people.

6These men frequented the house of Joakim,

and all that hand any maters of judgment came

to them.

7And when the people departed away at

noon, Susanna went in, and walked in her hus-

band's orchard.

8And the old men saw her going in every day,

and walking: and they were in

amed with lust

towards her:

9And they perverted their own mind, and

turned away their eyes, that they might not look

unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.

10So they were both wounded with the love

of her, yet they did not make known their grief

one to the other.

11For they were ashamed to declare to one

another their lust, being desirous to have to do

with her:

12And they watched carefully every day to

see her. And one said to the other:

13Let us now go home, for it is dinner time.

So going out, they departed one from another.

14And turning back again, they came both

to the same place: and asking one another the

cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then

they agreed together upon a time, when they

might nd her alone.15And it fell out, as they watched a t day,

she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day

before, with two maids only, and was desirous

to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot

weather.

16And there was nobody there, but the two

old men that had hid themselves, and were be-

holding her.

17So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and

washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard,

that I may wash me.

18And they did as she bade them: and they

shut the doors of the orchard, and went out by

a back door to fetch what she had commanded

them, and they knew not that the elders were

hid within.

19Now when the maids were gone forth, the

two elders arose, and ran to her, and said:

20Behold the doors of the orchard are shut,

and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with

thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.

21But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness

against thee, that a young man was with thee,

and therefore thou didst send away thy maids

form thee.

22Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened

on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death

to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your

hands.

23But it is better for me to fall into your

hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight

of the Lord.

24With that Susanna cried out with a loud

voice: and the elders also cried out against her.

25And one of them ran to the door of the

orchard, and opened it.

26So when the servants of the house heard

the cry in the orchard, they rushed in by the

back door, to see what was the matter.1124 Prophecy of Daniel

27But after the old men had spoken, the ser-

vants were greatly ashamed: for never had there

been any such word said of Susanna. And on the

next day,

28When the people were come to Joakim, her

husband, the two elders also came full of wicked

device against Susanna, to put her to death.

29And they said before the people: Send to

Susanna, daughter of Helcias, the wife of Joakim.

And presently they sent.

30And she came with her parents, and chil-

dren and all her kindred.

31Now Susanna was exceeding delicate, and

beautiful to behold.

32But those wicked men commanded that her

face should be uncovered, (for she was covered)

that so at least they might be satised with her

beauty.

33Therefore her friends, and all her acquain-

tance wept.

34But the two elders rising up in the midst

of the people, laid their hands upon her head.

35And she weeping, looked kup to heaven,

for her heart had condence in the Lord.

36And the elders said: As we walked in the

orchard alone, this woman came in with two

maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, ans

sent away the maids from her.

37Then a young man that was there hid came

to her, and lay with her.

38But we that were in a corner of the orchard,

seeing this wickedness, ran up to them, and we

saw them lie together.

39And him indeed we could not take, because

he was stronger than us, and opening the doors,

he leaped out:

40But having taken this woman, we asked

who the young man was, but she would not tell

us: of this thing we are witnesses.41The multitude believed them, as being the

elders, and the judges of the people, and they

condemned her to death.

42Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice,

and said: O eternal God, who knowest hidden

things, who knowest all things before they come

to pass,

43Thou knowest that they have borne false

witness against me: and behold I must die,

whereas I have done none of these things, which

these men have maliciously forged against me.

44And the Lord heard her voice.

45And when she was led to be put to death,

the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young boy,

whose name was Daniel:

46And he cried out with a loud voice: I am

clear from the blood of this woman.

47Then all the people turning themselves to-

wards him, said: What meaneth this word that

thou hast spoken?

48But he standing in the midst of them, said:

Are ye so foolish, ye children of Israel, that with-

out examination or knowledge of the truth, you

have condemned a daughter of Israel?

49Return to judgment, for they have borne

false witness against her.

50So all the people turned again in haste,

and the old men said to him: Come, and sit thou

down among us, and shew it us: seeing God hath

given thee the honour of old age.

51And Daniel said to the people: Separate

these two far from one another, and I will exam-

ine them.

52So when they were put asunder one from

the other, he called one of them, and said to him:

O thou that art grown old in evil days, now are

thy sins come out, which thou hast committed

before:
53In judging unjust judgments, oppressing

the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free,Prophecy of Daniel 1125

whereas the Lord saith: The innocent and the

just thou shalt not kill.

54Now then if thou sawest her, tell me under

what tree thou sawest them conversing together:

He said: Under a mastic tree.

55And Daniel said: Welll hast thou lide

against thy own head: for behold the angel of

God having recieved the sentence of him, shall

cut thee in two.

56And having put him aside, he commanded

that the other should come, and he said to him:

O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty

hath deceived tee, and lust hath perverted thy

heart:

57Thus did you do to the daughters of Is-

rael, and they for fear conversed with you: but a

daughter of Juda would not abide your wicked-

ness.

58Now, therefore, tell me, under what tree

didst thou take them conversing together. And

he answered: Under a holm tree.

59And Daniel said to him: Well hast thou

also lied against thy own head: for the angel of

the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two,

and to destroy you.

60With that all the assembly cried out with

a loud voice, and they blessed God, who saveth

them that trust in him.

61And they rose up against the two elders,

(for Daniel had convicted them of false witness

by their own mouth) and they did to them as

they had maliciously dealt against their neigh-

bour,

62To full the law of Moses: and they put

them to death, and innocent blood was saved in

that day.

63But Helcias, and his wife, praised God, for

their daughter, Susanna, with Joakim, her hus-

band, and all her kindred, because there was no

dishonesty found in her.64And Daniel became great in the sight of

the people from that day, and thence forward.

65And king Astyages was gathered to his fa-

thers; and Cyrus, the Persian, received his king-

dom.

Chapter 14

And Daniel was the king's guest, and was hon-

oured above all his friends.

2Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel:

and there was spent upon him every day twelve

great measures of ne
our, and forty sheep, and

six vessels of wine.

3The king also worshipped him, and went ev-

ery day to adore him: but Daniel adored his God.

And the king said to him: Why dost thou not

adore Bel?

4And he answered, and said to him: Because

I do not worship idols made with hands, but the

living God, that created heaven and earth, and

hath power over all

esh.

5And the king said to him: Doth not Bel seem

to thee to be a living god? Seest thou not how

much he eateth and drinketh every day?

6Then Daniel smiled, and siad: O king, be not

deceived: for this is but clay within, and brass

without, neither hath he eaten at any time.

7And the king being angry, called for his

priests, and siad to them: If you tell me not who

it is that eateth up these expenses, you shall die.

8But if you can shew that Bel eateth these

things, Daniel shall die, because he hath blas-

phemed against Bel. And Daniel said to the

king: Be it done according to thy word.

9Now the priests of Bel were seventy, beside

their wives, and little ones, and children. And

the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.

10And the priests of Bel said: Behold, we go1126 Prophecy of Daniel

out: and do thou, O king, set on the meats, and

make ready the wine, and shut the door fast, and

seal it with thy own ring:

11And when thou comest in the morning, if

thou ndest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we

will suer death, or else Daniel, that hath lied

against us.

12And they little regarded it, because they

had made under the table a secret entrance, and

they always came in by it, and consumed those

things.

13So it came to pass after they were gone out,

the king set the meats before Bel: and Daniel

commanded his servants, and they brought

ashes, and he sifted them all over the temple

before the king: and going forth, they shut the

door, and having sealed it with the king's ring,

they departed.

14But the priests went in by night, accord-

ing to their custom, with their wives, and their

children: and they eat and drank up all.

15And the king arose early in the morning,

and Daniel with him.

16And the king said: Are the seals whole,

Daniel? And he answered: They lare whole, O

king.

17And as soon as he had opened the door,

the king looked upon the table, and cried out

with a loud voice: Great art thou, O Bel, and

there is not any deceit with thee.

18And Daniel laughed: and he held the king,

that he should not go in: and he said: Behold

the pavement, mark whose footsteps these are.

19And the king said: I see the footsteps of

men, and women, and children. And the king

was angry.

20Then he took the priests, and their wives,

and their children: and they shewed him the pri-

vate doors by which they came in, and consumed

the things that were on the table.21The king, therefore, put them ot death,

and delivered Bel into the power of Daniel: who

destroyed him and his temple.

22And there was a great dragon in that place,

and the Babylonians worshipped him.

23And the king said to Daniel: Behold, thou

canst not say now, that this is not a living god:

adore him, therefore.

24And Daniel said: I adore the Lord, my

God: for he is the living God: but that is no

living god.
25But give me leave, O king, and I will kill

this dreagon without sword or club. And the

king said, I give thee leave.

26Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair,

and boiled them together: and he made lumps,

and put them into the dragon's mouth, and the

dragon burst asunder. And he said: Behold him

whom you worship.

27And when the Babylonians had heard this,

they took great indignation: and being gathered

together against the king, they said: The king is

become a Jew. He hath destroyed Bel, he hath

killed the dragon, and he hath put the priests to

death.

28And they came to the king, and said: De-

liver us Daniel, or else we will destroy thee and

thy house.

29And the king saw that they pressed upon

him violently: and being constrained by neces-

sity: he delivered Daniel to them.

30And they cast him into the den of lions,

and he was there six days.

31And in the den there were seven lions, and

they had given to them two carcasses every day,

and two sheep: but then they were not given

unto them, that they might devour Daniel.

32Now there was in Judea a prophet called

Habacuc, and he had boiled pottage, and had

broken bread in a bowl: and was going into theProphecy of Daniel 1127

eld, to carry it to the reapers.

33And the angel of the Lord said to Habacuc:

Carry the dinner which thou hast into Babylon,

to Daniel, who is in the lions' den.

34And Habacuc said: Lord, I never saw

Babylon, nor do I know the den.

35And the angel of the Lord took him by the

top of his head, and carried him by the hair of

his head, and set him in Babylon, over the den,

in the force of his spirit.

36And Habacuc cried, saying: O Daniel, thou

servant of God, take the dinner that God hath

sent thee.

37And Daniel said, Thou hast remembered

me, O God, and thou hast not forsaken them

that love thee.

38And Daniel arose, and eat. And the angel

of the Lord presently set Habacuc again in his

own place.

39And upon the seventh day the king came

to bewail Daniel: and he came to the den, and

looked in, and behold Daniel was sitting in the

midst of the lions.

40And the king cried out with a loud voice,

saying: Great art thou, O Lord, the God of

DAniel. And he drew him out of the lions' den.

41But those that had been the cause of his

destruction, he cast into the den, and they were

devoured in a moment before him.

42Then the king said: Let all the inhabitants

of the whole earth fear the God of Daniel: for

he is the Saviour, working signs, and wonders in

the earth: who hath delivered Daniel out of the

lions' den.Prophecy of Osee

Chapter 1

The word of the Lord, that came to Osee, the son

of Beeri, in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz,

and Ezechias, kings of Juda, and in the days of

Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel.

2The beginning of the Lord's speaking by

Osee: and the Lord said to Osee: Go, take thee

a wife of fornications, and have of her children

of fornications: for the land by fornication shall

depart from the Lord.

3So he went and took Gomer, the daughter

of Debelaim: and she conceived, and bore him a

son.

4And the Lord said to him: Call his name

Jezrahel: for yet a little while, and I will visit the

blood of Jezrahel upon the house of Jehu, and I

will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of

Israel.

5And in that day I will break in pieces the

bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrahel.

6And she conceived again, and bore a daugh-

ter, and he said to him: Call her name, Without

mercy: for I will not add any more to have mercy

on the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget

them.

7And I will have mercy on the house of Juda,

and I will save them by the Lord, their God: and

I will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor

by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

8And she weaned her that was called Withoutmercy. And she conceived, and bore a son.

9And he said: Call his name, Not my people:

for you are not my people, and I will not be

yours.

10And the number of the children of Israel

shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without

measure, and shall not be numbered. And it

shall be in the place where it shall be said to

them: You are not my people: it shall be said to

them: Ye are the sons of the living God.

11And the children of Juda, and the children

of Israel, shall be gathered together: and they

shall appoint themselves one head, and shall

come up out of the land: for great is the day

of Jezrahel.

Chapter 2

Say ye to your brethren: You are my people: and

to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.

2Judge your mother, judge her: because she

is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let

her put away her fornications from her face, and

her adulteries from between her breasts.

3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the

day that she was born: and I will make her as a

wilderness, and will set her as a land that none

can pass through and will kill her with drought.

4And I will not have mercy on her children.

for they are the children of fornications.

5For their mother hath committed fornica-Prophecy of Osee 1129

tion, she that conceived them is covered with

shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers,

that give me my bread, and my water, my wool,

and my

ax, my oil, and my drink.

6Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way

with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall,

and she shall not nd her paths.

7And she shall follow after her lovers, and

shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them,

and shall not nd, and she shall say: I will go,

and return to my rst husband: because it was

better with me then than now.

8And she did not know that I gave her corn,

and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and

gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

9Therefore will I return, and take away my

corn in its season, and my wine in its season, and

I will set at liberty my wool, and my

ax, which

covered her disgrace.

10And now I will lay open her folly in the

eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her

out of my hand:

11And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her

solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and

all her festival times.

12And I will destroy her vines, and her g

trees, of which she said: These are my rewards,

which my lovers have given me: and I will make

her as a forest and the beasts of the eld shall

devour her.

13And I will visit upon her the days of

Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked

herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels,

and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith

the Lord.

14Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will

lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to

her heart.

15And I will give her vinedressers out of the

same place, and the valley of Achor for an open-ing of hope: and she shall sing there according

to the days of her youth, and according to the

days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

16And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord:

That she shall call me: My husband, and she

shall call me no more Banli.

17And I will take away the names of Baalim

out of her mouth, and she shall no more remem-

ber their name.

18And in that day I will make a covenant

with them, with the beasts of the eld, and with

the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things

of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the

sword, and war out of the land: and I will make

them sleep secure.

19And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and

I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judg-

ment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.

20And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and

thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

21And 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.

22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the

wine, and the oil, and these shall hear Jezrahel.

23And I will sow her unto me in the earth,

and I will have mercy on her that was without

mercy.

24And I will say to that which is not my

people: Thou art my people: and they shall say:

Thou art my God.

Chapter 3

And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love

a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress:

as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they

look to strange gods, and love the husks of the

grapes.1130 Prophecy of Osee

2And I bought her to me for fteen pieces of

silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core

of barley.

3And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me

many days: thou shalt not play tbe harlot, and

thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for

thee.

4For the children of Israel shall sit many days

without king, and without prince, and without

sacrice, and without altar, and without ephod,

and without theraphim.

5And after this the children of Israel shall

return and shall seek the Lord, their God, and

David, their king: and they shall fear the Lord,

and his goodness, in the last days.

Chapter 4

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel,

for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the

inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and

there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of

God in the land.

2Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft,

and adultery, have over

owed, and blood hath

touched blood.

3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every

one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the

heat of the eld, and with the fowls of the air:

yea, the shes of the sea also shall be gathered

together.

4But yet let not any man judge: and let not a

man be rebuked: for thy people are as they that

contradict the priest.

5And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet

also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made

thy mother to be silent.

6My people have been silent, because they

had no knowledge: because thou hast rejectedknowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not

do the oce of priesthood to me: and thou hast

forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget

thy children.

7According to the multitude of them, so have

they sinned against me: I will change their glory

into shame.

8They shall eat the sins of my people, and

shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

9And there shall be like people like priest:

and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will

repay them their devices.

10And they shall eat and shall not be lled:

they have committed fornication, and have not

ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in

not observing the law.

11Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness,

take away the understanding.

12My people have consulted their stocks, and

their sta hath declared unto them: for the spirit

of fornication hath deceived them, and they have

committed fornication against their God.

13They oered sacrice upon the tops of the

mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: un-

der the oak, and the poplar, and the turpen-

tine tree, because the shadow thereof was good:

therefore shall your daughters commit fornica-

tion, aud your spouses shall be adulteresses.

14I will not visit upon your daughters, when

they shall commit fornication, and upon your

spouses when they shall commit adultery: be-

cause themselves conversed with harlots, and of-

fered sacrice with the eeminate, and the peo-

ple that doth not understand shall be beaten.

15If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let

not Juda oend: and go ye not into Galgal, and

come not up into Bethaven, and do not swear:

The Lord liveth.

16For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton

heifer now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb inProphecy of Osee 1131

a spacious place.

17Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him

alone.

18Their banquet is separated, they have gone

astray by fornication: they that should have pro-

tected them have loved to bring shame upon

them.

19The wind hath bound them up in its wings,

and they shall be confounded because of their

sacrices.
Chapter 5

Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house

of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for

there is a judgment against you, because you

have been a snare to them whom you should have

watched over and a net spread upon Thabor. O

priests... What is said of priests in this prophecy

is chie

y understood of the priests of the king-

dom of Israel; who were not true priests of the

race of Aaron; but served the calves at Bethel

and Dan.

2And you have turned aside victims into the

depth and I am the teacher of them all.

3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from

me for now Ephraim hath committed fornica-

tion, Israel is deled.

4They will not set their thoughts to return

to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in

the midst of them, and they have not known the

Lord.

5And the pride of Israel shall answer in his

face: and Israel, and Ephraim shall fall in their

iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them.

6With their

ocks and with their herds, they

shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not nd him:

he is withdrawn from them.

7They have transgressed against the Lord: forthey have begotten children that are strangers:

now shall a month devour them with their por-

tions.

8Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet

in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, behind thy back,

O Benjamin.

9Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of

rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn

that which shall surely be.

10The princes of Juda are become as they

that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath

upon them like water.

11Ephraim is under oppression, and broken

in judgment: because he began to go after lth-

iness.

12And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and

like rottenness to the house of Juda.

13And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda

his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian,

and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not

be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to

take o the band from you.

14For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and

like a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will

catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none

that can rescue.

15I will go and return to my place: until you

are consumed, and seek my face.

Chapter 6

In their aiction they will rise early to me:

Come, and let us return to the Lord.

2For he hath taken us, and he will heal us:

he will strike, and he will cure us.

3He will revive us after two days: on the third

day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his

sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on,

that we may know the Lord. His going forth is1132 Prophecy of Osee

prepared as the morning light, and he will come

to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

4What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what

shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a

morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away

in the morning.

5For this reason have I hewed them by the

prophets, I have slain them by the words of my

mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the

light.

6For I desired mercy, and not sacrice: and

the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the

covenant, there have they dealt treacherously

against me.

8Galaad is a city of workers of idols, sup-

planted with blood.

9And like the jaws of highway robbers, they

conspire with the priests who murder in the way

those that pass out of Sichem: for they have

wrought wickedness.

11And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest,

when I shall bring back the captivity of my peo-

ple.

Chapter 7

When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity

of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness

of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood,

and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is

without.

2And lest they may say in their hearts, that I

remember all their wickedness: their own devices

now have beset them about, they have been done

before my face.

3They have made the king glad with their

wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

4They are all adulterers, like an oven heatedby the baker: the city rested a little from the

mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leav-

ened.
5The day of our king, the princes began to be

mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with

scorners.

6Because they have applied their heart like an

oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all

the night baking them, in the morning he himself

was heated as a

aming re.

7They were all heated like an oven, and have

devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen:

there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.

8Ephraim himself is mixed among the na-

tions: Ephraim is become as bread baked under

the ashes, that is not turned.

9Strangers have devoured his strength, and

he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread

about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.

10And the pride of Israel shall be humbled

before his face: and they have not returned to

the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in

all these.

11And Ephraim is become as a dove that is

decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon

Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.

12And when they shall go, I will spread my

net upon them: I will bring them down as the

fowl of the air, I will strike them as their congre-

gation hath heard.

13Woe to them, for they have departed from

me: they shall be wasted because they have

transgressed against me: and I redeemed them:

and they have spoken lies against me.

14And they have not cried to me with their

heart, but they howled in their beds: they have

thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed

from me.

15And I have chastised them, and strength-

ened their arms: and they have imagined evilProphecy of Osee 1133

against me.

16They returned, that they might be without

yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their

princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of

their tongue. This is their derision in the land

of Egypt.

Chapter 8

Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle

upon the house of the Lord: because they have

transgressed my covenant, and have violated my

law.

2They shall call upon me: O my God, we,

Israel, know thee.

3lsrael hath cast o the thing that is good,

the enemy shall pursue him.

4They have reigned, but not by me: they have

been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and

their gold they have made idols to themselves,

that they might perish.

5Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast o, my wrath

is kindled against them. How long will they be

incapable of being cleansed?

6For itself also is the invention of Israel: a

workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf

of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.

7For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirl-

wind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud

shall yield no meal; and if it should yield,

strangers shall eat it.

8Israel is swallowed up: now is he become

among the nations like an unclean vessel.

9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass

alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his

lovers.

10But even though they shall have hired the

nations, now will I gather them together: and

they shall rest a while from the burden of theking, and the princes.

11Because Ephraim hath made many altars

to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

12I shall write to him my manifold laws,

which have been accounted as foreign.

13They shall oer victims, they shall sacri-

ce

esh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not

receive them: now will he remember their iniq-

uity, and will visit their sins: they shall return

to Egypt.

14And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and

hath built temples: and Juda hath built many

fenced cities: and I will send a re upon his cities,

and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Chapter 9

Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations

do: for thou hast committed fornication against

thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every

corn

oor.

2The

oor and the winepress shall not feed

them, and the wine shall deceive them.

3They shall not dwell in the Lord's land:

Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten

unclean things among the Assyrians.

4They shall not oer wine to the Lord, neither

shall they please him: their sacrices shall be like

the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall

be deled: for their bread is life for their soul, it

shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

5What will you do in the solemn day, in the

day of the feast of the Lord?

6For behold they are gone because of destruc-

tion: Egypt shall gather them together, Mem-

phis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their

beloved silver, the bur shall be in their taberna-

cles.

7The days of visitation are come, the days1134 Prophecy of Osee

of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that

the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was

mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the

multitude of thy madness.

8The watchman of Ephraim was with my

God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon

all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.

9They have sinned deeply, as in the days of

Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and wilI

visit their sin.

11As for Ephraim, their glory hath

own

away like bird from the birth, and from the

womb, and from the conception.

12And though they should bring up their chil-

dren, I will make them without children among

men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart

from them.

13Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in

beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children

to the murderer.

14Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give

them? Give them a womb without children, and

dry breasts.

15All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there

I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices

I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love

them no more, all their princes are revolters.

16Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up,

they shall yield no fruit. And if they should have

issue, I will slay the best beloved fruit of their

womb.

17My God will cast them away, because they

hearkened not to him: and they shall be wan-

derers among the nations.

Chapter 10

Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agree-

able to it: according to the multitude of his fruit,he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty

of his land he hath abounded with idols.

2Their heart is divided: now they shall perish:

he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy

their altars.
3For now they shall say: We have no king:

because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a

king do to us?

4You speak words of an unprotable vision,

and you shall make a covenant: and judgment

shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of

the eld.

5The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped

the kine of Bethaven: for the people thereof have

mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple

that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is

departed from it.

6For itself also is carried into Assyria, a

present to the avenging king: shame shall fall

upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded

in his own will.

7Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth

upon the face of the water.

8And the high places of the idol, the sin of

Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle

shall grow up over their altars: and they shall

say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills:

Fall upon us.

9From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned,

there they stood: the battle in Gabaa against

the children of iniquity shall not overtake them.

10According to my desire, I will chastise

them: and the nations shall be gathered together

against them, when they shall be chastised for

their two iniquities.

11Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread

out corn, but I passed over upon the beauty of

her neck: I will ride upon Ephraim, Juda shall

plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for himself.

12Sow for yourselves in justice, and reapProphecy of Osee 1135

in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow

ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when

he shall come that shall teach you justice.

13You have ploughed wickedness, you have

reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying:

because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the

multitude of thy strong ones.

14A tumult shall arise among thy people: and

all thy fortresses shall be destroyed as Salmana

was destroyed, by the house of him that judged

Baal in the day of battle, the mother being

dashed in pieces upon her children.

15So hath Bethel done to you, because of the

evil of your iniquities.

Chapter 11

As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Is-

rael passed away. Because Israel was a child, and

I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.

2As they called them, they went away from

before their face: they oered victims to Baalim,

and sacriced to idols.

3And I was like a foster father to Ephraim,

I carried them in my arms: and they knew not

that I healed them.

4I will draw them with the cords of Adam,

with the bands of love: and I will be to them as

one that taketh o the yoke on their jaws: and I

put his meat to him that he might eat.

5He shall not return into the land of Egypt,

but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they

would not be converted.

6The sword hath begun in his cities, and it

shall consume his chosen men, and shall devour

their heads.

7And my people shall long for my return: but

a yoke shall be put upon them together, which

shall not be taken o.8How shall I deal with thee, O Ephraim, shall

I protect thee, O Israel? how shall I make thee

as Adama, shall I set thee as Seboim? my heart

is turned within me, my repentance is stirred up.

9I will not execute the erceness of my wrath:

I will not return to destroy Ephraim: because I

am God, and not man: the holy one in the midst

of thee, and I will not enter into the city.

10They shall walk after the Lord, he shall

roar as a lion: because he shall roar, and the

children of the sea shall fear.

11And they shall

y away like a bird out of

Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of the

Assyrians: and I will place them in their own

houses, saith the Lord.

12Ephraim hath compassed me about with

denials, and the house of Israel with deceit: but

Juda went down as a witness with God, and is

faithful with the saints.

Chapter 12

Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the

burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies

and desolation: and he hath made a covenant

with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.

2Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord

with Juda, and a visitation for Jacob: he will

render to him according to his ways, and accord-

ing to his devices.

3In the womb he supplanted his brother: and

by his strength he had success with an angel.

4And he prevailed over the angel, and was

strengthened: he wept, and made supplication

to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he

spoke with us.

5Even the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his

memorial.1136 Prophecy of Osee

6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy

and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

7He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful bal-

ance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

8And Ephraim said: But yet I am become

rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall

not nd me the iniquity that I have committed.

9And I that am the Lord thy God from the

land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in

tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.

10And I have spoken by the prophets, and I

have multiplied visions, and I have used simili-

tudes by the ministry of the prophets.

11If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were

they in Galgal oering sacrices with bullocks:

for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows

of the eld.

12Jacob

ed into the country of Syria, and

Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a

wife.

13But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel

out of Egypt: and he was preserved by a prophet.

14Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with

his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon

him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto

him.

Chapter 13

When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and

he sinned in Baal, and died.

2And now they have sinned more and more:

and they have made to themselves a molten thing

of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole

is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sac-

rice men, ye that adore calves.

3Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud,

and as the early dew that passeth away, as the

dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the

oor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

4But I am the Lord thy God from the land

of Egypt: and thou shalt know no God but me,

and there is no saviour beside me.

5I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the

wilderness.

6According to their pastures they were lled,

and were made full: and they lifted up their

heart, and have forgotten me.

7And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leop-

ard in the way of the Assyrians.

8I will meet them as a bear that is robbed

of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts

of their liver: and I will devour them there as a

lion, the beast of the eld shall tear them.

9Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is

only in me.

10Where is thy king? now especially let him

save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of

whom thou saidst: Give me kings and princes.

11I will give thee a king in my wrath, and

will take him away iu my indignation.

12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his

sin is hidden.

13The sorrows of a woman in labour shall

come upon him, he is an unwise son: for now he

shall not stand in the breach of the children.

14I will deliver them out of the hand of death.

I will redeem them from death: O death, I will

be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort

is hidden from my eyes.

15Because he shall make a separation be-

tween brothers: the Lord will bring a burning

wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall

dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain

desolate, and he shall carry o the treasure of

every desirable vessel.Prophecy of Osee 1137

Chapter 14

Let Samaria perish, becsuse she hath stirred up

her God to bitterness: let them perish by the

sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the

women with child be ripped up.

2Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for

thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

3Take with you words, and return to the

Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity,

and receive the good: and we will render the

calves of our lips.

4Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride

upon horses, neither will we say any more: The

works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt

have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

5I will heal their breaches, I will love them

freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

6I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as

the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of

Libanus.

7His branches shall spread, and his glory shall

be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of

Libanus.

8They shall be converted that sit under his

shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they

shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as

the wine of Libanus.

9Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any

more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make

him

ourish like a green r tree: from me is thy

fruit found.

10Who is wise, and he shall understand these

things? prudent, and he shall know these things?

for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just

shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall

fall in them.Prophecy of Joel

Chapter 1

The word of the Lord, that came to Joel, the son

of Phatuel.

2Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye

inhabitants of the land: did this ever happen in

your days, or in the days of your fathers?

3Tell ye of this to your children, and let your

children tell their children, and their children to

another generation.

4That which the palmerworm hath left, the

locust hath eaten: and that which the locust

hath left, the bruchus hath eaten: and that

which tbe bruchus hath left, the mildew hath

destroyed.
5Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep, and

mourn all ye that take delight; in drinking sweet

wine: for it is cut o from your mouth.

6For a nation come up upon my land, strong,

and without number: his teeth are like the teeth

of a lion: and his cheek teeth as of a lion's whelp.

7He hath laid my vineyard waste, and hath

pilled o the bark of my g tree: he hath stripped

it bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are

made white.

8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth

for the husband of her youth.

9Sacrice and libation is cut o from the

house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's minis-

ters, have mourned:

10The country is destroyed, the ground hathmourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is con-

founded, the oil hath languished.

11The husbandmen are ashamed, the vine-

dressers have howled for the wheat, and for the

barley, because the harvest of the eld is per-

ished.

12The vineyard is confounded, and the g

tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and

the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the

trees of the eld are withered: because joy is

withdrawn from the children of men.

13Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye priests,

howl, ye ministers of the altars: go in, lie in sack-

cloth, ye ministers of my God: because sacrice

and libation is cut o from the house of your

God.

14Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather

together the ancients, all the inhabitants of the

land into the house of your God: and cry ye to

the Lord:

15Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day

of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like

destruction from the mighty.

17The beasts have rotted in their dung, the

barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken

down: because the corn is confounded.

18Why did the beasts groan, why did the

herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture

for them: yea, and the

ocks of sheep are per-

ished.

19To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because reProphecy of Joel 1139

hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilder-

ness: and the

ame hath burnt all the trees of

the country.

20Yea, and the beasts of the eld have looked

up to thee, as a garden bed that thirsteth af-

ter rain, for the springs of waters are dried up,

and re hath devoured the beautiful places of

the wilderness.

Chapter 2

Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm

in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of

the land tremble: because the day of the Lord

cometh, because it is nigh at hand.

2A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day

of clouds and whirlwinds: a numerous and strong

people as the morning spread upon the moun-

tains: the like to it hath not been from the be-

ginning, nor shall be after it, even to the years

of generation and generation.

3Before the face thereof a devouring re, and

behind it a burning

ame: the land is like a gar-

den of pleasure before it, and behind it a desolate

wilderness, neither is there any one that can es-

cape it.

4The appearance of them is as the appearance

of horses, and they shall run like horsemen.

5They shall leap like the noise of chariots

upon the tops of mountains, like the noise of a

ame of re devouring the stubble, as a strong

people prepared to battle.

6At their presence the people shall be in

grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a ket-

tle.

7They shall run like valiant men: like men

of war they shall scale the wall: the men shall

march every one on his way, and they shall not

turn aside from their ranks.8No one shall press upon his brother: they

shall walk every one in his path: yea, and they

shall fall through the windows, and shall take no

harm.

9They shall enter into the city: they shall run

upon the wall, they shall climb up the houses,

they shall come in at the windows, as a thief.

10At their presence the earth hath trembled,

the heavens are moved: the sun and moon are

darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their

shining.

11And the Lord hath uttered his voice before

the face of his army: for his armies are exceed-

ingly great, for they are strong, and execute his

word: for the day of the Lord is great and very

terrible: and who can stand it?

12Now, therefore, saith the Lord. Be con-

verted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and

in weeping, and mourning.

13And rend your hearts, and not your gar-

ments and turn to the Lord your God: for he is

gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy,

and ready to repent of the evil.

14Who knoweth but he will return, and for-

give, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrice

and libation to the Lord your God?

15Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast,

call a solemn assembly,

16Gather together the people, sanctify the

church, assemble the ancients, gather together

the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts:

let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the

bride out of her bridal chamber.

17Between the porch and the altar the

priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and

shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and

give not thy inheritane to reproach, that the hea-

thens should rule over them. Why should they

say among the nations: Where is their God?

18The Lord hath been zealons for his land,1140 Prophecy of Joel

and hath spared his people.

20And I will remove far o from you the

northern enemy: and I will drive him into a land

unpassable, and desert, with his face towards the

east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost

sea: and his stench shall ascend, and his rotten-

ness shall go up, because he hath done proudly.

21Fear not, O land, be g1ad, and rejoice: for

the Lord hath done great things.

22Fear not, ye beasts of the elds: for the

beautiful places of the wilderness are sprung, for

the tree hath brought forth its fruit, the g tree,

and the vine have yielded their strength.

23And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and

be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath

given you a teacher of justice, and he will make

the early and the latter rain to come down to

you as in the beginning.

24And the

oors shall be lled with wheat,

and the presses shall overow with wine, and oil.

25And I will restore to you the years which

the locust, and the bruchus, and the mildew, and

the palmerworm hath eaten; my great host which

I sent upon you.

26And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be

lled and you shall praise the name of the Lord

your God; who hath done wonders with you, and

my people shall not be confounded for ever.

27And you shall know that I am in the midst

of Israel: and I am the Lord yonr God, and there

is none besides: and my people shall not be con-

founded forever.

28And it shall come to pass after this, that I

will pour out my spirit upon all

esh: and your

sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your

old men shall dream dreams, and your young

men shall see visions.

29Moreover, upon my servants and hand-

maids in those days I will pour forth my spirit.30And I will shew wonders in heaven; and in

earth, blood, and re, and vapour of smoke.

31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and

the moon into blood: before the great and dread-

ful day of the Lord doth come.

32And it shall come to pass, that every one

that shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall

be saved: for in Mount Sion, and in Jerusalem

shall be salvation, as the Lord hath said, and in

the residue whom the Lord shall call.

Chapter 3

For behold in those days, and in that time when

I shall bring back the captivity of Juda, and

Jerusalem:

2I will gather together all nations and will

bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and

I will plead with them there for my people, and

for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scat-

tered among the nations, and have parted my

land.

3And they have cast lots upon my people:

and the boy they have put in the stews, and

the girl they have sold for wine, that they might

drink.

4But what have you to do with me, O Tyre,

and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines?

will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you

revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return

you a recompense upon your own head.

5For you have taken away my silver, and

my gold: and my desirable, and most beantiful

things you have carried into your temples.

6And the children of Juda, and the children

of Jerusalem, you have sold to the children of the

Greeks, that you might remove them far o from

their own country.

7Behold, I will raise them up out of the placeProphecy of Joel 1141

wherein you have sold them: and I will return

your recompense upon your own heads.

8And I will sell yonr sons, and your daughters,

by the hands of the children of Juda, and they

shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far o,

for the Lord hath spoken it.

9Proclaim ye this among the nations: Prepare

war, raise up the strong: let them come, let all

the men of war come up.

10Cut your ploughshares into swords, and

your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I

am strong.

11Break forth, and come, all ye nations from

round about, and gather yourselves together:

there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to

fall down.

12Let them arise, and let the nations come

up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will

sit to judge all nations round about.

13Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe:

come and go down, for the press is full, the fats

run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.

14Nations, nations in the valley of destruc-

tion: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley

of destruction.

15The sun and the moon are darkened, and

the stars have withdrawn their shining.

16And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and

utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens

and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall

be the hope of his people, and the strength of the

children of Israel.

17And you shall know that I am the Lord

your God, dwelling in Sion, my holy monntain:

and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall

pass through it no more.

18And it shall come to pass in that day, that

the mountains shall drop down sweetness, aud

the hills shall

ow with milk: and waters shall

ow through all the rivers of Juda: and a foun-tain shall come forth of the house of the Lord,

and shall water the torrent of thorns.

19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a

wilderness destroyed: because they have done

unjustly against the children of Juda, and have

shed innocent blood in their land.

20And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and

Jerusalem to generation and generation.

21And I will cleanse their blood, which I had

not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.Prophecy of Amos

Chapter 1

The words of Amos, who was among the herds-

men of Thecua: which he saw concerning Israel

in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the

days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel

two years before the earthquake.

2And he said: The Lord will roar from Sion,

and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the

beautiful places of the shepherds have mourned,

and the top of Carmel is withered.

3Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of

Damascus, and for four I will not convert it:

because they have thrashed Galaad with iron

wains.

4And I will send a re into the house of Azael,

and it shall devour the houses of Benadad.

5And I will break the bar of Damascus: and I

will cut o the inhabitants from the plain of the

idol, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the

house of pleasure: and the people of Syria shall

be carried away to Cyrene, saith the Lord.

6Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of

Gaza, and for four I will not convert it: because

they have carried away a perfect captivity to shut

them up in Edom.

7And I will send a re on the wall of Gaza,

and it shall devour the houses thereof.

8And I will cut o the inhabitant from Azo-

tus, and him that holdeth the sceptre from

Ascalon: and I will turn my hand against Ac-caron, and the rest of the Philistines shall perish,

saith the Lord God.

9Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of

Tyre, and for four I will not convert it: be-

cause they have shut up an entire captivity in

Edom, and have not remembered the covenant

of brethren.

10And I will send a re upon the wall of Tyre,

and it shall devour the houses thereof.

11Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes

of Edom, and for four I will not convert him:

because he hath pursued his brother with the

sword, and hath carried on his fury, and hath

kept his wrath to the end.

12I will send a re into Theman: and it shall

devour the houses of Bosra.

13Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of

the children of Ammon, and for four I will not

convert him: because he hath ripped up the

women with child of Galaad to enlarge his bor-

der.

14And I will kindle a re in the wall of Rabba:

and it shall devour the houses thereof with shout-

ing in the day of battle, and with a whirlwind in

the day of trouble.

15And Melchom shall go into captivity, both

he, and his princes together, saith the Lord.Prophecy of Amos 1143

Chapter 2

Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab,

and for four I will not convert him: because he

hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even

to ashes.

2And I will send a re into Moab, and it shall

devour the houses of Carioth: and Moab shall die

with a noise, with the sound of the trumpet:

3And I will cut o the judge from the midst

thereof, and will slay all his princes with him,

saith the Lord.

4Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of

Juda, and for four I will not convert him: be-

cause he hath cast away the law of the Lord,

and hath not kept his commandments: for their

idols have caused them to err, after which their

fathers have walked.

5And I will send a re into Juda, and it shall

devour the houses of Jerusalem.

6Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Is-

rael, and for four I will not convert him: because

he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor

man for a pair of shoes.

7They bruise the heads of the poor upon the

dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the

humble: and the son and his father have gone

to the same young woman, to profane my holy

name.
8And they sat down upon garments laid to

pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the

condemned in the house of their God.

9Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their

face: whose height was like the height of cedars,

and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed

his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

10It is I that brought you up out of the land

of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the

wilderness, that you might possess the land of

the Amorrhite.11And I raised up of your sons for prophets,

and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not

so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?

12And you will present wine to the Nazarites:

and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy

not.

13Behold, I will screak under you as a wain

screaketh that is laden with hay.

14And

ight shall perish from the swift, and

the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither

shall the strong save his life.

15And he that holdeth the bow shall not

stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, nei-

ther shall the rider of the horse save his life.

16And the stout of heart among the valiant

shall

ee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

Chapter 3

Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken con-

cerning you, O ye children of Israel: concerning

the whole family that I brought up out of the

land of Egypt, saying:

2You only have I known of all the families of

the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your

iniquities.

3Shall two walk together except they be

agreed?

4Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no

prey? will the lion's whelp cry out of his den, if

he have taken nothing?

5Will the bird fall into the snare upon the

earth, if there be no fowler? Shall the snare be

taken up from the earth, before it hath taken

somewhat?

6Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the

people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a

city, which the Lord hath not done?1144 Prophecy of Amos

7For the Lord God doth nothing without re-

vealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

8The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The

Lord God hath spoken, who shall not prophesy?

9Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the

houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble

yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and

behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and

them that suer oppression in the inner rooms

thereof.

10And they have not known to do the right

thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and

robberies in their houses.

11Therefore thus saith the Lord God: The

land shall be in tribulation, and shall be com-

passed about: and thy strength shall be taken

away from thee, and thy houses shall be spoiled.

12Thus saith the Lord: As if a shepherd

should get out of the lion's mouth two legs, or

the tip of the ear: so shall the children of Israel

be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in a place of

a bed, and in the couch of Damascus.

13Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob,

saith the Lord the God of hosts:

14That in the day when I shall begin to visit

the transgressions of Israel, I will visit upon him,

and upon the altars of Bethel: and the horns of

the altars shall be cut o, and shall fall to the

ground.

15And I will strike the winter house with the

summer house: and the houses of ivory shall per-

ish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith

the Lord.

Chapter 4

Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the moun-

tains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy,

and crush the poor: that say to your masters:Bring, and we will drink.

2The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness,

that lo, the days shall come upon you, when they

shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall remain

of you in boiling pots.

3And you shall go out at the breaches one over

against the other, and you shall be cast forth into

Armon, saith the Lord.

4Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Gal-

gal, and multiply transgressions: and bring in

the morning your victims, your tithes in three

days.

5And oer a sacrice of praise with leaven:

and call free oerings, and proclaim it: for so

you would do, O children of Israel, saith the Lord

God.

6Whereupon I also have given you dulness of

teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all

your places: yet you have not returned to me,

saith the Lord.

7I also have withholden the rain from you,

when there were yet three months to the harvest:

and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused

it not to rain upon another city: one piece was

rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained

not, withered.

8And two and three cities went to one city

to drink water, and were not lled: yet you re-

turned not to me, saith the Lord.

9I struck you with a burning wind, and with

mildew, the palmerworm hath eaten up your

many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive

groves, and g groves: yet you returned not to

me, saith the Lord.

10I sent death upon you in the way of Egypt, I

slew your young men with the sword, even to the

captivity of your horses: and I made the stench

of your camp to come up into your nostrils: yet

you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

11I destroyed some of you, as God destroyedProphecy of Amos 1145

Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a re-

brand plucked out of the burning: yet you re-

turned not to me, saith the Lord.

12Therefore I will do these things to thee, O

Israel: and after I shall have done these things

to thee, be prepared to meet thy God, O Israel.

13For behold he that formeth the mountains

and createth the wind, and declareth his word

to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and

walketh upon the high places of the earth: the

Lord the God of hosts is his name.

Chapter 5

Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning

you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is

fallen, and it shall rise no more.

2The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her

land, there is none to raise her up.

3For thus saith the Lord God: The city, out of

which came forth a thousand, there shall be left

in it a hundred: and out of which there came a

hundred, there shall be left in it ten, in the house

of Israel.

4For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel:

Seek ye me, and you shall live.

5But seek not Bethel, and go not into Gal-

gal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for

Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall

be unprotable.

6Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house

of Joseph be burnt with re, and it shall devour,

and there shall be none to quench Bethel.

7You that turn judgment into wormwood,

and forsake justice in the land,

8Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion,

and that turneth darkness into morning, and

that changeth day into night: that calleth the

waters of the sea, and poureth them out uponthe face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

9He that with a smile bringeth destruction

upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.

10They have hated him that rebuketh in the

gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh per-

fectly.

11Therefore because you robbed the poor,

and took the choice prey from him: you shall

build houses with square stone, and shall not

dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful

vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.

12Because I know your manifold crimes, and

your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking

bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at

that time, for it is an evil time.

14Seek ye good, and not evil, that you may

live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with

you, as you have said.

15Hate evil, and love good, and establish

judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the

God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of

Joseph.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of

hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there

shall be wailing: and in all places that are with-

out, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall

call the husbandman to mourning, and such as

are skilful in lamentation to lament.

17And in all vineyards there shall be wailing:

because I will pass through in the midst of thee,

saith the Lord.

18Woe to them that desire the day of the

Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the

Lord is darkness, and not light.

19As if a man should

ee from the face of a

lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into

the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall,

and a serpent should bite him.

20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness,1146 Prophecy of Amos

and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness

in it?

21I hate, and have rejected your festivities:

and I will not receive the odour of your assem-

blies.

22And if you oer me holocausts, and your

gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard

the vows of your fat beasts.

23Take away from me the tumult of thy songs:

and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

24But judgment shall be revealed as water,

and justice as a mighty torrent.

25Did you oer victims and sacrices to me

in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel?

26But you carried a tabernacle for your

Moloch, and the image of your idols, the star

of your god, which you made to yourselves.

27And I will cause you to go into captivity

beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of

hosts is his name.

Chapter 6

Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you

that have condence in the mountain of Samaria:

ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with

state into the house of Israel.

2Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and go

from thence into Emath the great: and go down

into Geth of the Philistines, and to all the best

kingdoms of these: if their border be larger than

your border.

3You that are separated unto the evil day:

and that approach to the throne of iniquity;

4You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are

wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out

of the

ock, and the calves out of the midst of

the herd;

5You that sing to the sound of the psaltery:they have thought themselves to have instru-

ments of music like David;

6That drink wine in bowls, and anoint them-

selves with the best ointments: and they are not

concerned for the aiction of Joseph.

7Wherefore now they shall go captive at the

head of them that go into captivity: and the

faction of the luxurious ones shall be taken away.

8The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul,

saith the Lord the God of hosts: I detest the

pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will

deliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof.

9And if there remain ten men in one house,

they also shall die.

10And a man's kinsman shall take him up,

and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones

out of the house; and he shall say to him that is

in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any

with thee?

11And he shall answer: There is an end. And

he shall say to him: Hold thy peace, and mention

not the name of the Lord.

12For behold the Lord hath commanded, and

he will strike the greater house with breaches,

and the lesser house with clefts.

13Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any

one plough with bues? for you have turned

judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice

into wormwood.

14You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you

that say: Have we not taken unto us horns by

our own strength?

15But behold, I will raise up a nation against

you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God

of hosts; and they shall destroy you from the

entrance of Emath, even to the torrent of the

desert.Prophecy of Amos 1147

Chapter 7

These things the Lord God shewed to me: and

behold the locust was formed in the beginning of

the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo, it was

the latter rain after the king's mowing.

2And it came to pass, that when they had

made an end of eating the grass of the land, I

said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee:

who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very little?

3The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not

be, said the Lord.

4These things the Lord God shewed to me:

and behold the Lord called for judgment unto

re, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up

a part at the same time.

5And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech

thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little

one?

6The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also

shall not be, said the Lord God.

7These things the Lord shewed to me: and

behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered

wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.

8And the Lord said to me: What seest thou,

Amos? And I said: A mason's trowel. And the

Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel in

the midst of my people Israel. I will plaster them

over no more.

9And the high places of the idol shall be

thrown down, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall

be laid waste: and I will rise up against the house

of Jeroboam with the sword.

10And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to

Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: Amos hath re-

belled against thee in the midst of the house of

Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

11For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die

by the sword, and Israel shall be carried away

captive out of their own land.12And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go,

ee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread

there, and prophesy there.

13But prophesy not again any more in Bethel:

because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the

house of the kingdom.

14And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I

am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet:

but I am a herdsman plucking wild gs.

15And the Lord took me when I followed the

ock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to

my people Israel.

16And now hear thou the word of the Lord:

Thou sayest, thou shalt not prophesy against Is-

rael, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the

house of the idol.

17Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife

shall play the harlot in the city, and thy sons

and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and

thy land shall be measured by a line: and thou

shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall go

into captivity out of their land.

Chapter 8
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold

a hook to draw down the fruit.

2And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I

said: A hook to draw down fruit. And the Lord

said to me: The end is come upon my people

Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.

3And the hinges of the temple shall screak in

that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die:

silence shall be cast in every place.

4Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make

the needy of the land to fail,

5Saying: When will the month be over, and

we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and

we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the1148 Prophecy of Amos

measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey

in deceitful balances,

6That we may possess the needy for money,

and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell

the refuse of the corn?

7The Lord hath sworn against the pride of

Jacob: surely I will never forget all their works.

8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every

one mourn that dwelleth therein: and rise up

altogether as a river, and be cast out, and run

down as the river of Egypt?

9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith

the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at

midday, and I will make the earth dark in the

day of light:

10And I will turn your feasts into mourning,

and all your songs into lamentation: and I will

bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and

baldness upon every head: and I will make it as

the mourning of an only son, and the latter end

thereof as a bitter day.

11Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and

I will send forth a famine into the land: not a

famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of

hearing the word of the Lord.

12And they shall move from sea to sea, and

from the north to the east: they shall go about

seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not nd

it.

13In that day the fair virgins, and the young

men shall faint for thirst.

14They that swear by the sin of Samaria,

and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way

of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall

rise no more.Chapter 9

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he

said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be

shook: for there is covetousness in the head of

them all, and I will slay the last of them with the

sword: there shall be no

ight for them: they

shall

ee, and he that shall

ee of them shall not

be delivered.

2Though they go down even to hell, thence

shall my hand bring them out: and though they

climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them

down.

3And though they be hid in the top of

Carmel, I will search and take them away from

thence: and though they hide themselves from

my eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I com-

mand the serpent and he shall bite them.

4And if they go into captivity before their

enemies, there will I command the sword, and

it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon

them for evil, and not for good.

5And the Lord the God of hosts is he who

toucheth the earth, and it shall melt: and all

that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise

up as a river, and shall run down as the river of

Egypt.

6He that buildeth his ascension in heaven,

and hath founded his bundle upon the earth:

who calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth

them out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is

his name.

7Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians

unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord? did

not I bring up Israel, out of the land of Egypt:

and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the

Syrians out of Cyrene?

8Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon

the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from

the face of the earth: but yet I will not utterlyProphecy of Amos 1149

destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

9For behold I will command, and I will sift

the house of Israel among all nations, as corn is

sifted in a sleve: and there shall not a little stone

fall to the ground.

10All the sinners of my people shall fall by the

sword: who say: The evils shall not approach,

and shall not come upon us.

11In that day I will raise up the tabernacle

of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the

breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what

was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of

old.

12That they may possess the remnant of

Edom, and all nations, because my name is in-

voked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these

things.

13Behold the days come, saith the Lord,

when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper,

and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed:

and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and ev-

ery hill shall be tilled.

14And I will bring back the captivity of my

people Israel: and they shall build the aban-

doned cities, and inhabit them: and they shall

plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them: and

shall make gardens, and eat the fruits of them.

And I will plant them upon their own land: and

I will no more pluck them out of their land which

I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.Prophecy of Abdias

Chapter 1

The vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God

to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the

Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the na-

tions: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against

him.

2Behold I have made thee small among the

nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.

3The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up,

who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest

up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart:

Who shall bring me down to the ground?

4Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and

though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence

will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

5If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by

night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace?

would they not have stolen till they had enough?

if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would

they not have left thee at the least a cluster?

6How have they searched Esau, how have they

sought out his hidden things?

7They have sent thee out even to the bor-

der: all the men of thy confederacy have deceived

thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed against

thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares un-

der thee: there is no wisdom in him.

8Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, de-

stroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding

out of the mount of Esau?9And thy valiant men of the south shall be

afraid, that man may be cut o from the mount

of Esau.

10For the slaughter, and for the iniquity

against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover

thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.

11In the day when thou stoodest against him,

when strangers carried away his army captive,

and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast

lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of

them.

12But thou shalt not look on in the day of

thy brother, in the day of his leaving his coun-

try: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children

of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou

shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of dis-

tress.

13Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of

my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt

thou also look on in his evils in the day of his

calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against

his army in the day of his desolation.

14Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways

to kill them that

ee: and thou shalt not shut

up them that remain of him in the day of tribu-

lation.

15For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all

nations: as thou hast done, so shall it be done

to thee: he will turn thy reward upon thy own

head.

16For as you have drunk upon my holy moun-Prophecy of Abdias 1151

tain, so all nations shall drink continually: and

they shall drink, and sup up, and they shall be

as though they were not.

17And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and

it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall

possess those that possessed them.

18And the house of Jacob shall be a re, and

the house of Joseph a

ame, and the house of

Esau stubble: and they shall be kindled in them,

and shall devour them: and there shall be no

remains of the house of Esau, for the Lord hath

spoken it.

19And they that are toward the south, shall

inherit the mount of Esau, and they that are in

the plains, the Philistines: and they shall pos-

sess the country of Ephraim, and the country of

Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Galaad.

20And the captivity of this host of the chil-

dren of Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites

even to Sarepta: and the captivity of Jerusalem

that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of

the south.

21And saviours shall come up into mount

Sion to judge the mount of Esau: and the king-

dom shall be for the Lord.Prophecy of Jonas

Chapter 1
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas, the

son of Amathi, saying:

2Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and

preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come

up before me.

3And Jonas rose up to

ee into Tharsis from

the face of the Lord, and he went down to Joppe,

and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid

the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go

with them to Tharsis from the face of the Lord,

4But the Lord sent a great wind to the sea:

and a great tempest was raised in the sea, and

the ship was in danger to be broken.

5And the mariners were afraid, and the men

cried to their god: and they cast forth the wares

that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of

them: and Jonas went down into the inner part

of the ship, and fell into a deep sleep.

6And the ship master came to him and said

to him: Why art thou fast asleep? rise up call

upon thy God, if so be that God will think of us

that we may not perish.

7And they said every one to his fellow: Come

and let us cast lots, that we may know why this

evil is upon us. And they cast lots, and the lot
fell upon Jonas.

8And they said to him: Tell us for what cause

this evil is upon us, what is thy business? of

what country art thou? and whither goest thou?or of what people art thou?

9And he said to them: I am a Hebrew, and I

fear the Lord, and the God of heaven, who made

both the sea and the dry land.

10And the men were greatly afraid, and they

said to him: Why hast thou done this? (For the

men knew that he

ed from the face of the Lord:

because he had told them.)

11And they said to him: What shall we do

with thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for

the sea

owed and swelled.

12And he said to them: take me up, and cast

me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm to

you: for I know for my sake this great tempest

is upon you.

13And the men rowed hard to return the

land, but they were not able: because the sea

tossed and swelled upon them.

14And they cried to the Lord, and said: We

beseech thee, O Lord let us not perish for this

man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood:

for thou, oh Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.

15And they took Jonas, and cast him into

the sea, and the sea ceased from raging.

16And the men feared the Lord exceedingly,

and sacriced victims to the Lord, and made

vows.Prophecy of Jonas 1153

Chapter 2

Now the Lord prepared a great sh to swallow

up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of a sh

for three days and three nights.

2And Jonas prayed to the Lord, his God, out

of the belly of the sh.

3And he said: I cried out of my aiction to

the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the

belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

4And thou hast cast me forth into the deep, in

the heart of the sea, and a

ood hast compassed

me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed

over me.

5And I said: I am cast away out of the sight

of thy eyes: but yet I shall see the holy temple

again.

6The waters compassed me about even to the

soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the

sea hath covered my head.

7I went down to the lowest parts of the moun-

tains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for

ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from cor-

ruption, O Lord, my God.

8When my soul was in distress within me, I

remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come

to thee, unto the holy temple.

9They that in vain observe vanities, forsake

their own mercy.

10But I with the voice of praise will sacrice

to thee: I will pay whatsoever I have vowed for

my salvation to the Lord.

11And the Lord spoke to the sh: and it

vomited out Jonas upon the dry land.

Chapter 3

And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the

second time saying:2Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and

preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

3And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, ac-

cording to the word of the Lord: now Ninive

was a great city of three days' journey.

4And Jonas began to enter into the city one

day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty

days and Ninive shall be destroyed.

5And the men of Ninive believed in God:

and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth

from the greatest to the least.

6And the word came to the king of Ninive:

and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away

his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth,

and sat in ashes.

7And he caused it to be proclaimed and pub-

lished in Ninive, from the mouth of the king

and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor

beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them

not feed, nor drink water.

8And let men and beasts be covered with

sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their

strength, and let them turn every one from his

evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their

hands.

9Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive:

and will turn away from his erce anger, and we

shall not perish?

10And God saw their works, that they were

turned from their evil way: and God had mercy

with regard to the evil which he had said that

he would do to them, and he did it not.

Chapter 4

And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was

angry:

2And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I be-

seech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when1154 Prophecy of Jonas

I was yet in my own country? therefore I went

before to

ee into Tharsis: for I know that thou

art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of

much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

3And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my

life from me: for it is better for me to die than

to live.

4And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou

hast reason to be angry?

5Then Jonas went out of the city, and sat

toward the east side of the city: and he made

himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the

shadow, till he might see what would befall the

city.

6And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it

came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow

over his head, and to cover him (for he was fa-

tigued): and Jonas was exceeding glad of the ivy.

7But God prepared a worm, when the morn-

ing arose on the following day: and it struck the

ivy and it withered.

8And when the sun was risen, the Lord com-

manded a hot and burning wind: and the sun

beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with

the heat: and he desired for his soul that he

might die, and said: It is better for me to die

than to live.

9And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think

thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And

he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.

10And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for

the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor

made it to grow, which in one night came up,

and in one night perished.

11And shall I not spare Ninive, that great

city, in which there are more than a hundred

and twenty thousand persons, that know how to

distinguish between their right hand and their

left, and many beasts?Prophecy of Micheas

Chapter 1

The word of the Lord, that came to Micheas, the

Morasthite, in the days of Joathan, Achaz, and

Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw concern-

ing Samaria and Jerusalem.

2Hear, all ye people: and let the earth give

ear, and all that is therein: and let the Lord

God be a witness to you, the Lord from his holy

temple.

3For behold the Lord will come forth out of

his place: and he will come down, and will tread

upon the high places of the earth.

4And the mountains shall be melted under

him: and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before

the re, and as waters that run down a steep

place.

5For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and

for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the

wickedness of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and

what are the high places of Juda? are they not

Jerusalem?

6And I will make Samaria as a heap of stones

in the eld when a vineyard is planted: and I will

bring down the stones thereof into the valley, and

will lay her foundations bare.

7And all her graven things shall be cut in

pieces, and all her wages shall be burnt with

re, and I will bring to destruction all her idols:

for they were gathered together of the hire of a

harlot, and unto the hire of a harlot they shallreturn.

8Therefore will I lament, and howl: I will go

stript and naked: I will make a wailing like the

dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches.

9Because her wound is desperate, because it

is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate

of my people, even to Jerusalem.

10Declare ye it not in Geth, weep ye not with

tears: in the house of Dust sprinkle yourselves

with dust.

11And pass away, O thou that dwellest in

the beautiful place, covered with thy shame: she

went not forth that dwelleth in the connes: the

house adjoining shall receive mourning from you,

which stood by herself.

12For she is become weak unto good that

dwelleth in bitterness: for evil is come down from

the Lord into the gate of Jerusalem.

13A tumult of chariots hath astonished the

inhabitants of Lachis: it is the beginning of sin

to the daughter of Sion for in thee were found

the crimes of Israel.

14Therefore shall she send messengers to the

inheritance of Geth: the houses of lying to de-

ceive the kings of Israel.

15Yet will I bring an heir to thee that dwellest

in Maresa: even to Odollam shall the glory of

Israel come.

16Make thee bald, and be polled for thy deli-

cate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle:

for they are carried into captivity from thee.1156 Prophecy of Micheas

Chapter 2

Woe to you that devise that which is unprof-

itable, and work evil in your beds: in the morn-

ing light they execute it, because their hand is

against God.

2And they have coveted elds, and taken

them by violence, and houses they have forcibly

taken away: and oppressed a man and his house,

a man and his inheritance.

3Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I de-

vise an evil against this family: from which you

shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not

walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

4In that day a parable shall be taken up upon

you, and a song shall be sung with melody by

them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled:

the portion of my people is changed: how shall

he depart from me, whereas he is returning that

will divide our land?

5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall

cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

6Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon

these, confusion shall not take them.

7The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of

the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts?

Are not my words good to him that walketh up-

rightly?

8But my people, on the contrary, are risen up

as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak o

from the coat: and them that passed harmless

you have turned to war.

9You have cast out the women of my people

from their houses, in which they took delight:

you have taken my praise forever from their chil-

dren.

10Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest

here for you. For that uncleanness of the land,

it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

11Would God I were not a man that haththe spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let

drop to thee of wine, and of drunkeness: and it

shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.

12I will assemble and gather together all of

thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant

of Israel, I will put them together as a

ock in the

fold, as sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they

shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude

of men.

13For he shall go up that shall open the way

before them: they shall divide and pass through

the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king

shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head

of them.

Chapter 3

And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye

chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part

to know judgment,

2You that hate good, and love evil: that vio-

lently pluck o their skins from them and their

esh from their bones?

3Who have eaten the

esh of my people, and

have

ayed their skin o them: and have broken,

and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as

esh in the midst of the pot.

4Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he

will not hear them: and he will hide his face

from them at that time, as they have behaved

wickedly in their devices.

5Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets

that make my people err: that bite with their

teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not

something into their mouth, they prepare war

against him.

6Therefore night shall be to you instead of

vision, and darkness to you instead of divination:

and the sun shall go down upon the prophets,Prophecy of Micheas 1157

and the day shall be darkened over them.

7And they shall be confounded that see vi-

sions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and

they shall all cover their faces, because there is

no answer of God.

8But yet I am lled with the strength of the

spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to

declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel

his sin.

9Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob,

and ye judges of the house of Israel: you that

abhor judgment and pervert all that is right.

10You that build up Sion with blood, and

Jerusalem with iniquity.

11Her princes have judged for bribes: and her

priests have taught for hire, and her prophets

divined for money: and they leaned upon the

Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us?

no evil shall come among us.

12Therefore because of you, Sion shall be

ploughed as a eld, and Jerusalem shall be as

a heap of stones, and the mountain of the tem-

ple as the high places of the forests.

Chapter 4

And it shall come to pass in the last days, that

the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be

prepared in the top of the mountains, and high

above the hills: and people shall

ow to it.

2And many nations shall come in haste, and

say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the

Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob: and

he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in

his paths: for the law shall go forth out of Sion,

and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

3And he shall judge among many people, and

rebuke strong nations afar o: and they shall

beat their swords into ploughshares, and theirspears into spades: nation shall not take sword

against nation: neither shall they learn war any-

more.

4And every man shall sit under his vine, and

under his g tree, and there shall be none to

make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of

hosts hath spoken.

5For all people will walk every one in the

name of his god: but we will walk in the name

of the Lord, our God, for ever and ever.

6In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather up

her that halteth: and her that I had cast out, I

will gather up: and her whom I had aicted.

7And I will make her that halted, a remnant:

and her that had been aicted, a mighty nation:

and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Sion,

from this time now and forever.

8And thou, O cloudy tower of the

ock, of

the daughter of Sion, unto thee shall it come:

yea the rst power shall come, the kingdom to

the daughter of Jerusalem.

9Now, why art thou drawn together with

grief? Hast thou no king in thee, or is thy coun-

selor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee

as a woman in labour.

10Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion,

as a woman that bringeth forth: for now shalt

thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell in the

country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there

thou shalt be delivered: there the Lord will re-

deem thee out of the hand of thy enemies.

11And now many nations are gathered to-

gether against thee, and they say: Let her be

stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion.

12But they have not known the thoughts of

the Lord, and have not understood his counsel:

because he hath gathered them together as the

hay of the

oor.

13Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for

I will make thy horn iron, and thy hoofs I will1158 Prophecy of Micheas
make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many

peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them

to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of

the whole earth.

Chapter 5

Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the

robber: they have laid siege against us, with a

rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of

Israel.

2And thou Bethlehem Ephrata, art a little

one among the thousands of Juda, out of thee

shall he come forth unto me that is to be the

ruler in Israel: and his going forth is from the

beginning, from the days of eternity.

3Therefore will he give them up even till

the time wherein she that travaileth shall bring

forth: and the remnant of his brethren shall be

converted to the children of Israel.

4And he shall stand, and feed in the strength

of the Lord, in the height of the name of the

Lord, his God: and they shall be converted, for

now shall he be magnied even to the ends of

the earth.

5And this man shall be our peace, when the

Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he

shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise

against him seven shepherds, and eight principal

men.

6And they shall feed the land of Assyria with

the sword, and the land of Nemrod with the

spears thereof: and he shall deliver us from the

Assyrian when he shall come into our land, and

when he shall tread in our borders.

7And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the

midst of many peoples, as a dew from the Lord,

and as drops upon the grass, which waiteth not

for man, nor tarrieth for the children of men.8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among

the Gentiles, in the midst of many peoples, as

a lion among the beasts of the forests, and as a

young lion among the

ocks of sheep: who, when

he shall go through, and tread down, and take

there is none to deliver.

9Thy hand shall be lifted up over thy enemies,

and all thy enemies shall be cut o.

10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith

the Lord, that I will take away thy horses out of

the midst of thee, and will destroy thy chariots.

11And I will destroy the cities of thy land,

and will throw down all thy strong holds, and

I will take away sorceries out of thy hand, and

there shall be no divinations in thee.

12And I will destroy thy graven things, and

thy statues, out of the midst of thee: and thou

shalt no more adore the works of thy hands.

13And I will pluck up thy groves out of the

midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.

14And I will execute vengeance in wrath, and

in indignation, among all the nations that have

not given ear.

Chapter 6

Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend

thou in judgment against the mountains, and let

the hills hear thy voice.

2Let the mountains hear the judgment of the

Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth:

for the Lord will enter into judgment with his

people, and he will plead against Israel.

3O my people, what have I done to thee, or

in what have I molested thee? answer thou me.

4For I brought thee up out of the land of

Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of

slaves: and I sent before thy face Moses, and

Aaron, and Mary.Prophecy of Micheas 1159

5O my people, remember, I pray thee, what

Balach, the king of Moab, purposed: and what

Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, from

Setim to Galgal, that thou mightest know the

justice of the Lord.

6What shall I oer to the Lord that is worthy?

wherewith shall I kneel before the high God?

shall I oer holocausts unto him, and calves of a

year old?

7May the Lord be appeased with thousands

of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats?

shall I give my rstborn for my wickedness, the

fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and

what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do

judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solici-

tous with thy God.

9The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and

salvation shall be to them that fear thy name:

hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?

10As yet there is a re in the house of the

wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant

measure full of wrath.

11Shall I justify wicked balances, and the de-

ceitful weights of the bag?

12By which her rich men were lled with

iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spo-

ken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their

mouth.

13And I therefore began to strike thee with

desolation for thy sins.

14Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be lled: and

thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and

thou shalt take hold, but shalt not save: and

those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the

sword.

15Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou

shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed

with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink

the wine.16For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri,

and all the works of the house of Achab: and

thou hast walked according their wills, that I

should make thee a desolation, and the inhab-

itants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the

reproach of my people.

Chapter 7

Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth

in autumn the grapes of the vintage: there is no

cluster to eat, my soul desired the rst ripe gs.

2The holy man is perished out of the earth,

and there is none upright among men: they all lie

in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother

to death.

3The evil of their hands they call good: the

prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and

the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul,

and they have troubled it.

4He that is best among them, is as a brier,

and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the

hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation

cometh: now shall be their destruction.

5Believe not a friend, and trust not in a

prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her

that sleepeth in thy bosom.

6For the son dishonoureth the father, and

the daughter riseth up against her mother, the

daughter in law against her mother in law: and

a man's enemies are they of his own household.

7But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait

for God, my saviour: my God will hear me.

8Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, be-

cause I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in

darkness, the Lord is my light.

9I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because

I have sinned against him: until he judge my

cause, and execute judgement for me: he will1160 Prophecy of Micheas

bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his

justice.

10And my enemy shall behold, and she shall

be covered with shame, who saith to me: Where

is the Lord thy God? my eyes shall look down

upon her: now shall she be trodden under foot

as the mire of the streets.

11The day shall come, that thy walls may

be built up: in that day shall the law be far

removed.

12In that day they shall come even from As-

syria to thee, and to the fortied cities: and from

the fortied cities even to the river, and from sea

to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

13And the land shall be made desolate be-

cause of the inhabitants thereof, and for the fruit

of their devices.

14Feed thy people with thy rod, the

ock

of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone in the

forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in

Basan and Galaad, according to the days of old.

15According to the days of thy coming out of

the land of Egypt, I will shew him wonders.

16The nations shall see, and shall be con-

founded at all their strength: they shall put the

hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

17They shall lick the dust like serpents, as

the creeping things of the earth, they shall be

disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the

Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.

18Who is a God like to thee, who takest away

iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant

of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no

more, because he delighteth in mercy.

19He will turn again, and have mercy on us:

he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast

all our sins into the bottom of the sea.

20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the

mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to

our fathers from the days of old.Prophecy of Nahum

Chapter 1

The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of

Nahum, the Elcesite.

2The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger:

the Lord is a revenger, and hath wrath: the Lord

taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is

angry with his enemies.

3The Lord is patient, and great in power,

and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The

Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind,

and clouds are the dust of his feet.

4He rebuketh the sea and drieth it up: and

bringeth all the rivers to be a desert. Basan lan-

guisheth and Carmel: and the

ower of Libanus

fadeth away.

5The mountains tremble at him, and the hills

are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at

his presence, and the world, and all that dwell

therein.

6Who can stand before the face of his indig-

nation? and who shall resist in the erceness of

his anger? his indignation is poured out like re:

and the rocks are melted by him.

7The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the

day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in

him.

8But with a

ood that passeth by, he will

make an utter end of the place thereof: and dark-

ness shall pursue his enemies.

9What do ye devise against the Lord? he willmake an utter end: there shall not rise a double

aiction.

10For as thorns embrace one another: so

while they are feasting and drinking together,

they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully

dry.

11Out of thee shall come forth one that imag-

ineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery

in his mind.

12Thus saith the Lord: Though they were

perfect: and many of them so, yet thus shall they

be cut o, and he shall pass: I have aicted thee,

and I will aict thee no more.

13And now I will break in pieces his rod with

which he struck thy back, and I will burst thy

bonds asunder.

14And the Lord will give a commandment

concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall

be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten

thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it

thy grave, for thou art disgraced.

15Behold upon the mountains the feet of him

that bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth

peace: O Juda, keep thy festivals, and pay thy

vows: for Belial shall no more pass through thee

again, he is utterly cut o.

Chapter 2

He is come up that shall destroy before thy face,

that shall keep the siege: watch the way, fortify1162 Prophecy of Nahum

thy loins, strengthen thy power exceedingly.

2For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Ja-

cob, as the pride of Israel: because the spoilers

have laid them waste, and have marred their vine

branches.

3The shield of his mighty men is like re, the

men of the army are clad in scarlet, the reins of

the chariot are

aming in the day of his prepa-

ration, and the drivers are stupied.

4They are in confusion in the ways, the chari-

ots jostle one against another in the streets: their

looks are like torches, like lightning running to

and fro.

5He will muster up his valiant men, they shall

stumble in their march: they shall quickly get

upon the walls thereof: and a covering shall be

prepared.

6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the

temple is thrown down to the ground.

7And the soldier is led away captive: and her

bondwomen were led away mourning as doves,

murmuring in their hearts.

8And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great

pool: but the men

ee away. They cry: Stand,

stand, but there is none that will return back.

9Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil

of the gold: for there is no end of the riches of

all the precious furniture.

10She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the

heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the

loins lose their strength: and the faces of them

all are as the blackness of a kettle.

11Where is now the dwelling of the lions, and

the feeding place of the young lions, to which the

lion went, to enter in thither, the young lion, and

there was none to make them afraid?

12The lion caught enough for his whelps, and

killed for his lionesses: and he lled his holes

with prey, and his den with rapine.

13Behold I come against thee, saith the Lordof hosts, and I will burn thy chariots even to

smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young

lions: and I will cut o thy prey out of the land,

and the voice of thy messengers shall be heard

no more.

Chapter 3

Woe to thee, 0 city of blood, all full of lies and

violence: rapine shall not depart from thee.

2The noise of the whip, and the noise of the

rattling of the wheels, and of the neighing horse;

and of the running chariot, and of the horsemen

coming up,

3And of the shining sword, and of thc glit-

tering spear, and of a multitude slain, and of a

grievous destruction: and there is no end of car-

casses, and they shall fall down on their dead

bodies.

4Because of the multitude of the fornica-

tions of the harlot that was beautiful and agree-

able, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold

nations through her fornications, and families

through her witchcrafts.

5Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of

hosts: and I will discover thy shame to thy face,

and will shew thy nakedness to the nations, and

thy shame to kingdoms.

6And I will cast abominations upon thee, and

will disgrace thee, and will make an example of

thee.

7And it shall come to pass that every one that

shall see thee, shall

ee from thee, and shall say:

Ninive is laid waste: who shall bemoan thee?

whence shall I seek a comforter for thee?

8Art thou better than the populous Alexan-

dria, that dwelleth among the rivers? waters are

round about it: the sea is its riches: the waters

are its walls.Prophecy of Nahum 1163

9Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength

thereof, and there is no end: Africa and the

Libyans were thy helpers.

10Yet she also was removed and carried into

cap- tivity: her young children were dashed in

pieces at the top of every street, and they cast

lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were

bound in fetters.
11Therefore thou also shalt be made drunk,

and shalt be despised: and thou shalt seek help

from the enemies.

12All thy strong holds shall be like g trees

with their green gs: if they be shaken, they

shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

13Behold thy people in the midst of thee are

women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide

open to thy enemies, the re shall devour thy

bars.

14Draw thee water for the siege, build up

thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work

it and make brick.

15There shall the re devour thee: thou shalt

perish by the sword, it shall devour thee like

the bruchus: assemble together like the bruchus,

make thyself many like the locust.

16Thou hast multiplied thy merchandises

above the stars of heaven: the bruchus hath

spread himself and

own away.

17Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy lit-

tle ones like the locusts of locusts which swarm

on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun arose,

and they

ew away, and their place was not

known where they were.

18Thy shepherds have slumbered, O king of

Assyria, thy princes shall be buried: thy people

are hid in the mountains, and there is none to

gather them.

19Thy destruction is not hidden, thy wound

is grievous: all that have heard the fame of thee,

have clapped their hands over thee: for uponwhom hath not thy wickedness passed continu-

ally?Prophecy of Habacuc

Chapter 1

The burden that Habacuc the prophet saw.

2How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt

not hear? shall I cry out to thee suering vio-

lence, and thou wilt not save?

3Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and

grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me?

and there is a judgment, but opposition is more

powerful.

4Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judg-

ment cometh not to the end: because the wicked

prevaileth against the just, therefore wrong judg-

ment goeth forth.

5Behold ye among the nations, and see: won-

der, and be astonished: for a work is done in your

days, which no man will believe when it shall be

told.
6For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans,

a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the

breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling

places that are not their own.

7They are dreadful, and terrible: from them-

selves shall their judgment, and their burden

proceed.

8Their horses are lighter than leopards, and

swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen

shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall

come from afar, they shall

y as an eagle that

maketh haste to eat.

9They shall all come to the prey, their faceis like a burning wind: and they shall gather

together captives as the sand.

10And their prince shall triumph over kings,

and princes shall be his laughingstock: and he

shall laugh at every strong hold, and shall cast

up a mount, and shall take it.

11Then shall his spirit be changed, and he

shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his

god.

12Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord

my God, my holy one, and we shall not die?

Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment:

and made him strong for correction.

13Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and

thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest

thou upon them that do unjust things, and hold-

est thy peace when the wicked devoureth the

man that is more just than himself?

14And thou wilt make men as the shes of

the sea, and as the creeping things that have no

ruler.

15He lifted up all them with his hook, he

drew them in his drag, and gathered them into

his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.

16Therefore will he oer victims to his drag,

and he will sacrice to his net: because through

them his portion is made fat, and his meat

dainty.

17For this cause therefore he spreadeth his

net, and will not spare continually to slay the

nations.Prophecy of Habacuc 1165

Chapter 2

I will stand upon my watch, and x my foot upon

the tower: and I will watch, to see what will be

said to me, and what I may answer to him that

reproveth me.

2And the Lord answered me, and said: Write

the vision, and make it plain upon tables: that

he that readeth it may run over it.

3For as yet the vision is far o, and it shall

appear at the end, and shall notlie: if it make

any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come,

and it shall not be slack.

4Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall

not be right in himself: but the just shall live in

his faith.

5And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh

it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not

be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like

hell: and is himself like death, and he is never

satised: but will gather together unto him all

nations, and heap together unto him all people.

6Shall not all these take up a parable against

him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it

shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together

that which is not his own? how long also doth

he load himself with thick clay?

7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall

bite thee: and they be stirred up that shall tear

thee, and thou shalt be a spoil to them?

8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all

that shall be left of the people shall spoil thee:

because of men's blood, and for the iniquity of

the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

9Woe to him that gathereth together an evil

covetousness to his house, that his nest may be

on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out

of the hand of evil.

10Thou hast devised confusion to thy house,

thou hast cut o many people, and thy soul hathsinned.

11For the stone shall cry out of the wall: and

the timber that is between the joints of the build-

ing, shall answer.

12Woe to him that buildeth a town with

blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.

13Are not these things from the Lord of

hosts? for the people shall labour in a great re:

and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

14For the earth shall be lled, that men may

know the glory of the Lord, as waters covering

the sea.

15Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend,

and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk,

that he may behold his nakedness.

16Thou art lled with shame instead of glory:

drink thou also, and fall fast asleep: the cup of

the right hand of the Lord shall compass thee,

and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.

17For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee,

and the ravaging of beasts shall terrify them be-

cause of the blood of men, and the iniquity of

the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell

therein.

18What doth the graven thing avail, because

the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and

a false image? because the forger thereof hath

trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make

dumb idols.

19Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to

the dumb stone: Arise: can it teach? Behold, it

is laid over with gold, and silver, and there is no

spirit in the bowels thereof.

20But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all

the earth keep silence before him.1166 Prophecy of Habacuc

Chapter 3

A PRAYER OF HABACUC THE PROPHET

FOR IGNORANCES.

2O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was

afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the

years bring it to life: In the midst of the years

thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry,

thou wilt remember mercy.

3God will come from the south, and the holy

one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the

heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

4His brightness shall be as the light: horns

are in his hands: There is his strength hid:

5Death shall go before his face. And the devil

shall go forth before his feet.

6He stood and measured the earth. He be-

held, and melted the nations: and the ancient

mountains were crushed to pieces. The hills of

the world were bowed down by the journeys of

his eternity.

7I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their iniq-

uity, the curtains of the land of Madian shall be

troubled.

8Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers?

or was thy wrath upon the rivers? or thy in-

dignation in the sea? Who will ride upon thy

horses: and thy chariots are salvation.

9Thou wilt surely take up thy bow: accord-

ing to the oaths which thou hast spoken to the

tribes. Thou wilt divide the rivers of the earth.

10The mountains saw thee, and were grieved:

the great body of waters passed away. The deep

put forth its voice: the deep lifted up its hands.

11The sun and the moon stood still in their

habitation, in the light of thy arrows, they shall

go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.

12In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth un-

der foot: in thy wrath thou wilt astonish the

nations.13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy

people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou

struckest the head of the house of the wicked:

thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the

neck.

14Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of

his warriors, them that came out as a whirlwind

to scatter me. Their joy was like that of him

that devoureth the poor man in secret.

15Thou madest a way in the sea for thy

horses, in the mud of many waters.

16I have heard and my bowels were troubled:

my lips trembled at the voice. Let rottenness

enter into my bones, and swarm under me. That

I may rest in the day of tribulation: that I may

go up to our people that are girded.

17For the g tree shall not blossom: and there

shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the

olive tree shall fail: and the elds shall yield no

food: the

ock shall be cut o from the fold, and

there shall be no herd in the stalls.

18But I will rejoice in the Lord: and I will

joy in God my Jesus.

19The Lord God is my strength: and he

will make my feet like the feet of harts: and he

the conqueror will lead me upon my high places

singing psalms.Prophecy of Sophonias

Chapter 1

The word of the Lord that came to Sophonias

the son of Chusi, the son of Godolias, the son

of Amarias, the son of Ezechias, in the days of

Josias, the son of Amon king of Juda.

2Gathering, I will gather together all things

from o the face of the land, saith the Lord:

3I will gather man, and beast, I will gather

the birds of the air, and the shes of the sea:

and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I will

destroy men from o the face of the land, saith

the Lord.

4And I will stretch out my hand upon Juda,

and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and I

will destroy out of this place the remnant of Baal,

and the names of the wardens of the temples with

the priests:

6And them that turn away from following af-

ter the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord,

nor searched after him.

7Be silent before the face of the Lord God:

for the day of the Lord is near, for the Lord hath

prepared a victim, he hath sanctied his guests.

8And it shall come to pass in the day of the

victim of the Lord, that I will visit upon the

princes, and upon the king's sons, and upon all

such as are clothed with strange apparel:

9And I will visit in that day upon every

one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold:

them that ll the house of the Lord their Godwith iniquity and deceit.

10And there shall be in that day, saith the

Lord, the noise of a cry from the sh gate, and a

howling from the Second, and a great destruction

from the hills.

11Howl, ye inhabitants of the Morter. All

the people of Chanaan is hush, all are cut o

that were wrapped up in silver.

12And it shall come to pass at that time, that

I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and will visit

upon the men that are settled on their lees: that

say in their hearts: The Lord will not do good,

nor will he do evil.

13And their strength shall become a booty,

and their houses as a desert: and they shall build

houses, and shall not dwell in them: and they

shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the

wine of them.

14The great day of the Lord is near, it is near

and exceeding swift: the voice of the day of the

Lord is bitter, the mighty man shall there meet

with tribu- lation.

15That day is a day of wrath, a day of tribu-

lation and distress, a day of calamity and misery,

a day of darkness and obscurity, a day of clouds

and whirlwinds,

16A day of the trumpet and alarm against

the fenced cities, and against the high bulwarks.

17And I will distress men, and they shall walk

like blind men, because they have sinned against

the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as1168 Prophecy of Sophonias

earth, and their bodies as dung.

18Neither shall their silver and their gold be

able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the

Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the re

of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy

destruction of all them that dwell in the land.

Chapter 2

Assemble yourselves together, be gathered to-

gether, O nation not worthy to be loved:

2Before the decree bring forth the day as dust

passing away, before the erce anger of the Lord

come upon you, before the day of the Lord's in-

dignation come upon you.

3Seek the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, you

that have wrought his judgment: seek the just,

seek the meek: if by any means you may be hid

in the day of the Lord's indignation.

4For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ascalon

shall be a desert, they shall cast out Azotus at

noonday, and Accaron shall be rooted up.

5Woe to you that inhabit the sea coast, O

nation of reprobates: the word of the Lord upon

you, O Chanaan, the land of the Philistines, and

I will destroy thee, so that there shall not be an

inhabitant.

6And the sea coast shall be the resting place

of shepherds, and folds for cattle:

7And it shall be the portion of him that shall

remain of the house of Juda, there they shall

feed: in the houses of Ascalon they shall rest

in the evening: because the Lord their God will

visit them, and bring back their captivity.

8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and

the blasphemies of the children of Ammon, with

which they reproached my people, and have mag-

nied themselves upon their borders.

9Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hoststhe God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and

the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dry-

ness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert

even for ever: the remnant of my people shall

make a spoil of them, and the residue of my na-

tion shall possess them.

10This shall befall them for their pride: be-

cause they have blasphemed, and have been

magnied against the people of the Lord of hosts.

11The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and

shall consume all the gods of the earth: and they

shall adore him every man from his own place,

all the islands of the Gentiles.

12You Ethiopians, also shall be slain with my

sword.

13And he will stretch out his hand upon the

north, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make

the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a place not

passable, and as a desert.

14And

ocks shall lie down in the midst

thereof, all the beasts of the nations: and the

bittern and the urchin shall lodge in the thresh-

old thereof: the voice of the singing bird in the

window, the raven on the upper post, for I will

consume her strength.

15This is the glorious city that dwelt in se-

curity: that said in her heart: I am, and there

is none beside me: how is she become a desert,

a place for beasts to lie down in? every one that

passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

Chapter 3

Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the

dove.

2She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither

hath she received discipline: she hath not trusted

in the Lord, she drew not near to her God.

3Her princes are in the midst of her as roaringProphecy of Sophonias 1169

lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left

nothing for the morning.

4Her prophets are senseless, men without

faith: her priests have polluted the sanctuary,

they have acted unjustly against the law.

5The just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will

not do iniquity: in the morning, in the morning

he will bring his judgment to light, and it shall

not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known

shame.

6I have destroyed the nations, and their tow-

ers are beaten down: I have made their ways

desert, so that there is none that passeth by:

their cities are desolate, there is not a man re-

maining, nor any inhabitant.

7I said: Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt re-

ceive correction: and her dwelling shall not per-

ish, for all things wherein I have visited her: but

they rose early, and corrupted all their thoughts.

8Wherefore expect me, saith the Lord, in

the day of my resurrection that is to come, for

my judgment is to assemble the Gentiles, and to

gather the kingdoms: and to pour upon them my

indignation, all my erce anger: for with the re

of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.

9Because then I will restore to the people a

chosen lip, that all may call upon the name of

the Lord, and may serve him with one shoulder.

10From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, shall

my suppliants, the children of my dispersed peo-

ple, bring me an oering.

11In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for

all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed

against me for then I will take away out of the

midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt

no more be lifted up because of my holy moun-

tain.

12And I will leave in the midst of thee a poor

and needy people: and they shall hope in the

name of the Lord.13The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity,

nor speak lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be

found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and

shall lie down, and there shall be none to make

them afraid.

14Give praise, O daughter of Sion: shout, O

Israel: be glad, and rejoice with all thy heart, O

daughter of Jerusalem.
15The Lord hath taken away thy judgment,

he hath turned away thy enemies: the king of

Israel, the Lord, is in the midst of thee, thou

shalt fear evil no more.

16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:

Fear not: to Sion: Let not thy hands be weak-

ened.

17The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is

mighty, he will save: he will rejoice over thee

with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he

will be joyful over thee in praise.

18The tri

ers that were departed from the

law, I will gather together, because they were of

thee: that thou mayest no more suer reproach

for them.

19Behold I will cut o all that have aicted

thee at that time: and I will save her that hal-

teth, and will gather her that was cast out: and I

will get them praise, and a name, in all the land

where they had been put to confusion.

20At that time, when I will bring you: and

at the time that I will gather you: for I will give

you a name, and praise among all the people of

the earth, when I shall have brought back your

captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.Prophecy of Aggeus

Chapter 1

In the second year of Darius the king, in the

sixth month, in the rst day of the month, the

word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus

the prophet, to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel,

governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec

the high priest, saying:

2Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This

people saith: The time is not yet come for build-

ing the house of the Lord.

3And the word of the Lord came by the hand

of Aggeus the prophet, saying:

4Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses,

and this house lie desolate?

5And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set

your hearts to consider your ways.

6You have sowed much, and brought in little:

you have eaten, but have not had enough: you

have drunk, but have not been lled with drink:

you have clothed yourselves, but have not been

warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put

them into a bag with holes.

7Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts

upon your ways:

8Go up to the mountain, bring timber, and

build the house: and it shall be acceptable to

me, and I shall be gloried, saith the Lord.

9You have looked for more, and behold it be-

came less, and you brought it home, and I blowed

it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? becausemy house is desolate, and you make haste every

man to his own house.

10Therefore the heavens over you were stayed

from giving dew, and the earth was hindered

from yielding her fruits:

11And I called for a drought upon the land,

and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and

upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon all

that the ground bringeth forth, and upon men,

and upon beasts, and upon all the labour of the

hands.

12Then Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and

Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and

all the remnant of the people hearkened to the

voice of the Lord their God, and to the words of

Aggeus the prophet, as the Lord their God sent

him to them: and the people feared before the

Lord.

13And Aggeus the messenger of the Lord, as

one of the messengers of the Lord, spoke, saying

to the people: I am with you, saith the Lord.

14And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorob-

abel the son of Salathiel governor of Juda, and

the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedec the high

priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people:

and they went in, and did the work in the house

of the Lord of Hosts their God.Prophecy of Aggeus 1171

Chapter 2

In the four and twentieth day of the month, in

the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the

king, they began.

2And in the seventh month, the word of the

Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet,

saying:

3Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the

governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec

the high priest, and to the rest of the people,

saying:

4Who is left among you, that saw this house

in its rst glory? and how do you see it now? is

it not in comparison to that as nothing in your

eyes?

5Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel, saith

the Lord, and take courage, Jesus the son of

Josedec the high priest, and take courage, all

ye people of the land, saith the Lord of hosts:

and perform (for I am with you, saith the Lord

of hosts)

6The word that I convenanted with you when

you came out of the land of Egypt: and my spirit

shall be in the midst of you: fear not.

7For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one

little while, and I will move the heaven and the

earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

8And I will move all nations: AND THE DE-

SIRED OF ALL NATIONS SHALL COME: and

I will ll this house with glory: saith the Lord of

hosts.

9The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,

saith the Lord of hosts.

10Great shall be the glory of this last house

more than of the rst, saith the Lord of hosts:

and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord

of hosts.

11In the four and twentieth day of the ninth

month, in the second year of Darius the king, theword of the Lord came to Aggeus the prophet,

saying:

12Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the

priests the law, saying:

13If a man carry sanctied

esh in the skirt

of his garment, and touch with his skirt, bread,

or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall

it be sanctied? And the priests answered, and

said: No.
14And Aggeus said: If one that is unclean by

occasion of a soul touch any of all these things,

shall it be deled? And the priests answered,

and said: It shall be deled.

15And Aggeus answered, and said: So is this

people, and so is this nation before my face, saith

the Lord, and so is all the work of their hands:

and all that they have oered there, shall be de-

led.

16And now consider in your hearts, from this

day and upward, before there was a stone laid

upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.

17When you went to a heap of twenty

bushels, and they became ten: and you went into

the press, to press out fty vessels, and they be-

came twenty.

18I struck you with a blasting wind, and all

the works of your hand with the mildew and with

hail, yet there was none among you that returned

to me, saith the Lord.

19Set your hearts from this day, and hence-

forward, from the four and twentieth day of the

ninth month: from the day that the foundations

of the temple of the Lord were laid, and lay it

up in your hearts.

20Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the

vine, and the g tree, and the pomegranate, and

the olive tree as yet

ourished? from this day I

will bless you.

21And the word of the Lord came a second

time to Aggeus in the four and twentieth day of1172 Prophecy of Aggeus

the month, saying:

22Speak to Zorobabel the governor of Juda,

saying: I will move both heaven and earth.

23And I will overthrow the throne of king-

doms, and will destroy the strength of the king-

dom of the Gentiles: and I will overthrow the

chariot, and him that rideth therin: and the

horses and their riders shall come down, every

one by the sword of his brother.

24In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will

take thee, O Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, my

servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a

signet, for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of

hosts.Prophecy of Zacharias

Chapter 1

In the eighth month, in the second year of king

Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias

the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the

prophet, saying:

2The Lord hath been exceeding angry with

your fathers.

3And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the

Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of

hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of

hosts.

4Be not as your fathers, to whom the former

prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord

of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from

your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear,

neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord.

5Your fathers, where are they? and the

prophets, shall they live always?

6But yet my words, and my ordinances, which

I gave in charge to my servants the prophets,

did they not take hold of your fathers, and they

returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought

to do to us according to our ways, and according

to our devices, so he hath done to us.

7In the four and twentieth day of the eleventh

month which is called Sabath, in the second

year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to

Zacharias the son of Barachias, the son of Addo,

the prophet, saying:

8I saw by night, and behold a man ridingupon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle

trees, that were in the bottom: and behind him

were horses, red, speckled, and white.

9And I said: What are these, my lord? and

the angel that spoke in me, said to me: I will

shew thee what these are:

10And the man that stood among the myrtle

trees answered, and said: These are they, whom

the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.

11And they answered the angel of the Lord,

that stood among the myrtle trees, and said: We

have walked through the earth, and behold all

the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.

12And 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

Juda, with which thou hast been angry? this is

now the seventieth year.

13And the Lord answered the angel, that

spoke in me, good words, comfortable words.

14And the angel that spoke in me, said to me:

Cry thou, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I

am zealous for Jerusalem, and Sion with a great

zeal.

15And I am angry with a great anger with

the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but

they helped forward the evil.

16Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return

to Jerusalem in mercies: my house shall be built

in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and the building

line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.1174 Prophecy of Zacharias

17Cry yet, saying: Thus saith the Lord of

hosts: My cities shall yet

ow with good things:

and the Lord wlll yet comfort Sion, and he will

yet choose Jerusalem.

18And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and

behold four horns.

19And I said to the angel that spoke in me:

What are these? And he said to me: These are

the horns that have scattered Juda, and Israel,

and Jerusalem.

20And the Lord shewed me four smiths.

21And I said: What come these to do? and

he spoke, saying: These are the horns which

have scattered Juda every man apart, and none

of them lifted up his head: and these are come

to fray them, to cast down the horns of the na-

tions, that have lifted up the horn upon the land

of Juda to scatter it.

Chapter 2

And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a

man, with a measuring line in his hand.

2And I said: Whither goest thou? and he

said to me: To measure Jerusalem, and to see

how great is the breadth thereof, and how great

the length thereof.

3And behold the angel that spoke in me went

forth, and another angel went out to meet him.

4And he said to him: Run, speak to this

young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhab-

ited without walls, by reason of the multitude of

men, and of the beasts in the midst thereof.

5And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall

of re round about: and I will be in glory in the

midst thereof.

6O, O

ee ye out of the land of the north,

saith the Lord, for I have scattered you into the

four winds of heaven, saith the Lord.7O Sion,

ee, thou that dwellest with the

daughter of Babylon:

8For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the

glory he hath sent me to the nations that have

robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth

the apple of my eye:

9For behold, I lift up my hand upon them,

and they shall be a prey to those that served

them: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts

sent me.

10Sing praise, and rejoice, O daughter of

Sion: for behold I come, and I will dwell in the

midst of thee: saith the Lord.

11And many nations shall be joined to the

Lord in that day, and they shall be my people,

and I will dwell in the midst of thee: and thou

shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me

to thee.

12And the Lord shall possess Juda his portion

in the sanctied land: and he shall yet choose

Jerusalem.

13Let all

esh be silent at the presence of the

Lord: for he is risen up out of his holy habitation.

Chapter 3

And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest

standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan

stood on his right hand to be his adversary.

2And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord re-

buke thee, O Satan: and the Lord that chose

Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand

plucked out of the re?

3And Jesus was clothed with lthy garments:

and he stood before the face of the angel.

4Who answered, and said to them that stood

before him, saying: Take away the lthy gar-

ments from him. And he said to him: Behold I

have taken away thy iniquity, and have clothedProphecy of Zacharias 1175

thee with change of garments.

5And he said: Put a clean mitre upon his

head: and they put a clean mitre upon his head,

and clothed him with garments, and the angel of

the Lord stood.

6And the angel of the Lord protested to Jesus,

saying:

7Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If thou wilt

walk in my ways, and keep my charge, thou also

shalt judge my house, and shalt keep my courts,

and I will give thee some of them that are now

present here to walk with thee.

8Hear, O Jesus thou high priest, thou and thy

friends that dwell before thee, for they are por-

tending men: for behold, I WILL BRING MY

SERVANT THE ORIENT.

9For behold the stone that I have laid before

Jesus: upon one stone there are seven eyes: be-

hold I will grave the graving thereof, saith the

Lord of hosts: and I will take away the iniquity

of that land in one day.

Chapter 4

And the angel that spoke in me came again: and

he waked me, as a man that is wakened out of

his sleep.
2And he said to me: What seest thou? And I

said: I have looked, and behold a candlestick all

of gold, and its lamp upon the top of it: and the

seven lights thereof upon it: and seven funnels

for the lights that were upon the top thereof.

3And two olive trees over it: one upon the

right side of the lamp, and the other upon the

left side thereof.

4And I answered, and said to the angel that

spoke in me, saying: What are these things, my

lord?

5And the angel that spoke in me answered,and said to me: Knowest thou not what these

things are? And I said: No, my lord.

6And he answered, and spoke to me, saying:

This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, say-

ing: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my

spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

7Who art thou, O great mountain, before

Zorobabel? thou shalt become a plain: and he

shall bring out the chief stone, and shall give

equal grace to the grace thereof.

8And the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

9The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foun-

dations of this house, and his hands shall nish

it: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts

hath sent me to you.

10For who hath despised little days? and

they shall rejoice, and shall see the tin plummet

in the hand of Zorobabel. These are the seven

eyes of the Lord, that run to and fro through the

whole earth.

11And I answered, and said to him: What

are these two olive trees upon the right side of

the candlestick, and upon the left side thereof ?

12And I answered again, and said to him:

What are the two olive branches, that are by

the two golden beaks, in which are the funnels

of gold?

13And he spoke to me, saying: Knowest thou

not what these are? And I said: No, my lord.

14And he said: These are two sons of oil who

stand before the Lord of the whole earth.

Chapter 5

And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw,

and behold a volume

ying.

2And he said to me: What seest thou? And

I said: I see a volume

ying: the length thereof1176 Prophecy of Zacharias

is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cu-

bits.
3And he said to me: This is the curse that

goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every

thief shall be judged as is there written: and

every one that sweareth in like manner shall be

judged by it.

4I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts:

and it shall come to the house of the thief, and

to the house of him that sweareth falsely by my

name: and it shall remain in the midst of his

house, and shall consume it, with the timber

thereof, and the stones thereof.

5And the angel went forth that spoke in me,

and he said to me: Lift up thy eyes, and see what

this is, that goeth forth.

6And I said: What is it? And he said: This

is a vessel going forth. And he said: This is their

eye in all the earth.

7And behold a talent of lead was carried, and

behold a woman sitting in the midst of the vessel.

8And he said: This is wickedness. And he

cast her into the midst of the vessel, and cast

the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

9And I lifted up my eyes and looked: and

behold there came out two women, and wind was

in their wings, and they had wings like the wings

of a kite: and they lifted up the vessel between

the earth and the heaven.

10And I said to the angel that spoke in me:

Whither do these carry the vessel?

11And he said to me: That a house may be

built for it in the land of Sennaar, and that it

may be established, and set there upon its own

basis.Chapter 6

And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and saw:

and behold four chariots came out from the

midst of two mountains: and the mountains were

mountains of brass.

2In the rst chariot were red horses, and in

the second chariot black horses.

3And in the third chariot white horses, and

in the fourth chariot grisled horses, and strong

ones.

4And I answered, and said to the angel that

spoke in me: What are these, my lord?

5And the angel answered, and said to me:

These are the four winds of the heaven, which go

forth to stand before the Lord of all the earth.

6That in which were the black horses went

forth into the land of the north, and the white

went forth after them: and the grisled went forth

to the land the south.

7And they that were most strong, went out,

and sought to go, and to run to and fro through

all the earth. And he said: Go, walk through-

out the earth: and they walked throughout the

earth.

8And he called me, and spoke to me, saying:

Behold they that go forth into the land of the

north, have quieted my spirit in the land of the

north.

9And the word of the Lord came to me, say-

ing:

10Take of them of the captivity, of Holdai,

and of Tobias, and of Idaias; thou shalt come in

that day, a shalt go into the house of Josias, the

son of Sophonias, who came out of Babylon.

11And thou shalt take gold and silver: and

shalt make crowns, and thou shalt set them on

the head of Jesus the son of Josedec, the high

priest.

12And thou shalt speak to him, saying: ThusProphecy of Zacharias 1177

saith the Lord of hosts, saying: BEHOLD A

MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under

him shall he spring up, a shall build a temple to

the Lord.

13Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord:

and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit, and

rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest

upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall

be between them both.

14And the crowns shall be to Helem, and

Tobias, and Idaias, and to Hem, the son of So-

phonias, a memorial in the temple of the Lord.

15And they that are far o, shall come and

shall build in the temple of the Lord: and you

shall know that the Lord of hosts sent me to you.

But this shall come to pass, if hearing you will

hear the voice of the Lord your God.

Chapter 7

And it came to pass in the fourth year of king

Darius, that the word of the Lord came to

Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth month,

which is Casleu.

2When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the

men that were with him, sent to the house of

God, to entreat the face of the Lord:

3To speak to the priests of the house of the

Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must

I weep in the fth month, or must I sanctify my-

self as I have now done for many years?

4And the word of the Lord of hosts came to

me, saying:

5Speak to all the people of the land, and

to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and

mourned in the fth and the seventh month for

these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

6And when you did eat and drink, did you

not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?7Are not these the words which the Lord

spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when

Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy,

both itself and the cities round about it, and

there were inhabitants towards the south, and

in the plain?

8And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias,

saying:

9Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge

ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and com-

passion every man to his brother.

10And oppress not the widow, and the fa-

therless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let

not a man devise evil in his heart against his

brother.

11But they would not hearken, and they

turned away the shoulder to depart: and they

stopped their ears, not to hear.

12And they made their heart as the adamant

stone, lest they should hear the law, and the

words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit

by the hand of the former prophets: so a great

indignation came from Lord of hosts.

13And it came to pass that as he spoke, and

they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not

hear, saith the Lord of hosts.

14And I dispersed them throughout all king-

doms, which they know not: and the land was

left desolate behind them, so that no man passed

through or returned: and they changed the de-

lightful land into a wilderness.

Chapter 8

And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me,

saying:

2Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been

jealous for Sion with a great jealousy, and with

a great indignation have I been jealous for her.1178 Prophecy of Zacharias

3Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am re-

turned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of

Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The

city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of

hosts, The sanctied mountain.

4Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall

yet old men and old women dwell in the streets

of Jerusalem: and every man with his sta in his

hand through multitude of days.

5And the streets of the city shall be full of

boys and girls, playing in the streets thereo.

6Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard

in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those

days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord

of hosts?

7Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will

save my people from the land of the east, and

from the land of the going down of the sun.

8And I will bring them, and they shall dwell

in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my

people, and I will be their God in truth and in

justice.

9Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Let your hands

be strengthened, you that hear in these days

these words by the mouth of the prophets, in

the day that the house of the Lord of hosts was

founded, that the temple might be built.

11But now I will not deal with the remnant

of this people according to the former days, saith

the Lord of hosts.

12But there shall be the seed of peace: the

vine shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall give

her increase, and the heavens shall give their

dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people

to possess all these things.

13And it shall come to pass, that as you were

a curse among the Gentiles, O house of Juda,

and house of Israel: so will I save you, and you

shall be a blessing: fear not, let your hands be

strengthened.14For thus saith the Lord of hosts: As I pur-

posed io aict you, when your fathers had pro-

voked me to wrath, saith the Lord,

15And I had no mercy: so turning again I

have thought in these days to do good to the

house of Juda, and Jerusalem: fear not.

16These then are the things, which you shall

do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour;

judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your

gates.

17And let none of you imagine evil in your

hearts against his friend: and love not a false

oath: for all these are the things that I hate,

saith the Lord.

18And the word of the Lord of hosts came to

me, saying:

19Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of

the fourth month, and the fast of the fth, and

the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth

shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness,

and great solemnities: only love ye truth and

peace.

20Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people

come and dwell in many cities,

21And the inhabitants go one to another, say-

ing: Let us go, and entreat the face of the Lord,

and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also will go.

22And many peoples, and strong nations

shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem,

and to entreat the face of the Lord.

23Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days,

wherein ten men of all languages of the Gentiles

shall take hold, and shall hold fast the skirt of

one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you:

for we have heard that God is with you.Prophecy of Zacharias 1179

Chapter 9

The burden of the word of the Lord in the land

of Hadrach, and of Damascus the rest thereof:

for the eye of man, and of all the tribes of Israel

is the Lord's.

2Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre,

and Sidon: for they have taken to themselves to

be exceeding wise.

3And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold,

and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as

the mire of the streets.

4Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall

strike her strength in the sea, and she shall be

devoured with re.

5Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza,

and shall be very sorrowful: and Accaron, be-

cause her hope is confounded: and the king shall

perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be in-

habited.

6And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I

will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

7And I will take away his blood out of his

mouth, and his abominations from between his

teeth: and even he shall be left to our God, and

he shall be as a governor in Juda, and Accaron

as a Jebusite.

8And I will encompass my house with them

that serve me in war, going and returning, and

the oppressor shall no more pass through them:

for now I have seen with my eyes.

9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout

for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD

THY KING will come to thee, the just and

saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and

upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

10And I will destroy the chariot out of

Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and

the bow for war shall be broken: and he shall

speak peace to the Gentiles, and his power shallbe from sea to sea, and from the rivers even to

the end of the earth.

11Thou also by the blood of thy testament

hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit,

wherein is no water.

12Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of

hope, I will render thee double as I declare today.

13Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow,

I have lled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy

sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I

will make thee as the sword of the mighty.

14And the Lord God shall be seen over them,

and his dart shall go forth as lightning: and the

Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in the

whirlwind of the south.

15The Lord of hosts will protect them: and

they shall devonr, and subdue with the stones of

the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated

as it were with wine, and they shall be lled as

bowls, and as the horns of the altar.

16And the Lord their God will save them

in that day, as the

ock of his people: for holy

stones shall be lifted up over his land.

17For what is the good thing of him, and

what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the

elect, and wine springing forth virgins?

Chapter 10

Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and

the Lord will make snows, and will give them

showers of rain, to every one grass in the eld.

2For the idols have spoken what was unprof-

itable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the

dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in

vain: therefore they were led away as a

ock:

they shall be aicted, because they have no

shepherd.

3My wrath is kindled against the shepherds,1180 Prophecy of Zacharias

and I will visit upon the buck goats: for the Lord

of hosts hath visited his

ock, the house of Juda,

and hath made them as the horse of his glory in

the battle.

4Out of him shall come forth the corner, out

of him the pin, out of him the bow of battle, out

of him ever exacter together.

5And they shall be as mighty men, treading

under foot the mire of the ways in battle: and

they shall ght, because the Lord is with them,

and the riders of horses shall be confounded.

6And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and

save the house of Joseph: and I will bring them

back again, because I will have mercy on them:

and they shall be as they were when I had not

cast them o, for I am the Lord their God, and

will hear them.

7And they shall be as the valiant men of

Ephraim, and their heart shall rejoice as through

wine: and their children shall see, and shall re-

joice, and their heart shall be joyful in the Lord.

8I will whistle for them, and I will gather

them together, because I have redeemed them:

and I will multiply them as they were multiplied

before.

9And I will sow them among peoples: and

from afar they shall remember me: and they

shall live with their children, and shall return.

10And I will bring them back out of the land

of Egypt, and I will gather them from among

the Assyrians: and will bring them to the land

of Galaad, and Libanus, and place shall not be

found for them.

11And he shall pass over the strait of the

sea, and shall strike the waves in the sea, and all

the depths of the river shall be confounded, and

the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the

sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

12I will strengthen them in the Lord, and

they shall walk in his name, saith the Lord.Chapter 11

Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let re devour

thy cedars.
2Howl, thou r tree, for the cedar is fallen,

for the mighty are laid waste: howl, ye oaks of

Basan, because the fenced forest is cut down.

3The voice of the howling of the shepherds,

because their glory is laid waste: the voice of

the roaring of the lions, because the pride of the

Jordan is spoiled.

4Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the

ock

of the slaughter,

5Which they that possessed, slew, and re-

pented not, and they sold them, saying: Blessed

be the Lord, we are become rich: and their shep-

herds spared them not.

6And I will no more spare the inhabitants of

the land, saith the Lord: behold I will deliver

the men, every one into his neighbour's hand,

and into the hand of his king: and they shall

destroy the land, and I will not deliver it out of

their hand.

7And I will feed the

ock of slaughter for this,

O ye poor of the

ock. And I took unto me two

rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called

a Cord, and I fed the

ock.

8And I cut o three shepherds in one month,

and my soul was straitened in their regard: for

their soul also varied in my regard.

9And I said: I will not feed you: that which

dieth, let it die: and that which is cut o, let it

be cut o: and let the rest devour every one the

esh of his neighbour.

10And I took my rod that was called Beauty,

and I cut it asunder to make void my covenant,

which I had made with all people.

11And it was made void in that day: and so

the poor of the

ock that keep for me, under-

stood that it is the word of the Lord.Prophecy of Zacharias 1181

12And I said to them: If it be good in your

eyes, bring hither my wages: and if not, be quiet.

And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of

silver.

13And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the

statuary, a handsome price, that I was prized at

by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver,

and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the

statuary.

14And I cut o my second rod that was called

a Cord, that I might break the brotherhood be-

tween Juda and Israel.

15And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet

the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

16For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the

land, who shall not visit what is forsaken, nor

seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken,

nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat

the

esh of the fat ones, and break their hoofs.

17O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the

ock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right

eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his

right eye shall be utterly darkened.

Chapter 12

The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel.

Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the

heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth,

and formeth the spirit of man in him:

2Behold I will make Jerusalem a lintel of sur-

feiting to all the people round about: and Juda

also shall be in the siege against Jerusalem.

3And it shall come to pass in that day, that

I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all

people: all that shall lift it up shall be rent and

torn, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall be

gathered together against her.

4In that day, saith the Lord, I will strike ev-ery horse with astonishment, and his rider with

madness: and I will open my eyes upon the house

of Juda, and will strike every horse of the nations

with blindness.

5And the governors of Juda shall say in

their heart: Let the inhabitants of Jerusalem be

strengthened for me in the Lord of hosts, their

God.

6In that day I will make the governors of Juda

like a furnace of re amongst wood, and as a

rebrand amongst hay: and they shall devour

all the people round about, to the right hand,

and to the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited

again in her own place in Jerusalem.

7And the Lord shall save the tabernacles

of Jada, as in the beginning: that the house

of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of

Jerusalem, may not boast and magnify them-

selves against Juda.

8In that day shall the Lord protect the inhab-

itants of Jerusalem, and he that hath oended

among them in that day shall be as David: and

the house of David, as that of God, as an angel

of the Lord in their sight.

9And it shall come to pass in that day, that

I will seek to destroy all the nations that come

against Jerusalem.

10And I will pour out upon the house of

David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they

shall look upon me, whom they have pierced:

and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth

for an only son, and they shall grieve over him,

as the manner is to grieve for the death of the

rstborn.

11In that day there shall be a great lamen-

tation in Jerusalem like the lamentation of

Adadremmon in the plain of Mageddon.

12And the land shall mourn: families and

families apart: the families of the house of David1182 Prophecy of Zacharias

apart, and their women apart:

13The families of the house of Nathan apart,

and their women apart: the families of the house

of Levi apart, and their women apart: the fami-

lies of Semei apart, and their women apart.

14All the rest of the families, families and

families apart, and their women apart.

Chapter 13

In that day there shall be a fountain open to

the house of David, and to the inhabitants of

Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and of

the unclean woman.

2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith

the Lord of hosts, that I will destroy the names

of idols out of the earth, and they shall be re-

membered no more: and I will take away the

false prophets, and the unclean spirit out of the

earth.

3And it shall come to pass, that when any

man shall prophesy any more, his father and his

mother that brought him into the world, shall

say to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou

hast spoken a lie in the name of the Lord. And

his father, and his mother, his parents, shall

thrust him through, when he shall prophesy.

4And it shall come to pass in that day, that

the prophets shall be confounded, every one by

his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither

shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth,

to deceive:

5But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a

husbandman: for Adam is my example from my

youth.

6And they shall say to him: What are these

wounds in the midst of thy hands? And he shall

say: With these I was wounded in the house of

them that loved me.7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and

against the man that cleaveth to me, saith the

Lord of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep

shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to

the little ones.

8And there shall be in all the earth, saith the

Lord, two parts in it shall be scattered, and shall

perish: but the third part shall be left therein.

9And I will bring the third part through the

re, and will rene them as silver is rened: and

I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call

on my name, and I will hear them. I will say:

Thou art my people: and they shall say: The

Lord is my God.

Chapter 14

Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy

spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee.

2And I will gather all nations to Jerusalem

to battle, and the city shall be taken, and the

houses shall be ri

ed, and the women shall be

deled: and half of the city shall go forth into

captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be

taken away out of the city.

3Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall ght

against those nations, as when he fought in the

day of battle.

4And his feet shall stand in that day upon the

mount of Olives, which is over against Jerusalem

towards the east: and the mount of Olives shall

be divided in the midst thereof to the east, and

to the west with a very great opening, and half

of the mountain shall be separated to the north,

and half thereof to the south.

5And you shall

ee to the valley of those

mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall

be joined even to the next, and you shall

ee as

you

ed from the face of the earthquake in theProphecy of Zacharias 1183

days of Ozias king of Juda: and the Lord my

God shall come, and all the saints with him.

6And it shall come to pass in that day, that

there shall be no light, but cold and frost.

7And there shall be one day, which is known

to the Lord, not day nor night: and in the time

of the evening there shall be light:

8And it shall come to pass in that day, that

living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half

of them to the east sea, and half of them to the

last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter.

9And the Lord shall be king over all the earth:

in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name

shall be one.

10And all the land shall return even to the

desert, from the hill to Remmon to the south of

Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and shall

dwell in her own place, from the gate of Ben-

jamin even to the place of the former gate, and

even to the gate of the corners: and from the

tower of Hananeel even to the king's winepresses.

11And people shall dwell in it, and there shall

be no more an anathema: but Jerusalem shall sit

secure.

12And this shall be the plague wherewith the

Lord shall strike all nations that have fought

against Jerusalem: the

esh of every one shall

consume away while they stand upon their feet,

and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,

and their tongue shall consume away in their

mouth.

13In that day there shall be a great tumult

from the Lord among them: and a man shall take

the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall be

clasped upon his neighbour's hand.

14 And even Juda shall ght against

Jerusalem: and the riches of all nations round

about shall be gathered together, gold, and sil-

ver, and garments in great abundance.

15And the destruction of the horse, and ofthe mule, and of the camel, and of the ass, and

of all the beasts, that shall be in those tents,

shall be like this destruction.

16And all they that shall be left of all nations

that came against Jerusalem, shall go up from

year to year, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts,

and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

17And it shall come to pass, that he that shall

not go up of the families of the land to Jerusalem,

to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, there shall

be no rain upon them.

18And if the family of Egypt go not up

nor come: neither shall it be upon them, but

there shall be destruction wherewith the Lord

will strike all nations that will not go up to keep

the feast of tabernacles.

19This shall be the sin of Egypt, and this the

sin of all nations, that will not go up to keep the

feast of tabernacles.

20In that day that which is upon the bridle

of the horse shall be holy to the Lord: and the

caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as the

phials before the altar.

21And every caldron in Jerusalem and Juda

shall be sanctied to the Lord of hosts: and all

that sacrice shall come, and take of them, and

shall seethe in them: and the merchant shall be

no more in the house of the Lord of hosts in that

day.Prophecy of Malachias

Chapter 1

The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by

the hand of Malachias.

2I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you

have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was

not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and

I have loved Jacob,

3But have hated Esau? and I have made

his mountains a wilderness, and given his inher-

itance to the dragons of the desert.

4But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed,

but we will return and build up what hath been

destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They

shall build up, and I will throw down: and they

shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the

people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.

5And your eyes shall see: and you shall say:

The Lord be magnied upon the border of Israel.

6The son honoureth the father, and the ser-

vant his master: if then I be a father, where is

my honour? and if I be a master, where is my

fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

7To you, O priests, that despise my name,

and have said: Wherein have we despised thy

name? You oer polluted bread upon my altar,

and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee?

In that you say: The table of the Lord is con-

temptible.

8If you oer the blind for sacrice, is it not

evil? and if you oer the lame and the sick, isit not evil? oer it to thy prince, if he will be

pleased with it, or if he will regard thy face, saith

the Lord of hosts.

9And now beseech ye the face of God, that he

may have mercy on you, (for by your hand hath

this been done,) if by any means he will receive

your faces, saith the Lord of hosts.

10Who is there among you, that will shut the

doors, and will kindle the re on my altar gratis?

I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts:

and I will not receive a gift of your hand.

11For from the rising of the sun even to the

going down, my name is great among the Gen-

tiles, and in every place there is sacrice, and

there is oered to my name a clean oblation: for

my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the

Lord of hosts.
12And you have profaned it in that you say:

The table of the Lord is deled: and that which

is laid thereupon is contemptible with the re

that devoureth it.

13And you have said: Behold of our labour,

and you pued it away, saith the Lord of hosts,

and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the

sick, and brought in an oering: shall I accept it

at your hands, saith the Lord?

14Cursed is the deceitful man that hath in

his

ock a male, and making a vow oereth in

sacrice that which is feeble to the Lord: for I

am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my

name is dreadful among the Gentiles.Prophecy of Malachias 1185

Chapter 2

And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to

you.

2If you will not hear, and if you will not lay

it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the

Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and

will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them,

because you have not laid it to heart.

3Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and

will scatter upon your face the dung of your

solemnities, and it shall take you away with it.

4And you shall know that I sent you this

commandment, that my covenant might be with

Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

5My covenant was with him of life and peace:

and I gave him fear: and he feared me, and he

was afraid before my name.

6The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniq-

uity was not found in his lips: he walked with me

in peace, and in equity, and turned many away

from iniquity.

7For the lips of the priests shall keep knowl-

edge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth:

because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

8But you have departed out of the way, and

have caused many to stumble at the law: you

have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the

Lord of hosts.

9Therefore have I also made you con-

temptible, and base before all people, as you

have not kept my ways, and have accepted per-

sons in the law.

10Have we not all one father? hath not one

God created us? why then doth every one of us

despise his brother, violating the covenant of our

fathers?

11Juda hath transgressed, and abomination

hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem:

for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord,which he loved, and hath married the daughter

of a strange god.

12The Lord will cut o the man that hath

done this, both the master, and the scholar, out

of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that oereth

an oering to the Lord of hosts.

13And this again have you done, you have

covered the altar of the Lord with tears, with

weeping, and bellowing, so that I have no more a

regard to sacrice, neither do I accept any atone-

ment at your hands.

14And you have said: For what cause? Be-

cause the Lord hath been witness between thee,

and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast de-

spised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of

thy covenant.

15Did not one make her, and she is the

residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek,

but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and

despise not the wife of thy youth.

16When thon shalt hate her put her away,

saith the Lord, the God of lsrael: but iniquity

shalt cover his garment, saith the Lord of hosts,

keep your spirit, and despise not.

17You have wearied the Lord with your

words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied

him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil,

is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please

him: or surely where is the God of judgment?

Chapter 3

Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare

the way before my face. And presently the Lord,

whom you seek, and the angel of the testament,

whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Be-

hold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

2And who shall be able to think of the day

of his coming? and who shall stand to see him?1186 Prophecy of Malachias

for he is like a rening re, and like thc fuller's

herb:

3And he shall sit rening and cleansing the

silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and

shall rene them as gold, and as silver, and they

shall oer sacrices to the Lord in justice.

4And the sacrice of Juda and of Jerusalem

shall please the Lord, as in the days of old, and

in the ancient years.

5And I will come to you in judgment, and will

be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adul-

terers, and false swearers, and them that oppress

the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fa-

therless: and oppress the stranger, and have not

feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

6For I am the Lord, and I change not: and

you the sons of Jacob are not consumed.

7For from the days of your fathers you have

departed from my ordinances, and have not kept

them: Return to me, and I will return to you,

saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said:

Wherein shall we return?

8Shall a man aict God, for you aict me.

And you have said: Wherein do we aict thee?

in tithes and in rstfruits.

9And you are cursed with want, and you af-

ict me, even the whole nation of you.

10Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,

that there may be meat in my house, and try

me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto

you the

ood-gates of heaven, and pour you out

a blessing even to abundance.

11And I will rebuke for your sakes the de-

vourer, and he shall not spoil the fruit of your

land: neither shall the vine in the eld be barren,

saith the Lord of hosts.

12And all nations shall call you blessed: for

you shall be a delightful land, saith the Lord of

hosts.13Your words have been unsuerable to me,

saith the Lord.

14And you have said: What have we spoken

against thee? You have said: He laboureth in

vain that serveth God, and what prot is it that

we have kept his ordinances, and that we have

walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

15Wherefore now we call the proud people

happy, for they that work wickedness are built

up, and they have tempted God and are pre-

served.

16Then they that feared the Lord, spoke ev-

ery one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave

ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance

was written before him for them that fear the

Lord, and think on his name.

17And they shall be my special possession,

saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do judg-

ment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth

his son that serveth him.

18And you shall return, and shall see the dif-

ference between the just and the wicked: and

between him that serveth God, and him that

serveth him not.

Chapter 4

For behold the day shall come kindled as a fur-

nace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly

shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall

set them on re, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall

not leave them root, nor branch.

2But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of

justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and

you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of

the herd.

3And you shall tread down the wicked when

they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in

the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.Prophecy of Malachias 1187

4Remember the law of Moses my servant,

which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,

the precepts, and judgments.

5Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet,

before the coming of the great and dreadful day

of the Lord.

6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers

to the children, and the heart of the children to

their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth

with anathema.First Book of Machabees

Chapter 1

Now it came to pass, after that Alexander the

son of Philip the Macedonian, who rst reigned

in Greece, coming out of the land of Cethim,

had overthrown Darius, king of the Persians and

Medes:

2He fought many battles, and took the strong

holds of all, and slew the kings of the earth:

3And he went through even to the ends of the

earth: and took the spoils of many nations: and

the earth was quiet before him.

4And he gathered a power, and a very strong

army: and his heart was exalted and lifted up:

5And he subdued countries of nations, and

princes; and they became tributaries to him.

6And after these things, he fell down upon

his bed, and knew that he should die.

7And he called his servants, the nobles that

were brought up with him from his youth: and

he divided his kingdom among them, while he

was yet alive.

8And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he

died.

9And his servants made themselves kings, ev-

ery one in his place:

10And they all put crowns upon themselves

after his death, and their sons after them, many

years; and evils were multiplied in the earth.

11And there came out of them a wicked root,

Antiochus the Illustrious, the son of king Anti-

ochus, who had been a hostage at Rome: and hereigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year
of the kingdom of the Greeks.

12In those days there went out of Israel

wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying:

Let us go and make a covenant with thc heathens

that are round about us: for since we departed

from them, many evils have befallen us.

13And the word seemed good in their eyes.

14And some of the people determined to do

this, and went to the king: and he gave them

license to do after the ordinances of the heathens.

15And they built a place of excercise in

Jerusalem, according to the laws of the nations:

16And they made themselves prepuces, and

departed from the holy covenant, and joined

themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do

evil:

17And the kingdom was established before

Antiochus, and he had a mind to reign over the

land of Egypt, that he might reign over two king-

doms.

18And he entered into Egypt with a great

multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and

horsemen, and a great number of ships:

19And he made war against Ptolemee king of

Egypt; but Ptolemee was afraid at his presence

and
ed, and many were wounded unto death.

20And he took the strong cities in the land

of Egypt: and he took the spoils of the land of

Egypt.

21And after Antiochus had ravaged Egypt,

in the hundred and forty-third year, he returnedFirst Book of Machabees 1189

and went up against Israel.

22And he went up to Jerusalem, with a great

multitude.

23And he proudly entered into the sanctuary,

and took away the golden altar, and the candle-

stick of light, and all the vessels thereof, and the

table of proposition, and the pouring vessels, and

the vials, and the little mortars of gold, and the

veil, and the crowns, and the golden ornament

that was before the temple: and he broke them

all in pieces.

24And he took the silver and gold, and the

precious vessels: and he took the hidden trea-

sures, which he found: and when he had taken

all away, he departed into his own country.

25And he made a great slaughter of men, and

spoke very proudly.

26And there was great mourning in Israel,

and in every place where they were:

27And the princes, and the ancients

mourned, and the virgins and the young men

were made feeble, and the beauty of the women

was changed.

28Every bridegroom took up lamentation:

and the bride that sat in the marriage bed,

mourned:

29And the land was moved for the inhab-

itants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was

covered with confusion.

30And after two full years, the king sent the

chief collector of his tributes to the cities of Juda,

and he came to Jerusalem with a great multi-

tude.

31And he spoke to them peaceable words in

deceit; and they believed him.

32And he fell upon the city suddenly, and

struck it with a great slaughter, and destroyed

much people in Israel.

33And he took the spoils of the city, and

burnt it with re, and threw down the housesthereof, and the walls thereof round about:

34And they took the women captive, and the

chil- dren, and the cattle they possessed.

35And they built the city of David with a

great and strong wall, and with strong towers,

and made it a fortress for them:

36And they placed there a sinful na-

tion, wicked men, and they fortied themselves

therein: and they stored up armour;and victuals,

and gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem;

37And laid them up there: and they became

a great snare.

38And this was a place to lie in wait against

the sanctuary, and an evil devil in Israel.

39And they shed innocent blood round about

the sanctuary, and deled the holy place.

40And the inhabitants of Jerusalem

ed

away by reason of them and the city was made

the habitation of strangers, and she became a

stranger to her own seed, and her children for-

sook her.

41Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilder-

ness, her festival days were turned into mourn-

ing, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours

were brought to nothing.

42Her dishonour was increased according to

her glory, and her excellency was turned into

mourning.

43And king Antiochus wrote to all his king-

dom, that all the people should be one: and ev-

ery one should leave his own law.

44And all nations consented, according to the

word of king Antiochus.

46And the king sent letters by the hands of

messengers to Jerusalem, and to all the cities

of Juda; that they should follow the law of the

nations of the earth.

47And should forbid holocausts and sacri-

ces, and atonements to be made in the temple

of God.1190 First Book of Machabees

48And should prohibit the sabbath, and the

festival days to be celebrated.

49And he commanded the holy places to be

profaned, and the holy people of Israel.

50And he commanded altars to be built, and

temples, and idols, and swine's

esh to be im-

molated, and unclean beasts,

51And that they should leave their children

uncircumcised, and let their souls be deled with

all uncleannesses, and abominations, to the end

that they should forget the law, and should

change all the justications of God.

52And that whosoever would not do accord-

ing to the word of king Antiochus, should be put

to death.

53According to all these words he wrote to his

whole kingdom: and he appointed rulers over the

people that should force them to do these things.

54And they commanded the cities of Juda to

sacrice.

55Then many of the people were gathered to

them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and

they committed evils in the land:

56And they drove away the people of Israel

into lurking holes, and into the secret places of

fugitives.

57On the fteenth day of the month, Casleu,

in the hundred and forty-fth year, king Anti-

ochus set up the abominable idol of desolation

upon the altar of God, and they built altars

throughout all the cities of Juda round about:

58And they burnt incense, and sacriced at

the doors of the houses and in the streets.

59And they cut in pieces, and burnt with re

the books of the law of God:

60And every one with whom the books of the

testament of the Lord were found, and whoso-

ever observed the law of the Lord, they put to

death, according to the edict of the king.61Thus by their power did they deal with

the people of Israel, that were found in the cities

month after month.

62And on the ve and twentieth day of the

month they sacriced upon the altar of the idol

that was over against the altar of God.

63Now the women that circumcised their chil-

dren were slain according to the commandment

of king Antiochus,

64And they hanged the children about their

neck in all their houses: and those that had cir-

cumcised them, they put to death.

65And many of the people of Israel deter-

mined with themselves, that they would not eat

unclean things: and they chose rather to die,

than to be deled with unclean meats:

66And they would not break the holy law of

God and they were put to death:

67And there was very great wrath upon the

people. . j; 1 Machabees Chapter 2

In those days arose Mathathias, the son of

John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons

of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and he abode in the

mountain of Modin:

2And he had ve sons: John, who was sur-

named Gaddis:

3And Simon, who was surnamed Thasi;

4And Judas, who was called Machabeus;

5And Eleazar, who was surnamed Abaron;

and Jonathan, who was surnamed Apphus.

6These saw the evils that were done in the

people of Juda, and in Jerusalem.

7And Mathathias said: Woe is me, wherefore

was I born to see the ruin of my people, and the

ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it

is given into the hands of the enemies?

8The holy places are come into the hands of

strangers her temple is become as a man without

honour.First Book of Machabees 1191

9The vessels of her glory are carried away

captive; her old men are murdered in the streets,

and her young men are fallen by the sword of the

enemies.

10What nation hath not inherited her king-

dom, and gotten of her spoils?

11All her ornaments are taken away. She that

was free is made a slave.

12And behold our sanctuary, and our beauty,

and our glory is laid waste, and the Gentiles have

deled them.

13To what end then should we live any

longer?

14And Mathathias and his sons rent their

garments, and they covered themselves with

haircloth, and made great lamentation.

15And they that were sent from king Anti-

ochus, came thither, to compel them that were

ed into the city of Modin, to sacrice, and to

burn incense, and to depart from the law of God.

16And many of the people of Israel consented

and came to them: but Mathathias and his sons

stood rm.

17And they that were sent from Antiochus,

answering, said to Mathathias: Thou art a ruler,

and an honourable, and great man in this city,

and adorned with sons, and brethren.

18Therefore, come thou rst, and obey the

king's commandment, as all nations have done,

and the men of Juda, and they that remain in

Jerusalem: and thou, and thy sons shall be in

the number of the king's friends, and enriched

with gold, and silver, and many presents.

19Then Mathathias answered, and said with

a loud voice: Although all nations obey king An-

tiochus, so as to depart every man from the ser-

vice of the law of his fathers, and consent to his

commandments:

20I and my sons, and my brethren will obey

the law of our fathers.21God be merciful unto us: it is not protable

for us to forsake the law, and the justices of God:

22We will not hearken to the words of

king Antiochus, neither will we sacrice and

transgress the commandments of our law, to go

another way.

23Now as he left o speaking these words,

there came a certain Jew in the sight of all to

sacrice to the idols upon the altar in the city of

Modin, according to the king's commandment.

24And Mathathias saw, and was grieved, and

his reins trembled, and his wrath was kindled ac-

cording to the judgment of the law, and running

upon him he slew him upon the altar:

25Moreover the man whom king Antiochus

had sent, who compelled them to sacrice, he

slew at the same time, and pulled down the altar,

26And shewed zeal for the law, as Phinees

did by Zamri, the son of Salomi.

27And Mathathias cried out in the city with

a loud voice, saying: Every one that hath zeal

for the law, and maintaineth the testament, let

him follow me.

28So he and his sons

ed into the mountains,

and left all that they had in the city.

29Then many that sought after judgment,

and justice, went down into the desert

30And they abode there, they and their chil-

dren, and their wives, and their cattle: because

aictions increased upon them.

31And it was told to the king's men, and to

the army that was in Jerusalem, in the city of

David, that certain men, who had broken the

king's commandment, were gone away into the

secret places in the wilderness, and that many

were gone after them.

32And forthwith they went out towards them,

and made war against them on the sabbath day.

33And they said to them: Do you still resist?

come forth, and do according to the edict of king1192 First Book of Machabees

Antiochus, and you shall live.

34And they said: We will not come forth,

neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane

the sabbath day.

35And they made haste to give them battle.

36But they answered them not, neither did

they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the

secret places,

37Saying: Let us all die in our innocency:

and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us,

that you put us to death wrongfully.

38So they gave them battle on the sabbath:

and they were slain, with their wives, and their

children, and their cattle, to the number of a

thousand persons.
39And Mathathias and his friends heard of

it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.

40And every man said to his neighbour: If

we shall all do as our brethren have done, and

not ght against the heathens for our lives, and

our justications, they will now quickly root us

out of the earth.

41And they determined in that day, saying:

Whosoever shall come up against us to ght on

the sabbath day, we will ght against him: and

we will not all die, as our brethren that were

slain in the secret places.

42Then was assembled to them the congre-

gation of the Assideans, the stoutest of Israel,

every one that had a good will for the law.

43And all they that

ed from the evils, joined

themselves to them, and were a support to them.

44And they gathered an army, and slew the

sinners in their wrath, and the wicked men in

their indignation: and the rest

ed to the nations

for safety.

45And Mathathias and his friends went round

about, and they threw down the altars:

46And they circumcised all the children

whom they found in the connes of Israel thatwere uncircumcised: and they did valiantly.

47And they pursued after the children of

pride, and the work prospered in their hands:

48And they recovered the law out of the

hands of the nations, and out of the hands of

the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the

sinner.

49Now the days drew near that Mathathias

should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath

pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the

time of destruction, and the wrath of indigna-

tion:

50Now, therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous

for the law, and give your lives for the covenant

of your fathers.

51And call to remembrance the works of the

fathers, which they have done in their genera-

tions: and you shall receive great glory, and an

everlasting name.

52Was not Abraham found faithful in temp-

tation, and it was reputed to him unto justice?

53Joseph, in the time of his distress, kept the

commandment, and he was made lord of Egypt.

54Phinees, our father, by being fervent in the

zeal of God, received the covenant of an everlast-

ing priesthood.
55Jesus, whilst he fullled the word, was

made ruler in Israel.

56Caleb, for bearing witness before the con-

gregation, received an inheritance.

57David, by his mercy, obtained the throne

of an everlasting kingdom.

58Elias, while he is full of zeal for the law,

was taken up into heaven.

59Ananias and Azarias and Misael, by believ-

ing, were delivered out of the

ame.

60Daniel, in his innocency, was delivered out

of the mouth of the lions.

61And thus consider, through all generations:

that none that trust in him, fail in strength.First Book of Machabees 1193

62And fear not the words of a sinful man, for

his glory is dung and worms:

63Today he is lifted up, and tomorrow he

shall not be found, because he is returned into

his earth and his thought is come to nothing.

64You, therefore, my sons, take courage, and

behave manfully in the law: for by it you shall

be glorious.

65And behold, I know that your brother Si-

mon is a man of counsel: give ear to him always,

and he shall be a father to you.

66And Judas Machabeus, who is valiant and

strong from his youth up, let him be the leader

of your army, and he shall manage the war of the

people.

67And you shall take to you all that observe

the law: and revenge ye the wrong of your peo-

ple.

68Render to the Gentiles their reward, and

take heed to the precepts of the law.

69And he blessed them, and was joined to his

fathers.

70And he died in the hundred and forty-

sixth year: and he was buried by his sons in the

sepulchres of his fathers, in Modin, and all Israel

mourned for him with great mourning.

Chapter 3

Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up

in his stead.

2And all his brethren helped him, and all

they that had joined themselves to his father,

and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of

Israel.

3And he got his people great honour, and put

on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike

armour about him in battles, and protected the

camp with his sword.4In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's
whelp roaring for his prey.

5And he pursued the wicked and sought them

out, and them that troubled his people he burnt

with re:

6And his enemies were driven away for fear

of him, and all the workers of iniquity were trou-

bled: and salvation prospered in his hand.

7And he grieved many kings, and made Jacob

glad with his works, and his memory is blessed

for ever.

8And he went through the cities of Juda, and

destroyed the wicked out of them, and turned

away wrath from Israel.

9And he was renowned even to the utmost

part of the earth, and he gathered them that

were perishing.

10And Apollonius gathered together the Gen-

tiles, and a numerous and great army from

Samaria, to make war against Israel.

11And Judas understood it, and went forth

to meet him: and he overthrew him, and killed

him: and many fell down slain, and the rest

ed

away.

12And he took their spoils, and Judas took

the sword of Apollonius, and fought with it all

his lifetime.

13And Seron, captain of the army of Syria,

heard that Judas had assembled a company of

the faithful, and a congregation with him,

14And he said I will get me a name, and will

be gloried in the kingdom, and will overthrow

Judas, and those that are with him, that have

despised the edict of the king.

15And he made himself ready; and the host

of the wicked went up with him, strong succours,

to be revenged of the children of Israel.

16And they approached even as far as

Bethoron: and Judas went forth to meet him,

with a small company.1194 First Book of Machabees

17But when they saw the army coming to

meet them, they said to Judas: How shall we,

being few, be able to ght against so great a

multitude, and so strong, and we are ready to

faint with fasting today?

18And Judas said: It is an easy matter for

many to be shut up in the hands of a few: and

there is no dierence in the sight of the God of

heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with

a small company:

19For the success of war is not in the mul-

titude of the army, but strength cometh from

heaven.

20They come against us with an insolent mul-

titude, and with pride, to destroy us, and our

wives, and our children, and to take our spoils.

21But we will ght for our lives, and our laws:

22And the Lord himself will overthrow them

before our face, but as for you, fear them not

23And as soon as he had made an end of

speaking, he rushed suddenly upon them: and

Seron, and his host were overthrown before him:

24And he pursued him by the descent of

Bethoron, even to the plain, and there fell of

them eight hundred men, and the rest

ed into

the land of the Philistines.

25And the fear of Judas, and of his brethren,

and the dread of them, fell upon all the nations

round about them.

26And his fame came to the king, and all

nations told of the battles of Judas.

27Now when king Antiochus heard these

words, he was angry in his mind: and he sent,

and gathered the forces of all his kingdom, an

exceeding strong army.

28And he opened his treasury, and gave out

pay to the army for a year: and he commanded

them, that they should be ready for all things.

29And he perceived that the money of his

treasures failed, and that the tributes of thecountry were small, because of the dissension,

and the evil that he had brought upon the land,

that he might take away the laws of old times:

30And he feared that he should not have as

formerly enough for charges and gifts, which he

had given before with a liberal hand: for he had

abounded more than the kings that had been

before him.

31And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and

purposed to go into Persia, and to take tributes

of the countries, and to gather much money.

32And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood

royal to oversee the aairs of the kingdom from

the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt:

33And to bring up his son, Antiochus, till he

came again.

34And he delivered to him half the army, and

the elephants: and he gave him charge concern-

ing all that he would have done, and concerning

the inhabitants of Judea, and Jerusalem.

35And that he should send an army against

them to destroy and root out the strength of

Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take

away the memory of them from that place.

36And that he should settle strangers, to

dwell in all their coasts, and divide their land

by lot.

37So the king took the half of the army that

remained, and went forth from Antioch, the chief

city of his kingdom, in the hundred and forty-

seventh year: and he passed over the river Eu-

phrates, and went through the higher countries.

38Then Lysias chose Ptolemee, the son of Do-

rymenus, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men

of the king's friends.

39And he sent with them forty thousand men,

and seven thousand horsemen: to go into the

land of Juda, and to destroy it, according to the

king's orders.

40So they went forth with all their power, andFirst Book of Machabees 1195

came, and pitched near Emmaus, in the plain

country.

41And the merchants of the countries heard

the fame of them: and they took silver and gold

in abundance, and servants: and they came into

the camp, to buy the children of Israel for slaves:

and there were joined to them the forces of Syria,

and of the land of the strangers.

42And Judas, and his brethren, saw that evils

were multiplied, and that the armies approached

to their borders: and they knew the orders the

king had given to destroy the people, and utterly

abolish them.

43And they said, every man to his neighbour:

Let us raise up the low condition of our people,

and let us ght for our people, and our sanctuary.

44And the assembly was gathered, that they

might be ready for battle, and that they might

pray, and ask mercy and compassion.

45Now Jerusalem was not inhabited, but was

like a desert: there was none of her children that

went in or out: and the sanctuary was trodden

down: and the children of strangers were in the

castle, there was the habitation of the Gentiles:

and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe

and harp ceased there.

46And they assembled together, and came to

Maspha, over against Jerusalem: for in Maspha

was a place of prayer heretofore in Israel.

47And they fasted that day, and put on hair-

cloth, and put ashes upon their heads: and they

rent their garments:

48And they laid open the books of the law,

in which the Gentiles searched for the likeness of

their idols:

49And they brought the priestly ornaments,

and the rst fruits and tithes, and stirred up the

Nazarites that had fullled their days:

50And they cried with a loud voice toward

heaven, saying: What shall we do with these,and whither shall we carry them?

51For thy holies are trodden down, and are

profaned, and thy priests are in mourning, and

are brought low.

52And behold the nations are come together

against us, to destroy us: thou knowest what

they intend against us.

53How shall we be able to stand before their

face, unless thou, O God, help us?

64Then they sounded with trumpets, and

cried out with a loud voice.

66And after this, Judas appointed captains

over the people, over thousands, and over hun-

dreds, and over fties, and over tens.

66And he said to them that were building

houses, or had betrothed wives, or were plant-

ing vineyards, or were fearful, that they should

return every man to his house, according to the

law.

67So they removed the camp, and pitched on

the south side of Emmaus.

68And Judas said: Gird yourselves, and be

valiant men, and be ready against the morning,

that you may ght with these nations that are

assembled against us to destroy us and our sanc-

tuary.

59For it is better for us to die in battle, than

to see the evils of our nation, and of the holies:

60Nevertheless, as it shall be the will of God

in heaven, so be it done.

Chapter 4

Then Gorgias took ve thousand men, and a

thousand of the best horsemen; and they re-

moved out of the camp by night.

2That they might come upon the camp of

the Jews and strike them suddenly: and the men

that were of the castle were their guides.1196 First Book of Machabees

3And Judas heard of it, and rose up, he and

the valiant men, to attack the king's forces that

were in Emmaus.

4For as yet the army was dispersed from the

camp

5And Gorgias came by night into the camp of

Judas, and found no man; and he sought them

in the mountains: for he said: These men

ee

from us.

6And when it was day, Judas shewed himself

in the plain with three thousand men only, who

neither had armour nor swords:

7And they saw the camp of the Gentiles that

it was strong, and the men in breastplates, and

the horsemen round about them, and these were

trained up to war.

8And Judas said to the men that were with

him: Fear ye not their multitude, neither be ye

afraid of their assault.

9Remember in what manner our fathers were

saved in the Red Sea, when Pharaoh pursued

them with a great army.

10And now let us cry to heaven, and the

Lord will have mercy on us, and will remember

the covenant of our fathers, and will destroy this

army before our face this day:

11And all nations shall know that there is

one that redeemeth and delivereth Israel.

12And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and

saw them coming against them.

13And they went out of the camp to bat-

tle, and they that were with Judas sounded the

trumpet.

14And they joined battle: and the Gentiles

were routed, and

ed into the plain.

15But all the hindmost of them fell by the

sword and they pursued them as far as Gezeron,

and even to the plains of Idumea, and of Azotus,

and of Jamnia: and there fell of them to the

number of three thousand men.16And Judas returned again with his army

that followed him.

17And he said to the people: Be not greedy

of the spoils; for there is war before us:

18And Gorgias and his army are near us in

the mountain: but stand ye now against our en-

emies, and overthrow them, and you shall take

the spoils afterwards with safety.

19And as Judas was speaking these words,

behold part of them appeared, looking forth from

the mountain.

20And Gorgias saw that his men were put to

ight, and that they had set re to the camp:

for the smoke that was seen declared what was

done.

21And when they had seen this, they were

seized with great fear, seeing at the same time

Judas and his army in the plain ready to ght.

22So they all

ed away into the land of the

strangers.

23And Judas returned to take the spoils of

the camp, and they got much gold, and silver,

and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great

riches.

24And returning home, they sung a hymn,

and blessed God in heaven, because he is good,

because his mercy endureth for ever.

25So Israel had a great deliverance that day.

27And when he heard these things, he was

amazed and discouraged: because things had not

succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as

the king had commanded.

28So the year following, Lysias gathered to-

gether threescore thousand chosen men, and ve

thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.

29And they came into Judea, and pitched

their tents in Bethoron, and Judas met them

with ten thousand men.

30And they saw that the army was strong,

and he prayed and said: Blessed art thou, OFirst Book of Machabees 1197

Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence

of the mighty by the hand of thy servant David,

and didst deliver up the camp of the strangers

into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and

of his armour bearer.

31Shut up this army in the hands of thy peo-

ple Israel, and let them be confounded in their

host and their horsemen. 32 Strike them with

fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to

languish, and let them quake at their own de-

struction.

33Cast them down with the sword of them

that love thee: and let all that know thy name

praise thee with hymns.

34And they joined battle: and there fell of

the army of Lysias ve thousand men.

35And when Lysias saw that his men were

put to

ight, and how bold the Jews were, and

that they were ready either to live, or to die man-

fully, he went to Antioch, and chose soldiers, that

they might come again into Judea with greater

numbers.

36Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold

our enemies are discomted: let us go up now to

cleanse the holy places, and to repair them.

37And all the army assembled together, and

they went up into Mount Sion.

38And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and

the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and

shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest,

or on the mountains, and the chambers joining

to the temple thrown down.

39And they rent their garments, and made

great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:

40And they fell down to the ground on their

faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of

alarm, and they cried towards heaven.

41Then Judas appointed men to ght against

them that were in the castle, till they had

cleansed the holy places,42And he chose priests without blemish,

whose will was set upon the law of God.

43And they cleansed the holy places, and

took away the stones that had been deled into

an unclean place.

44And he considered about the altar of holo-

causts that had been profaned, what he should

do with it.

45And a good counsel came into their minds,

to pull it down: lest it should be a reproach to

them, because the Gentiles had deled it; so they

threw it down.

46And they laid up the stones in the moun-

tain of the temple, in a convenient place, till

there should come a prophet, and give answer

concerning them.

47Then they took whole stones, according to

the law and built a new altar, according to the

former:
48And they built up the holy places, and the

things that were within the temple: and they

sanctied the temple and the courts.

49And they made new holy vessels, and

brought in the candlestick, and the altar of in-

cense, and the table, into the temple.

50And they put incense upon the altar, and

lighted up the lamps that were upon the candle-

stick, and they gave light in the temple.

51And they set the loaves upon the table,

and hung up the veils, and nished all the works

that they had begun to make.

52And they arose before the morning on

the ve and twentieth day of the ninth month,

(which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred

and forty-eighth year.

53And they oered sacrice, according to the

law, upon the new altar of holocausts which they

had made.

54According to the time, and according to

the day wherein the heathens had deled it, in1198 First Book of Machabees

the same was it dedicated anew with canticles,

and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.

55And all the people fell upon their faces,

and adored, and blessed up to heaven, him that

had prospered them.

56And they kept the dedication of the altar

eight days, and they oered holocausts with joy,

and sacrices of salvation, and of praise.

57And they adorned the front of the tem-

ple with crowns of gold, and escutcheons, and

they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and

hanged doors upon them.

58And there was exceeding great joy among

the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was

turned away.

59And Judas, and his brethren, and all thc

church of Israel decreed, that the day of the ded-

ication of the altar should be kept in its season

from year to year for eight days, from the ve

and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, with

joy and gladness.

60They built up also at that time Mount

Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round

about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come,

and tread it down, as they did before.

61And he placed a garrison there, to keep it,

and he fortied it, to secure Bethsura, that the

people might have a defence against Idumea.

Chapter 5

Now it came to pass, when the nations round

about heard that the altar and the sanctuary

were built up, as before, that they were exceed-

ing angry.

2And they thought to destroy the generation

of Jacob that were among them, and they began

to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

3Then Judas fought against the children ofEsau in Idumea, and them that were in Acra-

bathane: because they beset the Israelites round

about, and he made a great slaughter of them.

4And he remembered the malice of the chil-

dren of Bean: who were a snare and a stumbling-

block to the people, by lying in wait for them in

the way.

5And they were shut up by him in towers,

and he set upon them, and devoted them to utter

destruction, and burnt their towers with re, and

all that were in them.

6Then he passed over to the children of Am-

mon, where he found a mighty power, and much

people, and Timotheus was their captain:

7And he fought many battles with them,

and they were discomted in their sight, and he

smote them:

8And he took the city of Gazer and her towns,

and returned into Judea.

9And the Gentiles that were in Galaad,

assembled themselves together against the Is-

raelites that were in their quarters, to destroy

them: and they

ed into the fortress of Dathe-

man.

10And they sent letters to Judas, and his

brethren, saying: The heathens that are round

about are gathered together against us to destroy

us:

11And they are preparing to come, and to

take the fortress into which we are

ed: and Tim-

otheus is the captain of their host.

12Now therefore come, and deliver us out of

their hands, for many of us are slain.

13And all our brethren that were in the places

of Tubin, are killed: and they have carried away

their wives, and their children, captives, and

taken their spoils, and they have slain there al-

most a thousand men.

14And while they were yet reading these let-

ters, behold there came other messengers out ofFirst Book of Machabees 1199

Galilee with their garments rent, who related ac-

cording to these words:

15Saying, that they of Ptolemais, and of

Tyre, and of Sidon, were assembled against

them, and all Galilee is lled with strangers, in

order to consume us.

16Now when Judas and the people heard

these words, a great assembly met together to

consider what they should do for their brethren

that were in trouble, and were assaulted by

them.

17And Judas said to Simon, his brother:

Choose thee men, and go, and deliver thy

brethren in Galilee: and I, and my brother

Jonathan, will go into the country of Galaad:

18And he left Joseph, the son of Zacharias,

and Azarias, captains of the people, with the

remnant of the army in Judea, to keep it:

19And he commanded them, saying: Take

ye the charge of this people; but make no war

against the heathens, till we return.

20Now three thousand men were allotted to

Simon, to go into Galilee: and eight thousand to

Judas, to go into the land of Galaad.

21And Simon went into Galilee, and fought

many battles with the heathens: and the hea-

thens were discomted before his face, and he

pursued them even to the gate of Ptolemais.

22And there fell of the heathens almost three

thousand men, and he took the spoils of them.

23And he took with him those that were in

Galilee and in Arbatis, with their wives, and chil-

dren, and all that they had, and he brought them

into Judea with great joy.

24And Judas Machabeus, and Jonathan, his

brother, passed over the Jordan, and went three

days' journey through the desert.

25And the Nabutheans met them, and re-

ceived them in a peaceable manner, and told

them all that happened to their brethren in theland of Galaad,

26And that many of them were shut up in

Barasa, and in Bosor, and in Alima, and in Cas-

phor, and in Mageth, and in Carnaim; all these

strong and great cities.

27Yea, and that they were kept shut up in the

rest of the cities of Galaad, and that they had

appointed to bring their army on the morrow

near to these cities, and to take them, and to

destroy them all in one day.

28Then Judas and his army suddenly turned

their march into the desert, to Bosor, and took

the city: and he slew every male by the edge of

the sword, and took all their spoils, and burnt it

with re.

29And they removed from thence by night,

and went till they came to the fortress.

30And it came to pass that early in the morn-

ing, when they lifted up their eyes, behold there

were people without number, carrying ladders

and engines to take the fortress, and assault

them.

31And Judas saw that the ght was begun,

and the cry of the battle went up to heaven like

a trumpet, and a great cry out of the city:

32And he said to his host: Fight ye today for

your brethren.

33And he came with three companies be-

hind them, and they sounded their trumpets,

and cried out in prayer.

34And the host of Timotheus understood

that it was Machabeus, and they

ed away be-

fore his face and they made a great slaughter of

them, and there fell of them in that day almost

eight thousand men.

35And Judas turned aside to Maspha, and

assaulted, and took it, and he slew every male

thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burnt it

with re.

36From thence he marched, and took Casbon,1200 First Book of Machabees

and Mageth, and Bosor, and the rest of the cities

of Galaad.

37But after this Timotheus gathered another

army, and camped over against Raphon, beyond

the torrent.

38And Judas sent men to view the army: and

they brought him word, saying: All the nations,

that are round about us, are assembled unto him

an army exceeding great:

39And they have hired the Arabians to help

them, and they have pitched their tents beyond

the torrent, ready to come to ght against thee.

And Judas went to meet them.

40And Timotheus said to the captains of his

army: When Judas and his army come near the

torrent of water, if he pass over unto us rst, we

shall not be able to withstand him: for he will

certainly prevail over us.

41But if he be afraid to pass over, and camp

on the other side of the river, we will pass over

to them, and shall prevail against him.

42Now when Judas came near the torrent of

water, he set the scribes of the people by the

torrent, and commanded them, saying: Suer

no man to stay behind: but let all come to the

battle.

43And he passed over to them rst, and all

the people after him, and all the heathens were

discomted before them, and they threw away

their weapons, and

ed to the temple that was

in Carnaim.

44And he took that city, and the temple he

burnt with re, with all things that were therein:

and Carnaim was subdued, and could not stand

against the face of Judas.

45And Judas gathered together all the Is-

raelites that were in the land of Galaad, from

the least even to the greatest, and their wives

and children, and an army exceeding great, to

come into the land of Juda.46And they came as far as Ephron: now this

was a great city, situate in the way, strongly for-

tied, and there was no means to turn from it

on the right hand or on the left, but the way was

through the midst of it.

47And they that were in the city shut them-

selves in, and stopped up the gates with stones:

and Judas sent to them with peaceable words,

48Saying: Let us pass through your land, to

go into our own country, and no man shall hurt

you; we will only pass through on foot. But they

would not open to them.

49Then Judas commanded proclamation to

be made in the camp, that they should make an

assault, every man in the place where he was.

50And the men of the army drew near, and

he assaulted that city all the day, and all the

night; and the city was delivered into his hands:

51And they slew every male with the edge of

the sword, and he razed the city, and took the

spoils thereof, and passed through all the city

over them that were slain.

52Then they passed over the Jordan to the

great plain that is over against Bethsan.

53And Judas gathered together the hind-

most, and he exhorted the people, all the way

through, till they came into the land of Juda.

54And they went up to mount Sion with joy

and gladness, and oered holocausts, because

not one of them was slain, till they had returned

in peace.

55Now in the days that Judas and Jonathan

were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his

brother in Galilee, before Ptolemais,

56Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias,

captain of the soldiers, heard of the good success,

and the battles that were fought,

57And he said: Let us also get us a name,

and let us go ght against the Gentiles that are

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58And he gave charge to them that were in

his army, and they went towards Jamnia.

59And Gorgias and his men went out of the

city, to give them battle.

60And Joseph and Azarias were put to

ight,

and were pursued unto the borders of Judea: and

there fell on that day, of the people of Israel,

about two thousand men, and there was a great

overthrow of the people:

61Because they did not hearken to Judas and

his brethren, thinking that they should do man-

fully.

62But they were not of the seed of those men

by whom salvation was brought to Israel.

63And the men of Juda were magnied ex-

ceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the

nations where their name was heard.

64And the people assembled to them with

joyful acclamations.

65Then Judas and his brethren went forth

and attacked the children of Esau, in the land

towards the south, and he took Chebron and her

towns: and he burnt the walls thereof, and the

towers all round it.

66And he removed his camp to go into the

land of the aliens, and he went through Samaria.

67In that day some priests fell in battle, while

desiring to do manfully they went out unadvis-

edly to ght.

68And Judas turned to Azotus, into the land

of the strangers, and he threw down their altars,

and he burnt the statues of their gods with re:

and he took the spoils of the cities, and returned

into the land of Juda.

Chapter 6

Now king Antiochus was going through the

higher countries, and he heard that the city ofElymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and

abounding in silver and gold,

2And that there was in it a temple exceeding

rich; and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and

shields, which king Alexander, son of Philip, the

Macedonian, that reigned rst in Greece, had

left there.

3So he came, and sought to take the city and

to pillage it; but he was not able, because the

design was known to them that were in the city.

4And they rose up against him in battle, and

he

ed away from thence, and departed with

great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.

5And whilst he was in Persia there came one

that told him how the armies that were in the

land of Juda were put to

ight:

6And that Lysias went with a very great

power, and was put to

ight before the face of

the Jews, and that they were grown strong by

the armour, and power, and store of spoils which

they had gotten out of the camps which they had

destroyed:

7And that they had thrown down the abom-

ination which he had set up upon the altar in

Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about

the sanctuary with high walls as before, and

Bethsura also, his city.

8And it came to pass, when the king heard

these words, that he was struck with fear, and

exceedingly moved: and he laid himself down

upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it

had not fallen out to him as he imagined.

9And he remained there many days: for great

grief came more and more upon him, and he

made account that he should die.

10And he called for all his friends, and said to

them: Sleep is gone from my eyes, and I am fallen

away, and my heart is cast down for anxiety:

11And I said in my heart: Into how much

tribulation am I come, and into what

oods of1202 First Book of Machabees

sorrow wherein now I am: I that was pleasant

and beloved in my power!

12But now I remember the evils that I did in

Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the

spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it, and I

sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without

cause.

13I know, therefore, that for this cause these

evils have found me: and behold I perish with

great grief in a strange land.

14Then he called Philip, one of his friends,

and he made him regent over all his kingdom.

15And he gave him the crown, and his robe,

and his ring, that he should go to Antiochus, his

son, and should bring him up for the kingdom.

16So king Antiochus died there in the year

one hundred and forty-nine.

17And Lysias understood that the king was

dead, and he set up Antiochus, his son, to reign,

whom he had brought up young: and he called

his name Eupator.

18Now they that were in the castle, had shut

up the Israelites round about the holy places:

and they were continually seeking their hurt, and

to strengthen the Gentiles.

19And Judas purposed to destroy them: and

he called together all the people, to besiege them.

20And they came together, and besieged

them in the year one hundred and fty, and they

made battering slings and engines.

21And some of the besieged got out: and

some wicked men of Israel joined themselves unto

them.

22And they went to the king, and said: How

long dost thou delay to execute judgment, and

to revenge our brethren?

23We determined to serve thy father, and to

do according to his orders, and obey his edicts:

24And for this they of our nation are alien-

ated from us, and have slain as many of us asthey could nd, and have spoiled our inheri-

tances.

25Neither have they put forth their hand

against us only, but also against all our borders.

26And behold they have approached this day

to the castle of Jerusalem to take it, and they

have fortied the strong hold of Bethsura:

27And unless thou speedily prevent them,

they will do greater things than these, and thou

shalt not be able to subdue them.

28Now when the king heard this, he was an-

gry: and he called together all his friends, and

the captains of his army, and them that were

over the horsemen.

29There came also to him from other realms,

and from the islands of the sea, hired troops.

30And the number of his army was an hun-

dred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand

horsemen, and thirty-two elephants trained to

battle.

31And they went through Idumea, and ap-

proached to Bethsura, and fought many days,

and they made engines: but they sallied forth,

and burnt them with re, and fought manfully.

32And Judas departed from the castle,

and removed the camp to Bethzacharam, over

against the king's camp.

33And the king rose before it was light,

and made his troops march on ercely towards

the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies

made themselves ready for the battle, and they

sounded the trumpets:

34And they shewed the elephants the blood

of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to

ght.

35And they distributed the beasts by the le-

gions: and there stood by every elephant a thou-

sand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of

brass on their heads: and ve hundred horsemen

set in order were chosen for every beast.First Book of Machabees 1203

36These before the time wheresoever the

beast was they were there: and whithersoever

it went, they went, and they departed not from

it.

37And upon the beast, there were strong

wooden towers which covered every one of them:

and engines upon them, and upon every one

thirty-two valiant men, who fought from above:

and an Indian to rule the beast.

38And the rest of the horsemen he placed on

this side and on that side, at the two wings, with

trumpets to stir up the army, and to hasten them

forward that stood thick together in the legions

thereof.

39Now when the sun shone upon the shields

of gold, and of brass, the mountains glittered

therewith, and they shone like lamps of re.

40And part of the king's army was distin-

guished by the high mountains, and the other

part by the low places: and they marched on

warily and orderly.

41And all the inhabitants of the land were

moved at the noise of their multitude, and the

marching of the company, and the rattling of the

armour, for the army was exceeding great and

strong.

42And Judas and his army drew near for bat-

tle: and there fell of the king's army six hundred

men.

43And Eleazar, the son of Saura, saw one

of the beasts harnessed with the king's harness:

and it was higher than the other beasts; and it

seemed to him that the king was on it:

44And he exposed himself to deliver his peo-

ple, and to get himself an everlasting name.

45And he ran up to it boldly in the midst of

the legion, killing on the right hand, and on the

left, and they fell by him on this side and that

side.

46And he went between the feet of the ele-phant, and put himself under it: and slew it, and

it fell to the ground upon him, and he died there.

47Then they seeing the strength of the king

and the erceness of his army, turned away from

them.

48But the king's army went up against them

to Jerusalem: and the king's army pitched their

tents against Judea and Mount Sion.

49And he made peace with them that were

in Bethsura: and they came forth out of the

city, because they had no victuals, being shut

up there, for it was the year of rest to the land.

50And the king took Bethsura: and he placed

there a garrison to keep it.

51And he turned his army against the sanc-

tuary for many days: and he set up there batter-

ing slings, and engines, and instruments to cast

re, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and

pieces to shoot arrows, and slings.

52And they also made engines against their

engines, and they fought for many days.

53But there were no victuals in the city, be-

cause it was the seventh year: and such as had

stayed in Judea of them that came from among

the nations, had eaten the residue of all that

which had been stored up.

54And there remained in the holy places but

a few, for the famine had prevailed over them:

and they were dispersed every man to his own

place.

55Now Lysias heard that Philip; whom king

Antiochus while he lived had appointed to bring

up his son, Antiochus, and to reign,

56Was returned from Persia, and Media, with

the army that went with him and that he sought

to take upon him the aairs of the kingdom:

57Wherefore he made haste to go, and say to

the king and to the captains of the army: We de-

cay daily, and our provision of victuals is small,

and the place that we lay siege to is strong, and1204 First Book of Machabees

it lieth upon us to take order for the aairs of

the kingdom.

58Now, therefore, let us come to an agree-

ment with these men, and make peace with them

and with all their nation.

59And let us covenant with them, that they

may live according to their own laws, as before.

For because of our despising their laws, they have

been provoked, and have done all these things.

60And the proposal was acceptable in the

sight of the king, and of the princes: and he sent

to them to make peace: and they accepted of it.

61And the king and the princes swore to

them: and they came out of the strong hold.

62Then the king entered into Mount Sion,

and saw the strength of the place: and he quickly

broke the oath that he had taken, and gave com-

mandment to throw down the wall round about.

63And he departed in haste and returned to

Antioch, where he found Philip master of the

city: and he fought against him, and took the

city.
Chapter 7

In the hundred and fty-rst year, Demetrius,

the son of Seleucus, departed from the city of

Rome, and came up with few men into a city of

the sea coast, and reigned there.

2And it came to pass as he entered into

the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that

the army seized upon Antiochus, and Lysias, to

bring them unto hlm.

3And when he knew it, he said: Let me not

see their face.

4So the army slew them. And Demetrius sat

upon the throne of his kingdom:

5And there came to him the wicked and un-

godly men of Israel: and Alcimus was at the headof them, who desired to be made high priest.

6And they accused the people to the king,

saying: Judas and his brethren have destroyed

all thy friends, and he hath driven us out of our

land.

7Now, therefore, send some men whom thou

trustest, and let him go, and see all the havoc

he hath made amongst us, and in the king's

lands: and let him punish all his friends and their

helpers.

8Then the king chose Bacchides, one of his

friends, that ruled beyond the great river in the

kingdom, and was faithful to the king: and he

sent him,

9To see the havoc that Judas had made: and

the wicked Alcimus he made high priest, and

commanded him to take revenge upon the chil-

dren of Israel.

11But they gave no heed to their words: for

they saw that they were come with a great army.

12Then there assembled to Alcimus and Bac-

chides a company of the scribes, to require things

that are just:

13And rst the Assideans, that were among

the children of Israel, and they sought peace of

them.

14For they said: One that is a priest of the

seed of Aaron is come, he will not deceive us.

15And he spoke to them peaceably: and he

swore to them, saying: We will do you no harm,

nor your friends.

16And they believed him. And he took three-

score of them, and slew them in one day, accord-

ing to the word that is written:

17The

esh of thy saints, and the blood of

them they have shed round about Jerusalem,

and there was none to bury them.

18Then fear and trembling fell upon all the

people: for they said: There is no truth, norFirst Book of Machabees 1205

justice among them: for they have broken the

covenant, and the oath which they made.

19And Bacchides removed the camp from

Jerusalem, and pitched in Bethzecha: and he

sent, and took many of them that were

ed away

from him, and some of the people he killed, and

threw them into a great pit.

20Then he committed the country to Al-

cimus, and left with him troops to help him. So

Bacchides went away to the king.

21But Alcimus did what he could to maintain

his chief priesthood.

22And they that disturbed the people re-

sorted to him, and they got the land of Juda

into their power, and did much hurt in Israel.

23And Judas saw all the evils that Alcimus,

and they that were with him, did to the children

of Israel, much more than the Gentiles.

24And he went out into all the coasts of Judea

round about, and took vengeance upon the men

that had revolted, and they ceased to go forth

any more into the country.

25And Alcimus saw that Judas and they that

were with him, prevailed: and he knew that he

could not stand against them, and he went back

to the king, and accused them of many crimes.

26And the king sent Nicanor, one of his prin-

cipal lords, who was a great enemy to Israel: and

he commanded him to destroy the people.

27And Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a

great army, and he sent to Judas and to his

brethren deceitfully, with friendly words,

28Saying: Let there be no ghting between

me and you: I will come with a few men, to see

your faces with peace.

29And he came to Judas, and they saluted

one another peaceably: and the enemies were

prepared to take away Judas by force.

30And the thing was known to Judas that he

was come to him with deceit: and he was muchafraid of him, and would not see his face any

more.

31And Nicanor knew that his counsel was dis-

covered: and he went out to ght against Judas,

near Capharsalama.

32And there fell of Nicanor's army almost

ve thousand men, and they

ed into the city of

David.

33And after this Nicanor went up into mount

Sion: and some of the priests and the people

came out to salute him peaceably, and to shew

him the holocausts that were oered for the king.

34But he mocked and despised them, and

abused them: and he spoke proudly,

35And swore in anger, saying: Unless Judas

and his army be delivered into my hands, as soon

as ever I return in peace, I will burn this house.

And he went out in a great rage.

36And the priests went in, and stood before

the face of the altar and the temple: and weep-

ing, they said:

37Thou, O Lord, hast chosen this house for

thy name to be called upon therein, that it might

be a house of prayer and supplication for thy

people.

38Be avenged of this man, and his army, and

let them fall by the sword: remember their blas-

phemies, and suer them not to continne any

longer.

39Then Nicanor went out from Jerusalem,

and encamped near to Bethoron: and an army

of Syria joined him.

40But Judas pitched in Adarsa with three

thousand men: and Judas prayed, and said:

41O Lord, when they that were sent by king

Sennacherib blasphemed thee, an angel went out,

and slew of them a hundred and eighty-ve thou-

sand:

42Even so destroy this army in our sight to-

day and let the rest know that he hath spoken1206 First Book of Machabees

ill against thy sanctuary: and judge thou him

according to his wickedness.

43And the armies joined battle on the thir-

teenth day of the month, Adar: and the army of

Nicanor was defeated, and he himself was rst

slain in the battle.

44And when his army saw that Nicanor was

slain they threw away their weapons, and

ed:

45And they pursued after them one day's

journey from Adazer, even till ye come to

Gazara, and they sounded the trumpets after

them with signals.

46And they went forth out of all the towns of

Judea round about, and they pushed them with

the horns, and they turned again to them, and

they were all slain with the sword, and there was

not left of them so much as one.

47And they took the spoils of them for a

booty, and they cut o Nicanor's head, and his

right hand, which he had proudly stretched out,

and they brought it, and hung it up over against

Jerusalem.

48And the people rejoiced exceedingly, and

they spent that day with great joy.

49And he ordained that this day should be

kept every year, being the thirteenth of the

month of Adar

50And the land of Juda was quiet for a short

time.

Chapter 8

Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans,

that they are powerful and strong, and willingly

agree to all things that are requested of them:

and that whosoever have come to them, they

have made amity with them, and that they are

mighty in power.

2And they heard of their battles, and theirnoble acts which they had done in Galatia, how

they had conquered them, and brought them un-

der tribute:

3And how great things they had done in the

land of Spain, and that they had brought under

their power the mines of silver and of gold that

are there, and had gotten possession of all the

place by their counsel and patience:

4And had conquered places that were very

far o from them, and kings that came against

them from the ends of the earth, and had over-

thrown them with great slaughter: and the rest

pay them tribute every year.

5And that they had defeated in battle Philip

and Perses the king of the Ceteans, and the rest

that had borne arms against them, and had con-

quered them:

6And how Antiochus, the great king of Asia,

who went to ght against them, having a hun-

dred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and

chariots, and a very great army, was routed by

them.

7And how they took him alive, and appointed

to him, that both he and they that should reign

after him, should pay a great tribute, and that he

should give hostages, and that which was agreed

upon,

8And the country of the Indians, and of the

Medes, and of the Lydians, some of their best

provinces: and those which they had taken from

them, they gave to king Eumenes.

9And that they who were in Greece, had a

mind to go and to destroy them: and they had

knowledge thereof,

10And they sent a general against them, and

fought with them, and many of them were slain,

and they carried away their wives, and their chil-

dren captives, and spoiled them, and took pos-

session of their land, and threw down their walls,

and brought them to be their servants unto thisFirst Book of Machabees 1207

day.

11And the other kingdoms, and islands, that

at any time had resisted them, they had de-

stroyed and brought under their power.

12But with their friends, and such as relied

upon them, they kept amity, and had conquered

kingdoms that were near, and that were far o:

for all that heard their name, were afraid of

them.

13That whom they had a mind to help to a

kingdom, those reigned: and whom they would,

they deposed from the kingdom: and they were

greatly exalted.

14And none of all these wore a crown, or was

clothed in purple, to be magnied thereby.

15And that they had made themselves a sen-

ate house, and consulted daily three hundred and

twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the

people, that they might do the things that were

right:

16And that they committed their government

to one man every year, to rule over all their coun-

try, and they all obey one, and there is no envy

nor jealousy amongst them.

17So Judas chose Eupolemus, the son of John,

the son of Jacob, and Jason, the son of Eleazar,

and he sent them to Rome to make a league of

amity and confederacy with them:

18And that they might take o from them

the yoke of the Grecians, for they saw that they

oppressed the kingdom of Israel with servitude.

19And they went to Rome, a very long jour-

ney, and they entered into the senate house, and

said:

20Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and

the people of the Jews, have sent us to you to

make alliance and peace with you, and that we

may be registered your confederates and friends.

21And the proposal was pleasing in their

sight.22And this is the copy of the writing that

they wrote back again, graven in tables of brass,

and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with

them there for a memorial of the peace, and al-

liance.

23GOOD SUCCESS BE TO THE ROMANS,

and to the people of the Jews by sea, and by land,

for ever: and far be the sword and enemy from

them.
24But if there come rst any war upon the

Romans, or any of their confederates, in all their

dominions:

25The nation of the Jews shall help them

according as the time shall direct, with all their

heart:

26Neither shall they give them, whilst they

are ghting, or furnish them with wheat, or

arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good

to the Romans: and they shall obey their orders,

without taking any thing of them.

27In like manner also if war shall come rst

upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall

help them with all their heart, according as the

time shall permit them:

28And there shall not be given to them that

come to their aid, either wheat, or arms, or

money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the

Romans: and they shall observe their orders

without deceit.

29According to these articles did the Romans

covenant with the people of the Jews.

30And, if after this, one party or the other

shall have a mind to add to these articles, or

take away any thing, they may do it at their

pleasure: and whatsoever they shall add, or take

away, shall be ratied.

31Moreover, concerning the evils that

Demetrius, the king, hath done against them,

we have written to him, saying: Why hast thou

made thy yoke heavy upon our friends and allies,1208 First Book of Machabees

the Jews.

32If, therefore, they come again to us com-

plaining of thee, we will do them justice, and will

make war against thee by sea and land.

Chapter 9

In the mean time, when Demetrius heard that

Nicanor and his army were fallen in battle, he

sent again Bacchides and Alcimus into Judea;

and the right wing of his army with them.

2And they took the road that leadeth to Gal-

gal, and they camped in Masaloth, which is in

Arabella: and they made themselves masters of

it, and slew many people.

3In the rst month of the hundred and fty-

second year they brought the army to Jerusalem:

4And they arose and went to Berea, with

twenty thousand men, and two thousand horse-

men.

5Now Judas had pitched his tents in Laisa,

and three thousand chosen men with him:

6And they saw the multitude of the army that

they were many, and they were seized with great

fear: and many withdrew themselves out of the

camp, and there remained of them no more than

eight hundred men.

7And Judas saw that his army slipped away,

and the battle pressed upon him, and his heart

was cast down: because he had not time to

gather them together, and he was discouraged.

8Then he said to them that remained: Let us

arise, and go against our enemies, if we may be

able to ght against them.

9But they dissuaded him, saying: We shall

not be able, but let us save our lives now, and

return to our brethren, and then we will ght

against them: for we are but few.

10Then Judas said: God forbid we shoulddo this thing, and

ee away from them: but if

our time be come, let us die manfully for our

brethren, and let us not stain our glory.

11And the army removed out of the camp,

and they stood over against them: and the

horsemen were divided into two troops, and the

slingers, and the archers, went before the army,

and they that were in the front were all men of

valour.

12And Bacchides was in the right wing, and

the legion drew near on two sides, and they

sounded the trumpets:

13And they also that were on Judas's side,

even they also cried out, and the earth shook

at the noise of the armies: and the battle was

fought from morning even unto the evening.

14And Judas perceived that the stronger part

of the army of Bacchides was on the right side,

and all the stout of heart came together with

him:

15And the right wing was discomted by

them, and he pursued them even to the mount

Azotus.

16And they that were in the left wing saw

that the right wing was discomted, and they

followed after Judas, and them that were with

him, at their back:

17And the battle was hard fought, and there

fell many wounded of the one side and of the

other.

18And Judas was slain, and the rest

ed

away.

19And Jonathan and Simon took Judas, their

brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of their

fathers, in the city of Modin.

20And all the people of Israel bewailed him

with great lamentation, and they mourned for

him many days.

21And said: How is the mighty man fallen,

that saved the people of Israel!First Book of Machabees 1209

22But the rest of the words of the wars of

Judas, and of the noble acts that he did, and of

his greatness, are not written: for they were very

many.

23And it came to pass, after the death of

Judas, that the wicked began to put forth their

heads in all the connes of Israel, and all the

workers of iniquity rose up.

24In those days there was a very great famine,

and they and all their country yielded to Bac-

chides.

25And Bacchides chose the wicked men, and

made them lords of the country:

26And they sought out, and made diligent

search after the friends of Judas, and brought

them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance of

them, and abused them.

27And there was a great tribulation in Israel,

such as was not since the day, that there was no

prophet seen in Israel.

28And all the friends of Judas came together,

and said to Jonathan:

29Since thy brother Judas died there is not

a man like him to go forth against our enemies,

Bacchides, and them that are the enemies of our

nation.

30Now, therefore, we have chosen thee this

day to be our prince, and captain, in his stead,

to ght our battles.

31So Jonathan took upon him the govern-

ment at that time, and rose up in the place of

Judas, his brother

32And Bacchides had knowledge of it, and

sought to kill him.

33And Jonathan, and Simon, his brother,

knew it, and all that were with them: and they

ed into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched

by the water of the lake Asphar,

34And Bacchides understood it, and he came

himself, with all his army, over the Jordan, onthe sabbath day.

35And Jonathan sent his brother, a captain of

the people, to desire the Nabutheans his friends,

that they would lend them their equipage, which

was copious.

36And the children of Jambri came forth out

of Madaba, and took John, and all that he had,

and went away with them.

37After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon,

his brother, that the children of Jambri made

a great marriage, and were bringing the bride

out of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great

princes of Chanaan, with great pomp.

38And they remembered the blood of John,

their brother: and they went up, and hid them-

selves under the covert of the mountain.

39And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and

behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the

bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his

brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musi-

cal instruments and many weapons.

40And they rose up against them from the

place where they lay in ambush, and slew them,

and there fell many wounded, and the rest

ed

into the mountains, and they took all their

spoils:

41And the marriage was turned into mourn-

ing, and the noise of their musical instruments

into lamentation.

42And they took revenge for the blood of

their brother: and they returned to the bank of

the Jordan.
43And Bacchides heard it, and he came on

the sabbath day even to the bank of the Jordan,

with a great power.

44And Jonathan said to his company: Let us

arise, and ght against our enemies: for it is not

now as yesterday, and the day before.

45For behold the battle is before us, and the

water of the Jordan on this side and on that side,1210 First Book of Machabees

and banks, and marshes, and woods: and there

is no place for us to turn aside.

46Now, therefore, cry ye to heaven, that ye

may be delivered from the hand of your enemies.

And they joined battle.

47And Jonathan stretched forth his hand to

strike Bacchides, but he turned away from him

backwards.

48And Jonathan, and they that were with

him, leapt into the Jordan, and swam over the

Jordan to them.

49And there fell of Bacchides' side that day a

thousand men: and they returned to Jerusalem,

50And they built strong cities in Judea, the

fortress that was in Jericho, and in Ammaus, and

in Bethoron, and in Bethel, and Thamnata, and

Phara, and Thopo, with high walls, and gates,

and bars.
51And he placed garrisons in them, that they

might wage war against Israel:

52And he fortied the city of Bethsura, and

Gazara, and the castle, and set garrisons in

them, and provi- sions of victuals:

53And he took the sons of the chief men of

the country for hostages, and put them in the

castle in Jerusalem in custody.

54Now in the year one hundred and fty-

three, the second month, Alcimus commanded

the walls of the inner court of the sanctuary to

be thrown down, and the works of the prophets

to be destroyed: and he began to destroy.

55At that time Alcimus was struck: and

his works were hindered, and his mouth was

stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that

he could no more speak a word, nor give order

concerning his house.

56And Alcimus died at that time in great

torment.

57And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead:

and he returned to the king, and the land wasquiet for two years.

58And all the wicked held a council, saying:

Behold Jonathan, and they that are with him,

dwell at ease and without fear: now, therefore,

let us bring Bacchides hither, and he shall take

them all in one night.

59So they went, and gave him counsel.

60And he arose to come with a great army:

and he sent secretly letters to his adherents that

were in Judea to seize upon Jonathan, and them

that were with him: but they could not, for their

design was known to them.

61And he apprehended of the men of the

country, that were the principal authors of the

mischief, fty men, and he slew them.

62And Jonathan, and Simon, and they that

were with him, retired into Bethbessen, which

is in the desert: and he repaired the breaches

thereof, and they fortied it.

63And when Bacchides knew it, he gath-

ered together all his multitude: and sent word

to them that were of Judea.

64 And he came, and camped above

Bethbessen, and fought against it many days,

and made engines.

65But Jonathan left his brother, Simon, in

the city and went forth into the country, and

came with a number of men,

66And struck Odares, and his brethren, and

the children of Phaseron, in their tents, and he

began to slay, and to increase in forces.

67But Simon, and they that were with him,

sallied out of the city, and burnt the engines,

68And they fought against Bacchides, and he

was discomted by them: and they aicted him

exceedingly, for his counsel, and his enterprise

was in vain.

69And he was angry with the wicked men

that had given him counsel to come into theirFirst Book of Machabees 1211

country, and he slew many of them: and he pur-

posed to return with the rest into their country.

70And Jonathan had knowledge of it, and

he sent ambassadors to him to make peace with

him, and to restore to him the prisoners.

71And he accepted it willingly, and did ac-

cording to his words, and swore that he would

do him no harm all the days of his life.

72And he restored to him the prisoners which

he before had taken out of the land of Juda: and

he returned, and went away into his own country,

and he came no more into their borders.

73So the sword ceased from Israel: and

Jonathan dwelt in Machmas, and Jonathan be-

gan there to judge the people, and he destroyed

the wicked out of Israel.

Chapter 10

Now in the hundred and sixtieth year, Alexan-

der, the son of Antiochus, surnamed the Illus-

trious, came up and took Ptolemais, and they

received him, and he reigned there.

2And king Demetrius heard of it, and gath-

ered together an exceeding great army, and went

forth against him to ght.

3And Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan,

with peaceable words, to magnify him.

4For he said: Let us rst make a peace with

him, before he make one with Alexander against

us.

5For he will remember all the evils that we

have done against him, and against his brother,

and against his nation.

6And he gave him authority to gather to-

gether a army, and to make arms, and that he

should be his confederate: and the hostages that

were in the castle, he commanded to be delivered

to him.7And Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and read

the letters in the hearing of all the people, and

of them that were in the castle.

8And they were struck with great fear, be-

cause they heard that the king had given him

authority to gather together an army.

9And the hostages were delivered to

Jonathan, and he restored them to their parents.

10And Jonathan dwelt in Jerusalem, and be-

gan to build, and to repair the city.

11And he ordered workmen to build the walls,

and mount Sion round about with square stones

for fortication: and so they did.

12Then the strangers that were in the strong

holds, which Bacchides had built,

ed away.

13And every man left his place, and departed

into his own country:

14Only in Bethsura there remained some of

them, that had forsaken the law, and the com-

mandments of God: for this was a place of refuge

for them.

15And king Alexander heard of the promises

that Demetrius had made Jonathan: and they

told him of the battles, and the worthy acts that

he and his brethren had done, and the labours

that they had endured.

16And he said: Shall we nd such another

man? now, therefore, we will make him our

friend and our confederate.

17So he wrote a letter, and sent it to him

according to these words, saying:

18King Alexander to his brother, Jonathan,

greetings.
19We have heard of thee, that thou art a man

of great power, and t to be our friend:

20Now therefore, we make thee this day high

priest of thy nation, and that thou be called the

king's friend, (and he sent him a purple robe,

and a crown of gold) and that thou be of one1212 First Book of Machabees

mind with us in our aairs, and keep friendship

with us.

21Then Jonathan put on the holy vestment in

the seventh month, in the year one hundred and

threescore, at the feast day of the tabernacles:

and he gathered together an army, and made a

great number of arms.

22And Demetrius heard these words, and was

exceeding sorry, and said:

23What is this that we have done, that

Alexander hath prevented us to gain the friend-

ship of the Jews to strengthen himself?

24I also will write to them words of request,

and oer dignities, and gifts: that they may be

with me to aid me.

25And he wrote to them in these words: King

Demetrius to the nation of tbe Jews, greeting.

26Whereas you have kept covenant with us,

and have continued in our friendship, and have

not joined with our enemies, we have heard of it,

and are glad.

27Wherefore now continue still to keep -

delity towards us, and we will reward you with

good things, for what you have done in our be-

half.

28And we will remit to you many charges,

and will give you gifts.

29And now I free you, and all the Jews, from

tributes, and I release you from the customs of

salt, and remit the crowns, and the thirds of the

seed:

30And the half of the fruit of trees, which is

my share, I leave to you from this day forward,

so that it shall not be taken of the land of Juda,

and of the three cities that are added thereto out

of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth, and

for ever:

31And let Jerusalem be holy and free, with

the borders thereof: and let the tenths, and trib-

utes be for itself.32I yield up also the power of the castle that

is in Jerusalem, and I give it to the high priest,

to place therein such men as he shall choose, to

keep it.

33And every soul of the Jews that hath been

carried captive from the land of Juda in all my

kingdom, I set at liberty freely, that all be dis-

charged from tributes, even of their cattle.

34And I will that all the feasts, and the sab-

baths, and the new moons, and the days ap-

pointed, and three days before the solemn day,

and three days after the solemn day, be all days

of immunity and freedom, for all the Jews that

are in my kingdom:

35And no man shall have power to do any

thing against them, or to molest any of them, in

any cause.

36And let there be enrolled in the king's army

to the number of thirty thousand of the Jews:

and allowance shall be made them, as is due to

all the king's forces and certain of them shall

be appointed to be in the fortresses of the great

king:

37And some of them shall be set over the

aairs of the kingdom, that are of trust, and let

the governors be taken from among themselves,

and let them walk in their own laws, as the king

hath commanded in the land of Juda.

38And the three cities that are added to

Judea, out of the country of Samaria, let them

be accounted with Judea: that they may be un-

der one, and obey no other authority but that of

the high priest:

39Ptolemais and the connes thereof, I give

as a free gift to the holy places that are in

Jerusalem, for the necessary charges of the holy

things.

40And I give every year fteen thousand sick-

les of silver out of the king's accounts, of what

belongs to me:First Book of Machabees 1213

41And all that is above, which they that were

over the aairs the years before, had not paid,

from this time they shall give it to the works of

the house.

42Moreover, the ve thousand sickles of sil-

ver, which they received from the account of the

holy places, every year, shall also belong to the

priests that execute the ministry.

43And whosoever shall

ee into the tem-

ple that is in Jerusalem, and in all the borders

thereof, being indebted to the king for any mat-

ter, let them be set at liberty, and all that they

have in my kingdom, let them have it free.

44For the building also, or repairing the

works of the holy places, the charges shall be

given out of the king's revenues:

45For the building also of the walls of

Jerusalem, and the fortifying thereof round

about, the charges shall be given out of the king's

account, as also for the building of the walls in

Judea.

46Now when Jonathan and the people heard

these words, they gave no credit to them, nor re-

ceived them because they remembered the great

evil that he had done in Israel, for he had af-

icted them exceedingly.

47And their inclinations were towards

Alexander, because he had been the chief pro-

moter of peace in their regard, and him they

always helped.

48And king Alexander gathered together

a great army, and moved his camp near to

Demetrius.

49And the two kings joined battle, and the

army of Demetrius

ed away, and Alexander pur-

sued after him, and pressed them close.

50And the battle was hard fought, till the sun

went down: and Demetrius was slain that day.

51And Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptole-

mee king of Egypt, with words to this eect, say-ing:

52Forasmuch as I am returned into my king-

dom and am set in the throne of my ancestors,

and have gotten the dominion, and have over-

thrown Demetrius and possessed our country,

53And have joined battle with him, and both

he and his army have been destroyed by us, and

we are placed in the throne of his kingdom:

54Now, therefore, let us make friendship one

with another: and give me now thy daughter to

wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I will give

both thee and her gifts worthy of thee.

55And king Ptolomee answered, saying:

Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to

the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne

of their kingdom.

56And now I will do to thee as thou hast

written but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may

see one another, and I may give her to thee as

thou hast said.

57So Ptolemee went out of Egypt, with

Cleopatra his daughter, and he came to Ptole-

mais, in the hundred and sixty-second year.

58And king Alexander met him, and he gave

him his daughter, Cleopatra: and he celebrated

her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, after

the manner of kings.

59And king Alexander wrote to Jonathan,

that he should come and meet him.

60And he went honourably to Ptolemais, and

he met there the two kings, and he gave them

much silver, and gold, and presents: and he

found favour in their sight.

61And some pestilent men of Israel, men of a

wicked life, assembled themselves against him, to

accuse him: and the king gave no heed to them.

62And he commanded that Jonathan's gar-

ments should he taken o, and that he shonld be

clothed with purple: and they did so. And the

king made him sit by himself.1214 First Book of Machabees

63And he said to his princes: Go out with

him into the midst of the city, and make procla-

mation, that no man complain against him of

any matter, and that no man trouble him for

any manner of cause.

64So when his accusers saw his glory pro-

claimed, and him clothed with purple, they all

ed away.

65And the king magnied him, and enrolled

him amongst his chief friends, and made him

governor, and partaker of his dominion.

66And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem

with peace and joy.

67In the year one hundred and sixty-ve,

Demetrius, the son of Demetrius, came from

Crete into the land of his fathers.

68And king Alexander heard of it, and was

much troubled, and returned to Antioch.

69And king Demetrius made Apollonius his

general, who was governor of Celesyria: and

he gathered together a great army, and came

to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan, the high

priest,

70Saying: Thou alone standest against us,

and I am laughed at and reproached, because

thou shewest thy power against us in the moun-

tuins.

71Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy

forces, come down to us into the plain, and

there let us try one another: for with me is the

strength of war.

72Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest

that help me, who also say that your foot cannot

stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice

been put to

ight in their own land:

73And now how wilt thou be able to abide

the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain,

where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to

ee to?

74Now when Jonathan heard the words ofApollonius, he was moved in his mind: and

he chose ten thousand men, and went out of

Jerusalem, and Simon, his brother, met him to

help him.

75And they pitched their tents near Joppe,

but they shut him out of the city: because a

garrison of Apollonius was in Joppe, and he laid

siege to it.

76And they that were in the city being af-

frighted, opened the gates to him: so Jonathan

took Joppe.

77And Apollonius heard of it, and he took

three thousand horsemen, and a great army.

78And he went to Azotus, as one that was

making a journey, and immediately he went forth

into the plain: because he had a great num-

ber of horsemen, and he trusted in them. And

Jonathan followed after him to Azotus, and they

joined battle.

79And Apollonius left privately in the camp

a thousand horsemen behind them.

80And Jonathan knew that there was an am-

bush behind him, and they surrounded his army,

and cast darts at the people from morning till

evening.
81But the people stood still, as Jonathan had

commanded them: and so their horses were fa-

tigued.

82Then Simon drew forth his army, and at-

tacked the legion: for the horsemen were wea-

ried: and they were discomted by him, and

ed.

83And they that were scattered about the

plain

ed into Azotus, and went into Bethdagon,

their idol's temple, there to save themselves.

84But Jonathan set re to Azotus, and the

cities that were round about it, and took the

spoils of them and the temple of Dagon: and all

them that were

ed into it, he burnt with re.

85So they that were slain by the sword, with

them that were burnt, were almost eight thou-First Book of Machabees 1215

sand men.

86And Jonathan, removed his army from

thence and camped against Ascalon: and they

went out of the city to meet him with great hon-

our.

87And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem

with his people, having many spoils.

88And it came to pass, when Alexander,

the king heard these words, that he honoured

Jonathan yet more.

89And he sent him a buckle of gold, as the

custom is, to be given to such as are of the royal

blood. And he gave him Accaron, and all the

borders thereof, in possession.

Chapter 11

And the king of Egypt gathered together an

army, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore,

and many ships: and he sought to get the king-

dom of Alexander by deceit, and join it to his

own kingdom.

2And he went out into Syria with peaceable

words and they opened to him the cities, and met

him: for king Alexander had ordered them to go

forth to meet him, because he was his father in

law.

3Now when Ptolemee entered into the cities,

he put garrisons of soldiers in every city.

4And when he came near to Azotns, they

shewed him the temple of Dagon that was burnt

with re, and Azotus, and the suburbs thereof,

that were destroyed, and the bodies that were

cast abroad, and the graves of them that were

slain in the battle, which they had made near

the way.
5And they told the king that Jonathan had

done these things, to make him odious: but the

king held his peace.6And Jonathan came to meet the king at

Joppe with glory, and they saluted one another,

and they lodged there.

7And Jonathan went with the king as far as

the river, called Eleutherus: and he returned into

Jerusalem.

8And king Ptolemee got the dominion of the

cities by the sea side, even to Seleucia, and he

devised evil designs against Alexander.

9And he sent ambassadors to Demetrius, say-

ing: Come, let us make a league between us, and

I will give thee my daughter whom Alexander

hath, and thou shalt reign in the kingdom of thy

father.

10For I repent that I have given him my

daughter: for he hath sought to kill me.

11And he slandered him, because he coveted

his kingdom,

12And he took away his daughter, and gave

her to Demetrius, and alienated himself from

Alexander, and his enmities were made manifest.

13And Ptolemee entered into Antioch, and

set two crowns upon his head, that of Egypt,

and that of Asia.

14Now king Alexander was in Cilicia at that

time: because they that were in those places had

rebelled.

15And when Alexander heard of it, he came

to give him battle: and king Ptolemee brought

forth his army, and met him with a strong power,

and put him to

ight.

16And Alexander

ed into Arabia, there to

be protected: and king Ptolemee was exalted.

17And Zabdiel the Arabian took o Alexan-

der's head, and sent it to Ptolemee.

18And king Ptolemee died the third day af-

ter: and they that were in the strong holds were

destroyed by them that were within the camp.

19And Demetrius reigned in the hundred and

sixty- seventh year.1216 First Book of Machabees

20In those days Jonathan gathered together

them that were in Judea, to take the castle that

was in Jerusalem: and they made many engines

of war against it.

21Then some wicked men that hated their

own nation, went away to king Demetrius, and

told him that Jonathan was besieging the castle.

22And when he heard it, he was angry: and

forthwith he came to Ptolemais, and wrote to

Jonathan that he should not besiege the castle,

but should come to him in haste, and speak to

him.

23But when Jonathan heard this, he bade

them besiege it still: and he chose some of the

ancients of Israel, and of the priests, and put

himself in danger

24And he took gold, and silver, and raiment,

and many other presents, and went to the king

to Ptolemais and he found favour in his sight.

25And certain wicked men of his nation made

complaints against him.

26And the king treated him as his predeces-

sors had done before: and he exalted him in the

sight of all his friends.

27And he conrmed him in the high priest-

hood and all the honours he had before, and he

made him the chief of his friends.

28And Jonathan requested of the king that

he would make Judea free from tribute, and the

three governments, and Samaria, and the con-

nes thereof: and he promised him three hun-

dred talents.

29And the king consented: and he wrote let-

ters to Jonathan of all these things, to this eect.

30King Demetrius to his brother, Jonathan,

and to the nation of the Jews, greeting.

31We send you here a copy of the letter which

we have written to Lasthenes, our parent, con-

cerning you, that you might know it.32King Demetrius to Lasthenes, his parent,

greetings.

33We have determined to do good to the na-

tion of the Jews, who are our friends, and keep

the things that are just with us, for their good

will which they bear towards us.

34We have ratied, therefore, unto them

all the borders of Judea, and the three cities,

Apherema, Lydda, and Ramatha, which are

added to Judea, out of Samaria, and all their

connes, to be set apart to all them that sacri-

ce in Jerusalem, instead of the payments which

the king received of them every year, and for the

fruits of the land, and of the trees.

35And as for other things that belonged to us

of the tithes, and of the tributes, from this time

we discharge them of them: the saltpans also,

and the crowns that were presented to us.

36We give all to them, and nothing hereof

shall be revoked from this time forth and for

ever.

37Now, therefore, see that thou make a copy

of these things, and let it be given to Jonathan,

and set upon the holy mountain, in a conspicu-

ous place.

38And king Demetrius, seeing that the land

was quiet before him, and nothing resisted him,

sent away all his forces, every man to his own

place, except the foreign army, which he had

drawn together from the islands of the nations:

so all the troops of his fathers hated him.

39Now there was one Tryphon who had been

of Alexander's party before: who seeing that all

the army murmured against Demetrius, went to

Emalchuel, the Arabian, who brought up Anti-

ochus, the son of Alexander:

40And he pressed him much to deliver him

to him, that he might be king in his father's

place: and he told him all that Demetrius had

done, and how his soldiers hated him. And heFirst Book of Machabees 1217

remained there many days.

41And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius, de-

siring that he would cast out them that were in

the castle in Jerusalem, and those that were in

the strong holds: because they fought against

Israel.

42And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying: I

will not only do this for thee, and for thy people,
but I will greatly honour thee, and thy nation,

when opportunity shall serve.

43Now, therefore, thou shalt do well if thou

send me men to help me: for all my army is gone

from me.

44And Jonathan sent him three thousand

valiant men to Antioch: and they came to the

king, and the king was very glad of their com-

ing.

45And they that were of the city assembled

themselves together, to the number of a hundred

and twenty thousand men, and would have killed

the king.

46And the king

ed into the palace: and they

of the city kept the passages of the city, and be-

gan to ght.

47And the king called the Jews to his assis-

tance: and they came to him all at once, and

they all dispersed themselves through the city.

48And they slew in that day a hundred thou-

sand men, and they set re to the city, and got

many spoils that day, and delivered the king.

49And they that were of the city saw that the

Jews had got the city as they would: and they

were discouraged in their mind, and cried to the

king, making supplication, and saying

50Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from

assaulting us, and the city.

51And they threw down their arms, and made

peace, and the Jews were gloried in the sight

of the king, and in the sight of all that were in

his realm, and were renowned throughout thekingdom, and returned to Jerusalem with many

spoils.

52So king Demetrius sat in the throne of his

kingdom: and the land was quiet before him.

53And he falsied all whatsoever he had said,

and alienated himself from Jonathan, and did

not reward him according to the benets he had

received from him, but gave him great trouble.

54And after this Tryphon returned, and with

him Antiochus, the young boy, who was made

king, and put on the diadem.

55And there assembled unto him all the

hands which Demetrius had sent away, and they

fought against Demetrius who turned his back

and

ed.

56And Tryphon took the elephants, and made

himself master of Antioch.

57And young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan,

saying: I conrm thee in the high priesthood,

and I appoint thee ruler over the four cities, and

to be one of the king's friends.

58And he sent him vessels of gold for his ser-

vice, and he gave him leave to drink in gold, and

to be clothed in purple, and to wear a golden

buckle:

59And he made his brother, Simon, governor,

from the borders of Tyre even to the connes of

Egypt.

60Then Jonathan went forth, and passed

through the cities beyond the river, and all the

forces of Syria gathered themselves to him to

help him, and he came to Ascalon, and they met

him hononrably out of the city.

61And he went from thence to Gaza: and

they that were in Gaza shut him out: and he be-

sieged it, and burnt all the suburbs round about,

and took the spoils.

62And the men of Gaza made supplication to

Jonathan, and he gave them the right hand: and

he took their sons for hostages, and sent them to1218 First Book of Machabees

Jerusalem: and he went through the country, as

far as Damascus.

63And Jonathan heard that the generals of

Demetrius were come treacherously to Cades,

which is in Galilee, with a great army, purposing

to remove him from the aairs of the kingdom.

64And he went against them: but left his

brother, Simon, in the country.

65And Simon encamped against Bethsura,

and assaulted it many days, and shut them up.

66And they desired him to make peace, and

he granted it them: and he cast them out from

thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison

in it.

67And Jonathan and his army encamped by

the water of Genesar, and before it was light they

were ready in the plain of Asor.

68And behold the army of the strangers met

him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for

him in the mountains: but he went out against

them.

69And they that lay in ambush rose out of

their places, and joined battle.

70And all that were on Jonathan's side

ed,

and none was left of them, but Mathathias, the

son of Absalom, and Judas, the son of Calphi,

chief captain of the army.

71And Jonathan rent his garments, and cast

earth upon his head, and prayed.

72And Jonathan turned again to them to bat-

tle, and he put them to

ight, and they fought.

73And they of his part that

ed saw this, and

they turned again to him, and they all with him

pursued the enemies, even to Cades, to their own

camp, and they came even thither.

74And there fell of the aliens in that day three

thousand men: and Jonathan returned to Jern-

salem.Chapter 12

And Jonathan saw that the time served him, and

he chose certain men, and sent them to Rome,

to conrm and to renew the amity with them:

2And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to

other places, according to the same form.

3And they went to Rome, and entered into

the senate house, and said: Jonathan, the high

priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent us

to renew the amity, and alliance, as it was before.

4And they gave them letters to their gover-

nors in every place, to conduct them into the

land of Juda with peace.

5And this is a copy of the letters which

Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

6Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients

of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of

the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their

brethren, greeting.

7There were letters sent long ago to Onias the

high priest, from Arius, who reigned then among

you to signify that you are our brethren, as the

copy here underwritten doth specify.

8And Onias received the ambassador with

honour and received the letters, wherein there

was mention made of the alliance, and amity.

9We, though we needed none of these things

having for our comfort the holy books that are

in our hands,

10Chose rather to send to you to renew the

brotherhood and friendship, lest we should be-

come stranger to you altogether: for there is a

long time passed since you sent to us.

11We, therefore, at all times without ceasing,

both in our festivals, and other days wherein it is

convenient, remember you in the sacrices that

we oer, and in our observances, as it is meet

and becoming to remember brethren.

12And we rejoice at yonr glory.First Book of Machabees 1219

13But we have had many troubles and wars

on every side; and the kings that are round about

us have fought against us.

14But we would not be troublesome to you,

nor to the rest of our allies and friends, in these

wars.

15For we have had help from heaven, and we

have been delivered, and our enemies are hum-

bled.

16We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the

son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Ja-

son, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew

with them the former amity and alliance.

17And we have commanded them to go also

to you, and salute you, and to deliver you our

letters, concerning the renewing of our brother-

hood.

18And now you shall do well to give us an

answer hereto.

19And this is the copy of the letter which he

had sent to Onias:

20Arius, king of the Spartans, to Onias, the

high priest, greeting.

21It is found in writing concerning the Spar-

tans, and the Jews, that they are brethren, and

that they are of the stock of Abraham.

22And now since this is come to our knowl-

edge, you do well to write to us of your prosper-

ity.

23And we also have written back to you, That

our cattle, and our possessions, are yours: and

yours, ours. We, therefore, have commanded

that these things should be told you.

24Now Jonathan heard that the generals of

Demetrius were come again with a greater army

than before to ght against him.

25So he went out from Jerusalem, and met

them in the land of Amath: for he gave them no

time to enter into his country.26And he sent spies into their camp, and they

came back, and brought him word that they de-

signed to come upon them in the night.

27And when the sun was set, Jonathan com-

manded his men to watch, and to be in arms all

night long ready to ght, and he set sentinels

round about the camp.

28And the enemies heard that Jonathan and

his men were ready for battle: and they were

struck with fear and dread in their heart: and

they kindled res in their camp.

29But Jonathan, and they that were with

him, knew it not till the morning: for they saw

the lights burning.

30And Jonathan pursued after them, but

overtook them not: for they had passed the river

Eleutherus.

31And Jonathan turned upon the Arabi-

ans, that are called Zabadeans: and he defeated

them, and took the spoils of them.

32And he went forward, and came to Dam-

ascus, and passed through all that country.

33Simon also went forth, and came as far as

Ascalon, and the neighbouring fortresses, and he

turned aside to Joppe, and took possession of it,

34(For he heard that they designed to deliver

the hold to them that took part with Demetrius)

and he put a garrison there to keep it.

35And Jonathan came back, and called to-

gether the ancients of the people; and he took a

resolution with them to build fortresses in Judea,

36And to build up walls in Jerusalem, and

raise a mount between the castle and the city, to

separate it from the city, that so it might have

no communication, and that they might neither

buy nor sell.

37And they came together to build up the

city: for the wall that was upon the brook, to-

wards the east, was broken down, and he re-

paired that which is called Caphetetha:1220 First Book of Machabees

38And Simon built Adiada in Sephela, and

fortied it, and set up gates and bars.

39Now when Tryphon had conceived a design

to make himself king of Asia and to take the

crown, and to stretch out his hand against king

Antiochus:

40Fearing lest Jonathan would not suer him,

but would ght against him: he sought to seize

upon him, and to kill him. So he rose up and

came to Bethsan.

41And Jonathan went out to meet him with

forty thousand men chosen for battle, and came

to Bethsan.

42Now when Tryphon saw that Jonathan

came with a great army, he durst not stretch

forth his hand against him.

43But received him with honour, and com-

mended him to all his friends, and gave him

presents: and he commanded his troops to obey

him, as himself.

44And he said to Jonathan: Why hast thou

troubled all the people, whereas we have no war?

45Now, therefore, send them back to their

own houses: and choose thee a few men that may

be with thee, and come with me to Ptolemais,

and I will deliver it to thee, and the rest of the

strong holds, and the army, and all that have

any charge, and I will return and go away: for

this is the cause of my coming.

46And Jonathan believed him, and did as he

said: and sent away his army, and they departed

into the land of Juda:

47But he kept with him three thousand men:

of whom he sent two thousand into Galilee, and

one thousand went with him.

48Now as soon as Jonathan entered into

Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates of

the city, and took him: and all them that came

in with him they slew with the sword.

49Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemeninto Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy

all Jonathan's company.

50But they, when they understood that

Jonathan, and all that were with him, were taken

and slain, encouraged one another, and went out

ready for battle.

51Then they that had come after them, seeing

that they stood for their lives, returned back.

52Whereupon they all came peaceably into

the land of Juda and they bewailed Jonathan,

and them that had been with him, exceedingly:

and Israel mourned with great lamentation.

53Then all the heathens that were round

about them, sought to destroy them. For they

said:

54They have no prince, nor any to help them:

now therefore, let us make war upon them, and

take away the memory of them from amongst

men.

Chapter 13

Now Simon heard that Tryphon was gathering

together a very great army to invade the land of

Juda, and to destroy it.

2And seeing that the people was in dread and

in fear, he went up to Jerusalem, and assembled

the people,

3And exhorted them, saying: You know what

great battles I and my brethren, and the house

of my father, have fought for the laws, and the

sanctuary, and the distresses that we have seen:

4By reason whereof all my brethren have lost

their lives for Israel's sake, and I am left alone.

5And now far be it from me to spare my life

in any time of trouble: for I am not better than

my brethren.

6I will avenge then my nation and the sanc-

tuary, and our children, and wives: for all theFirst Book of Machabees 1221

heathens are gathered together to destroy us out

of mere malice.

7And the spirit of the people was enkindled

as soon as they heard these words:

8And they answered with a loud voice, saying:

Thou art our leader in the place of Judas, and

Jonathan, thy brother:

9Fight thou our battles, and we will do what-

soever thou shalt say to us.

10So gathering together all the men of war,

he made haste to nish all the walls of Jerusalem,

and he fortied it round about.

11And he sent Jonathan, the son of Absa-

lom, and with him a new army, into Joppe, and

he cast out them that were in it, and himself

remained there.

12And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais

with a great army, to invade the land of Juda,

and Jonathan was with him in custody.

13But Simon pitched in Addus, over against

the plain.

14And when Tryphon understood that Si-

mon was risen up in the place of his brother,

Jonathan, and that he meant to join battle with

him, he sent messengers to him,

15Saying: We have detained thy brother,

Jonathan, for the money that he owed in the

king's account, by reason of the aairs which he

had the management of.

16But now send a hundred talents of silver,

and his two sons for hostages, that when he is

set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we

will release him.

17Now Simon knew that he spoke deceitfully

to him; nevertheless, he ordered the money and

the children to be sent, lest he should bring upon

himself a great hatred of the people of Israel, who

might have said:

18Because he sent not the money and the

children therefore is he lost.19So he sent the children and the hundred

talents and he lied, and did not let Jonathan go.

20And after this, Tryphon entered within the

country, to destroy it: and they went about by

the way that leadeth to Ador: and Simon and

his army marched to every place whithersoever

they went.

21And they that were in the castle, sent mes-

sengers to Tryphon, that he should make haste

to come through the desert, and send them vict-

uals.

22And Tryphon made ready all his horse-

men to come that night; but there fell a very

great snow, and he came not into the country of

Galaad.

23And when he approached to Bascama, he

slew Jonathan and his sons there.

24And Tryphon returned, and went into his

own country.
25And Simon sent, and took the bones

of Jonathan, his brother, and buried them in

Modin, the city of his fathers.

26And all Israel bewailed him with great

lamentation: and they mourned for him many

days.

27And Simon built over the sepulchre of his

father and of his brethren, a building lofty to the

sight, of polished stone, behind and before:

28And he set up seven pyramids, one against

another, for his father, and his mother, and his

four brethren:

29And round about these he set great pillars;

and upon the pillars, arms, for a perpetual mem-

ory; and by the arms, ships carved, which might

be seen by all that sailed on the sea.

30This is the sepulchre that he made in

Modin, even unto this day.

31But Tryphon, when he was upon a journey

with the young king, Antiochus, treacherously

slew him.1222 First Book of Machabees

32And he reigned in his place, and put on the

crown of Asia: and brought great evils upon the

land.

33And Simon built up the strong holds of

Judea, fortifying them with high towers, and

great walls, and gates and bars: and he stored

up victuals in the fortresses.

34And Simon chose men, and sent to king

Demetrius, to the end that he should grant an

immunity to the land; for all that Tryphon did,

was to spoil.

35And king Demetrius, in answer to this re-

quest, wrote a letter in this manner:

36King Demetrius to Simon, the high priest,

and friend of kings, and to the ancients, and to

the nation of the Jews, greeting:

37The golden crown, and the palm, which

you sent, we have received: and we are ready to

make a rm peace with you, and to write to the

king's chief ocers to release you the things that

we have released.

38For all that we have decreed in your favour

shall stand in force. The strong holds that you

have built, shall be your own.

39And as for any oversight or fault committed

unto this day, we forgive it: and the crown which

you owed: and if any other thing were taxed in

Jerusalem, now let it not be taxed.

40And if any of you be t to be enrolled

among ours, let them be enrolled, and let there

be peace between us.

41In the year one hundred and seventy, the

yoke of the Gentiles was taken o from Israel.

42And the people of Israel began to write

in the instruments, and public records, The rst

year under Simon, the high priest, the great cap-

tain, and prince of the Jews.

43In those days Simon besieged Gaza, and

camped round about it, and he made engines,

and set them to the city, and he struck one tower,and took it.

44And they that were within the engine leapt

into the city: and there was a great uproar in the

city.

45And they that were in the city went up,

with their wives and children, upon the wall,

with their garments rent, and they cried with

a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them

peace.

46And they said: Deal not with us according

to our evil deeds, but according to thy mercy.

47And Simon being moved, did not destroy

them but yet he cast them out of the city, and

cleansed the houses wherein there had been idols,

and then he entered into it with hymns, blessing

the Lord:

48And having cast out of it all uncleanness,

he placed in it men that should observe the law:

and he fortied it, and made it his habitation.

49But they that were in the castle of

Jerusalem were hindered from going out and

coming into the country, and from buying and

selling: and they were straitened with hunger,

and many of them perished through famine.

50And they cried to Simon for peace, and

he granted it to them: and he cast them out

from thence and cleansed the castle from un-

cleannesses.

51And they entered into it the three and

twentieth day of the second month, in the year

one hundred and seventy-one, with thanksgiv-

ing, and branches of palm trees, and harps, and

cymbals, and psalteries, and hymns, and canti-

cles, because the great enemy was destroyed out

of Israel.

52And he ordained that these days should be

kept every year with gladness.

53And he fortied the mountain of the tem-

ple that was near the castle, and he dwelt there

himself, and they that were with him.First Book of Machabees 1223

54And Simon saw that John, his son, was a

valiant man for war: and he made him captain

of all the forces: and he dwelt in Gazara.

Chapter 14
In the year one hundred and seventy-two king

Demetrius assembled his army, and went into

Media to get him succours to ght against

Tryphon.

2And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media,

heard that Demetrius was entered within his bor-

ders, and he sent one of his princes to take him

alive, and bring him to him.

3And he went, and defeated the army of

Demetrius: and took him, and brought him to

Arsaces, and he put him into custody.

4And all the land of Juda was at rest all the

days of Simon, and he sought the good of his na-

tion: and his power, and his glory pleased them

well all his days.

5And with all his glory he took Joppe for a

haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the

sea.

6And he enlarged the bounds of his nation,

and made himself master of the country.

7And he gathered together a great number of

captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and

of Bethsura, and of the castle: and took away all

uncleanness out of it, and there was none that

resisted him.

8And every man tilled his land with peace,

and the land of Juda yielded her increase, and

the trees of the elds their fruit.

9The ancient men sat all in the streets, and

treated together of the good things of the land,

and the youug men put on them glory, and the

robes of war.

10And he provided victuals for the cities, andhe appointed that they should be furnished with

ammunition, so that the fame of his glory was

renowned even to the end of the earth.

11He made peace in the land, and Israel re-

joiced with great joy.

12And every man sat under his vine, and

under his g tree: and there was none to make

them afraid.

13There was none left in the land to ght

against them: kings were discomted in those

days.

14And he strengthened all those of his people

that were brought low, and he sought the law,

and took away every unjust and wicked man.

15He gloried the sanctuary, and multiplied

the vessels of the holy places.

16And it was heard at Rome, and as far as

Sparta, that Jonathan was dead: and they were

very sorry.

17But when they heard that Simon, his

brother, was made high priest in his place, and

was possessed of all the country, and the cities

therein:

18They wrote to him in tables of brass, to

renew the friendship and alliance which they

had made with Judas and with Jonathan, his

brethren.

19And they were read before the assembly in

Jerusalem. And this is the copy of the letters

that the Spartans sent.

20The princes and the cities of the Spartans,

to Simon, the high priest, and to the ancients,

and the priests, and the rest of the people of the

Jews, their brethren, greeting.

21The ambassadors that were sent to our peo-

ple, have told us of your glory, and honour, and

joy: and we rejoiced at their coming.

22And we registered what was said by them

in the councils of the people, in this manner:

Numenius, the son of Antiochus, and Antipater,1224 First Book of Machabees

the son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came

to us to renew the former friendship with us.

23And it pleased the people to receive the

men honourably, and to put a copy of their words

in the public records, to be a memorial to the

people of the Spartans. And we have written a

copy of them to Simon, the high priest.

24And after this Simon sent Numenius to

Rome, with a great shield of gold, of the weight

of a thousand pounds, to conrm the league with

them. And when the people of Rome had heard

25These words, they said: What thanks shall

we give to Simon, and his sons:

26For he hath restored his brethren, and hath

driven away in ght the enemies of Israel from

them: and they decreed him liberty, and regis-

tered it in tables of brass, and set it upon pillars

in mount Sion.

27And this is a copy of the writing. The

eighteenth day of the month Elul, in the year

one hundred and seventy-two, being the third

year under Simon, the high priest, at Asaramel,

28In a great assembly of the priests, and of

the people, and the princes of the nation, and the

ancients of the country, these things were noti-

ed: Forasmuch as there have often been wars

in our country,

29And Simon, the son of Mathathias, of the

children of Jarib, and his brethren, have put

themselves in danger, and resisted the enemies

of their nation, for the maintenance of their holy

places, and the law: and have raised their nation

to great glory.

30And Jonathan gathered together his na-

tion, and was made their high priest, and he was

laid to his people.

31And their enemies desired to tread down

and destroy their country, and to stretch forth

their hands against their holy places.

32Then Simon resisted and fought for his na-tion, and laid out much of his money, and armed

the valiant men of his nation, and gave them

wages.

33And he fortied the cities of Judea and

Bethsura that lieth in the borders of Judea,

where the armour of the enemies was before: and

he placed there a garrison of Jews.

34And he fortied Joppe, which lieth by the

sea: and Gazara, which bordereth upon Azotus,

wherein the enemies dwelt before, and he placed

Jews here: and furnished them with all things

convenient for their reparation.

35And the people seeing the acts of Simon,

and to what glory he meant to bring his nation,

made him their prince and high priest, because

he had done all these things, and for the jus-

tice and faith which he kept to his nation, and

for that he sought by all means to advance his

people.
36And in his days things prospered in his

hands, so that the heathens were taken away out

of their country, and they also that were in the

city of David, in Jerusalem, in the castle, out of

which they issued forth, and profaned all places

round about the sanctuary, and did much evil to

purity.

37And he placed therein Jews for the defence

of the country, and of the city, and he raised up

the walls of Jerusalem.

38And king Demetrius conrmed him in the

high priesthood.

39According to these things he made him his

friend, and gloried him with great glory.

40For he had heard that the Romans had

called the Jews their friends, and confederates,

and brethren, and that they had received Si-

mon's ambassadors with honour:

41And that the Jews, and their priests, had

consented that he should be their prince and

high priest for ever, till there should arise a faith-First Book of Machabees 1225

ful prophet:

42And that he should be chief over them,

and that he should have the charge of the sanc-

tuary, and that he should appoint rulers over

their works, and over the country, and over the

armour, and over the strong holds;

43And that he should have care of the holy

places; and that he should be obeyed by all, and

that all the writings in the country should be

made in his name; and that he should be clothed

with purple and gold:

44And that it should not be lawful for any

of the people, or of the priests, to disannul any

of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to

call together an assembly in the country without

him: or to be clothed with purple, or to wear a

buckle of gold.

45And whosoever shall do otherwise, or shall

make void any of these things, shall be punished.

46And it pleased all the people to establish

Simon, and to do according to these words.

47And Simon accepted thereof, and was well

pleased to execute the oce of the high priest-

hood, and to be captain, and prince of the nation

of the Jews, and of the priests, and to be chief

over all.

48And they commanded that this writing

should be put in tables of brass, and that they

should be set up within the compass of the sanc-

tuary, in a conspicuous place:

49And that a copy thereof should be put in

the treasury, that Simon, and his sons, may have

it.

Chapter 15

And king Antiochus, the son of Demetrius, sent

letters from the isles of the sea to Simon, the

priest, and prince of the nation of the Jews, andto all the people:

2And the contents were these: King Anti-

ochus to Simon, the high priest, and to the na-

tion of the Jews, greeting.

3Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have

usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my pur-

pose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore

it to its former estate; and I have chosen a great

army, and have built ships of war.

4And I design to go through the country, that

I may take revenge of them that have destroyed

our country, and that have made many cities des-

olate in my realm.

5Now, therefore, I conrm unto thee all the

oblations which all the kings before me remitted

to thee, and what other gifts soever they remit-

ted to thee:

6And I give thee leave to coin thy own money

in thy country:

7And let Jerusalem be holy and free, and

all the armour that hath been made, and the

fortresses which thou hast built, and which thou

keepest in thy hands, let them remain to thee.

8And all that is due to the king, and what

should be the king's hereafter, from this present

and for ever, is forgiven thee.

9And when we shall have recovered our king-

dom, we will glorify thee, and thy nation, and

the temple, with great glory, so that your glory

shall be made manifest in all the earth.

10In the year one hundred and seventy-four,

Antiochus entered into the land of his fathers,

and all the forces assembled to him, so that few

were left with Tryphon.

11And king Antiochus pursued after him, and

he

ed along by the sea coast and came to Dora.

12For he perceived that evils were gathered

together upon him, and his troops had forsaken

him.

13And Antiochus camped above Dora with a1226 First Book of Machabees

hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and

eight thousand horsemen:

14And he invested the city, and the ships

drew near by sea: and they annoyed the city

by land, and by sea, and suered none to come

in, or to go out.
15And Numenius, and they that had been

with him, came from the city of Rome, having

letters written to the kings, and countries, the

contents whereof were these:

16Lucius, the consul of the Romans, to king

Ptolemee, greeting.

17The ambassadors of the Jews, our friends,

came to us, to renew the former friendship and

alliance, being sent from Simon, the high priest,

and the people of the Jews.

18And they brought also a shield of gold of a

thousand pounds.

19It hath seemed good therefore to us, to

write to the kings and countries, that they

should do them no harm, nor ght against them,

their cities, or countries: and that they should

give no aid to them that ght against them.

20And it hath seemed good to us to receive

the shield of them.

21If, therefore, any pestilent men are

ed out

of their country to you, deliver them to Simon,

the high priest, that he may punish them accord-

ing to their law.

22These same things were written to king

Demetrius, and to Attalus, and to Ariarathes,

and to Arsaces,

23And to all the countries: and to Lamp-

sacus and to the Spartans, and to Delus, and

Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samus, and

Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Alicarnassus, and

Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Rhodes, and

Phaselis, and Gortyna, and Gnidus, and Cyprus,

and Cyrene.24And they wrote a copy thereof to Simon,

the high priest, and to the people of the Jews.

25But king Antiochus moved his camp to

Dora the second time, assaulting it continually,

and making engines: and he shut up Tryphon,

that he could not go out.

26And Simon sent to him two thousand cho-

sen men to aid him, silver also, and gold, and

abundance of furniture.

27And he would not receive them, but broke

all the covenant that he had made with him be-

fore, and alienated himself from him.

28And he sent to him Athenobius, one of

his friends, to treat with him, saying: You hold

Joppe and Gazara, and the castle that is in

Jerusalem, which are cities of my kingdom:

29Their borders you have wasted, and you

have made great havoc in the land, and have got

the dominion of many places in my kingdom.

30Now, therefore, deliver up the cities that

you have taken, and the tributes of the places

whereof you have gotten the dominion without

the borders of Judea.

31But if not, give me for them ve hundred

talents of silver, and for the havoc that you have

made, and the tributes of the cities, other ve

hundred talents: or else we will come and ght

against you.

32So Athenobius, the king's friend came to

Jerusalem, and saw the glory of Simon and his

magnicence in gold, and silver, and his great

equipage, and he was astonished, and told him

the king's words.

33And Simon answered him, and said to him:

We have neither taken other men's land, neither

do we hold that which is other men's, but the

inheritance of our fathers, which was for some

time unjustly possessed by our enemies.

34But we having opportunity, claim the in-

heritance of our fathers.First Book of Machabees 1227

35And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe

and Gazara, they did great harm to the people,

and to our country: yet for these we will give a

hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him

not a word.
36But returning in a rage to the king, made

report to him of these words, and of the glory of

Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the king

was exceeding angry.

37And Tryphon

ed away by ship to Or-

thosias.

38And the king appointed Cendebeus cap-

tain of the sea coast, and gave him an army of

footmen and horsemen.

39And he commanded him to march with his

army towards Judea: and he commanded him to

build up Gedor, and to fortify the gates of the

city, and to war against the people. But the king

himself pursued after Tryphon.

40And Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and be-

gan to provoke the people, and to ravage Judea,

and to take the people prisoners, and to kill, and

to build Gedor.

41And he placed there horsemen, and an

army: that they might issue forth, and make

incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king

had commanded him.

Chapter 16

Then John came up from Gazara, and told

Simon, his father, what Cendebeus had done

against their people.

2And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas

and John, and said to them: I and my brethren,

and my father's house, have fought against the

enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day:

and things have prospered so well in our hands,

that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.3And now I am old, but be you instead of me,

and my brethren, and go out, and ght for our

nation: and the help from heaven be with you.

4Then he chose out of the country twenty

thousand ghting men, and horsemen, and they

went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested

in Modin.

5And they arose in the morning, and went

into the plain: and behold a very great army of

footmen and horsemen came against them, and

there was a running river between them.

6And he and his people pitched their camp

over against them, and he saw that the people

were afraid to go over the river, so he went over

rst: then the men seeing him, passed over after

him.

7And he divided the people, and set the

horsemen in the midst of the footmen: but the

horsemen of the enemies were very numerous.

8And they sounded the holy trumpets: and

Cendebeus and his army were put to

ight: and

there fell many of them wounded, and the rest

ed into the strong hold.

9At that time, Judas, John's brother, was

wounded: but John pursued after them, till he

came to Cedron, which he had built:

10And they

ed even to the towers that were

in the elds of Azotus, and he burnt them with

re. And there fell of them two thousand men,

and he returned into Judea in peace.

11Now Ptolemee, the son of Abobus, was ap-

pointed captain in the plain of Jericho, and he

had abundance of silver and gold.

12For he was son in law of the high priest.

13And his heart was lifted up, and he de-

signed to make himself master of the country,

and he purposed treachery against Simon and

his sons, to destroy them.

14Now Simon, as he was going through the

cities that were in the country of Judea, and1228 First Book of Machabees

taking care for the good ordering of them, went

down to Jericho, he and Mathathias and Judas,

his sons, in the year one hundred and seventy-

seven, the eleventh month: the same is the

month Sabath.

15And the son of Abobus received them de-

ceitfully into a little fortress, that is called Doch,

which he had built: and he made them a great

feast, and hid men there.

16And when Simon and his sons had drunk

plentifully, Ptolemee and his men rose up, and

took their weapons, and entered into the ban-

queting place, and slew him, and his two sons,

and some of his servants.

17And he committed a great treachery in Is-

rael, and rendered evil for good.

18And Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent

to the king that he should send him an army to

aid him, and he would deliver him the country,

and their cities, and tributes.

19And he sent others to Gazara to kill John:

and to the tribunes he sent letters to come to

him, and that he would give them silver, and

gold, and gifts.

20And he sent others to take Jerusalem, and

the mountain of the temple.

21Now one running before, told John in

Gazara, that his father and his brethren were

slain, and that he hath sent men to kill thee also.

22But when he heard it, he was exceedingly

afraid: and he apprehended the men that came

to kill him, and he put them to death: for he

knew that they sought to make him away.

23And as concerning the rest of the acts

of John, and his wars, and the worthy deeds,

which he bravely achieved, and the building of

the walls, which he made, and the things that he

did:

24Behold, these are written in the book of

the days of his priesthood, from the time thathe was made high priest after his father.Second Book

of Machabees

Chapter 1

To the brethren, the Jews that are through-

out Egypt; the brethren, the Jews that are in

Jerusalem, and in the land of Judea, send health

and good peace.

2May God be gracious to you, and remember

his covenant that he made with Abraham, and

Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants:

3And give you all a heart to worship him, and

to do his will with a great heart, and a willing

mind.

4May he open your heart in his law, and in

his commandments, and send you peace.

5May he hear your prayers, and be reconciled

unto you, and never forsake you in the evil time.

6And now here we are praying for you.

7When Demetrius reigned, in the year one

hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you in

the trouble and violence that came upon us in

those years, after Jason withdrew himself from

the holy land, and from the kingdom.

8They burnt the gate, and shed innocent

blood: then we prayed to the Lord, and were

heard, and we oered sacrices, and ne

our,

and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.

9And now celebrate ye the days of Scenopegia

in the month of Casleu.

10In the year one hundred and eighty-eight,

the people that is at Jerusalem, and in Judea,

and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the

preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stockof the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are

in Egypt, health and welfare.

11Having been delivered by God out of great

dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as

we have been in war with such a king.

12For he made numbers of men swarm out of

Persia, that have fought against us, and the holy

city.

13For when the leader himself was in Persia,

and with him a very great army, he fell in the

temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel

of the priests of Nanea.

14For Antiochus, with his friends, came to

the place as though he would marry her, and

that he might receive great sums of money under

the title of a dowry.

15And when the priests of Nanea had set it

forth, and he with a small company had entered

into the compass of the temple, they shut the

temple,

16When Antiochus was come in: and opening

a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones

and slew the leader, and them that were with

him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting o

their heads, they threw them forth.

17Blessed be God in all things, who hath de-

livered up the wicked.

18Therefore, whereas we purpose to keep the

purication of the temple on the ve and twen-

tieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought it

necessary to signify it to you: that you also may

keep the day of Scenopegia, and the day of the1230 Second Book of Machabees

re, that was given when Nehemias oered sac-

rice, after the temple and the altar was built.

19For when our fathers were led into Persia,

the priests that then were worshippers of God,

took privately the re from the altar, and hid it

in a valley where there was a deep pit without

water, and there they kept it safe, so that the

place was unknown to all men.

20But when many years had passed, and it

pleased God that Nehemias should be sent by

the king of Persia, he sent some of the posterity

of those priests that had hid it, to seek for the

re: and as they told us, they found no re, but

thick water.

21Then he bade them draw it up, and bring

it to him: and the priest, Nehemias, commanded

the sacrices that were laid on, to be sprinkled

with the same water, both the wood, and the

things that were laid upon it.

22And when this was done, and the time

came that the sun shone out, which before was

in a cloud, there was a great re kindled, so that

all wondered.

23And all the priests made prayer, while the

sacrice was consuming, Jonathan beginning,

and the rest answering.

24And the prayer of Nehemias was after this

manner: O Lord God, Creator of all things,

dreadful and strong, just and merciful, who alone

art the good king,

25Who alone art gracious, who alone art just,

and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel

from all evil, who didst choose the fathers, and

didst sanctify them:

26Receive the sacrice for all thy people Is-

rael, and preserve thy own portion, and sanctify

it.

27Gather together our scattered people, de-

liver them that are slaves to the Gentiles, and

look upon them that are despised and abhorred:that the Gentiles may know that thou art our

God

28Punish them that oppress us, and that

treat us injuriously with pride.

29Establish thy people in thy holy place, as

Moses hath spoken.

30And the priests sung hymns till the sacrice

was consumed.

32Which being done, there was kindled a

ame from them: but it was consumed by the

light that shined from the altar.

33And when this matter became public, it

was told to the king of Persia, that in the place

where the priests that were led away, had hid the

re, there appeared water, with which Nehemias

and they that were with him had puried the

sacrices.

34And the king considering, and diligently

examining the matter, made a temple for it, that

he might prove what had happened.

35And when he had proved it, he gave the

priests many goods, and divers presents, and he

took and distributed them to them with his own

hand.

36And Nehemias called this place Nephthar,

which is interpreted purication. But many call

it Nephi.

Chapter 2

Now it is found in the descriptions of Jeremias,

the prophet, that he commanded them that went

into captivity, to take the re, as it hath been

signied, and how he gave charge to them that

were carried away into captivity.

2And how he gave them the law, that they

should not forget the commandments of the

Lord, and that they should not err in their

minds, seeing the idols of gold, and silver, andSecond Book of Machabees 1231

the ornaments of them.

3And with other such like speeches, he ex-

horted them that they would not remove the law

from their heart.

4It was also contained in the same writing,

how the prophet, being warned by God, com-

manded that the tabernacle and the ark should

accompany him, till he came forth to the moun-

tain where Moses went up, and saw the inheri-

tance of God.

5And when Jeremias came thither he found a

hollow cave: and he carried in thither the taber-

nacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and

so stopped the door.

7And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed

them, saying: The place shall be unknown, till

God gather together the congregation of the peo-

ple, and receive them to mercy.

8And then the Lord will shew these things,

and the majesty of the Lord shall appear, and

there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to

Moses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed

that the place might be sanctied to the great

God.

9For he treated wisdom in a magnicent man-

ner: and like a wise man, he oered the sacrice

of thc dedication, and of the nishing of the tem-

ple.

10And as Moses prayed to the Lord, and re

came down from heaven, and consumed the holo-

caust: so Solomon also prayed, and re came

down from heaven and consumed the holocaust.

11And Moses said: Because the sin oering

was not eaten, it was consumed.

12So Solomon also celebrated the dedication

eight days.

13And these same things were set down in the

memoirs, and commentaries of Nehemias: and

how he made a library, and gathered together out

of the countries, the books both of the prophets,and of David, and the epistles of the kings, and

concerning the holy gifts.

14And in like manner Judas also gathered

together all such things as were lost by the war

we had, and they are in our possession.

15Wherefore, if you want these things, send

some that may fetch them to you.

16As we are then about to celebrate the pu-

rication, we have written unto you: and you

shall do well, if you keep the same days.

17And we hope that God, who hath delivered

his people, and hath rendered to all the inheri-

tance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and

the sanctuary,

18As he promised in the law, will shortly have

mercy upon us, and will gather us together from

every land under heaven into the holy place.

19For he hath delivered us out of great perils,

and hath cleansed the place.

20Now as concerning Judas Machabeus, and

his brethren, and the purication of the great

temple, and the dedication of the altar:

21As also the wars against Antiochus, the

Illustrious, and his son, Eupator:

22And the manifestations that came from

heaven to them, that behaved themselves man-

fully on the behalf of the Jews, so that, being

but a few they made themselves masters of the

whole country, and put to

ight the barbarous

multitude:

23And recovered again thc most renowned

temple in all the world, and delivered the city,

and restored the laws that were abolished, the

Lord with all clemency shewing mercy to them.

24And all such things as have been comprised

in ve books by Jason, of Cyrene, we have at-

tempted to abridge in one book.

25For considering the multitude of books, and

the diculty that they nd that desire to under-

take the narrations of histories, because of the1232 Second Book of Machabees

multitude of the matter,

26We have taken care for those indeed that

are willing to read, that it might be a pleasure of

mind: and for the studious, that they may more

easily commit to memory: and that all that read

might receive prot.

27And as to ourselves indeed, in undertaking

this work of abridging, we have taken in hand no

easy task; yea, rather a business full of watching

and sweat.

28But as they that prepare a feast, and seek

to satisfy the will of others: for the sake of many,

we willingly undergo the labour.

29Leaving to the authors the exact handling

of every particular, and as for ourselves, accord-

ing to the plan proposed, studying to be brief.

30For as the master builder of a new house

must have care of the whole building: but he that

taketh care to paint it, must seek out t things

for the adorning of it: so must it be judged of

us.

31For to collect all that is to be known, to put

the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss

every particular point, is the duty of the author

of a history:

32But to pursue brevity of speech, and to

avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted

to him that maketh an abridgment.

33Here then we will begin the narration: let

this be enough by way of a preface: for it is a

foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be

short in the story itself.

Chapter 3

Therefore, when the holy city was inhabited with

all peace, and the laws as yet were very well kept,

because of the godliness of Onias, the high priest

and the hatred his soul had of evil,2It came to pass that even the kings them-

selves and the princes esteemed the place worthy

of the highest honour, and gloried the temple

with very great gifts:

3So that Seleucus, king of Asia, allowed out

of his revenues all the charges belonging to the

ministry of the sacrices.

4But one Simon, of the tribe of Benjamin,

who was appointed overseer of the temple, strove

in opposition to the high priest, to bring about

some unjust thing in the city.

5And when he could not overcome Onias, he

went to Apollonius, the son of Tharseas, who at

that time was governor of Celesyria, and Pheni-

cia:

6And told him, that the treasury in Jerusalem

was full of immense sums of money, and the com-

mon store was innite, which did not belong to

the account of the sacrices: and that it was

possible to bring all into the king's hands.

7Now when Apollonius had given the king

notice concerning the money that he was told

of, he called for Heliodorus, who had the charge

over his aairs, and sent him with commission

to bring him the foresaid money.

8So Heliodorus forthwith began his journey,

under a colour of visiting the cities of Celesyria

and Phenicia, but indeed to full the king's pur-

pose.

9And when he was come to Jerusalem, and

had been courteously received in the city by the

high priest, he told him what information had

been given concerning the money: and declared

the cause for which he was come: and asked if

these things were so indeed.

10Then the high priest told him that these

were sums deposited, and provisions for the sub-

sistence of the widows and the fatherless:

11And that some part of that which wicked

Simon had given intelligence of belonged to Hir-Second Book of Machabees 1233

canus, son of Tobias, a man of great dignity; and

that the whole was four hundred talents of silver,

and two hundred of gold.

12But that to deceive them who had trusted

to the place and temple which is honoured

throughout the whole world, for the reverence

and holiness of it, was a thing which could not

by any means be done.

13But he, by reason of the orders he had re-

ceived from the king, said, that by all means the

money must be carried to the king.

14So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus

entered in to order this matter. But there was

no small terror throughout the whole city.

15And the priests prostrated themselves be-

fore the altar in their priests' vestments, and

called upon him from heaven, who made the law

concerning things given to be kept, that he would

preserve them safe, for them that had deposited

them.

16Now whosoever saw the countenance of the

high priest, was wounded in heart: for his face,

and the changing of his colour, declared the in-

ward sorrow of his mind.

17For the man was so compassed with sadness

and horror of the body, that it was manifest to

them that beheld him, what sorrow he had in his

heart.

18Others also came

ocking together out of

their houses, praying and making public suppli-

cation, because the place was like to come into

contempt.

19And the women, girded with haircloth

about their breasts, came together in the streets.

And the virgins also that were shut up, came

forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and

others looked out of the windows.

20And all holding up their hands towards

heaven made supplication.

21For the expectation of the mixed multi-tude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony,

would have moved any one to pity.

22And these indeed called upon almighty

God, to preserve the things that had been com-

mitted to them safe and sure for those that had

committed them.

23But Heliodorus executed that which he had

resolved on, himself being present in the same

place with his guard about the treasury.

24But the spirit of the Almighty God gave a

great evidence of his presence, so that all that

had presumed to obey him, falling down by the

power of God, were struck with fainting and

dread.

25For there appeared to them a horse, with

a terrible rider upon him, adorned with a very

rich covering: and he ran ercely and struck He-

liodorus with his fore feet, and he that sat upon

him seemed to have armour of gold.

26Moreover there appeared two other young

men, beautiful and strong, bright and glorious,

and in comely apparel: who stood by him, on

either side, and scourged him without ceasing

with many stripes.

27And Heliodorus suddenly fell to the

ground, and they took him up, covered with

great darkness, and having put him into a lit-

ter, they carried him out.

28So he that came with many servants, and

all his guard, into the aforesaid treasury, was

carried out, no one being able to help him, the

manifest power of God being known.

29And he indeed, by the power of God, lay

speechless, and without all hope of recovery.

30But they praised the Lord, because he had

gloried his place: and the temple, that a lit-

tle before was full of fear and trouble, when the

Almighty Lord appeared, was lled with joy and

gladness.

31Then some of the friends of Heliodorus1234 Second Book of Machabees

forthwith begged of Onias, that he would call

upon the Most High to grant him his life, who

was ready to give up the ghost.

32So the high priest, considering that the

king might perhaps suspect that some mischief

had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, oered

a sacrice of health for the recovery of the man.

33And when the high priest was praying, the

same young men in the same clothing stood by

Heliodorus, and said to him: Give thanks to

Onias the priest: because for his sake the Lord

hath granted thee life.

34And thou having been scourged by God,

declare unto all men the great works and the

power of God. And having spoken thus, they

appeared no more.

35So Heliodorus, after he had oered a sac-

rice to God, and made great vows to him, that

had granted him life, and given thanks to Onias,

taking his troops with him, returned to the king.

36And he testied to all men the works of the

great God, which he had seen with his own eyes.

37And when the king asked Heliodorus, who

might be a t man to be sent yet once more to

Jerusalem, he said:

38If thou hast any enemy, or traitor to thy

king dom, send him thither, and thou shalt re-

ceive him again scourged, if so be he escape:

for there is undoubtedly in that place a certain

power of God.

39For he that hath his dwelling in the heav-

ens, is the visiter and protector of that place,

and he striketh and destroyeth them that come

to do evil to it.

40And the things concerning Heliodorus, and

the keeping of thc treasury, fell out in this man-

nerChapter 4

But Simon, of whom we spoke before, who was

the betrayer of the money, and of his country,

spoke ill of Onias, as though he had incited He-

liodorus to do these things, and had been the

promoter of evils:

2And he presumed to call him a traitor to

the kingdom, who provided for the city, and de-

fended his nation, and was zealous for the law of

God.

3But when the enmities proceeded so far, that

murders also were committed by some of Simon's

friends:

4Onias, considering the danger of this con-

tention, and that Apollonius, who was the gov-

ernor of Celesyia, and Phenicia, was outrageous,

which increased the malice of Simon, went to the

king,
5Not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but

with view to the common good of all the people.

6For he saw that, except the king took care, it

was impossible that matters should be settled in

peace, or that Simon would cease from his folly.

7But after the death of Seleucus, when Anti-

ochus, who was called the Illustrious, had taken

possession of the kingdom, Jason, the brother of

Onias, ambitiously sought the high priesthood:

8And went to the king, promising him three

hundred and sixty talents of silver, and out of

other revenues fourscore talents.

9Besides this he promised also a hundred and

fty more, if he might have license to set him

up a place for exercise, and a place for youth,

and to entitle them that were at Jerusalem, An-

tiochians.

10Which when the king had granted, and he

had gotten the rule into his hands, forthwith he

began to bring over his countrymen to the fash-

ion of the heathens.Second Book of Machabees 1235

11And abolishing those things, which had

been decreed of special favour by the kings in

behalf of the Jews, by the means of John, the

father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador

to Rome to make amity and alliance, he disan-

nulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and

brought in fashions that were perverse.

12For he had the boldness to set up, under

the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put

all the choicest youths in brothel houses.

13Now this was not the beginning, but an

increase, and progress of heathenish and foreign

manners, through the abominable and unheard

of wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch, and

no priest.

14Insomuch that the priests were not now

occupied about the oces of the altar, but de-

spising the temple and neglecting the sacrices,

hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the

unlawful allowance thereof, and of the exercise of

the discus.

15And setting nought by the honours of their

fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the

best:

16For the sake of which they incurred a dan-

gerous contention, and followed earnestly their

ordinances, and in all things they coveted to be

like them, who were their enemies and murder-

ers.

17For acting wickedly against the laws of God

doth not pass unpunished: but this the time fol-

lowing will declare.

18Now when the game that was used ev-

ery fth year was kept at Tyre, the king being

present,

19The wicked Jason sent from Jerusalem sin-

ful men, to carry three hundred didrachmas of

silver for the sacrice of Hercules; but the bear-

ers thereof desired it might not be bestowed on

the sacrices, because it was not necessary, butmight be deputed for other charges.

20So the money was appointed by him that

sent it to the sacrice of Hercules: but because of

them that carried it was employed for thc making

of galleys.

21Now when Apollonius, the son of Mnes-

theus was sent into Egypt to treat with the no-

bles of king Philometor, and Antiochus under-

stood that he was wholly excluded from the af-

fairs of the kingdom, consulting his own interest,

he departed thence and came to Joppe, and from

thence to Jerusalem.

22Where he was received in a magnicent

manner by Jason, and the city, and came in with

torch lights, and with praises, and from thence

he returned with his army into Phenicia.

23 Three years afterwards Jason sent

Menelaus, brother of the aforesaid Simon, to

carry money to the king, and to bring answers

from him concerning certain necessary aairs.

24But he being recommended to the king,

when he had magnied the appearance of his

power, got the high priesthood for himself, by

oering more than Jason by three hundred tal-

ents of silver.

25So having received the king's mandate, he

returned, bringing nothing worthy of the high

priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel

tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

26Then Jason, who had undermined his own

brother, being himself undermined, was driven

out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.

27So Menelaus got the principality: but as

for the money he had promised to the king, he

took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of

the castle, called for it.

28For to him appertained the gathering of the

taxes: wherefore they were both called before the

king.

29And Menelaus was removed from the1236 Second Book of Machabees

priesthood, Lysimachus, his brother, succeeding:

and Sostratus alas made governor of the Cypri-

ans.

30When these things were in doing, it fell

out that they of Tharsus, and Mallos, raised a

sedition, because they were given for a gift to

Antiochus, the king's concubine.

31The king, therefore, went in all haste to

appease them, leaving Andronicus, one of his no-

bles, for his deputy.

32Then Menelaus supposing that he had

found a convenient time, having stolen certain

vessels of gold out of the temple, gave them to

Andronicus, and others he had sold at Tyre, and

in the neighbouring cities:

33Which when Onias understood most cer-

tainly, he reproved him, keeping himself in a safe

place at Antioch, beside Daphne.

34Whereupon Menelaus coming to Andron-

icus, desired him to kill Onias. And he went

to Onias, and gave him his right hand with an

oath, and (though he were suspected by him)

persuaded him to come forth out of the sanc-

tuary, and immediately slew him, without any

regard to justice.

35For which cause not only the Jews, but also

the other nations, conceived indignation, and

were much grieved for the unjust murder of so

great a man.

36And when the king was come back from the

places of Cilicia, the Jews that were at Antioch,

and also the Greeks, went to him: complaining

of the unjust murder of Onias.

37Antiochus, therefore, was grieved in his

mind for Onias, and being moved to pity, shed

tears, remembering the sobriety and modesty of

the deceased.

38And being in

amed to anger, he com-

manded Andronicus to be stripped of his purple,

and to be led about through all the city: and thatin the same place wherein he had committed the

impiety against Onias, the sacrilegious wretch

should be put to death, the Lord repaying him

his deserved punishment.

39Now when many sacrileges had been com-

mitted by Lysimachus in the temple, by the

counsel of Menelaus, and the rumour of it was

spread abroad, the multitude gathered them-

selves together against Lysimachus, a great

quantity of gold being already carried away.

40Wherefore the multitude making an insur-

rection, and their minds being lled with anger,

Lysimachus armed about three thousand men,

and began to use violence, one Tyrannus being

captain, a man far gone both in age and in mad-

ness.
41But when they perceived the attempt of

Lysimachus, some caught up stones, some strong

clubs, and some threw ashes upon Lysimachus.

42And many of them were wounded, and

some struck down to the ground, but all were

put to

ight: and as for the sacrilegious fellow

himself, they slew him beside the treasury.

43Now concerning these matters, an accusa-

tion was laid against Menelaus.

44And when the king was come to Tyre, three

men were sent from the ancients to plead the

cause before him.

45But Menelaus being convicted, promised

Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade

the king to favour him.

46So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain

court where he was, as it were to cool himself,

and brought him to be of another mind:

47So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil,

was acquitted by him of the accusations: and

those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their

cause even before Scythians, should have been

judged innocent, were condemned to death.

48Thus they that persecuted the cause for theSecond Book of Machabees 1237

city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels,

did soon suer unjust punishment.

49Wherefore even the Tyrians, being moved

with indignation, were very liberal towards their

burial.

50And so through the covetousness of them

that were in power, Menelaus continued in au-

thority, increasing in malice to the betraying of

the citizens.

Chapter 5

At the same time Antiochus prepared for a sec-

ond journey into Egypt.

2And it came to pass, that through the whole

city of Jerusalem, for the space of forty days,

there were seen horsemen running in the air,

in gilded raiment, and armed with spears, like

bands of soldiers.

3And horses set in order by ranks, running

one against another, with the shakings of shields,

and a multitude of men in helmets, with drawn

swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of

golden armour, and of harnesses of all sorts.

4Wherefore all men prayed that these prodi-

gies might turn to good.

5Now when there was gone forth a false ru-

mour as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason

taking with him no fewer than a thousand men,

suddenly assaulted the city: and though the cit-

izens ran together to the wall, the city at length

was taken, and Menelaus

ed into the castle.

6But Jason slew his countrymen without

mercy, not considering that prosperity against

one's own kindred is a very great evil, thinking

they had been enemies, and not citizens, whom

he conquered.

7Yet he did not get the principality, but re-

ceived confusion at the end, for the reward of histreachery, and

ed again into the country of the

Ammonites.

8At the last, having been shut up by Are-

tas, the king of the Arabians, in order for his

destruction,

ying from city to city, hated by all

men, as a forsaker of the laws and execrable, as

an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was

thrust out into Egypt:

9And he that had driven many out of their

country perished in a strange land, going to

Lacedemon, as if for kindred sake he should have

refuge there:

10But he that had cast out many unburied,

was himself cast forth both unlamented and un-

buried, neither having foreign burial, nor being

partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.

11Now when these things were done, the king

suspected that the Jews would forsake the al-

liance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with

a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

12And commanded the soldiers to kill, and

not to spare any that came in their way, and to

go up into the houses to slay.

13Thus there was a slaughter of young and

old, destruction of women and children, and

killing of virgins and infants.

14And there were slain in the space of three

whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand

were made prisoners, and as many sold.

15But this was not enough, he presumed also

to enter into the temple, the most holy in all the

world Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to

his country, being his guide.

16And taking in his wicked hands the holy

vessels, which were given by other kings and

cities, for the ornament and the glory of the

place, he unworthily handled and profaned them.

17Thus Antiochus going astray in mind, did

not consider that God was angry for a while,

because of the sins of the inhabitants of the city:1238 Second Book of Machabees
and therefore this contempt had happened to the

place:

18Otherwise had they not been involved in

many sins, as Heliodorus, who was sent by king

Seleucus to rob the treasury, so this man also,

as soon as he had come, had been forthwith

scourged, and put back from his presumption.

19But God did not choose the people for the

place's sake, but the place for the people's sake.

20And, therefore, the place also itself was

made partaker of the evils of the people: but

afterwards shall communicate in the good things

thereof, and as it was forsaken in the wrath of

Almighty God, shall be exalted again with great

glory, when the great Lord shall be reconciled.

21So when Antiochus had taken away out of

the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents,

he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking

through pride that he might now make the land

navigable, and the sea passable on foot: such

was the haughtiness of his mind.

22He left also governors to aict the people:

at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth, but

in manners more barbarous than he that set him

there:

23 And in Gazarim, Andronicus and

Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon

the citizens than the rest.

24And whereas he was set against the Jews,

he sent that hateful prince, Apollonius, with an

army of two and twenty thousand men, com-

manding him to kill all that were of perfect age,

and to sell the women and the younger sort.

25Who, when he was come to Jerusalem, pre-

tending peace, rested till the holy day of the

sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he

commanded his men to take arms.

26And he slew all that were come forth to

ee: and running through the city with armed

men, he destroyed a very great multitude.27But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth,

had withdrawn himself into a desert place, and

there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains

with his company: and they continued feeding on

herbs, that they might not be partakers of the

pollution.

Chapter 6

But not long after the king sent a certain old

man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart

from the laws of their fathers and of God:

2And to dele the temple that was in

Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter

Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hos-

pitalis, according as they were that inhabited the

place.

3And very bad was this invasion of evils, and

grievous to all.

4For the temple was full of the riot and rev-

ellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with

lewd women. And women thrust themselves of

their accord into the holy places, and brought in

things that were not lawful.

5The altar also was lled with unlawful

things, which were forbidden by the laws.

6And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the

solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did

any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew.

7But they were led by bitter constraint on

the king's birthday to the sacrices: and when

the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were com-

pelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour

of Bacchus.

8And there went out a decree into the neigh-

bouring cities of the Gentiles, by the suggestion

of the Ptolemeans, that they also should act in

like manner against the Jews, to oblige them to

sacrice:Second Book of Machabees 1239

9And whosoever would not conform them-

selves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put

to death: then was misery to be seen.

10For two women were accused to have cir-

cumcised their children: whom, when they had

openly led about through the city, with the in-

fants hanging at their breasts, they threw down

headlong from the walls.

11And others that had met together in caves

that were near, and were keeping the sabbath

day privately, being discovered by Philip, were

burnt with re, because they made a conscience

to help themselves with their hands, by reason

of the religious observance of the day.

12Now I beseech those that shall read this

book, that they be not shocked at these calami-

ties, but that they consider the things that hap-

pened, not as being for the destruction, but for

the correction of our nation.

13For it is a token of great goodness, when

sinners are not suered to go on in their ways

for a long time, but are presently punished.

14For, not as with other nations, (whom the

Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of

judgment shall come, he may punish them in the

fulness of their sins:)

15Doth he also deal with us, so as to suer

our sins to come to their height, and then take

vengeance on us.

16And therefore he never withdraweth his

mercy from us: but though he chastise his people

with adversity he forsaketh them not.

17But let this suce in a few words for a

warning to the readers. And now we must come

to the narration.

18Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes, a

man advanced in years, and of a comely coun-

tenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat

swine's

esh.

19But he, choosing rather a most gloriousdeath than a hateful life, went forward voluntar-

ily to the torment.

20And considering in what manner he was to

come to it, patiently bearing, he determined not

to do any unlawful things for the love of life.

21But they that stood by, being moved with

wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with

the man, taking him aside, desired that

esh

might be brought which it was lawful for him

to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten,

as the king had commanded, of the

esh of the
sacrice:

22That by so doing he might be delivered

from death; and for the sake of their old friend-

ship with the man, they did him this courtesy.

23But he began to consider the dignity of his

age, and his ancient years, and the inbred hon-

our of his grey head, and his good life and con-

versation from a child; and he answered without

delay, according to the ordinances of the holy

law made by God, saying, that he would rather

be sent into the other world.

24For it doth not become our age, said he, to

dissemble: whereby many young persons might

think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore and

ten years, was gone over to the life of the hea-

thens:

25And so they, through my dissimulation,

and for a little time of a corruptible life, should

be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain

and a curse upon my old age.

26For though, for the present time, I should

be delivered from the punishments of men, yet

should I not escape the hand of the Almighty

neither alive nor dead.

27Wherefore, by departing manfully out of

this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old

age:

28And I shall leave an example of fortitude to

young men, if with a ready mind and constancy1240 Second Book of Machabees

I suer an honourable death, for thc most ven-

erable and most holy laws. And having spoken

thus, he was forthwith carried to execution.

29And they that led him, and had been a

little before more mild, were changed to wrath

for the words he had spoken, which they thought

were uttered out of arrogancy.

30But when be was now ready to die with

the stripes, he groaned: and said: O Lord, who

hast the holy knowledge, thou knowest mani-

festly that whereas I might be delivered from

death, I suer grievous pains in body: but in

soul am well content to suer these things, be-

cause I fear thee.

31Thus did this man die, leaving not only

to young men, but also to the whole nation, the

memory of his death, for an example of virtue

and fortitude.

Chapter 7

It came to pass also, that seven brethren, to-

gether with their mother, were apprehended, and

compelled by the king to eat swine's

esh against
the law, for which end they were tormented with

whips and scourges.

2But one of them, who was the eldest, said

thus: What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we

are ready to die, rather than to transgress the

laws of God, received from our fathers.

3Then the king being angry, commanded fry-

ingpans and brazen caldrons to be made hot:

which forthwith being heated,

4He commanded to cut out the tongue of him

that had spoken rst: and the skin of his head

being drawn o, to chop o also the extremities

of his hands and feet, the rest of his brethren

and his mother looking on.

6And when he was now maimed in all parts,he commanded him, being yet alive, to be

brought to the re, and to be fried in the fry-

ingpan: and while he was suering therein long

torments, the rest, together with the mother, ex-

horted one another to die manfully,

6Saying: The Lord God will look upon the

truth, and will take pleasure in us, as Moses de-

clared in the profession of the canticle; And in

his servants he will take pleasure.

7So when the rst was dead after this manner,

they brought the next to make him a mocking

stock: and when they had pulled o the skin

of his head with the hair, they asked him if he

would eat, before he were punished throughout

the whole body in every limb.

8But he answered in his own language, and

said: I will not do it. Wherefore he also, in the

next place, received the torments of the rst:

9And when he was at the last gasp, he said

thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, de-

stroyest us out of this present life: but the King

of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws,

in the resurrection of eternal life.

10After him the third was made a mocking-

stock, and when he was required, he quickly put

forth his tongue, and courageously stretched out

his hands:

11And said with condence: These I have

from heaven, but for the laws of God I now de-

spise them, because I hope to receive them again

from him.

12So that the king, and they that were with

him, wondered at the young man's courage, be-

cause he esteemed the torments as nothing.

13And after he was thus dead, they tor-

mented the fourth in the like manner.

14And when he was now ready to die, he

spoke thus: It is better, being put to death by

men, to look for hope from God, to be raised up

again by him; for, as to thee, thou shalt have noSecond Book of Machabees 1241

resurrection unto life.

15And when they had brought the fth, they

tormented him. But he, looking upon the king,

16Said: Whereas thou hast power among

men though thou art corruptible, thou dost what

thou wilt but think not that our nation is for-

saken by God.

17But stay patiently a while, and thou shalt

see his great power, in what manner he will tor-

ment thee and thy seed.

18After him they brought the sixth, and he

being ready to die, spoke thus: Be not deceived

without cause: for we suer these things for

ourselves, having sinned against our God, and

things worthy of admiration are done to us:

19But do not think that thou shalt escape un-

punished, for that thou hast attempted to ght

against God.

20Now the mother was to be admired above

measure, and worthy to be remembered by good

men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space

of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for

the hope that she had in God:

21And she bravely exhorted every one of

them in her own language, being lled with wis-

dom; and joining a man's heart to a woman's

thought,

22She said to them: I know not how you

were formed in my womb; for I neither gave you

breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the

limbs of every one of you.

23But the Creator of the world, that formed

the nativity of man, and that found out the ori-

gin of all, he will restore to you again, in his

mercy, both breath and life, as now you despise

yourselves for the sake of his laws.

24Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised,

and withal despising the voice of the upbraider,

when the youngest was yet alive, did not only

exhort him by words, but also assured him withan oath, that he would make him a rich and a

happy man, and, if he would turn from the laws

of his fathers, would take him for a friend, and

furnish him with things necessary.

25But when the young man was not moved

with these things, the king called the mother,

and counselled her to deal with the young man

to save his life.

26And when he had exhorted her with many

words she promised that she would counsel her

son.
27So bending herself towards him, mocking

the cruel tyrant, she said in her own language:

My son have pity upon me, that bore thee nine

months in my womb, and gave thee suck three

years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up

unto this age.

28I beseech thee, my son, look upon heaven

and earth, and all that is in them, and con-

sider that God made them out of nothing, and

mankind also:

29So thou shalt not fear this tormentor, but

being made a worthy partner with thy brethren,

receive death, that in that mercy I may receive

thee again with thy brethren.

30While she was yet speaking these words,

the young man said: For whom do you stay? I

will not obey the commandment of the king, but

the commandment of the law which was given us

by Moses.

31But thou that hast been the author of all

mischief against the Hebrews, shalt not escape

the hand of God.

32For we suer thus for our sins.

33And though the Lord, our God, is angry

with us a little while, for our chastisement and

correction, yet he will be reconciled again to his

servants.

34But thou, O wicked, and of all men most

agitious, be not lifted up without cause with1242 Second Book of Machabees

vain hopes, whilst thou art raging against his

servants.

35For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment

of the Almighty God, who beholdeth all things.

36For my brethren having now undergone a

short pain, are under the covenant of eternal life:

but thou, by the judgment of God, shalt receive

just punishment for thy pride.

37But I, like my brethren, oer up my life and

my body for the laws of our fathers: calling upon

God to be speedily merciful to our nation, and

that thou by torments and stripes mayst confess

that he alone is God.

38But in me, and in my brethren, the wrath

of the Almighty, which hath justly been brought

upon all our nation, shall cease.

39Then the king being incensed with anger,

raged against him more cruelly than all the rest,

taking it grievously that he was mocked.

40So this man also died undeled, wholly

trusting in the Lord.

41And last of all, after the sons, the mother

also was consumed.

42But now there is enough said of the sacri-

ces and of the excessive cruelties.

Chapter 8

But Judas Machabeus, and they that were with

him, went privately into the towns: and calling

together their kinsmen and friends, and taking

unto them such as continued in the Jews' reli-

gion, they assembled six thousand men.

2And they called upon the Lord, that he

would look upon his people that was trodden

down by all and would have pity on the temple,

that was deled by the wicked:

3That he would have pity also upon the city

that was destroyed, that was ready to be madeeven with the ground, and would hear the voice

of the blood that cried to him:

4That he would remember also the most un-

just deaths of innocent children, and the blas-

phemies oered to his name, and would shew his

indignation on this occasion.

5Now when Machabeus had gathered a multi-

tude, he could not be withstood by the heathens:

for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.

6So coming unawares upon the towns and

cities, he set them on re, and taking posses-

sion of the most commodious places, he made

no small slaughter of the enemies:

7And especially in the nights he went upon

these expeditions, and the fame of his valour was

spread abroad every where.

8Then Philip seeing that the man gained

ground by little and little, and that things for

the most part succeeded prosperously with him,

wrote to Ptolemee, the governor of Celesyria and

Phenicia, to send aid to the king's aairs.

9And he with all speed sent Nicanor, the son

of Patroclus, one of his special friends, giving

him no fewer than twenty thousand armed men

of dierent nations, to root out the whole race

of the Jews, joining also with him Gorgias, a

good soldier, and of great experience in matters

of war.

11Wherefore he sent immediately to the cities

upon the sea coast, to invite men together to buy

up the Jewish slaves, promising that they should

have ninety slaves for one talent, not re

ecting

on the vengeance which was to follow him from

the Almighty.

12Now when Judas found that Nicanor was

coming, he imparted to the Jews that were with

him, that the enemy was at hand.

13And some of them being afraid, and dis-

trusting the justice of God,

ed away.

14Others sold all that they had left, andSecond Book of Machabees 1243

withal besought the Lord, that he would deliver

them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold

them before he came near them:

15And if not for their sakes, yet for the

covenant that he had made with their fathers,

and for the sake of his holy and glorious name

that was invoked upon them.

16But Machabeus calling together seven

thousand that were with him, exhorted them not

to be reconciled to the enemies, nor to fear the

multitude of the enemies who came wrongfully

against them, but to ght manfully:

17Setting before their eyes the injury they

had unjustly done the holy place, and also the

injury they had done to the city, which had been

shamefully abused, besides their destroying the

ordinances of the fathers.

18For, said he, they trust in their weapons,

and in their boldness: but we trust in the

Almighty Lord, who at a beck can utterly de-

stroy both them that come against us, and the

whole world.
19Moreover, he put them in mind also of the

helps their fathers had received from God: and

how, under Sennacherib, a hundred and eighty-

ve thousand had been destroyed.

20And of the battle that they had fought

against the Galatians, in Babylonia; how they,

being in all but six thousand, when it came to the

point, and the Macedonians, their companions,

were at a stand, slew a hundred and twenty thou-

sand, because of the help they had from heaven,

and for this they received many favours.

21With these words they were greatly encour-

aged and disposed even to die for the laws and

their country.

22So he appointed his brethren captains over

each division of his army; Simon, and Joseph,

and Jonathan, giving to each one fteen hundred

men.23And after the holy book had been read

to them by Esdras, and he had given them for

a watchword, The help of God: himself leading

the rst band, he joined battle with Nicanor:

24And the Almighty being their helper,

they slew above nine thousand men: and hav-

ing wounded and disabled the greater part of

Nicanor's army, they obliged them to

y.
25And they took the money of them that

came to buy them, and they pursued them on

every side.

26But they came back for want of time: for

it was the day before the sabbath: and therefore

they did not continue the pursuit.

27But when they had gathered together their

arms and their spoils, they kept the sabbath:

blessing the Lord who had delivered them that

day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.

28Then after the sabbath they divided the

spoils to the feeble and the orphans, and the

widows, and the rest they took for themselves

and their servants.

29When this was done, and they had all made

a common supplication, they besought the mer-

ciful Lord, to be reconciled to his servants unto

the end.

30Moreover, they slew above twenty thou-

sand of them that were with Timotheus and Bac-

chides, who fought against them, and they made

themselves masters of the high strong holds: and

they divided amongst them many spoils, giving

equal portions to the feeble, the fatherless, and

the widows; yea, and the aged also

31And when they had carefully gathered to-

gether their arms, they laid them all up in conve-

nient places, and the residue of their spoils they

carried to Jerusalem:

32They slew also Philarches, who was with

Timotheus, a wicked man, who had many ways

aicted the Jews.1244 Second Book of Machabees

33And when they kept the feast of the victory

at Jerusalem, they burnt Callisthenes, that had

set re to the holy gates, who had taken refuge

in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy

reward for his impieties:

34But as for that most wicked man, Nicanor,

who had brought a thousand merchants to the

sale of the Jews,

35Being, through the help of the Lord,

brought down by them, of whom he had made no

account, laying aside his garment of glory,

ee-

ing through the midland country, he came alone

to Antioch, being rendered very unhappy by the

destruction of his army.

36And he that had promised to levy the trib-

ute for the Romans, by the means of the captives

of Jerusalem, now professed that the Jews had

God for their protector, and therefore they could

not be hurt, because they followed the laws ap-

pointed by him.

Chapter 9

At that time Antiochus returned with dishonour

out of Persia.

2For he had entered into the city called Perse-

polis, and attempted to rob the temple, and to

oppress the city, but the multitude running to-

gether to arms, put them to

ight: and so it fell

out that Antiochus being put to

ight, returned

with disgrace.

3Now when he was come about Ecbatana,

he received the news of what had happened to

Nicanor and Timotheus.

4And swelling with anger, he thought to re-

venge upon the Jews the injury done by them

that had put him to

ight. And therefore he

commanded his chariot to be driven, without

stopping in his journey, the judgment of heavenurging him forward, because he had spoken so

proudly, that he would come to Jerusalem, and

make it a common burying place of the Jews.

5But the Lord, the God of Israel, that seeth

all things, struck him with an incurable and an

invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended

these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came

upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts.

6And indeed very justly, seeing he had tor-

mented the bowels of others with many and new

torments, albeit he by no means ceased from his

malice.

7Moreover, being lled with pride, breathing

out re in his rage against the Jews, and com-

manding the matter to be hastened, it happened

as he was going with violence, that he fell from

the chariot, so that his limbs were much pained

by a grievous bruising of the body.

8Thus he that seemed to himself to command

even the waves of the sea, being proud above the

condition of man, and to weigh the heights of the

mountains in a balance, now being cast down

to the ground, was carried in a litter, bearing

witness to the manifest power of God in himself:

9So that worms swarmed out of the body of

this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain,

his

esh fell o, and the lthiness of his smell was

noisome to the army.

10And the man that thought a little before

he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man

could endure to carry, for the intolerable stench.

11And by this means, being brought from his

great pride, he began to come to the knowledge

of himself, being admonished by the scourge of

God, his pains increasing every moment.

12And when he himself could not now abide

his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be

subject to God, and that a mortal man should

not equal himself to God.

13Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord,Second Book of Machabees 1245

of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.

14And the city, to which he was going in haste

to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a

common burying place, he now desireth to make

free:

15And the Jews, whom he said he would not

account worthy to be so much as buried, but

would give them up to be devoured by the birds

and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them

with their children, he now promiseth to make

equal with the Athenians.

16The holy temple also, which before he had

spoiled, he promised to adorn with goodly gifts,

and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow

out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the

sacrices.

17Yea also, that he would become a Jew him-

self, and would go through every place of the

earth, and declare the power of God.

18But his pains not ceasing, (for the just

judgment of God was come upon him) despair-

ing of life, he wrote to the Jews, in the manner

of a supplication, a letter in these words:

19To his very good subjects the Jews, Anti-

ochus, king and ruler, wisheth much health, and

welfare, and happiness.

20If you and your children are well, and if all

matters go with you to your mind, we give very

great thanks.

21As for me, being inrm, but yet kindly re-

membering you, returning out of the places of

Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease,

I thought it necessary to take care for the com-

mon good:

22Not distrusting my life, but having great

hope to escape the sickness.

23But considering that my father also, at

what time he led an army into the higher coun-

tries, appointed who should reign after him:

24To the end that if any thing contrary toexpectation should fall out, or any bad tidings

should be brought, they that were in the coun-

tries, knowing to whom the whole government

was left, might not be troubled.

25Moreover, considering that neighbouring

princes, and borderers, wait for opportunities,

and expect what shall be the event, I have ap-

pointed my son, Antiochus, king, whom I often

recommended to many of you, when I went into

the higher provinces: and I have written to him

what I have joined here below.

26I pray you, therefore, and request of you,

that, remembering favours both public and pri-

vate, you will every man of you continue to be

faithful to me and to my son.

27For I trust that he will behave with moder-

ation and humanity, and following my intentions,

will be gracious unto you.

28Thus the murderer and blasphemer being

grievously struck, as himself had treated oth-

ers, died a miserable death in a strange country,

among the mountains.

29But Philip, that was brought up with him,

carried away his body: and out of fear of the

son of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemee

Philometor.

Chapter 10

But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by

the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple

and the city again.

2But he threw down the altars which the hea-

thens had set up in the streets, as also the tem-

ples of the idols.

3And having puried the temple, they made

another altar: and taking re out of the ery

stones, they oered sacrices after two years, and

set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of1246 Second Book of Machabees

proposition.

4And when they had done these things,

they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the

ground, that they might no more fall into such

evils; but if they should at any time sin, that

they might be chastised by him more gently, and

not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphe-

mous men.

5Now upon the same day that the temple had

been polluted by the strangers on the very same

day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the ve and

twentieth day of the month of Casleu.

6And they kept eight days with joy, after the

manner of the feast of the tabernacles, remem-

bering that not long before they had kept the

feast of the tabernacles when they were in the

mountains, and in dens like wild beasts.

7Therefore they now carried boughs and

green branches and palms, for him that had

given them good success in cleansing his place.

8And they ordained by a common statute,

and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should

keep those days every year.

9And this was the end of Antiochus, that was

called the Illustrious.

10But now we will repeat the acts of Eupator,

the son of that wicked Antiochus, abridging the

account of the evils that happened in the wars.

11For when he was come to the crown, he

appointed over the aairs of his realm one Lysias,

general of the army of Phenicia and Syria.

12For Ptolemee, that was called Macer, was

determined to be strictly just to the Jews and

especially by reason of the wrong that had been

done them, and to deal peaceably with them.

13But being accused for this to Eupator by

his friends, and being oftentimes called traitor,

because he had left Cyprus, which Philometor

had committed to him, and coming over to An-

tiochus the Illustrious, had revolted also fromhim, he put an end to his life by poison.

14But Gorgias, who was governor of the

holds, taking with him the strangers, often

fought against the Jews.

15And the Jews that occupied the most com-

modious holds, received those that were driven

out of Jerusalem, and attempted to make war.

16Then they that were with Machabeus, be-

seeching the Lord by prayers to be their helper,

made a strong attack upon the strong holds of

the Idumeans:

17And assaulting them with great force, won

the holds, killed them that came in the way, and

slew altogether no fewer than twenty thousand.

18And whereas some were

ed into very

strong towers, having all manner of provision to

sustain a siege,

19Machabeus left Simon and Joseph, and

Zacheus, and them that were with them, in suf-

cient number to besiege them, and departed to

those expeditions which urged more.

20Now they that were with Simon, being led

with covetousness, were persuaded for the sake

of money by some that were in the towers: and

taking seventy thousand didrachmas, let some of

them escape.

21But when it was told Machabeus what

was done, he assembled the rulers of the people,

and accused those men that they had sold their

brethren for money, having let their adversaries

escape.
22So he put these traitors to death, and forth-

with took the two towers.

23And having good success in arms, and all

things he took in hand, he slew more than twenty

thousand in the two holds.

24But Timotheus, who before had been over-

come by the Jews, having called together a mul-

titude of foreign troops, and assembled horsemen

out of Asia, came as though he would take JudeaSecond Book of Machabees 1247

by force of arms.

26But Machabeus, and they that were with

him, when he drew near, prayed to the Lord,

sprinkling earth upon their heads, and girding

their loins with haircloth,

26And lying prostrate at the foot of the altar,

besought him to be merciful to them, and to be

an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to

their adversaries, as the law saith.

27And so after prayer taking their arms, they

went forth further from the city, and when they

were come very near the enemies they rested.

28But as soon as the sun was risen both sides

joined battle: the one part having, with their val-

our, the Lord for a surety of victory, and success:

but the other side making their rage their leader

in battle.
29But when they were in the heat of the en-

gagement, there appeared to the enemies from

heaven ve men upon horses, comely, with

golden bridles, conducting the Jews:

30Two of them took Machabeus between

them, and covered him on every side with their

arms, and kept him safe; but cast darts and re-

balls against the enemy, so that they fell down,

being both confounded with blindness, and lled

with trouble.

31And there were slain twenty thousand ve

hundred, and six hundred horsemen.

32But Timotheus

ed into Gazara, a strong

hold where Chereas was governor.

33Then Machabeus, and they that were with

him cheerfully laid siege to the fortress four days.

34But they that were within, trusting to the

strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly,

and cast forth abominable words.

35But when the fth day appeared, twenty

young men of them that were with Machabeus,

in

amed in their minds, because of the blas-

phemy, approached manfully to the wall, andpushing forward with erce courage, got up upon

it:
36Moreover, others also getting up after

them, went to set re to the towers and the gates,

and to burn the blasphemers alive.

37And having for two days together pillaged

and sacked the fortress, they killed Timotheus,

who was found hid in a certain place: they slew

also his brother Chereas, and Apollophanes.

38And when this was done, they blessed the

Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, who had

done great things in Israel, and given them the

victory.

Chapter 11

A short time after this Lysias, the king's lieu-

tenant, and cousin, and who had chief charge

over all the aairs, being greatly displeased with

what had happened,

2Gathered together fourscore thousand men,

and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews,

thinking to take the city, and make it a habita-

tion of the Gentiles:

3And to make a gain of the temple, as of the

other temples of the Gentiles and to set the high

priesthood to sale every year:

4Never considering the power of God, but

pued up in mind, and trusting in the multi-

tude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of

his horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.

5So he came into Judea, and approaching to

Bethsura, which was in a narrow place, the space

of ve furlongs from Jerusalem, he laid siege to

that fortress.

6But when Machabeus, and they that were

with him, understood that the strong holds were

besieged, they and all the people besought the

Lord with lamentations and tears, that he would1248 Second Book of Machabees

send a good angel to save Israel.

7Then Machabeus himself rst taking his

arms, exhorted the rest to expose themselves to-

gether with him, to the danger, and to succour

their brethren.

8And when they were going forth together

with a willing mind, there appeared at Jerusalem

a horseman going before them in white clothing,

with golden armour, shaking a spear.

9Then they all together blessed the merciful

Lord, and took great courage: being ready to

break through not only men, but also the ercest

beasts, and walls of iron.

10So they went on courageously, having a

helper from heaven, and the Lord, who shewed

mercy to them.

11And rushing violently upon the enemy, like

lions, they slew of them eleven thousand foot-

men, and one thousand six hundred horsemen:

12And put all the rest to

ight; and many

of them being wounded, escaped naked: Yea,

and Lysias himself

ed away shamefully, and es-

caped.

13And as he was a man of understanding,

considering with himself the loss he had suered,

and perceiving that the Hebrews could not be

overcome, because they relied upon the help of

the Almighty God, he sent to them:

14And promised that he would agree to all

things that are just, and that he would persuade

the king to be their friend.

15Then Machabeus consented to the request

of Lysias, providing for the common good in

all things; and whatsoever Machabeus wrote to

Lysias, concerning the Jews, the king allowed of.

16For there were letters written to the Jews

from Lysias, to this eect: Lysias, to the people

of the Jews, greeting.

17John, and Abesalom, who were sent from

you, delivering your writings, requested that Iwould accomplish those things which were signi-

ed by them.
18Therefore whatsoever things could be re-

ported to the king, I have represented to him:

and he hath granted as much as the matter per-

mitted.

19If, therefore, you will keep yourselves loyal

in aairs, hereafter also I will endeavour to be a

means of your good.

20But as concerning other particulars, I have

given orders by word both to these, and to them

that are sent by me, to commune with you.

21Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and

forty-eight, the four and twentieth day of the

month of Dioscorus.

22But the king's letter contained these words

King Antiochus to Lysias, his brother, greeting.

23Our father being translated amongst the

gods we are desirous that they that are in our

realm should live quietly, and apply themselves

diligently to their own concerns.

24And we have heard that the Jews would

not consent to my father to turn to the rites of

the Greeks but that they would keep to their own

manner of living and therefore that they request

us to allow them to live after their own laws.

25Wherefore being desirous that this nation

also should be at rest, we have ordained and

decreed, that the temple should be restored to

them, and that they may live according to the

custom of their ancestors.

26Thou shalt do well, therefore, to send to

them, and grant them peace, that our pleasure

being known, they may be of good comfort, and

look to their own aairs.

27But the king's letter to the Jews was in

this manner: King Antiochus to the senate of

the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews, greeting.

28If you are well, you are as we desire: we

ourselves also are well.Second Book of Machabees 1249

29Menelaus came to us, saying that you de-

sired to come down to your countrymen, that are

with us.

30We grant, therefore, a safe conduct to all

that come and go, until the thirtieth day of the

month of Xanthicus,

31That the Jews may use their own kind of

meats, and their own laws, as before: and that

none of them any manner of ways be molested

for things which have been done by ignorance.

32And we have sent also Menelaus to speak

to you.

33Fare ye well. In the year one hundred

and forty-eight, the fteenth day of the month

of Xanthicus.

34The Romans also sent them a letter, to this

eect: Quintus Memmius, and Titus Manilius,

ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the

Jews, greeting.

35Whatsoever Lysias, the king's cousin, hath

granted to you, we also have granted.

36But touching such things as he thought

should be referred to the king, after you have

diligently conferred among yourselves, send some

one forthwith, that we may decree as it is con-

venient for you: for we are going to Antioch.

37And therefore make haste to write back,

that we may know of what mind you are.

38Fare ye well. In the year one hundred

and forty-eight, the fteenth day of the month

of Xanthicus.

Chapter 12

When these covenants were made, Lysias went

to the king, and the Jews gave themselves to

husbandry.

2But they that were behind, viz. Timo-

theus, and Apollonius, the son of Genneus, alsoHieronymus, and Demophon, and besides them

Nicanor, the governor of Cyprus, would not suf-

fer them to live in peace, and to be quiet.

3The men of Joppe also were guilty of this

kind of wickedness: they desired the Jews, who

dwelt among them, to go with their wives and

children into the boats, which they had prepared,

as though they had no enmity to them.

4Which when they had consented to, accord-

ing to the common decree of the city, suspecting

nothing, because of the peace: when they were

gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer

than two hundred of them.

5But as soon as Judas heard of this cruelty

done to his countrymen, he commanded the men

that were with him: and after having called upon

God, the just judge,

6He came against those murderers of his

brethren, and set the haven on re in the night,

burnt the boats, and slew with the sword them

that escaped from the re.

7And when he had done these things in this

manner, he departed as if he would return again,

and root out all the Joppites.

8But when he understood that the men of

Jamnia also designed to do in like manner to the

Jews that dwelt among them,

9He came upon the Jamnites also by night,

and set the haven on re, with the ships, so that

the light of the re was seen at Jerusalem, two

hundred and forty furlongs o.

10And when they were now gone from thence

nine furlongs, and were marching towards Tim-

otheus, ve thousand footmen, and ve hundred

horsemen of the Arabians, set upon them.

11And after a hard ght, in which, by the

help of God, they got the victory, the rest of

the Arabians being overcome, besought Judas for

peace, promising to give him pastures, and to

assist him in other things.1250 Second Book of Machabees

12And Judas thinking that they might be

protable indeed in many things, promised them

peace, and after having joined hands, they de-

parted to their tents.

13He also laid siege to a certain strong city,

encompassed with bridges and walls, and inhab-

ited by multitudes of dierent nations, the name

of which is Casphin.

14But they that were within it, trusting in

the strength of the walls, and the provision of

victuals, behaved in a more negligent manner,

and provoked Judas with railing and blasphem-

ing, and uttering such words as were not to be

spoken.

15But Machabeus calling upon the great Lord

of the world, who without any rams or engines

of war threw down the walls of Jericho, in the

time of Josue, ercely assaulted the walls.

16And having taken the city by the will of the

Lord, he made an unspeakable slaughter, so that

a pool adjoining, of two furlongs broad, seemed

to run with the blood of the slain.

17From thence they departed seven hundred

and fty furlongs, and came to Characa, to the

Jews that are called Tubianites.

18But as for Timotheus, they found him not

in those places, for before he had dispatched any

thing he went back, having left a very strong

garrison in a certain hold:

19But Dositheus, and Sosipater, who were

captains with Machabeus, slew them that were

left by Timotheus in the hold, to the number of

ten thousand men.

20And Machabeus having set in order about

him six thousand men, and divided them by

bands, went forth against Timotheus, who had

with him a hundred and twenty thousand foot-

men, aad two thousand ve hundred horsemen.

21Now when Timotheus had knowledge of the

coming of Judas, he sent the women and chil-dren, and the other baggage, before him into a

fortress, called Carnion: for it was impregnable,

and hard to come at, by reason of the straitness

of the places.

22But when the rst band of Judas came in

sight, the enemies were struck with fear, by the

presence of God, who seeth all things, and they

were put to

ight one from another, so that they

were often thrown down by their own compan-

ions, and wounded with the strokes of their own

swords.

23But Judas pursued them close, punishing

the profane, of whom he slew thirty thousand

men.

24And Timotheus himself fell into the hands

of the band of Dositheus and Sosipater, and with

many prayers he besought them to let him go

with his life, because he had the parents and

brethren of many of the Jews, who, by his death,

might happen to be deceived.

25And when he had given his faith that he

would restore them according to the agreement,

they let him go without hurt, for the saving of

their brethren.

26Then Judas went away to Carnion, where

he slew ve and twenty thousand persons.

27And after he had put to

ight and de-

stroyed these, he removed his army to Ephron,

a strong city, wherein there dwelt a multitude of

divers nations: and stout young men standing

upon the walls, made a vigorous resistance: and

in this place there were many engines of war, and

a provision of darts.

28 But when they had invocated the

Almighty, who with his power breaketh the

strength of the enemies, they took the city: and

slew ve and twenty thousand of them that were

within.

29From thence they departed to Scythopolis,

which lieth six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem.Second Book of Machabees 1251

30But the Jews that were among the

Scythopolitans testifying that they were used

kindly by them, and that even in the times of

their adversity they had treated them with hu-

manity:

31They gave them thanks, exhorting them

to be still friendly to their nation, and so they

came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks being

at hand.

32And after Pentecost they marched against

Gorgias, the governor of Idumea.

33And he came out with three thousand foot-

men and four hundred horsemen.

34And when they had joined battle, it hap-

pened that a few of the Jews were slain.

35But Dositheus, a horseman, one of Ba-

cenor's band, a valiant man, took hold of Gor-

gias: and when he would have taken him alive,

a certain horseman of the Thracians came upon

him, and cut o his shoulder: and so Gorgias

escaped to Maresa.

36But when they that were with Esdrin had

fought long, and were weary, Judas called upon

the Lord to be their helper, and leader of the

battle:

37Then beginning in his own language, and

singing hymns with a loud voice, he put Gor-

gias's soldiers to

ight.

38So Judas having gathered together his

army, came into the city Odollam: and when

the seventh day came, they puried themselves

according to the custom, and kept the sabbath

in the same place.

39And the day following Judas came with his

company, to take away the bodies of them that

were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen,

in the sepulchres of their fathers.

40And they found under the coats of the

slain, some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia,

which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that allplainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.

41Then they all blessed the just judgment

of the Lord, who had discovered the things that

were hidden.

42And so betaking themselves to prayers,

they besought him, that the sin which had been

committed might be forgotten. But the most

valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep them-

selves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before

their eyes what had happened, because of the

sins of those that were slain.

43And making a gathering, he sent twelve

thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sac-

rice to be oered for the sins of the dead, think-

ing well and religiously concerning the resurrec-

tion.

44(For if he had not hoped that they that

were slain should rise again, it would have

seemed super

uous and vain to pray for the

dead,)

45And because he considered that they who

had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace

laid up for them.

46It is therefore a holy and wholesome

thought to pray for the dead, that they may be

loosed from sins.

Chapter 13

In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas

understood that Antiochus Eupator was coming

with a multitude against Judea,

2And with him Lysias, the regent, who had

charge over the aairs of the realm, having with

him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, ve

thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and

three hundred chariots.

3Menelaus also joined himself with them: and

with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not1252 Second Book of Machabees

for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that

he should be appointed chief ruler.

4But the King of kings stirred up the mind

of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias

suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils,

he commanded (as the custom is with them) that

he should be apprehended and put to death in

the same place.

5Now there was in that place a tower fty

cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side:

this had a prospect steep down.

6From thence he commanded the sacrilegious

wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men

thrusting him forward unto death.

7And by such a law it happened that

Menelaus the transgressor of the law, was put

to death: not having so much as burial in the

earth.

8And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he

had committed many sins against the altar of

God, the re and ashes of which were holy: he

was condemned to die in ashes.

9But the king, with his mind full of rage,

came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than

his father was.

10Which when Judas understood, he com-

manded the people to call upon the Lord day

and night, that as he had always done, so now

also he would help them:

11Because they were afraid to be deprived of

the law, and of their country, and of the holy

temple: and that he would not suer the people,

that had of late taken breath for a little while, to

be again in subjection to blasphemous nations.

12So when they had all done this together,

and had craved mercy of the Lord with weeping

and fasting, lying prostrate on the ground for

three days continually, Judas exhorted them to

make themselves ready.

13But he, with the ancients, determined be-fore the king should bring his army into Judea,

and make himself master of the city, to go out,

and to commit the event of the thing to the judg-

ment of the Lord.

14So committing all to God, the Creator of

the world, and having exhorted his people to

ght manfully, and to stand up even to death

for the laws, the temple, the city, their country,

and citizens: he placed his army about Modin.

15And having given his company for a watch-

word, The victory of God, with most valiant cho-

sen young men, he set upon the king's quarter by

night, and slew four thousand men in the camp,

and the greatest of the elephants, with them that

had been upon him,

16And having lled the camp of the enemies

with exceeding great fear and tumult, they went

o with good success.

17Now this was done at the break of day, by

the protection and help of thc Lord.

18But the king having taken a taste of the

hardiness of the Jews, attempted to take the

strong places by policy:

19And he marched with his army to Beth-

sura, which was a strong hold of the Jews: but

he was repulsed, he failed, he lost his men.

20Now Judas sent necessaries to them that

were within

21But Rhodocus, one of the Jews' army, dis-

closed the secrets to the enemies, so he was

sought out, and taken up, and put iu prison.

22Again the king treated with them that were

in Bethsura: gave his right hand: took theirs:

and went away.

23He fought with Judas: and was overcome.

And when he understood that Philip, who had

been left over the aairs, had rebelled at An-

tioch, he was in a consternation of mind, and

intreating the Jews, and yielding to them, he

swore to all things that seemed reasonable, and,Second Book of Machabees 1253

being reconciled, oered sacrice, honoured the

temple, and left gifts.

24He embraced Machabeus, and made him

governor and prince from Ptolemais unto the

Gerrenians.

25But when he was come to Ptolemais, the

men of that city were much displeased with the

conditions of the peace, being angry for fear they

should break the covenant.

26Then Lysias went up to the judgment seat,

and set forth the reason, and appeased the peo-

ple, and returned to Antioch: and thus matters

went with regard to the king's coming and his

return.

Chapter 14

But after the space of three years Judas, and

they that were with him, understood that

Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, was come up

with a great power, and a navy by the haven

of Tripolis, to places proper for his purpose,

2And had made himself master of the coun-

tries against Antiochus, and his general, Lysias.

3Now one Alcimus, who had been chief priest,

but had wilfully deled himself in the time of

mingling with the heathens, seeing that there

was no safety for him, nor access to the altar,

4Came to king Demetrius in the year one

hundred and fty, presenting unto him a crown

of gold, and a palm, and besides these, some

boughs that seemed to belong to the temple.

And that day indeed he held his peace.

5But having gotten a convenient time to fur-

ther his madness, being called to counsel by

Demetrius, and asked what the Jews relied upon,

and what were their counsels,

6He answered thereunto: They among the

Jews that are called Assideans, of whom JudasMachabeus is captain, nourish wars, and raise

seditions, and will not suer the realm to be in

peace.

7For I also being deprived of my ancestor's

glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now

come hither:

8Principally indeed out of delity to the

king's interests, but in the next place also to pro-

vide for the good of my countrymen: for all our

nation suereth much from the evil proceedings

of these men.

9Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all

these things, take care, I beseech thee, both of

the country, and of our nation, according to thy

humanity which is known to all men.

10For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible

that the state should be quiet.

11Now when this man had spoken to this ef-

fect the rest also of the king's friends, who were

enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against

him.

12And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the com-

mander over the elephants, governor into Judea:

13Giving him in charge, to take Judas him-

self: and disperse all them that were with him,

and to make Alcimus the high priest of the great

temple.

14Then the Gentiles who had

ed out of

Judea, from Judas, came to Nicanor by

ocks,

thinking the miseries and calamities of the Jews

to be the welfare of their aairs.

15Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor's

coming, and that the nations were assembled

against them, they cast earth upon their heads,

and made supplication to him who chose his peo-

ple to keep them for ever, and who protected his

portion by evident signs.

16Then at the commandment of their cap-

tain, they forthwith removed from the place

where they were, and went to the town of1254 Second Book of Machabees

Dessau, to meet them.

17Now Simon, the brother of Judas, had

joined battle with Nicanor: but was frightened

with the sudden coming of the adversaries.

18Nevertheless Nicanor hearing of the val-

our of Judas's companions, and the greatness of

courage, with which they fought for their coun-

try, was afraid to try the matter by the sword.

19 Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and

Theodotius and Matthias before to present and

receive the right hands.

20And when there had been a consultation

thereupon, and the captain had acquainted the

multitude with it, they were all of one mind to

consent to covenants.

21So they appointed a day upon which they

might comne together by themselves: and seats

were brought out, and set for each one.

22But Judas ordered armed men to be ready

in convenient places, lest some mischief might be

suddenly practised by the enemies: so they made

an agreeable conference.

23And Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did

no wrong, but sent away the

ocks of the multi-

tudes that had been gathered together.

24And Judas was always dear to him from

the heart, and he was well aected to the man.

25And he desired him to marry a wife, and to

have children. So he married: he lived quietly,

and they lived in common.

26But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to

another, and the covenants, came to Demetrius,

and told him that Nicanor had assented to the

foreign interest, for that he meant to make Ju-

das, who was a traitor to the kingdom, his suc-

cessor.

27Then the king, being in a rage, and pro-

voked with this man's wicked accusation, wrote

to Nicanor, signifying that he was greatly dis-

pleased with the covenant of friendship: and thathe commanded him nevertheless to send Mach-

abeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch.

28When this was known, Nicanor was in a

consternation, and took it grievously that he

should make void the articles that were agreed

upon, having received no injury from the man.

29But because he could not oppose the king,

he watched an opportunity to comply with the

orders

30But when Machabeus perceived that

Nicanor was more stern to him, and that when

they met together as usual he behaved himself

in a rough manner; and was sensible that this

rough behaviour came not of good, he gathered

together a few of his men, and hid himself from

Nicanor.

31But he nding himself notably prevented

by the man, came to the great and holy tem-

ple: and commanded the priests that were oer-

ing the accustomed sacrices, to deliver him the

man.

32And when they swore unto him, that they

knew not where the man was whom he sought,

he stretched out his hand to the temple,

33And swore, saying: Unless you deliver Ju-

das prisoner to me, I will lay this temple of God

even with the ground, and will beat down the al-

tar, and I will dedicate this temple to Bacchus.

34And when he had spoken thus, he departed.

But the priests stretching forth their hands to

heaven, called upon him that was ever the de-

fender of their nation, saying in this manner:

35Thou, O Lord of all things, who wantest

nothing, wast pleased that the temple of thy

habitation should be amongst us.

36Therefore now, O Lord, the holy of all

holies, keep this house for ever undeled, which

was lately cleansed.

37Now Razias, one of the ancients of

Jerusalem, was accused to Nicanor, a man thatSecond Book of Machabees 1255

was a lover of the city, and of good report, who

for his kindness was called the father of the Jews.

38This man, for a long time, had held fast

his purpose of keeping himself pure in the Jews'

religion, and was ready to expose his body and

life, that he might persevere therein.

39So Nicanor being willing to declare the ha-

tred that he bore the Jews, sent ve hundred

soldiers to take him.

40For he thought by ensnaring him to hurt

the Jews very much.

41Now as the multitude sought to rush into

his house, and to break open the door, and to

set re to it, when he was ready to be taken, he

struck himself with his sword:

42Choosing to die nobly rather than to fall

into the hands of the wicked, and to suer abuses

unbecoming his noble birth.

43But whereas through haste he missed of

giving a sure wound, and the crowd was breaking

into the doors, he ran boldly to the wall, and

manfully threw himself down to the crowd:

44But they quickly making room for his fall,

he came upon the midst of the neck.

45And as he had yet breath in him, being in-

amed in mind, he arose: and while his blood ran

down with a great stream, and he was grievously

wounded, he ran through the crowd:

46And standing upon a steep rock, when

he was now almost without blood, grasping his

bowels, with both hands he cast them upon the

throng, calling upon the Lord of life and spirit,

to restore these to him again: and so he departed

this life.

Chapter 15
But when Nicanor understood that Judas was in

the places of Samaria, he purposed to set uponhim with all violence, on the sabbath day.

2And when the Jews that were constrained

to follow him, said: Do not act so ercely and

barbarously, but give honour to the day that is

sanctied: and reverence him that beholdeth all

things:

3That unhappy man asked, if there were a

mighty One in heaven, that had commanded the

sabbath day to be kept.

4And when they answered: There is the living

Lord himself in heaven, the mighty One, that

commanded the seventh day to be kept.

5Then he said: And I am mighty upon the

earth, and I command to take arms, and to do

the king's business. Nevertheless he prevailed

not to accomplish his design.

6So Nicanor being pued up with exceeding

great pride, thought to set up a public monument

of his victory over Judas.

7But Machabeus ever trusted with all hope

that God would help them.

8And he exhorted his people not to fear the

coming of the nations, but to remember the help

they had before received from heaven, and now

to hope for victory from the Almighty.

9And speaking to them out of the law, and

the prophets, and withal putting them in mind

of the battles they had fought before, he made

them more cheerful:

10Then after he had encouraged them, he

shewed withal the falsehood of the Gentiles, and

their breach of oaths.

11So he armed every one of them, not with

defence of shield and spear, but with very good

speeches, and exhortations, and told them a

dream worthy to be believed, whereby he re-

joiced them all.

12Now the vision was in this manner. Onias,

who had been high priest, a good and virtuous

man, modest in his looks, gentle in his manners,1256 Second Book of Machabees

and graceful in speech, and who from a child was

exercised in virtues holding up his hands, prayed

for all the people of the Jews:

13After this there appeared also another

man, admirable for age, and glory, and environed

with great beauty and majesty:

14Then Onias answering, said: This is a lover

of his brethren, and of the people of Israel: this

is he that prayeth much for the people, and for

all the holy city, Jeremias, the prophet of God.

15Whereupon Jeremias stretched forth his

right hand, and gave to Judas a sword of gold,

saying:

16Take this holy sword, a gift from God,

wherewith thou shalt overthrow the adversaries

of my people Israel.

17Thus being exhorted with the words of Ju-

das, which were very good, and proper to stir

up the courage, and strengthen the hearts of the

young men, they resolved to ght, and to set

upon them manfully: that valour might decide

the matter, because the holy city, and the temple

were in danger.

18For their concern was less for their wives,

and children, and for their brethren, and kins-

folks: but their greatest and principal fear was

for the holiness of the temple.

19And they also that were in the city, had no

little concern for them that were to be engaged

in battle.

20And now when all expected what judgment

would be given, and the enemies were at hand,

and the army was set in array, the beasts and

the horsemen ranged in convenient places,

21Machabeus considering the coming of the

multitude, and the divers preparations of ar-

mour, and the erceness of the beasts, stretch-

ing out his hands to heaven, called upon the

Lord, that worketh wonders, who giveth victory

to them that are worthy, not according to thepower of their arms, but according as it seemeth

good to him.

22And in his prayer he said after this manner:

Thou, O Lord, who didst send thy angel in the

time of Ezechias, king of Juda, and didst kill a

hundred and eighty-ve thousand of the army of

Sennacherib:

23Send now also, O Lord of heaven, thy good

angel before us, for the fear and dread of the

greatness of thy arm,

24That they may be afraid, who come with

blasphemy against thy holy people. And thus he

concluded his prayer.

25But Nicanor, and they that were with him

came forward, with trumpets and songs.

26But Judas, and they that were with him,

encountered them, calling upon God by prayers:

27So ghting with their hands, but praying to

the Lord with their hearts, they slew no less than

ve and thirty thousand, being greatly cheered

with the presence of God.

28And when the battle was over, and they

were returning with joy, they understood that

Nicanor was slain in his armour.

29Then making a shout, and a great noise,

they blessed the Almighty Lord in their own lan-

guage.

30And Judas, who was altogether ready, in

body and mind, to die for his countrymen, com-

manded that Nicanor's head, and his hand, with

the shoulder, should be cut o, and carried to

Jerusalem.

31And when he was come thither, having

called together his countrymen, and the priests

to the altar, he sent also for them that were in

the castle,

32And shewing them the head of Nicanor,

and the wicked hand, which he had stretched

out, with proud boasts, against the holy house

of the Almighty God,Second Book of Machabees 1257

33He commanded also, that the tongue of the

wicked Nicanor should be cut out, and given by

pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man

to be hanged up over against the temple.

34Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, say-

ing: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place

undeled.

35And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top

of the castle, that it might be an evident and

manifest sign of the help of God.

36And they all ordained by a common de-

cree, by no means to let this day pass without

solemnity:

37But to celebrate the thirteenth day of the

month of Adar, called in the Syrian language,

the day before Mardochias' day.

38So these things being done with relation

to Nicanor, and from that time the city being

possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make

an end of my narration.

39Which if I have done well, and as it be-

cometh the history, it is what I desired: but if

not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me.

40For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or

always water, but pleasant to use sometimes the

one, and sometimes the other: so if the speech

be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful

to the readers. But here it shall be ended.Part II

New TestamentThe Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,

According to St. Matthew

Chapter 1

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the

son of David, the son of Abraham:

2Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Ja-

cob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren.

3And Judas begot Phares and Zara of

Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And Esron

begot Aram.

4And Aram begot Aminadab. And Am-

inadab begot Naasson. And Naasson begot

Salmon.

5And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And

Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And Obed begot

Jesse.

6And Jesse begot David the king. And David

the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the

wife of Urias.

7And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam

begot Abia. And Abia begot Asa.

8And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat be-

got Joram. And Joram begot Ozias.

9And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham

begot Achaz. And Achaz begot Ezechias.

10And Ezechias begot Manasses. And

Manesses begot Amon. And Amon begot Josias.

11And Josias begot Jechonias and his

brethren in the transmigration of Babylon.

12And after the transmigration of Babylon,Jechonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot

Zorobabel.

13And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud

begot Eliacim. And Eliacim begot Azor.

14And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot

Achim. And Achim begot Eliud.

15And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar be-

got Mathan. And Mathan begot Jacob.

16And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of

Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called

Christ.

17So all the generations, from Abraham to

David, are fourteen generations. And from

David to the transmigration of Babylon, are

fourteen generations: and from the transmigra-

tion of Babylon to Christ are fourteen genera-

tions.

18Now the generation of Christ was in this

wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused

to Joseph, before they came together, she was

found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

19Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a

just man, and not willing publicly to expose her,

was minded to put her away privately.

20But while he thought on these things, be-

hold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in

his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not

to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which

is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew

1261

21And she shall bring forth a son: and thou

shalt call his name JESUS. For he shall save his

people from their sins.

22Now all this was done that it might be

fullled which the Lord spoke by the prophet,

saying:

23Behold a virgin shall be with child, and

bring forth a son, and they shall call his name

Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with

us.

24And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the

angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took

unto him his wife.

25And he knew her not till she brought forth

her rstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

Chapter 2

When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of

Juda, in the days of king Herod, behold, there

came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.

2Saying, Where is he that is born king of the

Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and

are come to adore him.

3And king Herod hearing this, was troubled,

and all Jerusalem with him.

4And assembling together all the chief priests

and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them

where Christ should be born.

5But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda.

For so it is written by the prophet:

6And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art

not the least among the princes of Juda: for out

of thee shall come forth the captain that shall

rule my people Israel.

7Then Herod, privately calling the wise men,

learned diligently of them the time of the star

which appeared to them;

8And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Goand diligently inquire after the child, and when

you have found him, bring me word again, that

I also may come to adore him.

9Who having heard the king, went their way;

and behold the star which they had seen in the

east, went before them, until it came and stood

over where the child was.

10And seeing the star they rejoiced with ex-

ceeding great joy.

11And entering into the house, they found the

child with Mary his mother, and falling down

they adored him; and opening their treasures,

they oered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and

myrrh.

12And having received an answer in sleep

that they should not return to Herod, they went

back another way into their country.

13And after they were departed, behold an

angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph,

saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother,

and

y into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell

thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will

seek the child to destroy him.

14Who arose, and took the child and his

mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and

he was there until the death of Herod:

15That it might be fullled which the Lord

spoke by the prophet, saying: Out of Egypt have

I called my son.

16Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded

by the wise men, was exceeding angry; and send-

ing killed all the men children that were in Beth-

lehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two

years old and under, according to the time which

he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

17Then was fullled that which was spoken

by Jeremias the prophet, saying:

18A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation

and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her chil-

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to St. Matthew

are not.
19But when Herod was dead, behold an angel

of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt,

20Saying: Arise, and take the child and his

mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they

are dead that sought the life of the child.

21Who arose, and took the child and his

mother, and came into the land of Israel.

22But hearing that Archelaus reigned in

Judea in the room of Herod his father, he was

afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep

retired into the quarters of Galilee.

23And coming he dwelt in a city called

Nazareth: that it might be fullled which was

said by prophets: That he shall be called a

Nazarene.

Chapter 3

And in those days cometh John the Baptist

preaching in the desert of Judea.

2And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom

of heaven is at hand.

3For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias

the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the

desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make

straight his paths.

4And the same John had his garment of

camels' hair, and a leathern girdle about his

loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

5Then went out to him Jerusalem and all

Judea, and all the country about Jordan:

6And were baptized by him in the Jordan,

confessing their sins.

7And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sad-

ducees coming to his baptism, he said to them:

Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to

ee

from the wrath to come?8Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of

penance.

9And think not to say within yourselves, We

have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that

God is able of these stones to raise up children

to Abraham.

10For now the axe is laid to the root of the

trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield

good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the

re.

11I indeed baptize you in the water unto

penance, but he that shall come after me, is

mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy

to bear; he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost

and re.

12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thor-

oughly cleanse his

oor and gather his wheat

into the barn; but the cha he will burn with

unquenchable re.

13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jor-

dan, unto John, to be baptized by him.

14But John stayed him, saying: I ought to

be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?

15And Jesus answering, said to him: Suer

it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulll

all justice. Then he suered him.

16And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came

out of the water: and lo, the heavens were

opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God

descending as a dove, and coming upon him.

17And behold a voice from heaven, saying:

This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well

pleased.

Chapter 4

Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert,

to be tempted by the devil.The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew 1263

2And when he had fasted forty days and forty

nights, afterwards he was hungry.

3And the tempter coming said to him: If thou

be the Son of God, command that these stones

be made bread.

4Who answered and said: It is written, Not

in bread alone doth man live, but in every word

that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

5Then the devil took him up into the holy

city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,

6And said to him: If thou be the Son of God,

cast thyself down, for it is written: That he hath

given his angels charge over thee, and in their

hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou

dash thy foot against a stone.

7Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou

shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

8Again the devil took him up into a very high

mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of

the world, and the glory of them,

9And said to him: All these will I give thee,

if falling down thou wilt adore me.

10Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan:

for it is written, The Lord thy God shalt thou

adore, and him only shalt thou serve.

11Then the devil left him; and behold angels

came and ministered to him.

12And when Jesus had heard that John was

delivered up, he retired into Galilee:

13And leaving the city Nazareth, he came

and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in

the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim;

14That it might be fullled which was said

by Isaias the prophet:

15Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim,

the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of

the Gentiles:

16The people that sat in darkness, hath seen

great light: and to them that sat in the region

of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.17From that time Jesus began to preach, and

to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven

is at hand.

18And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee,

saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter,

and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the

sea (for they were shers).

19And he saith to them: Come ye after me,

and I will make you to be shers of men.

20And they immediately leaving their nets,

followed him.

21And going on from thence, he saw other

two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and

John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their

father, mending their nets: and he called them.

22And they forthwith left their nets and fa-

ther, and followed him.

23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching

in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of

the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness

and every inrmity, among the people.

24And his fame went throughout all Syria,

and they presented to him all sick people that

were taken with divers diseases and torments,

and such as were possessed by devils, and lu-

natics, and those that had palsy, and he cured

them:

25And much people followed him from

Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from

Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from be-

yond the Jordan.

Chapter 5

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a

mountain, and when he was set down, his disci-

ples came unto him.

2And opening his mouth, he taught them,

saying:1264 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew

3Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is

the kingdom of heaven.

4Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess

the land.

5Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall

be comforted.

6Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after

justice: for they shall have their ll.

7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall ob-

tain mercy.

8Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall

see God.

9Blesses are the peacemakers: for they shall

be called children of God.

10Blessed are they that suer persecution for

justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11Blessed are ye when they shall revile you,

and persecute you, and speak all that is evil

against you, untruly, for my sake:

12Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is

very great in heaven. For so they persecuted

the prophets that were before you.

13You are the salt of the earth. But if the

salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

It is good for nothing any more but to be cast

out, and to be trodden on by men.

14You are the light of the world. A city seated

on a mountain cannot be hid.

15Neither do men light a candle and put it

under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it

may shine to all that are in the house.

16So let your light shine before men, that

they may see your good works, and glorify your

Father who is in heaven.

17Do not think that I am come to destroy the

law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy,

but to fulll.

18For amen I say unto you, till heaven and

earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of

the law, till all be fullled.19He therefore that shall break one of these

least commandments, and shall so teach men,

shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.

But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called

great in the kingdom of heaven.

20For I tell you, that unless your justice

abound more than that of the scribes and Phar-

isees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of

heaven.

21You have heard that it was said to them

of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall

kill shall be in danger of the judgment.

22But I say to you, that whosoever is angry

with his brother, shall be in danger of the judg-

ment. And whosoever shall say to his brother,

Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And

whosoever shall say, Thou Fool, shall be in dan-

ger of hell re.

23If therefore thou oer thy gift at the altar,

and there thou remember that thy brother hath

any thing against thee;

24Leave there thy oering before the altar,

and go rst to be reconciled to thy brother: and

then coming thou shalt oer thy gift.

25Be at agreement with thy adversary be-

times, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest

perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge,

and the judge deliver thee to the ocer, and thou

be cast into prison.

26Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out

from thence till thou repay last farthing.

27You have heard that it was said to them of

old: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

28But I say to you, that whosoever shall look

on a woman to lust after her, hath already com-

mitted adultery with her in his heart.

29And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck

it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient

for thee that one of thy members should perish,

rather than that thy whole body be cast intoThe Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Matthew 1265

hell.

30And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut

it o, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient

for thee that one of thy members should perish,

rather than that thy whole body be cast into

hell.
31And it hath been said, Whoseoever shall

put away his wife, let him give her a bill of di-

vorce.

32But I say to you, that whosoever shall put

away his wife, excepting for the cause of forni-

cation, maketh her to commit adultery: and he

that shall marry her that is put away, commit-

teth adultery.

33Again you have heard that it was said to

them of old, Thou shalt not forswear thyself: but

thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.

34But I say to you not to swear at all, neither

by heaven, for it is the throne of God:

35Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor

by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king:

36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, be-

cause thou canst not make one hair white or

black.

37But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no:

and that which is over and above these, is of

evil.

38You have heard that it hath been said, An

eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

39But I say to you not to resist evil: but if

one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him

also the other:

40And if a man will contend with thee in

judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy

cloak also unto him.

41And whosoever will force thee one mile, go

with him other two,

42Give to him that asketh of thee and from

him that would borrow of thee turn not away.43You have heard that it hath been said,

Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy en-

emy.

44But I say to you, Love your enemies: do

good to them that hate you: and pray for them

that persecute and calumniate you:

45That you may be the children of your Fa-

ther who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to

rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon

the just and the unjust.

46For if you love them that love you, what

reward shall you have? do not even the publicans

this?

47And if you salute your brethren only, what

do you more? do not also the heathens this?

48Be you therefore perfect, as also your heav-

enly Father is perfect.

Chapter 6

Take heed that you do not your justice before

men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not

have a reward of your Father who is in heaven.

2Therefore when thou dost an almsdeed,

sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hyp-

ocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets,

that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say

to you, they have received their reward.

3But when thou dost alms, let not thy left

hand know what thy right hand doth.

4That thy alms may be in secret, and thy

Father who seeth in secret will repay thee.

5And when ye pray, you shall not be as the

hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the

synagogues and corners of the streets, that they

may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they

have received their reward.

6But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into

thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to1266 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to

St. Matthew

thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth

in secret will repay thee.

7And when you are praying, speak not much,

as the heathens. For they think that in their

much speaking they may be heard.

8Be not you therefore like to them, for your

Father knoweth what is needful for you, before

you ask him.

9Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father

who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

10Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on

earth as it is in heaven.

11Give us this day our supersubstantial

bread.

12And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive

our debtors.

13And lead us not into temptation. But de-

liver us from evil. Amen.

14For if you will forgive men their oences,

your heavenly Father will forgive you also your

oences.

15But if you will not forgive men, neither will

your Father forgive you your oences.

16And when you fast, be not as the hyp-

ocrites, sad. For they disgure their faces, that

they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say

to you, they have received their reward.

17But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy

head, and wash thy face;

18That thou appear not to men to fast, but

to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father

who seeth in secret, will repay thee.

19Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth:

where the rust, and moth consume, and where

thieves break through and steal.

20But lay up to yourselves treasures in

heaven: where neither the rust nor moth

doth consume, and where thieves do not break

through, nor steal.21For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart

also.

22The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye

be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome.

23But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall

be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be

darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it

be!

24No man can serve two masters. For either

he will hate the one, and love the other: or he

will sustain the one, and despise the other. You

cannot serve God and mammon.

25Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for

your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body,

what you shall put on. Is not the life more than

the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

26Behold the birds of the air, for they neither

sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and

your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you

of much more value than they?

27And which of you by taking thought, can

add to his stature by one cubit?

28And for raiment why are you solicitous?

Consider the lilies of the eld, how they grow:

they labour not, neither do they spin.

29But I say to you, that not even Solomon in

all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

30And if the grass of the eld, which is to day,

and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so

clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

31Be not solicitous therefore, saying, What

shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or where-

with shall we be clothed?

32For after all these things do the heathens

seek. For your Father knoweth that you have

need of all these things.

33Seek ye therefore rst the kingdom of God,

and his justice, and all these things shall be

added unto you.The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew 1267

34Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow;

for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Su-

cient for the day is the evil thereof.

Chapter 7

Judge not, that you may not be judged,

2For with what judgment you judge, you shall

be judged: and with what measure you mete, it

shall be measured to you again.

3Any why seest thou the mote that is in thy

brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in

thy own eye?

4Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me

cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam

is in thy own eye?

5Thou hypocrite, cast out rst the beam in

thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out

the mote out of thy brother's eye.

6Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither

cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps

they trample them under their feet, and turning

upon you, they tear you.

7Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you

shall nd: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

8For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he

that seeketh, ndeth: and to him that knocketh,

it shall be opened.

9Or what man is there among you, of whom

if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a

stone?

10Or if he shall ask him a sh, will he reach

him a serpent?

11If you then being evil, know how to give

good gifts to your children: how much more will

your Father who is in heaven, give good things

to them that ask him?

12All things therefore whatsoever you would

that men should do to you, do you also to them.For this is the law and the prophets.

13Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide

is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth

to destruction, and many there are who go in

thereat.

14How narrow is the gate, and strait is the

way that leadeth to life: and few there are that

nd it!

15Beware of false prophets, who come to you

in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are

ravening wolves.

16By their fruits you shall know them. Do

men gather grapes of thorns, or gs of thistles?

17Even so every good tree bringeth forth

good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil

fruit.

18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,

neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.

19Every tree that bringeth not forth good

fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into

the re.

20Wherefore by their fruits you shall know

them.

21Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord,

shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he

that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven,

he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

22Many will say to me in that day: Lord,

Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and

cast out devils in thy name, and done many mir-

acles in thy name?

23And then will I profess unto them, I never

knew you: depart from me, you that work iniq-

uity.

24Every one therefore that heareth these my

words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise

man that built his house upon a rock,

25And the rain fell, and the

oods came, and

the winds blew, and they beat upon that house,

and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.1268 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Matthew

26And every one that heareth these my

words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish

man that built his house upon the sand,

27And the rain fell, and the

oods came, and

the winds blew, and they beat upon that house,

and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.

28And it came to pass when Jesus had fully

ended these words, the people were in admiration

at his doctrine.

29For he was teaching them as one having

power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.

Chapter 8

And when he was come down from the mountain,

great multitudes followed him:

2And behold a leper came and adored him,

saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me

clean.

3And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched

him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And

forthwith his leprosy was cleansed.

4And Jesus saith to him: See thou tell no

man: but go, shew thyself to the priest, and oer

the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony

unto them.

5And when he had entered into Capharnaum,

there came to him a centurion, beseeching him,

6And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home

sick of the palsy, and is grieviously tormented.

7And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal

him.

8And the centurion making answer, said:

Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst en-

ter under my roof: but only say the word, and

my servant shall be healed.

9For I also am a man subject to author-

ity, having under me soldiers; and I say to this,

Go, and he goeth, and to another, Come, andhe cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he

doeth it.

10And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said

to them that followed him: Amen I say to you,

I have not found so great faith in Israel.

11And I say to you that many shall come from

the east and the west, and shall sit down with

Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom

of heaven:

12But the children of the kingdom shall be

cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall

be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

13And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and

as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And

the servant was healed at the same hour.

14And when Jesus was come into Peter's

house, he saw his wife's mother lying, and sick

of a fever:

15And he touched her hand, and the fever

left her, and she arose and ministered to them.

16And when evening was come, they brought

to him many that were possessed with devils:

and he cast out the spirits with his word: and

all that were sick he healed:

17That it might be fullled, which was spo-

ken by the prophet Isaias, saying: He took our

inrmities, and bore our diseases.

18And Jesus seeing great multitudes about

him, gave orders to pass over the water.

19And a certain scribe came and said to him:

Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou

shalt go.

20And Jesus saith to him: The foxes have

holes, and the birds of the air nests: but the son

of man hath not where to lay his head.

21And another of his disciples said to him:

Lord, suer me rst to go and bury my father.

22But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let

the dead bury their dead.The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew 1269

23And when he entered into the boat, his

disciples followed him:

24And behold a great tempest arose in the

sea, so that the boat was covered with waves,

but he was asleep.

25And they came to him, and awaked him,

saying: Lord, save us, we perish.

26And Jesus saith to them: Why are you

fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up he

commanded the winds, and the sea, and there

came a great calm.

27But the men wondered, saying: What man-

ner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey

him?

28And when he was come on the other side of

the water, into the country of the Gerasens, there

met him two that were possessed with devils,

coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding erce,

so that none could pass by that way.

29And behold they cried out, saying: What

have we to do with thee, Jesus Son of God? art

thou come hither to torment us before the time?

30And there was, not far from them, an herd

of many swine feeding.

31And the devils besought him, saying: If

thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of

swine.

32And he said to them: Go. But they going

out went into the swine, and behold the whole

herd ran violently down a steep place into the

sea: and they perished in the waters.

33And they that kept them

ed: and coming

into the city, told every thing, and concerning

them that had been possessed by the devils.

34And behold the whole city went out to meet

Jesus, and when they saw him, they besought

him that he would depart from their coasts.Chapter 9

And entering into a boat, he passed over the wa-

ter and came into his own city.

2And behold they brought to him one sick of

the palsy lying in a bed. And Jesus, seeing their

faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: Be of

good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee.

3And behold some of the scribes said within

themselves: He blasphemeth.

4And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why

do you think evil in your hearts?

5Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are for-

given thee: or to say, Arise, and walk?

6But that you may know that the Son of man

hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then said

he to the man sick of palsy,) Arise, take up thy

bed, and go into thy house.

7And he arose, and went into his house.

8And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glo-

ried God that gave such power to men.

9And when Jesus passed on from hence, he

saw a man sitting in the custom house, named

Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And

he rose up and followed him.

10And it came to pass as he was sitting at

meat in the house, behold many publicans and

sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his

disciples.

11And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his dis-

ciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans

and sinners?

12But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are

in health need not a physician, but they that are

ill.

13Go then and learn what this meaneth, I

will have mercy and not sacrice. For I am not

come to call the just, but sinners.

14Then came to him the disciples of John,

saying: Why do we and the Pharisees fast often,1270 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According

to St. Matthew

but thy disciples do not fast?

15And Jesus said to them: Can the children

of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bride-

groom is with them? But the days will come,

when the bridegroom shall be taken away from

them, and then they shall fast.

16And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth

unto an old garment. For it taketh away the

fullness thereof from the garment, and there is

made a greater rent.

17Neither do they put new wine into old bot-

tles. Otherwise the bottles break, and the wine

runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new

wine they put into new bottles: and both are

preserved.

18And he was speaking these things unto

them, behold a certain ruler came up, and

adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even

now dead; but come, lay thy hand upon her, and

she shall live.

19And Jesus rising up followed him, with his

disciples.

20And behold a woman who was troubled

with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind

him, and touched the hem of his garment.

21For she said within herself: If I shall touch

only his garment, I shall be healed.

22But Jesus turning and seeing her, said: Be

of good heart, daughter, thy faith hath made

thee whole. And the woman was made whole

from that hour.

23And when Jesus was come into the house

of the ruler, and saw the minstrels and the mul-

titude making a rout,

24He said: Give place, for the girl is not dead,

but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

25And when the multitude was put forth, he

went in, and took her by the hand. And the

maid arose.26And the fame hereof went abroad into all

that country.

27And as Jesus passed from thence, there fol-

lowed him two blind men crying out and saying,

Have mercy on us, O Son of David.

28And when he was come to the house, the

blind men came to him. And Jesus saith to

them, Do you believe, that I can do this unto

you? They say to him, Yea, Lord.

29Then he touched their eyes, saying, Ac-

cording to your faith, be it done unto you.

30And their eyes were opened, and Jesus

strictly charged them, saying, See that no man

know this.

31But they going out, spread his fame abroad

in all that country.

32And when they were gone out, behold they

brought him a dumb man, possessed with a devil.

33And after the devil was cast out, the dumb

man spoke, and the multitudes wondered, say-

ing, Never was the like seen in Israel.

34But the Pharisees said, By the prince of

devils he casteth out devils.

35And Jesus went about all the cities, and

towns, teaching in their synagogues, and preach-

ing the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every

disease, and every inrmity.

36And seeing the multitudes, he had compas-

sion on them: because they were distressed, and

lying like sheep that have no shepherd.

37Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest

indeed is great, but the labourers are few.

38Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest,

that he send forth labourers into his harvest.

Chapter 10

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them out, and to heal all manner of diseases, and

all manner of inrmities.

2And the names of the twelve apostles are

these: The rst, Simon who is called Peter, and

Andrew his brother,

3James the son of Zebedee, and John his

brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and

Matthew the publican, and James the son of

Alpheus, and Thaddeus,

4Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot,

who also betrayed him.

5These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them,

saying: Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles,

and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not.

6But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the

house of Israel.

7And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of

heaven is at hand.

8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the

lepers, cast out devils: freely have you received,

freely give.

9Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money

in your purses:

10Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats,

nor shoes, nor a sta; for the workman is worthy

of his meat.

11And into whatsoever city or town you shall

enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide

till you go thence.

12And when you come into the house, salute

it, saying: Peace be to this house.

13And if that house be worthy, your peace

shall come upon it; but if it be not worthy, your

peace shall return to you.

14And whosoever shall not receive you, nor

hear your words: going forth out of that house

or city shake o the dust from your feet.

15Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolera-

ble for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the

day of judgment, than for that city.16Behold I send you as sheep in the midst
of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and

simple as doves.

17But beware of men. For they will deliver

you up in councils, and they will scourge you in

their synagogues.

18And you shall be brought before governors,

and before kings for my sake, for a testimony to

them and to the Gentiles:

19But when they shall deliver you up, take

no thought how or what to speak: for it shall be

given you in that hour what to speak.

20For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit

of your Father that speaketh in you.

21The brother also shall deliver up the

brother to death, and the father the son: and

the children shall rise up against their parents,

and shall put them to death.

22And you shall be hated by all men for my

name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto

the end, he shall be saved.

23And when they shall persecute you in this

city,

ee into another. Amen I say to you, you

shall not nish all the cities of Israel, till the Son

of man come.

24The disciple is not above the master, nor

the servant above his lord.

25It is enough for the disciple that he be as

his master, and the servant as his lord. If they

have called the goodman of the house Beelzebub,

how much more them of his household?

26Therefore fear them not. For nothing is

covered that shall not be revealed: nor hid, that

shall not be known.

27That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye

in the light: and that which you hear in the ear,

preach ye upon the housetops.

28And fear ye not them that kill the body,

and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear

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29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?

and not one of them shall fall on the ground with-

out your Father.

30But the very hairs of your head are all num-

bered.

31Fear not therefore: better are you than

many sparrows.

32Every one therefore that shall confess me

before men, I will also confess him before my

Father who is in heaven.

33But he that shall deny me before men, I

will also deny him before my Father who is in

heaven.

34Do not think that I came to send peace

upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the

sword.

35For I came to set a man at variance against

his father, and the daughter against her mother,

and the daughter in law against her mother in

law.

36And as a man's enemies shall be they of

his own household.

37He that loveth father or mother more than

me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son

or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

38And he that taketh not up his cross, and

followeth me, is not worthy of me.

39He that ndeth his life, shall lose it: and

he that shall lose his life for me, shall nd it.

40He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and

he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.

41He that receiveth a prophet in the name of

a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet:

and he that receiveth a just man in the name

of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just

man.

42And whosoever shall give to drink to one of

these little ones a cup of cold water only in the

name of a disciple, amen I say to you, he shall

not lose his reward.Chapter 11

And it came to pass, when Jesus had made

an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he

passed from thence, to teach and preach in their

cities.

2Now when John had heard in prison the

works of Christ: sending two of his disciples he

said to him:

3Art thou he that art to come, or look we for

another?

4And Jesus making answer said to them: Go

and relate to John what you have heard and seen.

5The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are

cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the

poor have the gospel preached to them.

6And blessed is he that shall not be scandal-

ized in me.

7And when they went their way, Jesus be-

gan to say to the multitudes concerning John:

What went you out into the desert to see? a

reed shaken with the wind?

8But what went you out to see? a man

clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are

clothed in soft garments, are in the houses of

kings.

9But what went you out to see? a prophet?

yea I tell you, and more than a prophet.

10For this is he of whom it is written: Be-

hold I send my angel before thy face, who shall

prepare thy way before thee.

11Amen I say to you, there hath not risen

among them that are born of women a greater

than John the Baptist: yet he that is the lesser

in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

12And from the days of John the Baptist until

now, the kingdom of heaven suereth violence,

and the violent bear it away.

13For all the prophets and the law prophesied

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14And if you will receive it, he is Elias that

is to come.

15He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

16But whereunto shall I esteem this genera-

tion to be like? It is like to children sitting in

the market place.

17Who crying to their companions say: We

have piped to you, and you have not danced: we

have lamented, and you have not mourned.

18For John came neither eating nor drinking;

and they say: He hath a devil.

19The Son of man came eating and drinking,

and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and

a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners.

And wisdom is justied by her children.

20Then began he to upbraid the cities

wherein were done the most of his miracles, for

that they had not done penance.

21Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Beth-

saida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought

the miracles that have been wrought in you,

they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and

ashes.

22But I say unto you, it shall be more toler-

able for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment,

than for you.

23And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be ex-

alted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even

unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the

miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps

it had remained unto this day.

24But I say unto you, that it shall be more

tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of

judgment, than for thee.

25At that time Jesus answered and said: I

confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and

earth, because thou hast hid these things from

the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to

the little ones.26Yea, Father; for so hath it seemed good in

thy sight.

27All things are delivered to me by my Fa-

ther. And no one knoweth the Son, but the Fa-

ther: neither doth any one know the Father, but

the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son

to reveal him.

28Come to me, all you that labour, and are

burdened, and I will refresh you.

29Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of

me, because I am meek, and humble of heart:

and you shall nd rest to your souls.

30For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.

Chapter 12

At that time Jesus went through the corn on the

sabbath: and his disciples being hungry, began

to pluck the ears, and to eat.

2And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him:

Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful

to do on the sabbath days.

3But he said to them: Have you not read

what David did when he was hungry, and they

that were with him:

4How he entered into the house of God, and

did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was

not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were

with him, but for the priests only?

5Or have ye not read in the law, that on the

sabbath days the priests in the temple break the

sabbath, and are without blame?

6But I tell you that there is here a greater

than the temple.

7And if you knew what this meaneth: I will

have mercy, and not sacrice: you would never

have condemned the innocent.

8For the Son of man is Lord even of the sab-

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9And when he has passed from thence, he

came into their synagogues.

10And behold there was a man who had a

withered hand, and they asked him, saying: Is

it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they

might accuse him.

11But he said to them: What man shall there

be among you, that hath one sheep: and if the

same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he

not take hold on it and lift it up?

12How much better is a man than a sheep?

Therefore it it lawful to do a good deed on the

sabbath days.

13Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth

thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was

restored to health even as the other.

14And the Pharisees going out made a con-

sultation against him, how they might destroy

him.

15But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence:

and many followed him, and he healed them all.

16And he charged them that they should not

make him known.

17That it might be fullled which was spoken

by Isaias the prophet, saying:

18Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my

beloved in whom my soul hath been well pleased.

I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew

judgment to the Gentiles.

19He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither

shall any man hear his voice in the streets.

20The bruised reed he shall not break: and

smoking

ax he shall not extinguish: till he send

forth judgment unto victory.

21And in his name the Gentiles shall hope.

22Then was oered to him one possessed with

a devil, blind and dumb: and he healed him, so

that he spoke and saw.

23And all the multitudes were amazed, and

said: Is not this the son of David?24But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This

man casteth not out the devils but by Beelzebub

the prince of the devils.

25And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to

them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall

be made desolate: and every city or house di-

vided against itself shall not stand.

26And if Satan cast out Satan, he is di-

vided against himself: how then shall his king-

dom stand?

27And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by

whom do your children cast them out? Therefore

they shall be your judges.

28But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils,

then is the kingdom of God come upon you.

29Or how can any one enter into the house

of the strong, and ri

e his goods, unless he rst

bind the strong? and then he will ri

e his house.

30He that is not with me, is against me: and

he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

31Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blas-

phemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy

of the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

32And whosoever shall speak a word against

the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he

that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall

not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in

the world to come.

33Either make the tree good and its fruit

good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil.

For by the fruit the tree is known.

34O generation of vipers, how can you speak

good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the

abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

35A good man out of a good treasure bringeth

forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil

treasure bringeth forth evil things.

36But I say unto you, that every idle word

that men shall speak, they shall render an ac-

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37For by thy words thou shalt be justied,

and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

38Then some of the scribes and Pharisees an-

swered him, saying: Master we would see a sign

from thee.

39Who answering said to them: An evil and

adulterous generation seeketh a sign: and a sign

shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the

prophet.

40For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three

days and three nights: so shall the Son of man

be in the heart of the earth three days and three

nights.

41The men of Ninive shall rise in judg-

ment with this generation, and shall condemn

it: because they did penance at the preaching of

Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.

42The queen of the south shall rise in judg-

ment with this generation, and shall condemn

it: because she came from the ends of the earth

to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a

greater than Solomon here.

43And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a

man he walketh through dry places seeking rest,

and ndeth none.

44Then he saith: I will return into my house

from whence I came out. And coming he ndeth

it empty, swept, and garnished.

45Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven

other spirits more wicked than himself, and they

enter in and dwell there: and the last state of

that man in made worse than the rst. So shall

it be also to this wicked generation.

46As he was yet speaking to the multitudes,

behold his mother and his brethren stood with-

out, seeking to speak to him.

47And one said unto him: Behold thy mother

and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee.

48But he answering him that told him, said:

Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?49And stretching forth his hand towards his

disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my

brethren.

50For whosoever shall do the will of my Fa-

ther, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and

sister, and mother.

Chapter 13

The same day Jesus going out of the house, sat

by the sea side.

2And great multitudes were gathered unto

him, so that he went up into a boat and sat:

and all the multitude stood on the shore.

3And he spoke to them many things in para-

bles, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

4And whilst he soweth some fell by the way

side, and the birds of the air came and ate them

up.

5And other some fell upon stony ground,

where they had not much earth: and they sprung

up immediately, because they had no deepness of

earth.

6And when the sun was up they were

scorched: and because they had not root, they

withered away.

7And others fell among thorns: and the

thorns grew up and choked them.

8And others fell upon good ground: and they

brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some

sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold.

9He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

10And his disciples came and said to him:

Why speakest thou to them in parables?

11Who answered and said to them: Because

to you it is given to know the mysteries of the

kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

12For he that hath, to him shall be given,

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him shall be taken away that also which he hath.

13Therefore do I speak to them in parables:

because seeing they see not, and hearing they

hear not, neither do they understand.

14And the prophecy of Isaias is fullled in

them, who saith: By hearing you shall hear, and

shall not understand: and seeing you shall see,

and shall not perceive.

15For the heart of this people is grown gross,

and with their ears they have been dull of hear-

ing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any

time they should see with their eyes, and hear

with their ears, and understand with their heart,

and be converted, and I should heal them.

16But blessed are your eyes, because they see,

and your ears, because they hear.

17For, amen, I say to you, many prophets

and just men have desired to see the things that

you see, and have not seen them, and to hear the

things that you hear and have not heard them.

18Hear you therefore the parable of the sower.

19When any one heareth the word of

the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there

cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that

which was sown in his heart: this is he that re-

ceived the seed by the way side.

20And he that received the seed upon stony

ground, is he that heareth the word, and imme-

diately receiveth it with joy.

21Yet hath he not root in himself, but is

only for a time: and when there ariseth tribu-

lation and persecution because of the word, he

is presently scandalized.

22And he that received the seed among

thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the

care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches

choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.

23But he that received the seed upon good

ground, is he that heareth the word, and under-

standeth, and beareth fruit, and yieldeth the onean hundredfold, and another sixty, and another

thirty.

24Another parable he proposed to them, say-

ing: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man

that sowed good seeds in his eld.

25But while men were asleep, his enemy came

and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went

his way.

26And when the blade was sprung up, and

had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the

cockle.

27And the servants of the goodman of the

house coming said to him: Sir, didst thou not

sow good seed in thy eld? whence then hath it

cockle?

28And he said to them: An enemy hath done

this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou

that we go and gather it up?

29And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up

the cockle, you root up the wheat also together

with it.

30Suer both to grow until the harvest, and

in the time of the harvest I will say to the

reapers: Gather up rst the cockle, and bind

it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye

into my barn.

31Another parable he proposed unto them,

saying: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain

of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in

his eld.

32Which is the least indeed of all seeds; but

when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs,

and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air

come, and dwell in the branches thereof.

33Another parable he spoke to them: The

kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a

woman took and hid in three measures of meal,

until the whole was leavened.

34All these things Jesus spoke in parables to

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speak to them.

35That it might be fullled which was spoken

by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth

in parables, I will utter things hidden from the

foundation of the world.

36Then having sent away the multitudes, he

came into the house, and his disciples came to

him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the

cockle of the eld.

37Who made answer and said to them: He

that soweth the good seed, is the Son of man.

38And the eld, is the world. And the good

seed are the children of the kingdom. And the

cockle, are the children of the wicked one.

39And the enemy that sowed them, is the

devil. But the harvest is the end of the world.

And the reapers are the angels.

40Even as cockle therefore is gathered up,

and burnt with re: so shall it be at the end of

the world.

41The Son of man shall send his angels, and

they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals,

and them that work iniquity.

42And shall cast them into the furnace of re:

there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

43Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the

kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to

hear, let him hear.

44The kingdom of heaven is like unto a trea-

sure hidden in a eld. Which a man having

found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and sel-

leth all that he hath, and buyeth that eld.

45Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a

merchant seeking good pearls.

46Who when he had found one pearl of great

price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and

bought it.

47Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a

net cast into the sea, and gathering together of

all kind of shes.48Which, when it was lled, they drew out,

and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good

into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.

49So shall it be at the end of the world. The

angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked

from among the just.

50And shall cast them into the furnace of re:

there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

51Have ye understood all these things? They

say to him: Yes.

52He said unto them: Therefore every scribe

instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a

man that is a householder, who bringeth forth

out of his treasure new things and old.

53And it came to pass: when Jesus had n-

ished these parables, he passed from thence.

54And coming into his own country, he

taught them in their synagogues, so that they

wondered and said: How came this man by this

wisdom and miracles?

55Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his

mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and

Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:

56And his sisters, are they not all with us?

Whence therefore hath he all these things?

57And they were scandalized in his regard.

But Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without

honour, save in his own country, and in his own

house.

58And he wrought not many miracles there,

because of their unbelief.

Chapter 14

At the time Herod the Tetrarch heard the fame

of Jesus.

2And he said to his servants: This is John the

Baptist: he is risen from the dead, and therefore

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Matthew

3For Herod had apprehended John and bound

him, and put him into prison, because of Hero-

dias, his brother's wife.

4For John said to him: It is not lawful for

thee to have her.

5And having a mind to put him to death, he

feared the people: because they esteemed him as

a prophet.

6But on Herod's birthday, the daughter

of Herodias danced before them: and pleased

Herod.

7Whereupon he promised with an oath, to

give her whatsoever she would ask of him.

8But she being instructed before by her

mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of

John the Baptist.

9And the king was struck sad: yet because

of his oath, and for them that sat with him at

table, he commanded it to be given.

10And he sent, and beheaded John in the

prison.

11And his head was brought in a dish: and

it was given to the damsel, and she brought it to

her mother.

12And his disciples came and took the body,

and buried it, and came and told Jesus.

13Which when Jesus had heard, he retired

from thence by boat, into a desert place apart,

and the multitudes having heard of it, followed

him on foot out of the cities.

14And he coming forth saw a great multitude,

and had compassion on them, and healed their

sick.

15And when it was evening, his disciples

came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and

the hour is now past: send away the multitudes,

that going into the towns, they may buy them-

selves victuals.

16But Jesus said to them, They have no need

to go: give you them to eat.17They answered him: We have not here, but

ve loaves, and two shes.

18He said to them: Bring them hither to me.

19And when he had commanded the multi-

tudes to sit down upon the grass, he took the

ve loaves and the two shes, and looking up

to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the

loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the

multitudes.

20And they did all eat, and were lled. And

they took up what remained, twelve full baskets

of fragments.

21And the number of them that did eat, was

ve thousand men, besides women and children.

22And forthwith Jesus obliged his disciples to

go up into the boat, and to go before him over

the water, till he dismissed the people.

23And having dismissed the multitude, he

went into a mountain alone to pray. And when

it was evening, he was there alone.

24But the boat in the midst of the sea was

tossed with the waves: for the wind was contrary.

25And in the fourth watch of the night, he

came to them walking upon the sea.

26And they seeing him walk upon the sea,

were troubled, saying: It is an apparition. And

they cried out for fear.

27And immediately Jesus spoke to them, say-

ing: Be of good heart: it is I, fear ye not.

28And Peter making answer, said: Lord, if it

be thou, bid me come to thee upon the waters.

29And he said: Come. And Peter going down

out of the boat, walked upon the water to come

to Jesus.

30But seeing the wind strong, he was afraid:

and when he began to sink, he cried out, saying:

Lord, save me.

31And immediately Jesus stretching forth his

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32And when they were come up into the boat,

the wind ceased.

33And they that were in the boat came and

adored him, saying: Indeed thou art the Son of

God.

34And having passed the water, they came

into the country of Genesar.

35And when the men of that place had knowl-

edge of him, they sent into all that country, and

brought to him all that were diseased.

36And they besought him that they might

touch but the hem of his garment. And as many

as touched, were made whole.

Chapter 15

Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and

Pharisees, saying:

2Why do thy disciples trangress the tradition

of the ancients? For they wash not their hands

when they eat bread.

3But he answering, said to them: Why do

you also transgress the commandment of God

for your tradition? For God said:

4Honour thy father and mother: And: He

that shall curse father or mother, let him die the

death.

5But you say: Whosoever shall say to father

or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from

me, shall prot thee.

6And he shall not honour his father or his

mother: and you have made void the command-

ment of God for your tradition.

7Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of

you, saying:

8This people honoureth me with their lips:

but their heart is far from me.

9And in vain do they worship me, teaching

doctrines and commandments of men.10And having called together the multitudes

unto him, he said to them: Hear ye and under-

stand.

11Not that which goeth into the mouth de-

leth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth,

this deleth a man.

12Then came his disciples, and said to him:

Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they

heard this word, were scandalized?

13But he answering them, said: Every plant

which my heavenly Father hath not planted,

shall be rooted up.

14Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders

of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both

will fall into the pit.

15And Peter answering, said to him: Ex-

pound to us this parable.

16But he said: Are you also yet without un-

derstanding?

17Do you not understand, that whatsoever

entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly,

and is cast out into the privy?

18But the things which proceed out of the

mouth, come forth from the heart, and those

things dele a man.

19For from the heart come forth evil

thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications,

thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

20These are the things that dele a man. But

to eat with unwashed hands doth not dele a

man.

21And Jesus went from thence, and retired

into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

22And behold a woman of Canaan who came

out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have

mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my

daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil.

23Who answered her not a word. And his

disciples came and besought him, saying: Send

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24And he answering, said: I was not sent but

to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel.

25But she came and adored him, saying:

Lord, help me.

26Who answering, said: It is not good to take

the bread of the children, and to cast it to the

dogs.

27But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps

also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of

their masters.

28Then Jesus answering, said to her: O

woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee

as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from

that hour.

29And when Jesus had passed away from

thence, he came nigh the sea of Galilee. And

going up into a mountain, he sat there.

30And there came to him great multitudes,

having with them the dumb, the blind, the lame,

the maimed, and many others: and they cast

them down at his feet, and he healed them:

31So that the multitudes marvelled seeing the

dumb speak, the lame walk, and the blind see:

and they gloried the God of Israel.

32And Jesus called together his disciples, and

said: I have compassion on the multitudes, be-

cause they continue with me now three days, and

have not what to eat, and I will not send them

away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

33And the disciples say unto him: Whence

then should we have so many loaves in the desert,

as to ll so great a multitude?

34And Jesus said to them: How many loaves

have you? But they said: Seven, and a few little

shes.

35And he commanded the multitude to sit

down upon the ground.

36And taking the seven loaves and the shes,

and giving thanks, he brake, and gave to his dis-

ciples, and the disciples to the people.37And they did all eat, and had their ll.

And they took up seven baskets full, of what

remained of the fragments.

38And they that did eat, were four thousand

men, beside children and women.

39And having dismissed the multitude, he

went up into a boat, and came into the coasts of

Magedan.

Chapter 16

And there came to him the Pharisees and Sad-

duccees tempting: and they asked him to shew

them a sign from heaven.

2But he answered and said to them: When

it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for

the sky is red.

3And in the morning: To day there will be a

storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know

then how to discern the face of the sky: and can

you not know the signs of the times?

4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh

after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but

the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them,

and went away.

5And when his disciples were come over the

water, they had forgotten to take bread.

6Who said to them: Take heed and beware

of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

7But they thought within themselves, saying:

Because we have taken no bread.

8And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you

think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for

that you have no bread?

9Do you not yet understand, neither do you

remember the ve loaves among ve thousand

men, and how many baskets you took up?

10Nor the seven loaves among four thousand

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11Why do you not understand that it was

not concerning the bread I said to you: Beware

of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

12Then they understood that he said not that

they should beware of the leaven of bread, but

of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

13And Jesus came into the quarters of Ce-

sarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying:

Whom do men say that the Son of man is?

14But they said: Some John the Baptist, and

other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of

the prophets.
15Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say

that I am?

16Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art

Christ, the Son of the living God.

17And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed

art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because

esh and

blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father

who is in heaven.

18And I say to thee: That thou art Peter;

and upon this rock I will build my church, and

the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

19And I will give to thee the keys of the king-

dom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind

upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and

whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall

be loosed also in heaven.

20Then he commanded his disciples, that

they should tell no one that he was Jesus the

Christ.

21From that time Jesus began to shew to

his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and

suer many things from the ancients and scribes

and chief priests, and be put to death, and the

third day rise again.

22And Peter taking him, began to rebuke

him, saying: Lord, be it far from thee, this shall

not be unto thee.

23Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me,Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou

savourest not the things that are of God, but the

things that are of men.

24Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any

man will come after me, let him deny himself,

and take up his cross, and follow me.

25For he that will save his life, shall lose it:

and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall

nd it.

26For what doth it prot a man, if he gain

the whole world, and suer the loss of his own

soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his

soul?

27For the Son of man shall come in the glory

of his Father with his angels: and then will he

render to every man according to his works.

28Amen I say to you, there are some of them

that stand here, that shall not taste death, till

they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Chapter 17

And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter

and James, and John his brother, and bringeth

them up into a high mountain apart:

2And he was transgured before them. And

his face did shine as the sun: and his garments

became white as snow.

3And behold there appeared to them Moses

and Elias talking with him.

4And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord,

it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us

make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and

one for Moses, and one for Elias.

5And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright

cloud overshadowed them. And lo, a voice out

of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in

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6And the disciples hearing, fell upon their

face, and were very much afraid.

7And Jesus came and touched them: and said

to them, Arise, and fear not.

8And they lifting up their eyes saw no one

but only Jesus.

9And as they came down from the mountain,

Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no

man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead.

10And his disciples asked him, saying: Why

then do the scribes say that Elias must come

rst?

11But he answering, said to them: Elias in-

deed shall come, and restore all things.

12But I say to you, that Elias is already come,

and they knew him not, but have done unto him

whatsoever they had a mind. So also the Son of

man shall suer from them.

13Then the disciples understood, that he had

spoken to them of John the Baptist.

14And when he was come to the multitude,

there came to him a man falling down on his

knees before him, saying: Lord, have pity on my

son, for he is a lunatic, and suereth much: for

he falleth often into the re, and often into the

water.

15And I brought him to thy disciples, and

they could not cure him.

16Then Jesus answered and said: O unbe-

lieving and perverse generation, how long shall I

be with you? How long shall I suer you? bring

him hither to me.

17And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went

out of him, and the child was cured from that

hour.

18Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly,

and said: Why could not we cast him out?

19Jesus said to them: Because of your unbe-

lief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith

as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say tothis mountain, Remove from hence hither, and

it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible

to you.

20But this kind is not cast out but by prayer

and fasting.

21And when they abode together in Galilee,

Jesus said to them: The Son of man shall be

betrayed into the hands of men:

22And they shall kill him, and the third day

he shall rise again. And they were troubled ex-

ceedingly.

23And when they were come to Capharnaum,

they that recieved the didrachmas, came to Peter

and said to him: Doth not your master pay the

didrachmas?

24He said: Yes. And when he was come into

the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What

is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth,

of whom do they receive tribute or custom? of

their own children, or of strangers?

25And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to

him: Then the children are free.

26But that we may not scandalize them, go

to the sea, and cast in a hook: and that sh

which shall rst come up, take: and when thou

hast opened its mouth, thou shalt nd a stater:

take that, and give it to them for me and thee.

Chapter 18

At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying:

Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom

of heaven?

2And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set

him in the midst of them,

3And said: Amen I say to you, unless you

be converted, and become as little children, you

shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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Matthew 1283

this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom

of heaven.

5And he that shall receive one such little child

in my name, receiveth me.

6But he that shall scandalize one of these

little ones that believe in me, it were better for

him that a millstone should be hanged about

his neck, and that he should be drowned in the

depth of the sea.

7Woe to the world because of scandals. For

it must needs be that scandals come: but nev-

ertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal

cometh.

8And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee,

cut it o, and cast it from thee. It is better for

thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having

two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting

re.

9And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out,

and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having

one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes

to be cast into hell re.

10See that you despise not one of these lit-

tle ones: for I say to you, that their angels in

heaven always see the face of my Father who is

in heaven.

11For the Son of man is come to save that

which was lost.

12What think you? If a man have an hundred

sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth

he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains,

and go to seek that which is gone astray?

13And if it so be that he nd it: Amen I say

to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the

ninety-nine that went not astray.

14Even so it is not the will of your Father,

who is in heaven, that one of these little ones

should perish.

15But if thy brother shall oend against thee,

go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone.If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.
16And if he will not hear thee, take with thee

one or two more: that in the mouth of two or

three witnesses every word may stand.

17And if he will not hear them: tell the

church. And if he will not hear the church, let

him be to thee as the heathen and publican.

18Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall

bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven;

and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall

be loosed also in heaven.

19Again I say to you, that if two of you shall

consent upon earth, concerning any thing what-

soever they shall ask, it shall be done to them

by my Father who is in heaven.

20For where there are two or three gathered

together in my name, there am I in the midst of

them.

21Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord,

how often shall my brother oend against me,

and I forgive him? till seven times?

22Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till

seven times; but till seventy times seven times.

23Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened

to a king, who would take an account of his ser-

vants.

24And when he had begun to take the ac-

count, one was brought to him, that owed him

ten thousand talents.

25And as he had not wherewith to pay it,

his lord commanded that he should be sold, and

his wife and children and all that he had, and

payment to be made.

26But that servant falling down, besought

him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will

pay thee all.

27And the lord of that servant being moved

with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt.

28But when that servant was gone out, he

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to St. Matthew

hundred pence: and laying hold of him, throttled

him, saying: Pay what thou owest.

29And his fellow servant falling down, be-

sought him, saying: Have patience with me, and

I will pay thee all.

30And he would not: but went and cast him

into prison, till he paid the debt.

31Now his fellow servants seeing what was

done, were very much grieved, and they came

and told their lord all that was done.

32Then his lord called him; and said to him:

Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt,

because thou besoughtest me:

33Shouldst not thou then have had compas-

sion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had

compassion on thee?

34And his lord being angry, delivered him to

the torturers until he paid all the debt.

35So also shall my heavenly Father do to you,

if you forgive not every one his brother from your

hearts.

Chapter 19

And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these

words, he departed from Galilee, and came into

the coasts of Judea, beyond Jordan.

2And great multitudes followed him: and he

healed them there.

3And there came to him the Pharisees tempt-

ing him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put

away his wife for every cause?

4Who answering, said to them: Have ye not

read, that he who made man from the beginning,

Made them male and female? And he said:

5For this cause shall a man leave father and

mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they

two shall be in one

esh.

6Therefore now they are not two, but one

esh. What therefore God hath joined together,

let no man put asunder.

7They say to him: Why then did Moses com-

mand to give a bill of divorce, and to put away?

8He saith to them: Because Moses by reason

of the hardness of your heart permitted you to

put away your wives: but from the beginning it

was not so.

9And I say to you, that whosoever shall put

away his wife, except it be for fornication, and

shall marry another, committeth adultery: and

he that shall marry her that is put away, com-

mitteth adultery.

10His disciples say unto him: If the case of

a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to

marry.

11Who said to them: All men take not this

word, but they to whom it is given.

12For there are eunuchs, who were born so

from their mother's womb: and there are eu-

nuchs, who were made so by men: and there are

eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for

the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let

him take it.

13Then were little children presented to him,

that he should impose hands upon them and

pray. And the disciples rebuked them.

14But Jesus said to them: Suer the little

children, and forbid them not to come to me:

for the kingdom of heaven is for such.

15And when he had imposed hands upon

them, he departed from thence.

16And behold one came and said to him:

Good master, what good shall I do that I may

have life everlasting?

17Who said to him: Why asketh thou me

concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou

wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

18He said to him: Which? And Jesus said:

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adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not

bear false witness.

19Honour thy father and thy mother: and,

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

20The young man saith to him: All these I

have kept from my youth, what is yet wanting

to me?

21Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect,

go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and

thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come

follow me.
22And when the young man had heard this

word, he went away sad: for he had great pos-

sessions.

23Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I

say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter

into the kingdom of heaven.

24And again I say to you: It is easier for

a camel to pass through the eye of a needle,

than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom

of heaven.

25And when they had heard this, the disci-

ples wondered very much, saying: Who then can

be saved?

26And Jesus beholding, said to them: With

men this is impossible: but with God all things

are possible.

27Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold

we have left all things, and have followed thee:

what therefore shall we have?

28And Jesus said to them: Amen, I say to

you, that you, who have followed me, in the re-

generation, when the Son of man shall sit on the

seat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve

seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

29And every one that hath left house, or

brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife,

or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall

receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life ev-

erlasting.30And many that are rst, shall be last: and

the last shall be rst.

Chapter 20

The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder,

who went out early in the morning to hire labour-

ers into his vineyard.

2And having agreed with the labourers for a

penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

3And going about the third hour, he saw oth-

ers standing in the market place idle.

4And he said to them: Go you also into my

vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just.

5And they went their way. And again he went

out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did

in like manner.

6But about the eleventh hour he went out

and found others standing, and he saith to them:

Why stand you here all the day idle?

7They say to him: Because no man hath hired

us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vine-

yard.

8And when evening was come, the lord of the

vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers

and pay them their hire, beginning from the last

even to the rst.

9When therefore they were come, that came

about the eleventh hour, they received every

man a penny.

10But when the rst also came, they thought

that they should receive more: and they also

received every man a penny.

11And receiving it they murmured against

the master of the house,

12Saying: These last have worked but one

hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that

have borne the burden of the day and the heats.

13But he answering said to one of them:1286 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St.

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Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree

with me for a penny?

14Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will

also give to this last even as to thee.

15Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I

will? is thy eye evil, because I am good?

16So shall the last be rst, and the rst last.

For many are called, but few chosen.

17And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the

twelve disciples apart, and said to them:

18Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the

Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests

and the scribes, and they shall condemn him to

death.

19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to

be mocked, and scourged, and crucied, and the

third day he shall rise again.

20Then came to him the mother of the sons

of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking

something of him.

21Who said to her: What wilt thou? She

saith to him: Say that these my two sons may

sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on

thy left, in thy kingdom.

22And Jesus answering, said: You know not

what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I

shall drink? They say to him: We can.

23He saith to them: My chalice indeed you

shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is

not mine to give to you, but to them for whom

it is prepared by my Father.

24And the ten hearing it, were moved with

indignation against the two brethren.

25But Jesus called them to him, and said:

You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it

over them; and they that are the greater, exercise

power upon them.

26It shall not be so among you: but whoso-

ever will be the greater among you, let him be

your minister:27And he that will be rst among you, shall

be your servant.

28Even as the Son of man is not come to be

ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his

life a redemption for many.

29And when they went out from Jericho, a

great multitude followed him.

30And behold two blind men sitting by the

way side, heard that Jesus passed by, and they

cried out, saying: O Lord, thou son of David,

have mercy on us.

31And the multitude rebuked them that they

should hold their peace. But they cried out the

more, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have

mercy on us.

32And Jesus stood, and called them, and

said: What will ye that I do to you?

33They say to him: Lord, that our eyes be

opened.

34And Jesus having compassion on them,

touched their eyes. And immediately they saw,

and followed him.

Chapter 21

And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem, and

were come to Bethphage, unto mount Olivet,

then Jesus sent two disciples,

2Saying to them: Go ye into the village that

is over against you, and immediately you shall

nd an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them

and bring them to me.

3And if any man shall say anything to you,

say ye, that the Lord hath need of them: and

forthwith he will let them go.

4Now all this was done that it might be ful-

lled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

5Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy

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ass, and a colt the foal of her that is used to the

yoke.

6And the disciples going, did as Jesus com-

manded them.

7And they brought the ass and the colt, and

laid their garments upon them, and made him

sit thereon.

8And a very great multitude spread their gar-

ments in the way: and others cut boughs from

the trees, and strewed them in the way:

9And the multitudes that went before and

that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna to the son

of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name

of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

10And when he was come into Jerusalem, the

whole city was moved, saying: Who is this?

11And the people said: This is Jesus the

prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee.

12And Jesus went into the temple of God,

and cast out all them that sold and bought in the

temple, and overthrew the tables of the money

changers, and the chairs of them that sold doves:

13And he saith to them: It is written, My

house shall be called the house of prayer; but

you have made it a den of thieves.

14And there came to him the blind and the

lame in the temple; and he healed them.

15And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the

wonderful things that he did, and the children

crying in the temple, and saying: Hosanna to

the son of David; were moved with indignation.

16And said to him: Hearest thou what these

say? And Jesus said to them: Yea, have you

never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of

sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

17And leaving them, he went out of the city

into Bethania, and remained there.

18And in the morning, returning into the city,

he was hungry.19And seeing a certain g tree by the way

side, he came to it, and found nothing on it but

leaves only, and he saith to it: May no fruit grow

on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately

the g tree withered away.

20And the disciples seeing it wondered, say-

ing: How is it presently withered away?

21And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen,

I say to you, if you shall have faith, and stagger

not, not only this of the g tree shall you do, but

also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up

and cast thyself into the sea, it shall be done.

22And in all things whatsoever you shall ask

in prayer, believing, you shall receive.

23And when he was come into the temple,

there came to him, as he was teaching, the chief

priests and ancients of the people, saying: By

what authority dost thou these things? and who

hath given thee this authority?

24Jesus answering, said to them: I also will

ask you one word, which if you shall tell me, I

will also tell you by what authority I do these

things.

25The baptism of John, whence was it? from

heaven or from men? But they thought within

themselves, saying:

26If we shall say, from heaven, he will say

to us: Why then did you not believe him? But

if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of the

multitude: for all held John as a prophet.

27And answering Jesus, they said: We know

not. He also said to them: Neither do I tell you

by what authority I do these things.

28But what think you? A certain man had

two sons; and coming to the rst, he said: Son,

go work to day in my vineyard.

29And he answering, said: I will not. But af-

terwards, being moved with repentance, he went.

30And coming to the other, he said in like

manner. And he answering, said: I go, Sir; and1288 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to

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he went not.

31Which of the two did the father's will?

They say to him: The rst. Jesus saith to them:

Amen I say to you, that the publicans and the

harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before

you.

32For John came to you in the way of justice,

and you did not believe him. But the publicans

and the harlots believed him: but you, seeing it,

did not even afterwards repent, that you might

believe him.

33Hear ye another parable. There was a man

an householder, who planted a vineyard, and

made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a

press, and built a tower, and let it out to hus-

bandmen; and went into a strange country.

34And when the time of the fruits drew nigh,

he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they

might receive the fruits thereof.

35And the husbandmen laying hands on

his servants, beat one, and killed another, and

stoned another.

36Again he sent other servants more than the

former; and they did to them in like manner.

37And last of all he sent to them his son,

saying: They will reverence my son.

38But the husbandmen seeing the son, said

among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us

kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.

39And taking him, they cast him forth out of

the vineyard, and killed him.

40When therefore the lord of the vineyard

shall come, what will he do to those husband-

men?

41They say to him: He will bring those evil

men to an evil end; and will let out his vineyard

to other husbandmen, that shall render him the

fruit in due season.

42Jesus saith to them: Have you never read

in the Scriptures: The stone which the buildersrejected, the same is become the head of the cor-

ner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is

wonderful in our eyes.

43Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of

God shall be taken from you, and shall be given

to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.

44And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall

be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it

shall grind him to powder.

45And when the chief priests and Pharisees

had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke

of them.

46And seeking to lay hands on him, they

feared the multitudes: because they held him

as a prophet.

Chapter 22

And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to

them, saying:

2The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king,

who made a marriage for his son.

3And he sent his servants, to call them that

were invited to the marriage; and they would not

come.

4Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell

them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared

my dinner; my beeves and fatlings are killed, and

all things are ready: come ye to the marriage.

5But they neglected, and went their own

ways, one to his farm, and another to his mer-

chandise.

6And the rest laid hands on his servants, and

having treated them contumeliously, put them

to death.

7But when the king had heard of it, he was

angry, and sending his armies, he destroyed those

murderers, and burnt their city.

8Then he saith to his servants: The marriageThe Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Matthew 1289

indeed is ready; but they that were invited were

not worthy.

9Go ye therefore into the highways; and as

many as you shall nd, call to the marriage.

10And his servants going forth into the ways,

gathered together all that they found, both bad

and good: and the marriage was lled with

guests.

11And the king went in to see the guests: and

he saw there a man who had not on a wedding

garment.

12And he saith to him: Friend, how camest

thou in hither not having a wedding garment?

But he was silent.

13Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his

hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior

darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing

of teeth.

14For many are called, but few are chosen.

15Then the Pharisees going, consulted among

themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

16And they sent to him their disciples with

the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that

thou art a true speaker, and teachest the way of

God in truth, neither carest thou for any man:

for thou dost not regard the person of men.

17Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is

it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

18But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said:

Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?

19Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they

oered him a penny.

20And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and

inscription is this?

21They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith

to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things

that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that

are God's.

22And hearing this they wondered, and leav-

ing him, went their ways.23That day there came to him the Sadducees,

who say there is no resurrection; and asked him,

24Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die

having no son, his brother shall marry his wife,

and raise up issue to his brother.

25Now there were with us seven brethren:

and the rst having married a wife, died; and

not having issue, left his wife to his brother.

26In like manner the second, and the third,

and so on to the seventh.

27And last of all the woman died also.

28At the resurrection therefore whose wife of

the seven shall she be? for they all had her.

29And Jesus answering, said to them: You

err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power

of God.

30For in the resurrection they shall neither

marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels

of God in heaven.

31And concerning the resurrection of the

dead, have you not read that which was spoken

by God, saying to you:

32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of

Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God

of the dead, but of the living.

33And the multitudes hearing it, were in ad-

miration at his doctrine.

34But the Pharisees hearing that he had si-

lenced the Sadducees, came together:

35And one of them, a doctor of the law, ask-

ing him, tempting him:

36Master, which is the greatest command-

ment in the law?

37Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the

Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with

thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

38This is the greatest and the rst command-

ment.

39And the second is like to this: Thou shalt

love thy neighbor as thyself.1290 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew

40On these two commandments dependeth

the whole law and the prophets.

41And the Pharisees being gathered together,

Jesus asked them,

42Saying: What think you of Christ? whose

son is he? They say to him: David's.

43He saith to them: How then doth David in

spirit call him Lord, saying:

44The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right

hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?

45If David then call him Lord, how is he his

son?
46And no man was able to answer him a

word; neither durst any man from that day forth

ask him any more questions.

Chapter 23

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his

disciples,

2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have

sitten on the chair of Moses.

3All things therefore whatsoever they shall

say to you, observe and do: but according to

their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.

4For they bind heavy and insupportable bur-

dens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with

a nger of their own they will not move them.

5And all their works they do for to be seen

of men. For they make their phylacteries broad,

and enlarge their fringes.

6And they love the rst places at feasts, and

the rst chairs in the synagogues,

7And salutations in the market place, and to

be called by men, Rabbi.

8But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your

master; and all you are brethren.

9And call none your father upon earth; for

one is your father, who is in heaven.10Neither be ye called masters; for one is you

master, Christ.
11He that is the greatest among you shall be

your servant.

12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be

humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall

be exalted.

13But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp-

ocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven

against men, for you yourselves do not enter in;

and those that are going in, you suer not to

enter.

14Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp-

ocrites: because you devour the houses of wid-

ows, praying long prayers. For this you shall

receive the greater judgment.

15Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp-

ocrites; because you go round about the sea and

the land to make one proselyte; and when he is

made, you make him the child of hell twofold

more than yourselves.

16Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whoso-

ever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but

he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is

a debtor.

17Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater,

the gold, or the temple that sanctieth the gold?

18And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it

is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift

that is upon it, is a debtor.

19Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift,

or the altar that sanctieth the gift?

20He therefore that sweareth by the altar,

sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon

it:

21And whosoever shall swear by temple,

sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it:

22And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth

by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth

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23Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp-

ocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and

cummin, and have left the weightier things of

the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These

things you ought to have done, and not to leave

those undone.

24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and

swallow a camel.

25Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp-

ocrites; because you make clean the outside of

the cup and of the dish, but within you are full

of rapine and uncleanness.

26Thou blind Pharisee, rst make clean the

inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside

may become clean.

27Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp-

ocrites; because you are like to whited sepul-

chres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful,

but within are full of dead men's bones, and of

all lthiness.

28So you also outwardly indeed appear to

men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy

and iniquity.

29Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp-

ocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets,

and adorn the monuments of the just,

30And say: If we had been in the days of our

Fathers, we would not have been partakers with

them in the blood of the prophets.

31Wherefore you are witnesses against your-

selves, that you are the sons of them that killed

the prophets.

32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

33You serpents, generation of vipers, how will

you

ee from the judgment of hell?

34Therefore behold I send to you prophets,

and wise men, and scribes: and some of them

you will put to death and crucify, and some you

will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute

from city to city:35That upon you may come all the just blood

that hath been shed upon the earth, from the

blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of

Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed

between the temple and the altar.

36Amen I say to you, all these things shall

come upon this generation.

37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the

prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto

thee, how often would I have gathered together

thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens

under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

38Behold, you house shall be left to you, des-

olate.

39For I say to you, you shall not see me hence-

forth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in

the name of the Lord.

Chapter 24

And Jesus being come out of the temple, went

away. And his disciples came to shew him the

buildings of the temple.

2And he answering, said to them: Do you see

all these things? Amen I say to you there shall

not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall

not be destroyed.

3And when he was sitting on mount Olivet,

the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell

us when shall these things be? and what shall be

the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation

of the world?

4And Jesus answering, said to them: Take

heed that no man seduce you:

5For many will come in my name saying, I

am Christ: and they will seduce many.

6And you shall hear of wars and rumours of

wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these

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yet.

7For nation shall rise against nation, and

kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be

pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in

places:

8Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows.

9Then shall they deliver you up to be af-

icted, and shall put you to death: and you shall

be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

10And then shall many be scandalized: and

shall betray one another: and shall hate one an-

other.

11And many false prophets shall rise, and

shall seduce many.

12And because iniquity hath abounded, the

charity of many shall grow cold.

13But he that shall persevere to the end, he

shall be saved.

14And this gospel of the kingdom, shall be

preached in the whole world, for a testimony

to all nations, and then shall the consummation

come.

15When therefore you shall see the abomina-

tion of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel

the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that

readeth let him understand.

16Then they that are in Judea, let them

ee

to the mountains:

17And he that is on the housetop, let him not

come down to take any thing out of his house:

18And he that is in the eld, let him not go

back to take his coat.

19And woe to them that are with child, and

that give suck in those days.

20But pray that your

ight be not in the

winter, or on the sabbath.

21For there shall be then great tribulation,

such as hath not been from the beginning of the

world until now, neither shall be.22And unless those days had been shortened,

no

esh should be saved: but for the sake of the

elect those days shall be shortened.

23Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here

is Christ, or there, do not believe him.

24For there shall arise false Christs and false

prophets, and shall show great signs and won-

ders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even

the elect.

25Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.

26If therefore they shall say to you: Behold

he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is

in the closets, believe it not.

27For as lightning cometh out of the east,

and appeareth even into the west: so shall the

coming of the Son of man be.

28Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall

the eagles also be gathered together.

29And immediately after the tribulation of

those days, the sun shall be darkened and the

moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall

fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall

be moved:

30And then shall appear the sign of the Son

of man in heaven: and then shall all tribes of the

earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man

coming in the clouds of heaven with much power

and majesty.

31And he shall send his angels with a trum-

pet, and a great voice: and they shall gather to-

gether his elect from the four winds, from the far-

thest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds

of them.

32And from the g tree learn a parable:

When the branch thereof is now tender, and the

leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.

33So you also, when you shall see all these

things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors.

34Amen I say to you, that this generation

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35Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words

shall not pass.

36But of that day and hour no one knoweth,

not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone.

37And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the

coming of the Son of man be.

38For as in the days before the

ood, they

were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in

marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered

into the ark,

39And they knew not till the

ood came, and

took them all away; so also shall the coming of

the Son of man be.

40Then two shall be in the eld: one shall be

taken, and one shall be left.

41Two women shall be grinding at the mill:

one shall be taken, and one shall be left.

42Watch ye therefore, because ye know not

what hour your Lord will come.

43But know this ye, that if the goodman of

the house knew at what hour the thief would

come, he would certainly watch, and would not

suer his house to be broken open.

44Wherefore be you also ready, because at

what hour you know not the Son of man will

come.

45Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise

servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his

family, to give them meat in season.

46Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord

shall come he shall nd so doing.

47Amen I say to you, he shall place him over

all his goods.

48But if that evil servant shall say in his

heart: My lord is long a coming:

49And shall begin to strike his fellow ser-

vants, and shall eat and drink with drunkards:

50The lord of that servant shall come in a

day that he hopeth not, and at an hour that he

knoweth not:51And shall separate him, and appoint his

portion with the hypocrites. There shall be

weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Chapter 25

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten

virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet

the bridegroom and the bride.

2And ve of them were foolish, and ve wise.

3But the ve foolish, having taken their

lamps, did not take oil with them:

4But the wise took oil in their vessels with

the lamps.

5And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slum-

bered and slept.

6And at midnight there was a cry made: Be-

hold the bridegroom cometh, go ye forth to meet

him.

7Then all those virgins arose and trimmed

their lamps.

8And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of

your oil, for our lamps are gone out.

9The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps

there be not enough for us and for you, go ye

rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

10Now whilst they went to buy, the bride-

groom came: and they that were ready, went in

with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

11But at last come also the other virgins,

saying: Lord, Lord, open to us.

12But he answering said: Amen I say to you,

I know you not.

13Watch ye therefore, because you know not

the day nor the hour.

14For even as a man going into a far coun-

try, called his servants, and delivered to them his

goods;1294 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew

15And to one he gave ve talents, and to

another two, and to another one, to every one

according to his proper ability: and immediately

he took his journey.

16And he that had received the ve talents,

went his way, and traded with the same, and

gained other ve.

17And in like manner he that had received

the two, gained other two.

18But he that had received the one, going

his way digged into the earth, and hid his lord's

money.

19But after a long time the lord of those ser-

vants came, and reckoned with them.

20And he that had received the ve talents

coming, brought other ve talents, saying: Lord,

thou didst deliver to me ve talents, behold I

have gained other ve over and above.

21His lord said to him: Well done, good and

faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful

over a few things, I will place thee over many

things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

22And he also that had received the two tal-

ents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two

talents to me: behold I have gained other two.

23His lord said to him: Well done, good and

faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful

over a few things, I will place thee over many

things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

24But he that had received the one talent,

came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard

man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown,

and gatherest where thou hast not strewed.

25And being afraid I went and hid thy talent

in the earth: behold here thou hast that which

is thine.
26And his lord answering, said to him:

Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that

I reap where I sow not, and gather where I have

not strewed:27Thou oughtest therefore to have committed

my money to the bankers, and at my coming I

should have received my own with usury.

28Take ye away therefore the talent from him,

and give it to him that hath ten talents.

29For to every one that hath shall be given,

and he shall abound: but from him that hath

not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be

taken away.

30And the unprotable servant cast ye out

into the exterior darkness. There shall be weep-

ing and gnashing of teeth.

31And when the Son of man shall come in his

majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall

he sit upon the seat of his majesty.

32And all nations shall be gathered together

before him, and he shall separate them one from

another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep

from the goats:

33And he shall set the sheep on his right

hand, but the goats on his left.

34Then shall the king say to them that shall

be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my

Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for

you from the foundation of the world.

35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat;

I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a

stranger, and you took me in:

36Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you

visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.

37Then shall the just answer him, saying:

Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee;

thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38And when did we see thee a stranger, and

took thee in? or naked, and covered thee?

39Or when did we see thee sick or in prison,

and came to thee?

40And the king answering, shall say to them:

Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one

of these my least brethren, you did it to me.The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Matthew 1295

41Then he shall say to them also that shall

be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed,

into everlasting re which was prepared for the

devil and his angels.

42For I was hungry, and you gave me not to

eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink.

43I was a stranger, and you took me not

in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and

in prison, and you did not visit me.

44Then they also shall answer him, saying:

Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or

a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and

did not minister to thee?

45Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen

I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of

these least, neither did you do it to me.

46And these shall go into everlasting punish-

ment: but the just, into life everlasting.

Chapter 26

And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended all

these words, he said to his disciples:

2You know that after two days shall be the

pasch, and the son of man shall be delivered up

to be crucied:

3Then were gathered together the chief

priests and ancients of the people into the court

of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:

4And they consulted together, that by sub-

tilty they might apprehend Jesus, and put him

to death.

5But they said: Not on the festival day, lest

perhaps there should be a tumult among the peo-

ple.

6And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the

house of Simon the leper,

7There came to him a woman having an al-

abaster box of precious ointment, and poured iton his head as he was at table.

8And the disciples seeing it, had indignation,

saying: To what purpose is this waste?

9For this might have been sold for much, and

given to the poor.

10And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why

do you trouble this woman? for she hath

wrought a good work upon me.

11For the poor you have always with you:

but me you have not always.

12For she in pouring this ointment upon my

body, hath done it for my burial.

13Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel

shall be preached in the whole world, that also

which she hath done, shall be told for a memory

of her.

14Then went one of the twelve, who was

called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests,

15And said to them: What will you give me,

and I will deliver him unto you? But they ap-

pointed him thirty pieces of silver.

16And from thenceforth he sought opportu-

nity to betray him.

17And on the rst day of the Azymes, the

disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou

that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

18But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a

certain man, and say to him: the master saith,

My time is near at hand, with thee I make the

pasch with my disciples.

19And the disciples did as Jesus appointed

to them, and they prepared the pasch.

20But when it was evening, he sat down with

his twelve disciples.

21And whilst they were eating, he said:

Amen I say to you, that one of you is about to

betray me.

22And they being very much troubled, began

every one to say: Is it I, Lord?1296 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew

23But he answering, said: He that dippeth

his hand with me in the dish, he shall betray

me.

24The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is writ-

ten of him: but woe to that man by whom the

Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for

him, if that man had not been born.

25And Judas that betrayed him, answering,

said: Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to him: Thou hast

said it.

26And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took

bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to his

disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my

body.

27And taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and

gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this.

28For this is my blood of the new testament,

which shall be shed for many unto remission of

sins.

29And I say to you, I will not drink from

henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that

day when I shall drink it with you new in the

kingdom of my Father.

30And a hymn being said, they went out unto

mount Olivet.

31Then Jesus said to them: All you shall be

scandalized in me this night. For it is written:

I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the

ock shall be dispersed:

32But after I shall be risen again, I will go

before you into Galilee.

33And Peter answering, said to him: Al-

though all shall be scandalized in thee, I will

never be scandalized.

34Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee, that

in this night before the cock crow, thou wilt deny

me thrice.

35Peter saith to him: Yea, though I should

die with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like

manner said all the disciples.36Then Jesus came with them into a country

place which is called Gethsemani; and he said to

his disciples: Sit you here, till I go yonder and

pray.

37And taking with him Peter and the two

sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and

to be sad.

38Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful

even unto death: stay you here, and watch with

me.

39And going a little further, he fell upon his

face, praying, and saying: My Father, if it be

possible, let this chalice pass from me. Never-

theless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

40And he cometh to his disciples, and nd-

eth them asleep, and he saith to Peter: What?

Could you not watch one hour with me?

41Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into

temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the

esh weak.

42Again the second time, he went and prayed,

saying: My Father, if this chalice may not pass

away, but I must drink it, thy will be done.

43And he cometh again and ndeth them

sleeping: for their eyes were heavy.

44And leaving them, he went again: and he

prayed the third time, saying the selfsame word.

45Then he cometh to his disciples, and saith

to them: Sleep ye now and take your rest; behold

the hour is at hand, and the Son of man shall be

betrayed into the hands of sinners.

46Rise, let us go: behold he is at hand that

will betray me.

47As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the

twelve, came, and with him a great multitude

with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests

and the ancients of the people.

48And he that betrayed him, gave them a

sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is

he, hold him fast.The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew 1297

49And forthwith coming to Jesus, he said:

Hail, Rabbi. And he kissed him.

50And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art

thou come? Then they came up, and laid hands

on Jesus, and held him.

51And behold one of them that were with

Jesus, stretching forth his hand, drew out his

sword: and striking the servant of the high

priest, cut o his ear.

52Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy

sword into its place: for all that take the sword

shall perish with the sword.

53Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father,

and he will give me presently more than twelve

legions of angels?

54How then shall the scriptures be fullled,

that so it must be done?

55In that same hour Jesus said to the multi-

tudes: You are come out as it were to a robber

with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat

daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you

laid not hands on me.

56Now all this was done, that the scriptures

of the prophets might be fullled. Then the dis-

ciples all leaving him,

ed.

57But they holding Jesus led him to Caiphas

the high priest, where the scribes and the an-

cients were assembled.

58And Peter followed him afar o, even to

the court of the high priest. And going in, he

sat with the servants, that he might see the end.

59And the chief priests and the whole coun-

cil sought false witness against Jesus, that they

might put him to death:

60And they found not, whereas many false

witnesses had come in. And last of all there came

two false witnesses:

61And they said: This man said, I am able to

destroy the temple of God, and after three days

to rebuild it.62And the high priest rising up, said to

him: Answerest thou nothing to the things which

these witness against thee?

63But Jesus held his peace. And the high

priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living

God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the

Son of God.

64Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nev-

ertheless I say to you, hereafter you shall see the

Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power

of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

65Then the high priests rent his garments,

saying: He hath blasphemed; what further need

have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have

heard the blasphemy:

66What think you? But they answering, said:

He is guilty of death.

67Then did they spit in his face, and bueted

him: and others struck his face with the palms

of their hands,
68Saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ, who

is he that struck thee?

69But Peter sat without in the court: and

there came to him a servant maid, saying: Thou

also wast with Jesus the Galilean.

70But he denied before them all, saying: I

know not what thou sayest.

71And as he went out of the gate, another

maid saw him, and she saith to them that were

there: This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.

72And again he denied with an oath, I know

not the man.

73And after a little while they came that

stood by, and said to Peter: Surely thou also art

one of them; for even thy speech doth discover

thee.

74Then he began to curse and to swear that

he knew not the man. And immediately the cock

crew.1298 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew

75And Peter remembered the word of Jesus

which he had said: Before the cock crow, thou

wilt deny me thrice. And going forth, he wept

bitterly.

Chapter 27

And when morning was come, all the chief priests

and ancients of the people took counsel against

Jesus, that they might put him to death.

2And they brought him bound, and delivered

him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

3Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that

he was condemned, repenting himself, brought

back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests

and ancients,

4Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent

blood. But they said: What is that to us? look

thou to it.

5And casting down the pieces of silver in the

temple, he departed: and went and hanged him-

self with an halter.

6But the chief priests having taken the pieces

of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into

the corbona, because it is the price of blood.

7And after they had consulted together, they

bought with them the potter's eld, to be a bury-

ing place for strangers.

8For this cause the eld was called Hacel-

dama, that is, The eld of blood, even to this

day.

9Then was fullled that which was spoken

by Jeremias the prophet, saying: And they took

the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that

was prized, whom they prized of the children of

Israel.

10And they gave them unto the potter's eld,

as the Lord appointed to me.

11And Jesus stood before the governor, andthe governor asked him, saying: Art thou the

king of the Jews? Jesus saith to him: Thou

sayest it.

12And when he was accused by the chief

priests and ancients, he answered nothing.

13Then Pilate saith to him: Dost not thou

hear how great testimonies they allege against

thee?

14And he answered him to never a word; so

that the governor wondered exceedingly.

15Now upon the solemn day the governor was

accustomed to release to the people one prisoner,

whom they would.

16And he had then a notorious prisoner, that

was called Barabbas.

17They therefore being gathered together, Pi-

late said: Whom will you that I release to you,

Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ?

18For he knew that for envy they had deliv-

ered him.

19And as he was sitting in the place of judg-

ment, his wife sent to him, saying: Have thou

nothing to do with that just man; for I have suf-

fered many things this day in a dream because

of him.

20But the chief priests and ancients per-

suaded the people, that they should ask Barab-

bas, and make Jesus away.

21And the governor answering, said to them:

Whether will you of the two to be released unto

you? But they said, Barabbas.

22Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then

with Jesus that is called Christ? They say all:

Let him be crucied.

23The governor said to them: Why, what

evil hath he done? But they cried out the more,

saying: Let him be crucied.

24And Pilate seeing that he prevailed noth-

ing, but that rather a tumult was made; taking

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ing: I am innocent of the blood of this just man;

look you to it.

25And the whole people answering, said: His

blood be upon us and our children.

26Then he released to them Barabbas, and

having scourged Jesus, delivered him unto them

to be crucied.

27Then the soldiers of the governor taking

Jesus into the hall, gathered together unto him

the whole band;

28And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak

about him.

29And platting a crown of thorns, they put

it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand.

And bowing the knee before him, they mocked

him, saying: Hail, king of the Jews.

30And spitting upon him, they took the reed,

and struck his head.

31And after they had mocked him, they took

o the cloak from him, and put on him his own

garments, and led him away to crucify him.

32And going out, they found a man of

Cyrene, named Simon: him they forced to take

up his cross.

33And they came to the place that is called

Golgotha, which is the place of Calvary.

34And they gave him wine to drink mingled

with gall. And when he had tasted, he would

not drink.

35And after they had crucied him, they di-

vided his garments, casting lots; that it might be

fullled which was spoken by the prophet, say-

ing: They divided my garments among them;

and upon my vesture they cast lots.

36And they sat and watched him.

37And they put over his head his cause writ-

ten: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE

JEWS.

38Then were crucied with him two thieves:

one on the right hand, and one on the left.39And they that passed by, blasphemed him,

wagging their heads,

40And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the

temple of God, and in three days dost rebuild

it: save thy own self: if thou be the Son of God,

come down from the cross.

41In like manner also the chief priests, with

the scribes and ancients, mocking, said:

42He saved others; himself he cannot save. If

he be the king of Israel, let him now come down

from the cross, and we will believe him.

43He trusted in God; let him now deliver him

if he will have him; for he said: I am the Son of

God.

44And the selfsame thing the thieves also,

that were crucied with him, reproached him

with.

45Now from the sixth hour there was dark-

ness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with

a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani?

that is, My God, my God, why hast thou for-

saken me?

47And some that stood there and heard, said:

This man calleth Elias.

48And immediately one of them running took

a sponge, and lled it with vinegar; and put it

on a reed, and gave him to drink.

49And the others said: Let be, let us see

whether Elias will come to deliver him.

50And Jesus again crying with a loud voice,

yielded up the ghost.

51And behold the veil of the temple was rent

in two from the top even to the bottom, and the

earth quaked, and the rocks were rent.

52And the graves were opened: and many

bodies of the saints that had slept arose,

53And coming out of the tombs after his res-

urrection, came into the holy city, and appeared

to many.1300 The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew

54Now the centurion and they that were with

him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake,

and the things that were done, were sore afraid,

saying: Indeed this was the Son of God.

55And there were there many women afar o,

who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering

unto him:
56Among whom was Mary Magdalen, and

Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the

mother of the sons of Zebedee.

57And when it was evening, there came a

certain rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph,

who also himself was a disciple of Jesus.

58He went to Pilate, and asked the body of

Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that the body

should be delivered.

59And Joseph taking the body, wrapped it

up in a clean linen cloth.

60And laid it in his own new monument,

which he had hewed out in a rock. And he rolled

a great stone to the door of the monument, and

went his way.

61And there was there Mary Magdalen, and

the other Mary sitting over against the sepul-

chre.

62And the next day, which followed the day of

preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees

came together to Pilate,

63Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that

that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After

three days I will rise again.

64Command therefore the sepulchre to be

guarded until the third day: lest perhaps his dis-

ciples come and steal him away, and say to the

people: He is risen from the dead; and the last

error shall be worse than the rst.

65Pilate saith to them: You have a guard;

go, guard it as you know.

66And they departing, made the sepulchre

sure, sealing the stone, and setting guards.Chapter 28

And in the end of the sabbath, when it began

to dawn towards the rst day of the week, came

Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the

sepulchre.

2And behold there was a great earthquake.

For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven,

and coming, rolled back the stone, and sat upon

it.

3And his countenance was as lightning, and

his raiment as snow.

4And for fear of him, the guards were struck

with terror, and became as dead men.

5And the angel answering, said to the women:

Fear not you; for I know that you seek Jesus who

was crucied.

6He is not here, for he is risen, as he said.

Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid.

7And going quickly, tell ye his disciples that

he is risen: and behold he will go before you

into Galilee; there you shall see him. Lo, I have

foretold it to you.

8And they went out quickly from the sepul-

chre with fear and great joy, running to tell his

disciples.

9And behold Jesus met them, saying: All

hail. But they came up and took hold of his

feet, and adored him.

10Then Jesus said to them: Fear not. Go,

tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, there

they shall see me.

11Who when they were departed, behold

some of the guards came into the city, and told

the chief priests all things that had been done.

12And they being assembled together with

the ancients, taking counsel, gave a great sum of

money to the soldiers,

13Saying: Say you, His disciples came by

night, and stole him away when we were asleep.The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St.

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14And if the governor shall hear this, we will

persuade him, and secure you.

15So they taking the money, did as they were

taught: and this word was spread abroad among

the Jews even unto this day.

16And the eleven disciples went into Galilee,

unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed

them.

17And seeing them they adored: but some

doubted.

18And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying:

All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.

19Going therefore, teach ye all nations; bap-

tizing them in the name of the Father, and of

the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

20Teaching them to observe all things what-

soever I have commanded you: and behold I am

with you all days, even to the consummation of

the world.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ,

According to St. Mark

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The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the

Son of God.

2As it is written in Isaias the prophet: Be-

hold I send my angel before thy face, who shall

prepare the way before thee.

3A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare

ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

4John was in the desert baptizing, and

preaching the baptism of penance, unto remis-

sion of sins.

5And there went out to him all the country

of Judea, and all they of Jerusalem, and were

baptized by him in the river of Jordan, confessing

their sins.

6And John was clothed with camel's hair, and

a leathern girdle about his loins; and he ate lo-

custs and wild honey.

7And he preached, saying: There cometh af-

ter me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose

shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.

8I have baptized you with water; but he shall

baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

9And it came to pass, in those days, Jesus

came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized

by John in the Jordan.

10And forthwith coming up out of he water,

he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit as adove descending, and remaining on him.

11And there came a voice from heaven: Thou

art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

12And immediately the Spirit drove him out

into the desert.

13And he was in the desert forty days and

forty nights, and was tempted by Satan; and he

was with beasts, and the angels ministered to

him.

14And after that John was delivered up, Je-

sus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of

the kingdom of God,

15And saying: The time is accomplished, and

the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and be-

lieve the gospel.

16And passing by the sea of Galilee, he saw

Simon and Andrew his brother, casting nets into

the sea (for they were shermen).

17And Jesus said to them: Come after me,

and I will make you to become shers of men.

18And immediately leaving their nets, they

followed him.

19And going on from thence a little farther,

he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his

brother, who also were mending their nets in the

ship:

20And forthwith he called them. And leaving

their father Zebedee in the ship with his hired

men, they followed him.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark 1303

21And they entered into Capharnaum, and

forthwith upon the sabbath days going into the

synagogue, he taught them.

22And they were astonished at his doctrine.

For he was teaching them as one having power,

and not as the scribes.

23And there was in their synagogue a man

with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

24Saying: What have we to do with thee,

Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us?

I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.

25And Jesus threatened him, saying: Speak

no more, and go out of the man.

26And the unclean spirit tearing him, and

crying out with a loud voice, went out of him.

27And they were all amazed, insomuch

that they questioned among themselves, saying:

What thing is this? what is this new doctrine?

for with power he commandeth even the unclean

spirits, and they obey him.

28And the fame of him was spread forthwith

into all the country of Galilee.

29And immediately going out of the syna-

gogue they came into the house of Simon and

Andrew, with James and John.

30And Simon's wife's mother lay in a t of a

fever: and forthwith they tell him of her.

31And coming to her, he lifted her up, taking

her by the hand; and immediately the fever left

her, and she ministered unto them.

32And when it was evening, after sunset, they

brought to him all that were ill and that were

possessed with devils.

33And all the city was gathered together at

the door.

34And he healed many that were troubled

with divers diseases; and he cast out many devils,

and he suered them not to speak, because they

knew him.35And rising very early, going out, he went

into a desert place: and there he prayed.

36And Simon, and they that were with him,

followed after him.

37And when they had found him, they said

to him: All seek for thee.

38And he saith to them: Let us go into the

neighbouring towns and cities, that I may preach

there also; for to this purpose am I come.

39And he was preaching in their synagogues,

and in all Galilee, and casting out devils.

40And there came a leper to him, beseeching

him, and kneeling down said to him: If thou wilt,

thou canst make me clean.

41And Jesus having compassion on him,

stretched forth his hand; and touching him, saith

to him: I will. Be thou made clean.

42And when he had spoken, immediately the

leprosy departed from him, and he was made

clean.

43And he strictly charged him, and forthwith

sent him away.

44And he saith to him: See thou tell no one;

but go, shew thyself to the high priest, and of-

fer for thy cleansing the things that Moses com-

manded, for a testimony to them.

45But he being gone out, began to publish

and to blaze abroad the word: so that he could

not openly go into the city, but was without in

desert places: and they

ocked to him from all

sides.

Chapter 2

And again he entered into Capharnaum after

some days.

2And it was heard that he was in the house,

and many came together, so that there was no

room; no, not even at the door; and he spoke to1304 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

St. Mark

them the word.

3And they came to him, bringing one sick of

the palsy, who was carried by four.

4And when they could not oer him unto him

for the multitude, they uncovered the roof where

he was; and opening it, they let down the bed

wherein the man sick of the palsy lay.

5And when Jesus had seen their faith, he

saith to the sick of the palsy: Son, thy sins are

forgiven thee.

6And there were some of the scribes sitting

there, and thinking in their hearts:

7Why doth this man speak thus? he blas-

phemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only?

8Which Jesus presently knowing in his spirit,

that they so thought within themselves, saith

to them: Why think you these things in your

hearts?

9Which is easier, to say to the sick of the

palsy: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say:

Arise, take up thy bed, and walk?

10But that you may know that the Son of

man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he

saith to the sick of the palsy,)

11I say to thee: Arise, take up thy bed, and

go into thy house.

12And immediately he arose; and taking up

his bed, went his way in the sight of all; so that

all wondered and gloried God, saying: We never

saw the like.

13And he went forth again to the sea side;

and all the multitude came to him, and he taught

them.

14And when he was passing by, he saw Levi

the son of Alpheus sitting at the receipt of cus-

tom; and he saith to him: Follow me. And rising

up, he followed him.

15And it came to pass, that as he sat at

meat in his house, many publicans and sinnerssat down together with Jesus and his disciples.

For they were many, who also followed him.

16And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing

that he ate with publicans and sinners, said to

his disiples: Why doth your master eat and drink

with publicans and sinners?

17Jesus hearing this, saith to them: They

that are well have no need of a physician, but

they that are sick. For I came not to call the

just, but sinners.

18And the disiples of John and the Pharisees

used to fast; and they come and say to him: Why

do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast;

but thy disciples do not fast?

19And Jesus saith to them: Can the children

of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is

with them? As long as they have the bridegroom

with them, they cannot fast.

20But the days will come when the bride-

groom shall be taken away from them; and then

they shall fast in those days.

21No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an

old garment: otherwise the new piecing taketh

away from the old, and there is made a greater

rent.

22And no man putteth new wine into old

bottles: otherwise the wine will burst the bot-

tles, and both the wine will be spilled, and the

bottles will be lost. But new wine must be put

into new bottles.

23And it came to pass again, as the Lord

walked through the corn elds on the sabbath,

that his disciples began to go forward, and to

pluck the ears of corn.

24And the Pharisees said to him: Behold,

why do they on the sabbath day that which is

not lawful?

25And he said to them: Have you never read

what David did when he had need, and was hun-

gry himself, and they that were with him?The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

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26How he went into the house of God, under

Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the loaves

of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but

for the priests, and gave to them who were with

him?

27And he said to them: The sabbath was

made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

28Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the

sabbath also.

Chapter 3

And he entered again into the synagogue, and

there was a man there who had a withered hand.

2And they watched him whether he would

heal on the sabbath days; that they might accuse

him.

3And he said to the man who had the with-

ered hand: Stand up in the midst.

4And he saith to them: Is it lawful to do good

on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life,

or to destroy? But they held their peace.

5And looking round about on them with

anger, being grieved for the blindness of their

hearts, he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy

hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand

was restored unto him.

6And the Pharisees going out, immediately

made a consultation with the Herodians against

him, how they might destroy him.

7But Jesus retired with his disciples to the

sea; and a great multitude followed him from

Galilee and Judea,

8And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and

from beyond the Jordan. And they about Tyre

and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing the things

which he did, came to him.

9And he spoke to his disciples that a small

ship should wait on him because of the multi-tude, lest they should throng him.

10For he healed many, so that they pressed

upon him for to touch him, as many as had evils.

11And the unclean spirits, when they saw

him, fell down before him: and they cried, say-

ing:

12Thou art the Son of God. And he strictly

charged them that they should not make him

known.

13And going up into a mountain, he called

unto him whom he would himself: and they came

to him.

14And he made that twelve should be with

him, and that he might send them to preach.

15And he gave them power to heal sicknesses,

and to cast out devils.

16And to Simon he gave the name Peter:

17And James the son of Zebedee, and John

the brother of James; and he named them Boan-

erges, which is, The sons of thunder:

18And Andrew and Philip, and Bartholomew

and Matthew, and Thomas and James of

Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the

Cananean:
19And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

20And they come to a house, and the multi-

tude cometh together again, so that they could

not so much as eat bread.

21And when his friends had heard of it, they

went out to lay hold on him. For they said: He

is become mad.

22And the scribes who were come down from

Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the

prince of devils he casteth out devils.

23And after he had called them together, he

said to them in parables: How can Satan cast

out Satan?

24And if a kingdom be divided against itself,

that kingdom cannot stand.1306 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

25And if a house be divided against itself,

that house cannot stand.

26And if Satan be risen up against himself, he

is divided, and cannot stand, but hath an end.

27No man can enter into the house of a strong

man and rob him of his goods, unless he rst

bind the strong man, and then shall he plunder

his house.

28Amen I say to you, that all sins shall be for-

given unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies

wherewith they shall blaspheme:

29But he that shall blaspheme against the

Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but

shall be guilty of an everlasting sin.

30Because they said: He hath an unclean

spirit.

31And his mother and his bretheren came;

and standing without, sent unto him, calling

him.

32And the multitude sat about him; and they

say to him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren

without seek for thee.

33And answering them, he said: Who is my

mother and my brethren?

34And looking round about on them who sat

about him, he saith: Behold my mother and my

brethren.

35For whosoever shall do the will of God, he

is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Chapter 4

And again he began to teach by the sea side; and

a great multitude was gathered together unto

him, so that he went up into a ship, and sat

in the sea; and all the multitude was upon the

land by the sea side.

2And he taught them many things in para-

bles, and said unto them in his doctrine:3Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow.
4And whilst he sowed, some fell by the way

side, and the birds of the air came and ate it up.

5And other some fell upon stony ground,

where it had not much earth; and it shot up

immediately, because it had no depth of earth.

6And when the sun was risen, it was scorched;

and because it had no root, it withered away.

7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns

grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

8And some fell upon good ground; and

brought forth fruit that grew up, and increased

and yielded, one thirty, another sixty, and an-

other a hundred.

9And he said: He that hath ears to hear, let

him hear.

10And when he was alone, the twelve that

were with him asked him the parable.

11And he said to them: To you it is given to

know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but

to them that are without, all things are done in

parables:

12That seeing they may see, and not perceive;

and hearing they may hear, and not understand:

lest at any time they should be converted, and

their sins should be forgiven them.

13And he saith to them: Are you ignorant of

this parable? and how shall you know all para-

bles?

14He that soweth, soweth the word.

15And these are they by the way side, where

the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard,

immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the

word that was sown in their hearts.

16And these likewise are they that are sown

on the stony ground: who when they have heard

the word, immediately recieve it with joy.

17And they have no root in themselves, but

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and persecution ariseth for the word they are

presently scandalized.

18And others there are who are sown among

thorns: these are they that hear the word,

19And the cares of the world, and the deceit-

fulness of riches, and the lusts after other things

entering in choke the word, and it is made fruit-

less.

20And these are they who are sown upon the

good ground, who hear the word, and receive it,

and yield fruit, the one thirty, another sixty, and

another a hundred.

21And he said to them: Doth a candle come

in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and

not to be set on a candlestick?

22For there is nothing hid, which shall not be

made manifest: neither was it made secret, but

that it may come abroad.

23If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

24And he said to them: Take heed what you

hear. In what measure you shall mete, it shall be

measured to you again, and more shall be given

to you.

25For he that hath, to him shall be given:

and he that hath not, that also which he hath

shall be taken away from him.

26And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as

if a man should cast seed into the earth,

27And should sleep, and rise, night and day,

and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst

he knoweth not.

28For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit,

rst the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full

corn in the ear.

29And when the fruit is brought forth, im-

mediately he putteth in the sickle, because the

harvest is come.

30And he said: To what shall we liken the

kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we

compare it?31It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when

it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds

that are in the earth:

32And when it is sown, it groweth up, and

becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth

out great branches, so that the birds of the air

may dwell under the shadow thereof.

33And with many such parables, he spoke to

them the word, according as they were able to

hear.

34And without parable he did not speak unto

them; but apart, he explained all things to his

disciples.

35And he saith to them that day, when

evening was come: Let us pass over to the other

side.

36And sending away the multitude, they take

him even as he was in the ship: and there were

other ships with him.

37And there arose a great storm of wind, and

the waves beat into the ship, so that the ship was

lled.

38And he was in the hinder part of the ship,

sleeping upon a pillow; and they awake him, and

say to him: Master, doth it not concern thee that

we perish?
39And rising up, he rebuked the wind, and

said to the sea: Peace, be still. And the wind

ceased: and there was made a great calm.

40And he said to them: Why are you fear-

ful? have you not faith yet? And they feared

exceedingly: and they said one to another: Who

is this (thinkest thou) that both wind and sea

obey him?

Chapter 5

And they came over the strait of the sea into the

country of the Gerasens.1308 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

2And as he went out of the ship, immediately

there met him out of the monuments a man with

an unclean spirit,

3Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no

man now could bind him, not even with chains.

4For having been often bound with fetters

and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken

the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

5And he was always day and night in the

monuments and in the mountains, crying and

cutting himself with stones.

6And seeing Jesus afar o, he ran and adored

him.

7And crying with a loud voice, he said: What

have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most

high God? I adjure thee by God that thou tor-

ment me not.

8For he said unto him: Go out of the man,

thou unclean spirit.

9And he asked him: What is thy name? And

he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are

many.

10And he besought him much, that he would

not drive him away out of the country.

11And there was there near the mountain a

great herd of swine, feeding.

12And the spirits besought him, saying: Send

us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

13And Jesus immediately gave them leave.

And the unclean spirits going out, entered into

the swine: and the herd with great violence was

carried headlong into the sea, being about two

thousand, and were sti

ed in the sea.

14And they that fed them

ed, and told it in

the city and in the elds. And they went out to

see what was done:

15And they came to Jesus, and they see him

that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed,

and well in his wits, and they were afraid.16And they that had seen it, told them, in
what manner he had been dealt with who had

the devil; and concerning the swine.

17And they began to pray him that he would

depart from their coasts.

18And when he went up into the ship, he

that had been troubled with the devil, began to

beseech him that he might be with him.

19And he admitted him not, but saith to him:

Go into thy house to thy friends, and tell them

how great things the Lord hath done for thee,

and hath had mercy on thee.

20And he went his way, and began to publish

in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for

him: and all men wondered.

21And when Jesus had passed again in the

ship over the strait, a great multitude assembled

together unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea.

22And there cometh one of the rulers of the

synagogue named Jairus: and seeing him, falleth

down at his feet.

23And he besought him much, saying: My

daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy

hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may

live.

24And he went with him, and a great multi-

tude followed him, and they thronged him.

25And a woman who was under an issue of

blood twelve years,

26And had suered many things from many

physicians; and had spent all that she had, and

was nothing the better, but rather worse,

27When she had heard of Jesus, came in the

crowd behind him, and touched his garment.

28For she said: If I shall touch but his gar-

ment, I shall be whole.

29And forthwith the fountain of her blood

was dried up, and she felt in her body that she

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30And immediately Jesus knowing in himself

the virtue that had proceeded from him, turning

to the multitude, said: Who hath touched my

garments?

31And his disciples said to him: Thou seest

the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou

who hath touched me?

32And he looked about to see her who had

done this.

33But the woman fearing and trembling,

knowing what was done in her, came and fell

down before him, and told him all the truth.

34And he said to her: Daughter, thy faith

hath made thee whole: go in peace, and be thou

whole of thy disease.

35While he was yet speaking, some come from

the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying: Thy

daughter is dead: why dost thou trouble the

master any further?

36But Jesus having heard the word that was

spoken, saith to the ruler of the synagogue: Fear

not, only believe.

37And he admitted not any man to follow

him, but Peter, and James, and John the brother

of James.

38And they come to the house of the ruler

of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and

people weeping and wailing much.

39And going in, he saith to them: Why make

you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead,

but sleepeth.

40And they laughed him to scorn. But he

having put them all out, taketh the father and

the mother of the damsel, and them that were

with him, and entereth in where the damsel was

lying.

41And taking the damsel by the hand, he

saith to her: Talitha cumi, which is, being inter-

preted: Damsel (I say to thee) arise.

42And immediately the damsel rose up, andwalked: and she was twelve years old: and they
were astonished with a great astonishment.

43And he charged them strictly that no man

should know it: and commanded that something

should be given her to eat.

Chapter 6

And going out from thence, he went into his own

country; and his disciples followed him.

2And when the sabbath was come, he began

to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing

him were in admiration at his doctrine, saying:

How came this man by all these things? and

what wisdom is this that is given to him, and

such mighty works as are wrought by his hands?

3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary,

the brother of James, and Joseph, and Jude, and

Simon? are not also his sisters here with us?

And they were scandalized in regard of him.

4And Jesus said to them: A prophet is not

without honor, but in his own country, and in

his own house, and among his own kindred.

5And he could not do any miracles there, only

that he cured a few that were sick, laying his

hands upon them.

6And he wondered because of their unbelief,

and he went through the villages round about

teaching.
7And he called the twelve; and began to send

them two and two, and gave them power over

unclean spirits.

8And he commanded them that they should

take nothing for the way, but a sta only: no

scrip, no bread, nor money in their purse,

9But to be shod with sandals, and that they

should not put on two coats.

10And he said to them: Wheresoever you

shall enter into an house, there abide till you1310 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Mark

depart from that place.

11And whosoever shall not receive you, nor

hear you; going forth from thence, shake o the

dust from your feet for a testimony to them.

12And going forth they preached that men

should do penance:

13And they cast out many devils, and

anointed with oil many that were sick, and

healed them.

14And king Herod heard, (for his name was

made manifest,) and he said: John the Baptist is

risen again from the dead, and therefore mighty

works shew forth themselves in him.

15And others said: It is Elias. But others

said: It is a prophet, as one of the prophets.

16Which Herod hearing, said: John whom I

beheaded, he is risen again from the dead.

17For Herod himself had sent and appre-

hended John, and bound him in prison for the

sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother,

because he had married her.

18For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for

thee to have thy brother's wife.

19Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was

desirous to put him to death, and could not.

20For Herod feared John, knowing him to be

a just and holy man: and kept him, and when he

heard him, did many things: and he heard him

willingly.

21And when a convenient day was come,

Herod made a supper for his birthday, for the

princes, and tribunes, and chief men of Galilee.

22And when the daughter of the same Hero-

dias had come in, and had danced, and pleased

Herod, and them that were at table with him,

the king said to the damsel: Ask of me what

thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

23And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou

shalt ask I will give thee, though it be the half

of my kingdom.24Who when she was gone out, said to her

mother, What shall I ask? But she said: The

head of John the Baptist.

25And when she was come in immediately

with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will

that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head

of John the Baptist.

26And the king was struck sad. Yet because

of his oath, and because of them that were with

him at table, he would not displease her:

27But sending an executioner, he com-

manded that his head should be brought in a

dish.

28And he beheaded him in the prison, and

brought his head in a dish: and gave it to the

damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

29Which his disciples hearing came, and took

his body, and laid it in a tomb.

30And the apostles coming together unto Je-

sus, related to him all things that they had done

and taught.

31And he said to them: Come apart into a

desert place, and rest a little. For there were

many coming and going: and they had not so

much as time to eat.

32And going up into a ship, they went into a

desert place apart.

33And they saw them going away, and many

knew: and they ran

ocking thither on foot from

all the cities, and were there before them.

34And Jesus going out saw a great multi-

tude: and he had compassion on them, because

they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and

he began to teach them many things.

35And when the day was now far spent, his

disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert

place, and the hour is now past:

36Send them away, that going into the next

villages and towns, they may buy themselves

meat to eat.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark 1311

37And he answering said to them: Give you

them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go

and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we

will give them to eat.

38And he saith to them: How many loaves

have you? go and see. And when they knew,

they say: Five, and two shes

39And he commanded them that they should

make them all sit down by companies upon the

green grass.

40And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds

and by fties.

41And when he had taken the ve loaves, and

the two shes: looking up to heaven, he blessed,

and broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to

set before them: and the two shes he divided

among them all.

42And they all did eat, and had their ll.

43And they took up the leavings, twelve full

baskets of fragments, and of the shes.

44And they that did eat, were ve thousand

men.

45And immediately he obliged his disciples

to go up into the ship, that they might go be-

fore him over the water to Bethsaida, whilst he

dismissed the people.

46And when he had dismissed them, he went

up to the mountain to pray.

47And when it was late, the ship was in the

midst of the sea, and himself alone on the land.

48And seeing them labouring in rowing, (for

the wind was against them,) and about the

fourth watch of the night, he cometh to them

walking upon the sea, and he would have passed

by them.

49But they seeing him walking upon the sea,

thought it was an apparition, and they cried out.

50For they all saw him, and were troubled.

And immediately he spoke with them, and said

to them: Have a good heart, it is I, fear ye not.51And he went up to them into the ship, and

the wind ceased: and they were far more aston-

ished within themselves:

52For they understood not concerning the

loaves; for their heart was blinded.

53And when they had passed over, they came

into the land of Genezareth, and set to the shore.

54And when they were gone out of the ship,

immediately they knew him:

55And running through that whole country,

they began to carry about in beds those that

were sick, where they heard he was.

56And whithersoever he entered, into towns

or into villages or cities, they laid the sick in the

streets, and besought him that they might touch

but the hem of his garment: and as many as

touched him were made whole.

Chapter 7

And there assembled together unto him the

Pharisees and some of the scribes, coming from

Jerusalem.

2And when they had seen some of his disciples

eat bread with common, that is, with unwashed

hands, they found fault.

3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews eat not

without often washing their hands, holding the

tradition of the ancients:

4And when they come from the market, un-

less they be washed, they eat not: and many

other things there are that have been delivered

to them to observe, the washings of cups and of

pots, and of brazen vessels, and of beds.

5And the Pharisees and scribes asked him:

Why do not thy disciples walk according to the

tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with

common hands?

6But he answering, said to them: Well did1312 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Mark

Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is writ-

ten: This people honoureth me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

7And in vain to they worship me, teaching

doctrines and precepts of men.

8For leaving the commandment of God, you

hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots

and of cups: and many other things you do like

to these.

9And he said to them: Well do you make

void the commandment of God, that you may

keep your own tradition.

10For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy

mother; and He that shall curse father or mother,

dying let him die.

11But you say: If a man shall say to his father

or mother, Corban, (which is a gift,) whatsoever

is from me, shall prot thee.

12And further you suer him not to do any

thing for his father or mother,

13Making void the word of God by your own

tradition, which you have given forth. And many

other such like things you do.

14And calling again the multitude unto him,

he said to them: Hear ye me all, and understand.

15There is nothing from without a man that

entering into him, can dele him. But the things

which come from a man, those are they that de-

le a man.

16If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

17And when he was come into the house from

the multitude, his disciples asked him the para-

ble.

18And he saith to them: So are you also with-

out knowledge? understand you not that every

thing from without, entering into a man cannot

dele him:

19Because it entereth not into his heart, but

goeth into the belly, and goeth out into the privy,

purging all meats?20But he said that the things which come out
from a man, they dele a man.

21For from within out of the heart of men

proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications,

murders,

22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,

lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride,

foolishness.

23All these evil things come from within, and

dele a man.

24And rising from thence he went into the

coasts of Tyre and Sidon: and entering into a

house, he would that no man should know it,

and he could not be hid.

25For a woman as soon as she heard of him,

whose daughter had an unclean spirit, came in

and fell down at his feet.

26For the woman was a Gentile, a Syropheni-

cian born. And she besought him that he would

cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

27Who said to her: Suer rst the children

to be lled: for it is not good to take the bread

of the children, and cast it to the dogs.

28But she answered and said to him: Yea,

Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of

the crumbs of the children.

29And he said to her: For this saying go thy

way, the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

30And when she was come into her house,

she found the girl lying upon the bed, and that

the devil was gone out.

31And again going out of the coasts of Tyre,

he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through

the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

32And they bring to him one deaf and dumb;

and they besought him that he would lay his

hand upon him.

33And taking him from the multitude apart,

he put his ngers into his ears, and spitting, he

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34And looking up to heaven, he groaned,

and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou

opened.

35And immediately his ears were opened, and

the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke

right.

36And he charged them that they should tell

no man. But the more he charged them, so much

the more a great deal did they publish it.

37And so much the more did they wonder,

saying: He hath done all things well; he hath

made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to

speak.
Chapter 8

In those days again, when there was a great mul-

titude, and had nothing to eat; calling his disci-

ples together, he saith to them:

2I have compassion on the multitude, for be-

hold they have now been with me three days,

and have nothing to eat.

3And if I shall send them away fasting to

their home, they will faint in the way; for some

of them came from afar o.

4And his disciples answered him: From

whence can any one ll them here with bread

in the wilderness?

5And he asked them: How many loaves have

ye? Who said: Seven.

6And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks,

he broke, and gave to his disciples for to set be-

fore them; and they set them before the people.

7And they had a few little shes; and he

blessed them, and commanded them to be set

before them.

8And they did eat and were lled; and they

took up that which was left of the fragments,

seven baskets.9And they that had eaten were about four

thousand; and he sent them away.

10And immediately going up into a ship with

his disciples, he came into the parts of Dal-

manutha.

11And the Pharisees came forth, and began

to question with him, asking him a sign from

heaven, tempting him.

12And sighing deeply in spirit, he saith: Why

doth this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to

you, a sign shall not be given to this generation.

13And leaving them, he went up again into

the ship, and passed to the other side of the wa-

ter.

14And they forgot to take bread; and they

had but one loaf with them in the ship.

15And he charged them, saying: Take heed

and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and

of the leaven of Herod.

16And they reasoned among themselves, say-

ing: Because we have no bread.

17Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why

do you reason, because you have no bread? do

you not yet know nor understand? have you still

your heart blinded?

18Having eyes, see you not? and having ears,

hear you not? neither do you remember.

19When I broke the ve loaves among ve

thousand, how many baskets full of fragments

took you up? They say to him, Twelve.

20When also the seven loaves among four

thousand, how many baskets of fragments took

you up? And they say to him, Seven.

21And he said to them: How do you not yet

understand?

22And they came to Bethsaida; and they

bring to him a blind man, and they besought

him that he would touch him.

23And taking the blind man by the hand, he

led him out of the town; and spitting upon his1314 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Mark

eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he

saw any thing.

24And looking up, he said: I see men as it

were trees, walking.

25After that again he laid his hands upon his

eyes, and he began to see, and was restored, so

that he saw all things clearly.

26And he sent him into his house, saying: Go

into thy house, and if thou enter into the town,

tell nobody.

27And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into

the towns of Caesarea Philippi. And in the way,

he asked his disciples, saying to them: Whom do

men say that I am?

28Who answered him, saying: John the Bap-

tist; but some Elias, and others as one of the

prophets.

29Then he saith to them: But whom do you

say that I am? Peter answering said to him:

Thou art the Christ.

30And he strictly charged them that they

should not tell any man of him.

31And he began to teach them, that the Son

of man must suer many things, and be rejected

by the ancients and by the high priests, and the

scribes, and be killed: and after three days rise

again.

32And he spoke the word openly. And Peter

taking him, began to rebuke him.

33Who turning about and seeing his disciples,

threatened Peter, saying: Go behind me, Satan,

because thou savorest not the things that are of

God, but that are of men.

34And calling the multitude together with his

disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow

me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross,

and follow me.

35For whosoever will save his life, shall lose

it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake

and the gospel, shall save it.36For what shall it prot a man, if he gain
the whole world, and suer the loss of his soul?

37Or what shall a man give in exchange for

his soul?

38For he that shall be ashamed of me, and

of my words, in this adulterous and sinful gen-

eration: the Son of man also will be ashamed

of him, when he shall come in the glory of his

Father with the holy angels.

39And he said to them: Amen I say to you,

that there are some of them that stand here, who

shall not taste death, till they see the kingdom

of God coming in power.

Chapter 9

And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter

and James and John, and leadeth them up into

an high mountain apart by themselves, and was

transgured before them.

2And his garments became shining and ex-

ceeding white as snow, so as no fuller upon earth

can make white.

3And there appeared to them Elias with

Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.

4And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Rabbi,

it is good for us to be here: and let us make three

tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and

one for Elias.

5For he knew not what he said: for they were

struck with fear.

6And there was a cloud overshadowing them:

and a voice came out of the cloud, saying: This

is my most beloved son; hear ye him.

7And immediately looking about, they saw

no man any more, but Jesus only with them.

8And as they came down from the mountain,

he charged them not to tell any man what things

they had seen, till the Son of man shall be risenThe Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Mark 1315

again from the dead.

9And they kept the word to themselves; ques-

tioning together what that should mean, when

he shall be risen from the dead.

10And they asked him, saying: Why then

do the Pharisees and scribes say that Elias must

come rst?

11Who answering, said to them: Elias, when

he shall come rst, shall restore all things; and

as it is written of the Son of man, that he must

suer many things and be despised.

12But I say to you, that Elias also is come,

(and they have done to him whatsoever they

would,) as it is written of him.

13And coming to his disciples, he saw a great

multitude about them, and the scribes disputing

with them.

14And presently all the people seeing Jesus,

were astonished and struck with fear; and run-

ning to him, they saluted him.

15And he asked them: What do you question

about among you?

16And one of the multitude, answering, said:

Master, I have brought my son to thee, having a

dumb spirit.

17Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth

him, and he foameth, and gnasheth with the

teeth, and pineth away; and I spoke to thy dis-

ciples to cast him out, and they could not.

18Who answering them, said: O incredulous

generation, how long shall I be with you? how

long shall I suer you? bring him unto me.

19And they brought him. And when he had

seen him, immediately the spirit troubled him;

and being thrown down upon the ground, he

rolled about foaming.

20And he asked his father: How long time is

it since this hath happened unto him? But he

said: From his infancy:21And oftentimes hath he cast him into the

re and into waters to destroy him. But if thou

canst do any thing, help us, having compassion

on us.

22And Jesus saith to him: If thou canst

believe, all things are possible to him that be-

lieveth.

23And immediately the father of the boy cry-

ing out, with tears said: I do believe, Lord: help

my unbelief.

24And when Jesus saw the multitude running

together, he threatened the unclean spirit, saying

to him: Deaf and dumb spirit, I command thee,

go out of him; and enter not any more into him.

25And crying out, and greatly tearing him,

he went out of him, and he became as dead, so

that many said: He is dead.

26But Jesus taking him by the hand, lifted

him up; and he arose.

27And when he was come into the house, his

disciples secretly asked him: Why could not we

cast him out?

28And he said to them: This kind can go out

by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

29And departing from thence, they passed

through Galilee, and he would not that any man

should know it.

30And he taught his disciple, and said to

them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into

the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and

after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third

day.

31But they understood not the word, and

they were afraid to ask him.

32And they came to Capharnaum. And when

they were in the house, he asked them: What did

you treat of in the way?

33But they held their peace, for in the way

they had disputed among themselves, which of

them should be the greatest.1316 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

34And sitting down, he called the twelve, and

saith to them: If any man desire to be rst, he

shall be the last of all, and the minister of all.

35And taking a child, he set him in the midst

of them. Whom when he had embraced, he saith

to them:

36Whosoever shall receive one such child as

this in my name, receiveth me. And whosoever

shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that

sent me.

37John answered him, saying: Master, we

saw one casting out devils in thy name, who fol-

loweth not us, and we forbade him.

38But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For

there is no man that doth a miracle in my name,

and can soon speak ill of me.

39For he that is not against you, is for you.

40For whosoever shall give you to drink a

cup of water in my name, because you belong to

Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his

reward.

41And whosoever shall scandalize one of

these little ones that believe in me; it were better

for him that a millstone were hanged around his

neck, and he were cast into the sea.

42And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it o:

it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed,

than having two hands to go into hell, into un-

quenchable re:

43Where there worm dieth not, and the re

is not extinguished.

44And if thy foot scandalize thee, cut it o.

It is better for thee to enter lame into life ever-

lasting, than having two feet, to be cast into the

hell of unquenchable re:

45Where their worm dieth not, and the re

is not extinguished.

46And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out.

It is better for thee with one eye to enter into thekingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast

into the hell of re:

47Where the worm dieth not, and the re is

not extinguished.

48For every one shall be salted with re: and

every victim shall be salted with salt.

49Salt is good. But if the salt became unsa-

vory; wherewith will you season it? Have salt in

you, and have peace among you.

Chapter 10

And rising up from thence, he cometh into the

coasts of Judea beyond the Jordan: and the mul-

titudes

ock to him again. And as he was accus-

tomed, he taught them again.

2And the Pharisees coming to him asked him:

Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?

tempting him.

3But he answering, saith to them: What did

Moses command you?

4Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill

of divorce, and to put her away.

5To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of

the hardness of your heart he wrote you that

precept.

6But from the beginning of the creation, God

made them male and female.

7For this cause a man shall leave his father

and mother; and shall cleave to his wife.

8And they two shall be in one

esh. Therefore

now they are not two, but one

esh.

9What therefore God hath joined together,

let not man put asunder.

10And in the house again his disciples asked

him concerning the same thing.

11And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put

away his wife and marry another, committeth

adultery against her.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark 1317

12And if the wife shall put away her husband,

and be married to another, she committeth adul-

tery.

13And they brought to him young children,

that he might touch them. And the disciples

rebuked them that brought them.

14Whom when Jesus saw, he was much dis-

pleased, and saith to them: Suer the little chil-

dren to come unto me, and forbid them not; for

of such is the kingdom of God.

15Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not

receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall

not enter into it.

16And embracing them, and laying his hands

upon them, he blessed them.

17And when he was gone forth into the way,

a certain man running up and kneeling before

him, asked him, Good Master, what shall I do

that I may receive life everlasting?

18And Jesus said to him, Why callest thou

me good? None is good but one, that is God.

19Thou knowest the commandments: Do not

commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, bear

not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy father

and mother.

20But he answering, said to him: Master, all

these things I have observed from my youth.

21And Jesus looking on him, loved him, and

said to him: One thing is wanting unto thee:

go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the

poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven;

and come, follow me.

22Who being struck sad at that saying, went

away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

23And Jesus looking round about, saith to

his disciples: How hardly shall they that have

riches, enter into the kingdom of God!

24And the disciples were astonished at his

words. But Jesus again answering, saith tothem: Children, how hard is it for them that

trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God?

25It is easier for a camel to pass through the

eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into

the kingdom of God.

26Who wondered the more, saying among

themselves: Who then can be saved?

27And Jesus looking on them, saith: With

men it is impossible; but not with God: for all

things are possible with God.

28And Peter began to say unto him: Behold,

we have left all things, and have followed thee.

29Jesus answering, said: Amen I say to you,

there is no man who hath left house or brethren,

or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or

lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

30Who shall not receive an hundred times as

much, now in this time; houses, and brethren,

and sisters, and mothers, and children, and

lands, with persecutions: and in the world to

come life everlasting.

31But many that are rst, shall be last: and

the last, rst.

32And they were in the way going up to

Jerusalem: and Jesus went before them, and

they were astonished; and following were afraid.

And taking again the twelve, he began to tell

them the things that should befall him.

33Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and

the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief

priests, and to the scribes and ancients, and they

shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver

him to the Gentiles.

34And they shall mock him, and spit on him,

and scourge him, and kill him: and the third day

he shall rise again.

35And James and John the sons of Zebedee,

come to him, saying: Master, we desire that

whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for

us:1318 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

36But he said to them: What would you that

I should do for you?

37And they said: Grant to us, that we may

sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy

left hand, in thy glory.

38And Jesus said to them: You know not

what you ask. Can you drink of the chalice that I

drink of: or be baptized with the baptism where-

with I am baptized?

39But they said to him: We can. And Je-

sus saith to them: You shall indeed drink of the

chalice that I drink of: and with the baptism

wherewith I am baptized, you shall be baptized.

40But to sit on my right hand, or on my left,

is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom

it is prepared.

41And the ten hearing it, began to be much

displeased at James and John.

42But Jesus calling them, saith to them: You

know that they who seem to rule over the Gen-

tiles, lord it over them: and their princes have

power over them.

43But it is not so among you: but whosoever

will be greater, shall be your minister.

44And whosoever will be rst among you,

shall be the servant of all.

45For the Son of man also is not come to be

ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his

life a redemption for many.

46And they came to Jericho: and as he went

out of Jericho, with his disciples, and a very great

multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son of

Timeus, sat by the way side begging.

47Who when he had heard, that it was Jesus

of Nazareth, began to cry out, and to say: Jesus

son of David, have mercy on me.

48And many rebuked him, that he might hold

his peace; but he cried a great deal the more: Son

of David, have mercy on me.49And Jesus, standing still, commanded him

to be called. And they call the blind man, saying

to him: Be of better comfort: arise, he calleth

thee.

50Who casting o his garment leaped up, and

came to him.

51And Jesus answering, said to him: What

wilt thou that I should do to thee? And the blind

man said to him: Rabboni, that I may see.

52And Jesus saith to him: Go thy way, thy

faith hath made thee whole. And immediately

he saw, and followed him in the way.

Chapter 11

And when they were drawing near to Jerusalem

and to Bethania at the mount of Olives, he

sendeth two of his disciples,

2And saith to them: Go into the village that

is over against you, and immediately at your

coming in thither, you shall nd a colt tied, upon

which no man yet hath sat: loose him, and bring

him.

3And if any man shall say to you, What are

you doing? say ye that the Lord hath need

of him: and immediately he will let him come

hither.

4And going their way, they found the colt

tied before the gate without, in the meeting of

two ways: and they loose him.

5And some of them that stood there, said to

them: What do you loosing the colt?

6Who said to them as Jesus had commanded

them; and they let him go with them.

7And they brought the colt to Jesus; and they

lay their garments on him, and he sat upon him.

8And many spread their garments in the way:

and others cut down boughs from the trees, and

strewed them in the way.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark 1319

9And they that went before and they that

followed, cried, saying: Hosanna, blessed is he

that cometh in the name of the Lord.

10Blessed be the kingdom of our father David

that cometh: Hosanna in the highest.

11And he entered into Jerusalem, into the

temple: and having viewed all things round

about, when now the eventide was come, he went

out to Bethania with the twelve.

12And the next day when they came out from

Bethania, he was hungry.

13And when he had seen afar o a g tree

having leaves, he came if perhaps he might nd

any thing on it. And when he was come to it,

he found nothing but leaves. For it was not the

time for gs.

14And answering he said to it: May no man

hereafter eat fruit of thee any more for ever. And

his disciples heard it.

15And they came to Jerusalem. And when

he was entered into the temple, he began to cast

out them that sold and bought in the temple,

and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers,

and the chairs of them that sold doves.

16And he suered not that any man should

carry a vessel through the temple;

17And he taught, saying to them: Is it not

written, My house shall be called the house of

prayer to all nations? But you have made it a

den of thieves.

18Which when the chief priests and the

scribes had heard, they sought how they might

destroy him. For they feared him, because the

whole multitude was in admiration at his doc-

trine.

19And when evening was come, he went forth

out of the city.

20And when they passed by in the morning

they saw the g tree dried up from the roots.

21And Peter remembering, said to him:Rabbi, behold the g tree, which thou didst

curse, is withered away.

22And Jesus answering, saith to them: Have

the faith of God.

23Amen I say to you, that whosoever shall say

to this mountain, Be thou removed and be cast

into the sea, and shall not stagger in his heart,

but believe, that whatsoever he saith shall be

done; it shall be done unto him.

24Therefore I say unto you, all things, what-

soever you ask when ye pray, believe that you

shall receive; and they shall come unto you.

25And when you shall stand to pray, forgive,

if you have aught against any man; that your

Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive you

your sins.

26But if you will not forgive, neither will your

Father that is in heaven, forgive you your sins.

27And they come again to Jerusalem. And

when he was walking in the temple, there come

to him the chief priests and the scribes and the

ancients,

28And they say to him: By what author-

ity dost thou these things? and who hath given

thee this authority that thou shouldst do these

things?

29And Jesus answering, said to them: I will

also ask you one word, and answer you me, and I

will tell you by what authority I do these things.

30The baptism of John, was it from heaven,

or from men? Answer me.

31But they thought with themselves, saying:

If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why then

did you not believe him?

32If we say, From men, we fear the people.

For all men counted John that he was a prophet

indeed.

33And they answering, say to Jesus: We

know not. And Jesus answering, saith to them:1320 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

St. Mark

Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these

things.

Chapter 12

And he began to speak to them in parables:

A certain man planted a vineyard and made a

hedge about it, and dug a place for the winefat,

and built a tower, and let it to husbandmen; and

went into a far country.

2And at the season he sent to the husband-

men a servant to receive of the husbandmen of

the fruit of the vineyard.

3Who having laid hands on him, beat him,

and sent him away empty.

4And again he sent to them another servant;

and him they wounded in the head, and used

him reproachfully.

5And again he sent another, and him they

killed: and many others, of whom some they

beat, and others they killed.

6Therefore having yet one son, most dear to

him; he also sent him unto them last of all, say-

ing: They will reverence my son.

7But the husbandmen said one to another:

This is the heir; come let us kill him; and the

inheritance shall be ours.

8And laying hold on him, they killed him,

and cast him out of the vineyard.

9What therefore will the lord of the vineyard

do? He will come and destroy those husband-

men; and will give the vineyard to others.

10And have you not read this scripture, The

stone which the builders rejected, the same is

made the head of the corner:

11By the Lord has this been done, and it is

wonderful in our eyes.

12And they sought to lay hands on him, but

they feared the people. For they knew that hespoke this parable to them. And leaving him,

they went their way.

13And they sent to him some of the Pharisees

and of the Herodians; that they should catch him

in his words.

14Who coming, say to him: Master, we know

that thou art a true speaker, and carest not for

any man; for thou regardest not the person of

men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it

lawful to give tribute to Caesar; or shall we not

give it?

15Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them:

Why tempt you me? bring me a penny that I

may see it.

16And they brought it him. And he saith

to them: Whose is this image and inscription?

They say to him, Caesar's.

17And Jesus answering, said to them: Render

therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,

and to God the things that are God's. And they

marvelled at him.

18And there came to him the Sadducees, who

say there is no resurrection; and they asked him,

saying:

19Master, Moses wrote unto us, that if any

man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him,

and leave no children, his brother should take his

wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

20Now there were seven brethren; and the

rst took a wife, and died leaving no issue.

21And the second took her, and died: and

neither did he leave any issue. And the third in

like manner.
22And the seven all took her in like manner;

and did not leave issue. Last of all the woman

also died.

23In the resurrection therefore, when they

shall rise again, whose wife shall she be of them?

for the seven had her to wife.

24And Jesus answering, saith to them: DoThe Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

1321

ye not therefore err, because you know not the

scriptures, nor the power of God?

25For when they shall rise again from the

dead, they shall neither marry, nor be married,

but are as the angels in heaven.

26And as concerning the dead that they rise

again, have you not read in the book of Moses,

how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I am

the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and

the God of Jacob?

27He is not the God of the dead, but of the

living. You therefore do greatly err.

28And there came one of the scribes that had

heard them reasoning together, and seeing that

he had answered them well, asked him which was

the rst commandment of all.

29And Jesus answered him: The rst com-

mandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy

God is one God.

30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God,

with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul,

and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole

strength. This is the rst commandment.

31And the second is like to it: Thou shalt

love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other

commandment greater than these.

32And the scribe said to him: Well, Master,

thou hast said in truth, that there is one God,

and there is no other besides him.

33And that he should be loved with the

whole heart, and with the whole understanding,

and with the whole soul, and with the whole

strength; and to love one's neighbour as one's

self, is a greater thing than all holocausts and

sacrices.

34And Jesus seeing that he had answered

wisely, said to him: Thou art not far from the

kingdom of God. And no man after that durst

ask him any question.

35And Jesus answering, said, teaching in thetemple: How do the scribes say, that Christ is

the son of David?

36For David himself saith by the Holy Ghost:

The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand,

until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

37David therefore himself calleth him Lord,

and whence is he then his son? And a great

multitude heard him gladly.

38And he said to them in his doctrine: Be-

ware of the scribes, who love to walk in long

robes, and to be saluted in the marketplace,

39And to sit in the rst chairs, in the syn-

agogues, and to have the highest places at sup-

pers:

40Who devour the houses of widows under

the pretence of long prayer: these shall receive

greater judgment.

41And Jesus sitting over against the treasury,

beheld how the people cast money into the trea-

sury, and many that were rich cast in much.

42And there came a certain poor widow, and

she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

43And calling his disciples together, he saith

to them: Amen I say to you, this poor widow

hath cast in more than all they who have cast

into the treasury.

44For all they did cast in of their abundance;

but she of her want cast in all she had, even her

whole living.

Chapter 13

And as he was going out of the temple, one of

his disciples said to him: Master, behold what

manner of stones and what buildings are here.

2And Jesus answering, said to him: Seest

thou all these great buildings? There shall not

be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be

thrown down.1322 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

3And as he sat on the mount of Olivet over

against the temple, Peter and James and John

and Andrew asked him apart:

4Tell us, when shall these things be? and

what shall be the sign when all these things shall

begin to be fullled?

5And Jesus answering, began to say to them,

Take heed lest any man deceive you.

6For many shall come in my name, saying, I

am he; and they shall deceive many.

7And when you shall hear of wars and ru-

mours of wars, fear ye not. For such things must

needs be, but the end is not yet.

8For nation shall rise against nation and king-

dom against kingdom, and there shall be earth-

quakes in divers places, and famines. These

things are the beginning of sorrows.

9But look to yourselves. For they shall de-

liver you up to councils, and in the synagogues

you shall be beaten, and you shall stand before

governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony

unto them.

10And unto all nations the gospel must rst

be preached.

11And when they shall lead you and deliver

you up, be not thoughtful beforehand what you

shall speak; but whatsoever shall be given you in

that hour, that speak ye. For it is not you that

speak, but the Holy Ghost.

12And the brother shall betray his brother

unto death, and the father his son; and children

shall rise up against the parents, and shall work

their death.

13And you shall be hated by all men for my

name's sake. But he that shall endure unto the

end, he shall be saved.

14And when you shall see the abomination of

desolation, standing where it ought not: he that

readeth let him understand: then let them that

are in Judea,

ee unto the mountains:15And let him that is on the housetop, not

go down into the house, nor enter therein to take

any thing out of the house:

16And let him that shall be in the eld, not

turn back to take up his garment.

17And woe to them that are with child, and

that give suck in those days.

18But pray ye, that these things happen not

in winter.

19For in those days shall be such tribulations,

as were not from the beginning of the creation

which God created until now, neither shall be.

20And unless the Lord had shortened the

days, no

esh should be saved: but for the sake

of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath short-

ened the days.

21And then if any man shall say to you, Lo,

here is Christ; lo, he is here: do not believe.

22For there will rise up false Christs and false

prophets, and they shall shew signs and wonders,

to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect.

23Take you heed therefore; behold I have

foretold you all things.

24But in those days, after that tribulation,

the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall

not give her light.

25And the stars of heaven shall be falling

down, and the powers that are in heaven, shall

be moved.

26And then shall they see the Son of man

coming in the clouds, with great power and glory.

27And then shall he send his angels, and shall

gather together his elect from the four winds,

from the uttermost part of the earth to the ut-

termost part of heaven.

28Now of the g tree learn ye a parable.

When the branch thereof is now tender, and the

leaves are come forth, you know that summer is

very near.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark 1323

29So you also when you shall see these things

come to pass, know ye that it is very nigh, even

at the doors.

30Amen I say to you, that this generation

shall not pass, until all these things be done.

31Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my

word shall not pass away.

32But of that day or hour no man knoweth,

neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but

the Father.

33Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know

not when the time is.

34Even as a man who going into a far country,

left his house; and gave authority to his servants

over every work, and commanded the porter to

watch.

35Watch ye therefor, (for you know not when

the lord of the house cometh: at even, or at mid-

night, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning,)

36Lest coming on a sudden, he nd you sleep-

ing.

37And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.

Chapter 14

Now the feast of the pasch, and of the Azymes

was after two days; and the chief priests and the

scribes sought how they might by some wile lay

hold on him, and kill him.

2But they said: Not on the festival day, lest

there should be a tumult among the people.

3And when he was in Bethania, in the house

of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came

a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of

precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster

box, she poured it out upon his head.

4Now there were some that had indignation

within themselves, and said: Why was this waste

of the ointment made?5For this ointment might have been sold for

more than three hundred pence, and given to the

poor. And they murmured against her.

6But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you

molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon

me.

7For the poor you have always with you: and

whensoever you will, you may do them good: but

me you have not always.

8She hath done what she could: she is come

beforehand to anoint my body for burial.

9Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel

shall be preached in the whole world, that also

which she hath done, shall be told for a memorial

of her.

10And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went

to the chief priests, to betray him to them.

11Who hearing it were glad; and they

promised him they would give him money. And

he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

12Now on the rst day of the unleavened

bread, when they sacriced the pasch, the dis-

ciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go,

and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

13And he sendeth two of his disciples, and

saith to them: Go ye into the city; and there

shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water,

follow him;

14And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the

master of the house, The master saith, Where is

my refectory, where I may eat the pasch with my

disciples?

15And he will shew you a large dining room

furnished; and there prepare ye for us.

16And his disciples went their way, and came

into the city; and they found as he had told

them, and they prepared the pasch.

17And when evening was come, he cometh

with the twelve.1324 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

18And when they were at table and eating,

Jesus saith: Amen I say to you, one of you that

eateth with me shall betray me.

19But they began to be sorrowful, and to say

to him one by one: Is it I?

20Who saith to them: One of the twelve, who

dippeth with me his hand in the dish.

21And the Son of man indeed goeth, as it is

written of him: but woe to that man by whom

the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better

for him, if that man had not been born.

22And whilst they were eating, Jesus took

bread; and blessing, broke, and gave to them,

and said: Take ye. This is my body.

23And having taken the chalice, giving

thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank

of it.

24And he said to them: This is my blood of

the new testament, which shall be shed for many.

25Amen I say to you, that I will drink no

more of the fruit of the vine, until that day when

I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God.

26And when they had said an hymn, they

went forth to the mount of Olives.

27And Jesus saith to them: You will all be

scandalized in my regard this night; for it is writ-

ten, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep

shall be dispersed.

28But after I shall be risen again, I will go

before you into Galilee.

29But Peter saith to him: Although all shall

be scandalized in thee, yet not I.

30And Jesus saith to him: Amen I say to

thee, to day, even in this night, before the cock

crow twice, thou shall deny me thrice.

31But he spoke the more vehemently: Al-

though I should die together with thee, I will not

deny thee. And in like manner also said they all.

32And they came to a farm called Gethse-

mani. And he saith to his disciples: Sit you here,while I pray.

33And he taketh Peter and James and John

with him; and he began to fear and to be heavy.

34And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful

even unto death; stay you here, and watch.

35And when he was gone forward a little, he

fell

at on the ground; and he prayed, that if it

might be, the hour might pass from him.

36And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are

possible to thee: remove this chalice from me;

but not what I will, but what thou wilt.

37And he cometh, and ndeth them sleeping.

And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou?

couldst thou not watch one hour?

38Watch ye, and pray that you enter not into

temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the

esh is weak.

39A going away again, he prayed, saying the

same words.

40And when he returned, he found them

again asleep, (for their eyes were heavy,) and

they knew not what to answer him.

41And he cometh the third time, and saith

to them: Sleep ye now, and take your rest. It

is enough: the hour is come: behold the Son of

man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

42Rise up, let us go. Behold, he that will

betray me is at hand.

43And while he was yet speaking, cometh

Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve: and with him

a great multitude with swords and staves, from

the chief priests and the scribes and the ancients.

44And he that betrayed him, had given them

a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is

he; lay hold on him, and lead him away carefully.

45And when he was come, immediately going

up to him, he saith: Hail, Rabbi; and he kissed

him.

46But they laid hands on him, and held him.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

1325

47An one of them that stood by, drawing a

sword, struck a servant of the chief priest, and

cut o his ear.

48And Jesus answering, said to them: Are

you come out as to a robber, with swords and

staves to apprehend me?

49I was daily with you in the temple teaching,

and you did not lay hands on me. But that the

scriptures may be fullled.

50Then his disciples leaving him, all

ed

away.

51And a certain young man followed him,

having a linen cloth cast about his naked body;

and they laid hold on him.

52But he, casting o the linen cloth,

ed from

them naked.
53And they brought Jesus to the high priest;

and all the priests and the scribes and the an-

cients assembled together.

54And Peter followed him from afar o, even

into the court of the high priest; and he sat with

the servants at the re, and warmed himself.

55And the chief priests and all the coun-

cil sought for evidence against Jesus, that they

might put him to death, and found none.

56For many bore false witness against him,

and their evidences were not agreeing.

57And some rising up, bore false witness

against him, saying:

58We heard him say, I will destroy this temple

made with hands, and within three days I will

build another not made with hands.

59And their witness did not agree.

60And the high priest rising up in the midst,

asked Jesus, saying: Answerest thou nothing to

the things that are laid to thy charge by these

men?

61But he held his peace, and answered noth-

ing. Again the high priest asked him, and said tohim: Art thou the Christ the Son of the blessed

God?

62And Jesus said to him: I am. And you shall

see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of

the power of God, and coming with the clouds

of heaven.

63Then the high priest rending his garments,

saith: What need we any further witnesses?

64You have heard the blasphemy. What

think you? Who all condemned him to be guilty

of death.

65And some began to spit on him, and to

cover his face, and to buet him, and to say

unto him: Prophesy: and the servants struck

him with the palms of their hands.

66Now when Peter was in the court below,

there cometh one of the maidservants of the high

priest.

67And when she had seen Peter warming

himself, looking on him she saith: Thou also

wast with Jesus of Nazareth.

68But he denied, saying: I neither know nor

understand what thou sayest. And he went forth

before the court; and the cock crew.

69And again a maidservant seeing him, began

to say to the standers by: This is one of them.

70But he denied again. And after a while

they that stood by said again to Peter: Surely

thou art one of them; for thou art also a Galilean.

71But he began to curse and to swear, saying;

I know not this man of whom you speak.

72And immediately the cock crew again. And

Peter remembered the word that Jesus had said

unto him: Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt

thrice deny me. And he began to weep.1326 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

Chapter 15

And straightway in the morning, the chief priests

holding a consultation with the ancients and the

scribes and the whole council, binding Jesus, led

him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

2And Pilate asked him: Art thou the king of

the Jews? But he answering, saith to him: Thou

sayest it.

3And the chief priests accused him in many

things.

4And Pilate again asked him, saying: An-

swerest thou nothing? behold in how many

things they accuse thee.

5But Jesus still answered nothing; so that

Pilate wondered.

6Now on the festival day he was wont to re-

lease unto them one of the prisoners, whomso-

ever they demanded.

7And there was one called Barabbas, who was

put in prison with some seditious men, who in

the sedition had committed murder.

8And when the multitude was come up, they

began to desire that he would do, as he had ever

done unto them.

9And Pilate answered them, and said: Will

you that I release to you the king of the Jews?

10For he knew that the chief priests had de-

livered him up out of envy.

11But the chief priests moved the people, that

he should rather release Barabbas to them.

12And Pilate again answering, saith to them:

What will you then that I do to the king of the

Jews?

13But they again cried out: Crucify him.

14And Pilate saith to them: Why, what evil

hath he done? But they cried out the more: Cru-

cify him.

15And so Pilate being willing to satisfy the

people, released to them Barabbas, and deliv-ered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be

crucied.

16And the soldiers led him away into the

court of the palace, and they called together the

whole band:

17And they clothe him with purple, and plat-

ting a crown of thorns, they put it upon him.

18And they began to salute him: Hail, king

of the Jews.
19And they struck his head with a reed: and

they did spit on him. And bowing their knees,

they adored him.

20And after they had mocked him, they took

o the purple from him, and put his own gar-

ments on him, and they led him out to crucify

him.

21And they forced one Simon a Cyrenian who

passed by, coming out of the country, the father

of Alexander and of Rufus, to take up his cross.

22And they bring him into the place called

Golgotha, which being interpreted is, The place

of Calvary.

23And they gave him to drink wine mingled

with myrrh; but he took it not.

24And crucifying him, they divided his gar-

ments, casting lots upon them, what every man

should take.

25And it was the third hour, and they cruci-

ed him.

26And the inscription of his cause was written

over: THE KING OF THE JEWS.

27And with him they crucify two thieves; the

one on his right hand, and the other on his left.

28And the scripture was fullled, which saith:

And with the wicked he was reputed.

29And they that passed by blasphemed him,

wagging their heads, and saying: Vah, thou that

destroyest the temple of God, and in three days

buildest it up again;

30Save thyself, coming down from the cross.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

1327

31In like manner also the chief priests mock-

ing, said with the scribes one to another: He

saved others; himself he cannot save.

32Let Christ the king of Israel come down

now from the cross, that we may see and believe.

And they that were crucied with him reviled

him.

33And when the sixth hour was come, there

was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth

hour.

34And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with

a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabac-

thani? Which is, being interpreted, My God,

my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

35And some of the standers by hearing, said:

Behold he calleth Elias.

36And one running and lling a sponge with

vinegar, and putting it upon a reed, gave him to

drink, saying: Stay, let us see if Elias come to

take him down.

37And Jesus having cried out with a loud

voice, gave up the ghost.

38And the veil of the temple was rent in two,

from the top to the bottom.

39And the centurion who stood over against

him, seeing that crying out in this manner he

had given up the ghost, said: Indeed this man

was the son of God.

40And there were also women looking on

afar o: among whom was Mary Magdalen, and

Mary the mother of James the less and of Joseph,

and Salome:

41Who also when he was in Galilee followed

him, and ministered to him, and many other

women that came up with him to Jerusalem.

42And when evening was now come, (because

it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the

sabbath,)

43Joseph of Arimathea, a noble counsellor,

who was also himself looking for the kingdomof God, came and went in boldly to Pilate, and

begged the body of Jesus.

44But Pilate wondered that he should be al-

ready dead. And sending for the centurion, he

asked him if he were already dead.

45And when he had understood it by the cen-

turion, he gave the body to Joseph.

46And Joseph buying ne linen, and taking

him down, wrapped him up in the ne linen, and

laid him in a sepulchre which was hewed out of

a rock. And he rolled a stone to the door of the

sepulchre.

47And Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother

of Joseph, beheld where he was laid.

Chapter 16

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Mag-

dalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Sa-

lome, bought sweet spices, that coming, they

might anoint Jesus.

2And very early in the morning, the rst day

of the week, they come to the sepulchre, the sun

being now risen.

3And they said one to another: Who shall roll

us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

4And looking, they saw the stone rolled back.

For it was very great.

5And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a

young man sitting on the right side, clothed with

a white robe: and they were astonished.

6Who saith to them: Be not arighted; you

seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucied: he is

risen, he is not here, behold the place where they

laid him.
7But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he

goeth before you into Galilee; there you shall see

him, as he told you.

8But they going out,

ed from the sepulchre.1328 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark

For a trembling and fear had seized them: and

they said nothing to any man; for they were

afraid.

9But he rising early the rst day of the week,

appeared rst to Mary Magdalen, out of whom

he had cast seven devils.

10She went and told them that had been with

him, who were mourning and weeping.

11And they hearing that he was alive, and

had been seen by her, did not believe.

12And after that he appeared in another

shape to two of them walking, as they were going

into the country.

13And they going told it to the rest: neither

did they believe them.

14At length he appeared to the eleven as they

were at table: and he upbraided them with their

incredulity and hardness of heart, because they

did not believe them who had seen him after he

was risen again.

15And he said to them: Go ye into the whole

world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

16He that believeth and is baptized, shall be

saved: but he that believeth not shall be con-

demned.

17And these signs shall follow them that be-

lieve: In my name they shall cast out devils: they

shall speak with new tongues.

18They shall take up serpents; and if they

shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt

them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick,

and they shall recover.

19And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken

to them, was taken up into heaven, and sitteth

on the right hand of God.

20But they going forth preached every where:

the Lord working withal, and conrming the

word with signs that followed.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ,

According to St. Luke

Chapter 1

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set

forth in order a narration of the things that have

been accomplished among us;

2According as they have delivered them unto

us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses

and ministers of the word:

3It seemed good to me also, having diligently

attained to all things from the beginning, to

write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

4That thou mayest know the verity of those

words in which thou hast been instructed.

5There was in the days of Herod, the king

of Judea, a certain priest named Zachary, of the

course of Abia; and his wife was of the daughters

of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.

6And they were both just before God, walking

in all the commandments and justications of

the Lord without blame.

7And they had no son, for that Elizabeth

was barren, and they both were well advanced

in years.

8And it came to pass, when he executed the

priestly function in the order of his course before

God,

9According to the custom of the priestly of-

ce, it was his lot to oer incense, going into the

temple of the Lord.10And all the multitude of the people was

praying without, at the hour of incense.

11And there appeared to him an angel of the

Lord, standing on the right side of the alter of

incense.

12And Zachary seeing him, was troubled, and

fear fell upon him.

13But the angel said to him: Fear not,

Zachary, for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife

Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt

call his name John:

14And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and

many shall rejoice in his nativity.

15For he shall be great before the Lord; and

shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he

shall be lled with the Holy Ghost, even from

his mother's womb.

16And he shall convert many of the children

of Israel to the Lord their God.

17And he shall go before him in the spirit and

power of Elias; that he may turn the hearts of the

fathers unto the children, and the incredulous to

the wisdom of the just, to prepare unto the Lord

a perfect people.

18And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby

shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my

wife is advanced in years.

19And the angel answering, said to him: I

am Gabriel, who stand before God: and am sent1330 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

St. Luke

to speak to thee, and to bring thee these good

tidings.

20And behold, thou shalt be dumb, and shalt

not be able to speak until the day wherein these

things shall come to pass, because thou hast not

believed my words, which shall be fullled in

their time.

21And the people were waiting for Zachary;

and they wondered that he tarried so long in the

temple.

22And when he came out, he could not speak

to them: and they understood that he had seen

a vision in the temple. And he made signs to

them, and remained dumb.

23And it came to pass, after the days of his

oce were accomplished, he departed to his own

house.

24And after those days, Elizabeth his wife

conceived, and hid herself ve months, saying:

25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the

days wherein he hath had regard to take away

my reproach among men.

26And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel

was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called

Nazareth,

27To a virgin espoused to a man whose name

was Joseph, of the house of David; and the vir-

gin's name was Mary.

28And the angel being come in, said unto her:

Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed

art thou among women.

29Who having heard, was troubled at his say-

ing, and thought with herself what manner of

salutation this should be.

30And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary,

for thou hast found grace with God.

31Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb,

and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call

his name Jesus.32He shall be great, and shall be called the

Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall

give unto him the throne of David his father; and

he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.

33And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

34And Mary said to the angel: How shall this

be done, because I know not man?

35And the angel answering, said to her: The

Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power

of the most High shall overshadow thee. And

therefore also the Holy which shall be born of

thee shall be called the Son of God.

36And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she also

hath conceived a son in her old age; and this is

the sixth month with her that is called barren:

37Because no word shall be impossible with

God.
38And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of

the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word.

And the angel departed from her.

39And Mary rising up in those days, went

into the hill country with haste into a city of

Juda.

40And she entered into the house of Zachary,

and saluted Elizabeth.

41And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth

heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped

in her womb. And Elizabeth was lled with the

Holy Ghost:

42And she cried out with a loud voice,

and said: Blessed art thou among women, and

blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

43And whence is this to me, that the mother

of my Lord should come to me?

44For behold as soon as the voice of thy

salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my

womb leaped for joy.

45And blessed art thou that hast believed,

because those things shall be accomplished that

were spoken to thee by the Lord.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke 1331

46And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the

Lord.

47And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my

Saviour.

48Because he hath regarded the humility of

his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all

generations shall call me blessed.

49Because he that is mighty, hath done great

things to me; and holy is his name.

50And his mercy is from generation unto gen-

erations, to them that fear him.

51He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath

scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

52He hath put down the mighty from their

seat, and hath exalted the humble.

53He hath lled the hungry with good things;

and the rich he hath sent empty away.

54He hath received Israel his servant, being

mindful of his mercy:

55As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham

and to his seed for ever.

56And Mary abode with her about three

months; and she returned to her own house.

57Now Elizabeth's full time of being delivered

was come, and she brought forth a son.

58And her neighbours and kinsfolks heard

that the Lord had shewed his great mercy to-

wards her, and they congratulated with her.

59And it came to pass, that on the eighth

day they came to circumcise the child, and they

called him by his father's name Zachary.

60And his mother answering, said: Not so;

but he shall be called John.

61And they said to her: There is none of thy

kindred that is called by this name.

62And they made signs to his father, how he

would have him called.

63And demanding a writing table, he wrote,

saying: John is his name. And they all won-

dered.64And immediately his mouth was opened,

and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing

God.

65And fear came upon all their neighbours;

and all these things were noised abroad over all

the hill country of Judea.

66And all they that had heard them laid them

up in their heart, saying: What an one, think ye,

shall this child be? For the hand of the Lord was

with him.

67And Zachary his father was lled with the

Holy Ghost; and he prophesied, saying:

68Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; because

he hath visited and wrought the redemption of

his people:

69And hath raised up an horn of salvation to

us, in the house of David his servant:

70As he spoke by the mouth of his holy

prophets, who are from the beginning:

71Salvation from our enemies, and from the

hand of all that hate us:

72To perform mercy to our fathers, and to

remember his holy testament,

73The oath, which he swore to Abraham our

father, that he would grant to us,

74That being delivered from the hand of our

enemies, we may serve him without fear,

75In holiness and justice before him, all our

days.

76And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet

of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face

of the Lord to prepare his ways:

77To give knowledge of salvation to his peo-

ple, unto the remission of their sins:

78Through the bowels of the mercy of our

God, in which the Orient from on high hath vis-

ited us:

79To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and

in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into

the way of peace.1332 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

80And the child grew, and was strengthened

in spirit; and was in the deserts until the day of

his manifestation to Israel.

Chapter 2

And it came to pass, that in those days there

went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that

the whole world should be enrolled.

2This enrolling was rst made by Cyrinus,

the governor of Syria.

3And all went to be enrolled, every one into

his own city.

4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out

of the city of Nazareth into Judea, to the city

of David, which is called Bethlehem: because he

was of the house and family of David,

5To be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife,

who was with child.

6And it came to pass, that when they were

there, her days were accomplished, that she

should be delivered.

7And she brought forth her rstborn son, and

wrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid

him in a manger; because there was no room for

them in the inn.

8And there were in the same country shep-

herds watching, and keeping the night watches

over their

ock.
9And behold an angel of the Lord stood by

them, and the brightness of God shone round

about them; and they feared with a great fear.

10And the angel said to them: Fear not; for,

behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, that

shall be to all the people:

11For, this day, is born to you a Saviour, who

is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.

12And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall

nd the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes,and laid in a manger.

13And suddenly there was with the angel a

multitude of the heavenly army, praising God,

and saying:

14Glory to God in the highest; and on earth

peace to men of good will.

15And it came to pass, after the angels de-

parted from them into heaven, the shepherds

said one to another: Let us go over to Bethle-

hem, and let us see this word that is come to

pass, which the Lord hath shewed to us.

16And they came with haste; and they found

Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the

manger.

17And seeing, they understood of the word

that had been spoken to them concerning this

child.
18And all that heard, wondered; and at those

things that were told them by the shepherds.

19But Mary kept all these words, pondering

them in her heart.

20And the shepherds returned, glorifying and

praising God, for all the things they had heard

and seen, as it was told unto them.

21And after eight days were accomplished,

that the child should be circumcised, his name

was called JESUS, which was called by the angel,

before he was conceived in the womb.

22And after the days of her purication, ac-

cording to the law of Moses, were accomplished,

they carried him to Jerusalem, to present him to

the Lord:

23As it is written in the law of the Lord:

Every male opening the womb shall be called

holy to the Lord:

24And to oer a sacrice, according as it is

written in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle-

doves, or two young pigeons:

25And behold there was a man in Jerusalem

named Simeon, and this man was just and de-The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Luke 1333

vout, waiting for the consolation of Israel; and

the Holy Ghost was in him.

26And he had received an answer from the

Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before

he had seen the Christ of the Lord.

27And he came by the Spirit into the temple.

And when his parents brought in the child Jesus,

to do for him according to the custom of the law,

28He also took him into his arms, and blessed

God, and said:

29Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, O Lord,

according to thy word in peace;

30Because my eyes have seen thy salvation,

31Which thou hast prepared before the face

of all peoples:

32A light to the revelation of the Gentiles,

and the glory of thy people Israel.

33And his father and mother were wondering

at those things which were spoken concerning

him.

34And Simeon blessed them, and said to

Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the

fall, and for the resurrection of many in Israel,

and for a sign which shall be contradicted;

35And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that,

out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed.

36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the

daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she

was far advanced in years, and had lived with

her husband seven years from her virginity.

37And she was a widow until fourscore and

four years; who departed not from the temple,

by fastings and prayers serving night and day.

38Now she, at the same hour, coming in, con-

fessed to the Lord; and spoke of him to all that

looked for the redemption of Israel.

39And after they had performed all things

according to the law of the Lord, they returned

into Galilee, to their city Nazareth.40And the child grew, and waxed strong, full

of wisdom; and the grace of God was in him.

41And his parents went every year to

Jerusalem, at the solemn day of the pasch,

42And when he was twelve years old, they

going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom

of the feast,

43And having fullled the days, when they

returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem;

and his parents knew it not.

44And thinking that he was in the com-

pany, they came a day's journey, and sought him

among their kinsfolks and acquaintance.

45And not nding him, they returned into

Jerusalem, seeking him.

46And it came to pass, that, after three days,

they found him in the temple, sitting in the

midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking

them questions.

47And all that heard him were astonished at

his wisdom and his answers.

48And seeing him, they wondered. And his

mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so

to us? behold thy father and I have sought thee

sorrowing.

49And he said to them: How is it that you

sought me? did you not know, that I must be

about my father's business?

50And they understood not the word that he

spoke unto them.

51And he went down with them, and came

to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And his

mother kept all these words in her heart.

52And Jesus advanced in wisdom, and age,

and grace with God and men.1334 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

Chapter 3

Now in the fteenth year of the reign of Tiberius

Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea,

and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip

his brother tetrarch of Iturea, and the country

of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilina;

2Under the high priests Annas and Caiphas;

the word of the Lord was made unto John, the

son of Zachary, in the desert.

3And he came into all the country about the

Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the

remission of sins;

4As it was written in the book of the sayings

of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in

the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord,

make straight his paths.

5Every valley shall be lled; and every moun-

tain and hill shall be brought low; and the

crooked shall be made straight; and the rough

ways plain;

6And all

esh shall see the salvation of God.

7He said therefore to the multitudes that went

forth to be baptized by him: Ye ospring of

vipers, who hath shewed you to

ee from the

wrath to come?

8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of

penance; and do not begin to say, We have Abra-

ham for our father. For I say unto you, that

God is able of these stones to raise up children

to Abraham.

9For now the axe is laid to the root of the

trees. Every tree therefore that bringeth not

forth good fruit, shall be cut down and cast into

the re.

10And the people asked him, saying: What

then shall we do?

11And he answering, said to them: He that

hath two coats, let him give to him that hath

none; and he that hath meat, let him do in likemanner.

12And the publicans also came to be bap-

tized, and said to him: Master, what shall we

do?

13But he said to them: Do nothing more than

that which is appointed you.

14And the soldiers also asked him, saying:

And what shall we do? And he said to them:

Do violence to no man; neither calumniate any

man; and be content with your pay.

15And as the people were of opinion, and

all were thinking in their hearts of John, that

perhaps he might be the Christ;

16John answered, saying unto all: I indeed

baptize you with water; but there shall come one

mightier that I, the latchet of whose shoes I am

not worthy to loose: he shall baptize you with

the Holy Ghost, and with re:

17Whose fan is in his hand, and he will purge

his

oor, and will gather the wheat into his barn;

but the cha he will burn with unquenchable re.

18And many other things exhorting, did he

preach to the people.

19But Herod the tetrarch, when he was re-

proved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife,

and for all the evils which Herod had done;

20He added this also above all, and shut up

John in prison.

21Now it came to pass, when all the peo-

ple were baptized, that Jesus also being baptized

and praying, heaven was opened;

22And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily

shape, as a dove upon him; and a voice came

from heaven: Thou art my beloved Son; in thee

I am well pleased.

23And Jesus himself was beginning about the

age of thirty years; being (as it was supposed)

the son of Joseph, who was of Heli, who was of

Mathat,The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke 1335

24Who was of Levi, who was of Melchi, who

was of Janne, who was of Joseph,

25Who was of Mathathias, who was of Amos,

who was of Nahum, who was of Hesli, who was

of Nagge,
26Who was of Mahath, who was of

Mathathias, who was of Semei, who was of

Joseph, who was of Juda,

27Who was of Joanna, who was of Reza, who

was of Zorobabel, who was of Salathiel, who was

of Neri,

28Who was of Melchi, who was of Addi, who

was of Cosan, who was of Helmadan, who was of

Her,

29Who was of Jesus, who was of Eliezer, who

was of Jorim, who was of Mathat, who was of

Levi,

30Who was of Simeon, who was of Judas,

who was of Joseph, who was of Jona, who was

of Eliakim,

31Who was of Melea, who was of Menna, who

was of Mathatha, who was of Nathan, who was

of David,

32Who was of Jesse, who was of Obed, who

was of Booz, who was of Salmon, who was of

Naasson,

33Who was of Aminadab, who was of Aram,

who was of Esron, who was of Phares, who was

of Judas,

34Who was of Jacob, who was of Isaac, who

was of Abraham, who was of Thare, who was of

Nachor,

35Who was of Sarug, who was of Ragau, who

was of Phaleg, who was of Heber, who was of

Sale,

36Who was of Cainan, who was of Arphaxad,

who was of Sem, who was of Noe, who was of

Lamech,

37Who was of Mathusale, who was of Henoch,

who was of Jared, who was of Malaleel, who wasof Cainan,

38Who was of Henos, who was of Seth, who

was of Adam, who was of God.

Chapter 4

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned

from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into

the desert,

2For the space of forty days; and was tempted

by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days;

and when they were ended, he was hungry.

3And the devil said to him: If thou be the

Son of God, say to this stone that it be made

bread.

4And Jesus answered him: It is written, that

Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word

of God.

5And the devil led him into a high mountain,

and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in

a moment of time;

6And he said to him: To thee will I give all

this power, and the glory of them; for to me they

are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them.

7If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all

shall be thine.

8And Jesus answering said to him: It is writ-

ten: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and

him only shalt thou serve.

9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set

him on a pinnacle of the temple, and he said to

him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from

hence.

10For it is written, that He hath given his

angels charge over thee, that they keep thee.

11And that in their hands they shall bear

thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against

a stone.1336 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

12And Jesus answering, said to him: It is

said: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

13And all the temptation being ended, the

devil departed from him for a time.

14And Jesus returned in the power of the

spirit, into Galilee, and the fame of him went

out through the whole country.

15And he taught in their synagogues, and

was magnied by all.

16And he came to Nazareth, where he was

brought up: and he went into the synagogue,

according to his custom, on the sabbath day; and

he rose up to read.

17And the book of Isaias the prophet was de-

livered unto him. And as he unfolded the book,

he found the place where it was written:

18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Where-

fore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to

the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of

heart,

19To preach deliverance to the captives, and

sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that

are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the

Lord, and the day of reward.

20And when he had folded the book, he re-

stored it to the minister, and sat down. And the

eyes of all in the synagogue were xed on him.

21And he began to say to them: This day is

fullled this scripture in your ears.

22And all gave testimony to him: and they

wondered at the words of grace that proceeded

from his mouth, and they said: Is not this the

son of Joseph?

23And he said to them: Doubtless you will

say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thy-

self: as great things as we have heard done in

Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.

24And he said: Amen I say to you, that no

prophet is accepted in his own country.25In truth I say to you, there were many wid-

ows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven

was shut up three years and six months, when

there was a great famine throughout all the

earth.

26And to none of them was Elias sent, but to

Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman.

27And there were many lepers in Israel in the

time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them

was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

28And all they in the synagogue, hearing

these things, were lled with anger.

29And they rose up and thrust him out of

the city; and they brought him to the brow of

the hill, whereon their city was built, that they

might cast him down headlong.

30But he passing through the midst of them,

went his way.

31And he went down into Capharnaum, a

city of Galilee, and there he taught them on the

sabbath days.

32And they were astonished at his doctrine:

for his speech was with power.

33And in the synagogue there was a man who

had an unclean devil, and he cried out with a

loud voice,

34Saying: Let us alone, what have we to do

with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to

destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy

one of God.

35And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold thy

peace, and go out of him. And when the devil

had thrown him into the midst, he went out of

him, and hurt him not at all.

36And there came fear upon all, and they

talked among themselves, saying: What word is

this, for with authority and power he comman-

deth the unclean spirits, and they go out?

37And the fame of him was published into

every place of the country.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke 1337

38And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue,

went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's

mother was taken with a great fever, and they

besought him for her.

39And standing over her, he commanded the

fever, and it left her. And immediately rising,

she ministered to them.

40And when the sun was down, all they that

had any sick with divers diseases, brought them

to him. But he laying his hands on every one of

them, healed them.

41And devils went out from many, crying out

and saying: Thou art the Son of God. And re-

buking them he suered them not to speak, for

they knew that he was Christ.

42And when it was day, going out he went

into a desert place, and the multitudes sought

him, and came unto him: and they stayed him

that he should not depart from them.

43To whom he said: To other cities also I

must preach the kingdom of God: for therefore

am I sent.

44And he was preaching in the synagogues of

Galilee.

Chapter 5

And it came to pass, that when the multitudes

pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he

stood by the lake of Genesareth,

2And saw two ships standing by the lake: but

the shermen were gone out of them, and were

washing their nets.

3And going into one of the ships that was Si-

mon's, he desired him to draw back a little from

the land. And sitting he taught the multitudes

out of the ship.

4Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to

Simon: Launch out into the deep, and let downyour nets for a draught.

5And Simon answering said to him: Master,

we have labored all the night, and have taken

nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.

6And when they had done this, they enclosed

a very great multitude of shes, and their net

broke.

7And they beckoned to their partners that

were in the other ship, that they should come

and help them. And they came, and lled both

the ships, so that they were almost sinking.

8Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down

at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I

am a sinful man, O Lord.

9For he was wholly astonished, and all that

were with him, at the draught of the shes which

they had taken.

10And so were also James and John the sons

of Zebedee, who were Simon's partners. And

Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth

thou shalt catch men.

11And having brought their ships to land,

leaving all things, they followed him.

12And it came to pass, when he was ina cer-

tain city, behold a man full of leprosy, who see-

ing Jesus, and falling on his face, besought him,

saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me

clean.

13And stretching forth his hand, he touched

him, saying: I will. Be thou cleansed. And im-

mediately the leprosy departed from him.

14And he charged him that he should tell no

man, but, Go, shew thyself to the priest, and

oer for thy cleansing according as Moses com-

manded, for a testimony to them.

15But the fame of him went abroad the more,

and great multitudes came together to hear, and

to be healed by him of their inrmities.

16And he retired into the desert, and prayed.1338 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Luke

17And it came to pass on a certain day, as he

sat teaching, that there were also Pharisees and

doctors of the law sitting by, that were come

out of every town of Galilee, and Judea and

Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was to

heal them.

18And behold, men brought in a bed a man,

who had the palsy: and they sought means to

bring him in, and to lay him before him.

19And when they could not nd by what way

they might bring him in, because of the multi-

tude, they went up upon the roof, and let him

down through the tiles with his bed into the

midst before Jesus.

20Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man,

thy sins are forgiven thee.

21And the scribes and Pharisees began to

think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blas-

phemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

22And when Jesus knew their thoughts, an-

swering, he said to them: What is it you think

in your hearts?

23Which is easier to say, Thy sins are forgiven

thee; or to say, Arise and walk?

24But that you may know that the Son of

man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he

saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say to thee, Arise,

take up thy bed, and go into thy house.

25And immediately rising up before them, he

took up the bed on which he lay; and he went

away to his own house, glorifying God.

26And all were astonished; and they gloried

God. And they were lled with fear, saying: We

have seen wonderful things to day.

27And after these things he went forth, and

saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt

of custom, and he said to him: Follow me.

28And leaving all things, he rose up and fol-

lowed him.

29And Levi made him a great feast in hisown house; and there was a great company of

publicans, and of others, that were at table with

them.

30But the Pharisees and scribes murmured,

saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink

with publicans and sinners?

31And Jesus answering, said to them: They

that are whole, need not the physician: but they

that are sick.

32I came not to call the just, but sinners to

penance.

33And they said to him: Why do the disci-

ples of John fast often, and make prayers, and

the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but

thine eat and drink?

34To whom he said: Can you make the chil-

dren of the bridegroom fast, whilst the bride-

groom is with them?

35But the days will come, when the bride-

groom shall be taken away from them, then shall

they fast in those days.

36And he spoke also a similitude to them:

That no man putteth a piece from a new gar-

ment upon an old garment; otherwise he both

rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the

new agreeth not with the old.

37And no man putteth new wine into old

bottle: otherwise the new wine will break the

bottles, and it will be spilled, and the bottles

will be lost.

38But new wine must be put into new bottles;

and both are preserved.

39And no man drinking old, hath presently

a mind to new: for he saith, The old is better.

Chapter 6

And it came to pass on the second rst sabbath,

that as he went through the corn elds, his disci-The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Luke 1339

ples plucked the ears, and did eat, rubbing them

in their hands.

2And some of the Pharisees said to them:

Why do you that which is not lawful on the sab-

bath days?

3And Jesus answering them, said: Have you

not read so much as this, what David did, when

himself was hungry, and they that were with him:

4How he went into the house of God, and

took and ate the bread of proposition, and gave

to them that were with him, which is not lawful

to eat but only for the priests?

5And he said to them: The Son of man is

Lord also of the sabbath.

6And it came to pass also on another sab-

bath, that he entered into the synagogue, and

taught. And there was a man, whose right hand

was withered.

7And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he

would heal on the sabbath; that they might nd

an accusation against him.

8But he knew their thoughts; and said to the

man who had the withered hand: Arise, and

stand forth in the midst. And rising he stood

forth.

9Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be

lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do

evil; to save life, or to destroy?

10And looking round about on them all, he

said to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And

he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored.

11And they were lled with madness; and

they talked one with another, what they might

do to Jesus.

12And it came to pass in those days, that he

went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed

the whole night in the prayer of God.

13And when day was come, he called unto

him his disciples; and he chose twelve of them

(whom also he named apostles):14Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and An-

drew his brother, James and John, Philip and

Bartholomew,

15Matthew and Thomas, James the son of

Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,

16And Jude, the brother of James, and Judas

Iscariot, who was the traitor.

17And coming down with them, he stood in

a plain place, and the company of his disciples,

and a very great multitude of people from all

Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast both of

Tyre and Sidon,

18Who were come to hear him, and to be

healed of their diseases. And they that were

troubled with unclean spirits, were cured.

19And all the multitude sought to touch him,

for virtue went out from him, and healed all.

20And he, lifting up his eyes on his disciples,

said: Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the king-

dom of God.

21Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you

shall be lled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for

you shall laugh.

22Blessed shall you be when men shall hate

you, and when they shall separate you, and shall

reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for

the Son of man's sake.

23Be glad in that day and rejoice; for behold,

your reward is great in heaven. For according to

these things did their fathers to the prophets.

24But woe to you that are rich: for you have

your consolation.

25Woe to you that are lled: for you shall

hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you

shall mourn and weep.

26Woe to you when men shall bless you: for

according to these things did their fathers to the

false prophets.

27But I say to you that hear: Love your en-

emies, do good to them that hate you.1340 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

28Bless them that curse you, and pray for

them that calumniate you.

29And to him that striketh thee on the one

cheek, oer also the other. And him that taketh

away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy

coat also.

30Give to every one that asketh thee, and of

him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not

again.

31And as you would that men should do to

you, do you also to them in like manner.

32And if you love them that love you, what

thanks are to you? for sinners also love those

that love them.

33And if you do good to them who do good

to you, what thanks are to you? for sinners also

do this.

34And if you lend to them of whom you hope

to receive, what thanks are to you? for sinners

also lend to sinners, for to receive as much.

35But love ye your enemies: do good, and

lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your re-

ward shall be great, and you shall be the sons

of the Highest; for he is kind to the unthankful,

and to the evil.

36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father

also is merciful.

37Judge not, and you shall not be judged.

Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned.

Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.

38Give, and it shall be given to you: good

measure and pressed down and shaken together

and running over shall they give into your bo-

som. For with the same measure that you shall

mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

39And he spoke also to them a similitude:

Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both

fall into the ditch?

40The disciple is not above his master: but

every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.41And why seest thou the mote in thy

brother's eye: but the beam that is in thy own

eye thou considerest not?

42Or how canst thou say to thy brother:

Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye,

when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own

eye? Hypocrite, cast rst the beam out of thy

own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to take

out the mote from thy brother's eye.

43For there is no good tree that bringeth

forth evil fruit; nor an evil tree that bringeth

forth good fruit.

44For every tree is known by its fruit. For

men do not gather gs from thorns; nor from a

bramble bush do they gather the grape.

45A good man out of the good treasure of his

heart bringeth forth that which is good: and an

evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth

that which is evil. For out of the abundance of

the heart the mouth speaketh.

46And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do

not the things which I say?

47Every one that cometh to me, and heareth

my words, and doth them, I will shew you to

whom he is like.

48He is like to a man building a house, who

digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a

rock. And when a

ood came, the stream beat

vehemently upon that house, and it could not

shake it; for it was founded on a rock.

49But he that heareth, and doth not, is like

to a man building his house upon the earth with-

out a foundation: against which the stream beat

vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin

of that house was great.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke 1341

Chapter 7

And when he had nished all his words in the

hearing of the people, he entered into Caphar-

naum.

2And the servant of a certain centurion, who

was dear to him, being sick, was ready to die.

3And when he had heard of Jesus, he sent

unto him the ancients of the Jews, desiring him

to come and heal his servant.

4And when they came to Jesus, they besought

him earnestly, saying to him: He is worthy that

thou shouldest do this for him.

5For he loveth our nation; and he hath built

us a synagogue.

6And Jesus went with them. And when he

was now not far from the house, the centurion

sent his friends to him, saying: Lord, trouble not

thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldest

enter under my roof.

7For which cause neither did I think myself

worthy to come to thee; but say the word, and

my servant shall be healed.

8For I also am a man subject to authority,

having under me soldiers: and I say to one, Go,

and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he

cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doth

it.

9Which Jesus hearing, marvelled: and turn-

ing about to the multitude that followed him, he

said: Amen I say to you, I have not found so

great faith, not even in Israel.

10And they who were sent, being returned

to the house, found the servant whole who had

been sick.

11And it came to pass afterwards, that he

went into a city that is called Naim; and there

went with him his disciples, and a great multi-

tude.

12And when he came nigh to the gate of thecity, behold a dead man was carried out, the only
son of his mother; and she was a widow: and a

great multitude of the city was with her.

13Whom when the Lord had seen, being

moved with mercy towards her, he said to her:

Weep not.

14And he came near and touched the bier.

And they that carried it, stood still. And he

said: Young man, I say to thee, arise.

15And he that was dead, sat up, and began

to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

16And there came a fear on them all: and

they gloried God, saying: A great prophet is

risen up among us: and, God hath visited his

people.

17And this rumour of him went forth

throughout all Judea, and throughout all the

country round about.

18And John's disciples told him of all these

things.

19And John called to him two of his disciples,

and sent them to Jesus, saying: Art thou he that

art to come; or look we for another?

20And when the men were come unto him,

they said: John the Baptist hath sent us to thee,

saying: Art thou he that art to come; or look we

for another?
21(And in that same hour, he cured many of

their diseases, and hurts, and evil spirits: and to

many that were blind he gave sight.)

22And answering, he said to them: Go and

relate to John what you have heard and seen:

the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made

clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, to the

poor the gospel is preached:

23And blessed is he whosoever shall not be

scandalized in me.

24And when the messengers of John were de-

parted, he began to speak to the multitudes con-

cerning John. What went ye out into the desert1342 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

St. Luke

to see? a reed shaken with the wind?

25But what went you out to see? a man

clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are

in costly apparel and live delicately, are in the

houses of kings.

26But what went you out to see? a prophet?

Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet.

27This is he of whom it is written: Behold I

send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare

thy way before thee.

28For I say to you: Amongst those that are

born of women, there is not a greater prophet

that John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser

in the kingdom of God, is greater than he.

29And all the people hearing, and the publi-

cans, justied God, being baptized with John's

baptism.

30But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised

the counsel of God against themselves, being not

baptized by him.

31And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall

I liken the men of this generation? and to what

are they like?

32They are like to children sitting in the mar-

ketplace, and speaking one to another, and say-

ing: We have piped to you, and you have not

danced: we have mourned, and you have not

wept.

33For John the Baptist came neither eating

bread nor drinking wine; and you say: He hath

a devil.

34The Son of man is come eating and drink-

ing: and you say: Behold a man that is a glutton

and a drinker of wine, a friend of publicans and

sinners.

35And wisdom is justied by all her children.

36And one of the Pharisees desired him to

eat with him. And he went into the house of the

Pharisee, and sat down to meat.37And behold a woman that was in the city,

a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in

the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box

of ointment;

38And standing behind at his feet, she began

to wash his feet, with tears, and wiped them

with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet,

and anointed them with the ointment.

39And the Pharisee, who had invited him,

seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This

man, if he were a prophet, would know surely

who and what manner of woman this is that

toucheth him, that she is a sinner.

40And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon,

I have somewhat to say to thee. But he said:

Master, say it.

41A certain creditor had two debtors, the one

who owed ve hundred pence, and the other fty.

42And whereas they had not wherewith to

pay, he forgave them both. Which therefore of

the two loveth him most?

43Simon answering, said: I suppose that he

to whom he forgave most. And he said to him:

Thou hast judged rightly.

44And turning to the woman, he said unto

Simon: Dost thou see this woman? I entered

into thy house, thou gavest me no water for my

feet; but she with tears hath washed my feet,

and with her hairs hath wiped them.

45Thou gavest me no kiss; but she, since she

came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

46My head with oil thou didst not anoint;

but she with ointment hath anointed my feet.

47Wherefore I say to thee: Many sins are

forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But

to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less.

48And he said to her: Thy sins are forgiven

thee.

49And they that sat at meat with him be-

gan to say within themselves: Who is this thatThe Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

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forgiveth sins also?

50And he said to the woman: Thy faith hath

made thee safe, go in peace.

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And it came to pass afterwards, that he trav-

elled through the cities and towns, preaching and

evangelizing the kingdom of God; and the twelve

with him:

2And certain women who had been healed of

evil spirits and inrmities; Mary who is called

Magdalen, out of whom seven devils were gone

forth,

3And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's stew-

ard, and Susanna, and many others who minis-

tered unto him of their substance.

4And when a very great multitude was gath-

ered together, and hastened out of the cities unto

him, he spoke by a similitude.

5The sower went out to sow his seed. And as

he sowed, some fell by the way side, and it was

trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured

it.

6And other some fell upon a rock: and as soon

as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it

had no moisture.

7And other some fell among thorns, and the

thorns growing up with it, choked it.

8And other some fell upon good ground; and

being sprung up, yielded fruit a hundredfold.

Saying these things, he cried out: He that hath

ears to hear, let him hear.

9And his disciples asked him what this para-

ble might be.

10To whom he said: To you it is given to

know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but

to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not

see, and hearing may not understand.11Now the parable is this: The seed is the
word of God.

12And they by the way side are they that

hear; then the devil cometh, and taketh the word

out of their heart, lest believing they should be

saved.

13Now they upon the rock, are they who

when they hear, receive the word with joy: and

these have no roots; for they believe for a while,

and in time of temptation, they fall away.

14And that which fell among thorns, are they

who have heard, and going their way, are choked

with the cares and riches and pleasures of this

life, and yield no fruit.

15But that on the good ground, are they who

in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word,

keep it, and bring forth fruit in patience.

16Now no man lighting a candle covereth it

with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but set-

teth it upon a candlestick, that they who come

in may see the light.

17For there is not any thing secret that shall

not be made manifest, nor hidden, that shall not

be known and come abroad.

18Take heed therefore how you hear. For

whosoever hath, to him shall be given: and

whosoever hath not, that also which he thinketh

he hath, shall be taken away from him.

19And his mother and brethren came unto

him; and they could not come at him for the

crowd.

20And it was told him: Thy mother and thy

brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

21Who answering, said to them: My mother

and my brethren are they who hear the word of

God, and do it.

22And it came to pass on a certain day that

he went into a little ship with his disciples, and

he said to them: Let us go over to the other side

of the lake. And they launched forth.1344 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

23And when they were sailing, he slept; and

there came down a storm of wind upon the lake,

and they were lled, and were in danger.

24And they came and awaked him, saying:

Master, we perish. But he arising, rebuked the

wind and the rage of the water; and it ceased,

and there was a calm.

25And he said to them: Where is your faith?

Who being afraid, wondered, saying one to an-

other: Who is this, (think you), that he com-

mandeth both the winds and the sea, and they

obey him?

26And they sailed to the country of the

Gerasens, which is over against Galilee.

27And when he was come forth to the land,

there met him a certain man who had a devil now

a very long time, and he wore no clothes, neither

did he abide in a house, but in the sepulchres.

28And when he saw Jesus, he fell down before

him; and crying out with a loud voice, he said:

What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the

most high God? I beseech thee, do not torment

me.

29For he commanded the unclean spirit to

go out of the man. For many times it seized

him, and he was bound with chains, and kept in

fetters; and breaking the bonds, he was driven

by the devil into the deserts.

30And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy

name? But he said: Legion; because many devils

were entered into him.

31And they besought him that he would not

command them to go into the abyss.

32And there was there a herd of many swine

feeding on the mountain; and they besought him

that he would suer them to enter into them.

And he suered them.

33The devils therefore went out of the man,

and entered into the swine; and the herd ran

violently down a steep place into the lake, andwere sti

ed.

34Which when they that fed them saw done,

they

ed away, and told it in the city and in the

villages.

35And they went out to see what was done;

and they came to Jesus, and found the man, out

of whom the devils were departed, sitting at his

feet, clothed, and in his right mind; and they

were afraid.

36And they also that had seen, told them

how he had been healed from the legion.

37And all the multitude of the country of the

Gerasens besought him to depart from them; for

they were taken with great fear. And he, going

up into the ship, returned back again.

38Now the man, out of whom the devils were

departed, besought him that he might be with

him. But Jesus sent him away, saying:

39Return to thy house, and tell how great

things God hath done to thee. And he went

through the whole city, publishing how great

things Jesus had done to him.

40And it came to pass, that when Jesus was

returned, the multitude received him: for they

were all waiting for him.

41And behold there came a man whose name

was Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue:

and he fell down at the feet of Jesus, beseeching

him that he would come into his house:

42For he had an only daughter, almost twelve

years old, and she was dying. And it happened as

he went, that he was thronged by the multitudes.

43And there was a certain woman having an

issue of blood twelve years, who had bestowed

all her substance on physicians, and could not

be healed by any.

44She came behind him, and touched the hem

of his garment; and immediately the issue of her

blood stopped.

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me? And all denying, Peter and they that were

with him said: Master, the multitudes throng

and press thee, and dost thou say, Who touched

me?

46And Jesus said: Somebody hath touched

me; for I know that virtue is gone out from me.

47And the woman seeing that she was not

hid, came trembling, and fell down before his

feet, and declared before all the people for what

cause she had touched him, and how she was

immediately healed.

48But he said to her: Daughter, thy faith

hath made thee whole; go thy way in peace.

49As he was yet speaking, there cometh one

to the ruler of the synagogue, saying to him: Thy

daughter is dead, trouble him not.

50And Jesus hearing this word, answered the

father of the maid: Fear not; believe only, and

she shall be safe.

51And when he was come to the house, he

suered not any man to go in with him, but Peter

and James and John, and the father and mother

of the maiden.

52And all wept and mourned for her. But

he said: Weep not; the maid is not dead, but

sleepeth.

53And they laughed him to scorn, knowing

that she was dead.

54But he taking her by the hand, cried out,

saying: Maid, arise.

55And her spirit returned, and she arose im-

mediately. And he bid them give her to eat.

56And her parents were astonished, whom he

charged to tell no man what was done.

Chapter 9
Then calling together the twelve apostles, he

gave them power and authority over all devils,and to cure diseases.

2And he sent them to preach the kingdom of

God, and to heal the sick.

3And he said to them: Take nothing for your

journey; neither sta, nor scrip, nor bread, nor

money; neither have two coats.

4And whatsoever house you shall enter into,

abide there, and depart not from thence.

5And whosoever will not receive you, when

ye go out of that city, shake o even the dust of

your feet, for a testimony against them.

6And going out, they went about through the

towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every

where.

7Now Herod, the tetrarch, heard of all things

that were done by him; and he was in a doubt,

because it was said

8By some, that John was risen from the dead:

but by other some, that Elias had appeared; and

by others, that one of the old prophets was risen

again.

9And Herod said: John I have beheaded; but

who is this of whom I hear such things? And he

sought to see him.

10And the apostles, when they were returned,

told him all they had done. And taking them,

he went aside into a desert place, apart, which

belongeth to Bethsaida.

11Which when the people knew, they fol-

lowed him; and he received them, and spoke to

them of the kingdom of God, and healed them

who had need of healing.

12Now the day began to decline. And the

twelve came and said to him: Send away the

multitude, that going into the towns and villages

round about, they may lodge and get victuals;

for we are here in a desert place.

13But he said to them: Give you them to eat.

And they said: We have no more than ve loaves1346 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According

to St. Luke

and two shes; unless perhaps we should go and

buy food for all this multitude.

14Now there were about ve thousand men.

And he said to his disciples: Make them sit down

by fties in a company.

15And they did so; and made them all sit

down.

16And taking the ve loaves and the two

shes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed them;

and he broke, and distributed to his disciples, to

set before the multitude.

17And they did all eat, and were lled. And

there were taken up of fragments that remained

to them, twelve baskets.

18And it came to pass, as he was alone pray-

ing, his disciples also were with him: and he

asked them, saying: Whom do the people say

that I am?

19But they answered, and said: John the

Baptist; but some say Elias; and others say that

one of the former prophets is risen again.

20And he said to them: But whom do you

say that I am? Simon Peter answering, said:

The Christ of God.

21But he strictly charging them, commanded

they should tell this to no man.

22Saying: The Son of man must suer many

things, and be rejected by the ancients and chief

priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third

day rise again.

23And he said to all: If any man will come

after me, let him deny himself, and take up his

cross daily, and follow me.

24For whosoever will save his life, shall lose

it; for he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall

save it.

25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain

the whole world, and lose himself, and cast away

himself?26For he that shall be ashamed of me and

of my words, of him the Son of man shall be

ashamed, when he shall come in his majesty, and

that of his Father, and of the holy angels.

27But I tell you of a truth: There are some

standing here that shall not taste death, till they

see the kingdom of God.

28And it came to pass about eight days after

these words, that he took Peter, and James, and

John, and went up into a mountain to pray.

29And whilst he prayed, the shape of his

countenance was altered, and his raiment be-

came white and glittering.

30And behold two men were talking with

him. And they were Moses and Elias,

31Appearing in majesty. And they spoke

of his decease that he should accomplish in

Jerusalem.

32But Peter and they that were with him

were heavy with sleep. And waking, they saw

his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

33And it came to pass, that as they were de-

parting from him, Peter saith to Jesus: Master,

it is good for us to be here; and let us make three

tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and

one for Elias; not knowing what he said.

34And as he spoke these things, there came

a cloud, and overshadowed them; and they were

afraid, when they entered into the cloud.

35And a voice came out of the cloud, saying:

This is my beloved Son; hear him.

36And whilst the voice was uttered, Jesus was

found alone. And they held their peace, and told

no man in those days any of these things which

they had seen.

37And it came to pass the day following,

when they came down from the mountain, there

met him a great multitude.

38And behold a man among the crowd cried

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my son, because he is my only one.

39And lo, a spirit seizeth him, and he sud-

denly crieth out, and he throweth him down and

teareth him, so that he foameth; and bruising

him, he hardly departeth from him.

40And I desired thy disciples to cast him out,

and they could not.

41And Jesus answering, said: O faithless and

perverse generation, how long shall I be with

you, and suer you? Bring hither thy son.

42And as he was coming to him, the devil

threw him down, and tore him.

43And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and

cured the boy, and restored him to his father.

44And all were astonished at the mighty

power of God. But while all wondered at all the

things he did, he said to his disciples: Lay you

up in your hearts these words, for it shall come

to pass, that the Son of man shall be delivered

into the hands of men.

45But they understood not this word; and it

was hid from them, so that they perceived it not.

And they were afraid to ask him concerning this

word.

46And there entered a thought into them,

which of them should be greater.

47But Jesus seeing the thoughts of their

heart, took a child and set him by him,

48And said to them: Whosoever shall receive

this child in my name, receiveth me; and whoso-

ever shall receive me, receiveth him that sent me.

For he that is the lesser among you all, he is the

greater.

49And John, answering, said: Master, we saw

a certain man casting out devils in thy name,

and we forbade him, because he followeth not

with us.

50And Jesus said to him: Forbid him not; for

he that is not against you, is for you.51And it came to pass, when the days of his

assumption were accomplishing, that he stead-

fastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.

52And he sent messengers before his face; and

going, they entered into a city of the Samaritans,

to prepare for him.

53And they received him not, because his face

was of one going to Jerusalem.

54And when his disciples James and John

had seen this, they said: Lord, wilt thou that we

command re to come down from heaven, and

consume them?

55And turning, he rebuked them, saying: You

know not of what spirit you are.

56The Son of man came not to destroy souls,

but to save. And they went into another town.

57And it came to pass, as they walked in the

way, that a certain man said to him: I will follow

thee withersoever thou goest.

58Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes,

and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of

man hath not where to lay his head.

59But he said to another: Follow me. And

he said: Lord, suer me rst to go, and to bury

my father.

60And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury

their dead: but go thou, and preach the kingdom

of God.

61And another said: I will follow thee, Lord;

but let me rst take my leave of them that are

at my house.

62Jesus said to him: No man putting his hand

to the plough, and looking back, is t for the

kingdom of God.

Chapter 10

And after these things the Lord appointed also

other seventy-two: and he sent them two and two1348 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According

to St. Luke

before his face into every city and place whither

he himself was to come.

2And he said to them: The harvest indeed is

great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye there-

fore the Lord of the harvest, that he send labour-

ers into his harvest.

3Go: Behold I send you as lambs among

wolves.

4Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes;

and salute no man by the way.

5Into whatsoever house you enter, rst say:

Peace be to this house.

6And if the son of peace be there, your peace

shall rest upon him; but if not, it shall return to

you.

7And in the same house, remain, eating

and drinking such things as they have: for the

labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from

house to house.

8And into what city soever you enter, and

they receive you, eat such things as are set before

you.

9And heal the sick that are therein, and say

to them: The kingdom of God is come nigh unto

you.

10But into whatsoever city you enter, and

they receive you not, going forth into the streets

thereof, say:

11Even the very dust of your city that

cleaveth to us, we wipe o against you. Yet know

this, that the kingdom of God is at hand.

12I say to you, it shall be more tolerable at

that day for Sodom, than for that city.

13Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Beth-

saida. For if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought

the mighty works that have been wrought in you,

they would have done penance long ago, sitting

in sackcloth and ashes.

14But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and

Sidon at the judgement, than for you.15And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted

unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust down to hell.

16He that heareth you, heareth me; and he

that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that

despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.

17And the seventy-two returned with joy,

saying: Lord, the devils also are subject to us

in thy name.

18And he said to them: I saw Satan like light-

ening falling from heaven.

19Behold, I have given you power to tread

upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the

power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt you.

20But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are

subject unto you; but rejoice in this, that your

names are written in heaven.

21In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy

Ghost, and said: I confess to thee, O Father,

Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid-

den these things from the wise and prudent, and

hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father,

for so it hath seemed good in thy sight.

22All things are delivered to me by my Fa-

ther; and no one knoweth who the Son is, but

the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son,
and to whom the Son will reveal him.

23And turning to his disciples, he said:

Blessed are the eyes that see the things which

you see.

24For I say to you, that many prophets and

kings have desired to see the things that you see,

and have not seen them; and to hear the things

that you hear, and have not heard them.

25And behold a certain lawyer stood up,

tempting him, and saying, Master, what must

I do to possess eternal life?

26But he said to him: What is written in the

law? how readest thou?

27He answering, said: Thou shalt love the

Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and withThe Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

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thy whole soul, and with all thy strength, and

with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself.

28And he said to him: Thou hast answered

right: this do, and thou shalt live.

29But he willing to justify himself, said to

Jesus: And who is my neighbour?

30And Jesus answering, said: A certain man

went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell

among robbers, who also stripped him, and hav-

ing wounded him went away, leaving him half

dead.

31And it chanced, that a certain priest went

down the same way: and seeing him, passed by.

32In like manner also a Levite, when he was

near the place and saw him, passed by.

33But a certain Samaritan being on his jour-

ney, came near him; and seeing him, was moved

with compassion.

34And going up to him, bound up his wounds,

pouring in oil and wine: and setting him upon

his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took

care of him.

35And the next day he took out two pence,

and gave to the host, and said: Take care of him;

and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above,

I, at my return, will repay thee.

36Which of these three, in thy opinion, was

neighbour to him that fell among the robbers?

37But he said: He that shewed mercy to him.

And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like

manner.

38Now it came to pass as they went, that he

entered into a certain town: and a certain woman

named Martha, received him into her house.

39And she had a sister called Mary, who sit-

ting also at the Lord's feet, heard his word.

40But Martha was busy about much serving.

Who stood and said: Lord, hast thou no care

that my sister hath left me alone to serve? speak

to her therefore, that she help me.41And the Lord answering, said to her:

Martha, Martha, thou art careful, and art trou-

bled about many things:

42But one thing is necessary. Mary hath cho-

sen the best part, which shall not be taken away

from her.

Chapter 11

And it came to pass, that as he was in a certain

place praying, when he ceased, one of his disci-

ples said to him: Lord, teach us to pray, as John

also taught his disciples.

2And he said to them: When you pray, say:

Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom

come.

3Give us this day our daily bread.

4And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive

every one that is indebted to us. And lead us

not into temptation.

5And he said to them: Which of you shall

have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight,

and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three

loaves,

6Because a friend of mine is come o his jour-

ney to me, and I have not what to set before him.

7And he from within should answer, and say:

Trouble me not, the door is now shut, and my

children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and

give thee.

8Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to

you, although he will not rise and give him, be-

cause he is his friend; yet, because of his impor-

tunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he

needeth.

9And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given

you: seek, and you shall nd: knock, and it shall

be opened to you.

10For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he1350 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

St. Luke

that seeketh, ndeth; and to him that knocketh,

it shall be opened.

11And which of you, if he ask his father

bread, will he give him a stone? or a sh, will

he for a sh give him a serpent?

12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him

a scorpion?

13If you then, being evil, know how to give

good gifts to your children, how much more will

your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to

them that ask him?

14And he was casting out a devil, and the

same was dumb: and when he had cast out the

devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes were

in admiration at it:

15But some of them said: He casteth out

devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils.

16And others tempting, asked of him a sign

from heaven.

17But he seeing their thoughts, said to them:

Every kingdom divided against itself, shall be

brought to desolation, and house upon house

shall fall.

18And if Satan also be divided against him-

self, how shall his kingdom stand? because you

say, that through Beelzebub I cast out devils.

19Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub; by

whom do your children cast them out? Therefore

they shall be your judges.

20But if I by the nger of God cast out devils;

doubtless the kingdom of God is come upon you.

21When a strong man armed keepeth his

court, those things are in peace which he pos-

sesseth.

22But if a stronger than he come upon him,

and overcome him; he will take away all his ar-

mour wherein he trusted, and will distribute his

spoils.

23He that is not with me, is against me; and

he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.24When the unclean spirit is gone out of a

man, he walketh through places without water,

seeking rest; and not nding, he saith: I will

return into my house whence I came out.

25And when he is come, he ndeth it swept

and garnished.

26Then he goeth and taketh with him seven

other spirits more wicked than himself, and en-

tering in they dwell there. And the last state of

that man becomes worse than the rst.

27And it came to pass, as he spoke these

things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting

up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb

that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck.

28But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they

who hear the word of God, and keep it.

29And the multitudes running together, he

began to say: This generation is a wicked gen-

eration: it asketh a sign, and a sign shall not be

given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

30For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so

shall the Son of man also be to this generation.

31The queen of the south shall rise in the

judgment with the men of this generation, and

shall condemn them: because she came from the

ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon;

and behold more than Solomon here.

32The men of Ninive shall rise in the judg-

ment with this generation, and shall condemn

it; because they did penance at the preaching of

Jonas; and behold more than Jonas here.

33No man lighteth a candle, and putteth it

in a hidden place, nore under a bushel; but upon

a candlestick, that they that come in, may see

the light.

34The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye

be single, thy whole body will be lightsome: but

if it be evil, thy body also will be darksome.

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36If then thy whole body be lightsome, hav-

ing no part of darkness; the whole shall be light-

some; and as a bright lamp, shall enlighten thee.

37And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee

prayed him, that he would dine with him. And

he going in, sat down to eat.

38And the Pharisee began to say, thinking

within himself, why he was not washed before

dinner.

39And the Lord said to him: Now you Phar-

isees make clean the outside of the cup and of

the platter; but your inside is full of rapine and

iniquity.

40Ye fools, did not he that made that which

is without, make also that which is within?

41But yet that which remaineth, give alms;

and behold, all things are clean unto you.

42But woe to you, Pharisees, because you

tithe mint and rue and every herb; and pass over

judgment, and the charity of God. Now these

things you ought to have done, and not to leave

the other undone.

43Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love

the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salu-

tations in the marketplace.

44Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres

that appear not, and men that walk over are not

aware.

45And one of the lawyers answering, saith

to him: Master, in saying these things, thou re-

proachest us also.

46But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, be-

cause you load men with burdens which they

cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the

packs with one of your ngers.

47Woe to you who build the monuments of

the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

48Truly you bear witness that you consent to

the doings of your fathers: for they indeed killed

them, and you build their sepulchres.49For this cause also the wisdom of God said:

I will send to them prophets and apostles; and

some of them they will kill and persecute.

50That the blood of all the prophets which

was shed from the foundation of the world, may

be required of this generation,

51From the blood of Abel unto the blood of

Zacharias, who was slain between the alter and

the temple: Yea I say to you, It shall be required

of this generation.

52Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken

away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have

not entered in, and those that were entering in,

you have hindered.

53And as he was saying these things to them,

the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to

urge him, and to oppress his mouth about many

things,

54Lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch

something from his mouth, that they might ac-

cuse him.

Chapter 12

And when great multitudes stood about him, so

that they trod one upon another, he began to

say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of

the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

2For there is nothing covered, that shall not

be revealed: nor hidden, that shall not be known.

3For whatsoever things you have spoken in

darkness, shall be published in the light: and

that which you have spoken in the ear in the

chambers, shall be preached on the housetops.

4And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid

of them who kill the body, and after that have

no more that they can do.

5But I will shew you whom you shall fear: fear

ye him, who after he hath killed, hath power to1352 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

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cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him.

6Are not ve sparrows sold for two farthings,

and not one of them is forgotten before God?

7Yea, the very hairs of your head are all num-

bered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value

than many sparrows.

8And I say to you, Whosoever shall confess

me before men, him shall the Son of man confess

me before men, him shall the Son of man also

confess before the angels of God.

9But he that shall deny me before men, shall

be denied before the angels of God.

10And whosoever speaketh a word against

the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but

to him that shall blaspheme against the Holy

Ghost, it shall not be forgiven.

11And when they shall bring you into the

synagogues, and to magistrates and powers, be

not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or

what you shall say;

12For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the

same hour what you must say.

13And one of the multitude said to him: Mas-

ter, speak to my brother that he divide the in-

heritance with me.

14But he said to him: Man, who hath ap-

pointed me judge, or divider, over you?

15And he said to them: Take heed and be-

ware of all covetousness; for a man's life doth

not consist in the abundance of things which he

possesseth.

16And he spoke a similitude to them, saying:

The land of a certain rich man brought forth

plenty of fruits.

17And he thought within himself, saying:

What shall I do, because I have no room where

to bestow my fruits?
18And he said: This will I do: I will pull

down my barns, and will build greater; and intothem will I gather all things that are grown to

me, and my goods.

19And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast

much goods laid up for many years take thy rest;

eat, drink, make good cheer.

20But God said to him: Thou fool, this night

do they require thy soul of thee: and whose shall

those things be which thou hast provided?

21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself,

and is not rich towards God.

22And he said to his disciples: Therefore I

say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what

you shall eat; nor for your body, what you shall

put on.

23The life is more than the meat, and the

body is more than the raiment.

24Consider the ravens, for they sow not, nei-

ther do they reap, neither have they storehouse

nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are

you more valuable than they?

25And which of you, by taking thought, can

add to his stature one cubit?

26If then ye be not able to do so much as the

least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they

labour not, neither do they spin. But I say

to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was

clothed like one of these.

28Now if God clothe in this manner the grass

that is to day in the eld, and to morrow is cast

into the oven; how much more you, O ye of little

faith?

29And seek not you what you shall eat, or

what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on

high.

30For all these things do the nations of the

world seek. But your Father knoweth that you

have need of these things.

31But seek ye rst the kingdom of God and

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unto you.

32Fear not, little

ock, for it hath pleased

your Father to give you a kingdom.

33Sell what you possess and give alms. Make

to yourselves bags which grow not old, a trea-

sure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief

approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

34For where your treasure is, there will your

heart be also.
35Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning

in your hands.

36And you yourselves like to men who wait

for their lord, when he shall return from the wed-

ding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they

may open to him immediately.

37Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord

when he cometh, shall nd watching. Amen I

say to you, that he will gird himself, and make

them sit down to meat, and passing will minister

unto them.

38And if he shall come in the second watch,

or come in the third watch, and nd them so,

blessed are those servants.

39But this know ye, that if the householder

did know at what hour the thief would come,

he would surely watch, and would not suer his

house to be broken open.

40Be you then also ready: for at what hour

you think not, the Son of man will come.

41And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou

speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?

42And the Lord said: Who (thinkest thou) is

the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord set-

teth over his family, to give them their measure

of wheat in due season?

43Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord

shall come, he shall nd so doing.

44Verily I say to you, he will set him over all

that he possesseth.45But if that servant shall say in his heart:

My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to

strike the menservants and maidservants, and to

eat and to drink and be drunk:

46The lord of that servant will come in the

day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he

knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall

appoint him his portion with unbelievers.

47And that servant who knew the will of his

lord, and prepared not himself, and did not ac-

cording to his will, shall be beaten with many

stripes.

48But he that knew not, and did things wor-

thy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.

And unto whomsoever much is given, of him

much shall be required: and to whom they have

committed much, of him they will demand the

more.

49I am come to cast re on the earth; and

what will I, but that it be kindled?

50And I have a baptism wherewith I am to

be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be

accomplished?
51Think ye, that I am come to give peace on

earth? I tell you, no; but separation.

52For there shall be from henceforth ve in

one house divided: three against two, and two

against three.

53The father shall be divided against the

son, and the son against his father, the mother

against the daughter, and the daughter against

the mother, the mother in law against her daugh-

ter in law, and the daughter in law against her

mother in law.

54And he said also to the multitudes: When

you see a cloud rising from the west, presently

you say: A shower is coming: and so it hap-

peneth:

55And when ye see the south wind blow, you

say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass.1354 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

St. Luke

56You hypocrites, you know how to discern

the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how

is it that you do not discern this time?

57And why even of yourselves, do you not

judge that which is just?

58And when thou goest with thy adversary to

the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour

to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw

thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to

the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison.

59I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence,

until thou pay the very last mite.

Chapter 13

And there were present, at that very time, some

that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pi-

late had mingled with their sacrices.

2And he answering, said to them: Think

you that these Galileans were sinners above all

the men of Galilee, because they suered such

things?

3No, I say to you: but unless you shall do

penance, you shall all likewise perish.

4Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell

in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they

also were debtors above all the men that dwelt

in Jerusalem?

5No, I say to you; but except you do penance,

you shall all likewise perish.

6He spoke also this parable: A certain man

had a g tree planted in his vineyard, and he

came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

7And he said to the dresser of the vineyard:

Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit

on this g tree, and I nd none. Cut it done

therefore: why cumbereth it the ground?

8But he answering, said to him: Lord, let

it alone this year also, until I dig about it, anddung it.

9And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then

after that thou shalt cut it down.

10And he was teaching in their synagogue on

their sabbath.

11And behold there was a woman, who had

a spirit of inrmity eighteen years: and she was

bowed together, neither could she look upwards

at all.

12Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto

him, and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered

from thy inrmity.

13And he laid his hands upon her, and im-

mediately she was made straight, and gloried

God.

14And the ruler of the synagogue (being an-

gry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath) an-

swering, said to the multitude: Six days there

are wherein you ought to work. In them there-

fore come, and be healed; and not on the sabbath

day.

15And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hyp-

ocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sab-

bath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger,

and lead them to water?

16And ought not this daughter of Abra-

ham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen

years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath

day?

17And when he said these things, all his ad-

versaries were ashamed: and all the people re-

joiced for all the things that were gloriously done

by him.

18He said therefore: To what is the kingdom

of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it?

19It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which

a man took and cast into his garden, and it grew

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20And again he said: Whereunto shall I es-

teem the kingdom of God to be like?

21It is like to leaven, which a woman took

and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole

was leavened.

22And he went through the cities and towns

teaching, and making his journey to Jerusalem.

23And a certain man said to him: Lord, are

they few that are saved? But he said to them:

24Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for

many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall

not be able.

25But when the master of the house shall be

gone in, and shall shut the door, you shall begin

to stand without, and knock at the door, saying:

Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say

to you: I know you not, whence you are.

26Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten

and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught

in our streets.

27And he shall say to you: I know you not,

whence you are: depart from me, all ye workers

of iniquity.

28There shall be weeping and gnashing of

teeth, when you shall see Abraham and Isaac

and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom

of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

29And there shall come from the east and the

west, and the north and the south; and shall sit

down in the kingdom of God.

30And behold, they are last that shall be rst;

and they are rst that shall be last.

31The same day, there came some of the

Pharisees, saying to him: Depart, and get thee

hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee.

32And he said to them: Go and tell that fox,

Behold, I cast out devils, and do cures to day

and to morrow, and the third day I am consum-

mated.33Nevertheless I must walk to day and to

morrow, and the day following, because it cannot

be that a prophet perish, out of Jerusalem.

34Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the

prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee,

how often would I have gathered thy children as

the bird doth her brood under her wings, and

thou wouldest not?

35Behold your house shall be left to you deso-

late. And I say to you, that you shall not see me

till the time come, when you shall say: Blessed

is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Chapter 14

And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the

house of one of the chief of the Pharisees, on the

sabbath day, to eat bread, that they watched

him.

2And behold, there was a certain man before

him that had the dropsy.

3And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers

and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the

sabbath day?

4But they held their peace. But he taking

him, healed him, and sent him away.

5And answering them, he said: Which of you

shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit, and will

not immediately draw him out, on the sabbath

day?

6And they could not answer him to these

things.

7And he spoke a parable also to them that

were invited, marking how they chose the rst

seats at the table, saying to them:

8When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not

down in the rst place, lest perhaps one more

honourable than thou be invited by him:

9And he that invited thee and him, come and1356 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Luke

say to thee, Give this man place: and then thou

begin with shame to take the lowest place.

10But when thou art invited, go, sit down

in the lowest place; that when he who invited

thee, cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up

higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them

that sit at table with thee.

11Because every one that exalteth himself,

shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself,

shall be exalted.

12And he said to him also that had invited

him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper,

call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy

kinsmen, nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest

perhaps they also invite thee again, and a rec-

ompense be made to thee.

13But when thou makest a feast, call the

poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind;

14And thou shalt be blessed, because they

have not wherewith to make thee recompense:

for recompense shall be made thee at the resur-

rection of the just.

15When one of them that sat at table with

him, had heard these things, he said to him:

Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the king-

dom of God.

16But he said to him: A certain man made a

great supper, and invited many.

17And he sent his servant at the hour of sup-

per to say to them that were invited, that they

should come, for now all things are ready.

18And they began all at once to make excuse.

The rst said to him: I have bought a farm, and

I must needs go out and see it: I pray thee, hold

me excused.

19And another said: I have bought ve yoke

of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, hold

me excused.

20And another said: I have married a wife,

and therefore I cannot come.21And the servant returning, told these

things to his lord. Then the master of the house,

being angry, said to his servant: Go out quickly

into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring

in hither the poor, and the feeble, and the blind,

and the lame.

22And the servant said: Lord, it is done as

thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

23And the Lord said to the servant: Go out

into the highways and hedges, and compel them

to come in, that my house may be lled.

24But I say unto you, that none of those men

that were invited, shall taste of my supper.

25And there went great multitudes with him.

And turning, he said to them:

26If any man come to me, and hate not his

father, and mother, and wife, and children, and

brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also,

he cannot be my disciple.

27And whosoever doth not carry his cross

and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

28For which of you having a mind to build

a tower, doth not rst sit down, and reckon

the charges that are necessary, whether he have

wherewithal to nish it:

29Lest, after he hath laid the foundation, and

is not able ti nish it, all that see it begin to mock

him,

30Saying: This man began to build, and was

not able to nish.

31Or what king, about to go to make war

against another king, doth not rst sit down, and

think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to

meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh

against him?

32Or else, whilst the other is yet afar o,

sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of

peace.

33So likewise every one of you that doth not

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disciple.

34Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its

savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

35It is neither protable for the land nor for

the dunghill, but shall be cast out. He that hath

ears to hear, let him hear.

Chapter 15

Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto

him to hear him.

2And the Pharisees and the scribes mur-

mured, saying: This man receiveth sinners, and

eateth with them.

3And he spoke to them this parable, saying:

4What man of you that hath an hundred

sheep: and if he shall lose one of them, doth

he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and

go after that which was lost, until he nd it?

5And when he hath found it, lay it upon his

shoulders, rejoicing:

6And coming home, call together his friends

and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with

me, because I have found my sheep that was lost?

7I say to you, that even so there shall be joy

in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance,

more than upon ninety-nine just who need not

penance.

8Or what woman having ten groats; if she lose

one groat, doth not light a candle, and sweep the

house, and seek diligently until she nd it?

9And when she hath found it, call together

her friends and neighbours, saying: Rejoice with

me, because I have found the groat which I had

lost.

10So I say to you, there shall be joy before the

angels of God upon one sinner doing penance.

11And he said: A certain man had two sons:12And the younger of them said to his father:

Father, give me the portion of substance that

falleth to me. And he divided unto them his

substance.

13And not many days after, the younger son,

gathering all together, went abroad into a far

country: and there wasted his substance, living

riotously.

14And after he had spent all, there came a

mighty famine in that country; and he began to

be in want.

15And he went and cleaved to one of the cit-

izens of that country. And he sent him into his

farm to feed swine.

16And he would fain have lled his belly with

the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave

unto him.

17And returning to himself, he said: How

many hired servants in my father's house abound

with bread, and I here perish with hunger?

18I will arise, and will go to my father, and

say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven,

and before thee:

19I am not worthy to be called thy son: make

me as one of thy hired servants.

20And rising up he came to his father. And

when he was yet a great way o, his father saw

him, and was moved with compassion, and run-

ning to him fell upon his neck, and kissed him.

21And the son said to him: Father, I have

sinned against heaven, and before thee, I am not

now worthy to be called thy son.

22And the father said to his servants: Bring

forth quickly the rst robe, and put it on him,

and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill

it, and let us eat and make merry:

24Because this my son was dead, and is come

to life again: was lost, and is found. And they

began to be merry.1358 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

25Now his elder son was in the eld, and when

he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard

music and dancing:

26And he called one of the servants, and

asked what these things meant.

27And he said to him: Thy brother is come,

and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because

he hath received him safe.

28And he was angry, and would not go in.

His father therefore coming out began to entreat

him.

29And he answering, said to his father: Be-

hold, for so many years do I serve thee, and I

have never transgressed thy commandment, and

yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry

with my friends:

30But as soon as this thy son is come, who

hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou

hast killed for him the fatted calf.

31But he said to him: Son, thou art always

with me, and all I have is thine.

32But it was t that we should make merry

and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and

is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.

Chapter 16

And he said also to his disciples: There was a

certain rich man who had a steward: and the

same was accused unto him, that he had wasted

his goods.

2And he called him, and said to him: How

is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of

thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward

no longer.

3And the steward said within himself: What

shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me

the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I

am ashamed.4I know what I will do, that when I shall be

removed from the stewardship, they may receive

me into their houses.

5Therefore calling together every one of his

lord's debtors, he said to the rst: How much

dost thou owe my lord?

6But he said: An hundred barrels of oil.

And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down

quickly, and write fty.

7Then he said to another: And how much

dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters

of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and

write eighty.

8And the lord commended the unjust stew-

ard, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the

children of this world are wiser in their genera-

tion than the children of light.

9And I say to you: Make unto you friends

of the mammon of iniquity; that when you

shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting

dwellings.

10He that is faithful in that which is least, is

faithful also in that which is greater: and he that

is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in

that which is greater.

11If then you have not been faithful in the

unjust mammon; who will trust you with that

which is the true?

12And if you have not been faithful in that

which is another's; who will give you that which

is your own?

13No servant can serve two masters: for ei-

ther he will hate the one, and love the other; or

he will hold to the one, and despise the other.

You cannot serve God and mammon.

14Now the Pharisees, who were covetous,

heard all these things: and they derided him.

15And he said to them: You are they who

justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth

your hearts; for that which is high to men, is anThe Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Luke 1359

abomination before God.

16The law and the prophets were until John;

from that time the kingdom of God is preached,

and every one useth violence towards it.

17And it is easier for heaven and earth to

pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.

18Every one that putteth away his wife, and

marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he

that marrieth her that is put away from her hus-

band, commmitteth adultery.

19There was a certain rich man, who was

clothed in purple and ne linen; and feasted

sumptuously every day.

20And there was a certain beggar, named

Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,

21Desiring to be lled with the crumbs that

fell from the rich man's table, and no one did

give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked

his sores.

22And it came to pass, that the beggar died,

and was carried by the angels into Abraham's

bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was

buried in hell.

23And lifting up his eyes when he was in tor-

ments, he saw Abraham afar o, and Lazarus in

his bosom:

24And he cried, and said: Father Abraham,

have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he

may dip the tip of his nger in water, to cool my

tongue: for I am tormented in this

ame.

25And Abraham said to him: Son, remember

that thou didst receive good things in thy life-

time, and likewise Lazareth evil things, but now

he is comforted; and thou art tormented.

26And besides all this, between us and you,

there is xed a great chaos: so that they who

would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from

thence come hither.

27And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee,

that thou wouldst send him to my father's house,for I have ve brethren,

28That he may testify unto them, lest they

also come into this place of torments.

29And Abraham said to him: They have

Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

30But he said: No, father Abraham: but if

one went to them from the dead, they will do

penance.

31And he said to him: If they hear not Moses

and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one

rise again from the dead.

Chapter 17

And he said to his disciples: It is impossible

that scandals should not come: but woe to him

through whom they come.

2It were better for him, that a millstone were

hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea,

than that he should scandalize one of these little

ones.

3Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin

against thee, reprove him: and if he do penance,

forgive him.

4And if he sin against thee seven times in a

day, and seven times in a day be converted unto

thee, saying, I repent; forgive him.

5And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase

our faith.
6And the Lord said: If you had faith like to

a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this

mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou

transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.

7But which of you having a servant ploughing,

or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come

from the eld: Immediately go, sit down to meat:

8And will not rather say to him: Make ready

my supper, and gird thyself, and serve me, whilst

I eat and drink, and afterwards thou shalt eat1360 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Luke

and drink?

9Doth he thank that servant, for doing the

things which he commanded him?

10I think not. So you also, when you shall

have done all these things that are commanded

you, say: We are unprotable servants; we have

done that which we ought to do.

11And it came to pass, as he was going

to Jerusalem, he passed through the midst of

Samaria and Galilee.

12And as he entered into a certain town,

there met him ten men that were lepers, who

stood afar o;

13And lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus,

master, have mercy on us.

14Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew

yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass,

as they went, they were made clean.

15And one of them, when he saw that he

was made clean, went back, with a loud voice

glorifying God.

16And he fell on his face before his feet, giving

thanks: and this was a Samaritan.

17And Jesus answering, said, Were not ten

made clean? and where are the nine?

18There is no one found to return and give

glory to God, but this stranger.

19And he said to him: Arise, go thy way; for

thy faith hath made thee whole.

20And being asked by the Pharisees, when

the kingdom of God should come? he answered

them, and said: The kingdom of God cometh

not with observation:

21Neither shall they say: Behold here, or be-

hold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within

you.

22And he said to his disciples: The days will

come, when you shall desire to see one day of the

Son of man; and you shall not see it.23And they will say to you: See here, and see

there. Go ye not after, nor follow them:

24For as the lightening that lighteneth from

under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are

under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his

day.

25But rst he must suer many things, and

be rejected by this generation.

26And as it came to pass in the days of Noe,

so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

27They did eat and drink, they married

wives, and were given in marriage, until the day

that Noe entered into the ark: and the

ood

came and destroyed them all.

28Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of

Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and

sold, they planted and built.

29And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom,

it rained re and brimstone from heaven, and

destroyed them all.

30Even thus shall it be in the day when the

Son of man shall be revealed.

31In that hour, he that shall be on the house-

top, and his goods in the house, let him not go

down to take them away: and he that shall be

in the eld, in like manner, let him not return

back.

32Remember Lot's wife.

33Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall

lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve

it.

34I say to you: in that night there shall be

two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and

the other shall be left.

35Two women shall be grinding together: the

one shall be taken, and the other shall be left:

two men shall be in the eld; the one shall be

taken, and the other shall be keft.

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37Who said to them: Wheresoever the body

shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered

together.

Chapter 18

And he spoke also a parable to them, that we

ought always to pray, and not to faint,

2Saying: There was a judge in a certain city,

who feared not God, nor regarded man.

3And there was a certain widow in that city,

and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my

adversary.

4And he would not for a long time. But af-

terwards he said within himself: Although I fear

not God, nor regard man,

5Yet because this widow is troublesome to

me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming

she weary me.

6And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust

judge saith.

7And will not God revenge his elect who cry

to him day and night: and will he have patience

in their regard?

8I say to you, that he will quickly revenge

them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh,

shall he nd, think you, faith on earth?

9And to some who trusted in themselves as

just, and despised others, he spoke also this para-

ble:

10Two men went up into the temple to pray:

the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

11The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with

himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not

as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulter-

ers, as also is this publican.

12I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all

that I possess.

13And the publican, standing afar o, wouldnot so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven;

but struck his breast, saying: O god, be merciful

to me a sinner.

14I say to you, this man went down into his

house justied rather that the other: because ev-

ery one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled:

and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

15And they brought unto him also infants,

that he might touch them. Which when the dis-

ciples saw, they rebuked them.

16But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suf-

fer children to come to me, and forbid them not:

for of such is the kingdom of God.

17Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not

receive the kingdom of God as a child, shall not

enter into it.

18And a certain ruler asked him, saying:

Good master, what shall I do to possess ever-

lasting life?

19And Jesus said to him: Why dost thou call

me good? None is good but God alone.

20Thou knowest the commandments: Thou

shalt not kill: Thou shalt not commit adultery:

Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false

witness: Honour thy father and mother.

21Who said: All these things have I kept from

my youth.

22Which when Jesus had heard, he said to

him: Yet one thing is wanting to thee: sell all

whatever thou hast, and give to the poor, and

thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come,

follow me.

23He having heard these things, became sor-

rowful; for he was very rich.

24And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful,

said: How hardly shall they that have riches en-

ter into the kingdom of God.

25For it is easier for a camel to pass through

the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter

into the kingdom of God.1362 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

26And they that heard it, said: Who then

can be saved?

27He said to them: The things that are im-

possible with men, are possible with God.

28Then Peter said: Behold, we have left all

things, and have followed thee.

29Who said to them: Amen, I say to you,

there is no man that hath left house, or parents,

or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom

of God's sake,

30Who shall not receive much more in this

present time, and in the world to come life ever-

lasting.

31Then Jesus took unto him the twelve, and

said to them: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem,

and all things shall be accomplished which were

written by the prophets concerning the Son of

man.

32For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles,

and shall be mocked, and scourged, and spit

upon:

33And after they have scourged him, they

will put him to death; and the third day he shall

rise again.

34And they understood none of these things,

and this word was hid from them, and they un-

derstood not the things that were said.

35Now it came to pass, when he drew nigh

to Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the

way side, begging.

36And when he heard the multitude passing

by, he asked what this meant.

37And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth

was passing by.

38And he cried out, saying: Jesus, son of

David, have mercy on me.

39And they that went before, rebuked him,

that he should hold his peace: but he cried out

much more: Son of David, have mercy on me.40And Jesus standing, commanded him to be

brought unto him. And when he was come near,

he asked him,

41Saying: What wilt thou that I do to thee?

But he said: Lord, that I may see.

42And Jesus said to him: Receive thy sight:

thy faith hath made thee whole.

43And immediately he saw, and followed him,

glorifying God. And all the people, when they

saw it, gave praise to God.

Chapter 19

And entering in, he walked through Jericho.

2And behold, there was a man named

Zacheus, who was the chief of the publicans, and

he was rich.

3And he sought to see Jesus who he was, and

he could not for the crowd, because he was low

of stature.

4And running before, he climbed up into a

sycamore tree, that he might see him; for he was

to pass that way.

5And when Jesus was come to the place, look-

ing up, he saw him, and said to him: Zacheus,

make haste and come down; for this day I must

abide in thy house.

6And he made haste and came down; and

received him with joy.

7And when all saw it, they murmured, saying,

that he was gone to be a guest with a man that

was a sinner.
8But Zacheus standing, said to the Lord: Be-

hold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the

poor; and if I have wronged any man of any

thing, I restore him fourfold.

9Jesus said to him: This day is salvation come

to this house, because he also is a son of Abra-

ham.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke 1363

10For the Son of man is come to seek and to

save that which was lost.

11As they were hearing these things, he

added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh

to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the

kingdom of God should immediately be mani-

fested.

12He said therefore: A certain nobleman

went into a far country, to receive for himself

a kingdom, and to return.

13And calling his ten servants, he gave them

ten pounds, and said to them: Trade till I come.

14But his citizens hated him: and they sent

an embassage after him, saying: We will not have

this man to reign over us.

15And it came to pass, that he returned, hav-

ing received the kingdom: and he commanded

his servants to be called, to whom he had given

the money, that he might know how much every

man had gained by trading.

16And the rst came, saying: Lord, thy

pound hath gained ten pounds.

17And he said to him: Well done, thou good

servant, because thou hast been faithful in a lit-

tle, thou shalt have power over ten cities.

18And the second came, saying: Lord, thy

pound hath gained ve pounds.

19And he said to him: Be thou also over ve

cities.

20And another came, saying: Lord, behold

here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in

a napkin;

21For I feared thee, because thou art an aus-

tere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay

down, and thou reapest that which thou didst

not sow.

22He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I

judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest

that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid

not down, and reaping that which I did not sow:23And why then didst thou not give my

money into the bank, that at my coming, I might

have exacted it with usury?

24And he said to them that stood by: Take

the pound away from him, and give it to him

that hath ten pounds.

25And they said to him: Lord, he hath ten

pounds.

26But I say to you, that to every one that

hath shall be given, and he shall abound: and

from him that hath not, even that which he hath,

shall be taken from him.

27But as for those my enemies, who would

not have me reign over them, bring them hither,

and kill them before me.

28And having said these things, he went be-

fore, going up to Jerusalem.

29And it came to pass, when he was come

nigh to Bethphage and Bethania, unto the

mount called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

30Saying: Go into the town which is over

against you, at your entering into which you shall

nd the colt of an ass tied, on which no man ever

hath sitten: loose him, and bring him hither.

31And if any man shall ask you: Why do you

loose him? you shall say thus unto him: Because

the Lord hath need of his service.

32And they that were sent, went their way,

and found the colt standing, as he had said unto

them.

33And as they were loosing the colt, the own-

ers thereof said to them: Why loose you the colt?

34But they said: Because the Lord hath need

of him.

35And they brought him to Jesus. And cast-

ing their garments on the colt, they set Jesus

thereon.

36And as he went, they spread their clothes

underneath in the way.1364 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

37And when he was now coming near the

descent of mount Olivet, the whole multitude of

his disciples began with joy to praise God with

a loud voice, for all the mighty works they had

seen,

38Saying: Blessed be the king who cometh

in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven, and

glory on high!

39And some of the Pharisees, from amongst

the multitude, said to him: Master, rebuke thy

disciples.

40To whom he said: I say to you, that if these

shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

41And when he drew near, seeing the city, he

wept over it, saying:

42If thou also hadst known, and that in this

thy day, the things that are to thy peace; but

now they are hidden from thy eyes.

43For the days shall come upon thee, and

thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and

compass thee round, and straiten thee on every

side,

44And beat thee

at to the ground, and thy

children who are in thee: and they shall not leave

in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast

not known the time of thy visitation.

45And entering into the temple, he began to

cast out them that sold therein, and them that

bought.

46Saying to them: It is written: My house is

the house of prayer. But you have made it a den

of thieves.

47And he was teaching daily in the temple.

And the chief priests and the scribes and the

rulers of the people sought to destroy him:

48And they found not what to do to him: for

all the people were very attentive to hear him.Chapter 20

And it came to pass, that on one of the days, as

he was teaching the people in the temple, and

preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the

scribes, with the ancients, met together,

2And spoke to him, saying: Tell us, by what

authority dost thou these things? or, Who is he

that hath given thee this authority?

3And Jesus answering, said to them: I will

also ask you one thing. Answer me:

4The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or

of men?

5But they thought within themselves, saying:

If we shall say, From heaven: he will say: Why

then did you not believe him?

6But if we say, Of men, the whole people will

stone us: for they are persuaded that John was

a prophet.

7And they answered, that they knew not

whence it was.

8And Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell

thee by what authority I do these things.

9And he began to speak to the people this

parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, and

let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for

a long time.

10And at the season he sent a servant to the

husbandmen, that they should give him of the

fruit of the vineyard. Who, beating him, sent

him away empty.

11And again he sent another servant. But

they beat him also, and treating him reproach-

fully, sent him away empty.

12And again he sent the third: and they

wounded him also, and cast him out.

13Then the lord of the vineyard said: What

shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may

be, when they see him, they will reverence him.

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1365

thought within themselves, saying: This is the

heir, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be

ours.

15So casting him out of the vineyard, they

killed him. What therefore will the lord of the

vineyard do to them?

16He will come, and will destroy these hus-

bandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.

Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

17But he looking on them, said: What is

this then that is written, The stone, which the

builders rejected, the same is become the head

of the corner?

18Whosoever shall fall upon that stone, shall

be bruised: and upon whomsoever it shall fall,

it will grind him to powder.

19And the chief priests and the scribes sought

to lay hands on him the same hour: but they

feared the people, for they knew that he spoke

this parable to them.

20And being upon the watch, they sent spies,

who should feign themselves just, that they

might take hold of him in his words, that they

might deliver him up to the authority and power

of the governor.

21And they asked him, saying: Master, we

know that thou speakest and teachest rightly:

and thou dost not respect any person, but teach-

est the way of God in truth.

22Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar,

or no?

23But he considering their guile, said to

them: Why tempt you me?

24Shew me a penny. Whose image and in-

scription hath it? They answering, said to him,

Caesar's.

25And he said to them: Render therefore to

Caesar the things that are Caesar's: and to God

the things that are God's.26And they could not reprehend his word be-

fore the people: and wondering at his answer,

they held their peace.

27And there came to him some of the Sad-

ducees, who deny that there is any resurrection,

and they asked him,

28Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us, If

any man's brother die, having a wife, and he

leave no children, that his brother should take

her to wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

29There were therefore seven brethren: and

the rst took a wife, and died without children.

30And the next took her to wife, and he also

died childless.

31And the third took her. And in like manner

all the seven, and they left no children, and died.

32Last of all the woman died also.

33In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of

them shall she be? For all the seven had her to

wife.

34And Jesus said to them: The children of

this world marry, and are given in marriage:

35But they that shall be accounted worthy

of that world, and of the resurrection from the

dead, shall neither be married, nor take wives.

36Neither can they die any more: for they

are equal to the angels, and are the children of

God, being the children of the resurrection.

37Now that the dead rise again, Moses also

shewed, at the bush, when he called the Lord,

The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and

the God of Jacob;

38For he is not the God of the dead, but of

the living: for all live to him.

39And some of the scribes answering, said to

him: Master, thou hast said well.

40And after that they durst not ask him any

more questions.

41But he said to them: How say they that

Christ is the son of David?1366 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

42And David himself saith in the book of

Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on

my right hand,

43Till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

44David then calleth him Lord: and how is

he his son?

45And in the hearing of all the people, he

said to his disciples:

46Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk

in long robes, and love salutations in the mar-

ketplace, and the rst chairs in the synagogues,

and the chief rooms at feasts:

47Who devour the houses of widows, feigning

long prayer. These shall receive greater damna-

tion.

Chapter 21

And looking on, he saw the rich men cast their

gifts into the treasury.

2And he saw also a certain poor widow cast-

ing in two brass mites.

3And he said: Verily I say to you, that this

poor widow hath cast in more than they all:

4For all these have of their abundance cast

into the oerings of God: but she of her want,

hath cast in all the living that she had.

5And some saying of the temple, that it was

adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said:

6These things which you see, the days will

come in which there shall not be left a stone

upon a stone that shall not be thrown down.

7And they asked him, saying: Master, when

shall these things be? and what shall be the sign

when they shall begin to come to pass?

8Who said: Take heed you be not seduced;

for many will come in my name, saying, I am

he; and the time is at hand: go ye not therefore

after them.9And when you shall hear of wars and sedi-

tions, be not terried: these things must rst

come to pass; but the end is not yet presently.

10Then he said to them: Nation shall rise

against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

11And there shall be great earthquakes in

divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and

terrors from heaven; and there shall be great

signs.

12But before all these things, they will lay

their hands upon you, and persecute you, deliv-

ering you up to the synagogues and into prisons,

dragging you before kings and governors, for my

name's sake.

13And it shall happen unto you for a testi-

mony.

14Lay it up therefore into your hearts, not to

meditate before how you shall answer:

15For I will give you a mouth and wisdom,

which all your adversaries shall not be able to

resist and gainsay.

16And you shall be betrayed by your par-

ents and brethren, and kinsmen and friends; and

some of you they will put to death.

17And you shall be hated by all men for my

name's sake.

18But a hair of your head shall not perish.

19In your patience you shall possess your

souls.

20And when you shall see Jerusalem com-

passed about with an army; then know that the

desolation thereof is at hand.

21Then let those who are in Judea,

ee to

the mountains; and those who are in the midst

thereof, depart out: and those who are in the

countries, not enter into it.

22For these are the days of vengeance, that

all things may be fullled, that are written.

23But woe to them that are with child, and

give suck in those days; for there shall be greatThe Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

Luke 1367

distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword;

and shall be led away captives into all nations;

and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the

Gentiles; till the times of the nations be fullled.

25And there shall be signs in the sun, and in

the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth

distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of

the roaring of the sea and of the waves;

26Men withering away for fear, and expecta-

tion of what shall come upon the whole world.

For the powers of heaven shall be moved;

27And then they shall see the Son of man

coming in a cloud, with great power and majesty.

28But when these things begin to come to

pass, look up, and lift up your heads, because

your redemption is at hand.

29And he spoke to them in a similitude. See

the g tree, and all the trees:

30When they now shoot forth their fruit, you

know that summer is nigh;

31So you also, when you shall see these things

come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is

at hand.

32Amen, I say to you, this generation shall

not pass away, till all things be fullled.

33Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my

words shall not pass away.

34And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps

your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and

drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that

day come upon you suddenly.

35For as a snare shall it come upon all that

sit upon the face of the whole earth.

36Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times,

that you may be accounted worthy to escape all

these things that are to come, and to stand be-

fore the Son of man.

37And in the daytime, he was teaching in the

temple; but at night, going out, he abode in themount that is called Olivet.

38And all the people came early in the morn-

ing to him in the temple, to hear him.

Chapter 22

Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is

called the pasch, was at hand.

2And the chief priests and the scribes sought

how they might put Jesus to death: but they

feared the people.

3And Satan entered into Judas, who was sur-

named Iscariot, one of the twelve.

4And he went, and discoursed with the chief

priests and the magistrates, how he might betray

him to them.

5And they were glad, and covenanted to give

him money.

6And he promised. And he sought opportu-

nity to betray him in the absence of the multi-

tude.

7And the day of the unleavened bread came,

on which it was necessary that the pasch should

be killed.

8And he sent Peter and John, saying: Go,

and prepare for us the pasch, that we may eat.

9But they said: Where wilt thou that we pre-

pare?

10And he said to them: Behold, as you go

into the city, there shall meet you a man carrying

a pitcher of water: follow him into the house

where he entereth in.

11And you shall say to the goodman of the

house: The master saith to thee, Where is the

guest chamber, where I may eat the pasch with

my disciples?

12And he will shew you a large dining room,

furnished; and there prepare.1368 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

13And they going, found as he had said to

them, and made ready the pasch.

14And when the hour was come, he sat down,

and the twelve apostles with him.

15And he said to them: With desire I have

desired to eat this pasch with you, before I suer.

16For I say to you, that from this time I will

not eat it, till it be fullled in the kingdom of

God.

17And having taken the chalice, he gave

thanks, and said: Take, and divide it among you:

18For I say to you, that I will not drink of the

fruit of the vine, till the kingdom of God come.

19And taking bread, he gave thanks, and

brake; and gave to them, saying: This is my

body, which is given for you. Do this for a com-

memoration of me.

20In like manner the chalice also, after he

had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new

testament in my blood, which shall be shed for

you.

21But yet behold, the hand of him that be-

trayeth me is with me on the table.

22And the Son of man indeed goeth, accord-

ing to that which is determined: but yet, woe to

that man by whom he shall be betrayed.

23And they began to inquire among them-

selves, which of them it was that should do this

thing.

24And there was also a strife amongst them,

which of them should seem to be the greater.

25And he said to them: The kings of the

Gentiles lord it over them; and they that have

power over them, are called benecent.

26But you not so: but he that is the greater

among you, let him become as the younger; and

he that is the leader, as he that serveth.

27For which is greater, he that sitteth at ta-

ble, or he that serveth? Is it not he that sittethat table? But I am in the midst of you, as he

that serveth:

28And you are they who have continued with

me in my temptations:

29And I dispose to you, as my Father hath

disposed to me, a kingdom;

30That you may eat and drink at my table, in

my kingdom: and may sit upon thrones, judging

the twelve tribes of Israel.

31And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold

Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift

you as wheat:

32But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith

fail not: and thou, being once converted, conrm

thy brethren.

33Who said to him: Lord, I am ready to go

with thee, both into prison, and to death.

34And he said: I say to thee, Peter, the cock

shall not crow this day, till thou thrice deniest

that thou knowest me. And he said to them:

35When I sent you without purse, and scrip,

and shoes, did you want anything?

36But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto

them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take

it, and likewise a scrip; and he that hath not, let

him sell his coat, and buy a sword.

37For I say to you, that this that is written

must yet be fullled in me: And with the wicked

was he reckoned. For the things concerning me

have an end.

38But they said: Lord, behold here are two

swords. And he said to them, It is enough.

39And going out, he went, according to his

custom, to the mount of Olives. And his disciples

also followed him.

40And when he was come to the place, he said

to them: Pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

41And he was withdrawn away from them a

stone's cast; and kneeling down, he prayed,The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

1369

42Saying: Father, if thou wilt, remove this

chalice from me: but yet not my will, but thine

be done.

43And there appeared to him an angel from

heaven, strengthening him. And being in an

agony, he prayed the longer.

44And his sweat became as drops of blood,

trickling down upon the ground.

45And when he rose up from prayer, and was

come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for

sorrow.

46And he said to them: Why sleep you?

arise, pray, lest you enter into temptation.

47As he was yet speaking, behold a multi-

tude; and he that was called Judas, one of the

twelve, went before them, and drew near to Je-

sus, for to kiss him.

48And Jesus said to him: Judas, dost thou

betray the Son of man with a kiss?

49And they that were about him, seeing what

would follow, said to him: Lord, shall we strike

with the sword?

50And one of them struck the servant of the

high priest, and cut o his right ear.

51But Jesus answering, said: Suer ye thus

far. And when he had touched his ear, he healed

him.

52And Jesus said to the chief priests, and

magistrates of the temple, and the ancients, that

were come unto him: Are ye come out, as it were

against a thief, with swords and clubs?

53When I was daily with you in the temple,

you did not stretch forth your hands against me:

but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

54And apprehending him, they led him to the

high priest's house. But Peter followed afar o.

55And when they had kindled a re in the

midst of the hall, and were sitting about it, Peter

was in the midst of them.56Whom when a certain servant maid had

seen sitting at the light, and had earnestly beheld

him, she said: This man also was with him.

57But he denied him, saying: Woman, I know

him not.

58And after a little while, another seeing him,

said: Thou also art one of them. But Peter said:

O man, I am not.

59And after the space, as it were of one hour,

another certain man armed, saying: Of a truth,

this man was also with him; for he is also a

Galilean.

60And Peter said: Man, I know not what

thou sayest. And immediately, as he was yet

speaking, the cock crew.

61And the Lord turning looked on Peter.

And Peter remembered the word of the Lord,

as he had said: Before the cock crow, thou shalt

deny me thrice.

62And Peter going out, wept bitterly.

63And the men that held him, mocked him,

and struck him.

64And they blindfolded him, and smote his

face. And they asked him, saying: Prophesy,

who is it that struck thee?

65And blaspheming, many other things they

said against him.

66And as soon as it was day, the ancients

of the people, and the chief priests and scribes,

cane together; and they brought him into their

council, saying: If thou be the Christ, tell us.

67And he saith to them: If I shall tell you,

you will not believe me.

68And if I shall also ask you, you will not

answer me, nor let me go.

69But hereafter the Son of man shall be sit-

ting on the right hand of the power of God.

70Then said they all: Art thou then the Son

of God? Who said: You say that I am.1370 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke

71And they said: What need we any further

testimony? for we ourselves have heard it from

his own mouth.

Chapter 23

And the whole multitude of them rising up, led

him to Pilate.

2And they began to accuse him, saying: We

have found this man perverting our nation, and

forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying

that he is Christ the king.

3And Pilate asked him, saying: Art thou the

king of the Jews? But he answering, said: Thou

sayest it.

4And Pilate said to the chief priests and to

the multitudes: I nd no cause in this man.

5But they were more earnest, saying: He

stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all

Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.

6But Pilate hearing Galilee, asked if the man

were of Galilee?

7And when he understood that he was of

Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him away to Herod,

who was also himself at Jerusalem, in those days.

8And Herod, seeing Jesus, was very glad; for

he was desirous of a long time to see him, because

he had heard many things of him; and he hoped

to see some sign wrought by him.

9And he questioned him in many words. But

he answered him nothing.

10And the chief priests and the scribes stood

by, earnestly accusing him.

11And Herod with his army set him at

nought, and mocked him, putting on him a white

garment, and sent him back to Pilate.

12And Herod and Pilate were made friends,

that same day; for before they were enemies one

to another.13And Pilate, calling together the chief

priests, and the magistrates, and the people,

14Said to them: You have presented unto me

this man, as one that perverteth the people; and

behold I, having examined him before you, nd

no cause in this man, in those things wherein

you accuse him.

15No, nor Herod neither. For I sent you to

him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done

to him.

16I will chastise him therefore, and release

him.

17Now of necessity he was to release unto

them one upon the feast day.

18But the whole multitude together cried out,

saying: Away with this man, and release unto us

Barabbas:

19Who, for a certain sedition made in the

city, and for a murder, was cast into prison.

20And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring

to release Jesus.

21But they cried again, saying: Crucify him,

crucify him.

22And he said to them the third time: Why,

what evil hath this man done? I nd no cause of

death in him. I will chastise him therefore, and

let him go.

23But they were instant with loud voices,

requiring that he might be crucied; and their

voices prevailed.

24And Pilate gave sentence that it should be

as they required.

25And he released unto them him who for

murder and sedition, had been cast into prison,

whom they had desired; but Jesus he delivered

up to their will.

26And as they led him away, they laid hold of

one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country;

and they laid the cross on him to carry after

Jesus.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke 1371

27And there followed him a great multitude

of people, and of women, who bewailed and

lamented him.

28But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters

of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for

yourselves, and for your children.

29For behold, the days shall come, wherein

they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the

wombs that have not borne, and the paps that

have not given suck.

30Then shall they begin to say to the moun-

tains: Fall upon us; and to the hills: Cover us.

31For if in the green wood they do these

things, what shall be done in the dry?

32And there were also two other malefactors

led with him to be put to death.

33And when they were come to the place

which is called Calvary, they crucied him there;

and the robbers, one on the right hand, and the

other on the left.

34And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for

they know not what they do. But they, dividing

his garments, cast lots.

35And the people stood beholding, and the

rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved

others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the

elect of God.

36And the soldiers also mocked him, coming

to him, and oering him vinegar,

37And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews,

save thyself.

38And there was also a superscription writ-

ten over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and

Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

39And one of those robbers who were hanged,

blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save

thyself and us.

40But the other answering, rebuked him, say-

ing: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing thou art

condemned under the same condemnation?41And we indeed justly, for we receive the due

reward of our deeds; but this man hath done no

evil.

42And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me

when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.

43And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee,

this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

44And it was almost the sixth hour; and there

was darkness over all the earth until the ninth

hour.

45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of

the temple was rent in the midst.

46And Jesus crying out with a loud voice,

said: Father, into thy hands I commend my

spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.

47Now the centurion, seeing what was done,

gloried God, saying: Indeed this was a just

man.

48And all the multitude of them that were

come together to that sight, and saw the things

that were done, returned striking their breasts.

49And all his acquaintance, and the women

that had followed him from Galilee, stood afar

o, beholding these things.

50And behold there was a man named

Joseph, who was a counsellor, a good and just

man,

51(The same had not consented to their coun-

sel and doings;) of Arimathea, a city of Judea;

who also himself looked for the kingdom of God.

52This man went to Pilate, and begged the

body of Jesus.

53And taking him down, he wrapped him in

ne linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that was

hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had

been laid.

54And it was the day of the Parasceve, and

the sabbath drew on.

55And the women that were come with him

from Galilee, following after, saw the sepulchre,1372 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

St. Luke

and how his body was laid.

56And returning, they prepared spices and

ointments; and on the sabbath day they rested,

according to the commandment.

Chapter 24

And on the rst day of the week, very early in the

morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing

the spices which they had prepared.

2And they found the stone rolled back from

the sepulchre.

3And going in, they found not the body of

the Lord Jesus.

4And it came to pass, as they were astonished

in their mind at this, behold, two men stood by

them, in shining apparel.

5And as they were afraid, and bowed down

their countenance towards the ground, they said

unto them: Why seek you the living with the

dead?

6He is not here, but is risen. Remember how

he spoke unto you, when he was in Galilee,

7Saying: The Son of man must be delivered

into the hands of sinful men, and be crucied,

and the third day rise again.

8And they remembered his words.

9And going back from the sepulchre, they told

all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

10And it was Mary Magdalen, and Joanna,

and Mary of James, and the other women that

were with them, who told these things to the

apostles.

11And these words seemed to them as idle

tales; and they did not believe them.

12But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre,

and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths laid

by themselves; and went away wondering in him-

self at that which was come to pass.13And behold, two of them went, the same

day, to a town which was sixty furlongs from

Jerusalem, named Emmaus.

14And they talked together of all these things

which had happened.

15And it came to pass, that while they talked

and reasoned with themselves, Jesus himself also

drawing near, went with them.

16But their eyes were held, that they should

not know him.

17And he said to them: What are these dis-

courses that you hold one with another as you

walk, and are sad?

18And the one of them, whose name was

Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art thou only

a stranger to Jerusalem, and hast not known the

things that have been done there in these days?

19To whom he said: What things? And they

said: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a

prophet, mighty in work and word before God

and all the people;

20And how our chief priests and princes de-

livered him to be condemned to death, and cru-

cied him.

21But we hoped, that it was he that should

have redeemed Israel: and now besides all this,

to day is the third day since these things were

done.

22Yea and certain women also of our com-

pany arighted us, who before it was light, were

at the sepulchre,

23And not nding his body, came, saying,

that they had also seen a vision of angels, who

say that he is alive.

24And some of our people went to the sepul-

chre, and found it so as the women had said, but

him they found not.

25Then he said to them: O foolish, and

slow of heart to believe in all things which the

prophets have spoken.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Luke 1373
26Ought not Christ to have suered these

things, and so to enter into his glory?

27And beginning at Moses and all the

prophets, he expounded to them in all the scrip-

tures, the things that were concerning him.

28And they drew night to the town, whither

they were going: and he made as though he

would go farther.

29But they constrained him; saying: Stay

with us, because it is towards evening, and the

day is now far spent. And he went in with them.

30And it came to pass, whilst he was at ta-

ble with them, he took bread, and blessed, and

brake, and gave to them.

31And their eyes were opened, and they knew

him: and he vanished out of their sight.

32And they said one to the other: Was not

our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in

this way, and opened to us the scriptures?

33And rising up, the same hour, they went

back to Jerusalem: and they found the eleven

gathered together, and those that were staying

with them,

34Saying: The Lord is risen indeed, and hath

appeared to Simon.

35And they told what things were done in the

way; and how they knew him in the breaking of

the bread.

36Now whilst they were speaking these

things, Jesus stood in the midst of them, and

saith to them: Peace be to you; it is I, fear not.

37But they being troubled and frightened,

supposed that they saw a spirit.

38And he said to them: Why are you trou-

bled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

39See my hands and feet, that it is I myself;

handle, and see: for a spirit hath not

esh and

bones, as you see me to have.

40And when he had said this, he shewed them

his hands and feet.41But while they yet believed not, and won-

dered for joy, he said: Have you any thing to

eat?

42And they oered him a piece of a broiled

sh, and a honeycomb.

43And when he had eaten before them, taking

the remains, he gave to them.

44And he said to them: These are the words

which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you,

that all things must needs be fullled, which are

written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets,

and in the psalms, concerning me.

45Then he opened their understanding, that

they might understand the scriptures.

46And he said to them: Thus it is written,

and thus it behoved Christ to suer, and to rise

again from the dead, the third day:

47And that penance and remission of sins

should be preached in his name, unto all nations,

beginning at Jerusalem.

48And you are witnesses of these things.

49And I send the promise of my Father upon

you: but stay you in the city till you be endued

with power from on high.

50And he led them out as far as Bethania:

and lifting up his hands, he blessed them.

51And it came to pass, whilst he blessed

them, he departed from them, and was carried

up to heaven.

52And they adoring went back into Jerusalem

with great joy.

53And they were always in the temple, prais-

ing and blessing God. Amen.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ,

According to St. John

Chapter 1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word

was with God, and the Word was God.

2The same was in the beginning with God.

3All things were made by him: and without

him was made nothing that was made.

4In him was life, and the life was the light of

men.

5And the light shineth in darkness, and the

darkness did not comprehend it.

6There was a man sent from God, whose

name was John.

7This man came for a witness, to give tes-

timony of the light, that all men might believe

through him.

8He was not the light, but was to give testi-

mony of the light.

9That was the true light, which enlighteneth

every man that cometh into this world.

10He was in the world, and the world was

made by him, and the world knew him not.

11He came unto his own, and his own received

him not.

12But as many as received him, he gave them

power to be made the sons of God, to them that

believe in his name.

13Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will

of the

esh, nor of the will of man, but of God.14And the Word was made

esh, and dwelt

among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it

were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of

grace and truth.

15John beareth witness of him, and crieth

out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke: He

that shall come after me, is preferred before me:

because he was before me.

16And of his fulness we all have received, and

grace for grace.

17For the law was given by Moses; grace and

truth came by Jesus Christ.

18No man hath seen God at any time: the

only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the

Father, he hath declared him.

19And this is the testimony of John, when the

Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to

him, to ask him: Who art thou?

20And he confessed, and did not deny: and

he confessed: I am not the Christ.

21And they asked him: What then? Art thou

Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the

prophet? And he answered: No.

22They said therefore unto him: Who art

thou, that we may give an answer to them that

sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?

23He said: I am the voice of one crying out

in the wilderness, make straight the way of the

Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John 1375

24And they that were sent, were of the Phar-

isees.

25And they asked him, and said to him: Why

then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor

Elias, nor the prophet?

26John answered them, saying: I baptize

with water; but there hath stood one in the

midst of you, whom you know not.

27The same is he that shall come after me,

who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose

shoe I am not worthy to loose.

28These things were done in Bethania, be-

yond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29The next day, John saw Jesus coming to

him, and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God,

behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.

30This is he, of whom I said: After me there

cometh a man, who is preferred before me: be-

cause he was before me.

31And I knew him not, but that he may be

made manifest in Israel, therefore am I come

baptizing with water.

32And John gave testimony, saying: I saw

the Spirit coming down, as a dove from heaven,

and he remained upon him.

33And I knew him not; but he who sent me to

baptize with water, said to me: He upon whom

thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remain-

ing upon him, he it is that baptizeth with the

Holy Ghost.

34And I saw, and I gave testimony, that this

is the Son of God.

35The next day again John stood, and two

of his disciples.

36And beholding Jesus walking, he saith: Be-

hold the Lamb of God.

37And the two disciples heard him speak, and

they followed Jesus.

38And Jesus turning, and seeing them follow-

ing him, saith to them: What seek you? Whosaid to him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being inter-

preted, Master,) where dwellest thou?

39He saith to them: Come and see. They

came, and saw where he abode, and they stayed

with him that day: now it was about the tenth

hour.

40And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter,

was one of the two who had heard of John, and

followed him.

41He ndeth rst his brother Simon, and

saith to him: We have found the Messias, which

is, being interpreted, the Christ.

42And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus

looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son

of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is

interpreted Peter.

43On the following day, he would go forth

into Galilee, and he ndeth Philip. And Jesus

saith to him: Follow me.

44Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of

Andrew and Peter.

45Philip ndeth Nathanael, and saith to him:

We have found him of whom Moses in the law,

and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of

Joseph of Nazareth.

46And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing

of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to

him: Come and see.

47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and

he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in

whom there is no guile.

48Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest

thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Be-

fore that Philip called thee, when thou wast un-

der the g tree, I saw thee.

49Nathanael answered him, and said: Rabbi,

thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of

Israel.

50Jesus answered, and said to him: Because

I said unto thee, I saw thee under the g tree,1376 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

John

thou believest: greater things than these shalt

thou see.

51And he saith to him: Amen, amen I say

to you, you shall see the heaven opened, and the

angels of God ascending and descending upon

the Son of man.

Chapter 2

And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana

of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there.

2And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples,

to the marriage.

3And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus

saith to him: They have no wine.

4And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that

to me and to thee? my hour is not yet come.

5His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever

he shall say to you, do ye.

6Now there were set there six waterpots of

stone, according to the manner of the purifying

of the Jews, containing two or three measures

apiece.

7Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with

water. And they lled them up to the brim.

8And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now,

and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And

they carried it.

9And when the chief steward had tasted the

water made wine, and knew not whence it was,

but the waiters knew who had drawn the water;

the chief steward calleth the bridegroom,

10And saith to him: Every man at rst set-

teth forth good wine, and when men have well

drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast

kept the good wine until now.

11This beginning of miracles did Jesus in

Cana of Galilee; and manifested his glory, and

his disciples believed in him.12After this he went down to Capharnaum,

he and his mother, and his brethren, and his dis-

ciples: and they remained there not many days.

13And the pasch of the Jews was at hand,

and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14And he found in the temple them that sold

oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of

money sitting.

15And when he had made, as it were, a

scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of

the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the

money of the changers he poured out, and the

tables he overthrew.

16And to them that sold doves he said: Take

these things hence, and make not the house of

my Father a house of trac.

17And his disciples remembered, that it was

written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me

up.

18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to

him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing

thou dost these things?

19Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy

this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

20The Jews then said: Six and forty years

was this temple in building; and wilt thou raise

it up in three days?

21But he spoke of the temple of his body.

22When therefore he was risen again from

the dead, his disciples remembered, that he had

said this, and they believed the scripture, and

the word that Jesus had said.

23Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the

pasch, upon the festival day, many believed in

his name, seeing his signs which he did.

24But Jesus did not trust himself unto them,

for that he knew all men,

25And because he needed not that any should

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Chapter 3

And there was a man of the Pharisees, named

Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

2This man came to Jesus by night, and said

to him: Rabbi, we know that thou art come a

teacher from God; for no man can do these signs

which thou dost, unless God be with him.

3Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen,

amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again,

he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be

born when he is old? can he enter a second time

into his mother's womb, and be born again?

5Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee,

unless a man be born again of water and the

Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom

of God.

6That which is born of the

esh, is

esh; and

that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.

7Wonder not, that I said to thee, you must

be born again.

8The Spirit breatheth where he will; and thou

hearest his voice, but thou knowest not whence

he cometh, and whither he goeth: so is every one

that is born of the Spirit.

9Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How

can these things be done?

10Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou

a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?

11Amen, amen I say to thee, that we speak

what we know, and we testify what we have seen,

and you receive not our testimony.

12If I have spoken to you earthly things, and

you believe not; how will you believe, if I shall

speak to you heavenly things?

13And no man hath ascended into heaven,

but he that descended from heaven, the Son of

man who is in heaven.14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the

desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15That whosoever believeth in him, may not

perish; but may have life everlasting.

16For God so loved the world, as to give his

only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in

him, may not perish, but may have life everlast-

ing.

17For God sent not his Son into the world,

to judge the world, but that the world may be

saved by him.
18He that believeth in him is not judged. But

he that doth not believe, is already judged: be-

cause he believeth not in the name of the only

begotten Son of God.

19And this is the judgment: because the light

is come into the world, and men loved darkness

rather than the light: for their works were evil.

20For every one that doth evil hateth the

light, and cometh not to the light, that his works

may not be reproved.

21But he that doth truth, cometh to the light,

that his works may be made manifest, because

they are done in God.

22After these things Jesus and his disciples

came into the land of Judea: and there he abode

with them, and baptized.

23And John also was baptizing in Ennon near

Salim; because there was much water there; and

they came and were baptized.

24For John was not yet cast into prison.

25And there arose a question between some

of John's disciples and the Jews concerning pu-

rication:

26And they came to John, and said to him:

Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jor-

dan, to whom thou gavest testimony, behold he

baptizeth, and all men come to him.

27John answered, and said: A man cannot

receive any thing, unless it be given him from1378 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

St. John

heaven.

28You yourselves do bear me witness, that I

said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent before

him.

29He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom:

but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth

and heareth him, rejoiceth with joy because of

the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is

fullled.

30He must increase, but I must decrease.

31He that cometh from above, is above all.

He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and

of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from

heaven, is above all.

32And what he hath seen and heard, that he

testieth: and no man receiveth his testimony.

33He that hath received his testimony, hath

set to his seal that God is true.

34For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the

words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit

by measure.

35The Father loveth the Son: and he hath

given all things into his hand.

36He that believeth in the Son, hath life ever-

lasting; but he that believeth not the Son, shall

not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on

him.

Chapter 4

When Jesus therefore understood that the Phar-

isees had heard that Jesus maketh more disci-

ples, and baptizeth more than John,

2(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but

his disciples,)

3He left Judea, and went again into Galilee.

4And he was of necessity to pass through

Samaria.5He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria,

which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob

gave to his son Joseph.

6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore

being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the

well. It was about the sixth hour.

7There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw

water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

8For his disciples were gone into the city to

buy meats.

9Then that Samaritan woman saith to him:

How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink,

who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do

not communicate with the Samaritans.

10Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou

didst know the gift of God, and who he is that

saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps

wouldst have asked of him, and he would have

given thee living water.

11The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast

nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep;

from whence then hast thou living water?

12Art thou greater than our father Jacob,

who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself,

and his children, and his cattle?

13Jesus answered, and said to her: Whoso-

ever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again;

but he that shall drink of the water that I will

give him, shall not thirst for ever:

14But the water that I will give him, shall

become in him a fountain of water, springing up

into life everlasting.

15The woman saith to him: Sir, give me this

water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to

draw.

16Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband,

and come hither.

17The woman answered, and said: I have no

husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well,

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18For thou hast had ve husbands: and he

whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This

thou hast said truly.

19The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive

that thou art a prophet.

20Our fathers adored on this mountain, and

you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where

men must adore.

21Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me,

that the hour cometh, when you shall neither

on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the

Father.

22You adore that which you know not: we

adore that which we know; for salvation is of the

Jews.

23But the hour cometh, and now is, when

the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit

and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such

to adore him.

24God is a spirit; and they that adore him,

must adore him in spirit and in truth.

25The woman saith to him: I know that the

Messias cometh (who is called Christ); therefore,

when he is come, he will tell us all things.

26Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speak-

ing with thee.

27And immediately his disciples came; and

they wondered that he talked with the woman.

Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why

talkest thou with her?

28The woman therefore left her waterpot,

and went her way into the city, and saith to the

men there:

29Come, and see a man who has told me all

things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the

Christ?

30They went therefore out of the city, and

came unto him.

31In the mean time the disciples prayed him,

saying: Rabbi, eat.32But he said to them: I have meat to eat,

which you know not.

33The disciples therefore said one to another:

Hath any man brought him to eat?

34Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the

will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his

work.

35Do you not say, There are yet four months,

and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to

you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries; for

they are white already to harvest.

36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and

gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both

he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice

together.

37For in this is the saying true: That it is one

man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

38I have sent you to reap that in which you

did not labour: others have laboured, and you

have entered into their labours.

39Now of that city many of the Samaritans

believed in him, for the word of the woman giv-

ing testimony: He told me all things whatsoever

I have done.

40So when the Samaritans were come to him,

they desired that he would tarry there. And he

abode there two days.

41And many more believed in him because of

his own word.

42And they said to the woman: We now be-

lieve, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have

heard him, and know that this is indeed the

Saviour of the world.

43Now after two days, he departed thence,

and went into Galilee.

44For Jesus himself gave testimony that a

prophet hath no honour in his own country.

45And when he was come into Galilee, the

Galileans received him, having seen all the things1380 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According

to St. John

he had done at Jerusalem on the festival day; for

they also went to the festival day.

46He came again therefore into Cana of

Galilee, where he made the water wine. And

there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at

Capharnaum.

47He having heard that Jesus was come from

Judea into Galilee, went to him, and prayed him

to come down, and heal his son; for he was at

the point of death.

48Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see

signs and wonders, you believe not.

49The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down

before that my son die.

50Jesus saith to him: Go thy way; thy son

liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus

said to him, and went his way.

51And as he was going down, his servants

met him; and they brought word, saying, that

his son lived.

52He asked therefore of them the hour

wherein he grew better. And they said to him:

Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.

53The father therefore knew, that it was at

the same hour that Jesus said to him, Thy son

liveth; and himself believed, and his whole house.

54This is again the second miracle that Jesus

did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.

Chapter 5

After these things was a festival day of the Jews,

and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called

Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida,

having ve porches.

3In these lay a great multitude of sick, of

blind, of lame, of withered; waiting for the mov-

ing of the water.4And an angel of the Lord descended at cer-

tain times into the pond; and the water was

moved. And he that went down rst into the

pond after the motion of the water, was made

whole, of whatsoever inrmity he lay under.

5And there was a certain man there, that had

been eight and thirty years under his inrmity.

6Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew

that he had been now a long time, he saith to

him: Wilt thou be made whole?

7The inrm man answered him: Sir, I have

no man, when the water is troubled, to put me

into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another

goeth down before me.

8Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed,

and walk.

9And immediately the man was made whole:

and he took up his bed, and walked. And it was

the sabbath that day.

10The Jews therefore said to him that was

healed: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee

to take up thy bed.

11He answered them: He that made me

whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

12They asked him therefore: Who is that

man who said to thee, Take up thy bed, and

walk?

13But he who was healed, knew not who it

was; for Jesus went aside from the multitude

standing in the place.

14Afterwards, Jesus ndeth him in the tem-

ple, and saith to him: Behold thou art made

whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing hap-

pen to thee.

15The man went his way, and told the Jews,

that it was Jesus who had made him whole.

16Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, be-

cause he did these things on the sabbath.

17But Jesus answered them: My Father wor-

keth until now; and I work.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John 1381
18Hereupon therefore the Jews sought the

more to kill him, because he did not only break

the sabbath, but also said God was his Father,

making himself equal to God.

19Then Jesus answered, and said to them:

Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot

do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the

Father doing: for what things soever he doth,

these the Son also doth in like manner.

20For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth

him all things which himself doth: and greater

works than these will he shew him, that you may

wonder.

21For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and

giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom

he will.

22For neither doth the Father judge any man,

but hath given all judgment to the Son.

23That all men may honour the Son, as they

honour the Father. He who honoureth not the

Son, honoureth not the Father, who hath sent

him.

24Amen, amen I say unto you, that he who

heareth my word, and believeth him that sent

me, hath life everlasting; and cometh not into

judgment, but is passed from death to life.

25Amen, amen I say unto you, that the hour

cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear

the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear

shall live.

26For as the Father hath life in himself, so he

hath given the Son also to have life in himself:

27And he hath given him power to do judg-

ment, because he is the Son of man.

28Wonder not at this; for the hour cometh,

wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the

voice of the Son of God.

29And they that have done good things, shall

come forth unto the resurrection of life; but they

that have done evil, unto the resurrection ofjudgment.

30I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear,

so I judge: and my judgment is just; because I

seek not my own will, but the will of him that

sent me.

31If I bear witness of myself, my witness is

not true.

32There is another that beareth witness of

me; and I know that the witness which he wit-

nesseth of me is true.

33You sent to John, and he gave testimony

to the truth.

34But I receive not testimony from man: but

I say these things, that you may be saved.

35He was a burning and a shining light: and

you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

36But I have a greater testimony than that of

John: for the works which the Father hath given

me to perfect; the works themselves, which I do,

give testimony of me, that the Father hath sent

me.

37And the Father himself who hath sent me,

hath given testimony of me: neither have you

heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

38And you have not his word abiding in you:

for whom he hath sent, him you believe not.

39Search the scriptures, for you think in them

to have life everlasting; and the same are they

that give testimony of me.

40And you will not come to me that you may

have life.

41I receive glory not from men.

42But I know you, that you have not the love

of God in you.

43I am come in the name of my Father, and

you receive me not: if another shall come in his

own name, him you will receive.

44How can you believe, who receive glory one

from another: and the glory which is from God

alone, you do not seek?1382 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John

45Think not that I will accuse you to the

Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses,

in whom you trust.

46For if you did believe Moses, you would

perhaps believe me also; for he wrote of me.

47But if you do not believe his writings, how

will you believe my words?

Chapter 6

After these things Jesus went over the sea of

Galilee, which is that of Tiberias.

2And a great multitude followed him, because

they saw the miracles which he did on them that

were diseased.

3Jesus therefore went up into a mountain,

and there he sat with his disciples.

4Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews,

was near at hand.

5When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes,

and seen that a very great multitude cometh to

him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy

bread, that these may eat?

6And this he said to try him; for he himself

knew what he would do.

7Philip answered him: Two hundred penny-

worth of bread is not sucient for them, that

every one may take a little.

8One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of

Simon Peter, saith to him:

9There is a boy here that hath ve barley

loaves, and two shes; but what are these among

so many?

10Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down.

Now there was much grass in the place. The

men therefore sat down, in number about ve

thousand.

11And Jesus took the loaves: and when he

had given thanks, he distributed to them thatwere set down. In like manner also of the shes,

as much as they would.

12And when they were lled, he said to his

disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain,

lest they be lost.

13They gathered up therefore, and lled

twelve baskets with the fragments of the ve bar-

ley loaves, which remained over and above to

them that had eaten.

14Now those men, when they had seen what

a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth

the prophet, that is to come into the world.

15Jesus therefore, when he knew that they

would come to take him by force, and make him

king,
ed again into the mountain himself alone.

16And when evening was come, his disciples

went down to the sea.

17And when they had gone up into a ship,

they went over the sea to Capharnaum; and it

was now dark, and Jesus was not come unto

them.

18And the sea arose, by reason of a great

wind that blew.

19When they had rowed therefore about ve

and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus

walking upon the sea, and drawing nigh to the

ship, and they were afraid.

20But he saith to them: It is I; be not afraid.

21They were willing therefore to take him

into the ship; and presently the ship was at the

land to which they were going.

22The next day, the multitude that stood on

the other side of the sea, saw that there was no

other ship there but one, and that Jesus had not

entered into the ship with his disciples, but that

his disciples were gone away alone.

23But other ships came in from Tiberias; nigh

unto the place where they had eaten the bread,

the Lord giving thanks.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John 1383

24When therefore the multitude saw that Je-

sus was not there, nor his disciples, they took

shipping, and came to Capharnaum, seeking for

Jesus.

25And when they had found him on the other

side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when

camest thou hither?

26Jesus answered them, and said: Amen,

amen I say to you, you seek me, not because

you have seen miracles, but because you did eat

of the loaves, and were lled.

27Labour not for the meat which perisheth,

but for that which endureth unto life everlasting,

which the Son of man will give you. For him hath

God, the Father, sealed.

28They said therefore unto him: What shall

we do, that we may work the works of God?

29Jesus answered, and said to them: This is

the work of God, that you believe in him whom

he hath sent.

30They said therefore to him: What sign

therefore dost thou shew, that we may see, and

may believe thee? What dost thou work?

31Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as

it is written: He gave them bread from heaven

to eat.

32Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen

I say to you; Moses gave you not bread from

heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread

from heaven.

33For the bread of God is that which cometh

down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.

34They said therefore unto him: Lord, give

us always this bread.

35And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of

life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger: and

he that believeth in me shall never thirst.

36But I said unto you, that you also have

seen me, and you believe not.37All that the Father giveth to me shall come

to me; and him that cometh to me, I will not cast

out.

38Because I came down from heaven, not to

do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

39Now this is the will of the Father who sent

me: that of all that he hath given me, I should

lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the

last day.

40And this is the will of my Father that sent

me: that every one who seeth the Son, and be-

lieveth in him, may have life everlasting, and I

will raise him up in the last day.

41The Jews therefore murmured at him, be-

cause he had said: I am the living bread which

came down from heaven.

42And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son

of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?

How then saith he, I came down from heaven?

43Jesus therefore answered, and said to them:

Murmur not among yourselves.

44No man can come to me, except the Father,

who hath sent me, draw him; and I will raise him

up in the last day.

45It is written in the prophets: And they

shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath

heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh

to me.

46Not that any man hath seen the Father;

but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.

47Amen, amen I say unto you: He that be-

lieveth in me, hath everlasting life.

48I am the bread of life.

49Your fathers did eat manna in the desert,

and are dead.

50This is the bread which cometh down from

heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die.

51I am the living bread which came down

from heaven.1384 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John

52If any man eat of this bread, he shall live

for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my

esh, for the life of the world.

53The Jews therefore strove among them-

selves, saying: How can this man give us his

esh

to eat?

54Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I

say unto you: Except you eat the

esh of the

Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not

have life in you.

55He that eateth my

esh, and drinketh my

blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him

up in the last day.

56For my

esh is meat indeed: and my blood

is drink indeed.

57He that eateth my

esh, and drinketh my

blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

58As the living Father hath sent me, and I

live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the

same also shall live by me.

59This is the bread that came down from

heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and

are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live

for ever.

60These things he said, teaching in the syn-

agogue, in Capharnaum.

61Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it,

said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?

62But Jesus, knowing in himself, that his dis-

ciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this

scandalize you?

63If then you shall see the Son of man ascend

up where he was before?

64It is the spirit that quickeneth: the

esh

proteth nothing. The words that I have spoken

to you, are spirit and life.

65But there are some of you that believe not.

For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they

were that did not believe, and who he was, that

would betray him.66And he said: Therefore did I say to you,

that no man can come to me, unless it be given

him by my Father.

67After this many of his disciples went back;

and walked no more with him.

68Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you

also go away?

69And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to

whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eter-

nal life.

70And we have believed and have known,

that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.

71Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen

you twelve; and one of you is a devil?

72Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of

Simon: for this same was about to betray him,

whereas he was one of the twelve.

Chapter 7

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for

he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews

sought to kill him.

2Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at

hand.

3And his brethren said to him: Pass from

hence, and go into Judea; that thy disciples also

may see thy works which thou dost.

4For there is no man that doth any thing

in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known

openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself

to the world.

5For neither did his brethren believe in him.

6Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet

come; but your time is always ready.

7The world cannot hate you; but me it

hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the

works thereof are evil.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John 1385

8Go you up to this festival day, but I go not

up to this festival day: because my time is not

accomplished.

9When he had said these things, he himself

stayed in Galilee.

10But after his brethren were gone up, then

he also went up to the feast, not openly, but, as

it were, in secret.

11The Jews therefore sought him on the fes-

tival day, and said: Where is he?

12And there was much murmuring among the

multitude concerning him. For some said: He

is a good man. And others said: No, but he

seduceth the people.

13Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear

of the Jews.

14Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus

went up into the temple, and taught.

15And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth

this man know letters, having never learned?

16Jesus answered them, and said: My doc-

trine is not mine, but his that sent me.

17If any man do the will of him; he shall know

of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether

I speak of myself.

18He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his

own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him

that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice

in him.

19Did Moses not give you the law, and yet

none of you keepeth the law?

20Why seek you to kill me? The multitude

answered, and said: Thou hast a devil; who

seeketh to kill thee?

21Jesus answered, and said to them: One

work I have done; and you all wonder:

22Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision

(not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;)

and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.23If a man receive circumcision on the sab-

bath day, that the law of Moses may not be bro-

ken; are you angry at me because I have healed

the whole man on the sabbath day?

24Judge not according to the appearance, but

judge just judgment.

25Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not

this he whom they seek to kill?

26And behold, he speaketh openly, and they

say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a

truth, that this is the Christ?

27But we know this man, whence he is:

but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth

whence he is.

28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple,

teaching, and saying: You both know me, and

you know whence I am: and I am not come of

myself; but he that sent me, is true, whom you

know not.

29I know him, because I am from him, and

he hath sent me.

30They sought therefore to apprehend him:

and no man laid hands on him, because his hour

was not yet come.

31But of the people many believed in him,

and said: When the Christ cometh, shall he do

more miracles, than these which this man doth?

32The Pharisees heard the people murmuring

these things concerning him: and the rulers and

Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.

33Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little

while I am with you: and then I go to him that

sent me.

34You shall seek me, and shall not nd me:

and where I am, thither you cannot come.

35The Jews therefore said among themselves:

Whither will he go, that we shall not nd him?

will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles,

and teach the Gentiles?1386 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John

36What is this saying that he hath said: You

shall seek me, and shall not nd me; and where

I am, you cannot come?

37And on the last, and great day of the fes-

tivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man

thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

38He that believeth in me, as the scripture

saith, Out of his belly shall

ow rivers of living

water.

39Now this he said of the Spirit which they

should receive, who believed in him: for as yet

the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not

yet gloried.

40Of that multitude therefore, when they had

heard these words of his, some said: This is the

prophet indeed.

41Others said: This is the Christ. But some

said: Doth the Christ come out of Galilee?

42Doth not the scripture say: That Christ

cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethle-

hem the town where David was?

43So there arose a dissension among the peo-

ple because of him.

44And some of them would have apprehended

him: but no man laid hands on him.

45The ministers therefore came to the chief

priests and the Pharisees. And they said to

them: Why have you not brought him?

46The ministers answered: Never did man

speak like this man.

47The Pharisees therefore answered them:

Are you also seduced?

48Hath any one of the rulers believed in him,

or of the Pharisees?

49But this multitude, that knoweth not the

law, are accursed.

50Nicodemus said to them, (he that came to

him by night, who was one of them:)

51Doth our law judge any man, unless it rst

hear him, and know what he doth?52They answered, and said to him: Art thou

also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see,

that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.

53And every man returned to his own house.

Chapter 8

And Jesus went unto mount Olivet.

2And early in the morning he came again into

the temple, and all the people came to him, and

sitting down he taught them.

3And the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto

him a woman taken in adultery: and they set her

in the midst,

4And said to him: Master, this woman was

even now taken in adultery.

5Now Moses in the law commanded us to

stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

6And this they said tempting him, that they

might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself

down, wrote with his nger on the ground.

7When therefore they continued asking him,

he lifted up himself, and said to them: He that is

without sin among you, let him rst cast a stone

at her.

8And again stooping down, he wrote on the

ground.

9But they hearing this, went out one by one,

beginning at the eldest. And Jesus alone re-

mained, and the woman standing in the midst.

10Then Jesus lifting up himself, said to her:

Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath

no man condemned thee?

11Who said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said:

Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin

no more.

12Again therefore, Jesus spoke to them, say-

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John 1387
me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the

light of life.

13The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou

givest testimony of thyself: thy testimony is not

true.

14Jesus answered, and said to them: Al-

though I give testimony of myself, my testimony

is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I

go: but you know not whence I come, or whither

I go.

15You judge according to the

esh: I judge

not any man.

16And if I do judge, my judgment is true:

because I am not alone, but I and the Father

that sent me.

17And in your law it is written, that the tes-

timony of two men is true.

18I am one that give testimony of myself: and

the Father that sent me giveth testimony of me.

19They said therefore to him: Where is thy

Father? Jesus answered: Neither me do you

know, nor my Father: if you did know me, per-

haps you would know my Father also.

20These words Jesus spoke in the treasury,

teaching in the temple: and no man laid hands

on him, because his hour was not yet come.

21Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go,

and you shall seek me, and you shall die in your

sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.

22The Jews therefore said: Will he kill him-

self, because he said: Whither I go, you cannot

come?

23And he said to them: You are from be-

neath, I am from above. You are of this world,

I am not of this world.

24Therefore I said to you, that you shall die

in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he,

you shall die in your sin.

25They said therefore to him: Who art thou?

Jesus said to them: The beginning, who alsospeak unto you.

26Many things I have to speak and to judge

of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the

things I have heard of him, these same I speak

in the world.

27And they understood not, that he called

God his Father.

28Jesus therefore said to them: When you

shall have lifted up the Son of man, then shall

you know, that I am he, and that I do nothing of

myself, but as the Father hath taught me, these

things I speak:
29And he that sent me, is with me, and he

hath not left me alone: for I do always the things

that please him.

30When he spoke these things, many believed

in him.

31Then Jesus said to those Jews, who be-

lieved him: If you continue in my word, you shall

be my disciples indeed.

32And you shall know the truth, and the

truth shall make you free.

33They answered him: We are the seed of

Abraham, and we have never been slaves to any

man: how sayest thou: you shall be free?

34Jesus answered them: Amen, amen I say

unto you: that whosoever committeth sin, is the

servant of sin.

35Now the servant abideth not in the house

for ever; but the son abideth for ever.

36If therefore the son shall make you free,

you shall be free indeed.

37I know that you are the children of Abra-

ham: but you seek to kill me, because my word

hath no place in you.

38I speak that which I have seen with my

Father: and you do the things that you have

seen with your father.

39They answered, and said to him: Abraham

is our father. Jesus saith to them: If you be the1388 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

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children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.

40But now you seek to kill me, a man who

have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard

of God. This Abraham did not.

41You do the works of your father. They said

therefore to him: We are not born of fornication:

we have one Father, even God.

42Jesus therefore said to them: If God were

your Father, you would indeed love me. For from

God I proceeded, and came; for I came not of

myself, but he sent me:

43Why do you not know my speech? Because

you cannot hear my word.

44You are of your father the devil, and the

desires of your father you will do. He was a mur-

derer from the beginning, and he stood not in

the truth; because truth is not in him. When he

speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is

a liar, and the father thereof.

45But if I say the truth, you believe me not.

46Which of you shall convince me of sin? If

I say the truth to you, why do you not believe

me?
47He that is of God, heareth the words of

God. Therefore you hear them not, because you

are not of God.

48The Jews therefore answered, and said to

him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samar-

itan, and hast a devil?

49Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but

I honour my Father, and you have dishonoured

me.

50But I seek not my own glory: there is one

that seeketh and judgeth.

51Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep

my word, he shall not see death for ever.

52The Jews therefore said: Now we know

that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and

the prophets; and thou sayest: If any man keep

my word, he shall not taste death for ever.53Art thou greater than our father Abraham,

who is dead? and the prophets are dead. Whom

dost thou make thyself?

54Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my

glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorieth

me, of whom you say that he is your God.

55And you have not known him, but I know

him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I

shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him,

and do keep his word.

56Abraham your father rejoiced that he

might see my day: he saw it, and was glad.

57The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art

not yet fty years old, and hast thou seen Abra-

ham?

58Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to

you, before Abraham was made, I am.

59They took up stones therefore to cast at

him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the

temple.

Chapter 9

And Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind

from his birth:

2And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who

hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that he

should be born blind?

3Jesus answered: Neither hath this man

sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of

God should be made manifest in him.

4I must work the works of him that sent me,

whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man

can work.

5As long as I am in the world, I am the light

of the world.

6When he had said these things, he spat on

the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and

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7And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of

Siloe, which is interpreted, Sent. He went there-

fore, and washed, and he came seeing.

8The neighbours therefore, and they who had

seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is

not this he that sat and begged? Some said:

This is he.

9But others said: No, but he is like him. But

he said: I am he.

10They said therefore to him: How were thy

eyes opened?

11He answered: That man that is called Jesus

made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me:

Go to the pool of Siloe, and wash. And I went,

I washed, and I see.

12And they said to him: Where is he? He

saith: I know not.

13They bring him that had been blind to the

Pharisees.

14Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made

the clay, and opened his eyes.

15Again therefore the Pharisees asked him,

how he had received his sight. But he said to

them: He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed,

and I see.
16Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This

man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath.

But others said: How can a man that is a sin-

ner do such miracles? And there was a division

among them.

17They say therefore to the blind man again:

What sayest thou of him that hath opened they

eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.

18The Jews then did not believe concerning

him, that he had been blind, and had received

his sight, until they called the parents of him

that had received his sight,

19And asked them, saying: Is this your son,

who you say was born blind? How then doth he

now see?20His parents answered them, and said: We

know that this is our son, and that he was born

blind:

21But how he now seeth, we know not; or who

hath opened his eyes, we know not: ask himself:

he is of age, let him speak for himself.

22These things his parents said, because they

feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed

among themselves, that if any man should con-

fess him to be Christ, he should be put out of

the synagogue.

23Therefore did his parents say: He is of age,

ask himself.

24They therefore called the man again that

had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to

God. We know that this man is a sinner.

25He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner,

I know not: one thing I know, that whereas I was

blind, now I see.

26They said then to him: What did he to

thee? How did he open thy eyes?

27He answered them: I have told you al-

ready, and you have heard: why would you hear

it again? will you also become his disciples?

28They reviled him therefore, and said: Be

thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of

Moses.

29We know that God spoke to Moses: but as

to this man, we know not from whence he is.

30The man answered, and said to them:

Why, herein is a wonderful thing, that you know

not from whence he is, and he hath opened my

eyes.

31Now we know that God doth not hear sin-

ners: but if a man be a server of God, and doth

his will, him he heareth.

32From the beginning of the world it hath

not been heard, that any man hath opened the

eyes of one born blind.1390 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John

33Unless this man were of God, he could not

do any thing.

34They answered, and said to him: Thou

wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach

us? And they cast him out.

35Jesus heard that they had cast him out:

and when he had found him, he said to him:

Dost thou believe in the Son of God?

36He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord,

that I may believe in him?

37And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both

seen him; and it is he that talketh with thee.

38And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling

down, he adored him.

39And Jesus said: For judgment I am come

into this world; that they who see not, may see;

and they who see, may become blind.

40And some of the Pharisees, who were with

him, heard: and they said unto him: Are we also

blind?

41Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you

should not have sin: but now you say: We see.

Your sin remaineth.

Chapter 10

Amen, amen I say to you: He that entereth not

by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up

another way, the same is a thief and a robber.

2But he that entereth in by the door is the

shepherd of the sheep.

3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep

hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by

name, and leadeth them out.

4And when he hath let out his own sheep,

he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him,

because they know his voice.

5But a stranger they follow not, but

from him, because they know not the voice ofstrangers.

6This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they

understood not what he spoke to them.

7Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen,

amen I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

8All others, as many as have come, are thieves

and robbers: and the sheep heard them not.

9I am the door. By me, if any man enter in,

he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out,

and shall nd pastures.

10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and

to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they may

have life, and may have it more abundantly.

11I am the good shepherd. The good shep-

herd giveth his life for his sheep.

12But the hireling, and he that is not the

shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the

wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and

ieth:

and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep:

13And the hireling

ieth, because he is a

hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

14I am the good shepherd; and I know mine,

and mine know me.

15As the Father knoweth me, and I know the

Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.

16And other sheep I have, that are not of this

fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear

my voice, and there shall be one fold and one

shepherd.

17Therefore doth the Father love me: because

I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

18No man taketh it away from me: but I

lay it down of myself, and I have power to lay it

down: and I have power to take it up again. This

commandment have I received of my Father.

19A dissension rose again among the Jews for

these words.

20And many of them said: He hath a devil,

and is mad: why hear you him?The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John 1391

21Others said: These are not the words of

one that hath a devil: Can a devil open the eyes

of the blind?

22And it was the feast of the dedication at

Jerusalem: and it was winter.

23And Jesus walked in the temple, in

Solomon's porch.

24The Jews therefore came round about him,

and said to him: How long dost thou hold our

souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us

plainly.

25Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and

you believe not: the works that I do in the name

of my Father, they give testimony of me.

26But you do not believe, because you are

not of my sheep.

27My sheep hear my voice: and I know them,

and they follow me.

28And I give them life everlasting; and they

shall not perish for ever, and no man shall pluck

them out of my hand.

29That which my Father hath given me, is

greater than all: and no one can snatch them

out of the hand of my Father.

30I and the Father are one.

31The Jews then took up stones to stone him.

32Jesus answered them: Many good works I

have shewed you from my Father; for which of

these works do you stone me?

33The Jews answered him: For a good work

we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and be-

cause that thou, being a man, maketh thyself

God.

34Jesus answered them: Is it not written in

your law: I said you are gods?

35If he called them gods, to whom to word

of God was spoken, and the scripture cannot be

broken;

36Do you say of him whom the Father hathsanctied and sent into the world: Thou blas-

phemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?

37If I do not the works of my Father, believe

me not.

38But if I do, though you will not believe

me, believe the works: that you may know and

believe that the Father is in me, and I in the

Father.

39They sought therefore to take him; and he

escaped out of their hands.

40And he went again beyond the Jordan, into

that place where John was baptizing rst; and

there he abode.
41And many resorted to him, and they said:

John indeed did no sign.

42But all things whatsoever John said of this

man, were true. And many believed in him.

Chapter 11

Now there was a certain man sick, named

Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and

Martha her sister.

2(And Mary was she that anointed the Lord

with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair:

whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

3His sisters therefore sent to him, saying:

Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

4And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This

sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of

God: that the Son of God may be gloried by it.

5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister

Mary, and Lazarus.

6When he had heard therefore that he was

sick, he still remained in the same place two days.

7Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let

us go into Judea again.

8The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews

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thither again?
9Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours

of the day? If a man walk in the day, he stum-

bleth not, because he seeth the light of this

world:

10But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth,

because the light is not in him.

11These things he said; and after that he said

to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth; but I go

that I may awake him out of sleep.

12His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he

sleep, he shall do well.

13But Jesus spoke of his death; and they

thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep.

14Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly:

Lazarus is dead.

15And I am glad, for your sakes, that I was

not there, that you may believe: but let us go to

him.

16Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,

said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that

we may die with him.

17Jesus therefore came, and found that he

had been four days already in the grave.

18(Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about

fteen furlongs o.)

19And many of the Jews were come to

Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning

their brother.

20Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that

Jesus had come, went to meet him: but Mary sat

at home.

21Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if

thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

22But now also I know that whatsoever thou

wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

23Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise

again.

24Martha saith to him: I know that he shall

rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.25Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection

and the life: he that believeth in me, although

he be dead, shall live:

26And every one that liveth, and believeth in

me, shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?

27She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have be-

lieved that thou art Christ the Son of the living

God, who art come into this world.

28And when she had said these things, she

went, and called her sister Mary secretly, saying:

The master is come, and calleth for thee.

29She, as soon as she heard this, riseth

quickly, and cometh to him.

30For Jesus was not yet come into the town:

but he was still in that place where Martha had

met him.

31The Jews therefore, who were with her in

the house, and comforted her, when they saw

Mary that she rose up speedily and went out,

followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to

weep there.

32When Mary therefore was come where Je-

sus was, seeing him, she fell down at his feet, and

saith to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my

brother had not died.

33Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping,

and the Jews that were come with her, weeping,

groaned in the spirit, and troubled himself,

34And said: Where have you laid him? They

say to him: Lord, come and see.

35And Jesus wept.

36The Jews therefore said: Behold how he

loved him.

37But some of them said: Could not he that

opened the eyes of the man born blind, have

caused that this man should not die?

38Jesus therefore again groaning in himself,

cometh to the sepulchre. Now it was a cave; and

a stone was laid over it.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John 1393

39Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha,

the sister of him that was dead, saith to him:

Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of

four days.

40Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee,

that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of

God?

41They took therefore the stone away. And

Jesus lifting up his eyes said: Father, I give thee

thanks that thou hast heard me.

42And I knew that thou hearest me always;

but because of the people who stand about have

I said it, that they may believe that thou hast

sent me.

43When he had said these things, he cried

with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.

44And presently he that had been dead came

forth, bound feet and hands with winding bands;

and his face was bound about with a napkin.

Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go.

45Many therefore of the Jews, who were come

to Mary and Martha, and had seen the things

that Jesus did, believed in him.

46But some of them went to the Pharisees,

and told them the things that Jesus had done.

47The chief priests therefore, and the Phar-

isees, gathered a council, and said: What do we,

for this man doth many miracles?

48If we let him alone so, all will believe in

him; and the Romans will come, and take away

our place and nation.

49But one of them, named Caiphas, being the

high priest that year, said to them: You know

nothing.

50Neither do you consider that it is expedient

for you that one man should die for the people,

and that the whole nation perish not.

51And this he spoke not of himself: but being

the high priest of that year, he prophesied that

Jesus should die for the nation.52And not only for the nation, but to gather

together in one the children of God, that were

dispersed.

53From that day therefore they devised to

put him to death.

54Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly

among the Jews; but he went into a country near

the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem, and

there he abode with his disciples.

55And the pasch of the Jews was at hand; and

many from the country went up to Jerusalem,

before the pasch to purify themselves.

56They sought therefore for Jesus; and they

discoursed one with another, standing in the

temple: What think you that he is not come

to the festival day? And the chief priests and

Pharisees had given a commandment, that if any

man knew where he was, he should tell, that they

might apprehend him.

Chapter 12

Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came

to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead,

whom Jesus raised to life.

2And they made him a supper there: and

Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them

that were at table with him.

3Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of

right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the

feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair;

and the house was lled with the odour of the

ointment.

4Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he

that was about to betray him, said:

5Why was not this ointment sold for three

hundred pence, and given to the poor?

6Now he said this, not because he cared for

the poor; but because he was a thief, and hav-1394 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

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ing the purse, carried the things that were put

therein.
7Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she

may keep it against the day of my burial.

8For the poor you have always with you; but

me you have not always.

9A great multitude therefore of the Jews

knew that he was there; and they came, not

for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see

Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

10But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus

also:

11Because many of the Jews, by reason of

him, went away, and believed in Jesus.

12And on the next day, a great multitude

that was to come to the festival day, when they

had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

13Took branches of palm trees, and went

forth to meet him, and cried: Hosanna, blessed

is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the

king of Israel.

14And Jesus found a young ass, and sat upon

it, as it is written:

15Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy

king cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

16These things his disciples did not know at

the rst; but when Jesus was gloried, then they

remembered that these things were written of

him, and that they had done these things to him.

17The multitude therefore gave testimony,

which was with him, when he called Lazarus out

of the grave, and raised him from the dead.

18For which reason also the people came to

meet him, because they heard that he had done

this miracle.

19The Pharisees therefore said among them-

selves: Do you see that we prevail nothing? be-

hold, the whole world is gone after him.

20Now there were certain Gentiles among

them, who came up to adore on the festival day.21These therefore came to Philip, who was

of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying:

Sir, we would see Jesus.

22Philip cometh, and telleth Andrew. Again

Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

23But Jesus answered them, saying: The

hour is come, that the Son of man should be

gloried.

24Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain

of wheat falling into the ground die,

25Itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it

bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his

life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in

this world, keepeth it unto life eternal.

26If any man minister to me, let him follow

me; and where I am, there also shall my minister

be. If any man minister to me, him will my

Father honour.

27Now is my soul troubled. And what shall

I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for

this cause I came unto this hour.

28Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore

came from heaven: I have both gloried it, and

will glorify it again.

29The multitude therefore that stood and

heard, said that it thundered. Others said: An

angel spoke to him.

30Jesus answered, and said: This voice came

not because of me, but for your sakes.

31Now is the judgment of the world: now

shall the prince of this world be cast out.

32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will

draw all things to myself.

33(Now this he said, signifying what death

he should die.)

34The multitude answered him: We have

heard out of the law, that Christ abideth for ever;

and how sayest thou: The Son of man must be

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35Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little

while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you

have the light, that the darkness overtake you

not. And he that walketh in darkness, knoweth

not whither he goeth.

36Whilst you have the light, believe in the

light, that you may be the children of light.

These things Jesus spoke; and he went away, and

hid himself from them.

37And whereas he had done so many miracles

before them, they believed not in him:

38That the saying of Isaias the prophet might

be fullled, which he said: Lord, who hath be-

lieved our hearing? and to whom hath the arm

of the Lord been revealed?

39Therefore they could not believe, because

Isaias said again:

40He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened

their heart, that they should not see with their

eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be

converted, and I should heal them.

41These things said Isaias, when he saw his

glory, and spoke of him.

42However, many of the chief men also be-

lieved in him; but because of the Pharisees they

did not confess him, that they might not be cast

out of the synagogue.

43For they loved the glory of men more than

the glory of God.

44But Jesus cried, and said: He that be-

lieveth in me, doth not believe in me, but in him

that sent me.

45And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent

me.

46I am come a light into the world; that

whosoever believeth in me, may not remain in

darkness.

47And if any man hear my words, and keep

them not, I do not judge him: for I came not to

judge the world, but to save the world.48He that despiseth me, and receiveth not

my words, hath one that judgeth him; the word

that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in

the last day.

49For I have not spoken of myself; but the

Father who sent me, he gave me commandment

what I should say, and what I should speak.

50And I know that his commandment is life

everlasting. The things therefore that I speak,

even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.

Chapter 13

Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus know-

ing that his hour was come, that he should pass

out of this world to the Father: having loved his

own who were in the world, he loved them unto

the end.

2And when supper was done, (the devil hav-

ing now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the

son of Simon, to betray him,)

3Knowing that the Father had given him all

things into his hands, and that he came from

God, and goeth to God;

4He riseth from supper, and layeth aside his

garments, and having taken a towel, girded him-

self.

5After that, he putteth water into a basin,

and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and

to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was

girded.

6He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And

Peter saith to him: Lord, dost thou wash my

feet?

7Jesus answered, and said to him: What I

do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know

hereafter.

8Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash

my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not,1396 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to

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thou shalt have no part with me.

9Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not only

my feet, but also my hands and my head.

10Jesus saith to him: He that is washed,

needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean

wholly. And you are clean, but not all.

11For he knew who he was that would betray

him; therefore he said: You are not all clean.

12Then after he had washed their feet, and

taken his garments, being set down again, he said

to them: Know you what I have done to you?

13You call me Master, and Lord; and you say

well, for so I am.

14If then I being your Lord and Master, have

washed your feet; you also ought to wash one

another's feet.

15For I have given you an example, that as I

have done to you, so you do also.

16Amen, amen I say to you: The servant is

not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle

greater than he that sent him.

17If you know these things, you shall be

blessed if you do them.

18I speak not of you all: I know whom I have

chosen. But that the scripture may be fullled:

He that eateth bread with me, shall lift up his

heel against me.

19At present I tell you, before it come to pass:

that when it shall come to pass, you may believe

that I am he.

20Amen, amen I say to you, he that receiveth

whomsoever I send, receiveth me; and he that

receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.

21When Jesus had said these things, he was

troubled in spirit; and he testied, and said:

Amen, amen I say to you, one of you shall betray

me.

22The disciples therefore looked one upon an-

other, doubting of whom he spoke.23Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one

of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

24Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him,

and said to him: Who is it of whom he speaketh?

25He therefore, leaning on the breast of Jesus,

saith to him: Lord, who is it?

26Jesus answered: He it is to whom I shall

reach bread dipped. And when he had dipped

the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son

of Simon.

27And after the morsel, Satan entered into

him. And Jesus said to him: That which thou

dost, do quickly.

28Now no man at the table knew to what

purpose he said this unto him.

29For some thought, because Judas had the

purse, that Jesus had said to him: Buy those

things which we have need of for the festival day:

or that he should give something to the poor.

30He therefore having received the morsel,

went out immediately. And it was night.

31When he therefore was gone out, Jesus

said: Now is the Son of man gloried, and God

is gloried in him.

32If God be gloried in him, God also will

glorify him in himself; and immediately will he

glorify him.

33Little children, yet a little while I am with

you. You shall seek me; and as I said to the

Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to

you now.

34A new commandment I give unto you:

That you love one another, as I have loved you,

that you also love one another.

35By this shall all men know that you are my

disciples, if you have love one for another.

36Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither

goest thou? Jesus answered: Whither I go, thou

canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow

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37Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow

thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

38Jesus answered him: Wilt thou lay down

thy life for me? Amen, amen I say to thee, the

cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice.

Chapter 14

Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in

God, believe also in me.

2In my Father's house there are many man-

sions. If not, I would have told you: because I

go to prepare a place for you.

3And if I shall go, and prepare a place for you,

I will come again, and will take you to myself;

that where I am, you also may be.

4And whither I go you know, and the way

you know.

5Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not

whither thou goest; and how can we know the

way?

6Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the

truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Fa-

ther, but by me.

7If you had known me, you would without

doubt have known my Father also: and from

henceforth you shall know him, and you have

seen him.

8Philip saith to him: Lord, shew us the Fa-

ther, and it is enough for us.

9Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a

time with you; and have you not known me?

Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also.

How sayest thou, Shew us the Father?

10Do you not believe, that I am in the Father,

and the Father in me? The words that I speak

to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father

who abideth in me, he doth the works.11Believe you not that I am in the Father,

and the Father in me?

12Otherwise believe for the very works' sake.

Amen, amen I say to you, he that believeth in

me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and

greater than these shall he do.

13Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever

you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I

do: that the Father may be gloried in the Son.

14If you shall ask me any thing in my name,

that I will do.

15If you love me, keep my commandments.

16And I will ask the Father, and he shall give

you another Paraclete, that he may abide with

you for ever.

17The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot

receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth

him: but you shall know him; because he shall

abide with you, and shall be in you.

18I will not leave you orphans, I will come to

you.

19Yet a little while: and the world seeth me

no more. But you see me: because I live, and

you shall live.

20In that day you shall know, that I am in

my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

21He that hath my commandments, and

keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he

that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father: and

I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

22Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot: Lord,

how is it, that thou wilt manifest thyself to us,

and not to the world?

23Jesus answered, and said to him: If any one

love me, he will keep my word, and my Father

will love him, and we will come to him, and will

make our abode with him.

24He that loveth me not, keepeth not my

words. And the word which you have heard, is

not mine; but the Father's who sent me.1398 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

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25These things have I spoken to you, abiding

with you.

26But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom

the Father will send in my name, he will teach

you all things, and bring all things to your mind,

whatsoever I shall have said to you.

27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give

unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto

you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it

be afraid.

28You have heard that I said to you: I go

away, and I come unto you. If you loved me, you

would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father:

for the Father is greater than I.

29And now I have told you before it comes to

pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may

believe.

30I will not now speak many things with you.

For the prince of this world cometh, and in me

he hath not any thing.

31But that the world may know, that I love

the Father: and as the Father hath given me

commandment, so do I: Arise, let us go hence.

Chapter 15

I am the true vine; and my Father is the hus-

bandman.

2Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit,

he will take away: and every one that beareth

fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth

more fruit.

3Now you are clean by reason of the word,

which I have spoken to you.

4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch

cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the

vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

5I am the vine; you the branches: he that

abideth in me, and I in him, the same bearethmuch fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

6If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast

forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they

shall gather him up, and cast him into the re,

and he burneth.

7If you abide in me, and my words abide in

you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall

be done unto you.

8In this is my Father gloried; that you bring

forth very much fruit, and become my disciples.

9As the Father hath loved me, I also have

loved you. Abide in my love.

10If you keep my commandments, you shall

abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's

commandments, and do abide in his love.

11These things I have spoken to you, that my

joy may be in you, and your joy may be lled.

12This is my commandment, that you love

one another, as I have loved you.

13Greater love than this no man hath, that

a man lay down his life for his friends.

14You are my friends, if you do the things

that I command you.

15I will not now call you servants: for the

servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I

have called you friends: because all things what-

soever I have heard of my Father, I have made

known to you.

16You have not chosen me: but I have chosen

you; and have appointed you, that you should

go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit

should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of

the Father in my name, he may give it you.

17These things I command you, that you love

one another.

18If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath

hated me before you.

19If you had been of the world, the world

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the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,

therefore the world hateth you.

20Remember my word that I said to you: The

servant is not greater than his master. If they

have persecuted me, they will also persecute you:

if they have kept my word, they will keep yours

also.
21But all these things they will do to you

for my name's sake: because they know not him

who sent me.

22If I had not come, and spoken to them,

they would not have sin; but now they have no

excuse for their sin.

23He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

24If I had not done among them the works

that no other man hath done, they would not

have sin; but now they have both seen and hated

both me and my Father.

25But that the word may be fullled which

is written in their law: They hated me without

cause.

26But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I

will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth,

who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give

testimony of me.

27And you shall give testimony, because you

are with me from the beginning.

Chapter 16

These things have I spoken to you, that you may

not be scandalized.

2They will put you out of the synagogues:

yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth

you, will think that he doth a service to God.

3And these things will they do to you; be-

cause they have not known the Father, nor me.

4But these things I have told you, that when

the hour shall come, you may remember that Itold you of them.

5But I told you not these things from the

beginning, because I was with you. And now I

go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh

me: Whither goest thou?

6But because I have spoken these things to

you, sorrow hath lled your heart.

7But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to

you that I go: for if I go not, the Paraclete will

not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to

you.

8And when he is come, he will convince the

world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment.

9Of sin: because they believed not in me.

10And of justice: because I go to the Father;

and you shall see me no longer.

11And of judgment: because the prince of

this world is already judged.

12I have yet many things to say to you: but

you cannot bear them now.

13But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come,

he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak

of himself; but what things soever he shall hear,

he shall speak; and the things that are to come,

he shall shew you.

14He shall glorify me; because he shall receive

of mine, and shall shew it to you.

15All things whatsoever the Father hath, are

mine. Therefore I said, that he shall receive of

mine, and shew it to you.

16A little while, and now you shall not see

me; and again a little while, and you shall see

me: because I go to the Father.

17Then some of the disciples said one to an-

other: What is this that he saith to us: A little

while, and you shall not see me; and again a lit-

tle while, and you shall see me, and, because I

go to the Father?

18They said therefore: What is this that

he saith, A little while? we know not what he1400 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

John

speaketh.

19And Jesus knew that they had a mind to

ask him; and he said to them: Of this do you

inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little

while, and you shall not see me; and again a little

while, and you shall see me?

20Amen, amen I say to you, that you shall

lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice; and

you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow

shall be turned into joy.

21A woman, when she is in labour, hath sor-

row, because her hour is come; but when she

hath brought forth the child, she remembereth

no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born

into the world.

22So also you now indeed have sorrow; but I

will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice;

and your joy no man shall take from you.

23And in that day you shall not ask me any

thing. Amen, amen I say to you: if you ask the

Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.

24Hitherto you have not asked any thing in

my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your

joy may be full.

25These things I have spoken to you in

proverbs. The hour cometh, when I will no

more speak to you in proverbs, but will shew

you plainly of the Father.

26In that day you shall ask in my name; and

I say not to you, that I will ask the Father for

you:

27For the Father himself loveth you, because

you have loved me, and have believed that I came

out from God.

28I came forth from the Father, and am come

into the world: again I leave the world, and I go

to the Father.

29His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou

speakest plainly, and speakest no proverb.

30Now we know that thou knowest all things,and thou needest not that any man should ask

thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth

from God.

31Jesus answered them: Do you now believe?

32Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now

come, that you shall be scattered every man to

his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am

not alone, because the Father is with me.

33These things I have spoken to you, that

in me you may have peace. In the world you

shall have distress: but have condence, I have

overcome the world.

Chapter 17

These things Jesus spoke, and lifting up his eyes

to heaven, he said: Father, the hour is come,

glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.

2As thou hast given him power over all

esh,

that he may give eternal life to all whom thou

hast given him.

3Now this is eternal life: That they may know

thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom

thou hast sent.

4I have gloried thee on the earth; I have

nished the work which thou gavest me to do.

5And now glorify thou me, O Father, with

thyself, with the glory which I had, before the

world was, with thee.

6I have manifested thy name to the men

whom thou hast given me out of the world.

Thine they were, and to me thou gavest them;

and they have kept thy word.

7Now they have known, that all things which

thou hast given me, are from thee:

8Because the words which thou gavest me,

I have given to them; and they have received

them, and have known in very deed that I came

out from thee, and they have believed that thouThe Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

John 1401

didst send me.

9I pray for them: I pray not for the world,

but for them whom thou hast given me: because

they are thine:

10And all my things are thine, and thine are

mine; and I am gloried in them.

11And now I am not in the world, and these

are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Fa-

ther, keep them in thy name whom thou has

given me; that they may be one, as we also are.

12While I was with them, I kept them in thy

name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept;

and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition,

that the scripture may be fullled.

13And now I come to thee; and these things

I speak in the world, that they may have my joy

lled in themselves.

14I have given them thy word, and the world

hath hated them, because they are not of the

world; as I also am not of the world.

15I pray not that thou shouldst take them

out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep

them from evil.

16They are not of the world, as I also am not

of the world.

17Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

18As thou hast sent me into the world, I also

have sent them into the world.

19And for them do I sanctify myself, that

they also may be sanctied in truth.

20And not for them only do I pray, but for

them also who through their word shall believe

in me;

21That they all may be one, as thou, Father,

in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one

in us; that the world may believe that thou hast

sent me.

22And the glory which thou hast given me,

I have given to them; that they may be one, as

we also are one:23I in them, and thou in me; that they may

be made perfect in one: and the world may know

that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as

thou hast also loved me.

24Father, I will that where I am, they also

whom thou hast given me may be with me; that

they may see my glory which thou hast given me,

because thou hast loved me before the creation

of the world.

25Just Father, the world hath not known

thee; but I have known thee: and these have

known that thou hast sent me.

26And I have made known thy name to them,

and will make it known; that the love wherewith

thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in

them.

Chapter 18

When Jesus had said these things, he went forth

with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where

there was a garden, into which he entered with

his disciples.
2And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the

place; because Jesus had often resorted thither

together with his disciples.

3Judas therefore having received a band of

soldiers and servants from the chief priests and

the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and

torches and weapons.

4Jesus therefore, knowing all things that

should come upon him, went forth, and said to

them: Whom seek ye?

5They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Je-

sus saith to them: I am he. And Judas also, who

betrayed him, stood with them.

6As soon therefore as he had said to them:

I am he; they went backward, and fell to the

ground.1402 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John

7Again therefore he asked them: Whom seek

ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.

8Jesus answered, I have told you that I am

he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their

way.

9That the word might be fullled which he

said: Of them whom thou hast given me, I have

not lost any one.

10Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew

it, and struck the servant of the high priest, and

cut o his right ear. And the name of the servant

was Malchus.

11Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy

sword into the scabbard. The chalice which my

Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

12Then the band and the tribune, and the

servants of the Jews, took Jesus, and bound him:

13And they led him away to Annas rst, for

he was father in law to Caiphas, who was the

high priest of that year.

14Now Caiphas was he who had given the

counsel to the Jews: That it was expedient that

one man should die for the people.

15And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did

another disciple. And that disciple was known

to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into

the court of the high priest.

16But Peter stood at the door without. The

other disciple therefore, who was known to the

high priest, went out, and spoke to the portress,

and brought in Peter.

17The maid therefore that was portress, saith

to Peter: Art not thou also one of this man's

disciples? He saith: I am not.

18Now the servants and ministers stood at a

re of coals, because it was cold, and warmed

themselves. And with them was Peter also,

standing, and warming himself.

19The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his

disciples, and of his doctrine.20Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly

to the world: I have always taught in the syna-

gogue, and in the temple, whither all the Jews

resort; and in secret I have spoken nothing.

21Why asketh thou me? ask them who have

heard what I have spoken unto them: behold

they know what things I have said.

22And when he had said these things, one

of the servants standing by, gave Jesus a blow,

saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?

23Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil,

give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strik-

est thou me?

24And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the

high priest.

25And Simon Peter was standing, and warm-

ing himself. They said therefore to him: Art not

thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and

said: I am not.

26One of the servants of the high priest (a

kinsman to him whose ear Peter cut o) saith to

him: Did I not see thee in the garden with him?

27Again therefore Peter denied; and immedi-

ately the cock crew.

28Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the

governor's hall. And it was morning; and they

went not into the hall, that they might not be

deled, but that they might eat the pasch.

29Pilate therefore went out to them, and said:

What accusation bring you against this man?

30They answered, and said to him: If he were

not a malefactor, we would not have delivered

him up to thee.

31Pilate therefore said to them: Take him

you, and judge him according to your law. The

Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for

us to put any man to death;

32That the word of Jesus might be fullled,

which he said, signifying what death he should

die.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John 1403

33Pilate therefore went into the hall again,

and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the

king of the Jews?

34Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of

thyself, or have others told it thee of me?

35Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own

nation, and the chief priests, have delivered thee

up to me: what hast thou done?

36Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this

world. If my kingdom were of this world, my

servants would certainly strive that I should not

be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom

is not from hence.

37Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a

king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I

am a king. For this was I born, and for this came

I into the world; that I should give testimony to

the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth

my voice.

38Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And

when he said this, he went out again to the Jews,

and saith to them: I nd no cause in him.

39But you have a custom that I should release

one unto you at the pasch: will you, therefore,

that I release unto you the king of the Jews?

40Then cried they all again, saying: Not this

man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a rob-

ber.

Chapter 19

Then therefore, Pilate took Jesus, and scourged

him.

2And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns,

put it upon his head; and they put on him a

purple garment.

3And they came to him, and said: Hail, king

of the Jews; and they gave him blows.

4Pilate therefore went forth again, and saithto them: Behold, I bring him forth unto you,

that you may know that I nd no cause in him.

5(Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the

crown of thorns and the purple garment.) And

he saith to them: Behold the Man.

6When the chief priests, therefore, and the

servants, had seen him, they cried out, saying:

Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them:

Take him you, and crucify him: for I nd no

cause in him.

7The Jews answered him: We have a law; and

according to the law he ought to die, because he

made himself the Son of God.

8When Pilate therefore had heard this saying,

he feared the more.

9And he entered into the hall again, and he

said to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave

him no answer.

10Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest

thou not to me? knowest thou not that I have

power to crucify thee, and I have power to release

thee?

11Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have

any power against me, unless it were given thee

from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered

me to thee, hath the greater sin.

12And from henceforth Pilate sought to re-

lease him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If

thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's

friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king,

speaketh against Caesar.

13Now when Pilate had heard these words, he

brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judg-

ment seat, in the place that is called Lithostro-

tos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha.

14And it was the parasceve of the pasch,

about the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews:

Behold your king.

15But they cried out: Away with him; away

with him; crucify him. Pilate saith to them:1404 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

John

Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests an-

swered: We have no king but Caesar.

16Then therefore he delivered him to them to

be crucied. And they took Jesus, and led him

forth.

17And bearing his own cross, he went forth to

that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew

Golgotha.

18Where they crucied him, and with him

two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the

midst.

19And Pilate wrote a title also, and he put

it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS

OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20This title therefore many of the Jews did

read: because the place where Jesus was cruci-

ed was nigh to the city: and it was written in

Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin.

21Then the chief priests of the Jews said to

Pilate: Write not, The King of the Jews; but

that he said, I am the King of the Jews.

22Pilate answered: What I have written, I

have written.

23The soldiers therefore, when they had cru-

cied him, took his garments, (and they made

four parts, to every soldier a part,) and also his

coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven

from the top throughout.

24They said then one to another: Let us not

cut it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall

be; that the scripture might be fullled, saying:

They have parted my garments among them, and

upon my vesture they have cast lot. And the

soldiers indeed did these things.

25Now there stood by the cross of Jesus,

his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of

Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.

26When Jesus therefore had seen his mother

and the disciple standing whom he loved, he

saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.27After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold

thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple

took her to his own.

28Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things

were now accomplished, that the scripture might

be fullled, said: I thirst.

29Now there was a vessel set there full of vine-

gar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar

and hyssop, put it to his mouth.

30Jesus therefore, when he had taken the

vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing

his head, he gave up the ghost.

31Then the Jews, (because it was the

parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain on

the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a

great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their

legs might be broken, and that they might be

taken away.

32The soldiers therefore came; and they

broke the legs of the rst, and of the other that

was crucied with him.

33But after they were come to Jesus, when

they saw that he was already dead, they did not

break his legs.

34But one of the soldiers with a spear opened

his side, and immediately there came out blood

and water.

35And he that saw it, hath given testimony,

and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that

he saith true; that you also may believe.

36For these things were done, that the scrip-

ture might be fullled: You shall not break a

bone of him.

37And again another scripture saith: They

shall look on him whom they pierced.

38And after these things, Joseph of Ari-

mathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but

secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that

he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pi-

late gave leave. He came therefore, and took theThe Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St.

John 1405

body of Jesus.

39And Nicodemus also came, (he who at the

rst came to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture

of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound

weight.

40They took therefore the body of Jesus, and

bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the

manner of the Jews is to bury.

41Now there was in the place where he was

crucied, a garden; and in the garden a new

sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid.

42There, therefore, because of the parasceve

of the Jews, they laid Jesus, because the sepul-

chre was nigh at hand.

Chapter 20

And on the rst day of the week, Mary Mag-

dalen cometh early, when it was yet dark, unto

the sepulchre; and she saw the stone taken away

from the sepulchre.

2She ran, therefore, and cometh to Simon Pe-

ter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved,

and saith to them: They have taken away the

Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not

where they have laid him.

3Peter therefore went out, and that other dis-

ciple, and they came to the sepulchre.

4And they both ran together, and that other

disciple did outrun Peter, and came rst to the

sepulchre.

5And when he stooped down, he saw the linen

cloths lying; but yet he went not in.

6Then cometh Simon Peter, following him,

and went into the sepulchre, and saw the linen

cloths lying,
7And the napkin that had been about his

head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart,

wrapped up into one place.8Then that other disciple also went in, who

came rst to the sepulchre: and he saw, and be-

lieved.

9For as yet they knew not the scripture, that

he must rise again from the dead.

10The disciples therefore departed again to

their home.

11But Mary stood at the sepulchre without,

weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped

down, and looked into the sepulchre,

12And she saw two angels in white, sitting,

one at the head, and one at the feet, where the

body of Jesus had been laid.

13They say to her: Woman, why weepest

thou? She saith to them: Because they have

taken away my Lord; and I know not where they

have laid him.

14When she had thus said, she turned herself

back, and saw Jesus standing; and she knew not

that it was Jesus.

15Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest

thou? whom seekest thou? She, thinking it was

the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken

him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and

I will take him away.

16Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning,

saith to him: Rabboni (which is to say, Master).

17Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me, for

I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to

my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my

Father and to your Father, to my God and your

God.

18Mary Magdalen cometh, and telleth the

disciples: I have seen the Lord, and these things

he said to me.

19Now when it was late that same day, the

rst of the week, and the doors were shut, where

the disciples were gathered together, for fear of

the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst,

and said to them: Peace be to you.1406 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John

20And when he had said this, he shewed them

his hands and his side. The disciples therefore

were glad, when they saw the Lord.

21He said therefore to them again: Peace be

to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send

you.

22When he had said this, he breathed on

them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy

Ghost.

23Whose sins you shall forgive, they are for-

given them; and whose sins you shall retain, they

are retained.

24Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is

called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus

came.

25The other disciples therefore said to him:

We have seen the Lord. But he said to them:

Except I shall see in his hands the print of the

nails, and put my nger into the place of the

nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not

believe.

26And after eight days again his disciples

were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus

cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the

midst, and said: Peace be to you.

27Then he saith to Thomas: Put in thy n-

ger hither, and see my hands; and bring hither

thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not

faithless, but believing.

28Thomas answered, and said to him: My

Lord, and my God.

29Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen

me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are

they that have not seen, and have believed.

30Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight

of his disciples, which are not written in this

book.

31But these are written, that you may believe

that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God: and

that believing, you may have life in his name.Chapter 21

After this, Jesus shewed himself again to the dis-

ciples at the sea of Tiberias. And he shewed

himself after this manner.

2There were together Simon Peter, and

Thomas, who is called Didymus, and Nathanael,

who was of Cana of Galilee, and the sons of

Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

3Simon Peter saith to them: I go a shing.

They say to him: We also come with thee. And

they went forth, and entered into the ship: and

that night they caught nothing.

4But when the morning was come, Jesus

stood on the shore: yet the disciples knew not

that it was Jesus.

5Jesus therefore said to them: Children, have

you any meat? They answered him: No.

6He saith to them: Cast the net on the right

side of the ship, and you shall nd. They cast

therefore; and now they were not able to draw

it, for the multitude of shes.

7That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved,

said to Peter: It is the Lord. Simon Peter, when

he heard that it was the Lord, girt his coat about

him, (for he was naked,) and cast himself into the

sea.

8But the other disciples came in the ship,

(for they were not far from the land, but as it

were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with

shes.

9As soon then as they came to land, they

saw hot coals lying, and a sh laid thereon, and

bread.

10Jesus saith to them: Bring hither of the

shes which you have now caught.

11Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to

land, full of great shes, one hundred and fty-

three. And although there were so many, the net

was not broken.The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John 1407

12Jesus saith to them: Come, and dine. And

none of them who were at meat, durst ask him:

Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.

13And Jesus cometh and taketh bread, and

giveth them, and sh in like manner.

14This is now the third time that Jesus was

manifested to his disciples, after he was risen

from the dead.

15When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith

to Simon Peter: Simon son of John, lovest thou

me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord,

thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him:

Feed my lambs.

16He saith to him again: Simon, son of John,

lovest thou me? He saith to him: Yea, Lord,

thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him:

Feed my lambs.

17He said to him the third time: Simon, son

of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, be-

cause he had said to him the third time: Lovest

thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou know-

est all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He

said to him: Feed my sheep.

18Amen, amen I say to thee, when thou wast

younger, thou didst gird thyself, and didst walk

where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be

old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and an-

other shall gird thee, and lead thee whither thou

wouldst not.

19And this he said, signifying by what death

he should glorify God. And when he had said

this, he saith to him: Follow me.

20Peter turning about, saw that disciple

whom Jesus loved following, who also leaned on

his breast at supper, and said: Lord, who is he

that shall betray thee?

21Him therefore when Peter had seen, he

saith to Jesus: Lord, and what shall this man

do?

22Jesus saith to him: So I will have him toremain till I come, what is it to thee? follow

thou me.

23This saying therefore went abroad among

the brethren, that that disciple should not die.

And Jesus did not say to him: He should not

die; but, So I will have him to remain till I come,

what is it to thee?

24This is that disciple who giveth testimony

of these things, and hath written these things;

and we know that his testimony is true.

25But there are also many other things which

Jesus did; which, if they were written every one,

the world itself, I think, would not be able to

contain the books that should be written.The Acts of the Apostles

Chapter 1

The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all

things which Jesus began to do and to teach,

2Until the day on which, giving command-

ments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom

he had chosen, he was taken up.

3To whom also he shewed himself alive after

his passion, by many proofs, for forty days ap-

pearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom

of God.

4And eating together with them, he com-

manded them, that they should not depart from

Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of

the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by

my mouth.

5For John indeed baptized with water, but

you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not

many days hence.

6They therefore who were come together,

asked him, saying: Lord, wilt thou at this time

restore again the kingdom to Israel?

7But he said to them: It is not for you to

know the times or moments, which the Father

hath put in his own power:

8But you shall receive the power of the Holy

Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be wit-

nesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea,

and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of

the earth.

9And when he had said these things, whilethey looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud

received him out of their sight.

10And while they were beholding him going

up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in

white garments.

11Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why

stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who

is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come,

as you have seen him going into heaven.

12Then they returned to Jerusalem from

the mount that is called Olivet, which is nigh

Jerusalem, within a sabbath day's journey.

13And when they were come in, they went

up into an upper room, where abode Peter and

John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas,

Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus,

and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the brother of

James.

14All these were persevering with one mind

in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother

of Jesus, and with his brethren.

15In those days Peter rising up in the midst of

the brethren, said: (now the number of persons

together was about an hundred and twenty:)

16Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be

fullled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by

the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was

the leader of them that apprehended Jesus:

17Who was numbered with us, and had ob-

tained part of this ministry.

18And he indeed hath possessed a eld ofThe Acts of the Apostles 1409

the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst

asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed

out.

19And it became known to all the inhabitants

of Jerusalem: so that the same eld was called

in their tongue, Haceldama, that is to say, The

eld of blood.

20For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let

their habitation become desolate, and let there

be none to dwell therein. And his bishopric let

another take.

21Wherefore of these men who have com-

panied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus

came in and went out among us,

22Beginning from the baptism of John, until

the day wherein he was taken up from us, one

of these must be made a witness with us of his

resurrection.

23And they appointed two, Joseph, called

Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and

Matthias.

24And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who

knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of

these two thou hast chosen,

25To take the place of this ministry and apos-

tleship, from which Judas hath by transgression

fallen, that he might go to his own place.

26And they gave them lots, and the lot fell

upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the

eleven apostles.

Chapter 2

And when the days of the Pentecost were accom-

plished, they were all together in one place:

2And suddenly there came a sound from

heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it lled

the whole house where they were sitting.

3And there appeared to them parted tonguesas it were of re, and it sat upon every one of

them:

4And they were all lled with the Holy Ghost,

and they began to speak with divers tongues,

according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.

5Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews,

devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

6And when this was noised abroad, the mul-

titude came together, and were confounded in

mind, because that every man heard them speak

in his own tongue.

7And they were all amazed, and wondered,

saying: Behold, are not all these, that speak,

Galileans?

8And how have we heard, every man our own

tongue wherein we were born?

9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and

inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cap-

padocia, Pontus and Asia,

10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the

parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of

Rome,

11Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Ara-

bians: we have heard them speak in our own

tongues the wonderful works of God.

12And they were all astonished, and won-

dered, saying one to another: What meaneth

this?

13But others mocking, said: These men are

full of new wine.

14But Peter standing up with the eleven,

lifted up his voice, and spoke to them: Ye men

of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem,

be this known to you, and with your ears receive

my words.

15For these are not drunk, as you suppose,

seeing it is but the third hour of the day:

16But this is that which was spoken of by the

prophet Joel:1410 The Acts of the Apostles

17And it shall come to pass, in the last days,

(saith the Lord,) I will pour out of my Spirit

upon all

esh: and your sons and your daughters

shall prophesy, and your young men shall see

visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

18And upon my servants indeed, and upon

my handmaids will I pour out in those days of

my spirit, and they shall prophesy.

19And I will shew wonders in the heaven

above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood

and re, and vapour of smoke.

20The sun shall be turned into darkness, and

the moon into blood, before the great and man-

ifest day of the Lord come.

21And it shall come to pass, that whosoever

shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be

saved.

22Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus

of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you,

by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God

did by him, in the midst of you, as you also know:

23This same being delivered up, by the deter-

minate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you

by the hands of wicked men have crucied and

slain.

24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed

the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he

should be holden by it.

25For David saith concerning him: I foresaw

the Lord before my face: because he is at my

right hand, that I may not be moved.

26For this my heart hath been glad, and any

tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my

esh also

shall rest in hope.

27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,

nor suer thy Holy One to see corruption.

28Thou hast made known to me the ways

of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy

countenance.

29Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak toyou of the patriarch David; that he died, and

was buried; and his sepulchre is with us to this

present day.

30Whereas therefore he was a prophet, and

knew that God hath sworn to him with an oath,

that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon

his throne.

31Foreseeing this, he spoke of the resurrection

of Christ. For neither was he left in hell, neither

did his

esh see corruption.

32This Jesus hath God raised again, whereof

all we are witnesses.

33Being exalted therefore by the right hand

of God, and having received of the Father the

promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured forth

this which you see and hear.

34For David ascended not into heaven; but

he himself said: The Lord said to my Lord, sit

thou on my right hand,

35Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

36Therefore let all the house of Israel know

most certainly, that God hath made both Lord

and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have cru-

cied.

37Now when they had heard these things,

they had compunction in their heart, and said

to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles: What

shall we do, men and brethren?

38But Peter said to them: Do penance, and

be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus

Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you

shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

39For the promise is to you, and to your chil-

dren, and to all that are far o, whomsoever the

Lord our God shall call.

40And with very many other words did he

testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves

from this perverse generation.

41They therefore that received his word, were

baptized; and there were added in that dayThe Acts of the Apostles 1411
about three thousand souls.

42And they were persevering in the doctrine

of the apostles, and in the communication of the

breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43And fear came upon every soul: many won-

ders also and signs were done by the apostles in

Jerusalem, and there was great fear in all.

44And all they that believed, were together,

and had all things common.

45Their possessions and goods they sold, and

divided them to all, according as every one had

need.

46And continuing daily with one accord in

the temple, and breaking bread from house to

house, they took their meat with gladness and

simplicity of heart;

47Praising God, and having favour with all

the people. And the Lord increased daily to-

gether such as should be saved.

Chapter 3

Now Peter and John went up into the temple at

the ninth hour of prayer.

2And a certain man who was lame from his

mother's womb, was carried: whom they laid ev-

ery day at the gate of the temple, which is called

Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that

went into the temple.

3He, when he had seen Peter and John about

to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

4But Peter with John fastening his eyes upon

him, said: Look upon us.

5But he looked earnestly upon them, hoping

that he should receive something of them.

6But Peter said: Silver and gold I have none;

but what I have, I give thee: In the name of

Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise, and walk.

7And taking him by the right hand, he liftedhim up, and forthwith his feet and soles received

strength.

8And he leaping up, stood, and walked, and

went in with them into the temple, walking, and

leaping, and praising God.

9And all the people saw him walking and

praising God.

10And they knew him, that it was he who sat

begging alms at the Beartiful gate of the temple:

and they were lled with wonder and amazement

at that which had happened to him.

11And as he held Peter and John, all the

people ran to them to the porch which is called

Solomon's, greatly wondering.

12But Peter seeing, made answer to the peo-

ple: Ye men of Israel, why wonder you at this?

or why look you upon us, as if by our strength

or power we had made this man to walk?

13The God of Abraham, and the God of

Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our

fathers, hath gloried his Son Jesus, whom you

indeed delivered up and denied before the face

of Pilate, when he judged he should be released.

14But you denied the Holy One and the Just,

and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

15But the author of life you killed, whom

God hath raised from the dead, of which we are

witnesses.

16And in the faith of his name, this man,

whom you have seen and known, hath his name

strengthened; and the faith which is by him,

hath given this perfect soundness in the sight

of you all.

17And now, brethren, I know that you did it

through ignorance, as did also your rulers.

18But those things which God before had

shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that

his Christ should suer, he hath so fullled.

19Be penitent, therefore, and be converted,

that your sins may be blotted out.1412 The Acts of the Apostles

20That when the times of refreshment shall

come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall

send him who hath been preached unto you, Je-

sus Christ,

21Whom heaven indeed must receive, un-

til the times of the restitution of all things,

which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy

prophets, from the beginning of the world.

22For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord

your God raise up unto you of your brethren,

like unto me: him you shall hear according to all

things whatsoever he shall speak to you.

23And it shall be, that every soul which will

not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from

among the people.

24And all the prophets, from Samuel and af-

terwards, who have spoken, have told of these

days.

25You are the children of the prophets, and

of the testament which God made to our fathers,

saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the

kindreds of the earth be blessed.

26To you rst God, raising up his Son, hath

sent him to bless you; that every one may convert

himself from his wickedness.

Chapter 4

And as they were speaking to the people, the

priests, and the ocer of the temple, and the

Sadducees, came upon them,

2Being grieved that they taught the people,

and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the

dead:

3And they laid hands upon them, and put

them in hold till the next day; for it was now

evening.

4But many of them who had heard the word,

believed; and the number of the men was madeve thousand.

5And it came to pass on the morrow, that

their princes, and ancients, and scribes, were

gathered together in Jerusalem;

6And Annas the high priest, and Caiphas,

and John, and Alexander, and as many as were

of the kindred of the high priest.

7And setting them in the midst, they asked:

By what power, or by what name, have you done

this?

8Then Peter, lled with the Holy Ghost, said

to them: Ye princes of the people, and ancients,

hear:

9If we this day are examined concerning the

good deed done to the inrm man, by what

means he hath been made whole:

10Be it known to you all, and to all the people

of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus

Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucied, whom

God hath raised from the dead, even by him this

man standeth here before you whole.

11This is the stone which was rejected by

you the builders, which is become the head of

the corner.

12Neither is there salvation in any other. For

there is no other name under heaven given to

men, whereby we must be saved.

13Now seeing the constancy of Peter and

of John, understanding that they were illiter-

ate and ignorant men, they wondered; and they

knew them that they had been with Jesus.

14Seeing the man also who had been healed

standing with them, they could say nothing

against it.

15But they commanded them to go aside out

of the council; and they conferred among them-

selves,

16Saying: What shall we do to these men?

for indeed a known miracle hath been done byThe Acts of the Apostles 1413

them, to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: it is

manifest, and we cannot deny it.

17But that it may be no farther spread among

the people, let us threaten them that they speak

no more in this name to any man.

18And calling them, they charged them not

to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus.

19But Peter and John answering, said to

them: If it be just in the sight of God, to hear

you rather than God, judge ye.

20For we cannot but speak the things which

we have seen and heard.

21But they threatening, sent them away, not

nding how they might punish them, because of

the people; for all men gloried what had been

done, in that which had come to pass.

22For the man was above forty years old, in

whom that miraculous cure had been wrought.

23And being let go, they came to their own

company, and related all that the chief priests

and ancients had said to them.

24Who having heard it, with one accord lifted

up their voice to God, and said: Lord, thou art

he that didst make heaven and earth, the sea,

and all things that are in them.

25Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of

our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why

did the Gentiles rage, and the people meditate

vain things?

26The kings of the earth stood up, and the

princes assembled together against the Lord and

his Christ.

27For of a truth there assembled together in

this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou

hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with

the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

28To do what thy hand and thy counsel de-

creed to be done.

29And now, Lord, behold their threatenings,

and grant unto thy servants, that with all con-dence they may speak thy word,

30By stretching forth thy hand to cures, and

signs, and wonders to be done by the name of

thy holy Son Jesus.

31And when they had prayed, the place was

moved wherein they were assembled; and they

were all lled with the Holy Ghost, and they

spoke the word of God with condence.

32And the multitude of believers had but one

heart and one soul: neither did any one say that

aught of the things which he possessed, was his

own; but all things were common unto them.

33And with great power did the apostles give

testimony of the resurrection of Jesus Christ our

Lord; and great grace was in them all.

34For neither was there any one needy among

them. For as many as were owners of lands or

houses, sold them, and brought the price of the

things they sold,

35And laid it down before the feet of the

apostles. And distribution was made to every

one, according as he had need.

36And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was sur-

named Barnabas, (which is, by interpretation,

The son of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian

born,

37Having land, sold it, and brought the price,

and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

Chapter 5

But a certain man named Ananias, with Saphira

his wife, sold a piece of land,

2And by fraud kept back part of the price

of the land, his wife being privy thereunto: and

bringing a certain part of it, laid it at the feet of

the apostles.

3But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan

tempted thy heart, that thou shouldst lie to the1414 The Acts of the Apostles

Holy Ghost, and by fraud keep part of the price

of the land?

4Whilst it remained, did it not remain to

thee? and after it was sold, was it not in thy

power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in

thy heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to

God.
5And Ananias hearing these words, fell down,

and gave up the ghost. And there came great

fear upon all that heard it.

6And the young men rising up, removed him,

and carrying him out, buried him.

7And it was about the space of three hours

after, when his wife, not knowing what had hap-

pened, came in.

8And Peter said to her: Tell me, woman,

whether you sold the land for so much? And

she said: Yea, for so much.

9And Peter said unto her: Why have you

agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?

Behold the feet of them who have buried thy

husband are at the door, and they shall carry

thee out.

10Immediately she fell down before his feet,

and gave up the ghost. And the young men com-

ing in, found her dead: and carried her out, and

buried her by her husband.

11And there came great fear upon the whole

church, and upon all that heard these things.

12And by the hands of the apostles were

many signs and wonders wrought among the

people. And they were all with one accord in

Solomon's porch.
13But of the rest no man durst join himself

unto them; but the people magnied them.

14And the multitude of men and women who

believed in the Lord, was more increased:

15Insomuch that they brought forth the sick

into the streets, and laid them on beds and

couches, that when Peter came, his shadow atthe least, might overshadow any of them, and

they might be delivered from their inrmities.

16And there came also together to Jerusalem

a multitude out of the neighboring cities, bring-

ing sick persons, and such as were troubled with

unclean spirits; who were all healed.

17Then the high prist rising up, and all they

that were with him, (which is the heresy of the

Sadducees,) were lled with envy.

18And they laid hands on the apostles, and

put them in the common prison.

19But an angel of the Lord by night opening

the doors of the prison, and leading them out,

said:

20Go, and standing speak in the temple to

the people all the words of this life.

21Who having heard this, early in the morn-

ing, entered into the temple, and taught. And

the high priest coming, and they that were with

him, called together the council, and all the an-

cients of the children of Israel; and they sent to

the prison to have them brought.

22But when the ministers came, and opening

the prison, found them not there, they returned

and told,

23Saying: The prison indeed we found shut

with all diligence, and the keepers standing be-

fore the doors; but opening it, we found no man

within.

24Now when the ocer of the temple and

the chief priests heard these words, they were

in doubt concerning them, what would come to

pass.

25But one came and told them: Behold, the

men whom you put in prison are in the temple

standing, and teaching the people.

26Then went the ocer with the ministers,

and brought them without violence; for they

feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

27And when they had brought them, theyThe Acts of the Apostles 1415

set them before the council. And the high priest

asked them,

28Saying: Commanding we commanded you,

that you should not teach in this name; and be-

hold, you have lled Jerusalem with your doc-

trine, and you have a mind to bring the blood of

this man upon us.

29But Peter and the apostles answering, said:

We ought to obey God, rather than men.

30The God of our fathers hath raised up Je-

sus, whom you put to death, hanging him upon

a tree.

31Him hath God exalted with his right hand,

to be Prince and Saviour, to give repentance to

Israel, and remission of sins.

32And we are witnesses of these things and

the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to all

that obey him.

33When they had heard these things, they

were cut to the heart, and they thought to put

them to death.

34But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee,

named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, respected

by all the people, commanded the men to be put

forth a little while.

35And he said to them: Ye men of Israel,

take heed to yourselves what you intend to do,

as touching these men.

36For before these days rose up Theodas, af-

rming himself to be somebody, to whom a num-

ber of men, about four hundred, joined them-

selves: who was slain; and all that believed him

were scattered, and brought to nothing.

37After this man, rose up Judas of Galilee,

in the days of the enrolling, and drew away the

people after him: he also perished; and all, even

as many as consented to him, were dispersed.

38And now, therefore, I say to you, refrain

from these men, and let them alone; for if this

council or this work be of men, it will come tonought;

39But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow

it, lest perhaps you be found even to ght against

God. And they consented to him.

40And calling in the apostles, after they had

scourged them, they charged them that they

should not speak at all in the name of Jesus;

and they dismissed them.

41And they indeed went from the presence of

the council, rejoicing that they were accounted

worthy to suer reproach for the name of Jesus.

42And every day they ceased not in the

temple, and from house to house, to teach and

preach Christ Jesus.

Chapter 6

And in those days, the number of the disciples in-

creasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks

against the Hebrews, for that their widows were

neglected in the daily ministration.

2Then the twelve calling together the multi-

tude of the disciples, said: It is not reason that

we should leave the word of God, and serve ta-

bles.

3Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you

seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy

Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over

this business.

4But we will give ourselves continually to

prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

5And the saying was liked by all the mul-

titude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of

faith, and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and

Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Par-

menas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.

6These they set before the apostles; and they

praying, imposed hands upon them.

7And the word of the Lord increased; and1416 The Acts of the Apostles

the number of the disciples was multiplied in

Jerusalem exceedingly: a great multitude also

of the priests obeyed the faith.

8And Stephen, full of grace and fortitude, did

great wonders and signs among the people.

9Now there arose some of that which is called

the synagogue of the Libertines, and of the Cyre-

nians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them that

were of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

10And they were not able to resist the wis-

dom and the spirit that spoke.

11Then they suborned men to say, they had

heard him speak words of blasphemy against

Moses and against God.

12And they stirred up the people, and the

ancients, and the scribes; and running together,

they took him, and brought him to the council.

13And they set up false witnesses, who said:

This man ceaseth not to speak words against the

holy place and the law.

14For we have heard him say, that this Je-

sus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and

shall change the traditions which Moses deliv-

ered unto us.

15And all that sat in the council, looking on

him, saw his face as if it had been the face of an

angel.

Chapter 7

Then the high priest said: Are these things so?

2Who said: Ye men, brethren, and fathers,

hear. The God of glory appeared to our father

Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before

he dwelt in Charan.

3And said to him: Go forth out of thy coun-

try, and from thy kindred, and come into the

land which I shall shew thee.

4Then he went out of the land of theChaldeans, and dwelt in Charan. And from

thence, after his father was dead, he removed

him into this land, wherein you now dwell.

5And he gave him no inheritance in it; no,

not the pace of a foot: but he promised to give

it him in possession, and to his seed after him,

when as yet he had no child.

6And God said to him: That his seed should

sojourn in a strange country, and that they

should bring them under bondage, and treat

them evil four hundred years.

7And the nation which they shall serve will I

judge, said the Lord; and after these things they

shall go out, and shall serve me in this place.

8And he gave him the covenant of circum-

cision, and so he begot Isaac, and circumcised

him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and

Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

9And the patriarchs, through envy, sold

Joseph into Egypt; and God was with him,

10And delivered him out of all his tribula-

tions: and he gave him favour and wisdom in

the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt; and he

appointed him governor over Egypt, and over all

his house.

11Now there came a famine upon all Egypt

and Chanaan, and great tribulation; and our fa-

thers found no food.

12But when Jacob had heard that there was

corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers rst:

13And at the second time, Joseph was known

by his brethren, and his kindred was made

known to Pharao.

14And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob,

his father, and all his kindred, seventy-ve souls.

15So Jacob went down into Egypt; and he

died, and our fathers.

16And they were translated into Sichem, and

were laid in the sepulchre, that Abraham boughtThe Acts of the Apostles 1417

for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, the son

of Sichem.

17And when the time of the promise drew

near, which God had promised to Abraham, the

people increased, and were multiplied in Egypt,

18Till another king arose in Egypt, who knew

not Joseph.

19This same dealing craftily with our race, af-

icted our fathers, that they should expose their

children, to the end they might not be kept alive.

20At the same time was Moses born, and he

was acceptable to God: who was nourished three

months in his father's house.

21And when he was exposed, Pharao's

daughter took him up, and nourished him for

her own son.

22And Moses was instructed in all the wis-

dom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his

words and in his deeds.

23And when he was full forty years old, it

came into his heart to visit his brethren, the chil-

dren of Israel.

24And when he had seen one of them suer

wrong, he defended him; and striking the Egyp-

tian, he avenged him who suered the injury.

25And he thought that his brethren under-

stood that God by his hand would save them;

but they understood it not.

26And the day following, he shewed himself

to them when they were at strife; and would have

reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are

brethren; why hurt you one another?

27But he that did the injury to his neighbour

thrust him away, saying: Who hath appointed

thee prince and judge over us?

28What, wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yes-

terday kill the Egyptian?

29And Moses

ed upon this word, and was a

stranger in the land of Madian, where he begot

two sons.30And when forty years were expired, there

appeared to him in the desert of mount Sina, an

angel in a

ame of re in a bush.

31And Moses seeing it, wondered at the sight.

And as he drew near to view it, the voice of the

Lord came unto him, saying:

32I am the God of thy fathers; the God of

Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Ja-

cob. And Moses being terried, durst not be-

hold.

33And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes

from thy feet, for the place wherein thou stand-

est, is holy ground.

34Seeing I have seen the aiction of my peo-

ple which is in Egypt, and I have heard their

groaning, and am come down to deliver them.

And now come, and I will send thee into Egypt.

35This Moses, whom they refused, saying:

Who hath appointed thee prince and judge? him

God sent to be prince and redeemer by the hand

of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

36He brought them out, doing wonders and

signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea,

and in the desert forty years.

37This is that Moses who said to the children

of Israel: A prophet shall God raise up to you

of your own brethren, as myself: him shall you

hear.

38This is he that was in the church in the

wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on

mount Sina, and with our fathers; who received

the words of life to give unto us.

39Whom our fathers would not obey; but

thrust him away, and in their hearts turned back

into Egypt,

40Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before

us. For as for this Moses, who brought us out of

the land of Egypt, we know not what is become

of him.

41And they made a calf in those days, and1418 The Acts of the Apostles

oered sacrices to the idol, and rejoiced in the

works of their own hands.

42And God turned, and gave them up to

serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the

books of the prophets: Did you oer victims and

sacrices to me for forty years, in the desert, O

house of Israel?
43And you took unto you the tabernacle of

Moloch, and the star of your god Rempham, g-

ures which you made to adore them. And I will

carry you away beyond Babylon.

44The tabernacle of the testimony was with

our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for

them, speaking to Moses, that he should make

it according to the form which he had seen.

45Which also our fathers receiving, brought

in with Jesus, into the possession of the Gen-

tiles, whom God drove out before the face of our

fathers, unto the days of David.

46Who found grace before God, and desired

to nd a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

47But Solomon built him a house.

48Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses

made by hands, as the prophet saith:

49Heaven is my throne, and the earth my

footstool. What house will you build me? saith

the Lord; or what is the place of my resting?

50Hath not my hand made all these things?

51You stinecked and uncircumcised in heart

and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as

your fathers did, so do you also.

52Which of the prophets have not your fa-

thers persecuted? And they have slain them who

foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom

you have been now the betrayers and murderers:

53Who have received the law by the disposi-

tion of angels, and have not kept it.

54Now hearing these things, they were cut to

the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at

him.55But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, look-

ing up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of

God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of

God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens

opened, and the Son of man standing on the right

hand of God.

56And they crying out with a loud voice,

stopped their ears, and with one accord ran vio-

lently upon him.

57And casting him forth without the city,

they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down

their garments at the feet of a young man, whose

name was Saul.

58And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and

saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

59And falling on his knees, he cried with a

loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their

charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep

in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his

death.
Chapter 8

And at that time there was raised a great

persecution against the church which was at

Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed through

the countries of Judea, and Samaria, except the

apostles.

2And devout men took order for Stephen's

funeral, and made great mourning over him.

3But Saul made havock of the church, enter-

ing in from house to house, and dragging away

men and women, committed them to prison.

4They therefore that were dispersed, went

about preaching the word of God.

5And Philip going down to the city of

Samaria, preached Christ unto them.

6And the people with one accord were atten-

tive to those things which were said by Philip,The Acts of the Apostles 1419

hearing, and seeing the miracles which he did.

7For many of them who had unclean spirits,

crying with a loud voice, went out.

8And many, taken with the palsy, and that

were lame, were healed.

9There was therefore great joy in that city.

Now there was a certain man named Simon, who

before had been a magician in that city, seducing

the people of Samaria, giving out that he was

some great one:

10To whom they all gave ear, from the least

to the greatest, saying: This man is the power

of God, which is called great.

11And they were attentive to him, because,

for a long time, he had bewitched them with his

magical practices.

12But when they had believed Philip preach-

ing of the kingdom of God, in the name of Je-

sus Christ, they were baptized, both men and

women.

13Then Simon himself believed also; and be-

ing baptized, he adhered to Philip. And being

astonished, wondered to see the signs and ex-

ceeding great miracles which were done.

14Now when the apostles, who were in

Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received

the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and

John.

15Who, when they were come, prayed for

them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost.

16For he was not as yet come upon any of

them; but they were only baptized in the name

of the Lord Jesus.

17Then they laid their hands upon them, and

they received the Holy Ghost.

18And when Simon saw, that by the imposi-

tion of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost

was given, he oered them money,

19Saying: Give me also this power, that on

whomsoever I shall lay my hands, he may receivethe Holy Ghost. But Peter said to him:

20Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with

thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of

God may be purchased with money.

21Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter.

For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

22Do penance therefore for this thy wicked-

ness; and pray to God, that perhaps this thought

of thy heart may be forgiven thee.

23For I see thou art in the gall of bitterness,

and in the bonds of iniquity.

24Then Simon answering, said: Pray you for

me to the Lord, that none of these things which

you have spoken may come upon me.

25And they indeed having testied and

preached the word of the Lord, returned to

Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many

countries of the Samaritans.

26Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,

saying: Arise, go towards the south, to the way

that goeth down from Jerusalem into Gaza: this

is desert.
27And rising up, he went. And behold a man

of Ethiopia, an eunuch, of great authority un-

der Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who

had charge over all her treasures, had come to

Jerusalem to adore.

28And he was returning, sitting in this char-

iot, and reading Isaias the prophet.

29And the Spirit said to Philip: Go near, and

join thyself to this chariot.

30And Philip running thither, heard him

reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Think-

est thou that thou understandest what thou

readest?

31Who said: And how can I, unless some man

shew me? And he desired Philip that he would

come up and sit with him.

32And the place of the scripture which he was

reading was this: He was led as a sheep to the1420 The Acts of the Apostles

slaughter; and like a lamb without voice before

his shearer, so openeth he not his mouth.

33In humility his judgment was taken away.

His generation who shall declare, for his life shall

be taken from the earth?

34And the eunuch answering Philip, said: I

beseech thee, of whom doth the prophet speak

this? of himself, or of some other man?

35Then Philip, opening his mouth, and be-

ginning at this scripture, preached unto him Je-

sus.

36And as they went on their way, they came

to a certain water; and the eunuch said: See,

here is water: what doth hinder me from being

baptized?

37And Philip said: If thou believest with all

thy heart, thou mayest. And he answering, said:

I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

38And he commanded the chariot to stand

still; and they went down into the water, both

Philip and the eunuch: and he baptized him.

39And when they were come up out of the

water, the Spirit of the Lord took away Philip;

and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went

on his way rejoicing.

40But Philip was found in Azotus; and pass-

ing through, he preached the gospel to all the

cities, till he came to Caesarea.

Chapter 9

And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and

slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went

to the high priest,

2And asked of him letters to Damascus, to

the synagogues: that if he found any men and

wemen of this way, he might bring them bound

to Jerusalem.

3And as he went on his journey, it came topass that he drew nigh to Damascus; and sud-

denly a light from heaven shined round about

him.

4And falling on the ground, he heard a voice

saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou

me?

5Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I

am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for

thee to kick against the goad.

6And he trembling and astonished, said:

Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?

7And the Lord said to him: Arise, and go into

the city, and there it shall be told thee what thou

must do. Now the men who went in company

with him, stood amazed, hearing indeed a voice,

but seeing no man.

8And Saul arose from the ground; and when

his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. But they

leading him by the hands, brought him to Dam-

ascus.

9And he was there three days, without sight,

and he did neither eat nor drink.

10Now there was a certain disciple at Damas-

cus, named Ananias. And the Lord said to him

in a vision: Ananias. And he said: Behold I am

here, Lord.

11And the Lord said to him: Arise, and go

into the street that is called Stait, and seek in

the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus.

For behold he prayeth.

12(And he saw a man named Ananias com-

ing in, and putting his hands upon him, that he

might receive his sight.)

13But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard

by many of this man, how much evil he hath

done to thy saints in Jerusalem.

14And here he hath authority from the chief

priests to bind all that invoke thy name.

15And the Lord said to him: Go thy way; for

this man is to me a vessel of election, to carryThe Acts of the Apostles 1421

my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the

children of Israel.

16For I will shew him how great things he

must suer for my name's sake.

17And Ananias went his way, and entered

into the house. And laying his hands upon him,

he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent

me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou

camest; that thou mayest receive thy sight, and

be lled with the Holy Ghost.

18And immediately there fell from his eyes

as it were scales, and he received his sight; and

rising up, he was baptized.

19And when he had taken meat, he was

strengthened. And he was with the disciples that

were at Damascus, for some days.

20And immediately he preached Jesus in the

synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

21And all that heard him, were astonished,

and said: Is not this he who persecuted in

Jerusalem those that called upon this name: and

came hither for that intent, that he might carry

them bound to the chief priests?

22But Saul increased much more in strength,

and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damas-

cus, arming that this is the Christ.

23And when many days were passed, the

Jews consulted together to kill him.

24But their laying in wait was made known

to Saul. And they watched the gates also day

and night, that they might kill him.

25But the disciples taking him in the night,

conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down

in a basket.

26And when he was come into Jerusalem, he

essayed to join himself to the disciples; and they

all were afraid of him, not believing that he was

a disciple.

27But Barnabas took him, and brought him

to the apostles, and told them how he had seenthe Lord, and that he had spoken to him; and

how in Damascus he had dealt condently in the

name of Jesus.

28And he was with them coming in and going

out in Jerusalem, and dealing condently in the

name of the Lord.

29He spoke also to the Gentiles, and disputed

with the Greeks; but they sought to kill him.

30Which when the brethren had known, they

brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him

away to Tarsus.

31Now the church had peace throughout all

Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria; and was ed-

ied, walking in the fear of the Lord, and was

lled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost.

32And it came to pass that Peter, as he

passed through, visiting all, came to the saints

who dwelt at Lydda.

33And he found there a certain man named

Eneas, who had kept his bed for eight years, who

was ill of the palsy.

34And Peter said to him: Eneas, the Lord

Jesus Christ healeth thee: arise, and make thy

bed. And immediately he arose.

35And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron,

saw him: who were converted to the Lord.

36And in Joppe there was a certain disciple

named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called

Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and

almsdeeds which she did.

37And it came to pass in those days that

she was sick, and died. Whom when they had

washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

38And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to

Joppe, the disciples hearing that Peter was there,

sent unto him two men, desiring him that he

would not be slack to come unto them.

39And Peter rising up, went with them. And

when he was come, they brought him into the

upper chamber. And all the widows stood about1422 The Acts of the Apostles

him weeping, and shewing him the coats and gar-

ments which Dorcas made them.

40And they all being put forth, Peter kneel-

ing down prayed, and turning to the body, he

said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes;

and seeing Peter, she sat up.

41And giving her his hand, he lifted her up.

And when he had called the saints and the wid-

ows, he presented her alive.

42And it was made known throughout all

Joppe; and many believed in the Lord.

43And it came to pass, that he abode many

days in Joppe, with one Simon a tanner.

Chapter 10

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, named

Cornelius, a centurion of that which is called the

Italian band;

2A religious man, and fearing God with all

his house, giving much alms to the people, and

always praying to God.

3This man saw in a vision manifestly, about

the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God com-

ing in unto him, and saying to him: Cornelius.

4And he, beholding him, being seized with

fear, said: What is it, Lord? And he said to

him: Thy prayers and thy alms are ascended for

a memorial in the sight of God.

5And now send men to Joppe, and call hither

one Simon, who is surnamed Peter:

6He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose

house is by the sea side. He will tell thee what

thou must do.

7And when the angel who spoke to him was

departed, he called two of his household servants,

and a soldier who feared the Lord, of them that

were under him.8To whom when he had related all, he sent

them to Joppe.

9And on the next day, whilst they were going

on their journey, and drawing nigh to the city,

Peter went up to the higher parts of the house

to pray, about the sixth hour.

10And being hungry, he was desirous to taste

somewhat. And as they were preparing, there

came upon him an ecstasy of mind.

11And he saw the heaven opened, and a cer-

tain vessel descending, as it were a great linen

sheet let down by the four corners from heaven

to the earth:

12Wherein were all manner of fourfooted

beasts, and creeping things of the earth, and

fowls of the air.

13And there came a voice to him: Arise, Pe-

ter; kill and eat.

14But Peter said: Far be it from me; for I

never did eat any thing that is common and un-

clean.

15And the voice spoke to him again the sec-

ond time: That which God hath cleansed, do not

thou call common.

16And this was done thrice; and presently

the vessel was taken up into heaven.

17Now, whilst Peter was doubting within

himself, what the vision that he had seen should

mean, behold the men who were sent from Cor-

nelius, inquiring for Simon's house, stood at the

gate.

18And when they had called, they asked,

if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, were lodged

there.

19And as Peter was thinking of the vision,

the Spirit said to him: Behold three men seek

thee.

20Arise, therefore, get thee down and go with

them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.The Acts of the Apostles 1423

21Then Peter, going down to the men, said:

Behold, I am he whom you seek; what is the

cause for which you are come?

22Who said: Cornelius, a centurion, a just

man, and one that feareth God, and having good

testimony from all the nation of the Jews, re-

ceived an answer of an holy angel, to send for

thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

23Then bringing them in, he lodged them.

And the day following he arose, and went with

them: and some of the brethren from Joppe ac-

companied him.

24And the morrow after, he entered into Cae-

sarea. And Cornelius waited for them, having

called together his kinsmen and special friends.

25And it came to pass, that when Peter was

come in, Cornelius came to meet him, Cornelius

came to meet him, and falling at his feet adored.

26But Peter lifted him up, saying: Arise, I

myself also am a man.

27And talking with him, he went in, and

found many that were come together.

28And he said to them: You know how abom-

inable it is for a man that is a Jew, to keep com-

pany or to come unto one of another nation: but

God hath shewed to me, to call no man common

or unclean.

29For which cause, making no doubt, I came

when I was sent for. I ask, therefore, for what

cause you have sent for me?

30And Cornelius said: Four days ago, unto

this hour, I was praying in my house, at the ninth

hour, and behold a man stood before me in white

apparel, and said:

31Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thy

alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.

32Send therefore to Joppe, and call hither

Simon, who is surnamed Peter: he lodgeth in

the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea side.

33Immediately therefore I sent to thee: andthou hast done well in coming. Now therefore

all we are present in thy sight, to hear all things

whatsoever are commanded thee by the Lord.

34And Peter opening his mouth, said: In very

deed I perceive, that God is not a respecter of

persons.

35But in every nation, he that feareth him,

and worketh justice, is acceptable to him.

36God sent the word to the children of Israel,

preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of

all.)

37You know the word which hath been pub-

lished through all Judea: for it began from

Galilee, after the baptism which John preached,

38Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him

with the Holy Ghost, and with power, who went

about doing good, and healing all that were op-

pressed by the devil, for God was with him.

39And we are witnesses of all things that he

did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem,

whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.

40Him God raised up the third day, and gave

him to be made manifest,

41Not to all the people, but to witnesses pre-

ordained by God, even to us, who did eat and

drink with him after he arose again from the

dead;

42And he commanded us to preach to the

people, and to testify that it is he who was ap-

pointed by God, to be judge of the living and of

the dead.

43To him all the prophets give testimony,

that by his name all receive remission of sins,

who believe in him.

44While Peter was yet speaking these words,

the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the

word.

45And the faithful of the circumcision, who

came with Peter, were astonished, for that the1424 The Acts of the Apostles

grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon

the Gentiles also.

46For they heard them speaking with

tongues, and magnifying God.

47Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid

water, that these should not be baptized, who

have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we?

48And he commanded them to be baptized

in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they

desired him to tarry with them some days.

Chapter 11

And the apostles and brethren, who were in

Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received

the word of God.

2And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem,

they that were of the circumcision contended

with him,

3Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncir-

cumcised, and didst eat with them?

4But Peter began and declared to them the

matter in order, saying:

5I was in the city of Joppe praying, and I

saw in an ecstasy of mind a vision, a certain

vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let

down from heaven by four corners, and it came

even unto me.

6Into which looking, I considered, and saw

fourfooted creatures of the earth, and beasts,

and creeping things, and fowls of the air:

7And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise,

Peter; kill and eat.

8And I said: Not so, Lord; for nothing

common or unclean hath ever entered into my

mouth.

9And the voice answered again from heaven:

What God hath made clean, do not thou call

common.10And this was done three times: and all

were taken up again into heaven.

11And behold, immediately there were three

men come to the house wherein I was, sent to

me from Caesarea.

12And the Spirit said to me, that I should

go with them, nothing doubting. And these six

brethren went with me also: and we entered into

the man's house.

13And he told us how he had seen an angel in

his house, standing, and saying to him: Send to

Joppe, and call hither Simon, who is surnamed

Peter,

14Who shall speak to thee words, whereby

thou shalt be saved, and all thy house.

15And when I had begun to speak, the Holy

Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the

beginning.

16And I remembered the word of the Lord,

how that he said: John indeed baptized with

water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy

Ghost.

17If then God gave them the same grace, as

to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ;

who was I, that could withstand God?

18Having heard these things, they held their

peace, and gloried God, saying: God then hath

also to the Gentiles given repentance unto life.

19Now they who had been dispersed by the

persecution that arose on occasion of Stephen,

went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and

Antioch, speaking the word to none, but to the

Jews only.

20But some of them were men of Cyprus and

Cyrene, who, when they were entered into An-

tioch, spoke also to the Greeks, preaching the

Lord Jesus.

21And the hand of the Lord was with them:

and a great number believing, were converted to

the Lord.The Acts of the Apostles 1425

22And the tidings came to the ears of the

church that was at Jerusalem, touching these

things: and they sent Barnabas as far as An-

tioch.

23Who, when he was come, and had seen the

grace of God, rejoiced: and he exhorted them all

with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord.

24For he was a good man, and full of the Holy

Ghost and of faith. And a great multitude was

added to the Lord.

25And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul:

whom, when he had found, he brought to Anti-

och.

26And they conversed there in the church a

whole year; and they taught a great multitude,

so that at Antioch the disciples were rst named

Christians.

27And in these days there came prophets

from Jerusalem to Antioch:

28And one of them named Agabus, rising up,

signied by the Spirit, that there should be a

great famine over the whole world, which came

to pass under Claudius.

29And the disciples, every man according

to his ability, purposed to send relief to the

brethren who dwelt in Judea:

30Which also they did, sending it to the an-

cients, by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Chapter 12

And at the same time, Herod the king stretched

forth his hands, to aict some of the church.

2And he killed James, the brother of John,

with the sword.

3And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he pro-

ceeded to take up Peter also. Now it was in the

days of the Azymes.

4And when he had apprehended him, he casthim into prison, delivering him to four les of

soldiers to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to

bring him forth to the people.

5Peter therefore was kept in prison. But

prayer was made without ceasing by the church

unto God for him.

6And when Herod would have brought him

forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between

two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the

keepers before the door kept the prison.

7And behold an angel of the Lord stood by

him: and a light shined in the room: and he

striking Peter on the side, raised him up, saying:

Arise quickly. And the chains fell o from his

hands.

8And the angel said to him: Gird thyself, and

put on thy sandals. And he did so. And he said

to him: Cast thy garment about thee, and follow

me.

9And going out, he followed him, and he knew

not that it was true which was done by the angel:

but thought he saw a vision.

10And passing through the rst and the sec-

ond ward, they came to the iron gate that lead-

eth to the city, which of itself opened to them.

And going out, they passed on through one

street: and immediately the angel departed from

him.

11And Peter coming to himself, said: Now I

know in very deed, that the Lord hath sent his

angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of

Herod, and from all the expectation of the people

of the Jews.

12And considering, he came to the house of

Mary the mother of John, who was surnamed

Mark, where many were gathered together and

praying.

13And when he knocked at the door of the

gate, a damsel came to hearken, whose name was

Rhode.1426 The Acts of the Apostles

14And as soon as she knew Peter's voice, she

opened not the gate for joy, but running in she

told that Peter stood before the gate.

15But they said to her: Thou art mad. But

she armed that it was so. Then said they: It

is his angel.

16But Peter continued knocking. And when

they had opened, they saw him, and were aston-

ished.

17But he beckoning to them with his hand to

hold their peace, told how the Lord had brought

him out of prison, and he said: Tell these things

to James, and to the brethren. And going out,

he went into another place.

18Now when day was come, there was no

small stir among the soldiers, what was become

of Peter.
19And when Herod had sought for him, and

found him not; having examined the keepers, he

commanded they should be put to death; and

going down from Judea to Caesarea, he abode

there.

20And he was angry with the Tyrians and

the Sidonians. But they with one accord came

to him, and having gained Blastus, who was the

king's chamberlain, they desired peace, because

their countries were nourished by him.

21And upon a day appointed, Herod being

arrayed in kingly apparel, sat in the judgment

seat, and made an oration to them.

22And the people made acclamation, saying:

It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

23And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck

him, because he had not given the honour to

God: and being eaten up by worms, he gave up

the ghost.

24But the word of the Lord increased and

multiplied.

25And Barnabas and Saul returned from

Jerusalem, having fullled their ministry, takingwith them John, who was surnamed Mark.

Chapter 13

Now there were in the church which was at An-

tioch, prophets and doctors, among whom was

Barnabas, and Simon who was called Niger, and

Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen, who was the

foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

2And as they were ministering to the Lord,

and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: Sepa-

rate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work where-

unto I have taken them.

3Then they, fasting and praying, and impos-

ing their hands upon them, sent them away.

4So they being sent by the Holy Ghost, went

to Seleucia: and from thence they sailed to

Cyprus.

5And when they were come to Salamina, they

preached the word of God in the synagogues of

the Jews. And they had John also in the min-

istry.

6And when they had gone through the whole

island, as far as Paphos, they found a certain

man, a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose

name was Bar-jesu:

7Who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus,

a prudent man. He sending for Barnabas and

Saul, desired to hear the word of God.

8But Elymas the magician (for so his name

is interpreted) withstood them, seeking to turn

away the proconsul from the faith.

9Then Saul, otherwise Paul, lled with the

Holy Ghost, looking upon him,

10Said: O full of all guile, and of all deceit,

child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceas-

est not to pervert the right ways of the Lord.

11And now behold, the hand of the Lord is

upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeingThe Acts of the Apostles 1427

the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a

mist and darkness upon him, and going about,

he sought some one to lead him by the hand.

12Then the proconsul, when he had seen

what was done, believed, admiring at the doc-

trine of the Lord.

13Now when Paul and they that were with

him had sailed from Paphos, they came to Perge

in Pamphylia. And John departing from them,

returned to Jerusalem.

14But they passing through Perge, came to

Antioch in Pisidia: and entering into the syna-

gogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.

15And after the reading of the law and the

prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to

them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have

any word of exhortation to make to the people,

speak.

16Then Paul rising up, and with his hand

bespeaking silence, said: Ye men of Israel, and

you that fear God, give ear.

17The God of the people of Israel chose our

fathers, and exalted the people when they were

sojourners in the land of Egypt, and with an high

arm brought them out from thence,

18And for the space of forty years endured

their manners in the desert.

19And destroying seven nations in the land

of Chanaan, divided their land among them, by

lot,

20As it were, after four hundred and fty

years: and after these things, he gave unto them

judges, until Samuel the prophet.

21And after that they desired a king: and

God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the

tribe of Benjamin, forty years.

22And when he had removed him, he raised

them up David to be king: to whom giving tes-

timony, he said: I have found David, the son of

Jesse, a man according to my own heart, whoshall do all my wills.

23Of this man's seed God according to his

promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Je-

sus:

24John rst preaching, before his coming, the

baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.

25And when John was fullling his course,

he said: I am not he, whom you think me to be:

but behold, there cometh one after me, whose

shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

26Men, brethren, children of the stock of

Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God,

to you the word of this salvation is sent.

27For they that inhabited Jerusalem, and the

rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices

of the prophets, which are read every sabbath,

judging him have fullled them.

28And nding no cause of death in him, they

desired of Pilate, that they might kill him.

29And when they had fullled all things that

were written of him, taking him down from the

tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.

30But God raised him up from the dead the

third day:

31Who was seen for many days, by them who

came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem,

who to this present are his witnesses to the peo-

ple.

32And we declare unto you, that the promise

which was made to our fathers,

33This same God hath fullled to our chil-

dren, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm

also is written: Thou art my Son, this day have

I begotten thee.

34And to shew that he raised him up from the

dead, not to return now any more to corruption,

he said thus: I will give you the holy things of

David faithful.

35And therefore, in another place also, he

saith: Thou shalt not suer thy holy one to see1428 The Acts of the Apostles

corruption.

36For David, when he had served in his gen-

eration, according to the will of God, slept: and

was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption.

37But he whom God hath raised from the

dead, saw no corruption.

38Be it known therefore to you, men,

brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is

preached to you: and from all the things, from

which you could not be justied by the law of

Moses.

39In him every one that believeth, is justied.

40Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you

which is spoken in the prophets:

41Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and per-

ish: for I work a work in your days, a work which

you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

42And as they went out, they desired them,

that on the next sabbath, they would speak unto

them these words.

43And when the synagogue was broken up,

many of the Jews, and of the strangers who

served God, followed Paul and Barnabas: who

speaking to them, persuaded them to continue

in the grace of God.

44But the next sabbath day, the whole city

almost came together, to hear the word of God.

45And the Jews seeing the multitudes, were

lled with envy, and contradicted those things

which were said by Paul, blaspheming.

46Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To

you it behoved us rst to speak the word of God:

but because you reject it, and judge yourselves

unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the

Gentiles.

47For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have

set thee to be the light of the Gentiles; that thou

mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of

the earth.48And the Gentiles hearing it, were glad, and

gloried the word of the Lord: and as many as

were ordained to life everlasting, believed.

49And the word of the Lord was published

throughout the whole country.

50But the Jews stirred up religious and hon-

ourable women, and the chief men of the city,

and raised persecution against Paul and Barn-

abas: and cast them out of their coasts.

51But they, shaking o the dust of their feet

against them, came to Iconium.

52And the disciples were lled with joy and

with the Holy Ghost.

Chapter 14

And it came to pass in Iconium, that they en-

tered together into the synagogue of the Jews,

and so spoke that a very great multitude both of

the Jews and of the Greeks did believe.

2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and

incensed the minds of the Gentiles against the

brethren.

3A long time therefore they abode there, deal-

ing condently in the Lord, who gave testimony

to the word of his grace, granting signs and won-

ders to be done by their hands.

4And the multitude of the city was divided;

and some of them indeed held with the Jews, but

some with the apostles.

5And when there was an assault made by the

Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to use

them contumeliously, and to stone them:

6They understanding it,

ed to Lystra, and

Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the whole coun-

try round about, and were there preaching the

gospel.

7And there sat a certain man at Lystra, im-

potent in his feet, a cripple from his mother'sThe Acts of the Apostles 1429

womb, who never had walked.

8This same heard Paul speaking. Who look-

ing upon him, and seeing that he had faith to be

healed,

9Said with a loud voice: Stand upright on thy

feet. And he leaped up, and walked.

10And when the multitudes had seen what

Paul had done, they lifted up their voice in the

Lycaonian tongue, saying: The gods are come

down to us in the likeness of men;

11And they called Barnabas, Jupiter: but

Paul, Mercury; because he was chief speaker.

12The priest also of Jupiter that was before

the city, bringing oxen and garlands before the

gate, would have oered sacrice with the peo-

ple.

13Which, when the apostles Barnabas and

Paul had heard, rending their clothes, they

leaped out among the people, crying,

14And saying: Ye men, why do ye these

things? We also are mortals, men like unto you,

preaching to you to be converted from these vain

things, to the living God, who made the heaven,

and the earth, and the sea, and all things that

are in them:

15Who in times past suered all nations to

walk in their own ways.

16Nevertheless he left not himself without

testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains

and fruitful seasons, lling our hearts with food

and gladness.

17And speaking these things, they scarce re-

strained the people from sacricing to them.

18Now there came thither certain Jews from

Antioch, and Iconium: and persuading the mul-

titude, and stoning Paul, drew him out of the

city, thinking him to be dead.

19But as the disciples stood round about him,

he rose up and entered into the city, and the next

day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.20And when they had preached the gospel to

that city, and had taught many, they returned

again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch:

21Conrming the souls of the disciples, and

exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that

through many tribulations we must enter into

the kingdom of God.

22And when they had ordained to them

priests in every church, and had prayed with fast-

ing, they commended them to the Lord, in whom

they believed.

23And passing through Pisidia, they came

into Pamphylia.

24And having spoken the word of the Lord

in Perge, they went down into Attalia:

25And thence they sailed to Antioch, from

whence they had been delivered to the grace of

God, unto the work which they accomplished.

26And when they were come, and had as-

sembled the church, they related what great

things God had done with them, and how he

had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

27And they abode no small time with the

disciples.

Chapter 15

And some coming down from Judea, taught the

brethren: That except you be circumcised after

the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved.

2And when Paul and Barnabas had no small

contest with them, they determined that Paul

and Barnabas, and certain others of the other

side, should go up to the apostles and priests to

Jerusalem about this question.

3They therefore being brought on their way

by the church, passed through Phenice, and

Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles;

and they caused great joy to all the brethren.1430 The Acts of the Apostles

4And when they were come to Jerusalem,

they were received by the church, and by the

apostles and ancients, declaring how great things

God had done with them.

5But there arose some of the sect of the Phar-

isees that believed, saying: They must be cir-

cumcised, and be commanded to observe the law

of Moses.

6And the apostles and ancients assembled to

consider of this matter.

7And when there had been much disputing,

Peter, rising up, said to them: Men, brethren,

you know, that in former days God made choice

among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should

hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

8And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave tes-

timony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well

as to us;

9And put no dierence between us and them,

purifying their hearts by faith.

10Now therefore, why tempt you God to put

a yoke upon the necks of the disciples, which nei-

ther our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

11But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,

we believe to be saved, in like manner as they

also.

12And all the multitude held their peace; and

they heard Barnabas and Paul telling what great

signs and wonders God had wrought among the

Gentiles by them.

13And after they had held their peace, James

answered, saying: Men, brethren, hear me.

14Simon hath related how God rst visited

to take of the Gentiles a people to his name.

15And to this agree the words of the

prophets, as it is written:

16After these things I will return, and will

rebuild the tabernacle of David, which is fallen

down; and the ruins thereof I will rebuild, and I

will set it up:17That the residue of men may seek after the

Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is

invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.

18To the Lord was his own work known from

the beginning of the world.

19For which cause I judge that they, who

from among the Gentiles are converted to God,

are not to be disquieted.

20But that we write unto them, that they

refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols,

and from fornication, and from things strangled,

and from blood.

21For Moses of old time hath in every city

them that preach him in the synagogues, where

he is read every sabbath.

22Then it pleased the apostles and ancients,

with the whole church, to choose men of their

own company, and to send to Antioch, with

Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas, who was sur-

named Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the

brethren.

23Writing by their hands: The apostles and

ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gen-

tiles that are at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia,

greeting.

24Forasmuch as we have heard, that some go-

ing out from us have troubled you with words,

subverting your souls; to whom we gave no com-

mandment:

25It hath seemed good to us, being assembled

together, to choose out men, and to send them

unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and

Paul:

26Men that have given their lives for the

name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27We have sent therefore Judas and Silas,

who themselves also will, by word of mouth, tell

you the same things.

28For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost

and to us, to lay no further burden upon youThe Acts of the Apostles 1431

than these necessary things:

29That you abstain from things sacriced to

idols, and from blood, and from things strangled,

and from fornication; from which things keeping

yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.

30They therefore being dismissed, went down

to Antioch; and gathering together the multi-

tude, delivered the epistle.

31Which when they had read, they rejoiced

for the consolation.

32But Judas and Silas, being prophets also

themselves, with many words comforted the

brethren, and conrmed them.

33And after they had spent some time there,

they were let go with peace by the brethren, unto

them that had sent them.

34But it seemed good unto Silas to remain

there; and Judas alone departed to Jerusalem.

35And Paul and Barnabas continued at Anti-

och, teaching and preaching, with many others,

the word of the Lord.

36And after some days, Paul said to Barn-

abas: Let us return and visit our brethren in all

the cities wherein we have preached the word of

the Lord, to see how they do.

37And Barnabas would have taken with them

John also, that was surnamed Mark;

38But Paul desired that he (as having de-

parted from them out of Pamphylia, and not

gone with them to the work) might not be re-

ceived.

39And there arose a dissension, so that they

departed one from another; and Barnabas indeed

taking Mark, sailed to Cyprus.

40But Paul choosing Silas, departed, being

delivered by the brethren to the grace of God.

41And he went through Syria and Cilicia,

conrming the churches, commanding them to

keep the precepts of the apostles and the an-

cients.Chapter 16

And he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold,

there was a certain disciple there named Timo-

thy, the son of a Jewish woman that believed;

but his father was a Gentile.

2To this man the brethren that were in Lystra

and Iconium, gave a good testimony.

3Him Paul would have to go along with him:

and taking him he circumcised him, because of

the Jews who were in those places. For they all

knew that his father was a Gentile.

4And as they passed through the cities, they

delivered unto them the decrees for to keep, that

were decreed by the apostles and ancients who

were at Jerusalem.

5And the churches were conrmed in faith,

and increased in number daily.

6And when they had passed through Phrygia,

and the country of Galatia, they were forbidden

by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.

7And when they were come into Mysia, they

attempted to go into Bythynia, and the Spirit of

Jesus suered them not.

8And when they had passed through Mysia,

they went down to Troas.

9And a vision was shewed to Paul in the

night, which was a man of Macedonia standing

and beseeching him, and saying: Pass over into

Macedonia, and help us.

10And as soon as he had seen the vision, im-

mediately we sought to go into Macedonia, be-

ing assured that God had called us to preach the

gospel to them.

11And sailing from Troas, we came with a

straight course to Samothracia, and the day fol-

lowing to Neapolis;

12And from thence to Philippi, which is the

chief city of part of Macedonia, a colony. And we

were in this city some days conferring together.1432 The Acts of the Apostles

13And upon the sabbath day, we went forth

without the gate by a river side, where it seemed

that there was prayer; and sitting down, we

spoke to the women that were assembled.

14And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller

of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that wor-

shipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord

opened to attend to those things which were said

by Paul.

15And when she was baptized, and her house-

hold, she besought us, saying: If you have judged

me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my

house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

16And it came to pass, as we went to prayer,

a certain girl, having a pythonical spirit, met

us, who brought to her masters much gain by

divining.

17This same following Paul and us, cried out,

saying: These men are the servants of the most

high God, who preach unto you the way of sal-

vation.
18And this she did many days. But Paul

being grieved, turned, and said to the spirit: I

command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to

go out from her. And he went out the same hour.

19But her masters, seeing that the hope

of their gain was gone, apprehending Paul and

Silas, brought them into the marketplace to the

rulers.

20And presenting them to the magistrates,

they said: These men disturb our city, being

Jews;

21And preach a fashion which it is not lawful

for us to receive nor observe, being Romans.

22And the people ran together against them;

and the magistrates rending o their clothes,

commanded them to be beaten with rods.

23And when they had laid many stripes upon

them, they cast them into prison, charging the

gaoler to keep them diligently.24Who having received such a charge, thrust

them into the inner prison, and made their feet

fast in the stocks.

25And at midnight, Paul and Silas praying,

praised God. And they that were in prison,

heard them.

26And suddenly there was a great earth-

quake, so that the foundations of the prison were

shaken. And immediately all the doors were

opened, and the bands of all were loosed.

27And the keeper of the prison, awaking out

of his sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison

open, drawing his sword, would have killed him-

self, supposing that the prisoners had been

ed.

28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying:

Do thyself no harm, for we all are here.

29Then calling for a light, he went in, and

trembling, fell down at the feet of Paul and Silas.

30And bringing them out, he said: Masters,

what must I do, that I may be saved?

31But they said: Believe in the Lord Jesus,

and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

32And they preached the word of the Lord to

him and to all that were in his house.

33And he, taking them the same hour of the

night, washed their stripes, and himself was bap-

tized, and all his house immediately.

34And when he had brought them into his

own house, he laid the table for them, and re-

joiced with all his house, believing God.

35And when the day was come, the magis-

trates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men

go.
36And the keeper of the prison told these

words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to let

you go; now therefore depart, and go in peace.

37But Paul said to them: They have beaten

us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Ro-

mans, and have cast us into prison: and nowThe Acts of the Apostles 1433

do they thrust us out privately? Not so; but let

them come,

38And let us out themselves. And the ser-

jeants told these words to the magistrates. And

they were afraid, hearing that they were Ro-

mans.

39And coming, they besought them; and

bringing them out, they desired them to depart

out of the city.

40And they went out of the prison, and

entered into the house of Lydia; and having

seen the brethren, they comforted them, and de-

parted.

Chapter 17

And when they had passed through Amphipolis

and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where

there was a synagogue of the Jews.

2And Paul, according to his custom, went in

unto them; and for three sabbath days he rea-

soned with them out of the scriptures:

3Declaring and insinuating that the Christ

was to suer, and to rise again from the dead;

and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I preach to

you.

4And some of them believed, and were associ-

ated to Paul and Silas; and of those that served

God, and of the Gentiles a great multitude, and

of noble women not a few.

5But the Jews, moved with envy, and tak-

ing unto them some wicked men of the vulgar

sort, and making a tumult, set the city in an

uproar; and besetting Jason's house, sought to

bring them out unto the people.

6And not nding them, they drew Jason and

certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying:

They that set the city in an uproar, are come

hither also;7Whom Jason hath received; and these all do

contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that

there is another king, Jesus.

8And they stirred up the people, and the

rulers of the city hearing these things,

9And having taken satisfaction of Jason and

of the rest, they let them go.

10But the brethren immediately sent away

Paul and Silas by night unto Berea. Who, when

they were come thither, went into the synagogue

of the Jews.

11Now these were more noble than those in

Thessalonica, who received the word with all ea-

gerness, daily searching the scriptures, whether

these things were so.

12And many indeed of them believed, and

of honourable women that were Gentiles, and of

men not a few.

13And when the Jews of Thessalonica had

knowledge that the word of God was also

preached by Paul at Berea, they came thither

also, stirring up and troubling the multitude.

14And then immediately the brethren sent

away Paul, to go unto the sea; but Silas and

Timothy remained there.

15And they that conducted Paul, brought

him as far as Athens; and receiving a command-

ment from him to Silas and Timothy, that they

should come to him with all speed, they de-

parted.

16Now whilst Paul waited for them at

Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, seeing

the city wholly given to idolatry.

17He disputed, therefore, in the synagogue

with the Jews, and with them that served God,

and in the marketplace, every day with them

that were there.

18And certain philosophers of the Epicureans

and of the Stoics disputed with him; and some

said: What is it, that this word sower would say?1434 The Acts of the Apostles

But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of

new gods; because he preached to them Jesus

and the resurrection.

19And taking him, they brought him to the

Areopagus, saying: May we know what this new

doctrine is, which thou speakest of?

20For thou bringest in certain new things to

our ears. We would know therefore what these

things mean.

21(Now all the Athenians, and strangers that

were there, employed themselves in nothing else,

but either in telling or in hearing some new

thing.)

22But Paul standing in the midst of the Are-

opagus, said: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that

in all things you are too superstitious.

23For passing by, and seeing your idols, I

found an altar also, on which was written: To

the unknown God. What therefore you worship,

without knowing it, that I preach to you:

24God, who made the world, and all things

therein; he, being Lord of heaven and earth,

dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25Neither is he served with men's hands, as

though he needed any thing; seeing it is he who

giveth to all life, and breath, and all things:

26And hath made of one, all mankind, to

dwell upon the whole face of the earth, deter-

mining appointed times, and the limits of their

habitation.

27That they should seek God, if happily they

may feel after him or nd him, although he be

not far from every one of us:

28For in him we live, and move, and are; as

some also of your own poets said: For we are

also his ospring.

29Being therefore the ospring of God, we

must not suppose the divinity to be like unto

gold, or silver, or stone, the graving of art, and

device of man.30And God indeed having winked at the

times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men,

that all should every where do penance.

31Because he hath appointed a day wherein

he will judge the world in equity, by the man

whom he hath appointed; giving faith to all, by

raising him up from the dead.

32And when they had heard of the resurrec-

tion of the dead, some indeed mocked, but oth-

ers said: We will hear thee again concerning this

matter.

33So Paul went out from among them.

34But certain men adhering to him, did be-

lieve; among whom was also Dionysius, the Are-

opagite, and a woman named Damaris, and oth-

ers with them.

Chapter 18

After these things, departing from Athens, he

came to Corinth.

2And nding a certain Jew, named Aquila,

born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with

Priscilla his wife, (because that Claudius had

commanded all Jews to depart from Rome,) he

came to them.

3And because he was of the same trade, he

remained with them, and wrought; (now they

were tentmakers by trade.)

4And he reasoned in the synagogue every sab-

bath, bringing in the name of the Lord Jesus;

and he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

5And when Silas and Timothy were come

from Macedonia, Paul was earnest in preaching,

testifying to the Jews, that Jesus is the Christ.

6But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he

shook his garments, and said to them: Your

blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from

henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.The Acts of the Apostles 1435

7And departing thence, he entered into the

house of a certain man, named Titus Justus, one

that worshipped God, whose house was adjoin-

ing to the synagogue.

8And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, be-

lieved in the Lord, with all his house; and many

of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were

baptized.

9And the Lord said to Paul in the nights, by

a vision: Do not fear, but speak; and hold not

thy peace,

10Because I am with thee: and no man shall

set upon thee, to hurt thee; for I have much peo-

ple in this city.

11And he stayed there a year and six months,

teaching among them the word of God.

12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia,

the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul,

and brought him to the judgment seat,

13Saying: This man persuadeth men to wor-

ship God contrary to the law.

14And when Paul was beginning to open his

mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were some

matter of injustice, or an heinous deed, O Jews,

I should with reason bear with you.

15But if they be questions of word and names,

and of your law, look you to it: I will not be judge

of such things.

16And he drove them from the judgment seat.

17And all laying hold on Sosthenes, the ruler

of the synagogue, beat him before the judgment

seat; and Gallio cared for none of those things.

18But Paul, when he had stayed yet many

days, taking his leave of the brethren, sailed

thence into Syria (and with him Priscilla and

Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae: for

he had a vow.

19And he came to Ephesus, and left them

there. But he himself entering into the syna-

gogue, disputed with the Jews.20And when they desired him, that he would

tarry a longer time, he consented not;

21But taking his leave, and saying: I will

return to you again, God willing, he departed

from Ephesus.

22And going down to Caesarea, he went up to

Jerusalem, and saluted the church, and so came

down to Antioch.

23And after he had spent some time there,

he departed, and went through the country of

Galatia and Phrygia, in order, conrming all the

disciples.

24Now a certain Jew, named Apollo, born at

Alexandria, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus,

one mighty in the scriptures.

25This man was instructed in the way of the

Lord; and being fervent in spirit, spoke, and

taught diligently the things that are of Jesus,

knowing only the baptism of John.

26This man therefore began to speak boldly

in the synagogue. Whom when Priscilla and

Aquila had heard, they took him to them, and

expounded to him the way of the Lord more dili-

gently.

27And whereas he was desirous to go to

Achaia, the brethren exhorting, wrote to the dis-

ciples to receive him. Who, when he was come,

helped them much who had believed.

28For with much vigour he convinced the

Jews openly, shewing by the scriptures, that Je-

sus is the Christ.

Chapter 19

And it came to pass, while Apollo was at

Corinth, that Paul having passed through the

upper coasts, came to Ephesus, and found cer-

tain disciples.

2And he said to them: Have you received the1436 The Acts of the Apostles
Holy Ghost since ye believed? But they said to

him: We have not so much as heard whether

there be a Holy Ghost.

3And he said: In what then were you bap-

tized? Who said: In John's baptism.

4Then Paul said: John baptized the people

with the baptism of penance, saying: That they

should believe in him who was to come after him,

that is to say, in Jesus.

5Having heard these things, they were bap-

tized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

6And when Paul had imposed his hands on

them, the Holy Ghost came upon them, and they

spoke with tongues and prophesied.

7And all the men were about twelve.

8And entering into the synagogue, he spoke

boldly for the space of three months, disputing

and exhorting concerning the kingdom of God.

9But when some were hardened, and believed

not, speaking evil of the way of the Lord, be-

fore the multitude, departing from them, he sep-

arated the disciples, disputing daily in the school

of one Tyrannus.

10And this continued for the space of two

years, so that all they who dwelt in Asia, heard

the word of the Lord, both Jews and Gentiles.

11And God wrought by the hand of Paul

more than common miracles.

12So that even there were brought from his

body to the sick, handkerchiefs and aprons, and

the diseases departed from them, and the wicked

spirits went out of them.

13Now some also of the Jewish exorcists who

went about, attempted to invoke over them that

had evil spirits, the name of the Lord Jesus, say-

ing: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul prea-

cheth.

14And there were certain men, seven sons of

Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, that did this.15But the wicked spirit, answering, said to

them: Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who

are you?

16And the man in whom the wicked spirit

was, leaping upon them, and mastering them

both, prevailed against them, so that they

ed

out of that house naked and wounded.

17And this became known to all the Jews and

the Gentiles that dwelt at Ephesus; and fear fell

on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was

magnied.

18And many of them that believed, came con-

fessing and declaring their deeds.

19And many of them who had followed curi-

ous arts, brought together their books, and burnt

them before all; and counting the price of them,

they found the money to be fty thousand pieces

of silver.

20So mightily grew the word of God, and was

conrmed.

21And when these things were ended, Paul

purposed in the spirit, when he had passed

through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to

Jerusalem, saying: After I have been there, I

must see Rome also.

22And sending into Macedonia two of them

that ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus,

he himself remained for a time in Asia.

23Now at that time there arose no small dis-

turbance about the way of the Lord.

24For a certain man named Demetrius, a sil-

versmith, who made silver temples for Diana,

brought no small gain to the craftsmen;

25Whom he calling together, with the work-

men of like occupation, said: Sirs, you know that

our gain is by this trade;

26And you see and hear, that this Paul by

persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude,

not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, say-

ing: They are not gods which are made by hands.The Acts of the Apostles 1437

27So that not only this our craft is in danger

to be set at nought, but also the temple of great

Diana shall be reputed for nothing; yea, and her

majesty shall begin to be destroyed, whom all

Asia and the world worshippeth.

28Having heard these things, they were full

of anger, and cried out, saying: Great is Diana

of the Ephesians.

29And the whole city was lled with confu-

sion; and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus,

men of Macedonia, Paul's companions, they

rushed with one accord into the theatre.

30And when Paul would have entered in unto

the people, the disciples suered him not.

31And some also of the rulers of Asia, who

were his friends, sent unto him, desiring that he

would not venture himself into the theatre.

32Now some cried one thing, some another.

For the assembly was confused, and the greater

part knew not for what cause they were come

together.

33And they drew forth Alexander out of the

multitude, the Jews thrusting him forward. And

Alexander beckoning with his hand for silence,

would have given the people satisfaction.

34But as soon as they perceived him to be a

Jew, all with one voice, for the space of about

two hours, cried out: Great is Diana of the Eph-

esians.

35And when the town clerk had appeased the

multitudes, he said: Ye men of Ephesus, what

man is there that knoweth not that the city of

the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great Diana,

and of Jupiter's ospring.

36For as much therefore as these things can-

not be contradicted, you ought to be quiet, and

to do nothing rashly.

37For you have brought hither these men,

who are neither guilty of sacrilege, nor of blas-

phemy against your goddess.38But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that

are with him, have a matter against any man,

the courts of justice are open, and there are pro-

consuls: let them accuse one another.

39And if you inquire after any other matter,

it may be decided in a lawful assembly.

40For we are even in danger to be called in

question for this day's uproar, there being no

man guilty (of whom we may give account) of

this concourse. And when he had said these

things, he dismissed the assembly.

Chapter 20
And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to

him the disciples, and exhorting them, took his

leave, and set forward to go into Macedonia.

2And when he had gone over those parts, and

had exhorted them with many words, he came

into Greece;

3Where, when he had spent three months,

the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to

sail into Syria; so he took a resolution to return

through Macedonia.

4And there accompanied him Sopater the

son of Pyrrhus, of Berea; and of the Thessalo-

nians, Aristarchus, and Secundus, and Gaius of

Derbe, and Timothy; and of Asia, Tychicus and

Trophimus.

5These going before, stayed for us at Troas.

6But we sailed from Philippi after the days of

the Azymes, and came to them to Troas in ve

days, where we abode seven days.

7And on the rst day of the week, when we

were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed

with them, being to depart on the morrow: and

he continued his speech until midnight.

8And there were a great number of lamps in

the upper chamber where we were assembled.1438 The Acts of the Apostles

9And a certain young man named Eutychus,

sitting on the window, being oppressed with a

deep sleep, (as Paul was long preaching,) by oc-

casion of his sleep fell from the third loft down,

and was taken up dead.

10To whom, when Paul had gone down, he

laid himself upon him, and embracing him, said:

Be not troubled, for his soul is in him.

11Then going up, and breaking bread and

tasting, and having talked a long time to them,

until daylight, so he departed.

12And they brought the youth alive, and were

not a little comforted.

13But we, going aboard the ship, sailed to

Assos, being there to take in Paul; for so he had

appointed, himself purposing to travel by land.

14And when he had met with us at Assos, we

took him in, and came to Mitylene.

15And sailing thence, the day following we

came over against Chios; and the next day we

arrived at Samos; and the day following we came

to Miletus.

16For Paul had determined to sail by Eph-

esus, lest he should be stayed any time in Asia.

For he hasted, if it were possible for him, to keep

the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.

17And sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he

called the ancients of the church.

18And when they were come to him, and were

together, he said to them: You know from the

rst day that I came into Asia, in what manner

I have been with you, for all the time,

19Serving the Lord with all humility, and

with tears, and temptations which befell me by

the conspiracies of the Jews;

20How I have kept back nothing that was

protable to you, but have preached it to you,

and taught you publicly, and from house to

house,

21Testifying both to Jews and Gentilespenance towards God, and faith in our Lord Je-

sus Christ.

22And now, behold, being bound in the spirit,

I go to Jerusalem: not knowing the things which

shall befall me there:

23Save that the Holy Ghost in every city wit-

nesseth to me, saying: That bands and aictions

wait for me at Jerusalem.

24But I fear none of these things, neither do I

count my life more precious than myself, so that

I may consummate my course and the ministry

of the word which I received from the Lord Jesus,

to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

25And now behold, I know that all you,

among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom

of God, shall see my face no more.

26Wherefore I take you to witness this day,

that I am clear from the blood of all men;

27For I have not spared to declare unto you

all the counsel of God.

28Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole

ock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you

bishops, to rule the church of God, which he hath

purchased with his own blood.

29I know that, after my departure, ravening

wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the

ock.

30And of your own selves shall arise men

speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples

after them.

31Therefore watch, keeping in memory, that

for three years I ceased not, with tears to ad-

monish every one of you night and day.

32And now I commend you to God, and to

the word of his grace, who is able to build up, and

to give an inheritance among all the sanctied.

33I have not coveted any man's silver, gold,

or apparel, as
34You yourselves know: for such things as

were needful for me and them that are with me,The Acts of the Apostles 1439

these hands have furnished.

35I have shewed you all things, how that so

labouring you ought to support the weak, and

to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he

said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather

than to receive.

36And when he had said these things, kneel-

ing down, he prayed with them all.

37And there was much weeping among them

all; and falling on the neck of Paul, they kissed

him,

38Being grieved most of all for the word

which he had said, that they should see his face

no more. And they brought him on his way to

the ship.

Chapter 21

And when it came to pass that, being parted

from them, we set sail, we came with a straight

course to Coos, and the day following to Rhodes,

and from thence to Patara.

2And when we had found a ship sailing over

to Phenice, we went aboard, and set forth.

3And when we had discovered Cyprus, leav-

ing it on the left hand, we sailed into Syria, and

came to Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade

her burden.

4And nding disciples, we tarried there seven

days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that

he should not go up to Jerusalem.

5And the days being expired, departing we

went forward, they all bringing us on our way,

with their wives and children, till we were out of

the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and

we prayed.

6And when we had bid one another farewell,

we took ship; and they returned home.

7But we having nished the voyage by sea,from Tyre came down to Ptolemais: and saluting

the brethren, we abode one day with them.

8And the next day departing, we came to

Caesarea. And entering into the house of Philip

the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we

abode with him.

9And he had four daughters, virgins, who did

prophesy.

10And as we tarried there for some days,

there came from Judea a certain prophet, named

Agabus.

11Who, when he was come to us, took Paul's

girdle: and binding his own feet and hands, he

said: Thus saith the Holy Ghost: The man

whose girdle this is, the Jews shall bind in this

manner in Jerusalem, and shall deliver him into

the hands of the Gentiles.

12Which when we had heard, both we and

they that were of that place, desired him that he

would not go up to Jerusalem.

13Then Paul answered, and said: What do

you mean weeping and aicting my heart? For

I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also

in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

14And when we could not persuade him, we

ceased, saying: The will of the Lord be done.

15And after those days, being prepared, we

went up to Jerusalem.

16And there went also with us some of the

disciples from Caesarea, bringing with them one

Mnason a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom

we should lodge.

17And when we were come to Jerusalem, the

brethren received us gladly.

18And the day following, Paul went in with us

unto James; and all the ancients were assembled.

19Whom when he had saluted, he related par-

ticularly what things God had wrought among

the Gentiles by his ministry.1440 The Acts of the Apostles

20But they hearing it, gloried God, and said

to him: Thou seest, brother, how many thou-

sands there are among the Jews that have be-

lieved: and they are all zealous for the law.

21Now they have heard of thee that thou

teachest those Jews, who are among the Gen-

tiles, to depart from Moses: saying, that they

ought not to circumcise their children, nor walk

according to the custom.

22What is it therefore? the multitude must

needs come together: for they will hear that thou

art come.

23Do therefore this that we say to thee. We

have four men, who have a vow on them.

24Take these, and sanctify thyself with them:

and bestow on them, that they may shave their

heads: and all will know that the things which

they have heard of thee, are false; but that thou

thyself also walkest keeping the law.

25But as touching the Gentiles that believe,

we have written, decreeing that they should only

refrain themselves from that which has been of-

fered to idols, and from blood, and from things

strangles, and from fornication.

26Then Paul took the men, and the next day

being puried with them, entered into the tem-

ple, giving notice of the accomplishment of the

days of purication, until an oblation should be

oered for every one of them.

27But when the seven days were drawing to

an end, those Jews that were of Asia, when they

saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people,

and laid hands upon him, crying out:

28Men of Israel, help: This is the man that

teacheth all men every where against the people,

and the law, and this place; and moreover hath

brought in Gentiles into the temple, and hath

violated this holy place.

29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian

in the city with him, whom they supposed thatPaul had brought into the temple.)

30And the whole city was in an uproar: and

the people ran together. And taking Paul, they

drew him out of the temple, and immediately the

doors were shut.

31And as they went about to kill him, it was

told the tribune of the band, That all Jerusalem

was in confusion.

32Who, forthwith taking with him soldiers

and centurions, ran down to them. And when

they saw the tribune and the soldiers they left

o beating Paul.

33Then the tribune coming near, took him,

and commanded him to be bound with two

chains: and demanded who he was, and what

he had done.

34And some cried one thing, some another,

among the multitude. And when he could not

know the certainty for the tumult, he com-

manded him to be carried into the castle.

35And when he was come to the stairs, it fell

out that he was carried by the soldiers, because

of the violence of the people.

36For the multitude of the people followed

after, crying: Away with him.

37And as Paul was about to be brought into

the castle, he saith to the tribune: May speak

something to thee? Who said: Canst thou speak

Greek?

38Art not thou that Egyptian who before

these days didst raise a tumult, and didst lead

forth into the desert four thousand men that

were murderers?

39But Paul said to him: I am a Jew of Tar-

sus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. And I

beseech thee, suer me to speak to the people.

40And when he had given him leave, Paul

standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to

the people. And a great silence being made, he

spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying:The Acts of the Apostles 1441
Chapter 22

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye the account

which I now give unto you.

2(And when they heard that he spoke to them

in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more si-

lence.)

3And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in

Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of

Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the

law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all

you are this day:

4Who persecuted this way unto death, bind-

ing and delivering into prisons both men and

women.

5As the high priest doth bear me witness,

and all the ancients: from whom also receiv-

ing letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus,

that I might bring them bound from thence to

Jerusalem to be punished.

6And it came to pass, as I was going, and

drawing nigh to Damascus at midday, that sud-

denly from heaven there shone round about me

a great light:

7And falling on the ground, I heard a voice

saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou

me?
8And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And

he said to me: I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom

thou persecutest.

9And they that were with me, saw indeed the

light, but they heard not the voice of him that

spoke with me.

10And I said: What shall I do, Lord? And

the Lord said to me: Arise, and go to Damascus;

and there it shall be told thee of all things that

thou must do.

11And whereas I did not see for the bright-

ness of that light, being led by the hand by my

companions, I came to Damascus.12And one Ananias, a man according to the

law, having testimony of all the Jews who dwelt

there,

13Coming to me, and standing by me, said

to me: Brother Saul, look up. And I the same

hour looked upon him.

14But he said: The God of our fathers hath

preordained thee that thou shouldst know his

will, and see the Just One, and shouldst hear

the voice from his mouth.

15For thou shalt be his witness to all men, of

those things which thou hast seen and heard.

16And now why tarriest thou? Rise up, and

be baptized, and wash away thy sins, invoking

his name.

17And it came to pass, when I was come again

to Jerusalem, and was praying in the temple,

that I was in a trance,

18And saw him saying unto me: Make haste,

and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem; because

they will not receive thy testimony concerning

me.

19And I said: Lord, they know that I cast

into prison, and beat in every synagogue, them

that believed in thee.

20And when the blood of Stephen thy witness

was shed, I stood by and consented, and kept the

garments of them that killed him.

21And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gen-

tiles afar o, will I send thee.

22And they heard him until this word, and

then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with

such an one from the earth; for it is not t that

he should live.

23And as they cried out and threw o their

garments, and cast dust into the air,

24The tribune commanded him to be brought

into the castle, and that he should be scourged

and tortured: to know for what cause they did

so cry out against him.1442 The Acts of the Apostles

25And when they had bound him with

thongs, Paul saith to the centurion that stood

by him: Is it lawful for you to scourge a man

that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

26Which the centurion hearing, went to the

tribune, and told him, saying: What art thou

about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.

27And the tribune coming, said to him: Tell

me, art thou a Roman? But he said: Yea.

28And the tribune answered: I obtained the

being free of this city with a great sum. And

Paul said: But I was born so.

29Immediately therefore they departed from

him that were about to torture him. The tribune

also was afraid after he understood that he was a

Roman citizen, and because he had bound him.

30But on the next day, meaning to know more

diligently for what cause he was accused by the

Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the priests

to come together, and all the council: and bring-

ing forth Paul, he set him before them.

Chapter 23

And Paul looking upon the council, said: Men,

brethren, I have conversed with all good con-

science before God until this present day.

2And the high priest Ananias commanded

them that stood by him to strike him on the

mouth.

3Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee,

thou whited wall. For sittest thou to judge me

according to the law, and contrary to the law

commandest me to be struck?

4And they that stood by said: Dost thou

revile the high priest of God?

5And Paul said: I knew not, brethren, that

he is the high priest. For it is written: Thou

shalt not speak evil of the prince of thy people.6And Paul knowing that the one part were

Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out

in the council: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee,

the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and

resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

7And when he had so said, there arose a

dissension between the Pharisees and the Sad-

ducees; and the multitude was divided.

8For the Sadducees say that there is no resur-

rection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Phar-

isees confess both.

9And there arose a great cry. And some of

the Pharisees rising up, strove, saying: We nd

no evil in this man. What if a spirit hath spoken

to him, or an angel?

10And when there arose a great dissension,

the tribune fearing lest Paul should be pulled

in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to

go down, and to take him by force from among

them, and to bring him into the castle.

11And the night following the Lord stand-

ing by him, said: Be constant; for as thou hast

testied of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear

witness also at Rome.

12And when day was come, some of the Jews

gathered together, and bound themselves under

a curse, saying, that they would neither eat, nor

drink, till they killed Paul.

13And they were more than forty men that

had made this conspiracy.

14Who came to the chief priests and the an-

cients, and said: We have bound ourselves under

a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have

slain Paul.

15Now therefore do you with the council sig-

nify to the tribune, that he bring him forth to

you, as if you meant to know something more

certain touching him. And we, before he come

near, are ready to kill him.

16Which when Paul's sister's son had heard,The Acts of the Apostles 1443

of their lying in wait, he came and entered into

the castle and told Paul.

17And Paul, calling to him one of the centu-

rions, said: Bring this young man to the tribune,

for he hath some thing to tell him.

18And he taking him, brought him to the

tribune, and said: Paul, the prisoner, desired

me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath

some thing to say to thee.

19And the tribune taking him by the hand,

went aside with him privately, and asked him:

What is it that thou hast to tell me?

20And he said: The Jews have agreed to de-

sire thee, that thou wouldst bring forth Paul to

morrow into the council, as if they meant to in-

quire some thing more certain touching him.

21But do not thou give credit to them; for

there lie in wait for him more than forty men of

them, who have bound themselves by oath nei-

ther to eat, nor to drink, till they have killed him:

and they are now ready, looking for a promise

from thee.

22The tribune therefore dismissed the young

man, charging him that he should tell no man,

that he had made known these things unto him.

23Then having called two centurions, he said

to them: Make ready two hundred soldiers to go

as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and

two hundred spearmen for the third hour of the

night:

24And provide beasts, that they may set Paul

on, and bring him safe to Felix the governor.

25(For he feared lest perhaps the Jews might

take him away by force and kill him, and he

should afterwards be slandered, as if he was to

take money.) And he wrote a letter after this

manner:

26Claudius Lysias to the most excellent gov-

ernor, Felix, greeting.

27This man being taken by the Jews, andready to be killed by them, I rescued coming in

with an army, understanding that he is a Roman:

28And meaning to know the cause which they

objected unto him, I brought him forth into their

council.

29Whom I found to be accused concerning

questions of their law; but having nothing laid

to his charge worthy of death or of bands.

30And when I was told of ambushes that they

had prepared for him, I sent him to thee, signi-

fying also to his accusers to plead before thee.

Farewell.

31Then the soldiers, according as it was com-

manded them, taking Paul, brought him by night

to Antipatris.
32And the next day, leaving the horsemen to

go with him, they returned to the castle.

33Who, when they were come to Caesarea,

and had delivered the letter to the governor, did

also present Paul before him.

34And when he had read it, and had asked of

what province he was, and understood that he

was of Cilicia;

35I will hear thee, said he, when thy accusers

come. And he commanded him to be kept in

Herod's judgment hall.

Chapter 24

And after ve days the high priest Ananias came

down, with some of the ancients, and one Tertul-

lus an orator, who went to the governor against

Paul.

2And Paul being called for, Tertullus began

to accuse him, saying: Whereas through thee we

live in much peace, and many things are rectied

by thy providence,

3We accept it always and in all places, most

excellent Felix, with all thanksgiving.1444 The Acts of the Apostles

4But that I be no further tedious to thee,

I desire thee of thy clemency to hear us in few

words.

5We have found this to be a pestilent

man, and raising seditions among all the Jews

throughout the world, and author of the sedi-

tion of the sect of the Nazarenes.

6Who also hath gone about to profane the

temple: whom, we having apprehended, would

also have judged according to our law.

7But Lysias the tribune coming upon us, with

great violence took him away out of our hands;

8Commanding his accusers to come to thee:

of whom thou mayest thyself, by examination,

have knowledge of all these things, whereof we

accuse him.

9And the Jews also added, and said that these

things were so.

10Then Paul answered, (the governor making

a sign to him to speak:) Knowing that for many

years thou hast been judge over this nation, I

will with good courage answer for myself.

11For thou mayest understand, that there are

yet but twelve days, since I went up to adore in

Jerusalem:

12And neither in the temple did they nd

me disputing with any man, or causing any con-

course of the people, neither in the synagogues,

nor in the city:

13Neither can they prove unto thee the things

whereof they now accuse me.

14But this I confess to thee, that according

to the way, which they call a heresy, so do I

serve the Father and my God, believing all things

which are written in the law and the prophets:

15Having hope in God, which these also

themselves look for, that there shall be a res-

urrection of the just and unjust.

16And herein do I endeavour to have always

a conscience without oence toward God, andtowards men.

17Now after many years, I came to bring alms

to my nation, and oerings, and vows.

18In which I was found puried in the temple:

neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

19But certain Jews of Asia, who ought to be

present before thee, and to accuse, if they had

any thing against me:

20Or let these men themselves say, if they

found in me any iniquity, when standing before

the council,

21Except it be for this one voice only that

I cried, standing among them, Concerning the

resurrection of the dead am I judged this day by

you.

22And Felix put them o, having most cer-

tain knowledge of this way, saying: When Lysias

the tribune shall come down, I will hear you.

23And he commanded a centurion to keep

him, and that he should be easy, and that he

should not prohibit any of his friends to minister

unto him.

24And after some days, Felix, coming with

Drusilla his wife, who was a Jew, sent for Paul,

and heard of him the faith, that is in Christ Je-

sus.

25And as he treated of justice, and chastity,

and of the judgment to come, Felix being terri-

ed, answered: For this time, go thy way: but

when I have a convenient time, I will send for

thee.

26Hoping also withal, that money should be

given him by Paul; for which cause also often-

times sending for him, he spoke with him.

27But when two years were ended, Felix had

for successor Portius Festus. And Felix being

willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul

bound.The Acts of the Apostles 1445

Chapter 25

Now when Festus was come into the province,

after three days, he went up to Jerusalem from

Caesarea.

2And the chief priests, and principal men of

the Jews, went unto him against Paul: and they

besought him,

3Requesting favour against him, that he

would command him to be brought to Jerusalem,

laying wait to kill him in the way.

4But Festus answered: That Paul was kept in

Caesarea, and that he himself would very shortly

depart thither.

5Let them, therefore, saith he, among you

that are able, go down with me, and accuse him,

if there be any crime in the man.

6And having tarried among them no more

than eight or ten days, he went down to Cae-

sarea, and the next day he sat in the judgment

seat; and commanded Paul to be brought.

7Who being brought, the Jews stood about

him, who were come down from Jerusalem, ob-

jecting many and grievous causes, which they

could not prove;

8Paul making answer for himself: Neither

against the law of the Jews, nor against the tem-

ple, nor against Caesar, have I oended in any

thing.

9But Festus, willing to shew the Jews a plea-

sure, answering Paul, said: Wilt thou go up to

Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things

before me?

10Then Paul said: I stand at Caesar's judg-

ment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the

Jews I have done no injury, as thou very well

knowest.

11For if I have injured them, or have commit-

ted any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die.

But if there be none of these things whereof theyaccuse me, no man may deliver me to them: I

appeal to Caesar.

12Then Festus having conferred with the

council, answered: Hast thou appealed to Cae-

sar? To Caesar shalt thou go.

13And after some days, king Agrippa and

Bernice came down to Caesarea to salute Festus.

14And as they tarried there many days, Fes-

tus told the king of Paul, saying: A certain man

was left prisoner by Felix.

15About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the

chief priests, and the ancients of the Jews, came

unto me, desiring condemnation against him.

16To whom I answered: It is not the custom

of the Romans to condemn any man, before that

he who is accused have his accusers present, and

have liberty to make his answer, to clear himself

of the things laid to his charge.

17When therefore they were come hither,

without any delay, on the day following, sitting

in the judgment seat, I commanded the man to

be brought.

18Against whom, when the accusers stood

up, they brought no accusation of things which

I thought ill of:

19But had certain questions of their own

superstition against him, and of one Jesus de-

ceased, whom Paul armed to be alive.

20I therefore being in a doubt of this manner

of question, asked him whether he would go to

Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things.

21But Paul appealing to be reserved unto the

hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be

kept, till I might send him to Caesar.

22And Agrippa said to Festus: I would also

hear the man, myself. To morrow, said he, thou

shalt hear him.

23And on the next day, when Agrippa and

Bernice were come with great pomp, and had

entered into the hall of audience, with the tri-1446 The Acts of the Apostles

bunes, and principal men of the city, at Festus'

commandment, Paul was brought forth.

24And Festus saith: King Agrippa, and all

ye men who are here present with us, you see

this man, about whom all the multitude of the

Jews dealt with me at Jerusalem, requesting and

crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

25Yet have I found nothing that he hath com-

mitted worthy of death. But forasmuch as he

himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have de-

termined to send him.

26Of whom I have nothing certain to write

to my lord. For which cause I have brought him

forth before you, and especially before thee, O

king Agrippa, that examination being made, I

may have what to write.

27For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send

a prisoner, and not to signify the things laid to

his charge.

Chapter 26

Then Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art permitted

to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretching forth

his hand, began to make his answer.

2I think myself happy, O king Agrippa, that

I am to answer for myself this day before thee,

touching all the things whereof I am accused by

the Jews.

3Especially as thou knowest all, both customs

and questions that are among the Jews: Where-

fore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

4And my life indeed from my youth, which

was from the beginning among my own nation

in Jerusalem, all the Jews do know:

5Having known me from the beginning (if

they will give testimony) that according to the

most sure sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

6And now for the hope of the promise thatwas made by God to the fathers, do I stand sub-

ject to judgment:

7Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night

and day, hope to come. For which hope, O king,

I am accused by the Jews.

8Why should it be thought a thing incredible,

that God should raise the dead?

9And I indeed did formerly think, that I

ought to do many things contrary to the name

of Jesus of Nazareth.

10Which also I did at Jerusalem, and many of

the saints did I shut up in prison, having received

authority of the chief priests: and when they

were put to death, I brought the sentence.

11And oftentimes punishing them, in every

synagogue, I compelled them to blaspheme: and

being yet more mad against them, I persecuted

them even unto foreign cities.

12Whereupon when I was going to Damascus

with authority and permission of the chief priest,

13At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light

from heaven above the brightness of the sun,

shining round about me, and them that were in

company with me.

14And when we were all fallen down on the

ground, I heard a voice speaking to me in the He-

brew tongue: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou

me? It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

15And I said: Who art thou, Lord? And the

Lord answered: I am Jesus whom thou perse-

cutest.

16But rise up, and stand upon thy feet: for

to this end have I appeared to thee, that I may

make thee a minister, and a witness of those

things which thou hast seen, and of those things

wherein I will appear to thee,

17Delivering thee from the people, and from

the nations, unto which now I send thee:

18To open their eyes, that they may be

converted from darkness to light, and from theThe Acts of the Apostles 1447

power of Satan to God, that they may receive

forgiveness of sins, and a lot among the saints,

by the faith that is in me.

19Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not in-

credulous to the heavenly vision:

20But to them rst that are at Damascus,

and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of

Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that

they should do penance, and turn to God, doing

works worthy of penance.

21For this cause the Jews, when I was in the

temple, having apprehended me, went about to

kill me.

22But being aided by the help of God, I

stand unto this day, witnessing both to small and

great, saying no other thing than those which

the prophets, and Moses did say should come to

pass:

23That Christ should suer, and that he

should be the rst that should rise from the dead,

and should shew light to the people, and to the

Gentiles.

24As he spoke these things, and made his

answer, Festus said with a loud voice: Paul, thou

art beside thyself: much learning doth make thee

mad.

25And Paul said: I am not mad, most ex-

cellent Festus, but I speak words of truth and

soberness.

26For the king knoweth of these things, to

whom also I speak with condence. For I am

persuaded that none of these things are hidden

from him. For neither was any of these things

done in a corner.

27Believest thou the prophets, O king

Agrippa? I know that thou believest.

28And Agrippa said to Paul: In a little thou

persuadest me to become a Christian.

29And Paul said: I would to God, that both

in a little and in much, not only thou, but alsoall that hear me, this day, should become such

as I also am, except these bands.

30And the king rose up, and the governor,

and Bernice, and they that sat with them.

31And when they were gone aside, they spoke

among themselves, saying: This man hath done

nothing worthy of death or of bands.

32And Agrippa said to Festus: This man

might have been set at liberty, if he had not ap-

pealed to Caesar.

Chapter 27

And when it was determined that he should sail

into Italy, and that Paul, with the other prison-

ers, should be delivered to a centurion, named

Julius, of the band Augusta,

2Going on board a ship of Adrumetum, we

launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia,

Aristarchus, the Macedonian of Thessalonica,

continuing with us.

3And the day following we came to Sidon.

And Julius treating Paul courteously, permitted

him to go to his friends, and to take care of him-

self.

4And when we had launched from thence,

we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were

contrary.

5And sailing over the sea of Cilicia, and Pam-

phylia, we came to Lystra, which is in Lycia:

6And there the centurion nding a ship of

Alexandria sailing into Italy, removed us into it.

7And when for many days we had sailed

slowly, and were scarce come over against

Gnidus, the wind not suering us, we sailed near

Crete by Salmone:

8And with much ado sailing by it, we came

into a certain place, which is called Good-havens,

nigh to which was the city of Thalassa.1448 The Acts of the Apostles

9And when much time was spent, and when

sailing now was dangerous, because the fast was

now past, Paul comforted them,

10Saying to them: Ye men, I see that the

voyage beginneth to be with injury and much

damage, not only of the lading and ship, but

also of our lives.

11But the centurion believed the pilot and

the master of the ship, more than those things

which were said by Paul.

12And whereas it was not a commodious

haven to winter in, the greatest part gave coun-

sel to sail thence, if by any means they might

reach Phenice to winter there, which is a haven of

Crete, looking towards the southwest and north-

west.

13And the south wind gently blowing, think-

ing that they had obtained their purpose, when

they had loosed from Asson, they sailed close by

Crete.

14But not long after, there arose against it a

tempestuous wind, called Euroaquilo.

15And when the ship was caught, and could

not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship

to the winds, we were driven.

16And running under a certain island, that

is called Cauda, we had much work to come by

the boat.

17Which being taken up, they used helps, un-

dergirding the ship, and fearing lest they should

fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail

yard, and so were driven.

18And we being mightily tossed with the tem-

pest, the next day they lightened the ship.

19And the third day they cast out with their

own hands the tackling of the ship.

20And when neither sun nor stars appeared

for many days, and no small storm lay on us, all

hope of our being saved was now taken away.

21And after they had fasted a long time, Paulstanding forth in the midst of them, said: You

should indeed, O ye men, have hearkened unto

me, and not have loosed from Crete, and have

gained this harm and loss.

22And now I exhort you to be of good cheer.

For there shall be no loss of any man's life among

you, but only of the ship.

23For an angel of God, whose I am, and

whom I serve, stood by me this night,

24Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be

brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath

given thee all them that sail with thee.

25Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I be-

lieve God that it shall so be, as it hath been told

me.

26And we must come unto a certain island.

27But after the fourteenth night was come,

as we were sailing in Adria, about midnight,

the shipmen deemed that they discovered some

country.

28Who also sounding, found twenty fathoms;

and going on a little further, they found fteen

fathoms.

29Then fearing lest we should fall upon rough

places, they cast four anchors out of the stern,

and wished for the day.

30But as the shipmen sought to

y out of

the ship, having let down the boat into the sea,

under colour, as though they would have cast

anchors out of the forepart of the ship,

31Paul said to the centurion, and to the sol-

diers: Except these stay in the ship, you cannot

be saved.

32Then the soldiers cut o the ropes of the

boat, and let her fall o.

33And when it began to be light, Paul be-

sought them all to take meat, saying: This day

is the fourteenth day that you have waited, and

continued fasting, taking nothing.The Acts of the Apostles 1449

34Wherefore I pray you to take some meat

for your health's sake; for there shall not an hair

of the head of any of you perish.

35And when he had said these things, taking

bread, he gave thanks to God in the sight of them

all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

36Then were they all of better cheer, and they

also took some meat.

37And we were in all in the ship, two hundred

threescore and sixteen souls.

38And when they had eaten enough, they

lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the

sea.

39And when it was day, they knew not the

land; but they discovered a certain creek that

had a shore, into which they minded, if they

could, to thrust in the ship.

40And when they had taken up the anchors,

they committed themselves to the sea, loosing

withal the rudder bands; and hoisting up the

mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore.

41And when we were fallen into a place where

two seas met, they run the ship aground; and the

forepart indeed, sticking fast, remained unmove-

able: but the hinder part was broken with the

violence of the sea.

42And the soldiers' counsel was, that they

should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swim-

ming out, should escape.

43But the centurion, willing to save Paul, for-

bade it to be done; and he commanded that they

who could swim, should cast themselves rst into

the sea, and save themselves, and get to land.

44And the rest, some they carried on boards,

and some on those things that belonged to the

ship. And so it came to pass, that every soul got

safe to land.Chapter 28

And when we had escaped, then we knew that

the island was called Melita. But the barbarians

shewed us no small courtesy.

2For kindling a re, they refreshed us all, be-

cause of the present rain, and of the cold.

3And when Paul had gathered together a

bundle of sticks, and had laid them on the re,

a viper coming out of the heat, fastened on his

hand.

4And when the barbarians saw the beast

hanging on his hand, they said one to an-

other: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who

though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance

doth not suer him to live.

5And he indeed shaking o the beast into the

re, suered no harm.

6But they supposed that he would begin

to swell up, and that he would suddenly fall

down and die. But expecting long, and seeing

that there came no harm to him, changing their

minds, they said, that he was a god.

7Now in these places were possessions of the

chief man of the island, named Publius, who re-

ceiving us, for three days entertained us courte-

ously.

8And it happened that the father of Publius

lay sick of a fever, and of a bloody

ux. To whom

Paul entered in; and when he had prayed, and

laid his hands on him, he healed him.

9Which being done, all that had diseases in

the island, came and were healed:

10Who also honoured us with many honours,

and when we were to set sail, they laded us with

such things as were necessary.

11And after three months, we sailed in a ship

of Alexandria, that had wintered in the island,

whose sign was the Castors.1450 The Acts of the Apostles

12And when we were come to Syracusa, we

tarried there three days.

13From thence, compassing by the shore, we

came to Rhegium: and after one day, the south

wind blowing, we came the second day to Pute-

oli;

14Where, nding brethren, we were desired

to tarry with them seven days: and so we went

to Rome.

15And from thence, when the brethren had

heard of us, they came to meet us as far as

Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns: whom

when Paul saw, he gave thanks to God, and took

courage.

16And when we were come to Rome, Paul

was suered to dwell by himself, with a soldier

that kept him.

17And after the third day, he called together

the chief of the Jews. And when they were as-

sembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, hav-

ing done nothing against the people, or the cus-

tom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from

Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;

18Who, when they had examined me, would

have released me, for that there was no cause of

death in me;

19But the Jews contradicting it, I was con-

strained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had

any thing to accuse my nation of.

20For this cause therefore I desired to see you,

and to speak to you. Because that for the hope

of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

21But they said to him: We neither received

letters concerning thee from Judea, neither did

any of the brethren that came hither, relate or

speak any evil of thee.

22But we desire to hear of thee what thou

thinkest; for as concerning this sect, we know

that it is every where contradicted.

23And when they had appointed him a day,there came very many to him unto his lodgings;

to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom

of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus,

out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from

morning until evening.

24And some believed the things that were

said; but some believed not.

25And when they agreed not among them-

selves, they departed, Paul speaking this one

word: Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fa-

thers by Isaias the prophet,

26Saying: Go to this people, and say to them:

With the ear you shall hear, and shall not un-

derstand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not

perceive.

27For the heart of this people is grown gross,

and with their ears have they heard heavily,

and their eyes they have shut; lest perhaps

they should see with their eyes, and hear with

their ears, and understand with their heart, and

should be converted, and I should heal them.

28Be it known therefore to you, that this sal-

vation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they

will hear it.

29And when he had said these things, the

Jews went out from him, having much reasoning

among themselves.

30And he remained two whole years in his

own hired lodging; and he received all that came

in to him,

31Preaching the kingdom of God, and teach-

ing the things which concern the Lord Jesus

Christ, with all condence, without prohibition.The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to

the Romans

Chapter 1

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an

apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

2Which he had promised before, by his

prophets, in the holy scriptures,

3Concerning his Son, who was made to him

of the seed of David, according to the

esh,

4Who was predestinated the Son of God in

power, according to the spirit of sanctication,

by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ from

the dead;

5By whom we have received grace and apos-

tleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations,

for his name;

6Among whom are you also the called of Jesus

Christ:

7To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God,

called to be saints. Grace to you, and peace from

God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

8First I give thanks to my God, through Jesus

Christ, for you all, because your faith is spoken

of in the whole world.

9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my

spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceas-

ing I make a commemoration of you;

10Always in my prayers making request, if

by any means now at length I may have a pros-

perous journey, by the will of God, to come unto

you.11For I long to see you, that I may impart

unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you:

12That is to say, that I may be comforted

together in you, by that which is common to us

both, your faith and mine.

13And I would not have you ignorant,

brethren, that I have often purposed to come

unto you, (and have been hindered hitherto,)

that I might have some fruit among you also,

even as among other Gentiles.

14To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to

the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor;

15So (as much as is in me) I am ready to

preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.

16For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For

it is the power of God unto salvation to every

one that believeth, to the Jew rst, and to the

Greek.

17For the justice of God is revealed therein,

from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just

man liveth by faith.

18For the wrath of God is revealed from

heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of

those men that detain the truth of God in injus-

tice:

19Because that which is known of God is

manifest in them. For God hath manifested it

unto them.

20For the invisible things of him, from the1452 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans

creation of the world, are clearly seen, being un-

derstood by the things that are made; his eternal

power also, and divinity: so that they are inex-

cusable.

21Because that, when they knew God, they

have not gloried him as God, or given thanks;

but became vain in their thoughts, and their fool-

ish heart was darkened.

22For professing themselves to be wise, they

became fools.
23And they changed the glory of the incor-

ruptible God into the likeness of the image of a

corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted

beasts, and of creeping things.

24Wherefore God gave them up to the desires

of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour

their own bodies among themselves.

25Who changed the truth of God into a lie;

and worshipped and served the creature rather

than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26For this cause God delivered them up

to shameful aections. For their women have

changed the natural use into that use which is

against nature.

27And, in like manner, the men also, leav-

ing the natural use of the women, have burned

in their lusts one towards another, men with

men working that which is lthy, and receiving

in themselves the recompense which was due to

their error.

28And as they liked not to have God in their

knowledge, God delivered them up to a repro-

bate sense, to do those things which are not con-

venient;

29Being lled with all iniquity, malice, forni-

cation, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder,

contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,

30Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious,

proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobe-

dient to parents,31Foolish, dissolute, without aection, with-

out delity, without mercy.

32Who, having known the justice of God, did

not understand that they who do such things,

are worthy of death; and not only they that do

them, but they also that consent to them that

do them.

Chapter 2

Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoso-

ever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou

judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For

thou dost the same things which thou judgest.

2For we know that the judgment of God is,

according to truth, against them that do such

things.

3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest

them who do such things, and dost the same,

that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness,

and patience, and longsuering? Knowest thou

not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to

penance?

5But according to thy hardness and impeni-

tent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath,

against the day of wrath, and revelation of the

just judgment of God.

6Who will render to every man according to

his works.

7To them indeed, who according to patience

in good work, seek glory and honour and incor-

ruption, eternal life:

8But to them that are contentious, and who

obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity,

wrath and indignation.

9Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of

man that worketh evil, of the Jew rst, and also

of the Greek.The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans 1453

10But glory, and honour, and peace to every

one that worketh good, to the Jew rst, and also

to the Greek.

11For there is no respect of persons with God.

12For whosoever have sinned without the law,

shall perish without the law; and whosoever have

sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.

13For not the hearers of the law are just be-

fore God, but the doers of the law shall be jus-

tied.

14For when the Gentiles, who have not the

law, do by nature those things that are of the

law; these having not the law are a law to them-

selves:

15Who shew the work of the law written in

their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to

them, and their thoughts between themselves ac-

cusing, or also defending one another,

16In the day when God shall judge the secrets

of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

17But if thou art called a Jew and restest in

the law, and makest thy boast of God,

18And knowest his will, and approvest the

more protable things, being instructed by the

law,

19Art condent that thou thyself art a guide

of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of in-

fants, having the form of knowledge and of truth

in the law.

21Thou therefore that teachest another,

teachest not thyself: thou that preachest that

men should not steal, stealest:

22Thou that sayest, men should not commit

adultery, committest adultery: thou that abhor-

rest idols, committest sacrilege:

23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by

transgression of the law dishonourest God.

24(For the name of God through you is blas-

phemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)25Circumcision proteth indeed, if thou keep

the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law,

thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

26If, then, the uncircumcised keep the jus-

tices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be

counted for circumcision?

27And shall not that which by nature is un-

circumcision, if it full the law, judge thee, who

by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor

of the law?

28For it is not he is a Jew, who is so out-

wardly; nor is that circumcision which is out-

wardly in the

esh:

29But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly; and

the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit,

not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but

of God.

Chapter 3

What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is

the prot of circumcision?

2Much every way. First indeed, because the

words of God were committed to them.

3For what if some of them have not believed?

shall their unbelief make the faith of God with-

out eect? God forbid.

4But God is true; and every man a liar, as

it is written, That thou mayest be justied in

thy words, and mayest overcome when thou art

judged.

5But if our injustice commend the justice of

God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who

executeth wrath?

6(I speak according to man.) God forbid:

otherwise how shall God judge this world?

7For if the truth of God hath more abounded

through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet

judged as a sinner?1454 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans

8And not rather (as we are slandered, and

as some arm that we say) let us do evil, that

there may come good? whose damnation is just.

9What then? Do we excel them? No, not

so. For we have charged both Jews, and Greeks,

that they are all under sin.

10As it is written: There is not any man just.

11There is none that understandeth, there is

none that seeketh after God.

12All have turned out of the way; they are

become unprotable together: there is none that

doth good, there is not so much as one.

13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with

their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The

venom of asps is under their lips.

14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitter-

ness:

15Their feet swift to shed blood:

16Destruction and misery in their ways:

17And the way of peace they have not known:

18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

19Now we know, that what things soever the

law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the

law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all

the world may be made subject to God.

20Because by the works of the law no

esh

shall be justied before him. For by the law is

the knowledge of sin.

21But now without the law the justice of God

is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and

the prophets.

22Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus

Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe

in him: for there is no distinction:

23For all have sinned, and do need the glory

of God.

24Being justied freely by his grace, through

the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus,

25Whom God hath proposed to be a propiti-

ation, through faith in his blood, to the shewingof his justice, for the remission of former sins,

26Through the forbearance of God, for the

shewing of his justice in this time; that he himself

may be just, and the justier of him, who is of

the faith of Jesus Christ.

27Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded.

By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of

faith.

28For we account a man to be justied by

faith, without the works of the law.

29Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not

also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.

30For it is one God, that justieth circumci-

sion by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

31Do we, then, destroy the law through faith?

God forbid: but we establish the law.

Chapter 4

What shall we say then that Abraham hath

found, who is our father according to the

esh.

2For if Abraham were justied by works, he

hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

3For what saith the scripture? Abraham be-

lieved God, and it was reputed to him unto jus-

tice.
4Now to him that worketh, the reward is not

reckoned according to grace, but according to

debt.

5But to him that worketh not, yet believeth

in him that justieth the ungodly, his faith is

reputed to justice, according to the purpose of

the grace of God.

6As David also termeth the blessedness of

a man, to whom God reputeth justice without

works:

7Blessed are they whose iniquities are for-

given, and whose sins are covered.The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans 1455

8Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath

not imputed sin.

9This blessedness then, doth it remain in the

circumcision only, or in the uncircumcision also?

For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed

to justice.

10How then was it reputed? When he was

in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in

circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

11And he received the sign of circumcision,

a seal of the justice of the faith, which he had,

being uncircumcised; that he might be the father

of all them that believe, being uncircumcised,

that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

12And might be the father of circumcision;

not to them only, that are of the circumcision,

but to them also that follow the steps of the

faithful, that is in the uncircumcision of our fa-

ther Abraham.

13For not through the law was the promise to

Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir

of the world; but through the justice of faith.

14For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith

is made void, the promise is made of no eect.

15For the law worketh wrath. For where

there is no law, neither is there transgression.

16Therefore is it of faith, that according to

grace the promise might be rm to all the seed;

not to that only which is of the law, but to that

also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the

father of us all,

17(As it is written: I have made thee a fa-

ther of many nations,) before God, whom he

believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth

those things that are not, as those that are.

18Who against hope believed in hope; that

he might be made the father of many nations,

according to that which was said to him: So shall

thy seed be.

19And he was not weak in faith; neither didhe consider his own body now dead, whereas he
was almost an hundred years old, nor the dead

womb of Sara.

20In the promise also of God he staggered

not by distrust; but was strengthened in faith,

giving glory to God:

21Most fully knowing, that whatsoever he has

promised, he is able also to perform.

22And therefore it was reputed to him unto

justice.

23Now it is not written only for him, that it

was reputed to him unto justice,

24But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed,

if we believe in him, that raised up Jesus Christ,

our Lord, from the dead,

25Who was delivered up for our sins, and rose

again for our justication.

Chapter 5

Being justied therefore by faith, let us have

peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

2By whom also we have access through faith

into this grace, wherein we stand, and glory in

the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

3And not only so; but we glory also in tribu-

lations, knowing that tribulation worketh pa-

tience;

4And patience trial; and trial hope;

5And hope confoundeth not: because the

charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by

the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.

6For why did Christ, when as yet we were

weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

7For scarce for a just man will one die; yet

perhaps for a good man some one would dare to

die.

8But God commendeth his charity towards

us; because when as yet we were sinners, accord-1456 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the

Romans

ing to the time,

9Christ died for us; much more therefore, be-

ing now justied by his blood, shall we be saved

from wrath through him.

10For if, when we were enemies, we were rec-

onciled to God by the death of his Son; much

more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his

life.

11And not only so; but also we glory in God,

through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have

now received reconciliation.

12Wherefore as by one man sin entered into

this world, and by sin death; and so death passed

upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

13For until the law sin was in the world; but

sin was not imputed, when the law was not.

14But death reigned from Adam unto Moses,

even over them also who have not sinned after

the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who

is a gure of him who was to come.

15But not as the oence, so also the gift. For

if by the oence of one, many died; much more

the grace of God, and the gift, by the grace of one

man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

16And not as it was by one sin, so also is the

gift. For judgment indeed was by one unto con-

demnation; but grace is of many oences, unto

justication.

17For if by one man's oence death reigned

through one; much more they who receive abun-

dance of grace, and of the gift, and of justice,

shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.

18Therefore, as by the oence of one, unto

all men to condemnation; so also by the justice

of one, unto all men to justication of life.

19For as by the disobedience of one man,

many were made sinners; so also by the obedi-

ence of one, many shall be made just.

20Now the law entered in, that sin might

abound. And where sin abounded, grace didmore abound.

21That as sin hath reigned to death; so also

grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting,

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Chapter 6

What shall we say, then? shall we continue in

sin, that grace may abound?

2God forbid. For we that are dead to sin,

how shall we live any longer therein?

3Know you not that all we, who are baptized

in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?

4For we are buried together with him by bap-

tism into death; that as Christ is risen from the

dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may

walk in newness of life.

5For if we have been planted together in the

likeness of his death, we shall be also in the like-

ness of his resurrection.

6Knowing this, that our old man is crucied

with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed,

to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

7For he that is dead is justied from sin.

8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe

that we shall live also together with Christ:

9Knowing that Christ rising again from the

dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more

have dominion over him.

10For in that he died to sin, he died once;

but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:

11So do you also reckon, that you are dead

to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our

Lord.

12Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal

body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

13Neither yield ye your members as instru-

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and your members as instruments of justice unto

God.

14For sin shall not have dominion over you;

for you are not under the law, but under grace.

15What then? Shall we sin, because we are

not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16Know you not, that to whom you yield

yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are

whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death,

or of obedience unto justice.

17But thanks be to God, that you were the

servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart,

unto that form of doctrine, into which you have

been delivered.

18Being then freed from sin, we have been

made servants of justice.

19I speak an human thing, because of the

inrmity of your

esh. For as you have yielded

your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity,

unto iniquity; so now yield your members to

serve justice, unto sanctication.

20For when you were the servants of sin, you

were free men to justice.

21What fruit therefore had you then in those

things, of which you are now ashamed? For the

end of them is death.

22But now being made free from sin, and be-

come servants to God, you have your fruit unto

sanctication, and the end life everlasting.

23For the wages of sin is death. But the grace

of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Chapter 7

Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them

that know the law,) that the law hath dominion

over a man, as long as it liveth?

2For the woman that hath an husband, whilst

her husband liveth is bound to the law. But ifher husband be dead, she is loosed from the law

of her husband.

3Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she

shall be called an adulteress, if she be with an-

other man: but if her husband be dead, she is

delivered from the law of her husband; so that

she is not an adulteress, if she be with another

man.

4Therefore, my brethren, you also are become

dead to the law, by the body of Christ; that you

may belong to another, who is risen again from

the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to God.

5For when we were in the

esh, the passions

of sins, which were by the law, did work in our

members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

6But now we are loosed from the law of death,

wherein we were detained; so that we should

serve in newness of spirit, and not in the old-

ness of the letter.

7What shall we say, then? Is the law sin?

God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the

law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the

law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

8But sin taking occasion by the command-

ment, wrought in me all manner of concupis-

cence. For without the law sin was dead.

9And I lived some time without the law. But

when the commandment came, sin revived,

10And I died. And the commandment that

was ordained to life, the same was found to be

unto death to me.

11For sin, taking occasion by the command-

ment, seduced me, and by it killed me.

12Wherefore the law indeed is holy, and the

commandment holy, and just, and good.

13Was that then which is good, made death

unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it may ap-

pear sin, by that which is good, wrought death

in me; that sin, by the commandment, might

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14For we know that the law is spiritual; but

I am carnal, sold under sin.

15For that which I work, I understand not.

For I do not that good which I will; but the evil

which I hate, that I do.

16If then I do that which I will not, I consent

to the law, that it is good.

17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin

that dwelleth in me.

18For I know that there dwelleth not in me,

that is to say, in my

esh, that which is good.

For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish

that which is good, I nd not.

19For the good which I will, I do not; but the

evil which I will not, that I do.

20Now if I do that which I will not, it is no

more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21I nd then a law, that when I have a will

to do good, evil is present with me.

22For I am delighted with the law of God,

according to the inward man:

23But I see another law in my members, ght-

ing against the law of my mind, and captivating

me in the law of sin, that is in my members.

24Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver

me from the body of this death?

25The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our

Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve

the law of God; but with the

esh, the law of

sin.

Chapter 8

There is now therefore no condemnation to them

that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according

to the

esh.

2For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ

Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and

of death.3For what the law could not do, in that it

was weak through the

esh; God sending his own

Son, in the likeness of sinful

esh and of sin, hath

condemned sin in the

esh;

4That the justication of the law might be

fullled in us, who walk not according to the

esh, but according to the spirit.

5For they that are according to the

esh,

mind the things that are of the

esh; but they

that are according to the spirit, mind the things

that are of the spirit.

6For the wisdom of the

esh is death; but the

wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.

7Because the wisdom of the

esh is an enemy

to God; for it is not subject to the law of God,

neither can it be.

8And they who are in the

esh, cannot please

God.

9But you are not in the

esh, but in the spirit,

if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now

if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is

none of his.

10And if Christ be in you, the body indeed

is dead, because of sin; but the spirit liveth, be-

cause of justication.

11And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus

from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up

Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also

your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that

dwelleth in you.

12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to

the

esh, to live according to the

esh.

13For if you live according to the

esh, you

shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the

deeds of the

esh, you shall live.

14For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God,

they are the sons of God.

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spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba

(Father).

16For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to

our spirit, that we are the sons of God.

17And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God,

and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suer

with him, that we may be also gloried with him.

18For I reckon that the suerings of this time

are not worthy to be compared with the glory to

come, that shall be revealed in us.

19For the expectation of the creature waiteth

for the revelation of the sons of God.

20For the creature was made subject to van-

ity, not willingly, but by reason of him that made

it subject, in hope:

21Because the creature also itself shall be de-

livered from the servitude of corruption, into the

liberty of the glory of the children of God.

22For we know that every creature groaneth

and travaileth in pain, even till now.

23And not only it, but ourselves also, who

have the rstfruits of the Spirit, even we our-

selves groan within ourselves, waiting for the

adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of

our body.

24For we are saved by hope. But hope that

is seen, is not hope. For what a man seeth, why

doth he hope for?

25But if we hope for that which we see not,

we wait for it with patience.

26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our inr-

mity. For we know not what we should pray for

as we ought; but the Spirit himself asketh for us

with unspeakable groanings.

27And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth

what the Spirit desireth; because he asketh for

the saints according to God.

28And we know that to them that love God,

all things work together unto good, to such as,

according to his purpose, are called to be saints.29For whom he foreknew, he also predesti-

nated to be made conformable to the image of

his Son; that he might be the rstborn amongst

many brethren.

30And whom he predestinated, them he also

called. And whom he called, them he also justi-

ed. And whom he justied, them he also glori-

ed.

31What shall we then say to these things? If

God be for us, who is against us?

32He that spared not even his own Son, but

delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also,

with him, given us all things?

33Who shall accuse against the elect of God?

God that justieth.

34Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Je-

sus that died, yea that is risen also again; who

is at the right hand of God, who also maketh

intercession for us.

35Who then shall separate us from the love

of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress? or

famine? or nakedness? or danger? or persecu-

tion? or the sword?

36(As it is written: For thy sake we are put

to death all the day long. We are accounted as

sheep for the slaughter.)

37But in all these things we overcome, be-

cause of him that hath loved us.

38For I am sure that neither death, nor life,

nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor

things present, nor things to come, nor might,

39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other crea-

ture, shall be able to separate us from the love

of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Chapter 9

I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my con-

science bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:1460 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the

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2That I have great sadness, and continual

sorrow in my heart.
3For I wished myself to be an anathema from

Christ, for my brethren, who are my kinsmen

according to the

esh,

4Who are Israelites, to whom belongeth the

adoption as of children, and the glory, and the

testament, and the giving of the law, and the

service of God, and the promises:

5Whose are the fathers, and of whom is

Christ, according to the

esh, who is over all

things, God blessed for ever. Amen.

6Not as though the word of God hath miscar-

ried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel:

7Neither are all they that are the seed of

Abraham, children; but in Isaac shall thy seed

be called:

8That is to say, not they that are the chil-

dren of the

esh, are the children of God; but

they, that are the children of the promise, are

accounted for the seed.

9For this is the word of promise: According

to this time will I come; and Sara shall have a

son.

10And not only she. But when Rebecca also

had conceived at once, of Isaac our father.

11For when the children were not yet born,

nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose

of God, according to election, might stand,)

12Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was

said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.

13As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but

Esau I have hated.

14What shall we say then? Is there injustice

with God? God forbid.

15For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on

whom I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy

to whom I will shew mercy.

16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor

of him that runneth, but of God that shewethmercy.

17For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this

purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my

power in thee, and that my name may be de-

clared throughout all the earth.

18Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will;

and whom he will, he hardeneth.

19Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth

he then nd fault? for who resisteth his will?

20O man, who art thou that repliest against

God? Shall the thing formed say to him that

formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

21Or hath not the potter power over the clay,

of the same lump, to make one vessel unto hon-

our, and another unto dishonour?

22What if God, willing to shew his wrath,

and to make his power known, endured with

much patience vessels of wrath, tted for de-

struction,

23That he might shew the riches of his glory

on the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared

unto glory?

24Even us, whom also he hath called, nor

only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles.

25As in Osee he saith: I will call that which

was not my people, my people; and her that was

not beloved, beloved; and her that had not ob-

tained mercy, one that hath obtained mercy.

26And it shall be, in the place where it was

said unto them, You are not my people; there

they shall be called the sons of the living God.

27And Isaias crieth out concerning Israel: If

the number of the children of Israel be as the

sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

28For he shall nish his word, and cut it short

in justice; because a short word shall the Lord

make upon the earth.

29And as Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of

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30What then shall we say? That the Gentiles,

who followed not after justice, have attained to

justice, even the justice that is of faith.

31But Israel, by following after the law of

justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

32Why so? Because they sought it not by

faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled

at the stumblingstone.

33As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion

a stumblingstone and a rock of scandal; and

whosoever believeth in him shall not be con-

founded.

Chapter 10

Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed, and my

prayer to God, is for them unto salvation.

2For I bear them witness, that they have a

zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

3For they, not knowing the justice of God,

and seeking to establish their own, have not sub-

mitted themselves to the justice of God.

4For the end of the law is Christ, unto justice

to every one that believeth.

5For Moses wrote, that the justice which is

of the law, the man that shall do it, shall live by

it.

6But the justice which is of faith, speaketh

thus: Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend

into heaven? that is, to bring Christ down;

7Or who shall descend into the deep? that is,

to bring up Christ again from the dead.

8But what saith the scripture? The word is

nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart.

This is the word of faith, which we preach.

9For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord

Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath

raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10For, with the heart, we believe unto justice;but, with the mouth, confession is made unto

salvation.

11For the scripture saith: Whosoever be-

lieveth in him, shall not be confounded.

12For there is no distinction of the Jew and

the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich

unto all that call upon him.

13Fro whosoever shall call upon the name of

the Lord, shall be saved.

14How then shall they call on him, in whom

they have not believed? Or how shall they be-

lieve him, of whom they have not heard? And

how shall they hear, without a preacher?

15And how shall they preach unless they be

sent, as it is written: How beautiful are the feet

of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them

that bring glad tidings of good things!

16But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias

saith: Lord, who hath believed our report?

17Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing

by the word of Christ.

18But I say: Have they not heard? Yes, ver-

ily, their sound hath gone forth into all the earth,

and their words unto the ends of the whole world.

19But I say: Hath not Israel known? First,

Moses saith: I will provoke you to jealousy by

that which is not a nation; by a foolish nation I

will anger you.

20But Isaias is bold, and saith: I was found

by them that did not seek me: I appeared openly

to them that asked not after me.

21But to Israel he saith: All the day long have

I spread my hands to a people that believeth not,

and contradicteth me.

Chapter 11

I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God

forbid. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of1462 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the

Romans

Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2God hath not cast away his people, which

he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture

saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against

Israel?

3Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they

have dug down thy altars; and I am left alone,

and they seek my life.

4But what saith the divine answer to him? I

have left me seven thousand men, that have not

bowed their knees to Baal.

5Even so then at this present time also, there

is a remnant saved according to the election of

grace.

6And if by grace, it is not now by works:

otherwise grace is no more grace.

7What then? That which Israel sought, he

hath not obtained: but the election hath ob-

tained it; and the rest have been blinded.

8As it is written: God hath given them the

spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not

see; and ears that they should not hear, until

this present day.

9And David saith: Let their table be made a

snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a

recompense unto them.

10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may

not see: and bow down their back always.

11I say then, have they so stumbled, that

they should fall? God forbid. But by their of-

fence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they

may be emulous of them.

12Now if the oence of them be the riches of

the world, and the diminution of them, the riches

of the Gentiles; how much more the fulness of

them?

13For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed

as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour

my ministry,14If, by any means, I may provoke to emula-

tion them who are my

esh, and may save some

of them.

15For if the loss of them be the reconciliation

of the world, what shall the receiving of them

be, but life from the dead?

16For if the rstfruit be holy, so is the lump

also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

17And if some of the branches be broken, and

thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them,

and art made partaker of the root, and of the

fatness of the olive tree,

18Boast not against the branches. But if thou

boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root

thee.

19Thou wilt say then: The branches were

broken o, that I might be grafted in.

20Well: because of unbelief they were broken

o. But thou standest by faith: be not high-

minded, but fear.

21For if God hath not spared the natural

branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not

thee.

22See then the goodness and the severity of

God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the

severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God,

if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also

shalt be cut o.

23And they also, if they abide not still in

unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to

graft them in again.

24For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive

tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to

nature, were grafted into the good olive tree;

how much more shall they that are the natural

branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

25For I would not have you ignorant,

brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be

wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part

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Gentiles should come in.

26And so all Israel should be saved, as it is

written: There shall come out of Sion, he that

shall deliver, and shall turn away ungodliness

from Jacob.

27And this is to them my covenant: when I

shall take away their sins.

28As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are

enemies for your sake: but as touching the elec-

tion, they are most dear for the sake of the fa-

thers.

29For the gifts and the calling of God are

without repentance.

30For as you also in times past did not believe

God, but now have obtained mercy, through

their unbelief;

31So these also now have not believed, for

your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.

32For God hath concluded all in unbelief,

that he may have mercy on all.

33O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and

of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensi-

ble are his judgments, and how unsearchable his

ways!

34For who hath known the mind of the Lord?

Or who hath been his counsellor?

35Or who hath rst given to him, and rec-

ompense shall be made him?

36For of him, and by him, and in him, are all

things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

Chapter 12

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy

of God, that you present your bodies a living sac-

rice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable

service.

2And be not conformed to this world; but be

reformed in the newness of your mind, that youmay prove what is the good, and the acceptable,

and the perfect will of God.

3For I say, by the grace that is given me,

to all that are among you, not to be more wise

than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto

sobriety, and according as God hath divided to

every one the measure of faith.

4For as in one body we have many members,

but all the members have not the same oce:

5So we being many, are one body in Christ,

and every one members one of another.

6And having dierent gifts, according to the

grace that is given us, either prophecy, to be used

according to the rule of faith;

7Or ministry, in ministering; or he that tea-

cheth, in doctrine;

8He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that

giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth, with care-

fulness; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerful-

ness.

9Let love be without dissimulation. Hating

that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good.

10Loving one another with the charity of

brotherhood, with honour preventing one an-

other.

11In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fer-

vent. Serving the Lord.

12Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation.

Instant in prayer.

13Communicating to the necessities of the

saints. Pursuing hospitality.

14Bless them that persecute you: bless, and

curse not.

15Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with

them that weep.

16Being of one mind one towards another.

Not minding high things, but consenting to the

humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

17To no man rendering evil for evil. Provid-

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but also in the sight of all men.

18If it be possible, as much as is in you, have

peace with all men.

19Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved;

but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Re-

venge is mind, I will repay, saith the Lord.

20But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to

eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing

this, thou shalt heap coals of re upon his head.

21Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil

by good.

Chapter 13

Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for

there is no power but from God: and those that

are, are ordained of God.

2Therefore he that resisteth the power, re-

sisteth the ordinance of God. And they that

resist, purchase to themselves damnation.

3For princes are not a terror to the good work,

but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of

the power? Do that which is good: and thou

shalt have praise from the same.

4For he is God's minister to thee, for good.

But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he

beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God's

minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him

that doth evil.

5Wherefore be subject of necessity, not only

for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.

6For therefore also you pay tribute. For they

are the ministers of God, serving unto this pur-

pose.

7Render therefore to all men their dues. Trib-

ute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom

custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom

honour.8Owe no man any thing, but to love one an-

other. For he that loveth his neighbour, hath

fullled the law.

9For Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou

shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt

not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet: and

if there be any other commandment, it is com-

prised in this word, Thou shalt love thy neigh-

bour as thyself.

10The love of our neighbour worketh no evil.

Love therefore is the fullling of the law.

11And that knowing the season; that it is

now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now

our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

12The night is passed, and the day is at hand.

Let us therefore cast o the works of darkness,

and put on the armour of light.

13Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in

rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and

impurities, not in contention and envy:

14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and

make not provision for the

esh in its concupis-

cences.

Chapter 14

Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you:

not in disputes about thoughts.

2For one believeth that he may eat all things:

but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

3Let not him that eateth, despise him that

eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not

judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him

to him.

4Who art thou that judgest another man's

servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth.

And he shall stand: for God is able to make him

stand.

5For one judgeth between day and day:The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans 1465

and another judgeth every day: let every man

abound in his own sense.

6He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto

the Lord. And he that eateth, eateth to the

Lord: for he giveth thanks to God. And he that

eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth

thanks to God.

7For none of us liveth to himself; and no man

dieth to himself.

8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord;

or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. There-

fore, whether we live, or whether we die, we are

the Lord's.

9For to this end Christ died and rose again;

that he might be Lord both of the dead and of

the living.

10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother?

or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For

we shall all stand before the judgment seat of

Christ.

11For it is written: As I live, saith the Lord,

every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue

shall confess to God.

12Therefore every one of us shall render ac-

count to God for himself.

13Let us not therefore judge one another any

more. But judge this rather, that you put not

a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's

way.

14I know, and am condent in the Lord Jesus,

that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that

esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is

unclean.

15For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be

grieved, thou walkest not now according to char-

ity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom

Christ died.

16Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

17For the kingdom of God is not meat and

drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the HolyGhost.

18For he that in this serveth Christ, pleaseth

God, and is approved of men.

19Therefore let us follow after the things that

are of peace; and keep the things that are of

edication one towards another.

20Destroy not the work of God for meat. All

things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that

man who eateth with oence.

21It is good not to eat

esh, and not to drink

wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother is of-

fended, or scandalized, or made weak.

22Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before

God. Blessed is he that condemneth not himself

in that which he alloweth.

23But he that discerneth, if he eat, is con-

demned; because not of faith. For all that is not

of faith is sin.
Chapter 15

Now we that are stronger, ought to bear the in-

rmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

2Let every one of you please his neighbour

unto good, to edication.

3For Christ did not please himself, but as it is

written: The reproaches of them that reproached

thee, fell upon me.

4For what things soever were written, were

written for our learning: that through patience

and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have

hope.

5Now the God of patience and of comfort

grant you to be of one mind one towards another,

according to Jesus Christ:

6That with one mind, and with one mouth,

you may glorify God and the Father of our Lord

Jesus Christ.1466 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans

7Wherefore receive one another, as Christ

also hath received you unto the honour of God.

8For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of

the circumcision for the truth of God, to conrm

the promises made unto the fathers.

9But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for

his mercy, as it is written: Therefore will I con-

fess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and

will sing to thy name.

10And again he saith: Rejoice, ye Gentiles,

with his people.

11And again: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles;

and magnify him, all ye people.

12And again Isaias saith: There shall be a

root of Jesse; and he that shall rise up to rule

the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope.

13Now the God of hope ll you with all joy

and peace in believing; that you may abound in

hope, and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

14And I myself also, my brethren, am assured

of you, that you also are full of love, replenished

with all knowledge, so that you are able to ad-

monish one another.

15But I have written to you, brethren, more

boldly in some sort, as it were putting you in

mind: because of the grace which is given me

from God.

16That I should be the minister of Christ

Jesus among the Gentiles; sanctifying the gospel

of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may

be made acceptable and sanctied in the Holy

Ghost.

17I have therefore glory in Christ Jesus to-

wards God.
18For I dare not to speak of any of those

things which Christ worketh not by me, for the

obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

19By the virtue of signs and wonders, in the

power of the Holy Ghost, so that from Jerusalemround about as far as unto Illyricum, I have re-

plenished the gospel of Christ.

20And I have so preached this gospel, not

where Christ was named, lest I should build

upon another man's foundation.

21But as it is written: They to whom he was

not spoken of, shall see, and they that have not

heard shall understand.

22For which cause also I was hindered very

much from coming to you, and have been kept

away till now.

23But now having no more place in these

countries, and having a great desire these many

years past to come unto you,

24When I shall begin to take my journey into

Spain, I hope that as I pass, I shall see you, and

be brought on my way thither by you, if rst, in

part, I shall have enjoyed you:

25But now I shall go to Jerusalem, to minister

unto the saints.

26For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and

Achaia to make a contribution for the poor of the

saints that are in Jerusalem.

27For it hath pleased them; and they are their

debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made par-

takers of their spiritual things, they ought also

in carnal things to minister to them.

28When therefore I shall have accomplished

this, and consigned to them this fruit, I will come

by you into Spain.

29And I know, that when I come to you, I

shall come in the abundance of the blessing of

the gospel of Christ.

30I beseech you therefore, brethren, through

our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the charity of the

Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for

me to God,

31That I may be delivered from the unbe-

lievers that are in Judea, and that the oblationThe Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans

1467

of my service may be acceptable in Jerusalem to

the saints.

32That I may come to you with joy, by the

will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

33Now the God of peace be with you all.

Amen.

Chapter 16

And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is

in the ministry of the church, that is in Cenchrae:

2That you receive her in the Lord as be-

cometh saints; and that you assist her in what-

soever business she shall have need of you. For

she also hath assisted many, and myself also.

3Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers in

Christ Jesus,

4(Who have for my life laid down their own

necks: to whom not I only give thanks, but also

all the churches of the Gentiles,)

5And the church which is in their house.

Salute Epenetus, my beloved: who is the rst-

fruits of Asia in Christ.

6Salute Mary, who hath laboured much

among you.

7Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen

and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the

apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

8Salute Ampliatus, most beloved to me in the

Lord.

9Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus,

and Stachys, my beloved.

10Salute Apelles, approved in Christ.

11Salute them that are of Aristobulus' house-

hold. Salute Herodian, my kinsman. Salute

them that are of Narcissus' household, who are

in the Lord.

12Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who

labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the dearlybeloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord.

13Salute Rufus, elect in the Lord, and his

mother and mine.

14Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Pa-

trobas, Hermes, and the brethren that are with

them.

15Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his

sister, and Olympias; and all the saints that are

with them.

16Salute one another with an holy kiss. All

the churches of Christ salute you.

17Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them

who make dissensions and oences contrary to

the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid

them.

18For they that are such, serve not Christ

our Lord, but their own belly; and by pleasing

speeches and good words, seduce the hearts of

the innocent.

19For your obedience is published in every

place. I rejoice therefore in you. But I would

have you to be wise in good, and simple in evil.

20And the God of peace crush Satan under

your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus

Christ be with you.

21Timothy, my fellow labourer, saluteth you,

and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kins-

men.

22I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you

in the Lord.

23Caius, my host, and the whole church,

saluteth you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city,

saluteth you, and Quartus, a brother.

24The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

you all. Amen.

25Now to him that is able to establish you,

according to my gospel, and the preaching of

Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the

mystery, which was kept secret from eternity,1468 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans

26(Which now is made manifest by the scrip-

tures of the prophets, according to the precept

of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith,)

known among all nations;

27To God the only wise, through Jesus

Christ, to whom be honour and glory for ever

and ever. Amen.The First Epistle of St. Paul to the

Corinthians

Chapter 1

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by

the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother,

2To the church of God that is at Corinth, to

them that are sanctied in Christ Jesus, called

to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our

Lord Jesus Christ, in every place of theirs and

ours.

3Grace to you, and peace from God our Fa-

ther, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

4I give thanks to my God always for you,

for the grace of God that is given you in Christ

Jesus,

5That in all things you are made rich in him,

in all utterance, and in all knowledge;

6As the testimony of Christ was conrmed in

you,

7So that nothing is wanting to you in any

grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord

Jesus Christ.

8Who also will conrm you unto the end with-

out crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord

Jesus Christ.

9God is faithful: by whom you are called unto

the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name

of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the

same thing, and that there be no schisms among

you; but that you be perfect in the same mind,and in the same judgment.
11For it hath been signied unto me, my

brethren, of you, by them that are of the house

of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

12Now this I say, that every one of you saith:

I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I

am of Cephas; and I of Christ.

13Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucied

for you? or were you baptized in the name of

Paul?

14I give God thanks, that I baptized none of

you but Crispus and Caius;

15Lest any should say that you were baptized

in my name.

16And I baptized also the household of

Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I bap-

tized any other.

17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to

preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest

the cross of Christ should be made void.

18For the word of the cross, to them indeed

that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are

saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.

19For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom

of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent I

will reject.

20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe?

Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not

God made foolish the wisdom of this world?1470 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

21For seeing that in the wisdom of God the

world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased

God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save

them that believe.

22For both the Jews require signs, and the

Greeks seek after wisdom:

23But we preach Christ crucied, unto the

Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the

Gentiles foolishness:

24But unto them that are called, both Jews

and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the

wisdom of God.

25For the foolishness of God is wiser than

men; and the weakness of God is stronger than

men.

26For see your vocation, brethren, that there

are not many wise according to the

esh, not

many mighty, not many noble:

27But the foolish things of the world hath

God chosen, that he may confound the wise; and

the weak things of the world hath God chosen,

that he may confound the strong.

28And the base things of the world, and the

things that are contemptible, hath God chosen,

and things that are not, that he might bring to

nought things that are:

29That no

esh should glory in his sight.

30But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of

God is made unto us wisdom, and justice, and

sanctication, and redemption:

31That, as it is written: He that glorieth,

may glory in the Lord.

Chapter 2

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in

loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto

you the testimony of Christ.2For I judged not myself to know anything

among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucied.

3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear,

and in much trembling.

4And my speech and my preaching was not

in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but

in shewing of the Spirit and power;

5That your faith might not stand on the wis-

dom of men, but on the power of God.

6Howbeit we speak wisdom among the per-

fect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of

the princes of this world that come to nought;

7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mys-

tery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God or-

dained before the world, unto our glory :

8Which none of the princes of this world

knew; for if they had known it, they would never

have crucied the Lord of glory.

9But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen,

nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the

heart of man, what things God hath prepared

for them that love him.

10But to us God hath revealed them, by this

Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea,

the deep things of God.

11For what man knoweth the things of a man,

but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the

things also that are of God no man knoweth, but

the Spirit of God.

12Now we have received not the spirit of this

world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may

know the things that are given us from God.

13Which things also we speak, not in the

learned words of human wisdom; but in the doc-

trine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things

with spiritual.

14But the sensual man perceiveth not these

things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is

foolishness to him, and he cannot understand,

because it is spiritually examined.The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1471

15But the spiritual man judgeth all things;

and he himself is judged of no man.

16For who hath known the mind of the Lord,

that we may instruct him? But we have the mind

of Christ.

Chapter 3

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto

spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones

in Christ.

2I gave you milk to drink, not meat; for you

were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you

now able; for you are yet carnal.

3For, whereas there is among you envying and

contention, are you not carnal, and walk accord-

ing to man ?

4For while one saith, I indeed am of Paul;

and another, I am of Apollo; are you not men ?

What then is Apollo, and what is Paul?

5The ministers of him whom you have be-

lieved; and to every one as the Lord hath given.

6I have planted, Apollo watered, but God

gave the increase.

7Therefore, neither he that planteth is any

thing, nor he that watereth; but God that giveth

the increase.
8Now he that planteth, and he that watereth,

ate one. And every man shall receive his own

reward, according to his own labour.

9For we are God's coadjutors: you are God's

husbandry; you are God's building.

10According to the grace of God that is given

to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foun-

dation; and another buildeth thereon. But let

every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

11For other foundation no man can lay, but

that which is laid; which is Christ Jesus.12Now if any man build upon this foundation,

gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:

13Every man's work shall be manifest; for the

day of the Lord shall declare it, because it shall

be revealed in re; and the re shall try every

man's work, of what sort it is.

14If any man's work abide, which he hath

built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

15If any man's work burn, he shall suer loss;

but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by re.

16Know you not, that you are the temple of

God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you

17But if any man violate the temple of God,

him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is

holy, which you are.

18Let no man deceive himself: if any man

among you seem to be wise in this world, let

him become a fool, that he may be wise.

19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness

with God. For it is written: I will catch the wise

in their own craftiness.

20And again: The Lord knoweth the

thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

21Let no man therefore glory in men.

22For all things are yours, whether it be Paul,

or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or

death, or things present, or things to some; for

all are yours;

23And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Chapter 4

Let a man so account of us as of the ministers

of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of

God.

2Here now it is required among the dis-

pensers, that a man be found faithful.1472 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

3But to me it is a very small thing to be

judged by you, or by man's day; but neither do

I judge my own self.

4For I am not conscious to myself of any

thing, yet am I not hereby justied; but he that

judgeth me, is the Lord.

5Therefore judge not before the time; until

the Lord come, who both will bring to light the

hidden things of darkness, and will make man-

ifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall

every man have praise from God.

6But these things, brethren, I have in a g-

ure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your

sakes; that in us you may learn, that one be not

pued up against the other for another, above

that which is written.

7For who distinguisheth thee ? Or what hast

thou that thou hast not received ? And if thou

hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou

hadst not received it ?

8You are now full; you are now become rich;

you reign without us; and I would to God you

did reign, that we also might reign with you.

9For I think that God hath set forth us apos-

tles, the last, as it were men appointed to death:

we are made a spectacle to the world, and to

angels, and to men.

10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are

wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong;

you are honourable, but we without honour.

11Even unto this hour we both hunger and

thirst, and are naked, and are bueted, and have

no xed abode;

12And we labour, working with our own

hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are per-

secuted, and we suer it.

13We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are

made as the refuse of this world, the oscouring

of all even until now.14I write not these things to confound you;

but I admonish you as my dearest children.

15For if you have ten thousand instructors

in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ

Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of

me, as I also am of Christ.

17For this cause have I sent to you Timothy,

who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord;

who will put you in mind of my ways, which are

in Christ Jesus; as I teach every where in every

church.

18As if I would not come to you, so some are

pued up.

19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord

will: and will know, not the speech of them that

are pued up, but the power.

20For the kingdom of God is not in speech,

but in power.

21What will you ? shall I come to you with a

rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness

Chapter 5

It is absolutely heard, that there is fornication

among you, and such fornication as the like is

not among the heathens; that one should have

his father's wife.

2And you are pued up; and have not rather

mourned, that he might be taken away from

among you, that hath done this deed.

3I indeed, absent in body, but present in

spirit, have already judged, as though I were

present, him that hath so done,

4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you

being gathered together, and my spirit, with the

power of our Lord Jesus;The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1473

5To deliver such a one to Satan for the de-

struction of the

esh, that the spirit may be

saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

6Your glorying is not good. Know you not

that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump ?

7Purge out the old leaven, that you may be

a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ

our pasch is sacriced.

8Therefore let us feast, not with the old

leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wicked-

ness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity

and truth.

9I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep

company with fornicators.

10I mean not with the fornicators of this

world, or with the covetous, or the extortion-

ers, or the servers of idols; otherwise you must

needs go out of this world.

11But now I have written to you, not to keep

company, if any man that is named a brother, be

a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or

a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with

such a one, not so much as to eat.

12For what have I to do to judge them that

are without ? Do not you judge them that are

within ?

13For them that are without, God will judge.

Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

Chapter 6

Dare any of you, having a matter against an-

other, go to be judged before the unjust, and

not before the saints ?

2Know you not that the saints shall judge this

world ? And if the world shall be judged by you,

are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters

?3Know you not that we shall judge angels ?

how much more things of this world ?

4If therefore you have judgments of things

pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who

are the most despised in the church.

5I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is

not among you any one wise man, that is able to

judge between his brethren ?

6But brother goeth to law with brother, and

that before unbelievers.

7Already indeed there is plainly a fault among

you, that you have lawsuits one with another.

Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you

not rather suer yourselves to be defrauded?

8But you do wrong and defraud, and that to

your brethren.

9Know you not that the unjust shall not pos-

sess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither

fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,

10Nor the eeminate, nor liers with mankind,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor

railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the king-

dom of God.

11And such some of you were; but you are

washed, but you are sanctied, but you are jus-

tied in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and

the Spirit of our God.

12All things are lawful to me, but all things

are not expedient. All things are lawful to me,

but I will not be brought under the power of any.

13Meat for the belly, and the belly for the

meats; but God shall destroy both it and them:

but the body is not for fornication, but for the

Lord, and the Lord for the body.

14Now God hath both raised up the Lord,

and will raise us up also by his power.

15Know you not that your bodies are the

members of Christ ? Shall I then take the mem-

bers of Christ, and make them the members of

an harlot ? God forbid.1474 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

16Or know you not, that he who is joined to

a harlot, is made one body ? For they shall be,

saith he, two in one

esh.

17But he who is joined to the Lord, is one

spirit.

18Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth,

is without the body; but he that committeth for-

nication, sinneth against his own body.

19Or know you not, that your members are

the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you,

whom you have from God; and you are not your
own ?

20For you are bought with a great price. Glo-

rify and bear God in your body.

Chapter 7

Now concerning the thing whereof you wrote to

me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2But for fear of fornication, let every man

have his own wife, and let every woman have

her own husband.

3Let the husband render the debt to his wife,

and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

4The wife hath not power of her own body,

but the husband. And in like manner the hus-

band also hath not power of his own body, but

the wife.

5Defraud not one another, except, perhaps,

by consent, for a time, that you may give your-

selves to prayer; and return together again, lest

Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

6But I speak this by indulgence, not by com-

mandment.

7For I would that all men were even as myself:

but every one hath his proper gift from God; one

after this manner, and another after that.

8But I say to the unmarried, and to the wid-

ows: It is good for them if they so continue, evenas I.

9But if they do not contain themselves, let

them marry. For it is better to marry than to be

burnt.

10But to them that are married, not I but

the Lord commandeth, that the wife depart not

from her husband.

11And if she depart, that she remain unmar-

ried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let

not the husband put away his wife.

12For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If

any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and

she consent to dwell with him, let him not put

her away.

13And if any woman hath a husband that

believeth not, and he consent to dwell with her,

let her not put away her husband.

14For the unbelieving husband is sanctied

by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife

is sanctied by the believing husband: otherwise

your children should be unclean; but now they

are holy.

15But if the unbeliever depart, let him de-

part. For a brother or sister is not under servi-

tude in such cases. But God hath called us in

peace.

16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether

thou shalt save thy husband ? Or how knowest

thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife ?

17But as the Lord hath distributed to every

one, as God hath called every one, so let him

walk: and so in all churches I teach.

18Is any man called, being circumcised ? let

him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man

called in uncircumcision ? let him not be cir-

cumcised.

19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumci-

sion is nothing: but the observance of the com-

mandments of God.The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1475

20Let every man abide in the same calling in

which he was called.

21Wast thou called, being a bondman ? care

not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use

it rather.

22For he that is called in the Lord, being a

bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise

he that is called, being free, is the bondman of

Christ.

23You are bought with a price; be not made

the bondslaves of men.

24Brethren, let every man, wherein he was

called, therein abide with God.

25Now concerning virgins, I have no com-

mandment of the Lord; but I give counsel, as

having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faith-

ful.

26I think therefore that this is good for the

present necessity, that it is good for a man so to

be.

27Art thou bound to a wife ? seek not to be

loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not

a wife.

28But if thou take a wife, thou hast not

sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not

sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation

of the

esh. But I spare you.

29This therefore I say, brethren; the time

is short; it remaineth, that they also who have

wives, be as if they had none;

30And they that weep, as though they wept

not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not;

and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

31And they that use this world, as if they

used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth

away.

32But I would have you to be without solici-

tude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for

the things that belong to the Lord, how he may

please God.33But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for

the things of the world, how he may please his

wife: and he is divided.

34And the unmarried woman and the virgin

thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may

be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that

is married thinketh on the things of the world,

how she may please her husband.

35And this I speak for your prot: not to cast

a snare upon you; but for that which is decent,

and which may give you power to attend upon

the Lord, without impediment.

36But if any man think that he seemeth dis-

honoured, with regard to his virgin, for that she

is above the age, and it must so be: let him do

what he will; he sinneth not, if she marry.

37For he that hath determined being stead-

fast in his heart, having no necessity, but having

power of his own will; and hath judged this in

his heart, to keep his virgin, doth well.

38Therefore, both he that giveth his virgin in

marriage, doth well; and he that giveth her not,

doth better.

39A woman is bound by the law as long as

her husband liveth; but if her husband die, she is

at liberty: let her marry to whom she will; only

in the Lord.

40But more blessed shall she be, if she so

remain, according to my counsel; and I think

that I also have the spirit of God.

Chapter 8

Now concerning those things that are sacriced

to idols, we know that we all have knowledge.

Knowledge pueth up; but charity edieth.

2And if any man think that he knoweth any

thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to

know.1476 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

3But if any any love God, the same is known

by him.

4But as for the meats that are sacriced to

idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the

world, and that there is no God but one.

5For although there be that are called gods,

either in heaven or on earth (for there be gods

many, and lords many);

6Yet to us there is but one God, the Father,

of whom are all things, and we unto him; and

one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things,

and we by him.

7But there is not knowledge in every one.

For some until this present, with conscience of

the idol: eat as a thing sacriced to an idol, and

their conscience, being weak, is deled.

8But meat doth not commend us to God. For

neither, if we eat, shall we have the more; nor, if

we eat not, shall we have the less.

9But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty

become a stumblingblock to the weak.

10For if a man see him that hath knowledge

sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his

conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat

those things which are sacriced to idols ?

11And through thy knowledge shall the weak

brother perish, for whom Christ hath died ?

12Now when you sin thus against the

brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you

sin against Christ.

13Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother,

I will never eat

esh, lest I should scandalize my

brother.

Chapter 9

Am not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not

I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my

work in the Lord?2And if unto others I be not an apostle, but

yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my

apostleship in the Lord.

3My defence with them that do examine me

is this.

4Have not we power to eat and to drink?

5Have we not power to carry about a woman,

a sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and

the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power

to do this?

7Who serveth as a soldier at any time, at

his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard, and

eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the

ock, and eateth not of the milk of the

ock?

8Speak I these things according to man? Or

doth not the law also say these things?

9For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou

shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that tread-

eth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

10Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes?

For these things are written for our sakes: that

he that plougheth, should plough in hope; and

he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit.

11If we have sown unto you spiritual things,

is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

12If others be partakers of this power over

you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have

not used this power: but we bear all things, lest

we should give any hindrance to the gospel of

Christ.

13Know you not, that they who work in the

holy place, eat the things that are of the holy

place; and they that serve the altar, partake with

the altar?

14So also the Lord ordained that they who

preach the gospel, should live by the gospel.

15But I have used none of these things. Nei-

ther have I written these things, that they should

be so done unto me: for it is good for me to die,The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1477

rather than that any man should make my glory

void.

16For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory

to me, for a necessity lieth upon me: for woe is

unto me if I preach not the gospel.

17For if I do this thing willingly, I have a

reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is

committed to me:

18What is my reward then? That preach-

ing the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without

charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

19For whereas I was free as to all, I made

myself the servant of all, that I might gain the

more.
20And I became to the Jews, a Jew, that I

might gain the Jews:

21To them that are under the law, as if I

were under the law, (whereas myself was not un-

der the law,) that I might gain them that were

under the law. To them that were without the

law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was

not without the law of God, but was in the law of

Christ,) that I might gain them that were with-

out the law.

22To the weak I became weak, that I might

gain the weak. I became all things to all men,

that I might save all.

23And I do all things for the gospel's sake:

that I may be made partaker thereof.

24Know you not that they that run in the

race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize

? So run that you may obtain.

25And every one that striveth for the mas-

tery, refraineth himself from all things: and

they indeed that they may receive a corruptible

crown; but we an incorruptible one.

26I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty:

I so ght, not as one beating the air:

27But I chastise my body, and bring it into

subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preachedto others, I myself should become a castaway.
Chapter 10

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren,

that our fathers were all under the cloud, and

all passed through the sea.

2And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud,

and in the sea:

3And did all eat the same spiritual food,

4And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and

they drank of the spiritual rock that followed

them, and the rock was Christ.)

5But with most of them God was not well

pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

6Now these things were done in a gure of us,

that we should not covet evil things as they also

coveted.

7Neither become ye idolaters, as some of

them, as it is written: The people sat down to

eat and drink, and rose up to play.

8Neither let us commit fornication, as some

of them committed fornication, and there fell in

one day three and twenty thousand.

9Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them

tempted, and perished by the serpents.

10Neither do you murmur: as some of them

murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

11Now all these things happened to them in

gure: and they are written for our correction,

upon whom the ends of the world are come.

12Wherefore he that thinketh himself to

stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

13Let no temptation take hold on you, but

such as is human. And God is faithful, who will

not suer you to be tempted above that which

you are able: but will make also with temptation

issue, that you may be able to bear it.1478 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

14Wherefore, my dearly beloved,

y from the

service of idols.

15I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves

what I say.

16The chalice of benediction, which we bless,

is it not the communion of the blood of Christ

? And the bread, which we break, is it not the

partaking of the body of the Lord ?

17For we, being many, are one bread, one

body, all that partake of one bread.

18Behold Israel according to the

esh: are

not they, that eat of the sacrices, partakers of

the altar ?

19What then ? Do I say, that what is oered

in sacrice to idols, is any thing ? Or, that the

idol is any thing ?

20But the things which the heathens sacrice,

they sacrice to devils, and not to God. And I

would not that you should be made partakers

with devils.

21You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord,

and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partak-

ers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of

devils.

22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? Are

we stronger than he? All things are lawful for

me, but all things are not expedient.

23All things are lawful for me, but all things

do not edify.

24Let no man seek his own, but that which

is another's.

25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat;

asking no question for conscience' sake.

26The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness

thereof.

27If any of them that believe not, invite you,

and you will be willing to go; eat of any thing

that is set before you, asking no question for con-

science' sake.28But if any man say: This has been sacri-

ced to idols, do not eat of it for his sake that

told it, and for conscience' sake.

29Conscience, I say, not thy own, but the

other's. For why is my liberty judged by another

man's conscience ?

30If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I

evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks ?

31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or

whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of

God.

32Be without oence to the Jews, and to the

Gentiles, and to the church of God:

33As I also in all things please all men, not

seeking that which is protable to myself, but to

many, that may be saved.

Chapter 11

Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

2Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things

you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances

as I have delivered them to you.

3But I would have you know, that the head of

every man is Christ; and the head of the woman

is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

4Every man praying or prophesying with his

head covered, disgraceth his head.

5But every woman praying or prophesying

with her head not covered, disgraceth her head:

for it is all one as if she were shaven.

6For if a woman be not covered, let her be

shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be

shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.

7The man indeed ought not to cover his head,

because he is the image and glory of God; but

the woman is the glory of the man.

8For the man is not of the woman, but the

woman of the man.The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1479

9For the man was not created for the woman,

but the woman for the man.

10Therefore ought the woman to have a

power over her head, because of the angels.

11But yet neither is the man without the

woman, nor the woman without the man, in the

Lord.

12For as the woman is of the man, so also is

the man by the woman: but all things of God.

13You yourselves judge: doth it become a

woman, to pray unto God uncovered?

14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that

a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame

unto him?

15But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a

glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a

covering.

16But if any man seem to be contentious, we

have no such custom, nor the church of God.

17Now this I ordain: not praising you, that

you come together not for the better, but for the

worse.

18For rst of all I hear that when you come

together in the church, there are schisms among

you; and in part I believe it.

19For there must be also heresies: that they

also, who are approved, may be made manifest

among you.

20When you come therefore together into one

place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper.

21For every one taketh before his own supper

to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is

drunk.

22What, have you not houses to eat and to

drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and

put them to shame that have not ? What shall

I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise

you not.

23For I have received of the Lord that which

also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus,the same night in which he was betrayed, took

bread.

24And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take

ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be de-

livered for you: this do for the commemoration

of me.

25In like manner also the chalice, after he

had supped, saying: This chalice is the new tes-

tament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you

shall drink, for the commemoration of me.

26For as often as you shall eat this bread,

and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death

of the Lord, until he come.

27Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread,

or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall

be guilty of the body and of the blood of the

Lord.

28But let a man prove himself: and so let

him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.

29For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,

eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not dis-

cerning the body of the Lord.

30Therefore are there many inform and weak

among you, and many sleep.

31But if we would judge ourselves, we should

not be judged.

32But whilst we are judged, we are chastised

by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this

world.

33Wherefore, my brethren, when you come

together to eat, wait for one another.

34If any man be hungry, let him eat at home;

that you come not together unto judgment. And

the rest I will set in order, when I come.

Chapter 12

Now concerning spiritual things, my brethren, I

would not have you ignorant.1480 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

2You know that when you were heathens, you

went to dumb idols, according as you were led.

3Wherefore I give you to understand, that

no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith

Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say the

Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

4Now there are diversities of graces, but the

same Spirit;

5And there are diversities of ministries, but

the same Lord;

6And there are diversities of operations, but

the same God, who worketh all in all.

7And the manifestation of the Spirit is given

to every man unto prot.

8To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the

word of wisdom: and to another, the word of

knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

9To another, faith in the same spirit; to an-

other, the grace of healing in one Spirit;

10To another, the working of miracles; to an-

other, prophecy; to another, the discerning of

spirits; to another, diverse kinds of tongues; to

another, interpretation of speeches.

11But all these things one and the same Spirit

worketh, dividing to every one according as he

will.

12For as the body is one, and hath many

members; and all the members of the body,

whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also

is Christ.

13For in one Spirit were we all baptized into

one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether

bond or free; and in one Spirit we have all been

made to drink.

14For the body also is not one member, but

many.

15If the foot should say, because I am not the

hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of

the body ?16And if the ear should say, because I am not

the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not

of the body ?

17If the whole body were the eye, where

would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing,

where would be the smelling?

18But now God hath set the members every

one of them in the body as it hath pleased him.

19And if they all were one member, where

would be the body?

20But now there are many members indeed,

yet one body.

21And the eye cannot say to the hand: I need

not thy help; nor again the head to the feet: I

have no need of you.

22Yea, much more those that seem to be the

more feeble members of the body, are more nec-

essary.

23And such as we think to be the less hon-

ourable members of the body, about these we

put more abundant honour; and those that are

our uncomely parts, have more abundant come-

liness.

24But our comely parts have no need: but

God hath tempered the body together, giving to

that which wanted the more abundant honour,

25That there might be no schism in the body;

but the members might be mutually careful one

for another.

26And if one member suer any thing, all the

members suer with it; or if one member glory,

all the members rejoice with it.

27Now you are the body of Christ, and mem-

bers of member.
28And God indeed hath set some in the

church; rst apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly

doctors; after that miracles; then the graces of

healing, helps, governments, kinds of tongues,

interpretations of speeches.The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1481

29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all

doctors?

30Are all workers of miracles? Have all the

grace of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do

all interpret?

31But be zealous for the better gifts. And I

shew unto you yet a more excellent way.

Chapter 13

If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels,

and have not charity, I am become as sounding

brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2And if I should have prophecy and should

know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if

I should have all faith, so that I could remove

mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3And if I should distribute all my goods to

feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to

be burned, and have not charity, it proteth me

nothing.

4Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth

not, dealeth not perversely; is not pued up;

5Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not

provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;

6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with

the truth;

7Beareth all things, believeth all things,

hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8Charity never falleth away: whether prophe-

cies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease,

or knowledge shall be destroyed.

9For we know in part, and we prophesy in

part.

10But when that which is perfect is come,

that which is in part shall be done away.

11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I

understood as a child, I thought as a child. But,when I became a man, I put away the things of

a child.

12We see now through a glass in a dark man-

ner; but then face to face. Now I know I part;

but then I shall know even as I am known.

13And now there remain faith, hope, and

charity, these three: but the greatest of these

is charity.

Chapter 14

Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts;

but rather that you may prophesy.

2For he that speaketh in a tongue, speaketh

not unto men, but unto God: for no man

heareth. Yet by the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.

3But he that prophesieth, speaketh to men

unto edication, and exhortation, and comfort.

4He that speaketh in a tongue, edieth him-

self: but he that prophesieth, edieth the church.

5And I would have you all to speak with

tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is

he that prophesieth, than he that speaketh with

tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the

church may receive edication.

6But now, brethren, if I come to you speak-

ing with tongues, what shall I prot you, unless

I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowl-

edge, or in prophecy, or in doctrine?

7Even things without life that give sound,

whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinc-

tion of sounds, how shall it be known what is

piped or harped ?

8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound,

who shall prepare himself to the battle ?

9So likewise you, except you utter by the

tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what

is said ? For you shall be speaking into the air.1482 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

10There are, for example, so many kinds of

tongues in this world; and none is without voice.

11If then I know not the power of the voice,

I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian;

and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.

12So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous

of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of

the church.

13And therefore he that speaketh by a

tongue, let him pray that he may interpret.

14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth,

but my understanding is without fruit.

15What is it then ? I will pray with the

spirit, I will pray also with the understanding; I

will sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the

understanding.

16Else if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how

shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned

say, Amen, to thy blessing ? because he knoweth

not what thou sayest.

17For thou indeed givest thanks well, but the

other is not edied.

18I thank my God I speak with all your

tongues.

19But in the church I had rather speak ve

words with my understanding, that I may in-

struct others also; than ten thousand words in a

tongue.
20Brethren, do not become children in sense:

but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

21In the law it is written: In other tongues

and other lips I will speak to this people; and

neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

22Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to

believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecies not

to unbelievers, but to believers.

23If therefore the whole church come together

into one place, and all speak with tongues, and

there come in unlearned persons or indels, will

they not say that you are mad ?24But if all prophesy, and there come in one

that believeth not, or an unlearned person, he is

convinced of all, he is judged of all.

25The secrets of his heart are made manifest;

and so, falling down on his face, he will adore

God, arming that God is among you indeed.

26How is it then, brethren ? When you come

together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a

doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath

an interpretation: let all things be done to edi-

cation.

27If any speak with a tongue, let it be by

two, or at the most by three, and in course, and

let one interpret.

28But if there be no interpreter, let him hold

his peace in the church, and speak to himself and

to God.

29And let the prophets speak, two or three;

and let the rest judge.

30But if any thing be revealed to another

sitting, let the rst hold his peace.

31For you may all prophesy one by one; that

all may learn, and all may be exhorted:

32And the spirits of the prophets are subject

to the prophets.

33For God is not the God of dissension, but

of peace: as also I teach in all the churches of

the saints.

34Let women keep silence in the churches:

for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be

subject, as also the law saith.

35But if they would learn any thing, let them

ask their husbands at home. For it is a shame

for a woman to speak in the church.

36Or did the word of God come out from you

? Or came it only unto you ?

37If any seem to be a prophet, or spiritual,

let him know the things that I write to you, that

they are the commandments of the Lord.The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1483

38But if any man know not, he shall not be

known.
39Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to proph-

esy; and forbid not to speak with tongues.

40But let all things be done decently, and

according to order.

Chapter 15

Now I make known unto you, brethren, the

gospel which I preached to you, which also you

have received, and wherein you stand;

2By which also you are saved, if you hold fast

after what manner I preached unto you, unless

you have believed in vain.

3For I delivered unto you rst of all, which I

also received: how that Christ died for our sins,

according to the scriptures:

4And that he was buried, and that he rose

again the third day, according to the scriptures:

5And that he was seen by Cephas; and after

that by the eleven.

6Then he was seen by more than ve hundred

brethren at once: of whom many remain until

this present, and some are fallen asleep.

7After that, he was seen by James, then by

all the apostles.

8And last of all, he was seen also by me, as

by one born out of due time.

9For I am the least of the apostles, who am

not worthy to be called an apostle, because I

persecuted the church of God.

10But by the grace of God, I am what I am;

and his grace in me hath not been void, but I

have laboured more abundantly than all they:

yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

11For whether I, or they, so we preach, and

so you have believed.12Now if Christ be preached, that he arose

again from the dead, how do some among you

say, that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13But if there be no resurrection of the dead,

then Christ is not risen again.

14And if Christ be not risen again, then is

our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

15Yea, and we are found false witnesses of

God: because we have given testimony against

God, that he hath raised up Christ; whom he

hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.

16For if the dead rise not again, neither is

Christ risen again.

17And if Christ be not risen again, your faith

is vain, for you are yet in your sins.

18Then they also that are fallen asleep in

Christ, are perished.

19If in this life only we have hope in Christ,

we are of all men most miserable.

20But now Christ is risen from the dead, the

rstfruits of them that sleep :

21For by a man came death, and by a man

the resurrection of the dead.

22And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ

all shall be made alive.

23But every one in his own order: the rst-

fruits Christ, then they that are of Christ, who

have believed in his coming.

24Afterwards the end, when he shall have de-

livered up the kingdom to God and the Father,

when he shall have brought to nought all princi-

pality, and power, and virtue.

25For he must reign, until he hath put all his

enemies under his feet.

26And the enemy death shall be destroyed

last: For he hath put all things under his feet.

And whereas he saith,

27All things are put under him; undoubtedly,

he is excepted, who put all things under him.1484 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

28And when all things shall be subdued unto

him, then the Son also himself shall be subject

unto him that put all things under him, that God

may be all in all.

29Otherwise what shall they do that are bap-

tized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at

all? why are they then baptized for them?

30Why also are we in danger every hour?

31I die daily, I protest by your glory,

brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

32If (according to man) I fought with beasts

at Ephesus, what doth it prot me, if the dead

rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to mor-

row we shall die.

33Be not seduced: Evil communications cor-

rupt good manners.

34Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have

not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your

shame.

35But some man will say: How do the dead

rise again? or with what manner of body shall

they come?

36Senseless man, that which thou sowest is

not quickened, except it die rst.

37And that which thou sowest, thou sowest

not the body that shall be; but bare grain, as of

wheat, or of some of the rest.

38But God giveth it a body as he will: and

to every seed its proper body.

39All

esh is not the same

esh: but one is

the

esh of men, another of beasts, another of

birds, another of shes.

40And there are bodies celestial, and bodies

terrestrial: but, one is the glory of the celestial,

and another of the terrestrial.

41One is the glory of the sun, another the

glory of the moon, and another the glory of the

stars. For star diereth from star in glory.

42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is

sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption.43It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory.

It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power.

44It is sown a natural body, it shall rise a

spiritual body. If there be a natural body, there

is also a spiritual body, as it is written:

45The rst man Adam was made into a living

soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

46Yet that was not rst which is spiritual,

but that which is natural; afterwards that which

is spiritual.

47The rst man was of the earth, earthly:

the second man, from heaven, heavenly.

48Such as is the earthly, such also are the

earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also

are they that are heavenly.

49Therefore as we have borne the image of

the earthly, let us bear also the image of the

heavenly.

50Now this I say, brethren, that

esh and

blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: nei-

ther shall corruption possess incorruption.

51Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall

all indeed rise again: but we shall not all be

changed.

52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at

the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound,

and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and

we shall be changed.

53For this corruptible must put on incorrup-

tion; and this mortal must put on immortality.

54And when this mortal hath put on immor-

tality, then shall come to pass the saying that is

written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

55O death, where is thy victory? O death,

where is thy sting?

56Now the sting of death is sin: and the

power of sin is the law.

57But thanks be to God, who hath given us

the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1485

58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye

steadfast and unmoveable; always abounding in

the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour

is not in vain in the Lord.

Chapter 16

Now concerning the collections that are made for

the saints, as I have given order to the churches

of Galatia, so do ye also.

2On the rst day of the week let every one

of you put apart with himself, laying up what

it shall well please him; that when I come, the

collections be not then to be made.

3And when I shall be with you, whomsoever

you shall approve by letters, them will I send to

carry your grace to Jerusalem.

4And if it be meet that I also go, they shall

go with me.

5Now I will come to you, when I shall have

passed through Macedonia. For I shall pass

through Macedonia.

6And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even

spend the winter: that you may bring me on my

way whithersoever I shall go.

7For I will not see you now by the way, for

I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if

the Lord permit.

8But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

9For a great door and evident is opened unto

me: and many adversaries.

10Now if Timothy come, see that he be with

you without fear, for he worketh the work of the

Lord, as I also do.

11Let no man therefore despise him, but

conduct ye him on his way in peace: that he

may come to me. For I look for him with the

breatheren.

12And touching our brother Apollo, I giveyou to understand, that I much entreated him to

come unto you with the breatheren: and indeed

it was not his will at all to come at this time.

But he will come when he shall have leisure.

13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith,do man-

fully, and be strengthened.

14Let all your things be done in charity.

15And I beseech you, brethren, you know the

house of Stephanas, and of Fortunatus, and of

Achaicus, that they are the rstfruits of Achaia,

and have dedicated themselves to the ministry

of the saints:

16That you also be subject to such, and to

every one that worketh with us, and laboureth.

17And I rejoice in the presence of Stephanas,

and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because that

which was wanting on your part, they have sup-

plied.
18For they have refreshed both my spirit and

yours. Know them, therefore, that are such.

19The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila

and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with

the church that is in their house, with whom I

also lodge.

20All the brethren salute you. Salute one

another with a holy kiss.

21The salutation of me Paul, with my own

hand.

22If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ,

let him be anathema, maranatha.

23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

you.

24My charity be with you all in Christ Jesus.

Amen.The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the

Corinthians

Chapter 1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of

God, and Timothy our brother: to the church of

God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that

are in all Achaia:

2Grace unto you and peace from God our

Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord

Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God

of all comfort.

4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation;

that we also may be able to comfort them who

are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith

we also are exhorted by God.

5For as the suerings of Christ abound in us:

so also by Christ doth our comfort abound.

6Now whether we be in tribulation, it is

for your exhortation and salvation: or whether

we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or

whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhorta-

tion and salvation, which worketh the enduring

of the same suerings which we also suer.

7That our hope for you may be steadfast:

knowing that as you are partakers of the suer-

ings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

8For we would not have you igno-

rant,brethren, of our tribulation, which came to

us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure

above our strength, so that we were weary evenof life.

9But we had in ourselves the answer of death,

that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God

who raiseth the dead.

10Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out

of so great dangers: in whom we trust that he

will yet also deliver us.

11You helping withal in prayer for us: that

for this gift obtained for us, by the means of

many persons, thanks may be given by many in

our behalf.

12For our glory is this, the testimony of our

conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincer-

ity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the

grace of God, we have conversed in this world:

and more abundantly towards you.

13For we write no other things to you than

what you have read and known. And I hope that

you shall know unto the end:

14As also you have known us in part, that we

are your glory, as you also are ours, in the day

of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15And in this condence I had a mind to

come to you before, that you might have a second

grace:

16And to pass by you into Macedonia, and

again from Macedonia to come to you, and by

you to be brought on my way towards Judea.

17Whereas then I was thus minded, did I useThe Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1487

lightness? Or, the things that I purpose, do I

purpose according to the

esh, that there should

be with me, It is, and It is not?

18But God is faithful, for our preaching which

was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was

preached among you by us, by me, and Sylvanus,

and Timothy, was not, It is and It is not, but, It

is, was in him.

20For all the promises of God are in him, It

is; therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our

glory.

21Now he that conrmeth us with you in

Christ, and that hath anointed us, is God:

22Who also hath sealed us, and given the

pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

23But I call God to witness upon my soul,

that to spare you, I came not any more to

Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over

your faith: but we are helpers of your joy: for in

faith you stand.

Chapter 2

But I determined this with myself, not to come

to you again in sorrow.

2For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then

that can make me glad, but the same who is

made sorrowful by me?

3And I wrote this same to you; that I may

not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from

them of whom I ought to rejoice: having con-

dence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you

all.

4For out of much aiction and anguish of

heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that

you should be made sorrowful: but that you

might know the charity I have more abundantly

towards you.5And if any one have caused grief, he hath not

grieved me; but in part, that I may not burden

you all.

6To him who is such a one, this rebuke is

sucient, which is given by many:

7So that on the contrary, you should rather

forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such

a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

8Wherefore, I beseech you, that you would

conrm your charity towards him.

9For to this end also did I write, that I may

know the experiment of you, whether you be obe-

dient in all things.

10And to whom you have pardoned any

thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I

have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I

done it in the person of Christ.

11That we be not overreached by Satan. For

we are not ignorant of his devices.

12And when I was come to Troas for the

gospel of Christ, and a door was opened unto

me in the Lord,

13I had no rest in my spirit, because I found

not Titus my brother; but bidding them farewell,

I went into Macedonia.

14Now thanks be to God, who always maketh

us to triumph in Christ Jesus, and manifesteth

the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

15For we are the good odour of Christ unto

God, in them that are saved, and in them that

perish.

16To the one indeed the odour of death unto

death: but to the others the odour of life unto

life. And for these things who is so sucient?

17For we are not as many, adulterating the

word of God; but with sincerity, but as from

God, before God, in Christ we speak.1488 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

Chapter 3

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do

we need (as some do) epistles of commendation

to you, or from you?

2You are our epistle, written in our hearts,

which is known and read by all men:

3Being manifested, that you are the epistle of

Christ, ministered by us, and written not with

ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in

tables of stone, but in the

eshly tables of the

heart.

4And such condence we have, through

Christ, towards God.

5Not that we are sucient to think any thing

of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our suciency

is from God.

6Who also hath made us t ministers of the

new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit.

For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth.

7Now if the ministration of death, engraven

with letters upon stones, was glorious; so that

the children of Israel could not steadfastly be-

hold the face of Moses, for the glory of his coun-

tenance, which is made void:

8How shall not the ministration of the spirit

be rather in glory?

9For if the ministration of condemnation be

glory, much more the ministration of justice

aboundeth in glory.

10For even that which was glorious in this

part was not gloried, by reason of the glory that

excelleth.

11For if that which is done away was glorious,

much more that which remaineth is in glory.

12Having therefore such hope, we use much

condence:

13And not as Moses put a veil upon his face,

that the children of Israel might not steadfastly

look on the face of that which is made void.14But their senses were made dull. For, until

this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading

of the old testament, remaineth not taken away

(because in Christ it is made void).

15But even until this day, when Moses is read,

the veil is upon their heart.

16But when they shall be converted to the

Lord, the veil shall be taken away.

17Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the

Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

18But we all beholding the glory of the Lord

with open face, are transformed into the same

image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the

Lord.

Chapter 4

Therefore, seeing we have this ministration, ac-

cording as we have obtained mercy, we faint not;

2But we renounce the hidden things of dis-

honesty, not walking in craftiness, nor adulter-

ating the word of God; but by manifestation of

the truth commending ourselves to every man's

conscience, in the sight of God.

3And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to

them that are lost,

4In whom the god of this world hath blinded

the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the

gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of

God, should not shine unto them.

5For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus

Christ our Lord; and ourselves your servants

through Jesus.

6For God, who commanded the light to shine

out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to

give the light of the knowledge of the glory of

God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,

that the excellency may be of the power of God,The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

1489

and not of us.

8In all things we suer tribulation, but are

not distressed; we are straitened, but are not

destitute;

9We suer persecution, but are not forsaken;

we are cast down, but we perish not:

10Always bearing about in our body the mor-

tication of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may

be made manifest in our bodies.

11For we who live are always delivered unto

death for Jesus' sake; that the life also of Jesus

may be made manifest in our mortal

esh.

12So then death worketh in us, but life in

you.

13But having the same spirit of faith, as it

is written: I believed, for which cause I have

spoken; we also believe, for which cause we speak

also:

14Knowing that he who raised up Jesus, will

raise us up also with Jesus, and place us with

you.

15For all things are for your sakes; that the

grace abounding through many, may abound in

thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

16For which cause we faint not; but though

our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward

man is renewed day by day.

17For that which is at present momentary

and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above

measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

18While we look not at the things which are

seen, but at the things which are not seen. For

the things which are seen, are temporal; but the

things which are not seen, are eternal.

Chapter 5

For we know, if our earthly house of this habi-

tation be dissolved, that we have a building ofGod, a house not made with hands, eternal in

heaven.

2For in this also we groan, desiring to be

clothed upon with our habitation that is from

heaven.

3Yet so that we be found clothed, not naked.

4For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do

groan, being burthened; because we would not

be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which

is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

5Now he that maketh us for this very thing, is

God, who hath given us the pledge of the Spirit.

6Therefore having always condence, know-

ing that, while we are in the body, we are absent

from the Lord.

7(For we walk by faith, and not by sight.)

8But we are condent, and have a good will

to be absent rather from the body, and to be

present with the Lord.

9And therefore we labour, whether absent or

present, to please him.

10For we must all be manifested before the

judgement seat of Christ, that every one may

receive the proper things of the body, according

as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

11Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we

use persuasion to men; but to God we are man-

ifest. And I trust also that in your consciences

we are manifest.

12We commend not ourselves again to you,

but give you occasion to glory in our behalf; that

you may have somewhat to answer them who

glory in face, and not in heart.

13For whether we be transported in mind, it

is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for you.

14For the charity of Christ presseth us: judg-

ing this, that if one died for all, then all were

dead.

15And Christ died for all; that they also who

live, may not now live to themselves, but unto1490 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

him who died for them, and rose again.

16Wherefore henceforth, we know no man

according to the

esh. And if we have known

Christ according to the

esh; but now we know

him so no longer.

17If then any be in Christ a new creature,

the old things are passed away, behold all things

are made new.

18But all things are of God, who hath recon-

ciled us to himself by Christ; and hath given to

us the ministry of reconciliation.

19For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling

the world to himself, not imputing to them their

sins; and he hath placed in us the word of rec-

onciliation.

20For Christ therefore we are ambassadors,

God as it were exhorting by us. For Christ, we

beseech you, be reconciled to God.

21Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin

for us, that we might be made the justice of God

in him.

Chapter 6

And we helping do exhort you, that you receive

not the grace of God in vain.

2For he saith: In an accepted time have I

heard thee; and in the day of salvation have I

helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time;

behold, now is the day of salvation.

3Giving no oence to any man, that our min-

istry be not blamed:

4But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as

the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribu-

lation, in necessities, in distresses,

5In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours,

in watchings, in fastings,

6In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuering,

in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity un-feigned,

7In the word of truth, in the power of God;

by the armour of justice on the right hand and

on the left;

8By honour and dishonour, by evil report and

good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as un-

known, and yet known;

9As dying, and behold we live; as chastised,

and not killed;

10As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as

needy, yet enriching many; as having nothing,

and possessing all things.

11Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthi-

ans, our heart is enlarged.

12You are not straitened in us, but in your

own bowels you are straitened.

13But having the same recompense, (I speak

as to my children,) be you also enlarged.

14Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For

what participation hath justice with injustice?

Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

15And what concord hath Christ with Be-

lial? Or what part hath the faithful with the

unbeliever?
16And what agreement hath the temple of

God with idols? For you are the temple of the

living God; as God saith: I will dwell in them,

and walk among them; and I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.

17Wherefore, Go out from among them, and

be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the

unclean thing:

18And I will receive you; and I will be a Fa-

ther to you; and you shall be my sons and daugh-

ters, saith the Lord Almighty.The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1491

Chapter 7

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved,

let us cleanse ourselves from all delement of the

esh and of the spirit, perfecting sactication in

the fear of God.

2Receive us. We have injured no man, we

have corrupted no man, we have overreached no

man.

3I speak not this to your condemnation. For

we have said before, that you are in our hearts,

to die together, and to live together.

4Great is my condence for you, great is my

glorying for you. I am lled with comfort: I ex-

ceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation.

5For also when we were come into Macedo-

nia, our

esh had no rest, but we suered all

tribulation; combats without, fears within.

6But God, who comforteth the humble, com-

forted us by the coming of Titus.

7And not by his coming only, but also by the

consolation, wherewith he was comforted in you,

relating to us your desire, your mourning, your

zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

8For although I made you sorrowful by my

epistle, I do not repent; and if I did repent, seeing

that the same epistle (although but for a time)

did make you sorrowful;

9Now I am glad: not because you were made

sorrowful; but because you were made sorrowful

unto penance. For you were made sorrowful ac-

cording to God, that you might suer damage

by us in nothing.

10For the sorrow that is according to God

worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but

the sorrow of the world worketh death.

11For behold this selfsame thing, that you

were made sorrowful according to God, how

great carefulness it worketh in you; yea defence,

yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal,yea revenge: in all things you have shewed your-
selves to be undeled in the matter.

12Wherefore although I wrote to you, it was

not for his sake that I did the wrong, nor for him

that suered it; but to manifest our carefulness

that we have for you

13Before God: therefore we were comforted.

But in our consolation, we did the more abun-

dantly rejoice for the joy of Titus, because his

spirit was refreshed by you all.

14And if I have boasted any thing to him of

you, I have not been put to shame; but as we

have spoken all things to you in truth, so also

our boasting that was made to Titus is found a

truth.

15And his bowels are more abundantly to-

wards you; remembering the obedience of you

all, how with fear and trembling you have re-

ceived him.

16I rejoice that in all things I have condence

in you.

Chapter 8

Now we make known unto you, brethren, the

grace of God, that hath been given in the

churches of Macedonia.

2That in much experience of tribulation, they

have had abundance of joy; and their very deep

poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their

simplicity.

3For according to their power ( I bear them

witness), and beyond their power, they were will-

ing.

4With much entreaty begging of us the grace

and communication of the ministry that is done

toward the saints.

5And not as we hoped, but they gave their

own selves rst to the Lord, then to us by the1492 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

will of God:

6Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that as he

had begun, so also he would nish among you

this same grace.

7That as in all things you abound in faith,

and word, and knowledge, and all carefulness;

moreover also in your charity towards us, so in

this grace also you may abound.

8I speak not as commanding; but by the care-

fulness of others, approving also the good dispo-

sition of your charity.

9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus

Christ, that being rich he became poor, for your

sakes; that through his poverty you might be

rich.

10And herein I give my advice; for this is

protable for you, who have begun not only to

do, but also to be willing, a year ago.

11Now therefore perform ye it also in deed;

that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it

may be also to perform, out of that which you

have.

12For if the will be forward, it is accepted ac-

cording to that which a man hath, not according

to that which he hath not.

13For I mean not that others should be eased,

and you burthened, but by an equality.

14In this present time let your abundance

supply their want, that their abundance also may

supply your want, that there may be an equality,

15As it is written: He that had much, had

nothing over; and he that had little, had no want.

16And thanks be to God, who hath given the

same carefulness for you in the heart of Titus.

17For indeed he accepted the exhortation;

but being more careful, of his own will he went

unto you.

18We have sent also with him the brother,

whose praise is in the gospel through all the

churches.19And not that only, but he was also ordained

by the churches companion of our travels, for this

grace, which is administered by us, to the glory

of the Lord, and our determined will:

20Avoiding this, lest any man should blame

us in this abundance which is administered by

us.

21For we forecast what may be good not only

before God, but also before men.

22And we have sent with them our brother

also, whom we have often proved diligent in

many things; but now much more diligent, with

much condence in you,

23Either for Titus, who is my companion and

fellow labourer towards you, or our brethren, the

apostles of the churches, the glory of Christ.

24Wherefore shew ye to them, in the sight of

the churches, the evidence of your charity, and

of our boasting on your behalf.

Chapter 9

For concerning the ministry that is done towards

the saints, it is super

uous for me to write unto

you.

2For I know your forward mind: for which I

boast of you to the Macedonians. That Achaia

also is ready from the year past, and your emu-

lation hath provoked very many.

3Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing

which we boast of concerning you, be not made

void in this behalf, that (as I have said) you may

be ready:

4Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with

me, and nd you unprepared, we (not to say ye)

should be ashamed in this matter.

5Therefore I thought it necessary to desire

the brethren that they would go to you before,

and prepare this blessing before promised, to beThe Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

1493

ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness.

6Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly,

shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in

blessings, shall also reap blessings.

7Every one as he hath determined in his

heart, not with sadness, or of necessity: for God

loveth a cheerful giver.

8And God is able to make all grace abound

in you; that ye always, having all suciency in

all things, may abound to every good work,

9As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad,

he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth

for ever.

10And he that ministereth seed to the sower,

will both give you bread to eat, and will multiply

your seed, and increase the growth of the fruits

of your justice:

11That being enriched in all things, you

may abound unto all simplicity, which worketh

through us thanksgiving to God.

12Because the administration of this oce

doth not only supply the want of the saints, but

aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the

Lord,

13By the proof of this ministry, glorifying

God for the obedience of your confession unto

the gospel of Christ, and for the simplicity of

your communicating unto them, and unto all.

14And in their praying for you, being desirous

of you, because of the excellent grace of God in

you.

15Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Chapter 10

Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the mildness

and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed

am lowly among you, but being absent, am bold

toward you.2But I beseech you, that I may not be bold

when I am present, with that condence where-

with I am thought to be bold, against some, who

reckon us as if we walked according to the

esh.

3For though we walk in the

esh, we do not

war according to the

esh.

4For the weapons of our warfare are not car-

nal, but mighty to God unto the pulling down of

fortications, destroying counsels,

5And every height that exhalteth itself

against the knowledge of God, and bringing into

captivity every understanding unto the obedi-

ence of Christ;

6And having in readiness to revenge all dis-

obedience, when your obedience shall be fullled.

7See the things that are according to outward

appearance. If any man trust to himself, that he

is Christ's, let him think this again with himself,

that as he is Christ's, so are we also.

8For if also I should boast somewhat more

of our power, which the Lord hath given us unto

edication, and not for your destruction, I should

not be ashamed.

9But that I may not be thought as it were to

terrify you by epistles,

10(For his epistles indeed, say they, are

weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is

weak, and his speech contemptible,)

11Let such a one think this, that such as we

are in word by epistles, when absent, such also

we will be indeed when present.

12For we dare not match, or compare our-

selves with some, that commend themselves; but

we measure ourselves by ourselves, and compare

ourselves with ourselves.

13But we will not glory beyond our measure;

but according to the measure of the rule, which

God hath measured to us, a measure to reach

even unto you.

14For we stretch not ourselves beyond our1494 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we

are come as far as to you in the gospel of Christ.

15Not glorying beyond measure in other

men's labours; but having hope of your increas-

ing faith, to be magnied in you according to our

rule abundantly;

16Yea, unto those places that are beyond you,

to preach the gospel, not to glory in another

man's rule, in those things that are made ready

to our hand.

17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the

Lord.

18For not he who commendeth himself, is

approved, but he, whom God commendeth.

Chapter 11
Would to God you could bear with some little of

my folly: but do bear with me.

2For I am jealous of you with the jealousy

of God. For I have espoused you to one hus-

band that I may present you as a chaste virgin

to Christ.

3But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by

his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted,

and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4For if he that cometh preacheth another

Christ, whom we have not preached; or if you

receive another Spirit, whom you have not re-

ceived; or another gospel which you have not re-

ceived; you might well bear with him.

5For I suppose that I have done nothing less

than the great apostles.

6For although I be rude in speech, yet not in

knowledge; but in all things we have been made

manifest to you.

7Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself,

that you might be exalted? Because I preached

unto you the gospel of God freely?8I have taken from other churches, receiving

wages of them for your ministry.

9And, when I was present with you, and

wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that

which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied

who came from Macedonia; and in all things I

have kept myself from being burthensome to you,

and so I will keep myself.

10The truth of Christ is in me, that this glo-

rying shall not be broken o in me in the regions

of Achaia.

11Wherefore? Because I love you not? God

knoweth it.

12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut

o the occasion from them that desire occasion,

that wherein they glory, they may be found even

as we.

13For such false apostles are deceitful work-

men, transforming themselves into the apostles

of Christ.

14And no wonder: for Satan himself trans-

formeth himself into an angel of light.

15Therefore it is no great thing if his minis-

ters be transformed as the ministers of justice,

whose end shall be according to their works.

16I say again, (let no man think me to be

foolish, otherwise take me as one foolish, that I

also may glory a little.)

17That which I speak, I speak not accord-

ing to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this

matter of glorying.
18Seeing that many glory according to the

esh, I will glory also.

19For you gladly suer the foolish; whereas

yourselves are wise.

20For you suer if a man bring you into

bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take

from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike

you on the face.The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1495

21I speak according to dishonour, as if we

had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man

dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.

22They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Is-

raelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham:

so am I.

23They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as

one less wise): I am more; in many more labours,

in prisons more frequently, in stripes above mea-

sure, in deaths often.

24Of the Jews ve times did I receive forty

stripes, save one.

25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was

stoned, thrice I suered shipwreck, a night and

a day I was in the depth of the sea.

26In journeying often, in perils of waters, in

perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation,

in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city,

in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in

perils from false brethren.

27In labour and painfulness, in much watch-

ings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in

cold and nakedness.

28Besides those things which are without: my

daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches.

29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is

scandalized, and I am not on re?

30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the

things that concern my inrmity.

31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I

lie not.

32At Damascus, the governor of the nation

under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the

Damascenes, to apprehend me.

33And through a window in a basket was I

let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands.Chapter 12

If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed): but I

will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2I know a man in Christ above fourteen years

ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of

the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one

caught up to the third heaven.

3And I know such a man (whether in the

body, or out of the body, I know not: God

knoweth):

4That he was caught up into paradise, and

heard secret words, which it is not granted to

man to utter.

5For such an one I will glory; but for myself

I will glory nothing, but in my inrmities.

6For though I should have a mind to glory,

I shall not be foolish; for I will say the truth.

But I forbear, lest any man should think of me

above that which he seeth in me, or any thing

he heareth from me.

7And lest the greatness of the revelations

should exalt me, there was given me a sting of

my

esh, an angel of Satan, to buet me.

8For which thing thrice I besought the Lord,

that it might depart from me.

9And he said to me: My grace is sucient

for thee; for power is made perfect in inrmity.

Gladly therefore will I glory in my inrmities,

that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

10For which cause I please myself in my in-

rmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in perse-

cutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am

weak, then am I powerful.

11I am become foolish: you have compelled

me. For I ought to have been commended by

you: for I have no way come short of them that

are above measure apostles, although I be noth-

ing.

12Yet the signs of my apostleship have been1496 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

wrought on you, in all patience, in signs, and

wonders, and mighty deeds.

13For what is there that you have had less

than the other churches, but that I myself was

not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.

14Behold now the third time I am ready to

come to you; and I will not be burthensome unto

you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but

you. For neither ought the children to lay up for

the parents, but the parents for the children.

15But I most gladly will spend and be spent

myself for your souls; although loving you more,

I be loved less.

16But be it so: I did not burthen you: but

being crafty, I caught you by guile.

17Did I overreach you by any of them whom

I sent to you?

18I desired Titus, and I sent with him a

brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not

walk with the same spirit? did we not in the

same steps?

19Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves

to you? We speak before God in Christ; but all

things, my dearly beloved, for your edication.

20For I fear lest perhaps when I come I shall

not nd you such as I would, and that I shall be

found by you such as you would not. Lest per-

haps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissen-

sions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, sedi-

tions, be among you.

21Lest again, when I come, God humble me

among you: and I mourn many of them that

sinned before, and have not done penance for the

uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness,

that they have committed.Chapter 13

Behold, this is the third time I am coming to

you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall

every word stand.

2I have told before, and foretell, as present,

and now absent, to them that sinned before, and

to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not

spare.

3Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh

in me, who towards you is not weak, but is

mighty in you?
4For although he was crucied through weak-

ness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we

also are weak in him: but we shall live with him

by the power of God towards you.

5Try you own selves if you be in the faith;

prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own

selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps

you be reprobates?

6But I trust that you shall know that we are

not reprobates.

7Now we pray God, that you may do no evil,

not that we may appear approved, but that you

may do that which is good, and that we may be

as reprobates.

8For we can do nothing against the truth; but

for the truth.

9For we rejoice that we are weak, and you are

strong. This also we pray for, your perfection.

10Therefore I write these things, being ab-

sent, that, being present, I may not deal more

severely, according to the power which the Lord

hath given me unto edication, and not unto de-

struction.

11For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect,

take exhortation, be of one mind, have peace;

and the God of peace and of love shall be with

you.The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1497

12Salute one another with a holy kiss. All

the saints salute you.

13The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and

the charity of God, and the communication of

the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen.The Epistle of St. Paul to the

Galatians

Chapter 1

Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man,

but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who

raised him from the dead,

2And all the brethren who are with me, to

the churches of Galatia.

3Grace be to you, and peace from God the

Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might

deliver us from this present wicked world, ac-

cording to the will of God and our Father:

5To whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

6I wonder that you are so soon removed from

him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto

another gospel.

7Which is not another, only there are some

that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel

of Christ.

8But though we, or an angel from heaven,

preach a gospel to you besides that which we

have preached to you, let him be anathema.

9As we said before, so now I say again: If any

one preach to you a gospel, besides that which

you have received, let him be anathema.

10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or

do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I

should not be the servant of Christ.

11For I give you to understand, brethren,

that the gospel which was preached by me is notaccording to man.

12For neither did I receive it of man, nor did

I learn it; but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

13For you have heard of my conversation in

time past in the Jews' religion: how that, beyond

measure, I persecuted the church of God, and

wasted it.

14And I made progress in the Jews' religion

above many of my equals in my own nation, be-

ing more abundantly zealous for the traditions

of my fathers.

15But when it pleased him, who separated

me from my mother's womb, and called me by

his grace,

16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach

him among the Gentiles, immediately I conde-

scended not to
esh and blood.

17Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the apostles

who were before me: but I went into Arabia, and

again I returned to Damascus.

18Then, after three years, I went to

Jerusalem, to see Peter, and I tarried with him

fteen days.

19But other of the apostles I saw none, saving

James the brother of the Lord.

20Now the things which I write to you, be-

hold, before God, I lie not.

21Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria

and Cilicia.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians 1499

22And I was unknown by face to the churches

of Judea, which were in Christ:

23But they had heard only: He, who perse-

cuted us in times past, doth now preach the faith

which once he impugned:

24And they gloried God in me.

Chapter 2

Then, after fourteen years, I went up again to

Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with

me.

2And I went up according to revelation;

and communicated to them the gospel, which I

preach among the Gentiles, but apart to them

who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I

should run, or had run in vain.

3But neither Titus, who was with me, being

a Gentile, was compelled to be circumcised.

4But because of false brethren unawares

brought in, who came in privately to spy our

liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they

might bring us into servitude.

5To whom we yielded not by subjection, no

not for an hour, that the truth of the gospel

might continue with you.

6But of them who seemed to be some thing,

(what they were some time, it is nothing to me,

God accepteth not the person of man,) for to

me they that seemed to be some thing added

nothing.

7But contrariwise, when they had seen that

to me was committed the gospel of the uncircum-

cision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.

8(For he who wrought in Peter to the apos-

tleship of the circumcision, wrought in me also

among the Gentiles.)

9And when they had known the grace that

was given to me, James and Cephas and John,who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barn-

abas the right hands of fellowship: that we

should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the

circumcision:

10Only that we should be mindful of the

poor: which same thing also I was careful to do.

11But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I

withstood him to the face, because he was to be

blamed.

12For before that some came from James, he

did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were

come, he withdrew and separated himself, fear-

ing them who were of the circumcision.

13And to his dissimulation the rest of the

Jews consented, so that Barnabas also was led

by them into that dissimulation.

14But when I saw that they walked not up-

rightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to

Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew,

livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not

as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gen-

tiles to live as do the Jews?

15We by nature are Jews, and not of the Gen-

tiles sinners.

16But knowing that man is not justied by

the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus

Christ; we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we

may be justied by the faith of Christ, and not

by the works of the law: because by the works

of the law no

esh shall be justied.

17But if while we seek to be justied in

Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners; is

Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid.

18For if I build up again the things which I

have destroyed, I make myself a prevaricator.

19For I, through the law, am dead to the law,

that I may live to God: with Christ I am nailed

to the cross.

20And I live, now not I; but Christ liveth in

me. And that I live now in the

esh: I live in1500 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians

the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and

delivered himself for me.

21I cast not away the grace of God. For if

justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Chapter 3

O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you

that you should not obey the truth, before whose

eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucied

among you?

2This only would I learn of you: Did you

receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by

the hearing of faith?

3Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began

in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by

the

esh?

4Have you suered so great things in vain? If

it be yet in vain.

5He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit,

and worketh miracles among you; doth he do it

by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the

faith?

6As it is written: Abraham believed God, and

it was reputed to him unto justice.

7Know ye therefore, that they who are of

faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

8And the scripture, foreseeing, that God jus-

tieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham

before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.

9Therefore they that are of faith, shall be

blessed with faithful Abraham.

10For as many as are of the works of the law,

are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is

every one, that abideth not in all things, which

are written in the book of the law to do them.

11But that in the law no man is justied with

God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth

by faith.12But the law is not of faith: but, He that

doth those things, shall live in them.

13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse

of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is

written: Cursed is every one that hangeth on a

tree:

14That the blessing of Abraham might come

on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus: that we

may receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

15Brethren (I speak after the manner of

man,) yet a man's testament, if it be conrmed,

no man despiseth, nor addeth to it.

16To Abraham were the promises made and

to his seed. He saith not, And to his seeds, as of

many: but as of one, And to thy seed, which is

Christ.

17Now this I say, that the testament which

was conrmed by God, the law which was made

after four hundred and thirty years, doth not

disannul, to make the promise of no eect.

18For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no

more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham

by promise.

19Why then was the law? It was set because

of transgressions, until the seed should come, to

whom he made the promise, being ordained by

angels in the hand of a mediator.

20Now a mediator is not of one: but God is

one.

21Was the law then against the promises of

God? God forbid. For if there had been a law

given which could give life, verily justice should

have been by the law.

22But the scripture hath concluded all un-

der sin, that the promise, by the faith of Jesus

Christ, might be given to them that believe.

23But before the faith came, we were kept

under the law shut up, unto that faith which

was to be revealed.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians 1501

24Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in

Christ, that we might be justied by faith.

25But after the faith is come, we are no longer

under a pedagogue.

26For you are all the children of God by faith,

in Christ Jesus.

27For as many of you as have been baptized

in Christ, have put on Christ.

28There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is

neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor

female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

29And if you be Christ's, then are you the

seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

Chapter 4

Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he dif-

fereth nothing from a servant, though he be lord

of all;

2But is under tutors and governors until the

time appointed by the father:

3So we also, when we were children, were

serving under the elements of the world.

4But when the fulness of the time was come,

God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under

the law:

5That he might redeem them who were under

the law: that we might receive the adoption of

sons.

6And because you are sons, God hath sent the

Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba,

Father.

7Therefore now he is not a servant, but a son.

And if a son, an heir also through God.

8But then indeed, not knowing God, you

served them, who, by nature, are not gods.

9But now, after that you have known God, or

rather are known by God: how turn you again tothe weak and needy elements, which you desire

to serve again?

10You observe days, and months, and times,

and years.

11I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have

laboured in vain among you.

12Be ye as I, because I also am as you:

brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured

me at all.

13And you know, how through inrmity of

the

esh, I preached the gospel to you heretofore:

and your temptation in my

esh,

14You despised not, nor rejected: but re-

ceived me as an angel of God, even as Christ

Jesus.

15Where is then your blessedness? For I bear

you witness, that, if it could be done, you would

have plucked out your own eyes, and would have

given them to me.

16Am I then become your enemy, because I

tell you the truth?

17They are zealous in your regard not well:

but they would exclude you, that you might be

zealous for them.

18But be zealous for that which is good in

a good thing always: and not only when I am

present with you.

19My little children, of whom I am in labour

again, until Christ be formed in you.

20And I would willingly be present with

you now, and change my voice: because I am

ashamed for you.

21Tell me, you that desire to be under the

law, have you not read the law?

22For it is written that Abraham had two

sons: the one by a bondwoman, and the other

by a free woman.

23But he who was of the bondwoman, was

born according to the

esh: but he of the free

woman, was by promise.1502 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians

24Which things are said by an allegory. For

these are the two testaments. The one from

mount Sina, engendering unto bondage; which

is Agar:

25For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which

hath anity to that Jerusalem which now is, and

is in bondage with her children.

26But that Jerusalem, which is above, is free:

which is our mother.

27For it is written: Rejoice, thou barren, that

bearest not: break forth and cry, thou that tra-

vailest not: for many are the children of the des-

olate, more than of her that hath a husband.

28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the

children of promise.
29But as then he, that was born according

to the

esh, persecuted him that was after the

spirit; so also it is now.

30But what saith the scripture? Cast out

the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the

bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the

free woman.

31So then, brethren, we are not the children

of the bondwoman, but of the free: by the free-

dom wherewith Christ has made us free.

Chapter 5

Stand fast, and be not held again under the yoke

of bondage.

2Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be cir-

cumcised, Christ shall prot you nothing.

3And I testify again to every man circum-

cising himself, that he is a debtor to the whole

law.

4You are made void of Christ, you who are

justied in the law: you are fallen from grace.

5For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope

of justice.6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision

availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but faith

that worketh by charity.

7You did run well, who hath hindered you,

that you should not obey the truth?

8This persuasion is not from him that calleth

you.

9A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

10I have condence in you in the Lord: that

you will not be of another mind: but he that

troubleth you, shall bear the judgment, whoso-

ever he be.

11And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumci-

sion, why do I yet suer persecution? Then is

the scandal of the cross made void.

12I would they were even cut o, who trouble

you.

13For you, brethren, have been called unto

liberty: only make not liberty an occasion to

the

esh, but by charity of the spirit serve one

another.

14For all the law is fullled in one word: Thou

shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15But if you bite and devour one another;

take heed you be not consumed one of another.

16I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall

not full the lusts of the

esh.

17For the
esh lusteth against the spirit: and

the spirit against the

esh; for these are contrary

one to another: so that you do not the things

that you would.

18But if you are led by the spirit, you are not

under the law.

19Now the works of the

esh are manifest,

which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty,

luxury,

20 Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, con-

tentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissen-

sions, sects,The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians 1503

21Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings,

and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as

I have foretold to you, that they who do such

things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

22But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy,

peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanim-

ity,

23Mildness, faith, modesty, continency,

chastity. Against such there is no law.

24And they that are Christ's, have crucied

their

esh, with the vices and concupiscences.

25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in

the Spirit.

26Let us not be made desirous of vain glory,

provoking one another, envying on another.

Chapter 6

Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault,

you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the

spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou

also be tempted.

2Bear ye one another's burdens; and so you

shall full the law of Christ.

3For if any man think himself to be some

thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth him-

self.

4But let every one prove his own work, and

so he shall have glory in himself only, and not in

another.

5For every one shall bear his own burden.

6And let him that is instructed in the word,

communicate to him that instructeth him, in all

good things.

7Be not deceived, God is not mocked.

8For what things a man shall sow, those also

shall he reap. For he that soweth in his

esh, of

the
esh also shall reap corruption. But he thatsoweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life

everlasting.

9And in doing good, let us not fail. For in

due time we shall reap, not failing.

10Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work

good to all men, but especially to those who are

of the household of the faith.

11See what a letter I have written to you with

my own hand.

12For as many as desire to please in the

esh,

they constrain you to be circumcised, only that

they may not suer the persecution of the cross

of Christ.

13For neither they themselves who are cir-

cumcised, keep the law; but they will have you

to be circumcised, that they may glory in your

esh.

14But God forbid that I should glory, save in

the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the

world is crucied to me, and I to the world.

15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision

availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a

new creature.

16And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace

on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

17From henceforth let no man be troublesome

to me; for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in

my body.

18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

your spirit, brethren. Amen.The Epistle of St. Paul to the

Ephesians

Chapter 1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of

God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus, and

to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

2Grace be to you, and peace from God the

Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord

Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with spiritual

blessings in heavenly places, in Christ:

4As he chose us in him before the founda-

tion of the world, that we should be holy and

unspotted in his sight in charity.

5Who hath predestinated us unto the adop-

tion of children through Jesus Christ unto him-

self: according to the purpose of his will:

6Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in

which he hath graced us in his beloved son.

7In whom we have redemption through his

blood, the remission of sins, according to the

riches of his grace,

8Which hath superabounded in us in all wis-

dom and prudence,

9That he might make known unto us the mys-

tery of his will, according to his good pleasure,

which he hath purposed in him,

10In the dispensation of the fulness of times,

to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in

heaven and on earth, in him.11In whom we also are called by lot, being

predestinated according to the purpose of him

who worketh all things according to the counsel

of his will.

12That we may be unto the praise of his glory,

we who before hoped Christ:

13In whom you also, after you had heard the

word of truth, (the gospel of your salvation;) in

whom also believing, you were signed with the

holy Spirit of promise,

14Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto

the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of

his glory.

15Wherefore I also, hearing of your faith that

is in the Lord Jesus, and of your love towards all

the saints,

16Cease not to give thanks for you, making

commemoration of you in my prayers,

17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the

Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of

wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of

him:

18The eyes of your heart enlightened, that

you may know what the hope is of the glory of

his inheritance in the saints.

19And what is the exceeding greatness of his

power towards us, who believe according to the

operation of the might of his power,

20Which he wrought in Christ, raising himThe Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians 1505

up from the dead, and setting him on his right

hand in the heavenly places.

21Above all principality, and power, and

virtue, and dominion, and every name that is

named, not only in this world, but also in that

which is to come.

22And he hath subjected all things under his

feet, and hath made him head over all the church,

23Which is his body, and the fulness of him

who is lled all in all.

Chapter 2

And you, when you were dead in your oences,

and sins,

2Wherein in time past you walked accord-

ing to the course of this world, according to the

prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that

now worketh on the children of unbelief:

3In which also we all conversed in time past,

in the desires of our

esh, fullling the will of the

esh and of our thoughts, and were by nature

children of wrath, even as the rest:

4But God, (who is rich in mercy,) for his ex-

ceeding charity wherewith he loved us,

5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quick-

ened us together in Christ, (by whose grace you

are saved,)

6And hath raised us up together, and hath

made us sit together in the heavenly places,

through Christ Jesus.

7That he might shew in the ages to come

the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty

towards us in Christ Jesus.

8For by grace you are saved through faith,

and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of

God;

9Not of works, that no man may glory.

10For we are his workmanship, created inChrist Jesus in good works, which God hath pre-

pared that we should walk in them.

11For which cause be mindful that you, being

heretofore Gentiles in the

esh, who are called

uncircumcision by that which is called circumci-

sion in the

esh, made by hands;

12That you were at that time without Christ,

being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and

strangers to the testament, having no hope of

the promise, and without God in this world.

13But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some

time were afar o, are made nigh by the blood

of Christ.

14For he is our peace, who hath made both

one, and breaking down the middle wall of par-

tition, the enmities in his

esh:

15Making void the law of commandments

contained in decrees; that he might make the

two in himself into one new man, making peace;

16And might reconcile both to God in one

body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.

17And coming, he preached peace to you that

were afar o, and peace to them that were nigh.

18For by him we have access both in one

Spirit to the Father.

19Now therefore you are no more strangers

and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with

the saints, and the domestics of God,

20Built upon the foundation of the apos-

tles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the

chief corner stone:

21In whom all the building, being framed to-

gether, groweth up into an holy temple in the

Lord.

22In whom you also are built together into

an habitation of God in the Spirit.1506 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians

Chapter 3

For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus

Christ, for you Gentiles;

2If yet you have heard of the dispensation of

the grace of God which is given me towards you:

3How that, according to revelation, the mys-

tery has been made known to me, as I have writ-

ten above in a few words;

4As you reading, may understand my knowl-

edge in the mystery of Christ,

5Which in other generations was not known

to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his

holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

6That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and

of the same body, and co-partners of his promise

in Christ Jesus, by the gospel:

7Of which I am made a minister, according

to the gift of the grace of God, which is given to

me according to the operation of his power:

8To me, the least of all the saints, is given

this grace, to preach among the Gentiles, the

unsearchable riches of Christ,

9And to enlighten all men, that they may see

what is the dispensation of the mystery which

hath been hidden from eternity in God, who cre-

ated all things:

10That the manifold wisdom of God may be

made known to the principalities and powers in

heavenly places through the church,

11According to the eternal purpose, which he

made, in Christ Jesus our Lord:

12In whom we have boldness and access with

condence by the faith of him.

13Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my

tribulations for you, which is your glory.

14For this cause I bow my knees to the Father

of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth

is named,16That he would grant you, according to the

riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his

Spirit with might unto the inward man,

17That Christ may dwell by faith in your

hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

18You may be able to comprehend, with all

the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and

height, and depth:

19To know also the charity of Christ, which

surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be lled

unto all the fulness of God.

20Now to him who is able to do all things

more abundantly than we desire or understand,

according to the power that worketh in us;

21To him be glory in the church, and in

Christ Jesus unto all generations, world without

end. Amen.

Chapter 4

I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you

that you walk worthy of the vocation in which

you are called,

2With all humility and mildness, with pa-

tience, supporting one another in charity.

3Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the

bond of peace.

4One body and one Spirit; as you are called

in one hope of your calling.

5One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

6One God and Father of all, who is above all,

and through all, and in us all.

7But to every one of us is given grace, accord-

ing to the measure of the giving of Christ.

8Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he

led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men.

9Now that he ascended, what is it, but be-

cause he also descended rst into the lower parts

of the earth?The Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians 1507

10He that descended is the same also that

ascended above all the heavens, that he might

ll all things.

11And he gave some apostles, and some

prophets, and other some evangelists, and other

some pastors and doctors,

12For the perfecting of the saints, for the

work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body

of Christ:

13Until we all meet into the unity of faith,

and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a

perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the

fulness of Christ;

14That henceforth we be no more children

tossed to and fro, and carried about with every

wind of doctrine by the wickedness of men, by

cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to

deceive

15But doing the truth in charity, we may in

all things grow up in him who is the head, even

Christ:

16From whom the whole body, being com-

pacted and tly joined together, by what every

joint supplieth, according to the operation in the

measure of every part, maketh increase of the

body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.

17This then I say and testify in the Lord:

That henceforward you walk not as also the Gen-

tiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

18Having their understanding darkened, be-

ing alienated from the life of God through the

ignorance that is in them, because of the blind-

ness of their hearts.

19Who despairing, have given themselves up

to lasciviousness, unto the working of all un-

cleanness, unto the working of all uncleanness,

unto covetousness.

20But you have not so learned Christ;

21If so be that you have heard him, and have

been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:22To put o, according to former conversa-

tion, the old man, who is corrupted according to

the desire of error.

23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind:

24And put on the new man, who according

to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

25Wherefore putting away lying, speak ;ye

the truth every man with his neighbour; for we

are members one of another.

26Be angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go

down upon your anger.

27Give not place to the devil.

28He that stole, let him now steal no more;

but rather let him labour, working with his

hands the thing which is good, that he may have

something to give to him that suereth need.

29Let no evil speech proceed from your

mouth; but that which is good, to the edica-

tion of faith, that it may administer grace to the

hearers.

30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God:

whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemp-

tion.

31Let all bitterness, and anger, and indigna-

tion, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away

from you, with all malice.

32And be ye kind one to another; merciful,

forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven

you in Christ.

Chapter 5

Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear

children;
2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved

us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation

and a sacrice to God for an odour of sweetness.

3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or cov-

etousness, let it not so much as be named among1508 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians

you, as becometh saints:

4Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurril-

ity, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of

thanks.

5For know you this and understand, that no

fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which

is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the

kingdom of Christ and of God.

6Let no man deceive you with vain words.

For because of these things cometh the anger of

God upon the children of unbelief.

7Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

8For you were heretofore darkness, but now

light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the

light.

9For the fruit of the light is in all goodness,

and justice, and truth;

10Proving what is well pleasing to God:

11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful

works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

12For the things that are done by them in

secret, it is a shame even to speak of.

13But all things that are reproved, are made

manifest by the light; for all that is made mani-

fest is light.

14Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that sleep-

est, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall

enlighten thee.

15See therefore, brethren, how you walk cir-

cumspectly: not as unwise,

16But as wise: redeeming the time, because

the days are evil.

17Wherefore become not unwise, but under-

standing what is the will of God.

18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is

luxury; but be ye lled with the holy Spirit,

19Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and

hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and mak-

ing melody in your hearts to the Lord;20Giving thanks always for all things, in the

name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God and the

Father:

21Being subject one to another, in the fear

of Christ.

22Let women be subject to their husbands,

as to the Lord:

23Because the husband is the head of the

wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is

the saviour of his body.

24Therefore as the church is subject to

Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands

in all things.

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also

loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:

26That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by

the laver of water in the word of life:

27That he might present it to himself a glo-

rious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any;

such thing; but that it should be holy, and with-

out blemish.

28So also ought men to love their wives as

their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth

himself.

29For no man ever hated his own

esh; but

nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth

the church:

30Because we are members of his body, of his

esh, and of his bones.

31For this cause shall a man leave his father

and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and

they shall be two in one

esh.
32This is a great sacrament; but I speak in

Christ and in the church.

33Nevertheless let every one of you in par-

ticular love his wife as himself: and let the wife

fear her husband.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians 1509

Chapter 6

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this

is just.

2Honour thy father and thy mother, which is

the rst commandment with a promise:

3That it may be well with thee, and thou

mayest be long lived upon earth.

4And you, fathers, provoke not your children

to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and

correction of the Lord.

5Servants, be obedient to them that are your

lords according to the

esh, with fear and trem-

bling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to

Christ:

6Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing

men, but, as the servants of Christ doing the will

of God from the heart,

7With a good will serving, as to the Lord,

and not to men.

8Knowing that whatsoever good thing any

man shall do, the same shall he receive from the

Lord, whether he be bond, or free.

9And you, masters, do the same things to

them, forbearing threatenings, knowing that the

Lord both of them and you is in heaven; and

there is no respect of persons with him.

10Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the

Lord, and in the might of his power.

11Put you on the armour of God, that you

may be able to stand against the deceits of the

devil.

12For our wrestling is not against

esh and

blood; but against principalities and power,

against the rulers of the world of this dark-

ness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high

places.

13Therefore take unto you the armour of

God, that you may be able to resist in the evil

day, and to stand in all things perfect.14Stand therefore, having your loins girt

about with truth, and having on the breastplate

of justice,

15And your feet shod with the preparation of

the gospel of peace:

16In all things taking the shield of faith,

wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the

ery darts of the most wicked one.

17And take unto you the helmet of salvation,

and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of

God).

18By all prayer and supplication praying at

all times in the spirit; and in the same watch-

ing with all instance and supplication for all the

saints:

19And for me, that speech may be given me,

that I may open my mouth with condence, to

make known the mystery of the gospel.

20For which I am an ambassador in a chain,

so that therein I may be bold to speak according

as I ought.

21But that you also may know the things that

concern me, and what I am doing, Tychicus, my

dearest brother and faithful minister in the Lord,

will make known to you all things:

22Whom I have sent to you for this same pur-

pose, that you may know the things concerning

us, and that he may comfort your hearts.

23Peace be to the brethren and charity with

faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus

Christ.

24Grace be with all them that love our Lord

Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.The Epistle of St. Paul to the

Philippians

Chapter 1

Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ;

to all the saints in Christ Jesus, who are at

Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

2Grace be unto you, and peace from God our

Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3I give thanks to my God in every remem-

brance of you,

4Always in all my prayers making supplica-

tion for you all, with joy;

5For your communication in the gospel of

Christ from the rst day until now.

6Being condent of this very thing, that he,

who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect

it unto the day of Christ Jesus.

7As it is meet for me to think this for you

all, for that I have you in my heart; and that in

my bands, and in the defence and conrmation

of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.

8For God is my witness, how I long after you

all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

9And this I pray, that your charity may more

and more abound in knowledge, and in all un-

derstanding:

10That you may approve the better things,

that you may be sincere and without oence unto

the day of Christ,

11Filled with the fruit of justice, through Je-sus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

12Now, brethren, I desire you should know,

that the things which have happened to me, have

fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel:

13So that my bands are made manifest in

Christ, in all the court, and in all other places;

14And many of the brethren in the Lord,

growing condent by my bands, are much more

bold to speak the word of God without fear.

15Some indeed, even out of envy and con-

tention; but some also for good will preach

Christ.

16Some out of charity, knowing that I am set

for the defence of the gospel.

17And some out of contention preach Christ

not sincerely: supposing that they raise aiction

to my bands.

18But what then? So that by all means,

whether by occasion, or by truth, Christ be

preached: in this also I rejoice, yea, and will

rejoice.

19For I know that this shall fall out to me

unto salvation, through your prayer, and the

supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

20According to my expectation and hope;

that in nothing I shall be confounded, but with

all condence, as always, so now also shall Christ

be magnied in my body, wither it be by life, or

by death.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians 1511

21For to me, to live is Christ; and to die is

gain.

22And if to live in the

esh, that is to me the

fruit of labour, and what I shall choose I know

not.

23But I am straitened between two: having

a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a

thing by far the better.

24But to abide still in the

esh, is needful for

you.

25And having this condence, I know that I

shall abide, and continue with you all, for your

furtherance and joy of faith:

26That your rejoicing may abound in Christ

Jesus for me, by my coming to you again.

27Only let your conversation be worthy of the

gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see

you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you

stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring

together for the faith of the gospel.

28And in nothing be ye terried by the ad-

versaries: which to them is a cause of perdition,

but to you of salvation, and this from God:

29For unto you it is given for Christ, not only

to believe in him, but also to suer for him.

30Having the same con

ict as that which you

have seen in me, and now have heard of me.

Chapter 2

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ,

if any comfort of charity, if any society of the

spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:

2Full ye my joy, that you may be of one

mind, having the same charity, being of one ac-

cord, agreeing in sentiment.

3Let nothing be done through contention, nei-

ther by vain glory: but in humility, let each es-

teem others better than themselves:4Each one not considering the things that are

his own, but those that are other men's.

5For let this mind be in you, which was also

in Christ Jesus:

6Who being in the form of God, thought it

not robbery to be equal with God:

7But emptied himself, taking the form of a

servant, being made in the likeness of men, and

in habit found as a man.

8He humbled himself, becoming obedient

unto death, even to the death of the cross.

9For which cause God also hath exalted him,

and hath given him a name which is above all

names:

10That in the name of Jesus every knee

should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth,

and under the earth:

11And that every tongue should confess that

the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the

Father.

12Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have

always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but

much more now in my absence,) with fear and

trembling work out your salvation.

13For it is God who worketh in you, both

to will and to accomplish, according to his good

will.

14And do ye all things without murmurings

and hesitations;

15That you may be blameless, and sincere

children of God, without reproof, in the midst of

a crooked and perverse generation; among whom

you shine as lights in the world.

16Holding forth the word of life to my glory

in the day of Christ, because I have not run in

vain, nor laboured in vain.

17Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the

sacrice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and

congratulate with you all.1512 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians

18And for the selfsame thing do you also re-

joice, and congratulate with me.

19And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Tim-

othy unto you shortly, that I also may be of good

comfort, when I know the things concerning you.

20For I have no man so of the same mind,

who with sincere aection is solicitous for you.

21For all seek the things that are their own;

not the things that are Jesus Christ's.

22Now know ye the proof of him, that as a

son with the father, so hath he served with me

in the gospel.

23Him therefore I hope to send unto you im-

mediately, so soon as I shall see how it will go

with me.

24And I trust in the Lord, that I myself also

shall come to you shortly.

25But I have thought it necessary to send

to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow

labourer, and fellow soldier, but your apostle,

and he that hath ministered to my wants.

26For indeed he longed after you all: and was

sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.

27For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death;

but God had mercy on him; and not only on

him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow

upon sorrow.

28Therefore I sent him the more speedily:

that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and I

may be without sorrow.

29Receive him therefore with all joy in the

Lord; and treat with honour such as he is.

30Because for the work of Christ he came to

the point of death: delivering his life, that he

might full that which on your part was wanting

towards my service.Chapter 3

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.

To write the same things to you, to me indeed is

not wearisome, but to you it is necessary.

2Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, be-

ware of the concision.

3For we are the circumcision, who in spirit

serve God; and glory in Christ Jesus, not having

condence in the

esh.

4Though I might also have condence in the

esh. If any other thinketh he may have con-

dence in the

esh, I more,

5Being circumcised the eighth day, of the

stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an He-

brew of the Hebrews; according to the law, a

Pharisee:

6According to zeal, persecuting the church of

God; according to the justice that is in the law,

conversing without blame.

7But the things that were gain to me, the

same I have counted loss for Christ.

8Furthermore I count all things to be but

loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ

my Lord; for whom I have suered the loss of all

things, and count them but as dung, that I may

gain Christ:

9And may be found in him, not having my

justice, which is of the law, but that which is of

the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God, justice

in faith:

10That I may know him, and the power of his

resurrection, and the fellowship of his suerings,

being made conformable to his death,

11If by any means I may attain to the resur-

rection which is from the dead.

12Not as though I has already attained, or

were already perfect; but I follow after, if I may

by any means apprehend, wherein I am also ap-

prehended by Christ Jesus.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians 1513

13Brethren, I do not count myself to have

apprehended. But one thing I do: forgetting the

things that are behind, and stretching forth my-

self to those that are before,

14I press towards the mark, to the prize of

the supernal vocation of God in Christ Jesus.

15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect,

be thus minded; and if in any thing you be oth-

erwise minded, this also God will reveal to you.

16Nevertheless whereunto we are come, that

we be of the same mind, let us also continue in

the same rule.

17Be ye followers of me, brethren, and ob-

serve them who walk so as you have our model.

18For many walk, of whom I have told you

often (and now tell you weeping), that they are

enemies of the cross of Christ;

19Whose end is destruction; whose God is

their belly; and whose glory is in their shame;

who mind earthly things.

20But our conversation is in heaven; from

whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord

Jesus Christ,

21Who will reform the body of our lowness,

made like to the body of his glory, according to

the operation whereby also he is able to subdue

all things unto himself.

Chapter 4

Therefore, my dearly beloved brethren, and most

desired, my joy and my crown; so stand fast in

the Lord, my dearly beloved.

2I beg of Evodia, and I beseech Syntyche, to

be of one mind in the Lord.

3And I entreat thee also, my sincere com-

panion, help those women who have laboured

with me in the gospel, with Clement and the

rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are inthe book of life.

4Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say, re-

joice.

5Let your modesty be known to all men. The

Lord is nigh.

6Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing, by

prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let

your petitions be made known to God.

7And the peace of God, which surpasseth all

understanding, keep your hearts and minds in

Christ Jesus.

8For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things

are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just,

whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever

of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise

of discipline, think on these things.

9The things which you have both learned, and

received, and heard, and seen in me, these do ye,

and the God of peace shall be with you.

10Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly, that

now at length your thought for me hath

our-

ished again, as you did also think; but you were

busied.

11I speak not as it were for want. For I have

learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content

therewith.

12I know both how to be brought low, and

I know how to abound: (everywhere, and in all

things I am instructed) both to be full, and to

be hungry; both to abound, and to suer need.

13I can do all these things in him who

strengtheneth me.

14Nevertheless you have done well in commu-

nicating to my tribulation.

15And you also know, O Philippians, that

in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed

from Macedonia, no church communicated with

me as concerning giving and receiving, but you

only:1514 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians

16For unto Thessalonica also you sent once

and again for my use.

17Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit

that may abound to your account.

18But I have all, and abound: I am lled,

having received from Epaphroditus the things

you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable

sacrice, pleasing to God.

19And may my God supply all your want,

according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

20Now to God and our Father be glory world

without end. Amen.

21Salute ye every saint in Christ Jesus.

22The brethren who are with me, salute you.

All the saints salute you; especially they that are

of Caesar's household.

23The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

your spirit. Amen.The Epistle of St. Paul to the

Colossians

Chapter 1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of

God, and Timothy, a brother,

2To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ

Jesus, who are at Colossa.

3Grace be to you and peace from God our

Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. We give

thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ, praying always for you.

4Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus, and the

love which you have towards all the saints.

5For the hope that is laid up for you in

heaven, which you have heard in the word of the

truth of the gospel,

6Which is come unto you, as also it is in

the whole world, and bringeth forth fruit and

groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day

you heard and knew the grace of God in truth.

7As you learned of Epaphras, our most

beloved fellow servant, who is for you a faithful

minister of Christ Jesus;

8Who also hath manifested to us your love in

the spirit.

9Therefore we also, from the day that we

heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to beg

that you may be lled with the knowledge of his

will, in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding:

10That you may walk worthy of God, in

all things pleasing; being fruitful in every goodwork, and increasing in the knowledge of God:

11Strengthened with all might, according to

the power of his glory, in all patience and long-

suering with joy,

12Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath

made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the

saints in light:

13Who hath delivered us from the power of

darkness, and hath translated us into the king-

dom of the Son of his love,

14In whom we have redemption through his

blood, the remission of sins;

15Who is the image of the invisible God, the

rstborn of every creature:

16For in him were all things created in heaven

and on earth, visible and invisible, whether

thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or

powers: all things were created by him and in

him.

17And he is before all, and by him all things

consist.

18And he is the head of the body, the church,

who is the beginning, the rstborn from the

dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:

19Because in him, it hath well pleased the

Father, that all fullness should dwell;

20And through him to reconcile all things

unto himself, making peace through the blood

of his cross, both as to the things that are on1516 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians
earth, and the things that are in heaven.

21And you, whereas you were some time

alienated and enemies in mind in evil works:

22Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of

his

esh through death, to present you holy and

unspotted, and blameless before him:

23If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and

settled, and immoveable from the hope of the

gospel which you have heard, which is preached

in all the creation that is under heaven, whereof

I Paul am made a minister.

24Who now rejoice in my suerings for you,

and ll up those things that are wanting of the

suerings of Christ, in my

esh, for his body,

which is the church:

25Whereof I am made a minister according

to the dispensation of God, which is given me

towards you, that I may full the word of God:

26The mystery which hath been hidden from

ages and generations, but now is manifested to

his saints,

27To whom God would make known the

riches of the glory of this mystery among the

Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of

glory.

28Whom we preach, admonishing every man,

and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we

may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

29Wherein also I labour, striving according

to his working which he worketh in me in power.

Chapter 2

For I would have you know, what manner of care

I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea,

and whosoever have not seen my face in the

esh:

2That their hearts may be comforted, being

instructed in charity, and unto all riches of ful-

ness of understanding, unto the knowledge of themystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus:

3In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom

and knowledge.

4Now this I say, that no man may deceive you

by loftiness of words.

5For though I be absent in body, yet in spirit

I am with you; rejoicing, and beholding your or-

der, and the steadfastness of your faith which is

in Christ.

6As therefore you have received Jesus Christ

the Lord, walk ye in him;

7Rooted and built up in him, and conrmed

in the faith, as also you have learned, abounding

in him in thanksgiving.

8Beware lest any man cheat you by philoso-

phy, and vain deceit; according to the tradition

of men, according to the elements of the world,

and not according to Christ:

9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the

Godhead corporeally;

10And you are lled in him, who is the head

of all principality and power:

11In whom also you are circumcised with cir-

cumcision not made by hand, in despoiling of

the body of the

esh, but in the circumcision of

Christ:

12Buried with him in baptism, in whom also

you are risen again by the faith of the operation

of God, who hath raised him up from the dead.

13And you, when you were dead in your sins,

and the uncircumcision of your

esh; he hath

quickened together with him, forgiving you all

oences:

14Blotting out the handwriting of the decree

that was against us, which was contrary to us.

And he hath taken the same out of the way, fas-

tening it to the cross:

15And despoiling the principalities and pow-

ers, he hath exposed them condently in open

shew, triumphing over them in himself.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians 1517

16Let no man therefore judge you in meat or

in drink, or in respect of a festival day, or of the

new moon, or of the sabbaths,

17Which are a shadow of things to come, but

the body is of Christ.

18Let no man seduce you, willing in humil-

ity, and religion of angels, walking in the things

which he hath not seen, in vain pued up by the

sense of his

esh,

19And not holding the head, from which the

whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied

with nourishment and compacted, groweth unto

the increase of God.

20If then you be dead with Christ from the

elements of this world, why do you yet decree as

though living in the world?

21Touch not, taste not, handle not:

22Which all are unto destruction by the very

use, according to the precepts and doctrines of

men.

23Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom

in superstition and humility, and not sparing the

body; not in any honour to the lling of the

esh.

Chapter 3

Therefore, if you be risen with Christ, seek the

things that are above; where Christ is sitting at

the right hand of God:

2Mind the things that are above, not the

things that are upon the earth.

3For you are dead; and your life is hid with

Christ in God.

4When Christ shall appear, who is your life,

then you also shall appear with him in glory.

5Mortify therefore your members which are

upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust,

evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is

the service of idols.6For which things the wrath of God cometh

upon the children of unbelief,

7In which you also walked some time, when

you lived in them.

8But now put you also all away: anger, in-

dignation, malice, blasphemy, lthy speech out

of your mouth.

9Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves

of the old man with his deeds,

10And putting on the new, him who is re-

newed unto knowledge, according to the image

of him that created him.

11Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew,

circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor

Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all, and

in all.

12Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God,

holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benig-

nity, humility, modesty, patience:

13Bearing with one another, and forgiving

one another, if any have a complaint against an-

other: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do

you also.

14But above all these things have charity,

which is the bond of perfection:

15And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your

hearts, wherein also you are called in one body:

and be ye thankful.

16Let the word of Christ dwell in you abun-

dantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing

one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual can-

ticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

17All whatsoever you do in word or in work,

do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giv-

ing thanks to God and the Father by him.

18Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it

behoveth in the Lord.

19Husbands, love your wives, and be not bit-

ter towards them.1518 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians

20Children, obey your parents in all things:

for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

21Fathers, provoke not your children to in-

dignation, lest they be discouraged.

22Servants, obey in all things your masters

according to the

esh, not serving to the eye, as

pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing

God.

23Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart,

as to the Lord, and not to men:

24Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord

the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord

Christ.

25For he that doth wrong, shall receive for

that which he hath done wrongfully: and there

is no respect of persons with God.

Chapter 4

Masters, do to your servants that which is just

and equal: knowing that you also have a master

in heaven.

2Be instant in prayer; watching in it with

thanksgiving:

3Praying withal for us also, that God may

open unto us a door of speech to speak the mys-

tery of Christ (for which also I am bound;)

4That I may make it manifest as I ought to

speak.

5Walk with wisdom towards them that are

without, redeeming the time.

6Let your speech be always in grace seasoned

with salt: that you may know how you ought to

answer every man.

7All the things that concern me, Tychicus,

our dearest brother, and faithful minister and

fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to

you,8Whom I have sent to you for this same pur-

pose, that he may know the things that concern

you, and comfort your hearts,

9With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful

brother, who is one of you. All things that are

done here, they shall make known to you.

10Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth

you, and Mark, the cousin german of Barnabus,

touching whom you have received command-

ments; if he come unto you, receive him:

11And Jesus, that is called Justus: who are

of the circumcision: these only are my helpers in

the kingdom of God; who have been a comfort

to me.
12Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a

servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous

for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect,

and full in all the will of God.

13For I bear him testimony that he hath

much labour for you, and for them that are at

Laodicea, and them at Hierapolis.

14Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth

you: and Demas.

15Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea,

and Nymphas, and the church that is in his

house.

16And when this epistle shall have been read

with you, cause that it be read also in the church

of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which

is of the Laodiceans.

17And say to Archippus: Take heed to the

ministry which thou hast received in the Lord,

that thou full it.

18The salutation of Paul with my own hand.

Be mindful of my bands. Grace be with you.

AmenThe First Epistle of St. Paul to the

Thessalonians

Chapter 1

Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy: to the church

of the Thessalonians, in God the Father, and in

the Lord Jesus Christ.

2Grace be to you and peace. We give thanks

to God always for you all; making a remem-

brance of you in our prayers without ceasing,

3Being mindful of the work of your faith, and

labour, and charity, and of the enduring of the

hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and

our Father:

4Knowing, brethren beloved of God, your

election:

5For our gospel hath not been unto you in

word only, but in power also, and in the Holy

Ghost, and in much fulness, as you know what

manner of men we have been among you for your

sakes.

6And you became followers of us, and of the

Lord; receiving the word in much tribulation,

with joy of the Holy Ghost:

7So that you were made a pattern to all that

believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

8For from you was spread abroad the word of

the Lord, not only in Macedonia, and in Achaia,

but also in every place, your faith which is to-

wards God, is gone forth, so that we need not to

speak any thing.

9For they themselves relate of us, what man-ner of entering in we had unto you; and how you
turned to God from idols, to serve the living and

true God.

10And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom

he raised up from the dead,) Jesus, who hath

delivered us from the wrath to come.

Chapter 2

For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance in

unto you, that it was not in vain:

2But having suered many things before,

and been shamefully treated (as you know) at

Philippi, we had condence in our God, to speak

unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness.

3For our exhortation was not of error, nor of

uncleanness, nor in deceit:

4But as we were approved by God that the

gospel should be committed to us: even so

we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who

proveth our hearts.

5For neither have we used, at any time, the

speech of

attery, as you know; nor taken an

occasion of covetousness, God is witness:

6Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you,

nor of others.

7Whereas we might have been burdensome

to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became

little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should1520 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the

Thessalonians

cherish her children:

8So desirous of you, we would gladly impart

unto you not only the gospel of God, but also

our own souls: because you were become most

dear unto us.

9For you remember, brethren, our labour and

toil: working night and day, lest we should be

chargeable to any of you, we preached among

you the gospel of God.

10You are witnesses, and God also, how ho-

lily, and justly, and without blame, we have been

to you that have believed:

11As you know in what manner, entreating

and comforting you, (as a father doth his chil-

dren,)

12We testied to every one of you, that you

would walk worthy of God, who hath called you

unto his kingdom and glory.

13Therefore, we also give thanks to God with-

out ceasing: because, that when you had re-

ceived of us the word of the hearing of God, you

received it not as the word of men, but (as it is

indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you

that have believed.

14For you, brethren, are become followers

of the churches of God which are in Judea, in

Christ Jesus: for you also have suered the same

things from your own coutrymen, even as they

have from the Jews,

15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the

prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not

God, and are adversaries to all men;

16Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles,

that they may be saved, to ll up their sins al-

ways: for the wrath of God is come upon them

to the end.

17But we, brethren, being taken away from

you for a short time, in sight, not in heart, have

hastened the more abundantly to see your face

with great desire.18For we would have come unto you, I Paul

indeed, once and again: but Satan hath hindered

us.

19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of

glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord

Jesus Christ at his coming?

20For you are our glory and joy.

Chapter 3

For which cause, forbearing no longer, we

thought it good to remain at Athens alone:

2And we sent Timothy, our brother, and the

minister of God in the gospel of Christ, to con-

rm you and exhort you concerning your faith:

3That no man should be moved in these tribu-

lations: for yourselves know, that we are ap-

pointed thereunto.

4For even when we were with you, we foretold

you that we should suer tribulations, as also it

is come to pass, and you know.

5For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer,

sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that

tempteth should have tempted you, and our

labour should be made vain.

6But now when Timothy came to us from

you, and related to us your faith and charity,

and that you have a good remembrance of us

always, desiring to see us as we also to see you;

7Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in

you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your

faith,

8Because now we live, if you stand in the

Lord.

9For what thanks can we return to God for

you, in all the joy wherewith we rejoice for you

before our God,

10Night and day more abundantly praying

that we may see your face, and may accomplishThe First Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians
1521

those things that are wanting to your faith?

11Now God himself and our Father, and our

Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

12And may the Lord multiply you, and make

you abound in charity towards one another, and

towards all men: as we do also towards you,

13To conrm your hearts without blame, in

holiness, before God and our Father, at the com-

ing of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints.

Amen.

Chapter 4

For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and be-

seech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have

received from us, how you ought to walk, and

to please God, so also you would walk, that you

may abound the more.

2For you know what precepts I have given to

you by the Lord Jesus.

3For this is the will of God, your sanctica-

tion; that you should abstain from fornication;

4That every one of you should know how to

possess his vessel in sanctication and honour:

5Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles

that know not God:

6And that no man overreach, nor circumvent

his brother in business: because the Lord is the

avenger of all these things, as we have told you

before, and have testied.

7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness,

but unto sanctication.

8Therefore, he that despiseth these things,

despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given

his holy Spirit in us.

9But as touching the charity of brotherhood,

we have no need to write to you: for yourselves

have learned of God to love one another.

10For indeed you do it towards all thebrethren in all Macedonia. But we entreat you,

brethren, that you abound more:

11And that you use your endeavour to be

quiet, and that you do your own business, and

work with your own hands, as we commanded

you: and that you walk honestly towards them

that are without; and that you want nothing of

any man's.

12And we will not have you ignorant,

brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that

you be not sorrowful, even as others who have

no hope.

13For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose

again; even so them who have slept through Je-

sus, will God bring with him.

14For this we say unto you in the word of the

Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto

the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them

who have slept.

15For the Lord himself shall come down from

heaven with commandment, and with the voice

of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God:

and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise rst.

16Then we who are alive, who are left, shall

be taken up together with them in the clouds

to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be

always with the Lord.

17Wherefore, comfort ye one another with

these words.

Chapter 5

But of the times and moments, brethren, you

need not, that we should write to you;

2For yourselves know perfectly, that the day

of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night.

3For when they shall say, peace and security;

then shall sudden destruction come upon them,

as the pains upon her that is with child, and they1522 The First Epistle of St. Paul to the

Thessalonians

shall not escape.

4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that

that day should overtake you as a thief.

5For all you are the children of light, and

children of the day: we are not of the night, nor

of darkness.

6Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but

let us watch, and be sober.

7For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and

they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

8But let us, who are of the day, be sober,

having on the breastplate of faith and charity,

and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

9For God hath not appointed us unto wrath,

but unto the purchasing of salvation by our Lord

Jesus Christ,

10Who died for us; that, whether we watch

or sleep, we may live together with him.

11For which cause comfort one another; and

edify one another, as you also do.

12And we beseech you, brethren, to know

them who labour among you, and are over you

in the Lord, and admonish you:

13That you esteem them more abundantly in

charity, for their work's sake. Have peace with

them.

14And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the

unquiet, comfort the feeble minded, support the

weak, be patient towards all men.

15See that none render evil for evil to any

man; but ever follow that which is good towards

each other, and towards all men.

16Always rejoice.

17Pray without ceasing.

18In all things give thanks; for this is the will

of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all.

19Extinguish not the spirit.

20Despise not prophecies.

21But prove all things; hold fast that which

is good.22From all appearance of evil refrain your-

selves.

23And may the God of peace himself sanctify

you in all things; that your whole spirit, and

soul, and body, may be preserved blameless in

the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24He is faithful who hath called you, who also

will do it.

25Brethren, pray for us.

26Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss.

27I charge you by the Lord, that this epistle

be read to all the holy brethren.

28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

you. Amen.The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the

Thessalonians

Chapter 1
Paul, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to the church

of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the

Lord Jesus Christ.

2Grace unto you, and peace from God our

Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3We are bound to give thanks always to God

for you, brethren, as it is tting, because your

faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of ev-

ery one of you towards each other, aboundeth:

4So that we ourselves also glory in you in the

churches of God, for your patience and faith, and

in all your persecutions and tribulations, which

you endure,

5For an example of the just judgment of God,

that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom

of God, for which also you suer.

6Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay

tribulation to them that trouble you:

7And to you who are troubled, rest with

us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from

heaven, with the angels of his power:

8In a

ame of re, giving vengeance to them

who know not God, and who obey not the gospel

of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9Who shall suer eternal punishment in de-

struction, from the face of the Lord, and from

the glory of his power:

10When he shall come to be gloried in hissaints, and to be made wonderful in all them

who have believed; because our testimony was

believed upon you in that day.

11Wherefore also we pray always for you;

that our God would make you worthy of his vo-

cation, and fulll all the good pleasure of his

goodness and the work of faith in power;

12That the name of our Lord Jesus may be

gloried in you, and you in him, according to the

grace of our God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Chapter 2

And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming

of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering

together unto him:

2That you be not easily moved from your

sense, nor be terried, neither by spirit, nor by

word, nor by epistle, as sent from us, as if the

day of the Lord were at hand.

3Let no man deceive you by any means, for

unless there come a revolt rst, and the man of

sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

4Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that

is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he

sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as

if he were God.

5Remember you not, that when I was yet with

you, I told you these things?1524 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians

6And now you know what withholdeth, that

he may be revealed in his time.

7For the mystery of iniquity already worketh;

only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he

be taken out of the way.

8And then that wicked one shall be revealed

whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of

his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness

of his coming, him,

9Whose coming is according to the working of

Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

10And in all seduction of iniquity to them

that perish; because they receive not the love of

the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore

God shall send them the operation of error, to

believe lying:

11That all may be judged who have not be-

lieved the truth, but have consented to iniquity.

12But we ought to give thanks to God al-

ways for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that

God hath chosen you rstfruits unto salvation,

in sanctication of the spirit, and faith of the

truth:
13Whereunto also he hath called you by our

gospel, unto the purchasing of the glory of our

Lord Jesus Christ.

14Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold

the traditions which you have learned, whether

by word, or by our epistle.

15Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and

God and our Father, who hathloved us, and hath

given us everlasting consolation, and good hope

in grace,

16Exhort your hearts, and conrm you in ev-

ery good work and word.Chapter 3

For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word

of God may run, and may be gloried, even as

among you;

2And that we may be delivered from impor-

tunate and evil men; for all men have not faith.

3But God is faithful, who will strengthen and

keep you from evil.

4And we have condence concerning you in

the Lord, that the things which we command,

you both do, and will do.

5And the Lord direct your hearts, in the char-

ity of God, and the patience of Christ.

6And we charge you, brethren, in the name of

our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw your-

selves from every brother walking disorderly, and

not according to the tradition which they have

received of us.

7For yourselves know how you ought to imi-

tate us: for we were not disorderly among you;

8Neither did we eat any man's bread for noth-

ing, but in labour and in toil we worked night

and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of

you.

9Not as if we had not power: but that we

might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imi-

tate us.

10For also when we were with you, this we

declared to you: that, if any man will not work,

neither let him eat.

11For we have heard there are some among

you who walk disorderly, working not at all, but

curiously meddling.

12Now we charge them that are such, and

beseech them by the Lord Jesus Christ, that,

working with silence, they would eat their own

bread.

13But you, brethren, be not weary in well

doing.The Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians 1525

14And if any man obey not our word by this

epistle, note that man, and do not keep company

with him, that he may be ashamed:

15Yet do not esteem him as an enemy, but

admonish him as a brother.

16Now the Lord of peace himself give you

everlasting peace in every place. The Lord be

with you all.

17The salutation of Paul with my own hand;

which is the sign in every epistle. So I write.

18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

you all. Amen.The First Epistle of St. Paul to

Timothy

Chapter 1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the

commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ

Jesus our hope:

2To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace,

mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from

Christ Jesus our Lord.

3As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus

when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest

charge some not to teach otherwise,

4Not to give heed to fables and endless ge-

nealogies: which furnish questions rather than

the edication of God, which is in faith.

5Now the end of the commandment is charity,

from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and

an unfeigned faith.

6From which things some going astray, are

turned aside unto vain babbling:

7Desiring to be teachers of the law, under-

standing neither the things they say, nor whereof

they arm.

8But we know that the law is good, if a man

use it lawfully:

9Knowing this, that the law is not made for

the just man, but for the unjust and disobedient,

for the ungodly, and for sinners, for the wicked

and deled, for murderers of fathers, and mur-

derers of mothers, for manslayers,10For fornicators, for them who dele them-

selves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars,

for perjured persons, and whatever other thing

is contrary to sound doctrine,

11Which is according to the gospel of the

glory of the blessed God, which hath been com-

mitted to my trust.

12I give thanks who hath strengthened me,

even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath

counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry;

13Who before was a blasphemer, and a per-

secutor, and contumelious. But I obtained the

mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in un-

belief.
14Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded

exceedingly with faith and love, which is in

Christ Jesus.

15A faithful saying, and worthy of all accep-

tation, that Christ Jesus came into this world to

save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

16But for this cause have I obtained mercy:

that in me rst Christ Jesus might shew forth all

patience, for the information of them that shall

believe in him unto life everlasting.

17Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisi-

ble, the only God, be honour and glory for ever

and ever. Amen.

18This precept I commend to thee, O son

Timothy; according to the prophecies going be-The First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy 1527

fore on thee, that thou war in them a good war-

fare,

19Having faith and a good conscience, which

some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning

the faith.

20Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander,

whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they

may learn not to blaspheme.

Chapter 2

I desire therefore, rst of all, that supplica-

tions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings

be made for all men:

2For kings, and for all that are in high station:

that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in

all piety and chastity.

3For this is good and acceptable in the sight

of God our Saviour,

4Who will have all men to be saved, and to

come to the knowledge of the truth.

5For there is one God, and one mediator of

God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

6Who gave himself a redemption for all, a

testimony in due times.

7Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and

an apostle, (I say the truth, I lie not,) a doctor

of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

8I will therefore that men pray in every place,

lifting up pure hands, without anger and con-

tention.

9In like manner women also in decent apparel:

adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety,

not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly

attire,

10But as it becometh women professing god-

liness, with good works.

11Let the woman learn in silence, with all

subjection.12But I suer not a woman to teach, nor to

use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

13For Adam was rst formed; then Eve.

14And Adam was not seduced; but the

woman being seduced, was in the transgression.

15Yet she shall be saved through childbear-

ing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanc-

tication, with sobriety.

Chapter 3

A faithful saying: if a man desire the oce of a

bishop, he desireth a good work.

2It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blame-

less, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of

good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a

teacher,

3Not given to wine, no striker, but modest,

not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

4One that ruleth well his own house, having

his children in subjection with all chastity.

5But if a man know not how to rule his own

house, how shall he take care of the church of

God?

6Not a neophyte: lest being pued up with

pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

7Moreover he must have a good testimony of

them who are without: lest he fall into reproach

and the snare of the devil.

8Deacons in like manner chaste, not double

tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of

lthy lucre:

9Holding the mystery of faith in a pure con-

science.

10And let these also rst be proved: and so

let them minister, having no crime.

11The women in like manner chaste, not slan-

derers, but sober, faithful in all things.1528 The First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy

12Let deacons be the husbands of one wife:

who rule well their children, and their own

houses.

13For they that have ministered well, shall

purchase to themselves a good degree, and much

condence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

14These things I write to thee, hoping that I

shall come to thee shortly.

15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know

how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house

of God, which is the church of the living God, the

pillar and ground of the truth.

16And evidently great is the mystery of godli-

ness, which was manifested in the

esh, was jus-

tied in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath

been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in

the world, is taken up in glory.

Chapter 4

Now the Spirit manifestly saith, that in the last

times some shall depart from the faith, giving

heed to spirits of error, and doctrines of devils,

2Speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their

conscience seared,

3Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats,

which God hath created to be received with

thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that

have known the truth.

4For every creature of God is good, and noth-

ing to be rejected that is received with thanks-

giving:

5For it is sanctied by the word of God and

prayer.

6These things proposing to the brethren, thou

shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nour-

ished up in the words of faith, and of the good

doctrine which thou hast attained unto.7But avoid foolish and old wives' fables: and

exercise thyself unto godliness.

8For bodily exercise is protable to little:

but godliness is protable to all things, having

promise of the life that now is, and of that which

is to come.

9A faithful saying and worthy of all accepta-

tion.

10For therefore we labor and are reviled, be-

cause we hope in the living God, who is the

Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

11These things command and teach.

12Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou

an example of the faithful in word, in conversa-

tion, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

13Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhor-

tation, and to doctrine.

14Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which

was given thee by prophesy, with imposition of

the hands of the priesthood.

15Meditate upon these things, be wholly in

these things: that thy proting may be manifest

to all.

16Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be

earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt

both save thyself and them that hear thee.

Chapter 5

An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as

a father: young men, as brethren:

2Old women, as mothers: young women, as

sisters, in all chastity.

3Honour widows, that are widows indeed.

4But if any widow have children, or grandchil-

dren, let her learn rst to govern her own house,

and to make a return of duty to her parents: for

this is acceptable before God.The First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy 1529

5But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate,

let her trust in God, and continue in supplica-

tions and prayers night and day.

6For she that liveth in pleasures, is dead while

she is living.

7And this give in charge, that they may be

blameless.

8But if any man have not care of his own, and

especially of those of his house, he hath denied

the faith, and is worse than an indel.

9Let a widow be chosen of no less than three-

score years of age, who hath been the wife of one

husband.

10Having testimony for her good works, if she

have brought up children, if she have received to

harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she

have ministered to them that suer tribulation,

if she have diligently followed every good work.

11But the younger widows avoid. For when

they have grown wanton in Christ, they will

marry:

12Having damnation, because they have

made void their rst faith.

13And withal being idle they learn to go

about from house to house: and are not only

idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking

things which they ought not.

14I will therefore that the younger should

marry, bear children, be mistresses of families,

give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

15For some are already turned aside after Sa-

tan.

16If any of the faithful have widows, let him

minister to them, and let not the church be

charged: that there may be sucient for them

that are widows indeed.

17Let the priests that rule well, be esteemed

worthy of double honour: especially they who

labour in the word and doctrine:18For the scripture saith: Thou shalt not

muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and,

The labourer is worthy of his reward.

19Against a priest receive not an accusation,

but under two or three witnesses.

20Them that sin reprove before all: that the

rest also may have fear.

21I charge thee before God, and Christ Je-

sus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these

things without prejudice, doing nothing by de-

clining to either side.

22Impose not hands lightly upon any man,

neither be partaker of other men's sins. Keep

thyself chaste.

23Do not still drink water, but use a little

wine for thy stomach's sake, and thy frequent

inrmities.

24Some men's sins are manifest, going before

to judgment: and some men they follow after.

25In like manner also good deeds are mani-

fest: and they that are otherwise, cannot be hid.

Chapter 6

Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them

count their masters worthy of all honour; lest

the name of the Lord and his doctrine be blas-

phemed.

2But they that have believing masters,

let them not despise them, because they are

brethren; but serve them the rather, because

they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers

of the benet. These things teach and exhort.

3If any man teach otherwise, and consent not

to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and

to that doctrine which is according to godliness,

4He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick

about questions and strifes of words; from which1530 The First Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy

arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil sus-

picions,

5Con

icts of men corrupted in mind, and who

are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be

godliness.

6But godliness with contentment is great

gain.

7For we brought nothing into this world: and

certainly we can carry nothing out.

8But having food, and wherewith to be cov-

ered, with these we are content.

9For they that will become rich, fall into

temptation, and into the snare of the devil,

and into many unprotable and hurtful desires,

which drown men into destruction and perdition.

10For the desire of money is the root of all

evils; which some coveting have erred from the

faith, and have entangled themselves in many

sorrows.

11But thou, O man of God,

y these things:

and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, pa-

tience, mildness.

12Fight the good ght of faith: lay hold on

eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast

confessed a good confession before many wit-

nesses.

13I charge thee before God, who quickeneth

all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave tes-

timony under Pontius Pilate, a good confession,

14That thou keep the commandment without

spot, blameless, unto the coming of our Lord Je-

sus Christ,

15Which in his times he shall shew who is the

Blessed and only Mighty, the King of kings, and

Lord of lords;

16Who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth

light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor

can see: to whom be honour and empire ever-

lasting. Amen.17Charge the rich of this world not to be high-

minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches,

but in the living God, (who giveth us abundantly

all things to enjoy,)

18To do good, to be rich in good works, to

give easily, to communicate to others,

19To lay up in store for themselves a good

foundation against the time to come, that they

may lay hold on the true life.

20O Timothy, keep that which is committed

to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of

words, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so

called.
21Which some promising, have erred concern-

ing the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.The Second Epistle of St. Paul to

Timothy

Chapter 1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of

God, according to the promise of life, which is in

Christ Jesus.

2To Timothy my dearly beloved son, grace,

mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and

from Christ Jesus our Lord.

3I give thanks to God, whom I serve from

my forefathers with a pure conscience, that with-

out ceasing, I have a remembrance of thee in my

prayers, night and day.

4Desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy

tears, that I may be lled with joy,

5Calling to mind that faith which is in thee

unfeigned, which also dwelt rst in thy grand-

mother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I

am certain that in thee also.

6For which cause I admonish thee, that thou

stir up the grace of God which is in thee, by the

imposition of my hands.

7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear:

but of power, and of love, and of sobriety.

8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testi-

mony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but

labour with the gospel, according to the power

of God,

9Who hath delivered us and called us by his

holy calling, not according to our works, but ac-cording to his own purpose and grace, which was

given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the

world.

10But is now made manifest by the illumina-

tion of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath de-

stroyed death, and hath brought to light life and

incorruption by the gospel:

11Wherein I am appointed a preacher, and

an apostle, and teacher of the Gentiles.

12For which cause I also suer these things:

but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have

believed, and I am certain that he is able to keep

that which I have committed unto him, against

that day.

13Hold the form of sound words, which thou

hast heard of me in faith, and in the love which

is in Christ Jesus.

14Keep the good thing committed to thy

trust by the Holy Ghost, who dwelleth in us.

15Thou knowest this, that all they who are

in Asia, are turned away from me: of whom are

Phigellus and Hermogenes.

16The Lord give mercy to the house of One-

siphorus: because he hath often refreshed me,

and hath not been ashamed of my chain:

17But when he was come to Rome, he care-

fully sought me, and found me.

18The Lord grant unto him to nd mercy of

the Lord in that day: and in how many things he1532 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy

ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou very well

knowest.

Chapter 2

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace

which is in Christ Jesus:

2And the things which thou hast heard of

me by many witnesses, the same commend to

faithful men, who shall be t to teach others also.

3Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

4No man, being a soldier to God, entan-

gleth himself with secular businesses; that he

may please him to whom he hath engaged him-

self.

5For he also that striveth for the mastery, is

not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

6The husbandman, that laboureth, must rst

partake of the fruits.

7Understand what I say: for the Lord will

give thee in all things understanding.

8Be mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ is

risen again from the dead, of the seed of David,

according to my gospel.

9Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an

evildoer; but the word of God is not bound.

10Therefore I endure all things for the sake

of the elect, that they also may obtain the sal-

vation, which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly

glory.

11A faithful saying: for if we be dead with

him, we shall live also with him.

12If we suer, we shall also reign with him.

If we deny him, he will also deny us.

13If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he

can not deny himself.

14Of these things put them in mind, charging

them before the Lord. Contend not in words, forit is to no prot, but to the subverting of the

hearers.

15Carefully study to present thyself approved

unto God, a workman that needeth not to be

ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

16But shun profane and vain babblings: for

they grow much towards ungodliness.

17And their speech spreadeth like a canker:

of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus:

18Who have erred from the truth, saying,

that the resurrection is past already, and have

subverted the faith of some.

19But the sure foundation of God standeth

rm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are

his; and let every one depart from iniquity who

nameth the name of the Lord.

20But in a great house there are not only

vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and

earth: and some indeed unto honour, but some

unto dishonour.

21If any man therefore shall cleanse himself

from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour,

sanctied and protable to the Lord, prepared

unto every good work.

22But

ee thou youthful desires, and pursue

justice, faith, charity, and peace, with them that

call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

23And avoid foolish and unlearned questions,

knowing that they beget strifes.

24But the servant of the Lord must not wran-

gle: but be mild towards all men, apt to teach,

patient,

25With modesty admonishing them that re-

sist the truth: if peradventure God may give

them repentance to know the truth,

26And they may recover themselves from the

snares of the devil, by whom they are held cap-

tive at his will.The Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy 1533

Chapter 3

Know also this, that, in the last days, shall come

dangerous times.

2Men shall be lovers of themselves, cov-

etous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient

to parents, ungrateful, wicked,

3Without aection, without peace, slander-

ers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,

4Traitors, stubborn, pued up, and lovers of

pleasures more than of God:

5Having an appearance indeed of godliness,

but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.

6For of these sort are they who creep into

houses, and lead captive silly women laden with

sins, who are led away with divers desires:

7Ever learning, and never attaining to the

knowledge of the truth.

8Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses,

so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in

mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

9But they shall proceed no farther; for their

folly shall be manifest to all men, as theirs also

was.
10But thou hast fully known my doctrine,

manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuering, love,

patience,

11Persecutions, aictions: such as came

upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra:

what persecutions I endured, and out of them all

the Lord delivered me.

12And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus,

shall suer persecution.

13But evil men and seducers shall grow worse

and worse: erring, and driving into error.

14But continue thou in those things which

thou hast learned, and which have been commit-

ted to thee: knowing of whom thou hast learned

them;15And because from thy infancy thou hast

known the holy scriptures, which can instruct

thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ

Jesus.

16All scripture, inspired of God, is protable

to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in

justice,

17That the man of God may be perfect, fur-

nished to every good work.

Chapter 4

I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who

shall judge the living and the dead, by his com-

ing, and his kingdom:

2Preach the word: be instant in season, out of

season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience

and doctrine.

3For there shall be a time, when they will not

endure sound doctrine; but, according to their

own desires, they will heap to themselves teach-

ers, having itching ears:

4And will indeed turn away their hearing

from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

5But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do

the work of an evangelist, full thy ministry. Be

sober.

6For I am even now ready to be sacriced:

and the time of my dissolution is at hand.

7I have fought a good ght, I have nished

my course, I have kept the faith.

8As to the rest, there is laid up for me a

crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge

will render to me in that day: and not only to

me, but to them also that love his coming. Make

haste to come to me quickly.

9For Demas hath left me, loving this world,

and is gone to Thessalonica:

10Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.1534 The Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy

11Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and

bring him with thee: for he is protable to me

for the ministry.

12But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

13The cloak that I left at Troas, with Car-

pus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the

books, especially the parchments.

14Alexander the coppersmith hath done me

much evil: the Lord will reward him according

to his works:

15Whom do thou also avoid, for he hath

greatly withstood our words.

16At my rst answer no man stood with me,

but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their

charge.

17But the Lord stood by me, and strength-

ened me, that by me the preaching may be ac-

complished, and that all the Gentiles may hear:

and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

18The Lord hath delivered me from every evil

work: and will preserve me unto his heavenly

kingdom, to whom be glory for ever and ever.

Amen.

19Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house-

hold of Onesiphorus.

20Erastus remained at Corinth. And

Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

21Make haste to come before winter Eubulus

and Pudens, and Linus and Claudia, and all the

brethren, salute thee.

22The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit.

Grace be with you. Amen.The Epistle of St. Paul to Titus

Chapter 1

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Je-

sus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of

God and the acknowledging of the truth, which

is according to godliness:

2Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God,

who lieth not, hath promised before the times of

the world:

3But hath in due times manifested his word in

preaching, which is committed to me according

to the commandment of God our Savior:

4To Titus my beloved son, according to the

common faith, grace and peace from God the

Father, and from Christ Jesus our Savior.

5For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou

shouldest set in order the things that are want-

ing, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as

I also appointed thee:

6If any be without crime, the husband of one

wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot,

or unruly.
7For a bishop must be without crime, as the

steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger,

not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of lthy

lucre:

8But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just,

holy, continent:

9Embracing that faithful word which is ac-

cording to doctrine, that he may be able to ex-

hort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gain-sayers.

10For there are also many disobedient, vain

talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of

the circumcision:

11Who must be reproved, who subvert whole

houses, teaching things which they ought not,

for lthy lucre's sake.

12One of them a prophet of their own, said,

The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, sloth-

ful bellies.

13This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke

them sharply, that they may be sound in the

faith;

14Not giving heed to Jewish fables and com-

mandments of men, who turn themselves away

from the truth.

15All things are clean to the clean: but to

them that are deled, and to unbelievers, noth-

ing is clean: but both their mind and their con-

science are deled.

16They profess that they know God: but in

their works they deny him; being abominable,

and incredulous, and to every good work repro-

bate.

Chapter 2

But speak thou the things that become sound

doctrine:

2That the aged men be sober, chaste, pru-

dent, sound in faith, in love, in patience.1536 The Epistle of St. Paul to Titus

3The aged women, in like manner, in holy

attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine,

teaching well:

4That they may teach the young women to

be wise, to love their husbands, to love their chil-

dren,

5To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care

of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands,

that the word of God be not blasphemed.

6Young men, in like manner, exhort that they

be sober.

7In all things shew thyself an example of good

works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity,

8The sound word that can not be blamed:

that he, who is on the contrary part, may be

afraid, having no evil to say of us.

9Exhort servants to be obedient to their mas-

ters, in all things pleasing, not gainsaying:

10Not defrauding, but in all things shewing

good delity, that they may adorn the doctrine

of God our Savior in all things:

11For the grace of God our Savior hath ap-

peared to all men;

12Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness

and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and

justly, and godly in this world,

13Looking for the blessed hope and coming of

the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus

Christ,

14Who gave himself for us, that he might

redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse

to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good

works.

15These things speak, and exhort and rebuke

with all authority. Let no man despise thee.Chapter 3

Admonish them to be subject to princes and

powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to ev-

ery good work.

2To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious,

but gentle: shewing all mildness towards all men.

3For we ourselves also were some time unwise,

incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and

pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and

hating one another.

4But when the goodness and kindness of God

our Savior appeared:

5Not by the works of justice, which we have

done, but according to his mercy, he saved us,

by the laver of regeneration, and renovation of

the Holy Ghost;

6Whom he hath poured forth upon us abun-

dantly, through Jesus Christ our Savior:

7That, being justied by his grace, we may

be heirs, according to hope of life everlasting.

8It is a faithful saying: and these things I will

have thee arm constantly: that they, who be-

lieve in God, may be careful to excel in good

works. These things are good and protable

unto men.

9But avoid foolish questions, and genealo-

gies, and contentions, and strivings about the

law. For they are unprotable and vain.

10A man that is a heretic, after the rst and

second admonition, avoid:

11Knowing that he, that is such an one, is

subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his

own judgment.
12When I shall send to thee Artemas or Ty-

chicus, make haste to come unto me to Nicopolis.

For there I have determined to winter.

13Send forward Zenas, the lawyer, and

Apollo, with care, that nothing be wanting to

them.The Epistle of St. Paul to Titus 1537

14And let our men also learn to excel in good

works for necessary uses: that they be not un-

fruitful.

15All that are with me salute thee: salute

them that love us in the faith. The grace of God

be with you all. Amen.The Epistle of St. Paul to Philemon

Chapter 1

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy,

a brother: to Philemon, our beloved and fellow

labourer;

2And to Appia, our dearest sister, and to

Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the church

which is in thy house:

3Grace to you and peace from God our Fa-

ther, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

4I give thanks to my God, always making a

remembrance of thee in my prayers.

5Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou

hast in the Lord Jesus, and towards all the saints:

6That the communication of thy faith may

be made evident in the acknowledgment of every

good work, that is in you in Christ Jesus.

7For I have had great joy and consolation in

thy charity, because the bowels of the saints have

been refreshed by thee, brother.

8Wherefore though I have much condence in

Christ Jesus, to command thee that which is to

the purpose:

9For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas

thou art such a one, as Paul an old man, and

now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.

10I beseech thee for my son, whom I have

begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

11Who hath been heretofore unprotable to

thee, but now is protable both to me and thee,

12Whom I have sent back to thee. And dothou receive him as my own bowels.

13Whom I would have retained with me, that

in thy stead he might have ministered to me in

the bands of the gospel:

14But without thy counsel I would do noth-

ing: that thy good deed might not be as it were

of necessity, but voluntary.

15For perhaps he therefore departed for a sea-

son from thee, that thou mightest receive him

again for ever:

16Not now as a servant, but instead of a ser-

vant, a most dear brother, especially to me: but

how much more to thee both in the

esh and in

the Lord?

17If therefore thou count me a partner, re-

ceive him as myself.

18And if he hath wronged thee in any thing,

or is in thy debt, put that to my account.

19I Paul have written it with my own hand: I

will repay it: not to say to thee, that thou owest

me thy own self also.

20Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in the Lord.

Refresh my bowels in the Lord.

21Trusting in thy obedience, I have written

to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more

than I say.

22But withal prepare me also a lodging. For

I hope that through your prayers I shall be given

unto you.

23There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow pris-

oner in Christ Jesus;The Epistle of St. Paul to Philemon 1539

24Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke my

fellow labourers.

25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

your spirit. Amen.The Epistle of St. Paul to the

Hebrews
Chapter 1

God, who, at sundry times and in divers man-

ners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the

prophets, last of all,

2In these days hath spoken to us by his Son,

whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by

whom also he made the world.

3Who being the brightness of his glory, and

the gure of his substance, and upholding all

things by the word of his power, making pur-

gation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the

majesty on high.

4Being made so much better than the angels,

as he hath inherited a more excellent name than

they.

5For to which of the angels hath he said at any

time, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten

thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and

he shall be to me a Son?

6And again, when he bringeth in the rst

begotten into the world, he saith: And let all

the angels of God adore him.

7And to the angels indeed he saith: He that

maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a

ame of re.
8But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for

ever and ever: a sceptre of justice is the sceptre

of thy kingdom.

9Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity:therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with

the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

10And: Thou in the beginning, O Lord, didst

found the earth: and the works of thy hands are

the heavens.

11They shall perish, but thou shalt continue:

and they shall all grow old as a garment.

12And as a vesture shalt thou change them,

and they shall be changed: but thou art the self-

same, and thy years shall not fail.

13But to which of the angels said he at any

time: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy

enemies thy footstool?

14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to

minister for them, who shall receive the inheri-

tance of salvation?

Chapter 2

Therefore ought we more diligently to observe

the things which we have heard, lest perhaps we

should let them slip.

2For if the word, spoken by angels, became

steadfast, and every transgression and disobedi-

ence received a just recompense of reward:

3How shall we escape if we neglect so great

salvation? which having begun to be declared by

the Lord, was conrmed unto us by them that

heard him.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews 1541

4God also bearing them witness by signs, and

wonders, and divers miracles, and distributions

of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.

5For God hath not subjected unto angels the

world to come, whereof we speak.

6But one in a certain place hath testied,

saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of

him: or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

7Thou hast made him a little lower than the

angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and

honour, and hast set him over the works of thy

hands:

8Thou hast subjected all things under his

feet. For in that he hath subjected all things

to him, he left nothing not subject to him. But

now we see not as yet all things subject to him.

9But we see Jesus, who was made a little

lower than the angels, for the suering of death,

crowned with glory and honour: that, through

the grace of God, he might taste death for all.

10For it became him, for whom are all things,

and by whom are all things, who had brought

many children into glory, to perfect the author

of their salvation, by his passion.

11For both he that sanctieth, and they who

are sanctied, are all of one. For which cause he

is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:

12I will declare thy name to my brethren; in

the midst of the church will I praise thee.

13And again: I will put my trust in him.

And again: Behold I and my children, whom

God hath given me.

14Therefore because the children are partak-

ers of

esh and blood, he also himself in like

manner hath been partaker of the same: that,

through death, he might destroy him who had

the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

15And might deliver them, who through the

fear of death were all their lifetime subject to

servitude.16For no where doth he take hold of the an-

gels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

17Wherefore it behoved him in all things to

be made like unto his brethren, that he might

become a merciful and faithful priest before God,

that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the

people.

18For in that, wherein he himself hath suf-

fered and been tempted, he is able to succour

them also that are tempted.

Chapter 3

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heav-

enly vocation, consider the apostle and high

priest of our confession, Jesus:

2Who is faithful to him that made him, as

was also Moses in all his house.

3For this man was counted worthy of greater

glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath

built the house, hath greater honour than the

house.

4For every house is built by some man: but

he that created all things, is God.

5And Moses indeed was faithful in all his

house as a servant, for a testimony of those

things which were to be said:

6But Christ as the Son in his own house:

which house are we, if we hold fast the con-

dence and glory of hope unto the end.

7Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To day

if you shall hear his voice,

8Harden not your hearts, as in the provoca-

tion; in the day of temptation in the desert,

9Where your fathers tempted me, proved and

saw my works,
10Forty years: for which cause I was oended

with this generation, and I said: They always err

in heart. And they have not known my ways,1542 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews

11As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall

enter into my rest.

12Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be

in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart

from the living God.

13But exhort one another every day, whilst

it is called to day, that none of you be hardened

through the deceitfulness of sin.

14For we are made partakers of Christ: yet

so, if we hold the beginning of his substance rm

unto the end.

15While it is said, To day if you shall hear his

voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provo-

cation.

16For some who heard did provoke: but not

all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17And with whom was he oended forty

years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose

carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

18And to whom did he swear, that they

should not enter into his rest: but to them that

were incredulous?

19And we see that they could not enter in,

because of unbelief.

Chapter 4

Let us fear therefore lest the promise being left

of entering into his rest, any of you should be

thought to be wanting.

2For unto us also it hath been declared, in like

manner as unto them. But the word of hearing

did not prot them, not being mixed with faith

of those things they heard.

3For we, who have believed, shall enter into

rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath;

If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed

when the works from the foundation of the world

were nished.4For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh

day thus: And God rested the seventh day from

all his works.

5And in this place again: If they shall enter

into my rest.

6Seeing then it remaineth that some are to

enter into it, and they, to whom it was rst

preached, did not enter because of unbelief:

7Again he limiteth a certain day, saying in

David, To day, after so long a time, as it is above

said: To day if you shall hear his voice, harden

not your hearts.

8For if Jesus had given them rest, he would

never have afterwards spoken of another day.

9There remaineth therefore a day of rest for

the people of God.

10For he that is entered into his rest, the

same also hath rested from his works, as God

did from his.

11Let us hasten therefore to enter into that

rest; lest any man fall into the same example of

unbelief.

12For the word of God is living and eectual,

and more piercing than any two edged sword;

and reaching unto the division of the soul and

the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow, and

is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the

heart.

13Neither is there any creature invisible in

his sight: but all things are naked and open to

his eyes, to whom our speech is.

14Having therefore a great high priest that

hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of

God: let us hold fast our confession.

15For we have not a high priest, who can

not have compassion on our inrmities: but one

tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

16Let us go therefore with condence to the

throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy, and

nd grace in seasonable aid.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews 1543

Chapter 5

For every high priest taken from among men, is

ordained for men in the things that appertain to

God, that he may oer up gifts and sacrices for

sins:

2Who can have compassion on them that are

ignorant and that err: because he himself also is

compassed with inrmity.

3And therefore he ought, as for the people,

so also for himself, to oer for sins.

4Neither doth any man take the honour to

himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron

was.

5So Christ also did not glorify himself, that

he might be made a high priest: but he that

said unto him: Thou art my Son, this day have

I begotten thee.

6As he saith also in another place: Thou

art a priest for ever, according to the order of

Melchisedech.

7Who in the days of his

esh, with a strong

cry and tears, oering up prayers and suppli-

cations to him that was able to save him from

death, was heard for his reverence.

8And whereas indeed he was the Son of God,

he learned obedience by the things which he suf-

fered:

9And being consummated, he became, to all

that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation.

10Called by God a high priest according to

the order of Melchisedech.

11Of whom we have much to say, and hard to

be intelligibly uttered: because you are become

weak to hear.

12For whereas for the time you ought to be

masters, you have need to be taught again what

are the rst elements of the words of God: and

you are become such as have need of milk, and

not of strong meat.13For every one that is a partaker of milk, is

unskillful in the word of justice: for he is a little

child.

14But strong meat is for the perfect; for them

who by custom have their senses exercised to the

discerning of good and evil.

Chapter 6

Wherefore leaving the word of the beginning

of Christ, let us go on to things more perfect,

not laying again the foundation of penance from

dead works, and of faith towards God,

2Of the doctrine of baptisms, and imposition

of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead,

and of eternal judgment.

3And this will we do, if God permit.

4For it is impossible for those who were once

illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift,

and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5Have moreover tasted the good word of God,

and the powers of the world to come,

6And are fallen away: to be renewed again to

penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son

of God, and making him a mockery.

7For the earth that drinketh in the rain which

cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs

meet for them by whom it is tilled, receiveth

blessing from God.

8But that which bringeth forth thorns and

briers, is reprobate, and very near unto a curse,

whose end is to be burnt.

9But, my dearly beloved, we trust better

things of you, and nearer to salvation; though

we speak thus.

10For God is not unjust, that he should forget

your work, and the love which you have shewn

in his name, you who have ministered, and do

minister to the saints.1544 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews

11And we desire that every one of you shew

forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing

of hope unto the end:

12That you become not slothful, but followers

of them, who through faith and patience shall

inherit the promises.

13For God making promise to Abraham, be-

cause he had no one greater by whom he might

swear, swore by himself,

14Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee,

and multiplying I shall multiply thee.

15And so patiently enduring he obtained the

promise.

16For men swear by one greater than them-

selves: and an oath for conrmation is the end

of all their controversy.

17Wherein God, meaning more abundantly

to shew to the heirs of the promise the im-

mutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

18That by two immutable things, in which

it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the

strongest comfort, who have

ed for refuge to

hold fast the hope set before us.

19Which we have as an anchor of the soul,

sure and rm, and which entereth in even within

the veil;
20Where the forerunner Jesus is entered for

us, made a high priest for ever according to the

order of Melchisedech.

Chapter 7

For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest

of the most high God, who met Abraham return-

ing from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed

him:

2To whom also Abraham divided the tithes

of all: who rst indeed by interpretation, is king

of justice: and then also king of Salem, that is,king of peace:

3Without father, without mother, without

genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor

end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, con-

tinueth a priest for ever.

4Now consider how great this man is, to

whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes

out of the principal things.

5And indeed they that are of the sons of Levi,

who receive the priesthood, have a command-

ment to take tithes of the people according to

the law, that is to say, of their brethren: though

they themselves also came out of the loins of

Abraham.

6But he, whose pedigree is not numbered

among them, received tithes of Abraham, and

blessed him that had the promises.

7And without all contradiction, that which is

less, is blessed by the better.

8And here indeed, men that die, receive

thithes: but there he hath witness, that he

liveth.

9And (as it may be said) even Levi who re-

ceived tithes, paid tithes in Abraham:

10For he was yet in the loins of his father,

when Melchisedech met him.

11If then perfection was by the Levitical

priesthood, (for under it the people received

the law,) what further need was there that an-

other priest should rise according to the order of

Melchisedech, and not be called according to the

order of Aaron?

12For the priesthood being translated, it is

necessary that a translation also be made of the

law.

13For he, of whom these things are spoken,

is of another tribe, of which no one attended on

the altar.

14For it is evident that our Lord sprung out

of Juda: in which tribe Moses spoke nothing con-The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews 1545

cerning priests.

15And it is yet far more evident: if according

to the similitude of Melchisedech there ariseth

another priest,

16Who is made not according to the law of

a carnal commandment, but according to the

power of an indissoluble life:

17For he testieth: Thou art a priest for ever,

according to the order of Melchisedech.

18There is indeed a setting aside of the for-

mer commandment, because of the weakness and

unprotableness thereof:

19(For the law brought nothing to perfec-

tion,) but a bringing in of a better hope, by

which we draw nigh to God.

20And inasmuch as it is not without an oath,

(for the others indeed were made priests without

an oath;

21But this with an oath, by him that said

unto him: The Lord hath sworn, and he will not

repent, Thou art a priest for ever.)

22By so much is Jesus made a surety of a

better testament.

23And the others indeed were made many

priests, because by reason of death they were

not suered to continue:

24But this, for that he continueth for ever,

hath an everlasting priesthood,

25Whereby he is able also to save for ever

them that come to God by him; always living to

make intercession for us.

26For it was tting that we should have such

a high priest, holy, innocent, undeled, sepa-

rated from sinners, and made higher than the

heavens;

27Who needeth not daily (as the other

priests) to oer sacrices rst for his own sins,

and then for the people's: for this he did once,

in oering himself.28For the law maketh men priests, who have

inrmity: but the word of the oath, which was

since the law, the Son who is perfected for ever-

more.

Chapter 8

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 majesty in

the heavens,

2A minister of the holies, and of the true

tabernacle, which the Lord hath pitched, and

not man.

3For every high priest is appointed to oer

gifts and sacrices: wherefore it is necessary that

he also should have some thing to oer.

4If then he were on earth, he would not be a

priest: seeing that there would be others to oer

gifts according to the law,

5Who serve unto the example and shadow of

heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses,

when he was to nish the tabernacle: See (saith

he) that thou make all things according to the

pattern which was shewn thee on the mount.

6But now he hath obtained a better ministry,

by how much also he is a mediator of a better tes-

tament, which is established on better promises.

7For if that former had been faultless, there

should not indeed a place have been sought for

a second.

8For nding fault with them, he saith: Be-

hold, the days shall come, saith the Lord: and

I will perfect unto the house of Israel, and unto

the house of Juda, a new testament:

9Not according to the testament which I

made to their fathers, on the day when I took

them by the hand to lead them out of the land

of Egypt: because they continued not in my tes-1546 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews

tament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10For this is the testament which I will make

to the house of Israel after those days, saith the

Lord: I will give my laws into their mind, and in

their heart will I write them: and I will be their

God, and they shall be my people:

11And 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 of them:

12Because I will be merciful to their iniqui-

ties, and their sins I will remember no more.

13Now in saying a new, he hath made the for-

mer old. And that which decayeth and groweth

old, is near its end.

Chapter 9

The former indeed had also justications of di-

vine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

2For there was a tabernacle made the rst,

wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and

the setting forth of loaves, which is called the

holy.

3And after the second veil, the tabernacle,

which is called the holy of holies:

4Having a golden censer, and the ark of the

testament covered about on every part with gold,

in which was a golden pot that had manna, and

the rod of Aaron, that had blossomed, and the

tables of the testament.

5And over it were the cherubims of glory over-

shadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not

needful to speak now particularly.

6Now these things being thus ordered, into

the rst tabernacle the priests indeed always en-

tered, accomplishing the oces of sacrices.

7But into the second, the high priest alone,

once a year: not without blood, which he oerethfor his own, and the people's ignorance:

8The Holy Ghost signifying this, that the way

into the holies was not yet made manifest, whilst

the former tabernacle was yet standing.

9Which is a parable of the time present: ac-

cording to which gifts and sacrices are oered,

which can not, as to the conscience, make him

perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,

10And divers washings, and justices of the

esh laid on them until the time of correction.

11But Christ, being come an high priest of

the good things to come, by a greater and more

perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is,

not of this creation:

12Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves,

but by his own blood, entered once into the

holies, having obtained eternal redemption.

13For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and

the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify

such as are deled, to the cleansing of the

esh:

14How much more shall the blood of Christ,

who by the Holy Ghost oered himself unspot-

ted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead

works, to serve the living God?

15And therefore he is the mediator of the new

testament: that by means of his death, for the

redemption of those trangressions, which were

under the former testament, they that are called

may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

16For where there is a testament, the death

of the testator must of necessity come in.

17For a testament is of force, after men are

dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst

the testator liveth.

18Whereupon neither was the rst indeed

dedicated without blood.

19For when every commandment of the law

had been read by Moses to all the people, he

took the blood of calves and goats, with water,The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews 1547

and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both

the book itself and all the people,

20Saying: This is the blood of the testament,

which God hath enjoined unto you.

21The tabernacle also and all the vessels of

the ministry, in like manner, he sprinkled with

blood.

22And almost all things, according to the law,

are cleansed with blood: and without shedding

of blood there is no remission.

23It is necessary therefore that the patterns

of heavenly things should be cleansed with these:

but the heavenly things themselves with better

sacrices than these.

24For Jesus is not entered into the holies

made with hands, the patterns of the true: but

into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the

presence of God for us.

25Nor yet that he should oer himself often,

as the high priest entereth into the holies, every

year with the blood of others:

26For then he ought to have suered often

from the beginning of the world: but now once

at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the de-

struction of sin, by the sacrice of himself.

27And as it is appointed unto men once to

die, and after this the judgment:

28So also Christ was oered once to exhaust

the sins of many; the second time he shall ap-

pear without sin to them that expect him unto

salvation.

Chapter 10
For the law having a shadow of the good things

to come, not the very image of the things; by the

selfsame sacrices which they oer continually

every year, can never make the comers thereunto

perfect:2For then they would have ceased to be of-

fered: because the worshippers once cleansed

should have no conscience of sin any longer:

3But in them there is made a commemoration

of sins every year.

4For it is impossible that with the blood of

oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

5Wherefore when he cometh into the world,

he saith: Sacrice and oblation thou wouldest

not: but a body thou hast tted to me:

6Holocausts for sin did not please thee.

7Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of

the book it is written of me: that I should do

thy will, O God.

8In saying before, Sacrices, and oblations,

and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, nei-

ther are they pleasing to thee, which are oered

according to the law.

9Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will,

O God: he taketh away the rst, that he may

establish that which followeth.

10In the which will, we are sanctied by the

oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

11And every priest indeed standeth daily

ministering, and often oering the same sacri-

ces, which can never take away sins.

12But this man oering one sacrice for sins,

for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,

13From henceforth expecting, until his ene-

mies be made his footstool.

14For by one oblation he hath perfected for

ever them that are sanctied.

15And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this

to us. For after that he said:

16And this is the testament which I will make

unto them after those days, saith the Lord. I will

give my laws in their hearts, and on their minds

will I write them:

17And their sins and iniquities I will remem-

ber no more.1548 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews

18Now where there is a remission of these,

there is no more an oblation for sin.

19Having therefore, brethren, a condence

in the entering into the holies by the blood of

Christ;

20A new and living way which he hath ded-

icated for us through the veil, that is to say, his

esh,

21And a high priest over the house of God:

22Let us draw near with a true heart in ful-

ness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from

an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with

clean water.

23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope

without wavering (for he is faithful that hath

promised),

24And let us consider one another, to provoke

unto charity and to good works:

25Not forsaking our assembly, as some are

accustomed; but comforting one another, and so

much the more as you see the day approaching.

26For if we sin wilfully after having the

knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sac-

rice for sins,

27But a certain dreadful expectation of judg-

ment, and the rage of a re which shall consume

the adversaries.

28A man making void the law of Moses, dieth

without any mercy under two or three witnesses:

29How much more, do you think he de-

serveth worse punishments, who hath trodden

under foot the Son of God, and hath esteemed

the blood of the testament unclean, by which he

was sanctied, and hath oered an aront to the

Spirit of grace?

30For we know him that hath said:

Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay.

And again: The Lord shall judge his people.

31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands

of the living God.32But call to mind the former days, wherein,

being illuminated, you endured a great ght of

aictions.

33And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches

and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and

on the other, became companions of them that

were used in such sort.

34For you both had compassion on them

that were in bands, and took with joy the be-

ing stripped of your own goods, knowing that

you have a better and a lasting substance.

35Do not therefore lose your condence,

which hath a great reward.

36For patience is necessary for you; that, do-

ing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

37For yet a little and a very little while, and

he that is to come, will come, and will not delay.

38But my just man liveth by faith; but if he

withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

39But we are not the children of withdrawing

unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the

soul.

Chapter 11

Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped

for, the evidence of things that appear not.

2For by this the ancients obtained a testi-

mony.

3By faith we understand that the world was

framed by the word of God; that from invisible

things visible things might be made.

4By faith Abel oered to God a sacrice ex-

ceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a tes-

timony that he was just, God giving testimony

to his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

5By faith Henoch was translated, that he

should not see death; and he was not found, be-

cause God had translated him: for before hisThe Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews 1549

translation he had testimony that he pleased

God.

6But without faith it is impossible to please

God. For he that cometh to God, must believe

that he is, and is a rewarder to them that seek

him.

7By faith Noe, having received an answer con-

cerning those things which as yet were not seen,

moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of

his house, by the which he condemned the world;

and was instituted heir of the justice which is by

faith.

8By faith he that is called Abraham, obeyed

to go out into a place which he was to receive for

an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing

whither he went.

9By faith he abode in the land, dwelling in

cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of

the same promise.

10For he looked for a city that hath founda-

tions; whose builder and maker is God.

11By faith also Sara herself, being barren,

received strength to conceive seed, even past the

time of age; because she believed that he was

faithful who had promised,

12For which cause there sprung even from

one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of

heaven in multitude, and as the sand which is

by the sea shore innumerable.

13All these died according to faith, not hav-

ing received the promises, but beholding them

afar o, and saluting them, and confessing that

they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

14For they that say these things, do signify

that they seek a country.

15And truly if they had been mindful of that

from whence they came out, they had doubtless

time to return.

16But now they desire a better, that is to

say, a heavenly country. Therefore God is notashamed to be called their God; for he hath pre-

pared for them a city.

17By faith Abraham, when he was tried,

oered Isaac: and he that had received the

promises, oered up his only begotten son;

18(To whom it was said: In Isaac shall thy

seed be called.)

19Accounting that God is able to raise up

even from the dead. Whereupon also he received

him for a parable.

20By faith also of things to come, Isaac

blessed Jacob and Esau.

21By faith Jacob dying, blessed each of the

sons of Joseph, and adored the top of his rod.

22By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made

mention of the going out of the children of Israel;

and gave commandment concerning his bones.

23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid

three months by his parents; because they saw

he was a comely babe, and they feared not the

king's edict.

24By faith Moses, when he was grown up, de-

nied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter;

25Rather choosing to be aicted with the

people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin

for a time,

26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater

riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For

he looked unto the reward.

27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the

erceness of the king: for he endured as seeing

him that is invisible.

28By faith he celebrated the pasch, and the

shedding of the blood; that he, who destroyed

the rstborn, might not touch them.

29By faith they passed through the Red Sea,

as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting,

were swallowed up.

30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by

the going round them seven days.1550 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews

31By faith Rahab the harlot perished not

with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with

peace.

32And what shall I yet say? For the time

would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson,

Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:

33 Who by faith conquered kingdoms,

wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the

mouths of lions,

34Quenched the violence of re, escaped the

edge of the sword, recovered strength from weak-

ness, became valiant in battle, put to

ight the

armies of foreigners:

35Women received their dead raised to life

again. But others were racked, not accepting

deliverance, that they might nd a better resur-

rection.

36And others had trial of mockeries and

stripes, moreover also of bands and prisons.

37They were stoned, they were cut asunder,

they were tempted, they were put to death by

the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins,

in goatskins, being in want, distressed, aicted:

38Of whom the world was not worthy; wan-

dering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and

in caved of the earth.

39And all these being approved by the testi-

mony of faith, received not the promise;

40God providing some better thing for us,

that they should not be perfected without us.

Chapter 12

And therefore we also having so great a cloud

of witnesses over our head, laying aside every

weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by

patience to the ght proposed to us:

2Looking on Jesus, the author and nisher

of faith, who having joy set before him, enduredthe cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth

on the right hand of the throne of God.

3For think diligently upon him that endured

such opposition from sinners against himself;

that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds.

4For you have not yet resisted unto blood,

striving against sin:

5And you have forgotten the consolation,

which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying:

My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord;

neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked

by him.

6For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth;

and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

7Persevere under discipline. God dealeth

with you as with his sons; for what son is there,

whom the father doth not correct?

8But if you be without chastisement, whereof

all are made partakers, then are you bastards,

and not sons.

9Moreover we have had fathers of our

esh,

for instructors, and we reverenced them: shall

we not much more obey the Father of spirits,

and live?

10And they indeed for a few days, according

to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for

our prot, that we might receive his sanctica-

tion.

11Now all chastisement for the present in-

deed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sor-

row: but afterwards it will yield, to them that

are exercised by it, the most peaceable fruit of

justice.

12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang

down, and the feeble knees,

13And make straight steps with your feet:

that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but

rather be healed.

14Follow peace with all men, and holiness:

without which no man shall see God.The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews 1551

15Looking diligently, lest any man be want-

ing to the grace of God; lest any root of bitter-

ness springing up do hinder, and by it many be

deled.

16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane

person, as Esau; who for one mess, sold his rst

birthright.

17For know ye that afterwards, when he de-

sired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected;

for he found no place of repentance, although

with tears he had sought it.

18For you are not come to a mountain that

might be touched, and a burning re, and a

whirlwind, and darkness, and storm,

19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice

of words, which they that heard excused them-

selves, that the word might not be spoken to

them:

20For they did not endure that which was

said: And if so much as a beast shall touch the

mount, it shall be stoned.

21And so terrible was that which was seen,

Moses said: I am frighted, and tremble.

22But you are come to mount Sion, and to the

city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,

and to the company of many thousands of angels,

23And to the church of the rstborn, who are

written in the heavens, and to God the judge of

all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

24And to Jesus the mediator of the new tes-

tament, and to the sprinkling of blood which

speaketh better than that of Abel.

25See that you refuse him not that speaketh.

For if they escaped not who refused him that

spoke upon the earth, much more shall not we,

that turn away from him that speaketh to us

from heaven.

26Whose voice then moved the earth; but

now he promiseth, saying: Yet once more, and I

will move not only the earth, but heaven also.27And in that he saith, Yet once more, he

signieth the translation of the moveable things

as made, that those things may remain which

are immoveable.

28Therefore receiving an immoveable king-

dom, we have grace; whereby let us serve, pleas-

ing God, with fear and reverence.

29For our God is a consuming re.

Chapter 13

Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.

2And hospitality do not forget; for by this

some, being not aware of it, have entertained

angels.

3Remember them that are in bands, as if you

were bound with them; and them that labour,

as being yourselves also in the body.

4Marriage honourable in all, and the bed un-

deled. For fornicators and adulterers God will

judge.

5Let your manners be without covetousness,

contented with such things as you have; for he

hath said: I will not leave thee, neither will I

forsake thee.

6So that we may condently say: The Lord

is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do

to me.

7Remember your prelates who have spoken

the word of God to you; whose faith follow, con-

sidering the end of their conversation,

8Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day; and the

same for ever.

9Be not led away with various and strange

doctrines. For it is best that the heart be estab-

lished with grace, not with meats; which have

not proted those that walk in them.

10We have an altar, whereof they have no

power to eat who serve the tabernacle.1552 The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews

11For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood

is brought into the holies by the high priest for

sin, are burned without the camp.

12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanc-

tify the people by his own blood, suered with-

out the gate.

13Let us go forth therefore to him without

the camp, bearing his reproach.

14For we have not here a lasting city, but we

seek one that is to come.

15By him therefore let us oer the sacrice

of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit

of lips confessing to his name.

16And do not forget to do good, and to im-

part; for by such sacrices God's favour is ob-

tained.

17Obey your prelates, and be subject to

them. For they watch as being to render an ac-

count of your souls; that they may do this with

joy, and not with grief. For this is not expedient

for you.

18Pray for us. For we trust we have a good

conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well

in all things.

19And I beseech you the more to do this, that

I may be restored to you the sooner.

20And may the God of peace, who brought

again from the dead the great pastor of the

sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of

the everlasting testament,

21Fit you in all goodness, that you may do

his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing

in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is

glory for ever and ever. Amen.

22And I beseech you, brethren, that you suf-

fer this word of consolation. For I have written

to you in a few words.

23Know ye that our brother Timothy is set

at liberty: with whom (if he come shortly) I will

see you.24Salute all your prelates, and all the saints.

The brethren from Italy salute you.

25Grace be with you all. Amen.The Catholic Epistle of St. James the

Apostle

Chapter 1

James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus

Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered

abroad, greeting.

2My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall

fall into divers temptations;

3Knowing that the trying of your faith wor-

keth patience.

4And patience hath a perfect work; that you

may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

5But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask

of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, and

upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.

For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea,

which is moved and carried about by the wind.

7Therefore let not that man think that he

shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8A double minded man is inconstant in all

his ways.

9But let the brother of low condition glory in

his exaltation:

10And the rich, in his being low; because as

the

ower of the grass shall he pass away.

11For the sun rose with a burning heat, and

parched the grass, and the

ower thereof fell o,

and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so

also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.12Blessed is the man that endureth temp-

tation; for when he hath been proved, he shall

receive a crown of life, which God hath promised

to them that love him.

13Let no man, when he is tempted, say that

he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter

of evils, and he tempteth no man.

14But every man is tempted by his own con-

cupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

15Then when concupiscence hath conceived,

it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is com-

pleted, begetteth death.

16Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.

17Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is

from above, coming down from the Father of

lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow

of alteration.

18For of his own will hath he begotten us

by the word of truth, that we might be some

beginning of his creatures.

19You know, my dearest brethren. And let

every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak,

and slow to anger.

20For the anger of man worketh not the jus-

tice of God.

21Wherefore casting away all uncleanness,

and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness

receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save

your souls.1554 The Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle

22But be ye doers of the word, and not hear-

ers only, deceiving your own selves.

23For if a man be a hearer of the word, and

not a doer, he shall be compared to a man be-

holding his own countenance in a glass.

24For he beheld himself, and went his way,

and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

25But he that hath looked into the perfect

law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not

becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the

work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26And if any man think himself to be reli-

gious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his

own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27Religion clean and undeled before God

and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and

widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's

self unspotted from this world.

Chapter 2

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus

Christ of glory with respect of persons.

2For if there shall come into your assembly a

man having a golden ring, in ne apparel, and

there shall come in also a poor man in mean

attire,

3And you have respect to him that is clothed

with the ne apparel, and shall say to him: Sit

thou here well; but say to the poor man: Stand

thou there, or sit under my footstool:

4Do you not judge within yourselves, and are

become judges of unjust thoughts?

5Hearken, my dearest brethren: hath not God

chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith, and

heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised

to them that love him?

6But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do

not the rich oppress you by might? and do notthey draw you before the judgment seats?

7Do not they blaspheme the good name that

is invoked upon you?

8If then you full the royal law, according to

the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as

thyself; you do well.

9But if you have respect to persons, you com-

mit sin, being reproved by the law as transgres-

sors.

10And whosoever shall keep the whole law,

but oend in one point, is become guilty of all.

11For he that said, Thou shalt not commit

adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if

thou do not commit adultery, but shalt kill, thou

art become a transgressor of the law.

12So speak ye, and so do, as being to be

judged by the law of liberty.

13For judgment without mercy to him that

hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself

above judgment.

14What shall it prot, my brethren, if a man

say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall

faith be able to save him?

15And if a brother or sister be naked, and

want daily food:

16And one of you say to them: Go in peace,

be ye warmed and lled; yet give them not those

things that are necessary for the body, what shall

it prot?
17So faith also, if it have not works, is dead

in itself.

18But some man will say: Thou hast faith,

and I have works: shew me thy faith without

works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.

19Thou believest that there is one God. Thou

dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith

without works is dead?

21Was not Abraham our father justied by

works, oering up Isaac his son upon the altar?The Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle 1555

22Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with

his works; and by works faith was made perfect?

23And the scripture was fullled, saying:

Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to

him to justice, and he was called the friend of

God.

24Do you see that by works a man is justied;

and not by faith only?

25And in like manner also Rahab the har-

lot, was not she justied by works, receiving the

messengers, and sending them out another way?

26For even as the body without the spirit is

dead; so also faith without works is dead.

Chapter 3

Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing

that you receive the greater judgment.

2For in many things we all oend. If any man

oend not in word, the same is a perfect man.

He is able also with a bridle to lead about the

whole body.

3For if we put bits into the mouths of horses,

that they may obey us, and we turn about their

whole body.

4Behold also ships, whereas they are great,

and are driven by strong winds, yet are they

turned about with a small helm, whithersoever

the force of the governor willeth.

5Even so the tongue is indeed a little member,

and boasteth great things. Behold how small a

re kindleth a great wood.

6And the tongue is a re, a world of iniquity.

The tongue is placed among our members, which

deleth the whole body, and in

ameth the wheel

of our nativity, being set on re by hell.

7For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and

of serpents, and of the rest, is tamed, and hath

been tamed, by the nature of man:8But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet

evil, full of deadly poison.

9By it we bless God and the Father: and by

it we curse men, who are made after the likeness

of God.

10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing

and cursing. My brethren, these things ought

not so to be.

11Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same

hole, sweet and bitter water?

12Can the g tree, my brethren, bear grapes;

or the vine, gs? So neither can the salt water

yield sweet.

13Who is a wise man, and endued with

knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good

conversation, his work in the meekness of wis-

dom.

14But if you have bitter zeal, and there be

contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not

liars against the truth.

15For this is not wisdom, descending from

above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.

16For where envying and contention is, there

is inconstancy, and every evil work.

17But the wisdom, that is from above, rst

indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy

to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of

mercy and good fruits, without judging, without

dissimulation.

18And the fruit of justice is sown in peace,

to them that make peace.

Chapter 4

From whence are wars and contentions among

you? Are they not hence, from your concupis-

cences, which war in your members?

2You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy,

and can not obtain. You contend and war, and1556 The Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle

you have not, because you ask not.

3You ask, and receive not; because you ask

amiss: that you may consume it on your concu-

piscences.

4Adulterers, know you not that the friendship

of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever

therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh

an enemy of God.

5Or do you think that the scripture saith

in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which

dwelleth in you?

6But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he

saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace

to the humble.

7Be subject therefore to God, but resist the

devil, and he will

y from you.

8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to

you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify

your hearts, ye double minded.

9Be aicted, and mourn, and weep: let your

laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy

into sorrow.

10Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and

he will exalt you.

11Detract not one another, my brethren. He

that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth

his brother, detracteth the law, and judgeth the

law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a

doer of the law, but a judge.

12There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is

able to destroy and to deliver.

13But who art thou that judgest thy neigh-

bour? Behold, now you that say: To day or to

morrow we will go into such a city, and there we

will spend a year, and will trac, and make our

gain.

14Whereas you know not what shall be on

the morrow.

15For what is your life? It is a vapour which

appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shallvanish away. For that you should say: If the

Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or

that.

16But now you rejoice in your arrogancies.

All such rejoicing is wicked.

17To him therefore who knoweth to do good,

and doth it not, to him it is sin.

Chapter 5

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your

miseries, which shall come upon you.

2Your riches are corrupted: and your gar-

ments are motheaten.

3Your gold and silver is cankered: and the

rust of them shall be for a testimony against you,

and shall eat your

esh like re. You have stored

up to yourselves wrath against the last days.

4Behold the hire of the labourers, who have

reaped down your elds, which by fraud has been

kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them

hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

5You have feasted upon earth: and in riotous-

ness you have nourished your hearts, in the day

of slaughter.

6You have condemned and put to death the

Just One, and he resisted you not.

7Be patient therefore, brethren, until the

coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman

waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: pa-

tiently bearing till he receive the early and latter

rain.
8Be you therefore also patient, and

strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the

Lord is at hand.

9Grudge not, brethren, one against another,

that you may not be judged. Behold the judge

standeth before the door.The Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle 1557

10Take, my brethren, for an example of suf-

fering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets,

who spoke in the name of the Lord.

11Behold, we account them blessed who have

endured. You have heard of the patience of Job,

and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the

Lord is merciful and compassionate.

12But above all things, my brethren, swear

not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by

any other oath. But let your speech be, yea, yea:

no, no: that you fall not under judgment.

13Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he

cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

14Is any man sick among you? Let him bring

in the priests of the church, and let them pray

over him, anointing him with oil in the name of

the Lord.

15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick

man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he

be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16Confess therefore your sins one to another:

and pray one for another, that you may be saved.

For the continual prayer of a just man availeth

much.

17Elias was a man passible like unto us: and

with prayer he prayed that it might not rain

upon the earth, and it rained not for three years

and six months.

18And he prayed again: and the heaven gave

rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

19My brethren, if any of you err from the

truth, and one convert him:

20He must know that he who causeth a sin-

ner to be converted from the error of his way,

shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a

multitude of sins.The First Epistle of St. Peter the

Apostle

Chapter 1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers

dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,

Asia, and Bithynia, elect,

2According to the foreknowledge of God the

Father, unto the sanctication of the Spirit, unto

obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus

Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord

Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy

hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the

resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4Unto an inheritance incorruptible, and un-

deled, and that can not fade, reserved in heaven

for you,

5Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith

unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last

time.

6Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you

must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers

temptations:

7That the trial of your faith (much more pre-

cious than gold which is tried by the re) may be

found unto praise and glory and honour at the

appearing of Jesus Christ:

8Whom having not seen, you love: in whom

also now, though you see him not, you believe:

and believing shall rejoice with joy unspeakableand gloried;

9Receiving the end of your faith, even the

salvation of your souls.

10Of which salvation the prophets have in-

quired and diligently searched, who prophesied

of the grace to come in you.

11Searching what or what manner of time

the Spirit of Christ in them did signify: when it

foretold those suerings that are in Christ, and

the glories that should follow:

12To whom it was revealed, that not to them-

selves, but to you they ministered those things

which are now declared to you by them that have

preached the gospel to you, the Holy Ghost be-

ing sent down from heaven, on whom the angels

desire to look.

13Wherefore having the loins of your mind

girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace

which is oered you in the revelation of Jesus

Christ,

14As children of obedience, not fashioned ac-

cording to the former desires of your ignorance:

15But according to him that hath called you,

who is holy, be you also in all manner of conver-

sation holy:

16Because it is written: You shall be holy,

for I am holy.

17And if you invoke as Father him who, with-

out respect of persons, judgeth according to ev-The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle 1559

ery one's work: converse in fear during the time

of your sojourning here.

18Knowing that you were not redeemed with

corruptible things as gold or silver, from your

vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

19But with the precious blood of Christ, as

of a lamb unspotted and undeled,

20Foreknown indeed before the foundation of

the world, but manifested in the last times for

you,

21Who through him are faithful in God, who

raised him up from the dead, and hath given him

glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

22Purifying your souls in the obedience of

charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere

heart love one another earnestly:

23Being born again not of corruptible seed,

but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth

and remaineth for ever.

24For all

esh is as grass; and all the glory

thereof as the

ower of grass. The grass is with-

ered, and the

ower thereof is fallen away.

25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.

And this is the word which by the gospel hath

been preached unto you.

Chapter 2

Wherefore laying away all malice, and all guile,

and dissimulations, and envies, and all detrac-

tions,

2As newborn babes, desire the rational milk

without guile, that thereby you may grow unto

salvation:

3If so be you have tasted that the Lord is

sweet.

4Unto whom coming, as to a living stone,

rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made

honourable by God:5Be you also as living stones built up, a

spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to oer up

spiritual sacrices, acceptable to God by Jesus

Christ.

6Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold,

I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious.

And he that shall believe in him, shall not be

confounded.

7To you therefore that believe, he is honour:

but to them that believe not, the stone which

the builders rejected, the same is made the head

of the corner:

8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of scan-

dal, to them who stumble at the word, neither

do believe, whereunto also they are set.

9But you are a chosen generation, a kingly

priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people:

that you may declare his virtues, who hath called

you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

10Who in time past were not a people: but

are now the people of God. Who had not ob-

tained mercy; but now have obtained mercy.

11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers

and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal

desires which war against the soul,

12Having your conversation good among the

Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you

as evildoers, they may, by the good works, which

they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day

of visitation.

13Be ye subject therefore to every human

creature for God's sake: whether it be to the

king as excelling;

14Or to governors as sent by him for the pun-

ishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the

good:

15For so is the will of God, that by doing well

you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish

men:1560 The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle

16As free, and not as making liberty a cloak

for malice, but as the servants of God.

17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood.

Fear God. Honour the king.

18Servants, be subject to your masters with

all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also

to the froward.

19For this is thankworthy, if for conscience

towards God, a man endure sorrows, suering

wrongfully.

20For what glory is it, if committing sin, and

being bueted for it, you endure? But if doing

well you suer patiently; this is thankworthy be-

fore God.

21For unto this are you called: because Christ

also suered for us, leaving you an example that

you should follow his steps.

22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in

his mouth.

23Who, when he was reviled, did not revile:

when he suered, he threatened not: but deliv-

ered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

24Who his own self bore our sins in his body

upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins,

should live to justice: by whose stripes you were

healed.

25For you were as sheep going astray; but you

are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of

your souls.

Chapter 3

In like manner also let wives be subject to their

husbands: that if any believe not the word, they

may be won without the word, by the conversa-

tion of the wives.

2Considering your chaste conversation with

fear.

3Whose adorning let it not be the outwardplaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or

the putting on of apparel:

4But the hidden man of the heart in the in-

corruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit, which

is rich in the sight of God.

5For after this manner heretofore the holy

women also, who trusted in God, adorned them-

selves, being in subjection to their own hus-

bands:

6As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord:

whose daughters you are, doing well, and not

fearing any disturbance.

7Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them

according to knowledge, giving honour to the fe-

male as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-

heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be

not hindered.

8And in ne, be ye all of one mind, having

compassion one of another, being lovers of the

brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

9Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for

railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this

are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

10For he that will love life, and see good days,

let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips

that they speak no guile.

11Let him decline from evil, and do good: let

him seek after peace and pursue it:

12Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the

just, and his ears unto their prayers: but the

countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil

things.

13And who is he that can hurt you, if you be

zealous of good?

14But if also you suer any thing for justice'

sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their

fear, and be not troubled.

15But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts,

being ready always to satisfy every one that as-

keth you a reason of that hope which is in you.The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle 1561

16But with modesty and fear, having a good

conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you,

they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your

good conversation in Christ.

17For it is better doing well (if such be the

will of God) to suer, than doing ill.

18Because Christ also died once for our sins,

the just for the unjust: that he might oer us to

God, being put to death indeed in the

esh, but

enlivened in the spirit,

19In which also coming he preached to those

spirits that were in prison:

20Which had been some time incredulous,

when they waited for the patience of God in

the days of Noe, when the ark was a building:

wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by

water.

21Whereunto baptism being of the like form,

now saveth you also: not the putting away of the

lth of the

esh, but the examination of a good

conscience towards God by the resurrection of

Jesus Christ.

22Who is on the right hand of God, swallow-

ing down death, that we might be made heirs of

life everlasting: being gone into heaven, the an-

gels and powers and virtues being made subject

to him.

Chapter 4

Christ therefore having suered in the

esh, be

you also armed with the same thought: for he

that hath suered in the

esh, hath ceased from

sins:

2That now he may live the rest of his time

in the

esh , not after the desires of men, but

according to the will of God.

3For the time past is sucient to have ful-

lled the will of the Gentiles, for them who havewalked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, rev-

ellings, banquetings, and unlawful worshipping

of idols.

4Wherein they think it strange, that you run

not with them into the same confusion of riotous-

ness, speaking evil of you.

5Who shall render account to him, who is

ready to judge the living and the dead.

6For, for this cause was the gospel preached

also to the dead: that they might be judged in-

deed according to men, in the

esh; but may live

according to God, in the Spirit.

7But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent

therefore, and watch in prayers.

8But before all things have a constant mutual

charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a

multitude of sins.
9Using hospitality one towards another, with-

out murmuring,

10As every man hath received grace, minis-

tering the same one to another: as good stewards

of the manifold grace of God.

11If any man speak, let him speak, as the

words of God. If any man minister, let him do

it, as of the power, which God administereth:

that in all things God may be honoured through

Jesus Christ: to whom is glory and empire for

ever and ever. Amen.

12Dearly beloved, think not strange the burn-

ing heat which is to try you, as if some new thing

happened to you;

13But if you partake of the suerings of

Christ, rejoice that when his glory shall be re-

vealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

14If you be reproached for the name of Christ,

you shall be blessed: for that which is of the

honour, glory, and power of God, and that which

is his Spirit, resteth upon you.

15But let none of you suer as a murderer,

or a thief, or a railer, or a coveter of other men's1562 The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle

things.

16But if as a Christian, let him not be

ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

17For the time is, that judgment should begin

at the house of God. And if rst at us, what shall

be the end of them that believe not the gospel

of God?

18And if the just man shall scarcely be saved,

where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

19Wherefore let them also that suer accord-

ing to the will of God, commend their souls in

good deeds to the faithful Creator.

Chapter 5

The ancients therefore that are among you, I be-

seech, who am myself also an ancient, and a wit-

ness of the suerings of Christ: as also a partaker

of that glory which is to be revealed in time to

come:

2Feed the

ock of God which is among you,

taking care of it, not by constraint, but willingly,

according to God: not for lthy lucre's sake, but

voluntarily:

3Neither as lording it over the clergy, but

being made a pattern of the

ock from the heart.

4And when the prince of pastors shall appear,

you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.

5In like manner, ye young men, be subject to

the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility

one to another, for God resisteth the proud, but

to the humble he giveth grace.

6Be you humbled therefore under the mighty

hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time

of visitation:

7Casting all your care upon him, for he hath

care of you.

8Be sober and watch: because your adversary

the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seekingwhom he may devour.

9Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing

that the same aiction befalls your brethren

who are in the world.

10But the God of all grace, who hath called us

into his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you

have suered a little, will himself perfect you,

and conrm you, and establish you.

11To him be glory and empire for ever and

ever. Amen.

12By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you,

as I think, I have written brie

y: beseeching

and testifying that this is the true grace of God,

wherein you stand.

13The church that is in Babylon, elected to-

gether with you, saluteth you: and so doth my

son Mark.

14Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace

be to all you, who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.The Second Epistle of St. Peter the

Apostle

Chapter 1

Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

to them that have obtained equal faith with us in

the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

2Grace to you and peace be accomplished in

the knowledge of God and of Christ Jesus our

Lord:

3As all things of his divine power which

appertain to life and godliness, are given us,

through the knowledge of him who hath called

us by his own proper glory and virtue.

4By whom he hath given us most great and

precious promises: that by these you may be

made partakers of the divine nature:

ying the

corruption of that concupiscence which is in the

world.

5And you, employing all care, minister in

your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

6And in knowledge, abstinence; and in absti-

nence, patience; and in patience, godliness;

7And in godliness, love of brotherhood; and

in love of brotherhood, charity.

8For if these things be with you and abound,

they will make you to be neither empty nor

unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus

Christ.

9For he that hath not these things with him,

is blind, and groping, having forgotten that hewas purged from his old sins.

10Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that

by good works you may make sure your calling

and election. For doing these things, you shall

not sin at any time.

11For so an entrance shall be ministered to

you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of

our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

12For which cause I will begin to put you

always in remembrance of these things: though

indeed you know them, and are conrmed in the

present truth.

13But I think it meet as long as I am in this

tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in re-

membrance.

14Being assured that the laying away of this

my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord

Jesus Christ also hath signied to me.

15And I will endeavour, that you frequently

have after my decease, whereby you may keep a

memory of these things.

16For we have not by following articial fa-

bles, made known to you the power, and presence

of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eyewit-

nesses of his greatness.

17For he received from God the Father, hon-

our and glory: this voice coming down to him

from the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son,

in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.1564 The Second Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle

18And this voice we heard brought from

heaven, when we were with him in the holy

mount.

19And we have the more rm prophetical

word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to

a light that shineth in a dark place, until the

day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

20Understanding this rst, that no prophecy

of scripture is made by private interpretation.

21For prophecy came not by the will of man

at any time: but the holy men of God spoke,

inspired by the Holy Ghost.

Chapter 2

But there were also false prophets among the

people, even as there shall be among you lying

teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition,

and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing

upon themselves swift destruction.

2And many shall follow their riotousnesses,

through whom the way of truth shall be evil spo-

ken of.

3And through covetousness shall they with

feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose

judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and

their perdition slumbereth not.

4For if God spared not the angels that sinned,

but delivered them, drawn down by infernal

ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be re-

served unto judgment:

5And spared not the original world, but pre-

served Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of

justice, bringing in the

ood upon the world of

the ungodly.

6And reducing the cities of the Sodomites,

and of the Gomorrhites, into ashes, condemned

them to be overthrown, making them an example

to those that should after act wickedly.7And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the

injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked.

8For in sight and hearing he was just:

dwelling among them, who from day to day

vexed the just soul with unjust works.

9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly

from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto

the day of judgment to be tormented.

10And especially them who walk after the

esh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise gov-

ernment, audacious, self willed, they fear not to

bring in sects, blaspheming.

11Whereas angels who are greater in strength

and power, bring not against themselves a railing

judgment.

12But these men, as irrational beasts, nat-

urally tending to the snare and to destruction,

blaspheming those things which they know not,

shall perish in their corruption,

13Receiving the reward of their injustice,

counting for a pleasure the delights of a day:

stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess,

rioting in their feasts with you:

14Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that

ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their

heart exercised with covetousness, children of

malediction:

15Leaving the right way they have gone

astray, having followed the way of Balaam of

Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity,

16But had a check of his madness, the dumb

beast used to the yoke, which speaking with

man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.

17These are fountains without water, and

clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist

of darkness is reserved.

18For, speaking proud words of vanity, they

allure by the desires of

eshly riotousness, those

who for a little while escape, such as converse in

error:The Second Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle 1565

19Promising them liberty, whereas they

themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by

whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is

the slave.

20For if,

ying from the pollutions of the

world, through the knowledge of our Lord and

Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in

them and overcome: their latter state is become

unto them worse than the former.

21For it had been better for them not to have

known the way of justice, than after they have

known it, to turn back from that holy command-

ment which was delivered to them.

22For, that of the true proverb has happened

to them: The dog is returned to his vomit: and,

The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in

the mire.

Chapter 3

Behold this second epistle I write to you, my

dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of ad-

monition your sincere mind:

2That you may be mindful of those words

which I told you before from the holy prophets,

and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord

and Saviour.

3Knowing this rst, that in the last days there

shall come deceitful scoers, walking after their

own lusts,

4Saying: Where is his promise or his coming?

for since the time that the fathers slept, all things

continue as they were from the beginning of the

creation.

5For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that

the heavens were before, and the earth out of

water, and through water, consisting by the word

of God.

6Whereby the world that then was, beingover

owed with water, perished.

7But the heavens and the earth which are

now, by the same word are kept in store, re-

served unto re against the day of judgment and

perdition of the ungodly men.

8But of this one thing be not ignorant, my

beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thou-

sand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some

imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake,

not willing that any should perish, but that all

should return to penance.

10But the day of the Lord shall come as a

thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with

great violence, and the elements shall be melted

with heat, and the earth and the works which

are in it, shall be burnt up.

11Seeing then that all these things are to be

dissolved, what manner of people ought you to

be in holy conversation and godliness?

12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of

the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being

on re shall be dissolved, and the elements shall

melt with the burning heat?

13But we look for new heavens and a new

earth according to his promises, in which justice

dwelleth.

14Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for

these things, be diligent that you may be found

before him unspotted and blameless in peace.

15And account the longsuering of our Lord,

salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul,

according to the wisdom given him, hath written

to you:

16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them

of these things; in which are certain things hard

to be understood, which the unlearned and un-

stable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures,

to their own destruction.

17You therefore, brethren, knowing these1566 The Second Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle

things before, take heed, lest being led aside by

the error of the unwise, you fall from your own

steadfastness.

18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge

of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him

be glory both now and unto the day of eternity.

Amen.The First Epistle of St. John the

Apostle

Chapter 1

That which was from the beginning, which we

have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,

which we have looked upon, and our hands have

handled, of the word of life:

2For the life was manifested; and we have

seen and do bear witness, and declare unto you

the life eternal, which was with the Father, and

hath appeared to us:

3That which we have seen and have heard,

we declare unto you, that you also may have fel-

lowship with us, and our fellowship may be with

the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

4And these things we write to you, that you

may rejoice, and your joy may be full.

5And this is the declaration which we have

heard from him, and declare unto you: That God

is light, and in him there is no darkness.

6If we say that we have fellowship with him,

and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the

truth.

7But if we walk in the light, as he also is in

the light, we have fellowship one with another,

and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth

us from all sin.

8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive

ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just,to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all

iniquity.

10If we say that we have not sinned, we make

him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Chapter 2

My little children, these things I write to you,

that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we

have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ

the just:

2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and

not for ours only, but also for those of the whole

world.

3And by this we know that we have known

him, if we keep his commandments.

4He who saith that he knoweth him, and

keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and

the truth is not in him.

5But he that keepeth his word, in him in very

deed the charity of God is perfected; and by this

we know that we are in him.

6He that saith he abideth in him, ought him-

self also to walk, even as he walked.

7Dearly beloved, I write not a new command-

ment to you, but an old commandment which

you had from the beginning. The old command-

ment is the word which you have heard.1568 The First Epistle of St. John the Apostle

8Again a new commandment I write unto

you, which thing is true both in him and in you;

because the darkness is passed, and the true light

now shineth.

9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth

his brother, is in darkness even until now.

10He that loveth his brother, abideth in the

light, and there is no scandal in him.

11But he that hateth his brother, is in dark-

ness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not

whither he goeth; because the darkness hath

blinded his eyes.

12I write unto you, little children, because

your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

13I write unto you, fathers, because you have

known him, who is from the beginning. I write

unto you, young men, because you have over-

come the wicked one.

14I write unto you, babes, because you have

known the Father. I write unto you, young

men, because you are strong, and the word of

God abideth in you, and you have overcome the

wicked one.

15Love not the world, nor the things which

are in the world. If any man love the world, the

charity of the Father is not in him.

16For all that is in the world, is the concupis-

cence of the

esh, and the concupiscence of the

eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the

Father, but is of the world.

17And the world passeth away, and the con-

cupiscence thereof: but he that doth the will of

God, abideth for ever.

18Little children, it is the last hour; and as

you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now

there are become many Antichrists: whereby we

know that it is the last hour.

19They went out from us, but they were not

of us. For if they had been of us, they would no

doubt have remained with us; but that they maybe manifest, that they are not all of us.

20But you have the unction from the Holy

One, and know all things.

21I have not written to you as to them that

know not the truth, but as to them that know

it: and that no lie is of the truth.

22Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Je-

sus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth

the Father, and the Son.

23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath

not the Father. He that confesseth the Son, hath

the Father also.

24As for you, let that which you have heard

from the beginning, abide in you. If that abide in

you, which you have heard from the beginning,

you also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.

25And this is the promise which he hath

promised us, life everlasting.

26These things have I written to you, con-

cerning them that seduce you.

27And as for you, let the unction, which you

have received from him, abide in you. And you

have no need that any man teach you; but as his

unction teacheth you of all things, and is truth,

and is no lie. And as it hath taught you, abide

in him.

28And now, little children, abide in him, that

when he shall appear, we may have condence,

and not be confounded by him at his coming.

29If you know, that he is just, know ye, that

every one also, who doth justice, is born of him.

Chapter 3

Behold what manner of charity the Father hath

bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and

should be the sons of God. Therefore the world

knoweth not us, because it knew not him.

2Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God;The First Epistle of St. John the Apostle 1569

and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be.

We know, that, when he shall appear, we shall

be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

3And every one that hath this hope in him,

sanctieth himself, as he also is holy.

4Whosoever committeth sin commmitteth

also iniquity; and sin is iniquity.

5And you know that he appeared to take

away our sins, and in him there is no sin.

6Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth not;

and whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, nor

known him.

7Little children, let no man deceive you. He

that doth justice is just, even as he is just.

8He that commmitteth sin is of the devil: for

the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this

purpose, the Son of God appeared, that he might

destroy the works of the devil.

9Whosoever is born of God, commmitteth not

sin: for his seed abideth in him, and he can not

sin, because he is born of God.

10In this the children of God are manifest,

and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not

just, is not of God, nor he that loveth not his

brother.

11For this is the declaration, which you have

heard from the beginning, that you should love

one another.

12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one,

and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill

him? Because his own works were wicked: and

his brother's just.

13Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate

you.
14We know that we have passed from death

to life, because we love the brethren. He that

loveth not, abideth in death.

15Whosoever hateth his brother is a mur-

derer. And you know that no murderer hath

eternal life abiding in himself.16In this we have known the charity of God,

because he hath laid down his life for us: and we

ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

17He that hath the substance of this world,

and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut

up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of

God abide in him?

18My little children, let us not love in word,

nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.

19In this we know that we are of the truth:

and in his sight shall persuade our hearts.

20For if our heart reprehend us, God is

greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

21Dearly beloved, if our heart do not repre-

hend us, we have condence towards God:

22And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall re-

ceive of him: because we keep his command-

ments, and do those things which are pleasing

in his sight.

23And this is his commandment, that we

should believe in the name of his Son Jesus

Christ: and love one another, as he hath given

commandment unto us.

24And he that keepeth his commandments,

abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we

know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which

he hath given us.

Chapter 4

Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try

the spirits if they be of God: because many false

prophets are gone out into the world.

2By this is the spirit of God known. Every

spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come

in the

esh, is of God:

3And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not

of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have

heard that he cometh, and he is now already in1570 The First Epistle of St. John the Apostle

the world.

4You are of God, little children, and have

overcome him. Because greater is he that is in

you, than he that is in the world.

5They are of the world: therefore of the world

they speak, and the world heareth them.

6We are of God. He that knoweth God,

heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us

not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and

the spirit of error.

7Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for

charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is

born of God, and knoweth God.

8He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for

God is charity.

9By this hath the charity of God appeared

towards us, because God hath sent his only be-

gotten Son into the world, that we may live by

him.

10In this is charity: not as though we had

loved God, but because he hath rst loved us,

and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

11My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we

also ought to love one another.

12No man hath seen God at any time. If

we love one another, God abideth in us, and his

charity is perfected in us.

13In this we know that we abide in him, and

he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.

14And we have seen, and do testify, that the

Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the

world.

15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the

Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

16And we have known, and have believed the

charity, which God hath to us. God is charity:

and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God,

and God in him.

17In this is the charity of God perfected with

us, that we may have condence in the day ofjudgment: because as he is, we also are in this

world.

18Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity

casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he

that feareth, is not perfected in charity.

19Let us therefore love God, because God

rst hath loved us.

20If any man say, I love God, and hateth his

brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his

brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God,

whom he seeth not?

21And this commandment we have from God,

that he, who loveth God, love also his brother.

Chapter 5

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is

born of God. And every one that loveth him who

begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

2In this we know that we love the children

of God: when we love God, and keep his com-

mandments.

3For this is the charity of God, that we keep

his commandments: and his commandments are

not heavy.

4For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh

the world: and this is the victory which over-

cometh the world, our faith.

5Who is he that overcometh the world, but

he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

6This is he that came by water and blood,

Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water

and blood. And it is the Spirit which testieth,

that Christ is the truth.

7And there are three who give testimony in

heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy

Ghost. And these three are one.

8And there are three that give testimony on

earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood:The First Epistle of St. John the Apostle 1571

and these three are one.

9If we receive the testimony of men, the testi-

mony of God is greater. For this is the testimony

of God, which is greater, because he hath testi-

ed of his Son.

10He that believeth in the Son of God, hath

the testimony of God in himself. He that be-

lieveth not the Son, maketh him a liar: because

he believeth not in the testimony which God

hath testied of his Son.

11And this is the testimony, that God hath

given to us eternal life. And this life is in his

Son.

12He that hath the Son, hath life. He that

hath not the Son, hath not life.

13These things I write to you, that you may

know that you have eternal life, you who believe

in the name of the Son of God.

14And this is the condence which we have

towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask ac-

cording to his will, he heareth us.

15And we know that he heareth us whatso-

ever we ask: we know that we have the petitions

which we request of him.

16He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin

which is not to death, let him ask, and life shall

be given to him, who sinneth not to death. There

is a sin unto death: for that I say not that any

man ask.

17All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto

death.

18We know that whosoever is born of God,

sinneth not: but the generation of God pre-

serveth him, and the wicked one toucheth him

not.

19We know that we are of God, and the whole

world is seated in wickedness.

20And we know that the Son of God is come:

and he hath given us understanding that we mayknow the true God, and may be in his true Son.

This is the true God and life eternal.

21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Amen.The Second Epistle of St. John the

Apostle

Chapter 1

The ancient to the lady Elect, and her children,

whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but also

all they that have known the truth,

2For the sake of the truth which dwelleth in

us, and shall be with us for ever.

3Grace be with you, mercy, and peace from

God the Father, and from Christ Jesus the Son

of the Father; in truth and charity.

4I was exceeding glad, that I found of thy

children walking in truth, as we have received a

commandment from the Father.

5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing

a new commandment to thee, but that which we

have had from the beginning, that we love one

another.

6And this is charity, that we walk according

to his commandments. For this is the command-

ment, that, as you have heard from the begin-

ning, you should walk in the same:

7For many seducers are gone out into the

world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come

in the

esh: this is a seducer and an antichrist.

8Look to yourselves, that you lose not the

things which you have wrought: but that you

may receive a full reward.

9Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in

the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He thatcontinueth in the doctrine, the same hath both

the Father and the Son.

10If any man come to you, and bring not this

doctrine, receive him not into the house nor say

to him, God speed you.

11For he that saith unto him, God speed you,

communicateth with his wicked works.

12Having more things to write unto you, I

would not by paper and ink: for I hope that I

shall be with you, and speak face to face: that

your joy may be full.

13The children of thy sister Elect salute thee.The Third Epistle of St. John the

Apostle

Chapter 1

The ancient to the dearly beloved Gaius, whom

I love in truth.

2Dearly beloved, concerning all things I make

it my prayer that thou mayest proceed prosper-

ously, and fare well as thy soul doth prosper-

ously.

3I was exceedingly glad when the brethren

came and gave testimony to the truth in thee,

even as thou walkest in the truth.

4I have no greater grace than this, to hear

that my children walk in truth.

5Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully what-

ever thou dost for the brethren, and that for

strangers,

6Who have given testimony to thy charity

in the sight of the church: whom thou shalt do

well to bring forward on their way in a manner

worthy of God.

7Because, for his name they went out, taking

nothing of the Gentiles.

8We therefore ought to receive such, that we

may be fellow helpers of the truth.

9I had written perhaps to the church: but

Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence

among them, doth not receive us.

10For this cause, if I come, I will advertise his

works which he doth, with malicious words prat-ing against us. And as if these things were not

enough for him, neither doth he himself receive

the brethren, and them that do receive them he

forbiddeth, and casteth out of the church.

11Dearly beloved, follow not that which is

evil, but that which is good. He that doth good,

is of God: he that doth evil, hath not seen God.

12To Demetrius testimony is given by all, and

by the truth itself, yea and we also give testi-

mony: and thou knowest that our testimony is

true.

13I had many things to write unto thee: but

I would not by ink and pen write to thee.

14But I hope speedily to see thee, and we will

speak mouth to mouth. Peace be to thee. Our

friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.The Catholic Epistle of St. Jude the

Apostle

Chapter 1

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of

James: to them that are beloved in God the Fa-

ther, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.

2Mercy unto you, and peace, and charity be

fullled.

3Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto

you concerning your common salvation, I was un-

der a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you

to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered

to the saints.

4For certain men are secretly entered in, (who

were written of long ago unto this judgment,)

ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God

into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign

Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5I will therefore admonish you, though ye

once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved

the people out of the land of Egypt, did after-

wards destroy them that believed not:

6And the angels who kept not their principal-

ity, but forsook their own habitation, he hath re-

served under darkness in everlasting chains, unto

the judgment of the great day.

7As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neigh-

bouring cities, in like manner, having given

themselves to fornication, and going after other

esh, were made an example, suering the pun-ishment of eternal re.

8In like manner these men also dele the

esh,

and despise dominion, and blaspheme majesty.

9When Michael the archangel, disputing with

the devil, contended about the body of Moses, he

durst not bring against him the judgment of rail-

ing speech, but said: The Lord command thee.

10But these men blaspheme whatever things

they know not: and what things soever they nat-

urally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are

corrupted.

11Woe unto them, for they have gone in the

way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they

have for reward poured out themselves, and have

perished in the contradiction of Core.

12These are spots in their banquets, feast-

ing together without fear, feeding themselves,

clouds without water, which are carried about

by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice

dead, plucked up by the roots,

13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their

own confusion; wandering stars, to whom the

storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

14Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from

Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord

cometh with thousands of his saints,

15To execute judgment upon all, and to re-

prove all the ungodly for all the works of their

ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly,The Catholic Epistle of St. Jude the Apostle 1575

and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners

have spoken against God.

16These are murmurers, full of complaints,

walking according to their own desires, and their

mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons

for gain's sake.

17But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of

the words which have been spoken before by the

apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

18Who told you, that in the last time there

should come mockers, walking according to their

own desires in ungodlinesses.

19These are they, who separate themselves,

sensual men, having not the Spirit.

20But you, my beloved, building yourselves

upon you most holy faith, praying in the Holy

Ghost,

21Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting

for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto life

everlasting.

22And some indeed reprove, being judged:

23But others save, pulling them out of the

re. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating

also the spotted garment which is carnal.

24Now to him who is able to preserve you

without sin, and to present you spotless before

the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in

the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,

25To the only God our Saviour through Je-

sus Christ our Lord, be glory and magnicence,

empire and power, before all ages, and now, and

for all ages of ages. Amen.The Apocalypse of St. John the

Apostle
Chapter 1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave

unto him, to make known to his servants the

things which must shortly come to pass: and sig-

nied, sending by his angel to his servant John,

2Who hath given testimony to the word of

God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, what

things soever he hath seen.

3Blessed is he, that readeth and heareth the

words of this prophecy; and keepeth those things

which are written in it; for the time is at hand.

4John to the seven churches which are in Asia.

Grace be unto you and peace from him that is,

and that was, and that is to come, and from the

seven spirits which are before his throne,

5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful

witness, the rst begotten of the dead, and the

prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved

us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

6And hath made us a kingdom, and priests to

God and his Father, to him be glory and empire

for ever and ever. Amen.

7Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and ev-

ery eye shall see him, and they also that pierced

him. And all the tribes of the earth shall bewail

themselves because of him. Even so. Amen.

8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and

the end, saith the Lord God, who is, and whowas, and who is to come, the Almighty.

9I John, your brother and your partner in

tribulation, and in the kingdom, and patience in

Christ Jesus, was in the island, which is called

Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testi-

mony of Jesus.

10I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and

heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

11Saying: What thou seest, write in a book,

and send to the seven churches which are in Asia,

to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamus,

and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadel-

phia, and to Laodicea.

12And I turned to see the voice that spoke

with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden

candlesticks:

13And in the midst of the seven golden can-

dlesticks, one like to the Son of man, clothed

with a garment down to the feet, and girt about

the paps with a golden girdle.

14And his head and his hairs were white, as

white wool, and as snow, and his eyes were as a

ame of re,

15And his feet like unto ne brass, as in a

burning furnace. And his voice as the sound of

many waters.

16And he had in his right hand seven stars.

And from his mouth came out a sharp two edged

sword: and his face was as the sun shineth in hisThe Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1577

power.

17And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet

as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me,

saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last,

18And alive, and was dead, and behold I am

living for ever and ever, and have the keys of

death and of hell.

19Write therefore the things which thou hast

seen, and which are, and which must be done

hereafter.

20The mystery of the seven stars, which thou

sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden

candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of

the seven churches. And the seven candlesticks

are the seven churches.

Chapter 2

Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write:

These things saith he, who holdeth the seven

stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst

of the seven golden candlesticks:

2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy

patience, and how thou canst not bear them that

are evil, and thou hast tried them, who say they

are apostles, and are not, and hast found them

liars:

3And thou hast patience, and hast endured

for my name, and hast not fainted.

4But I have somewhat against thee, because

thou hast left thy rst charity.

5Be mindful therefore from whence thou art

fallen: and do penance, and do the rst works.

Or else I come to thee, and will move thy can-

dlestick out of its place, except thou do penance.

6But this thou hast, that thou hatest the

deeds of the Nicolaites, which I also hate.

7He, that hath an ear, let him hear what

the Spirit saith to the churches: To him, thatovercometh, I will give to eat of the tree of life,

which is in the paradise of my God.

8And to the angel of the church of Smyrna

write: These things saith the First and the Last,

who was dead, and is alive:

9I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but

thou art rich: and thou art blasphemed by them

that say they are Jews and are not, but are the

synagogue of Satan.

10Fear none of those things which thou shalt

suer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you

into prison that you may be tried: and you shall

have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful until

death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

11He, that hath an ear, let him hear what

the Spirit saith to the churches: He that shall

overcome, shall not be hurt by the second death.

12And to the angel of the church of Perga-

mus write: These things, saith he, that hath the

sharp two edged sword:

13I know where thou dwellest, where the seat

of Satan is: and thou holdest fast my name, and

hast not denied my faith. Even in those days

when Antipas was my faithful witness, who was

slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

14But I have against thee a few things: be-

cause thou hast there them that hold the doc-

trine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a

stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to

eat, and to commit fornication:

15So hast thou also them that hold the doc-

trine of the Nicolaites.

16In like manner do penance: if not, I will

come to thee quickly, and will ght against them

with the sword of my mouth.

17He, that hath an ear, let him hear what

the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that

overcometh, I will give the hidden manna, and

will give him a white counter, and in the counter,

a new name written, which no man knoweth, but1578 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

he that receiveth it.

18And to the angel of the church of Thyatira

write: These things saith the Son of God, who

hath his eyes like to a

ame of re, and his feet

like to ne brass.

19I know thy works, and thy faith, and thy

charity, and thy ministry, and thy patience, and

thy last works which are more than the former.

20But I have against thee a few things: be-

cause thou suerest the woman Jezabel, who cal-

leth herself a prophetess, to teach, and to seduce

my servants, to commit fornication, and to eat

of things sacriced to idols.

21And I gave her a time that she might do

penance, and she will not repent of her fornica-

tion.

22Behold, I will cast her into a bed: and they

that commit adultery with her shall be in very

great tribulation, except they do penance from

their deeds.

23And I will kill her children with death, and

all the churches shall know that I am he that

searcheth the reins and hearts, and I will give to

every one of you according to your works. But

to you I say,

24And to the rest who are at Thyatira:

Whosoever have not this doctrine, and who have

not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will

not put upon you any other burthen.

25Yet that, which you have, hold fast till I

come.

26And he that shall overcome, and keep my

works unto the end, I will give him power over

the nations.

27And he shall rule them with a rod of iron,

and as the vessel of a potter they shall be broken,

28As I also have received of my Father: and

I will give him the morning star.

29He that hath an ear, let him hear what the

Spirit saith to the churches.Chapter 3

And to the angel of the church of Sardis, write:

These things saith he, that hath the seven spirits

of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works,

that thou hast the name of being alive: and thou

art dead.

2Be watchful and strengthen the things that

remain, which are ready to die. For I nd not

thy works full before my God.

3Have in mind therefore in what manner thou

hast received and heard: and observe, and do

penance. If then thou shalt not watch, I will

come to thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know

at what hour I will come to thee.

4But thou hast a few names in Sardis, which

have not deled their garments: and they shall

walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

5He that shall overcome, shall thus be clothed

in white garments, and I will not blot out his

name out of the book of life, and I will confess

his name before my Father, and before his angels.

6He that hath an ear, let him hear what the

Spirit saith to the churches.

7And to the angel of the church of Philadel-

phia, write: These things saith the Holy One

and the true one, he that hath the key of David;

he that openeth, and no man shutteth; shutteth,

and no man openeth:

8I know thy works. Behold, I have given be-

fore thee a door opened, which no man can shut:

because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept

my word, and hast not denied my name.

9Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Sa-

tan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do

lie. Behold, I will make them to come and adore

before thy feet. And they shall know that I have

loved thee.

10Because thou hast kept the word of my

patience, I will also keep thee from the hour ofThe Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1579

the temptation, which shall come upon the whole

world to try them that dwell upon the earth.

11Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that

which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

12He that shall overcome, I will make him a

pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go

out no more; and I will write upon him the name

of my God, and the name of the city of my God,

the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of

heaven from my God, and my new name.

13He that hath an ear, let him hear what the

Spirit saith to the churches.

14And to the angel of the church of Laodicea,

write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful

and true witness, who is the beginning of the

creation of God:

15I know thy works, that thou art neither

cold, nor hot. I would thou wert cold, or hot.

16But because thou art lukewarm, and nei-

ther cold, not hot, I will begin to vomit thee out

of my mouth.

17Because thou sayest: I am rich, and made

wealthy, and have need of nothing: and knowest

not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and

poor, and blind, and naked.

18I counsel thee to buy of me gold re tried,

that thou mayest be made rich; and mayest be

clothed in white garments, and that the shame

of thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thy

eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

19Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be

zealous therefore, and do penance.

20Behold, I stand at the gate, and knock. If

any man shall hear my voice, and open to me

the door, I will come in to him, and will sup

with him, and he with me.

21To him that shall overcome, I will give to sit

with me in my throne: as I also have overcome,

and am set down with my Father in his throne.22He that hath an ear, let him hear what the

Spirit saith to the churches.

Chapter 4

After these things I looked, and behold a door

was opened in heaven, and the rst voice which

I heard, as it were, of a trumpet speaking with

me, said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee

the things which must be done hereafter.

2And immediately I was in the spirit: and

behold there was a throne set in heaven, and

upon the throne one sitting.

3And he that sat, was to the sight like the

jasper and the sardine stone; and there was a

rainbow round about the throne, in sight like

unto an emerald.

4And round about the throne were four and

twenty seats; and upon the seats, four and

twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white gar-

ments, and on their heads were crowns of gold.

5And from the throne proceeded lightnings,

and voices, and thunders; and there were seven

lamps burning before the throne, which are the

seven spirits of God.

6And in the sight of the throne was, as it

were, a sea of glass like to crystal; and in the

midst of the throne, and round about the throne,

were four living creatures, full of eyes before and

behind.

7And the rst living creature was like a lion:

and the second living creature like a calf: and

the third living creature, having the face, as it

were, of a man: and the fourth living creature

was like an eagle

ying.

8And the four living creatures had each of

them six wings; and round about and within

they are full of eyes. And they rested not day

and night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God1580 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to

come.

9And when those living creatures gave glory,

and honour, and benediction to him that sitteth

on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever;

10The four and twenty ancients fell down be-

fore him that sitteth on the throne, and adored

him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their

crowns before the throne, saying:

11Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to re-

ceive glory, and honour, and power: because

thou hast created all things; and for thy will they

were, and have been created.

Chapter 5

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on

the throne, a book written within and without,

sealed with seven seals.

2And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with

a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book,

and to loose the seals thereof?

3And no man was able, neither in heaven, nor

on earth, nor under the earth, to open the book,

nor to look on it.

4And I wept much, because no man was found

worthy to open the book, nor to see it.

5And one of the ancients said to me: Weep

not; behold the lion of the tribe of Juda, the root

of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and

to loose the seven seals thereof.

6And I saw: and behold in the midst of the

throne and of the four living creatures, and in

the midst of the ancients, a Lamb standing as it

were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes:

which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth

into all the earth.

7And he came and took the book out of the

right hand of him that sat on the throne.8And when he had opened the book, the

four living creatures, and the four and twenty

ancients fell down before the Lamb, having ev-

ery one of them harps, and golden vials full of

odours, which are the prayers of saints:

9And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou

art worthy, O Lord, to take the book, and to

open the seals thereof; because thou wast slain,

and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out

of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and na-

tion.

10And hast made us to our God a kingdom

and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

11And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many

angels round about the throne, and the living

creatures, and the ancients; and the number of

them was thousands of thousands,

12Saying with a loud voice: The Lamb that

was slain is worthy to receive power, and divin-

ity, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and

glory, and benediction.

13And every creature, which is in heaven, and

on the earth, and under the earth, and such as

are in the sea, and all that are in them: I heard

all saying: To him that sitteth on the throne,

and to the Lamb, benediction, and honour, and

glory, and power, for ever and ever.

14And the four living creatures said: Amen.

And the four and twenty ancients fell down on

their faces, and adored him that liveth for ever

and ever.

Chapter 6

And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the

seven seals, and I heard one of the four living

creatures, as it were the voice of thunder, saying:

Come, and see.

2And I saw: and behold a white horse, andThe Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1581

he that sat on him had a bow, and there was a

crown given him, and he went forth conquering

that he might conquer.

3And when he had opened the second seal, I

heard the second living creature, saying: Come,

and see.

4And there went out another horse that was

red: and to him that sat thereon, it was given

that he should take peace from the earth, and

that they should kill one another, and a great

sword was given to him.

5And when he had opened the third seal, I

heard the third living creature saying: Come,

and see. And behold a black horse, and he that

sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand.

6And I heard as it were a voice in the midst

of the four living creatures, saying: Two pounds

of wheat for a penny, and thrice two pounds of

barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the

wine and the oil.

7And when he had opened the fourth seal,

I heard the voice of the fourth living creature,

saying: Come, and see.

8And behold a pale horse, and he that sat

upon him, his name was Death, and hell fol-

lowed him. And power was given to him over the

four parts of the earth, to kill with sword, with

famine, and with death, and with the beasts of

the earth.
9And when he had opened the fth seal, I

saw under the altar the souls of them that were

slain for the word of God, and for the testimony

which they held.

10And they cried with a loud voice, saying:

How long, O Lord (holy and true) dost thou not

judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell

on the earth?

11And white robes were given to every one

of them one; and it was said to them, that they

should rest for a little time, till their fellow ser-vants, and their brethren, who are to be slain,

even as they, should be lled up.

12And I saw, when he had opened the sixth

seal, and behold there was a great earthquake,

and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair:

and the whole moon became as blood:

13And the stars from heaven fell upon the

earth, as the g tree casteth its green gs when

it is shaken by a great wind:

14And the heaven departed as a book folded

up: and every mountain, and the islands were

moved out of their places.

15And the kings of the earth, and the princes,

and tribunes, and the rich, and the strong, and

every bondman, and every freeman, hid them-

selves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains:

16And they say to the mountains and the

rocks: Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of

him that sitteth upon the throne and from the

wrath of the Lamb:

17For the great day of their wrath is come,

and who shall be able to stand?

Chapter 7

After these things, I saw four angels standing on

the four corners of the earth, holding the four

winds of the earth, that they should not blow

upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor on any

tree.

2And I saw another angel ascending from the

rising of the sun, having the sign of the living

God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four

angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth

and the sea,

3Saying: Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor

the trees, till we sign the servants of our God in

their foreheads.

4And I heard the number of them that were1582 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

signed, an hundred forty-four thousand were

signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel.

5Of the tribe of Juda, were twelve thousand

signed: Of the tribe of Ruben, twelve thousand

signed: Of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand

signed:

6Of the tribe of Aser, twelve thousand signed:

Of the tribe of Nephthali, twelve thousand

signed: Of the tribe of Manasses, twelve thou-

sand signed:

7Of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand

signed: Of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand

signed: Of the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand

signed:

8Of the tribe of Zabulon, twelve thousand

signed: Of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand

signed: Of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thou-

sand signed.

9After this I saw a great multitude, which

no man could number, of all nations, and tribes,

and peoples, and tongues, standing before the

throne, and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with

white robes, and palms in their hands:

10And they cried with a loud voice, say-

ing: Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the

throne, and to the Lamb.

11And all the angels stood round about the

throne, and the ancients, and the four living

creatures; and they fell down before the throne

upon their faces, and adored God,

12Saying: Amen. Benediction, and glory, and

wisdom, and thanksgiving, honour, and power,

and strength to our God for ever and ever.

Amen.

13And one of the ancients answered, and said

to me: These that are clothed in white robes,

who are they? and whence came they?

14And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest.

And he said to me: These are they who are come

out of great tribulation, and have washed theirrobes, and have made them white in the blood

of the Lamb.

15Therefore they are before the throne of

God, and they serve him day and night in his

temple: and he, that sitteth on the throne, shall

dwell over them.

16They shall no more hunger nor thirst, nei-

ther shall the sun fall on them, nor any heat.

17For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the

throne, shall rule them, and shall lead them to

the fountains of the waters of life, and God shall

wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Chapter 8

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there

was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour.

2And I saw seven angels standing in the pres-

ence of God; and there were given to them seven

trumpets.
3And another angel came, and stood before

the altar, having a golden censer; and there was

given to him much incense, that he should oer

of the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar,

which is before the throne of God.

4And the smoke of the incense of the prayers

of the saints ascended up before God from the

hand of the angel.

5And the angel took the censer, and lled

it with the re of the altar, and cast it on the

earth, and there were thunders and voices and

lightnings, and a great earthquake.

6And the seven angels, who had the seven

trumpets, prepared themselves to sound the

trumpet.

7And the rst angel sounded the trumpet,

and there followed hail and re, mingled with

blood, and it was cast on the earth, and the third

part of the earth was burnt up, and the third partThe Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1583

of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was

burnt up.

8And the second angel sounded the trumpet:

and as it were a great mountain, burning with

re, was cast into the sea, and the third part of

the sea became blood:

9And the third part of those creatures died,

which had life in the sea, and the third part of

the ships was destroyed.

10And the third angel sounded the trumpet,

and a great star fell from heaven, burning as it

were a torch, and it fell on the third part of the

rivers, and upon the fountains of waters:

11And the name of the star is called Worm-

wood. And the third part of the waters became

wormwood; and many men died of the waters,

because they were made bitter.

12And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet,

and the third part of the sun was smitten, and

the third part of the moon, and the third part

of the stars, so that the third part of them was

darkened, and the day did not shine for a third

part of it, and the night in like manner.

13And I beheld, and heard the voice of one

eagle

ying through the midst of heaven, saying

with a loud voice: Woe, woe, woe to the inhab-

itants of the earth: by reason of the rest of the

voices of the three angels, who are yet to sound

the trumpet.

Chapter 9

And the fth angel sounded the trumpet, and I

saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth, and

there was given to him the key of the bottomless

pit.

2And he opened the bottomless pit: and the

smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great

furnace; and the sun and the air were darkenedwith the smoke of the pit.

3And from the smoke of the pit there came

out locusts upon the earth. And power was

given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have

power:

4And it was commanded them that they

should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any

green thing, nor any tree: but only the men who

have not the sign of God on their foreheads.

5And it was given unto them that they should

not kill them; but that they should torment them

ve months: and their torment was as the tor-

ment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.

6And in those days men shall seek death, and

shall not nd it: and they shall desire to die, and

death shall

y from them.

7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto

horses prepared unto battle: and on their heads

were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces

were as the faces of men.

8And they had hair as the hair of women; and

their teeth were as lions:

9And they had breastplates as breastplates of

iron, and the noise of their wings was as the noise

of chariots and many horses running to battle.

10And they had tails like to scorpions, and

there were stings in their tails; and their power

was to hurt men ve months. And they had over

them

11A king, the angel of the bottomless pit;

whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek

Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans,

12One woe is past, and behold there come

yet two woes more hereafter.

13And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet:

and I heard a voice from the four horns of the

great altar, which is before the eyes of God,

14Saying to the sixth angel, who had the

trumpet: Loose the four angels, who are bound

in the great river Euphrates.1584 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

15And the four angels were loosed, who were

prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month,

and a year: for to kill the third part of men.

16And the number of the army of horsemen

was twenty thousand times ten thousand. And I

heard the number of them.

17And thus I saw the horses in the vision: and

they that sat on them, had breastplates of re

and of hyacinth and of brimstone, and the heads

of the horses were as the heads of lions: and

from their mouths proceeded re, and smoke,

and brimstone.

18And by these three plagues was slain the

third part of men, by the re and by the smoke

and by the brimstone, which issued out of their

mouths.

19For the power of the horses is in their

mouths, and in their tails. For, their tails are

like to serpents, and have heads: and with them

they hurt.

20And the rest of the men, who were not slain

by these plagues, did not do penance from the

works of their hands, that they should not adore

devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass,

and stone, and wood, which neither can see, nor

hear, nor walk:

21Neither did they penance from their mur-

ders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their for-

nication, nor from their thefts.

Chapter 10

And I saw another mighty angel come down from

heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was

on his head, and his face was as the sun, and his
feet as pillars of re.

2And he had in his hand a little book open:

and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his

left foot upon the earth.3And he cried with a loud voice as when a lion

roareth. And when he had cried, seven thunders

uttered their voices.

4And when the seven thunders had uttered

their voices, I was about to write: and I heard

a voice from heaven saying to me: Seal up the

things which the seven thunders have spoken;

and write them not.

5And the angel, whom I saw standing upon

the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to

heaven,

6And he swore by him that liveth for ever and

ever, who created heaven, and the things which

are therein; and the earth, and the things which

are in it; and the sea, and the things which are

therein: That time shall be no longer.

7But in the days of the voice of the seventh

angel, when he shall begin to sound the trumpet,

the mystery of God shall be nished, as he hath

declared by his servants the prophets.

8And I heard a voice from heaven again

speaking to me, and saying: Go, and take the

book that is open, from the hand of the angel

who standeth upon the sea, and upon the earth.

9And I went to the angel, saying unto him,

that he should give me the book. And he said to

me: Take the book, and eat it up: and it shall

make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall

be sweet as honey.

10And I took the book from the hand of the

angel, and ate it up: and it was in my mouth,

sweet as honey: and when I had eaten it, my

belly was bitter.

11And he said to me: Thou must proph-

esy again to many nations, and peoples, and

tongues, and kings.The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1585

Chapter 11

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod:

and it was said to me: Arise, and measure the

temple of God, and the altar and them that

adore therein.

2But the court, which is without the temple,

cast out, and measure it not: because it is given

unto the Gentiles, and the holy city they shall

tread under foot two and forty months:

3And I will give unto my two witnesses, and

they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred

sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

4These are the two olive trees, and the two

candlesticks, that stand before the Lord of the

earth.

5And if any man will hurt them, re shall

come out of their mouths, and shall devour their

enemies. And if any man will hurt them, in this

manner must he be slain.

6These have power to shut heaven, that it

rain not in the days of their prophecy: and they

have power over waters to turn them into blood,

and to strike the earth with all plagues as often

as they will.

7And when they shall have nished their tes-

timony, the beast, that ascendeth out of the

abyss, shall make war against them, and shall

overcome them, and kill them.

8And their bodies shall lie in the streets of

the great city, which is called spiritually, Sodom

and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucied.

9And they of the tribes, and peoples, and

tongues, and nations, shall see their bodies for

three days and a half: and they shall not suer

their bodies to be laid in sepulchres.

10And they that dwell upon the earth shall

rejoice over them, and make merry: and shall

send gifts one to another, because these two

prophets tormented them that dwelt upon theearth.

11And after three days and a half, the spirit

of life from God entered into them. And they

stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon

them that saw them.

12And they heard a great voice from heaven,

saying to them: Come up hither. And they went

up to heaven in a cloud: and their enemies saw

them.

13And at that hour there was made a great

earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell:

and there were slain in the earthquake names of

men seven thousand: and the rest were cast into

a fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14The second woe is past: and behold the

third woe will come quickly.

15And the seventh angel sounded the trum-

pet: and there were great voices in heaven, say-

ing: The kingdom of this world is become our

Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for

ever and ever. Amen.

16And the four and twenty ancients, who sit

on their seats in the sight of God, fell on their

faces and adored God, saying:

17We give thee thanks, O Lord God

Almighty, who art, and who wast, and who art

to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy

great power, and thou hast reigned.

18And the nations were angry, and thy wrath

is come, and the time of the dead, that they

should be judged, and that thou shouldest ren-

der reward to thy servants the prophets and the

saints, and to them that fear thy name, little

and great, and shouldest destroy them who have

corrupted the earth.

19And the temple of God was opened in

heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in

his temple, and there were lightnings, and voices,

and an earthquake, and great hail.1586 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

Chapter 12

And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman

clothed with the sun, and the moon under her

feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars:

2And being with child, she cried travailing in

birth, and was in pain to be delivered.

3And there was seen another sign in heaven:

and behold a great red dragon, having seven

heads, and ten horns: and on his head seven

diadems:

4And his tail drew the third part of the stars

of heaven, and cast them to the earth: and the

dragon stood before the woman who was ready

to be delivered; that, when she should be deliv-

ered, he might devour her son.

5And she brought forth a man child, who was

to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her son

was taken up to God, and to his throne.

6And the woman

ed into the wilderness,

where she had a place prepared by God, that

there they should feed her a thousand two hun-

dred sixty days.

7And there was a great battle in heaven,

Michael and his angels fought with the dragon,

and the dragon fought and his angels:

8And they prevailed not, neither was their

place found any more in heaven.

9And that great dragon was cast out, that

old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan,

who seduceth the whole world; and he was cast

unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down

with him.

10And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying:

Now is come salvation, and strength, and the

kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:

because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth,

who accused them before our God day and night.

11And they overcame him by the blood of

the Lamb, and by the word of the testimony,and they loved not their lives unto death.
12Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that

dwell therein. Woe to the earth, and to the sea,

because the devil is come down unto you, having

great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short

time.

13And when the dragon saw that he was cast

unto the earth, he persecuted the woman, who

brought forth the man child:

14And there were given to the woman two

wings of a great eagle, that she might

y into the

desert unto her place, where she is nourished for

a time and times, and half a time, from the face

of the serpent.

15And the serpent cast out of his mouth af-

ter the woman, water as it were a river; that he

might cause her to be carried away by the river.

16And the earth helped the woman, and the

earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the

river, which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

17And the dragon was angry against the

woman: and went to make war with the rest of

her seed, who keep the commandments of God,

and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

18And he stood upon the sand of the sea.

Chapter 13
And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea,

having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his

horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of

blasphemy.

2And the beast, which I saw, was like to a

leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear,

and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And

the dragon gave him his own strength, and great

power.

3And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to

death: and his death's wound was healed. AndThe Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1587

all the earth was in admiration after the beast.

4And they adored the dragon, which gave

power to the beast: and they adored the beast,

saying: Who is like to the beast? and who shall

be able to ght with him?

5And there was given to him a mouth speak-

ing great things, and blasphemies: and power

was given to him to do two and forty months.

6And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies

against God, to blaspheme his name, and his

tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

7And it was given unto him to make war with

the saints, and to overcome them. And power

was given him over every tribe, and people, and

tongue, and nation.

8And all the dwell upon the earth adored him,

whose names are not written in the book of life

of the Lamb, which was slain from the beginning

of the world.

9If any man have an ear, let him hear.

10He that shall lead into captivity, shall go

into captivity: he that shall kill by the sword,

must be killed by the sword. Here is the patience

and the faith of the saints.

11And I saw another beast coming up out of

the earth, and he had two horns, like a lamb,

and he spoke as a dragon.

12And he executed all the power of the former

beast in his sight; and he caused the earth, and

them that dwell therein, to adore the rst beast,

whose wound to death was healed.

13And he did great signs, so that he made

also re to come down from heaven unto the

earth in the sight of men.

14And he seduced them that dwell on the

earth, for the signs, which were given him to do

in the sight of the beast, saying to them that

dwell on the earth, that they should make the

image of the beast, which had the wound by the

sword, and lived.15And it was given him to give life to the im-

age of the beast, and that the image of the beast

should speak; and should cause, that whosoever

will not adore the image of the beast, should be

slain.

16And he shall make all, both little and great,

rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a

character in their right hand, or on their fore-

heads.

17And that no man might buy or sell, but

he that hath the character, or the name of the

beast, or the number of his name.

18Here is wisdom. He that hath understand-

ing, let him count the number of the beast. For

it is the number of a man: and the number of

him is six hundred sixty-six.

Chapter 14

And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount

Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thou-

sand, having his name, and the name of his Fa-

ther, written on their foreheads.

2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the

noise of many waters, and as the voice of great

thunder; and the voice which I heard, was as the

voice of harpers, harping on their harps.

3And they sung as it were a new canticle, be-

fore the throne, and before the four living crea-

tures, and the ancients; and no man could say

the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thou-

sand, who were purchased from the earth.

4These are they who were not deled with

women: for they are virgins. These follow the

Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were pur-

chased from among men, the rstfruits to God

and to the Lamb:

5And in their mouth there was found no lie;

for they are without spot before the throne of1588 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

God.

6And I saw another angel

ying through the

midst of heaven, having the eternal gospel, to

preach unto them that sit upon the earth, and

over every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and

people:

7Saying with a loud voice: Fear the Lord,

and give him honour, because the hour of his

judgment is come; and adore ye him, that made

heaven and earth, the sea, and the fountains of

waters.

8And another angel followed, saying: That

great Babylon is fallen, is fallen; which made all

nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her

fornication.

9And the third angel followed them, saying

with a loud voice: If any man shall adore the

beast and his image, and receive his character in

his forehead, or in his hand;

10He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath

of God, which is mingled with pure wine in the

cup of his wrath, and shall be tormented with

re and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels,

and in the sight of the Lamb.

11And the smoke of their torments shall as-

cend up for ever and ever: neither have they rest

day nor night, who have adored the beast, and

his image, and whoever receiveth the character

of his name.

12Here is the patience of the saints, who keep

the commandments of God, and the faith of Je-

sus.

13And I heard a voice from heaven, saying

to me: Write: Blessed are the dead, who die in

the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit,

that they may rest from their labours; for their

works follow them.

14And I saw, and behold a white cloud; and

upon the cloud one sitting like to the Son of man,

having on his head a crown of gold, and in hishand a sharp sickle.

15And another angel came out from the tem-

ple crying with a loud voice to him that sat upon

the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle, and reap, be-

cause the hour is come to reap: for the harvest

of the earth is ripe.

16And he that sat on the cloud thrust his

sickle into the earth, and the earth was reaped.

17And another angel came out of the temple

which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

18And another angel came out from the al-

tar, who had power over re; and he cried with a

loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, say-

ing: Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the

clusters of the vineyard of the earth; because the

grapes thereof are ripe.

19And the angel thrust in his sharp sickle

into the earth, and gathered the vineyard of the

earth, and cast it into the great press of the

wrath of God:

20And the press was trodden without the

city, and blood came out of the press, up to the

horses' bridles, for a thousand and six hundred

furlongs.

Chapter 15

And I saw another sign in heaven, great and

wonderful: seven angels having the seven last

plagues. For in them is lled up the wrath of

God.
2And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled

with re, and them that had overcome the beast,

and his image, and the number of his name,

standing on the sea of glass, having the harps

of God:

3And singing the canticle of Moses, the ser-

vant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, say-

ing: Great and wonderful are thy works, O LordThe Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1589

God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, O

King of ages.

4Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and mag-

nify thy name? For thou only art holy: for all

nations shall come, and shall adore in thy sight,

because thy judgments are manifest.

5And after these things I looked; and behold,

the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in

heaven was opened:

6And the seven angels came out of the tem-

ple, having the seven plagues, clothed with clean

and white linen, and girt about the breasts with

golden girdles.

7And one of the four living creatures gave to

the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the

wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

8And the temple was lled with smoke from

the majesty of God, and from his power; and no

man was able to enter into the temple, till the

seven plagues of the seven angels were fullled.

Chapter 16

And I heard a great voice out of the temple, say-

ing to the seven angels: Go, and pour out the

seven vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

2And the rst went, and poured out his vial

upon the earth, and there fell a sore and grievous

wound upon men, who had the character of the

beast; and upon them that adored the image

thereof.

3And the second angel poured out his vial

upon the sea, and there came blood as it were

of a dead man; and every living soul died in the

sea.

4And the third poured out his vial upon the

rivers and the fountains of waters; and there was

made blood.

5And I heard the angel of the waters saying:Thou art just, O Lord, who art, and who wast,

the Holy One, because thou hast judged these

things:

6For they have shed the blood of saints and

prophets, and thou hast given them blood to

drink; for they are worthy.

7And I heard another, from the altar, saying:

Yea, O Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy

judgments.

8And the fourth angel poured out his vial

upon the sun, and it was given unto him to aict

men with heat and re:

9And men were scorched with great heat,

and they blasphemed the name of God, who

hath power over these plagues, neither did they

penance to give him glory.

10And the fth angel poured out his vial

upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom be-

came dark, and they gnawed their tongues for

pain:

11And they blasphemed the God of heaven,

because of their pains and wounds, and did not

penance for their works.

12And the sixth angel poured out his vial

upon that great river Euphrates; and dried up

the water thereof, that a way might be prepared

for the kings from the rising of the sun.

13And I saw from the mouth of the dragon,

and from the mouth of the beast, and from the

mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits

like frogs.

14For they are the spirits of devils working

signs, and they go forth unto the kings of the

whole earth, to gather them to battle against

the great day of the Almighty God.

15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he

that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest

he walk naked, and they see his shame.

16And he shall gather them together into a

place, which in Hebrew is called Armagedon.1590 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

17And the seventh angel poured out his vial

upon the air, and there came a great voice out of

the temple from the throne, saying: It is done.

18And there were lightnings, and voices, and

thunders, and there was a great earthquake, such

an one as never had been since men were upon

the earth, such an earthquake, so great.

19And the great city was divided into three

parts; and the cities of the Gentiles fell. And

great Babylon came in remembrance before God,

to give her the cup of the wine of the indignation

of his wrath.

20And every island

ed away, and the moun-

tains were not found.

21And great hail, like a talent, came down

from heaven upon men: and men blasphemed

God for the plague of the hail: because it was

exceeding great.

Chapter 17
And there came one of the seven angels, who

had the seven vials, and spoke with me, saying:

Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the

great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters,

2With whom the kings of the earth have com-

mitted fornication; and they who inhabit the

earth, have been made drunk with the whine of

her whoredom.

3And he took me away in spirit into the

desert. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scar-

let coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,

having seven heads and ten horns.

4And the woman was clothed round about

with purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold, and

precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup

in her hand, full of the abomination and lthi-

ness of her fornication.

5And on her forehead a name was written: Amystery; Babylon the great, the mother of the

fornications, and the abominations of the earth.

6And I saw the woman drunk with the blood

of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs

of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her,

with great admiration.

7And the angel said to me: Why dost thou

wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the

woman, and of the beast which carrieth her,

which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

8The beast, which thou sawest, was, and is

not, and shall come up out of the bottomless pit,

and go into destruction: and the inhabitants on

the earth (whose names are not written in the

book of life from the foundation of the world)

shall wonder, seeing the beast that was, and is

not.

9And here is the understanding that hath

wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains,

upon which the woman sitteth, and they are

seven kings:

10Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not

yet come: and when he is come, he must remain

a short time.

11And the beast which was, and is not: the

same also is the eighth, and is of the seven, and

goeth into destruction.

12And the ten horns which thou sawest, are

ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom,

but shall receive power as kings one hour after

the beast.

13These have one design: and their strength

and power they shall deliver to the beast.

14These shall ght with the Lamb, and the

Lamb shall overcome them, because he is Lord

of lords, and King of kings, and they that are

with him are called, and elect, and faithful.

15And he said to me: The waters which thou

sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and

nations, and tongues.The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1591

16And the ten horns which thou sawest in

the beast: these shall hate the harlot, and shall

make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her

esh, and shall burn her with re.

17For God hath given into their hearts to do

that which pleaseth him: that they give their

kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be

fullled.

18And the woman which thou sawest, is the

great city, which hath kingdom over the kings of

the earth.

Chapter 18

And after these things, I saw another angel come

down from heaven, having great power: and the

earth was enlightened with his glory.

2And he cried out with a strong voice, say-

ing: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen; and is

become the habitation of devils, and the hold of

every unclean spirit, and the hold of every un-

clean and hateful bird:

3Because all nations have drunk of the wine

of the wrath of her fornication; and the kings of

the earth have committed fornication with her;

and the merchants of the earth have been made

rich by the power of her delicacies.

4And I heard another voice from heaven, say-

ing: Go out from her, my people; that you be not

partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of

her plagues.

5For her sins have reached unto heaven, and

the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.

6Render to her as she also hath rendered to

you; and double unto her double according to

her works: in the cup wherein she hath mingled,

mingle ye double unto her.

7As much as she hath gloried herself, and

lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrowgive ye to her; because she saith in her heart: I

sit a queen, and am no widow; and sorrow I shall

not see.

8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,

death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall

be burnt with the re; because God is strong,

who shall judge her.

9And the kings of the earth, who have com-

mitted fornication, and lived in delicacies with

her, shall weep, and bewail themselves over her,

when they shall see the smoke of her burning:

10Standing afar o for fear of her torments,

saying: Alas! alas! that great city Babylon, that

mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment

come.

11And the merchants of the earth shall weep,

and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their

merchandise any more.

12Merchandise of gold and silver, and pre-

cious stones; and of pearls, and ne linen, and

purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine

wood, and all manner of vessels of ivory, and

all manner of vessels of precious stone, and of

brass, and of iron, and of marble,

13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointment,

and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and ne

our, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and

horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of

men.

14And the fruits of the desire of thy soul are

departed from thee, and all fat and goodly things

are perished from thee, and they shall nd them

no more at all.

15The merchants of these things, who were

made rich, shall stand afar o from her, for fear

of her torments, weeping and mourning.

16And saying: Alas! alas! that great city,

which was clothed with ne linen, and purple,

and scarlet, and was gilt with gold, and precious

stones, and pearls.1592 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

17For in one hour are so great riches come to

nought; and every shipmaster, and all that sail

into the lake, and mariners, and as many as work

in the sea, stood afar o.

18And cried, seeing the place of her burning,

saying: What city is like to this great city?

19And they cast dust upon their heads, and

cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas!

that great city, wherein all were made rich, that

had ships at sea, by reason of her prices: for in

one hour she is made desolate.

20Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy

apostles and prophets; for God hath judged your

judgment on her.

21And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it

were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea,

saying: With such violence as this shall Babylon,

that great city, be thrown down, and shall be

found no more at all.

22And the voice of harpers, and of musicians,

and of them that play on the pipe, and on the

trumpet, shall no more be heard at all in thee;

and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be

found any more at all in thee; and the sound of

the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;

23And the light of the lamp shall shine no

more at all in thee; and the voice of the bride-

groom and the bride shall be heard no more at

all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men

of the earth, for all nations have been deceived

by thy enchantments.

24And in her was found the blood of prophets

and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the

earth.

Chapter 19

After these things I heard as it were the voice of

much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salva-tion, and glory, and power is to our God.

2For true and just are his judgments, who

hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the

earth with her fornication, and hath revenged

the blood of his servants, at her hands.

3And again they said: Alleluia. And her

smoke ascendeth for ever and ever.

4And the four and twenty ancients, and the

four living creatures fell down and adored God

that sitteth upon the throne, saying: Amen; Al-

leluia.
5And a voice came out from the throne, say-

ing: Give praise to our God, all ye his servants;

and you that fear him, little and great.

6And I heard as it were the voice of a great

multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and

as the voice of great thunders, saying, Alleluia:

for the Lord our God the Almighty hath reigned.

7Let us be glad and rejoice, and give glory to

him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and

his wife hath prepared herself.

8And it is granted to her that she should

clothe herself with ne linen, glittering and

white. For the ne linen are the justications

of saints.

9And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they

that are called to the marriage supper of the

Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God

are true.

10And I fell down before his feet, to adore

him. And he saith to me: See thou do it not: I

am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren, who

have the testimony of Jesus. Adore God. For

the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a

white horse; and he that sat upon him was called

faithful and true, and with justice doth he judge

and ght.

12And his eyes were as a

ame of re, and on

his head were many diadems, and he had a nameThe Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1593

written, which no man knoweth but himself.

13And he was clothed with a garment sprin-

kled with blood; and his name is called, THE

WORD OF GOD.

14And the armies that are in heaven followed

him on white horses, clothed in ne linen, white

and clean.

15And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp

two edged sword; that with it he may strike the

nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of

iron; and he treadeth the winepress of the erce-

ness of the wrath of God the Almighty.

16And he hath on his garment, and on his

thigh written: KING OF KINGS, AND LORD

OF LORDS.

17And I saw an angel standing in the sun,

and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the

birds that did

y through the midst of heaven:

Come, gather yourselves together to the great

supper of God:

18That you may eat the

esh of kings, and

the

esh of tribunes, and the

esh of mighty men,

and the

esh of horses, and of them that sit on

them, and the

esh of all freemen and bondmen,

and of little and of great.

19And I saw the beast, and the kings of

the earth, and their armies gathered together to

make war with him that sat upon the horse, and

with his army.

20And the beast was taken, and with him

the false prophet, who wrought signs before him,

wherewith he seduced them who received the

character of the beast, and who adored his im-

age. These two were cast alive into the pool of

re, burning with brimstone.

21And the rest were slain by the sword of him

that sitteth upon the horse, which proceedeth

out of his mouth; and all the birds were lled

with their

esh.Chapter 20

And I saw an angel coming down from heaven,

having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great

chain in his hand.

2And he laid hold on the dragon the old ser-

pent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound

him for a thousand years.

3And he cast him into the bottomless pit,

and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that

he should no more seduce the nations, till the

thousand years be nished. And after that, he

must be loosed a little time.

4And I saw seats; and they sat upon them;

and judgment was given unto them; and the

souls of them that were beheaded for the tes-

timony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and

who had not adored the beast nor his image,

nor received his character on their foreheads, or

in their hands; and they lived and reigned with

Christ a thousand years.

5The rest of the dead lived not, till the thou-

sand years were nished. This is the rst resur-

rection.

6Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the

rst resurrection. In these the second death hath

no power; but they shall be priests of God and

of Christ; and shall reign with him a thousand

years.

7And when the thousand years shall be n-

ished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and

shall go forth, and seduce the nations, which are

over the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and

Magog, and shall gather them together to bat-

tle, the number of whom is as the sand of the

sea.

8And they came upon the breadth of the

earth, and encompassed the camp of the saints,

and the beloved city.

9And there came down re from God out of1594 The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle

heaven, and devoured them; and the devil, who

seduced them, was cast into the pool of re and

brimstone, where both the beast

10And the false prophet shall be tormented

day and night for ever and ever.

11And I saw a great white throne, and one

sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and

heaven

ed away, and there was no place found

for them.

12And I saw the dead, great and small, stand-

ing in the presence of the throne, and the books

were opened; and another book was opened,

which is the book of life; and the dead were

judged by those things which were written in the

books, according to their works.

13And the sea gave up the dead that were in

it, and death and hell gave up their dead that

were in them; and they were judged every one

according to their works.

14And hell and death were cast into the pool

of re. This is the second death.

15And whosoever was not found written in

the book of life, was cast into the pool of re.

Chapter 21

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For

the rst heaven and the rst earth was gone, and

the sea is now no more.

2And I John saw the holy city, the new

Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from

God, prepared as a bride adorned for her hus-

band.

3And I heard a great voice from the throne,

saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men,

and he will dwell with them. And they shall be

his people; and God himself with them shall be

their God.

4And God shall wipe away all tears from theireyes: and death shall be no more, nor mourning,

nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the

former things are passed away.

5And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold,

I make all things new. And he said to me: Write,

for these words are most faithful and true.

6And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha

and Omega; the beginning and the end. To him

that thirsteth, I will give of the fountain of the

water of life, freely.

7He that shall overcome shall possess these

things, and I will be his God; and he shall be my

son.

8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the

abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers,

and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, they

shall have their portion in the pool burning with

re and brimstone, which is the second death.

9And there came one of the seven angels, who

had the vials full of the seven last plagues, and

spoke with me, saying: Come, and I will shew

thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

10And he took me up in spirit to a great and

high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city

Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

11Having the glory of God, and the light

thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the

jasper stone, even as crystal.

12And it had a wall great and high, having

twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and

names written thereon, which are the names of

the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

13On the east, three gates: and on the north,

three gates: and on the south, three gates: and

on the west, three gates.

14And the wall of the city had twelve foun-

dations, and in them, the twelve names of the

twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15And he that spoke with me, had a measure

of a reed of gold, to measure the city and theThe Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 1595

gates thereof, and the wall.

16And the city lieth in a foursquare, and the

length thereof is as great as the breadth: and he

measured the city with the golden reed for twelve

thousand furlongs, and the length and the height

and the breadth thereof are equal.

17And he measured the wall thereof an hun-

dred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man,

which is of an angel.

18And the building of the wall thereof was of

jasper stone: but the city itself pure gold, like to

clear glass.

19And the foundations of the wall of the city

were adorned with all manner of precious stones.

The rst foundation was jasper: the second, sap-

phire: the third, a chalcedony: the fourth, an

emerald:
20The fth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the

seventh, chrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth,

a topaz: the tenth, a chrysoprasus: the eleventh,

a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst.

21And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, one

to each: and every several gate was of one several

pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold,

as it were transparent glass.

22And I saw no temple therein. For the Lord

God Almighty is the temple thereof, and the

Lamb.

23And the city hath no need of the sun, nor

of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God

hath enlightened it, and the Lamb is the lamp

thereof.

24And the nations shall walk in the light of

it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their

glory and honour into it.

25And the gates thereof shall not be shut by

day: for there shall be no night there.

26And they shall bring the glory and honour

of the nations into it.27There shall not enter into it any thing de-

led, or that worketh abomination or maketh a

lie, but they that are written in the book of life

of the Lamb.

Chapter 22
And he showed me a river of water of life, clear

as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God

and of the Lamb.

2In the midst of the street thereof, and on

both sides of the river, was the tree of life, bear-

ing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits every month,

and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of

the nations.

3And there shall be no curse any more; but

the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in

it, and his servants shall serve him.

4And they shall see his face: and his name

shall be on their foreheads.

5And night shall be no more: and they shall

not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of

the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten

them, and they shall reign for ever and ever.

6And he said to me: These words are most

faithful and true. And the Lord God of the spir-

its of the prophets sent his angel to shew his

servants the things which must be done shortly.

7And, Behold I come quickly. Blessed is he

that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this

book.

8And I, John, who have heard and seen these

things. And after I had heard and seen, I fell

down to adore before the feet of the angel, who

shewed me these things.

9And he said to me: See thou do it not: for

I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the

prophets, and of them that keep the words of the

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10And he saith to me: Seal not the words

of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at

hand.

11He that hurteth, let him hurt still: and he

that is lthy, let him be lthy still: and he that

is just, let him be justied still: and he that is

holy, let him be sanctied still.

12Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is

with me, to render to every man according to his

works.

13I am Alpha and Omega, the rst and the

last, the beginning and the end.

14Blessed are they that wash their robes in

the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a

right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the

gates into the city.

15Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and un-

chaste, and murderers, and servers of idols, and

every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

16I Jesus have sent my angel, to testify to

you these things in the churches. I am the root

and stock of David, the bright and morning star.

17And the spirit and the bride say: Come.

And he that heareth, let him say: Come. And

he that thirsteth, let him come: and he that will,

let him take the water of life, freely.

18For I testify to every one that heareth the

words of the prophecy of this book: If any man

shall add to these things, God shall add unto

him the plagues written in this book.

19And if any man shall take away from the

words of the book of this prophecy, God shall

take away his part out of the book of life, and

out of the holy city, and from these things that

are written in this book.

20He that giveth testimony of these things,

saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord

Jesus.

21The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with

you all. Amen.